Revolutionary Guards Ordered to Intensify Terror Against West
August 23, 2012 17:40 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Ayatollah Khameini ordered the Revolutionary Guards to intensify terror against the West. Thing is, the logic described by the Daily Telegraph requires that Tehran’s involvement with the terror be clear to everyone, not plausibly deniable.
It advised that the Iranian regime should demonstrate to the West that there were “red lines” over what it would accept in Syria, and that a warning should be sent to “America, the Zionists, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others that they cannot act with impunity in Syria and elsewhere in the region.”
2. Avigdor Lieberman sets off diplomatic firecrackers. The foreign minister wrote a letter to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton calling for Mahmoud Abbas to be ousted through overdue Palestinian elections. The Prime Minister’s office disavowed the letter. More details at the Jerusalem Post.
Archbishop Lazzarotto
3. The Vatican’s new ambassador to Israel is linked to the Catholic church’s attempts to cover up Ireland’s pedophile priests scandal. Menachem Gantz (YNet) calls Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto appointment an “embarrassment and a humiliation for Israel.”
He was accused of doing everything in his power to protect them. Lazzarotto, who served as the Vatican’s ambassador to Ireland at the time, was thought to have spearheaded Pope Benedict’s policy not to cooperate with Judge Yvonne Murphy, the head of the committee appointed by the government of Ireland to investigate the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin . . .
And now the Vatican has decided to appoint Lazzarotto as its ambassador to Israel. “The Jews have problems of their own,” Vatican Secretariat of State officials may have thought to themselves. “Pedophilic priests are not on the agenda of the tumultuous Middle East, so we can show our appreciation for Lazzarotto’s loyalty during the scandal in Ireland by appointing him to the prestigious post of the Vatican’s envoy in Jerusalem.”
Israel and the Palestinians
• US to Corrie family: Israel’s inquiry into Rachel Corrie’s was neither credible or transparent as it could’ve been. Haaretz (paywall) broke the story.
• South Africa’s cabinet approved a law requiring settlement products be labeled as being from “occupied Palestinian territories.” BBC coverage suffices. See the Jerusalem Post and YNet for Israel’s blowback.
• Columnist Paul Schneidereit (Halifax Chronicle-Herald), Barbara Yaffe (Edmonton Journal) and a Calgary Herald staff-ed slam the United Church of Canada’s decision to boycott settlement products. Via HonestReporting Canada.
• In an exclusive guest post for HonestReporting, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld discusses the Norwegian media’s distorted Mideast coverage:
The country shares a border with Russia. However, one often gets the impression that Israel appears in the Norwegian press more than its own powerful neighbor. Norway’s media are obsessed with Israel and many incite against it in various ways.
• Worth reading: Why the Left Should Not Call for Talks With Hamas.
But the need for the progressive camp to rehabilitate its credibility on security issues should prevent it from advocating a position so far outside the Israeli consensus as talking to Hamas. Such a gambit would likely exacerbate the public’s distrust of the left on security issues.
• Maan News: Israeli and Palestinian officials are meeting to avert a West Bank electricity shortage. The Israel Electric Corp. is demanding a payment schedule for $105 million owed by the Palestinians.
H.Laddie Schnaiberg
8:28 pm
Aug 23, 2012
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H.Laddie Schnaiberg
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artcohn
9:13 pm
Aug 23, 2012
T he Palestinian Arabs do not want, and will never agree to, a State along side of the Jewish State of Israel. They have said this, loud and clear, many times.
Their primary goal is the destruction of Israel!
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Moll
9:55 pm
Aug 23, 2012
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp
Wayne Allyn Root (Columbia, Class of ’83) writes “Barack Hussein Obama, a.k.a. Barry Soetoro a.k.a. Harrison J Bounelis, is no fool. He is a devout Muslim; do not be fooled. He is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos – thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate(Columbia University , class of ‘ 83).
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H.Laddie Schnaiberg
9:59 pm
Aug 23, 2012
Artcohn’s remarks are based on hatred and not on fact. We used to hate the the Germans because of the Holocaust. But Willy Brandt was elected as Chancellor and Germany begins reparation payments and then every one gets along with Germany. Israel’s Independence was difficult because of the actions of the United Kingdom. Israel got its independence and over time diplomatic and trade relations were established between Israel and the United Kingdom.The Soviet Union was hardly popular with the world Jewish Community, but Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign minister Spoke, at the United Nations, in favor of the creation of Israel and got the Soviet Union to vote in favor of the creation Israel.
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Amerisraeli
11:57 pm
Aug 23, 2012
I disagree with all of H.l Schnaiberg’s comments. But the most seriously incorrect one deals with the “Palestinians”. The only Palestinians who’ve lived in the area for thousands of years are the Jews. The people calling themselves Palestinians today are Arabs from Egypt & Saudi Arabia. They’re Arabs who left Israel during the 1948 war to play it safe until the war ended at which time they thought they’d move back. But when |srael won the war, they became refugees rejected by all the Arab countries so they could be used in psychological warfare against Israel, since Arabs from 7 countries could not defeat Israel militarily. Jordan became the Arab part of Palestine but refuses to accept them
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H.Laddie Schnaiberg
10:45 pm
Aug 23, 2012
Moll’s comments are extreme and false. President Obama has been a Christian all his life. He was brought by his Mother and her parents who were all Christian. Obama has attended Cristian Churches all his life. He is not destroying Capitalism. His stimulus package saved General Motor and Chrysler. He save American Banks who were in financial difficulties because of the banks’ selfishness and greed.
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Nomlas Fisher
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Aug 24, 2012
Right on L H.Laddie; What is this Moll person smoking??….one wonders about the IQ, of some of these people,don’t they read news papers or try to educate them selves,in some way??? They sound like Idiots from another world!!…….you have a judge in, Lublaw, Texas,saying that the Pres.is going to allow the UN to take over the White House”, or the Goverment, or some thing like that!! can you believe this nonsense?? He has to labouring under the influence of some drug or disorder!! Heaven help us!! if you have an American Judge,(elected) that believes this Tripe!!
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