“Journalist” Tries to Arrest Israel’s Foreign Minister
July 25, 2012 17:18 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. A reality check for the minute of silence push: The LA Times invited writers from its parent company’s newspapers to comment on the Olympic issue. Last I looked, only Barry Stavro (LA Times) and Shannon Owens (Orlando Sentinel) weighed in. Readers didn’t bother to post a single comment.
The minute of silence is a worthy fight, but the American public is preoccupied with the presidential campaign, the Aurora massacre, and Penn State. At least Bob Costas will be behind the mic at the opening ceremonies.
2. The EU shot down an Israeli request to designate Hezbollah as a terror organization. According to AFP, EU officials buy into the notion that the Iranian-backed group’s political activities make it legit:
But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hezbollah was an organisation comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was “active in Lebanese politics”.
“Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations,” she said.
The EU would consider this if there were tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terror, she added.
David Cronin
3. Irish Times: David Cronin, a self-described journalist and Palestinian activist, sought to make a citizens arrest of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Brussels. Cronin charged Lieberman with “the crime of apartheid” before being hustled away. Cronin groused that guards confiscated his press card. Tsk.
Cronin previously tried to arrest Tony Blair and was caught on video trying to arrest Lieberman once before. The latter incident made for some messy coverage in The Guardian, where Cronin was once a contributing writer. I wonder if The Guardian will pick up on its hapless alumnus’ stunt.
Israel/Olympic Angles
• The skeptics were right: Iran reverts to boycott of Israel’s Olympians.
Nevertheless, even the slight chance that the two might share the same track was quashed on Tuesday when a report by the Iran’s official news agency, Fars, claimed: “In a satanic step, Zionist media published the words of the head of Iran’s Olympic Mission who announced that the Iranian athletes will compete against the Zionist regime’s representatives at the Olympics.”
• The Palestinians, not surprisingly, strongly oppose an Olympic minute of silence. The Christian Science Monitor‘s Ben Lynfield writes:
But in the poisoned atmosphere of Palestinian-Israeli relations, the Israeli request is seen by Palestinians as a political stunt. Leading Palestinian politicians oppose the moment of silence, viewing it as a ploy to cast Israel as the victim in the conflict and to distract attention from Israeli practices today, including the military occupation of the West Bank.
“They want to remind the world of what happened a long time ago, to show they were suffering, so that the world will focus on other issues and that they will not be seen as the aggressive side,” says Hasan Khreisheh, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Michael Peck
6:48 pm
Jul 25, 2012
Your new website format is much easier and enjoyable to read. I look forward to receiving it each day. Thanks for the good work and summarizing the world’s media outlook re Israel.
Michael Peck
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Robman
6:48 pm
Jul 25, 2012
Well, well, the EU won’t consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization, eh? OK, then. After the next war when Israel blows them to smitherenes, and the obligatory international pity party convenes to allow their remnatnts/leaders to escape a la the PLO to Tunis thirty years ago, then they should be allowed to re-settle in an EU member state. I nominate Norway.
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Gina Friedlander
7:34 pm
Jul 25, 2012
I know this is very late,, but I just read this essay and felt compelled to spend several hours on this response.
RE: Comment: Threatened in The Talk of the Town,, Mar. 12, 2012
Dear Mr. Remnick,
It was clear from the opening sentence of your polemic about the state of the State of Israel, what your agenda would be. You tipped your hand in your third sentence, “In America, it took generations for blacks, women, and gays and lesbians to
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Martin Kantor
8:30 pm
Jul 25, 2012
Why is it perfectly OK for these hypocritical murdering bastards to set up a Muslim state and not deem it apartheid, when Jews have lived in that area for thousands of years, side by side with Arabs. In Muslim states Jews and Christians are not welcome, to say the least.
Let the newly named Palestinians go back to wandering the desert and screwing their goats.
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M.Otero
8:35 pm
Jul 25, 2012
Just why is it that the Arab League cannot be honest and mature enough to admit their complicity in the expulsion of nearly all the Jews of the Arab world, their humiliation of generations of Palestinian Arabs through UNRWA and the camps, and their behind the scenes veto of every IsraeliPalestinian peace proposal? Why all the devious, skulking dishonesty? Why not put both Nakbas (Jewish and Arab) on the table at once and resolve the two issues with the Arab League at the table for all to see. No one seems to gain except the festering humiliation of the League.
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Dany
9:20 pm
Jul 25, 2012
I have always said these land grabbers, liers,
thieves, rapists, terrorists, murderers, kidnappers,
free loaders, haters, etc… Would never sign a
peace treaty with Israel because their conquering
dreams would end and their quest to rule the
world would be over!
On the other hand it is GOD hardenning
Pharos hearth, so His plan will be fulfilled.
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Salim Varese
11:10 pm
Jul 25, 2012
Hi Danny:
An if the Arabs did sign a treaty/accord/agreement with Israel would you trust it?
Not me. Their religion allows it to gain advantage by all means including deception. At the right moment, for them, they will go Oooops, the agreement in null and void…
Let’s not kid ourselves… Wee need to be goal oriented but know what their goal is…
Vehamevin Yavin…
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Jul 25, 2012
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Nushuktan
11:21 pm
Jul 25, 2012
All the justifications for a Palestinian state fall away in the face of attrocities like the Itamar massacre. That a third of the residents of any Palestinian state favor the murder of Jewish children. Not to achieve any larger goal, but just because they are Jewish children. To call for a Palestinian state in the face of that fact is to advocate genocide.
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phili
10:35 am
Jul 26, 2012
‘They can do all manner of things against us but they are powerless against our prayer’ (closish to the original quote).
Thank you Honest Reporting for your ongoing reminders that as a Christian I must continue to pray for the Land where my beliefs began. Shalom.
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Logic1!
6:42 pm
Jul 27, 2012
Well, the Palestinians certainly understand and utilize to great effect the politics of victimhood, so of course they would object to what they see as Israelis finally remembering its publicity value.
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