Did Hamas have advance info about the Kerem Shalom attack?
August 14, 2012 12:49 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• Haaretz talked to experts about how war with Iran would effect Israel’s economy. On a somewhat related note, Dan Williams of Reuters questions whether Israel’s tough enough for a long war.
• A NY Times staff-ed says Israel should give sanctions and diplomacy more time. Dan Margalit (Israel HaYom) points out that some of Israel’s biggest decisions came after the rest of the world told Jerusalem to wait. And a Wall Street Journal op-ed (via Google News) says there are grounds to expel Iran from the UN and IMF.
• Last but not least, Time, The Guardian, AP, and Haaretz try to make sense of Israeli media chatter on the issue. So does Bret Stephens, whose Wall Street Journal video is the most enlightening of the lot.
Arab Spring Winter
• Hezbollah denies Arab media that one of its members was captured in Syria while on a mission to fight against rebels. The Daily Star had most information about Hassan Salim Meqdad and a film of his alleged confession.
• Opposition figures worry that the rebel offensive in Aleppo creating a humanitarian crisis. Did the Free Syrian Army miscalculate? asks the LA Times.
• What does Iran get for supporting Assad? asks CNN.
• Syrian rebels were filmed tossing dead soldiers off the roof of a building in the northern town of al-Bab. The Lede and the LA Times have more info about the graphic video, which was filmed three weeks ago. The latter talked to an eyewitness:
“There were snipers on the roof of the post office,” said the activist, who asked to be identified as Barry for security’s sake . . .
“Finally the rebels managed to storm the post office and threw explosive devices and the five snipers were killed. Then the rebels threw the bodies from the roof.”
“What happened was really bad. We should respect the dead even if they were our enemies,” he added, saying that later the bodies were buried according to Muslim customs.
• Reuters: Syrian rebels shot down what they say was a Mig fighter jet over the town of Mohassen. They posted a video of an aircraft clearly bursting into flames.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Poynter rounds up media reactions to Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism woes. By the way, the Yale Daily News says the university is reviewing its relationship with Zakaria, who is a Yale trustee and alumnus.
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Dirk Byker
2:35 pm
Aug 14, 2012
Often I am ashamed to be a South African, judging by the idiotic utterances of our glorious government. In fact every time they spout some nonsense, another 20 or so South Africans we can ill afford to lose, emigrate.
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Kibbitzer
2:59 pm
Aug 14, 2012
Marvellous that these young people volunteer to defend our state and become Israelis. Even better that it p*ss*s off Ben White, let’s hope he has trouble sleeping tonight. To paraphrase the wit and sage himself “I don’t believe he’s an obsessive Jew-hater but I can understand people who do.”
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m
4:10 pm
Aug 14, 2012
SA has a lot more to lose than Israel iof they break ties … LOL.
What are their grounds for “boycotting” .
If it is apartheid then they need to hear what one of their own diplomats had to say about the subject.
watch?v=se5xTh8uwyo
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m
4:12 pm
Aug 14, 2012
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SA has a lot more to lose than Israel iof they break ties … LOL.
What are their grounds for “boycotting”.
If it is apartheid then they need to hear what one of their own diplomats had to say about the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se5xTh8uwyo
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Moll
9:14 pm
Aug 14, 2012
RE: story #2: ” South Africa’s deputy foreign minister called on his citizens to boycott Israel”. So, once SA cuts off diplomatic relations with the State of Israel, South Africa will no longer be a safe place for western non-muslim tourists. They can kiss their tourism dollars bye-bye. South Africa will degenerate into the “mess” it once was in when it was run by the “whities”! South Africa has a lot more to lose than Israel. The more nonsense SA government officials spout, the more citizens of South Africa emigrate — people South Africa can ill afford to lose. Soon all that will be left are the blockheads!
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David Barrett
8:06 pm
Aug 20, 2012
Hamas- I am not so sure but I am willing to bet that Morsy did.
I think we have been had.
Muslim Arabs think nothing of sacrificing themselves for the higher aim – what if Morsy set up the whole thing just to sort out the rule of the Egyptian army?!
Too far fetched ? Then ask yourselves why Egypt now has anti-aircraft missles in Sinai?
When are we going to wake up?
Finally where is the world complaint against South Africa for their deliberate carnage against its miners- shot down in cold blood – beacuse they are black?!!!! Apartheid of a sort still rules in SA apparently.There is more racism in SA even today then there ever will be in Israel .
We should cut our ties with them.
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