Why Did AP Believe The “Gaza Siege” Ended?
July 23, 2012 18:22 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories:
1. Mahmoud Abbas is once again pushing a unilateral statehood agenda at the UN. Instead of going to the Security Council, the Palestinians will seek “non-member state” status from the General Assembly. The Jerusalem Post writes:
The official said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who met recently with Abbas, warned him that a renewed PA bid at the UN would prompt Washington to cut off financial aid to the Palestinians.
But the Palestinians, according to the official, believe that because of the upcoming US election, this is the right time to resume efforts to seek membership . . . .
Abbas predicted that 133 countries would vote in favor of the PA application. He said that once Palestine becomes a non-member state of the UN, it will be an entity under Israeli occupation and the territories that were occupied in 1967 would no longer be considered disputed lands.
2. Since the BBC decided not to list Jerusalem as the unequivocal capital of Israel, a Facebook group, Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel, is getting some nice traction. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat posted his own statement on Facebook. And be sure to see HonestReporting’s update and Jerusalem resource page.
3. It looked like the “Gaza siege” was over. This morning, AP reported that Egypt began allowing Palestinians to enter without permits. But later in the day, Egyptian officials denied any new procedures for Palestinians. Is this a fact checking fail? Was the wire service deceived by an Egyptian with an agenda? Meanwhile, a separate AP dispatch reported that Hamas and Fatah can’t get their act together to let Palestinians leave the strip for medical care:
One Gaza man said he has tried unsuccessfully for the past week to get his wife transferred out of Gaza for the removal of a brain tumor. Salman Tawfik said his wife Rasha, 50, lapsed into a coma two days ago, while he was caught in a bureaucratic maze.
“No one wants to help. No one wants to hear,” Iyad Alami of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights said of the politicians involved in the dispute. He said several patients are in danger of dying if they are not moved quickly.
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• In what the Australian media and the BDS movement is calling a “landmark ruling,” a Melbourne judge dismissed charges against Palestinian supporters who demonstrated outside a Max Brenner chocolate shop. Australia’s ABC News writes:
A Magistrate ruled the protesters were exercising their human rights and said their demonstration was lawful.
Magistrate Simon Garnett also found the protesters did not threaten the peace or disrupt the public order.
The Age picked up on the story too, but we have a bone to pick with them — they treated “Israel apartheid” claims as factual.
• The EU widens ties with Israel and Phoebe Greenwood — poor thing – was stuck reporting it for The Guardian. She’s more sour grapes than Saudi virtue police stranded at Mardi Gras. Most of Greenwood’s piece quotes a like-minded (anonymous) Brussels bureaucrat opposing the closer relationship, and addressing why you’d think EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton would have opposed the move. Who learns that in Journalism 101?
• Thanks to blogger Tobias Petersson, Israel activism in Sweden isn’t lonely anymore. He tells his story in YNet.
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Jake in Jerusalem
11:33 pm
Jul 23, 2012
If the Australian courts give the right to protesters to stay on private property, even after being asked to leave, with the excuse that they are simply expressing their political views, then it will be perfectly legal and acceptable for, say, Christian, Jewish or Hindu groups to organize protests inside Australian mosques during Friday services, to protest female gen mutilation, slavery, persecution, genocide, terrorism etc as practiced in Islamic societies. Fair’s fair, mate!!!!
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G4A
1:23 am
Jul 24, 2012
I am confused…AS far as I know , Jerusalem has not been recognised as Israel’s capital by any country (or maybe a very few) . So why the fuss ? Worry about real issues: the constant vilification of Israel…apartheid state, treatment of Palestinians and all the other issues that young people around the world dislike us for_ wrongly. WE need to be more pro-active in negativing these attacks and not worry about the BBC ‘s designation of Jerusalem. The gov’t should send a very strong message to the Olympic Committee that it is bowing to Arab pressure in not allowing the minute of silence and make a real FUSS !!! Those things people notice and can think on…
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Nigel
9:03 am
Jul 24, 2012
The US Congress recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital in the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which is Law in the US. However, the law has remained unimplemented due to presidents exercising a presidential waiver. Furthermore, customary international law is to recognize as the capital of a country that place designated as such by the country itself. Only in the case of Israel is its designated capital not recognized as international law dictates. However, this is not surprising because the nations of the world and the UN constantly ignore international law when it comes to Israel, inc. UN/LoN treaties and the UN Charter. It is a REAL issue, inseparable from the others you mentioned.
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Nigel
8:39 am
Jul 24, 2012
“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who met recently with Abbas, warned him that a renewed PA bid at the UN would prompt Washington to cut off financial aid to the Palestinians.”
But only for a few days! History tells the ‘Palestinians’ the US will restore financial aid as a supposed security/humanitarian measure, or simply in the so-called interests of the United States. The Pals have called the US bluff before and won out. They didn’t believe it or weren’t bothered the first time such was threatened. What makes the US believe that such threats are in any way credible or taken at all seriously by the Pals? Sadly, US & Israel are already a long way down the immoral road of appeasement.
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Logic1
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Jul 29, 2012
Obama has had all references to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital removed from all documents, I have read. Anyone have confirmation?
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