Did a US Message to Iran Leave Israel Hanging?
September 3, 2012 16:12 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. White House to Iran: We’ll oppose an Israeli attack if you don’t attack US interests in the Persian Gulf. So reports YNet. See also NY Times which rounds up Washington’s efforts to build Israel’s confidence: military exercises, covert action, and tougher rhetoric.
Even if Mr. Obama set a clear “red line” now, its credibility may be questionable. According to a tally by Graham Allison, the Harvard expert on nuclear conflict, the United States and its allies have allowed Iran to cross seven previous “red lines” over 18 years with few consequences.
2. Egypt’s buzzing with first appearance of a female news anchor wearing a hijab. The Jerusalem Post writes:
Under deposed president Hosni Mubarak, women wearing Islamic head coverings were only permitted to work behind the camera; however, in January, an Egyptian court overturned the prohibition.
The newsreader in question, Fatma Nabil, who wore the headscarf of her own volition, made her appearance on a midday broadcast on Egypt’s Channel 1; three other women wearing headscarves also are slated to begin working as anchors in the near future.
3. JTA: Australian Jewish leaders are up in arms over Breaking the Silence. The organization’s latest allegations — that the IDF forced Palestinian children to act as human shields — was picked up the Sydney Morning Herald.
The newspaper reports triggered a scathing response Tuesday from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s president, Danny Lamm, who described it as “crude propaganda” and challenged the testimonies, which he said were “anonymous, non-specific as to times and places, devoid of critical detail and untested by any kind of cross-questioning.”
“Sadly, many Australians . . . are being left with the false, indeed ridiculous, impression that the IDF is a serious abuser of children’s rights,” Lamm said.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Maan News: Despite statehood bid, Britain isn’t suspending aid to the PA.
• Gaza man sets himself on fire to protest poverty and living conditions. Haaretz coverage.
• Israeli forces evacuated settlers from the Migron oupost. Plenty of news services on hand. Washington Post suffices.
• Michael Chessum of New Statesman visited Ariel University. Had he at least acknowledged its several hundred Arab students, chestnuts like this would be a little easier to bear:
The wilful moral oblivion that can be observed on campus is not merely a question of ignorance, especially given that most students will have done military service and seen the occupation. Rather, it is the ideological symptom the fact that Ariel’s academics and students are becoming an integral part of a project of colonial normalisation.
• No such thing as Jewish refugees from Arab countries? David Harris and Lyn Julius assail Hanan Ashrawi’s historical revisionism.
• The BDS movement’s patting itself on the back: the Student Representative Council at South Africa’s Wits U. voted for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. More at YNet.
Frank Adam
5:13 pm
Sep 03, 2012
Remind Hanan Ashrawi that the reason there rare so many Masri/Misri families in Gaza because they were scampering home in 1948 and stranded by the dastardly Egyptian government; so they are not refugees because they were returning to their homeland.
Ditto the Mugrabis and Maghrebis whose families aboriginal roots were in what at the time was French North Africa; also Sirhan Sirhan which wadi runs down the Saudi side of Jordan’s Eastern frontier and the Taraboulsis from Tripoli – but whether Tripoli in Lebanon or Libya is as obscure as the truth in an Arab hashish cafe.
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Robert Honeyman
5:32 pm
Sep 03, 2012
Unfortunately, the Washington Post article on Migron labels it an illegal outpost, implying that the residents were crazy religious zealots who stole the land. In fact, if I have the correct information, Migron was authorized by the Sharon (?) government. Nothing underhanded about it.
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jeb stuart
6:49 pm
Sep 03, 2012
It is okay for the PA, Fatah, Hamas to put rocks and guns in childrens hands, a violation of UN law, and they are never censored. When I have raised the issue in the past, especially when Children Armies are under intense scrutiny in Africa there is only silence. So the world governed by amorality or dictated to by Shariah Law advocates Muslim children martyrs but not others? The Australian news piece is so bigotted and slanted against the IDF it makes me wonder what the soldiers were paid or if they are merely the malcontent or even if they are or were soldiers..
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