The Guardian Recants: Tel Aviv Isn’t Israel’s Capital
August 8, 2012 15:04 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories:
1. The delegitimization of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital took a big hit. The Guardian issued a correction for previously labeling Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital, and recently changed its style guide too. It’s the result of HonestReporting’s legal pressure on the UK Press Complaints Commission.
HonestReporting’s still pushing for the PCC to issue a precedent-setting ruling that would apply to the rest of the British media — that Tel Aviv is not the capital of Israel.
The Times of Israel and Jewish Chronicle already picked up on the story. CiF Watch argues that The Guardian’s correction highlights need for media regulation reform in the UK. The correction also created some Twitter buzz.
2. Egyptian air strikes hit northern Sinai terror camps. Some 20 jihadis reportedly killed. Smuggling grinds to a halt and Hamas deployed forces along Gaza-Egypt border. An Egyptian military statement was certain of Gaza involvement:
The statement continues by pointing the finger at Palestinians in Gaza: “Coinciding with the attack, elements from the Gaza Strip carried out a mortar shell attack on the Karam Abu-Salem border crossing.”
3. While Syria burns and refugees flood his kingdom by the hundreds each day, Jordan’s King Abdullah inexplicably told CBS News that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still the region’s core conflict:
Charlie, I still believe that, you know, and we all know, that the core issue of the Middle East is still the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The Arab Spring, Syria, Iran, these, at the end of the day, are sideline issues. Whatever happens, the core issue, one that ignites the whole area, is still the plight of the Israelis and Palestinians.
Gaza-Sinai Terror Ties
• Egypt’s intelligence chief admitted he had received advance warnings of Sunday’s attack. YNet writes:
“Yes, we had detailed information about the attack, but we never imagined that a Muslim would kill a Muslim on the hour of breaking the fast in Ramadan,” Egypt’s intelligence chief told the news agency.
• Jerusalem Post: Israel is revamping its Sinai intelligence-gathering process.
• More commentary/analysis on the situation, see Israel HaYom, AP, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, and staff-eds in the NY Times and Beirut’s Daily Star.
jeb stuart
6:17 pm
Aug 08, 2012
The new Armada gives sterngth to an idea I have believed about radical ideolgues for a few years now. They really never get any new or better ideas once they latch onto to something, and they will keep repeating it even after no one cares if only for the club meeting when they talk about how novel they used to be and how the rest of the world couldn’t keep up. They never figure maybe it wasn’t such a good idea out of the barrel of ideas they have; it’s just the only one that stuck to the wall.
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jeb stuart
6:23 pm
Aug 08, 2012
I aslo would like to add the idea that the King of Jordan is the only one not being swayed by the relevancy of the Arab Spring. He certainly doesn’t want one in his Kingdom. But I think in a limited sense it makes him more honest. He’s not saying or doing things that will get Obama re-elected. The recent attacks in Sinai on the border police and then the attempt to attack Israel has been followed up by a strong Egyptian Army reaction. Would it have been after our November elections? I don’t know, I am tending to thinking not. Obama connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and wants calm, Obama’s policy with Israel and Netanyahu and Zionists, appears to have changed, until November.
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m
7:06 pm
Aug 08, 2012
Somebody should ask that “king” AKA camel jockey why he is keeping his own pali brethren in refugee camps.
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m
7:12 pm
Aug 08, 2012
That’s right mr “king”. Blame everything on Israel; all your stinking arab uprisings, ingrown toenails, stale beer (oh I forgot you turds don’t drink beer), flat tires, nose hair, flatulence.
The “king” speak of Israel as if it was some 3rd world islamic cesspool. Not good enough for him that HIS people were GIVEN a country that was once ALL Jewish land. Even the name of their stinking “kingdom” is a Jewish name.
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10:23 pm
Aug 08, 2012
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steve mann
3:28 pm
Aug 09, 2012
Lets get it straight- and this is old hat-
The Arabs turned down partition, not the Jews.
It was the Jordanians and Egyptians that created the refugee problem in Gaza and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria)
Instead of integrating them into their communities they used them as political pawns.
Israel integrated the ones that remained after 1950 and gave them citizenship.
So now let the Jordanians absorb those from the “West Bank” let Egypt take on the responsibility in Gaza and let Israel get on with its life.
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SALIM VARESE
1:00 am
Aug 11, 2012
WE NEED TO TAKE IT ONE STEP BACK. BEFORE THERE WAS A PARTITION, THERE WAS NO JORDAN. THE CURRENT RULING FAMILY CAME FROM THE WAHABI FAMILY OWNED COMPANY KNOWN AS SAUDIA OR SAUDI ARABIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS HIJAS AND NAJED. THE TERRITORY NOW CALLED JORDAN, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TRANS-JORDANIA, WAS SUPPOSED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS WHO CAME ALL THE WAY FROM AFGHANISTAN TO MOROCCO (QUOTED FROM CHURCHILL’S MEMOIRS). CIS-JORDANIA, FOR THE JEWS. THERE IS VERY GOOD EVIDENCE THAT BOTH KING FEISAL AND CHURCHILL SAID THAT THE JEWS WILL BRING PROGRESS TO THE AREA. CHURCHILL STATED IT THAT WHERE THE ARAB GOES, THERE IS DESTRUCTION AND DESERT. THE BS KING CAN GO BACK TO HIJAZ ASAP…
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