Why Did AP Believe The “Gaza Siege” Ended?
July 23, 2012 18:22 by Pesach BensonIsrael/Olympic Angles
• Israeli and British officials are concerned that a suspect from the Bulgarian bus bombing is on his way to London attack the games. The Daily Mail writes:
MI5 and Scotland Yard are thought to have raised their threat assessment against the Israeli delegation as Britain prepares for the largest peacetime security operation ahead of the opening of the Olympics this Friday. . . .
Whitehall officials have dismissed the threat of a credible plot against the Israeli Olympic delegation and suggested Israel could be attempting to increase the pressure on British authorities to increase security around the Games.
• Sportswriter Stan Hochman relives Munich ’72.
The ’72 games resumed after 24 hours. The tyrant who ran the games, Avery Brundage, babbled about how the games must go on. Same guy who helped put the 1936 games in Berlin, in Nazi Germany. The games resumed before they’d scrubbed Moshe Weinberg’s blood from Building 31.
• London Mayor Boris Johnson supports a minute of silence.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• A NY Post staff-ed “unpacks” the State Dept’s tit-for-tat moral equivalence:
“This was tit for tat,” a State Department official told The New York Times, implying that the bombing was retaliation for Israeli assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
It’s worth unpacking this idea.
Tit: Israel reportedly bumps off the Iranian engineers, men working on a device that could incinerate the entire Middle East — Israel first.
Tat: Terrorists operating under orders from Iran blow up a bus full of young civilians on vacation at a Black Sea resort.
To blithely accept that equation is to acquiesce in moral equivalence at its most cynical.
• Worth reading: With Iran, deterrence won’t work.
• In a Times of London op-ed (paywall), Sir Malcolm Rifkind says Assad’s fall will destroy Iranian schemes for hegemony:
While some radicals in Tehran would argue that Iran had an even greater need for nuclear weapons to compensate for its greater vulnerability following the loss of Syria, a more likely consequence would be a willingness to negotiate with the international community an honourable compromise.
• NPR picks up on the Israeli-Iranian shadow war.
Arab Spring Winter
• Hezbollah isn’t the only terror group backing the wrong horse. Asharq al-Awsat reports that Islamic Jihad is relocating from Syria to Iran. The paper notes even more bad news for the Axis of Evil:
Syria also constitutes an important passageway for the Islamic Jihad leaders and elements that travel from Gaza to Teheran for different political and logistical reasons.
According to the sources, dozens of civilians and military individuals from Gaza are currently stranded in Syria after participating in conferences in Iran.
• CNN: Arab League will offer Assad a safe exit if he resigns quickly. Wishful thinking — I highly doubt Assad will abandon his fellow Alawites.
• The LA Times updates the EU’s latest sanctions against Syria.
• In Syria, the powers play hardball. Welcome to the world of realpolitik.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Prime Minister Netanyahu discussed Syria’s chemical weapons, the Bulgarian bombing, and the Iranian nuclear threat, with Chris Wallace of Fox News.
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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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