Morsi Ousts Egyptian Military Leaders
August 13, 2012 10:50 by Pesach Benson
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1. Simon Plosker got op-ed space in the Jerusalem Post to expand on HonestReporting’s legal victory over The Guardian:
Considering that the status of Jerusalem and the importance of accurate reporting on Israel are issues of relative consensus within the UK’s Jewish community, why was HonestReporting the only organization concerned enough to take up the case on Israel’s behalf? No wonder the Guardian, BBC and others feel virtually immune when it comes to reporting with undisguised antipathy towards Israel.
Only three complaints against the Guardian, including ours, were lodged with the PCC. There were none from any other Jewish or pro-Israel organizations, which must have left the PCC feeling under far less pressure when it deliberated on the issue.
On a related note, check out HonestReporting’s latest infographic:
2. President Mohammed Morsi ousted Egypt’s top military leadership, including Field Marshall Mohammed Hussein Tantawi. The Times of Israel reports that Jerusalem isn’t worried about a decrease in security cooperation.
Assuaging fears that unfamiliar military leaders in Cairo might not cooperate with Israel, the official said that Defense Minister Mohammed Hussein Tantawi’s replacement, Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi, “is well acquainted with Israel’s security elites . . .
David Ignatius (Washington Post) says Sisi is also well-known to the US, which is more concerned for Egypt’s judiciary:
What’s indisputable is that the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Morsi is a longtime member, has now tightened its grip on Egypt, controlling the military as well as the presidency and the parliament. That’s either an example of democracy in action and civilian control of the military, or a Muslim Brotherhood putsch, depending on your viewpoint. It probably has elements of both.
The U.S. view is that the replacement of aging top military leaders, in itself, isn’t worrying. But they would be concerned if Morsi moved to make changes in Egypt’s judiciary, which has been an important independent center of power since the Tahrir Square revolution that deposed Mubarak in February 2011. Worries about the judiciary were prompted by another Morsi move Sunday — to appoint senior judge Mahmoud Mekki as vice president. The fear is that Mekki, as a former jurist, might reject rulings by the courts.
3. Egyptians arrested 11 Palestinians in the Sinai over the past two days. CNN writes:
The 11 Palestinians had “entered Sinai illegally through the tunnels and could not return due to our operation and shutting down of tunnels,” said the senior security official, who is not authorized to speak about the investigation.
One of those arrested is allegedly involved in weapons dealing, he said, adding that the investigation is ongoing.
Ido
11:57 am
Aug 13, 2012
Hey!! Why did you cut the Golan out of your map?? That’s the one part of the territories liberated in ’67 that the Israeli Govt did annex!
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Jeremy Zauder
1:40 pm
Aug 13, 2012
The image has been updated to include the Golan Heights in our map. The revised image might not appear on this page, but it is corrected at the source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/honestreporting/7765529298/
Well spotted, Ido! Our peace entreaty towards the Assad regime was rebuffed.
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BUTSeriously
12:35 pm
Aug 13, 2012
The BBC, The Guardian and such Britsh media get their wink-wink nod and grants from HMAS. Israel know thy enemies – the worst Post-W.W.II crime is the corruption of the Balfour for 30 barrels of oil. Consider Britain’s follow-up deeds against the Jewish state; carving off 80% of a tiny land and calling it a historic ‘COMPRMISE’; the HITE PAPER that barred Jews fleeing the Holocaust even in the 20% swamp left by the British; calling a 3-state as a 2-state today; transferring the name Palestinian from Jews to Muslims. The Jerusalem debacle is just a dot on a thread.
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jeb stuart
3:31 pm
Aug 13, 2012
The story about “lay offs” of Egyptian Armies top leadesrhip, for “generational” (Washington Post) change, should send off alarms . The press corps that missed the onset of the “Arab Spring”, printed numerous stories on how the Muslim Brotherhood had neither the popular support, experince or will to take control of more than a 1/3 rd of the seats in the Egyptian government. The same press corps that claimed the Muslim Brotherhood had no viable candidate running for PM. Morsi evolved from ex-Muslim Brotherhood member, sort of a Muslim Broterhood, still tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, and now a press release has declared Morsi Egypt’s first Islamic President. All with Obama’s approval.
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SALIM VARESE
7:21 pm
Aug 13, 2012
Jordan, an artificial country 38000 Sq Miles given to a family from Hijaz, Israel 7800 Sq miles given (by the brits or perhaps a higher authority or History itself) give to an entire nation…
British justice y’all.
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Harry Grunstein
11:47 pm
Aug 13, 2012
On the same pages of the world news all around the globe there were reports about the two major earth quakes that hit northwestern Iran as Iran was still stepping up its atomic efforts in building missiles with which to attack tiny little Israel.
Does the Iranian regime care so little about its own people while spending such huge finances to build missiles to destroy a country (Israel) that could so easily help the people of Iran?
Harry Grunstein,
Montreal, Canada
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Dany
7:37 am
Aug 14, 2012
Iran obsession with efforts to erase
this tiny country, blinds it’s leaders
ability to care for its own people.
The quakes are signs from heaven
That their plan will not succeed and
A second revolution is afoot. Let the
Iranian people do the work, they are
capable, willing and ready, all they
need is encouragement.
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