“Journalist” Tries to Arrest Israel’s Foreign Minister
July 25, 2012 17:18 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• Let’s give the Palestinians a state anyway. This from AP:
The World Bank says the Palestinian economy’s recent growth is unsustainable because of its heavy reliance on foreign aid . . .
The study’s author, John Nasir, said the Palestinian Authority has made steady progress toward establishing a future state, “but the economy is currently not strong enough to support such a state.”
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• Iran announced it now has “11,000 centrifuges active in enrichment facilities.” The Daily Telegraph points out:
That was more than the 10,000 centrifuges Iran was last said to have had operating, according to a May 25 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• You know Iran’s slacking off on “The Resistance” when you see comments like this in the NY Times:
One Qaeda operative, a 56-year-old known as Abu Thuha who lives in the Hawija district near Kirkuk in Iraq, spoke to an Iraqi reporter for The New York Times on Tuesday. “We have experience now fighting the Americans, and more experience now with the Syrian revolution,” he said. “Our big hope is to form a Syrian-Iraqi Islamic state for all Muslims, and then announce our war against Iran and Israel, and free Palestine.”
Arab Spring Winter
• Thirty feared dead in Ramadan mosque massacre. Assad loyalists in Hama sprayed worshippers with gunfire. Imagine the outrage if Israel did this.
• Reuters reports that Syria’s ambassador to the UAE defected.
Alawi flag
• An Alawite rump state can be viable (and good news for Israel) because
. . . the farming is good, there’s an airport at Latakia, a naval base at Tartus and an oil terminal at Baniyas. Several strategically located military bases could contribute to the state’s defense. “Assad could continue to count on support from Iran, and the Russian Navy would retain is docking rights at Tartus.” No doubt Israel wouldn’t mind either that its powerful, less-than-friendly neighbor would end up balkanized into a handful of identity-based statelets.
• An Alawite rump state cannot be viable because it would be too closely tied to the success and failure of the dominating Assad family:
. . . Mr Al Assad and his close-knit regime may own up to 70 per cent of the country’s assets, land, licences and businesses. What would make ordinary Alawites think that in a new state, where they would be completely reliant on the Assads’ protection, the family would be more willing to share the spoils?
• The New Republic finds that Vladimir Putin’s critics and the Russian media favor support for Assad. Why are the Americans supporting an Islamic revolution? they wonder:
“The Russian press is more accurate than the Western press, because the West, in painting [the Free Syrian Army] as freedom fighters, doesn’t understand that these guys, are blood-sucking vampires and if they come to power there will be hell to pay, and for the Americans, too,” says Maxim Yusin, the deputy editor of the foreign affairs section of the daily newspaper Kommersant, Russia’s largest and among its more liberal . . .
“The Americans came to terms with the Arab Spring because they think that this is something they can understand, that democracy works the same way in America as it does in the Arab world,” Yusin goes on. “But it’s not how democracy works in the Arab world,” he says, pointing out that, in Gaza, a democratic election brought Hamas to power. “Russians understand it better,” Yusin explains. “They understand that this is a conflict between the civilized world and the suicide bombers who cry ‘Allahu akbar!’”
• Sinai jihadis filmed themselves blowing up the Egypt-Israel gas line.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Israel’s charm offensive with the Turkish media continued. The Prime Minister talked to a delegation of visiting journalists from papers like Hurriyet and Zaman about fixing Israel-Turkey ties. Back in Ankara, however, AP reported that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan broke his Ramadan fast with an iftar meal featuring special guest Khaled Mashaal.
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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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