IDNS: Cabinet Meeting On Iran Dramatically Adjourns Over Media Leak
September 5, 2012 13:38 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Without any new acts of self-immolation, Palestinians across the West Bank protested the rising cost of living. More at Maan News and YNet.
2. Israel’s security cabinet held a 10-hour meeting on Iran. A follow-up meeting was adjourned after info about the first meeting was leaked to Yedioth Aharonot.
3. The Times of Israel picked up on a Ben Gurion U. study which found a surprising divide between Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.
While ’67 Arabs accuse their ’48 counterparts — who remained in their homes despite the war — of acquiescing to Israeli rule, ’48 Arabs retort that they have clung to their land, choosing not capitulate and flee . . .
An astounding 60 percent of Israeli Arabs said they would not allow their daughter marry a man from the West Bank. 41 percent of West Bank Palestinians claimed the reverse.
Sagy noted that the status of ’48 Arabs as a “small minority, at times threatened, both within Israeli society and the Arab world” resulted in a stronger group identity and an impetus to protect their unique collective narrative.
Life within a larger Jewish society has softened the attitude of ’48 Arabs towards Israel, the survey found. Israeli Arabs tend to blame Israel less for the displacement of Palestinians than their counterparts in the West Bank.
Israel and the Palestinians
Ambassador Ron Prosor
• Worth reading: Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, takes to the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page to ask, Where’s the Flotilla for Syria?
The flotilla crowd has different priorities. They prefer to work around the clock to protest Israel’s legitimate defense against the terrorists who target its citizens and fire thousands of rockets into its cities. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised: It’s much easier to face news cameras in Tel Aviv than bullets in Damascus.
• French judges investigating Yasser Arafat’s death want to visit Ramallah and exhume his body. BBC updates the inquiry.
• Hamas arrested 20 members of a radical Islamic group. AP says it’s part of an effort to curb rocket fire.
•Daniel Mandel (Jerusalem Post) tees off on Hanan Ashrawi’s denial of Jewish refugees:
So why has Ashrawi chosen to risk looking petulant, dishonest and stone-hearted in refusing to speak the truth about the Jewish refugees? Because the paramount object of Palestinian politics remains the nullification of Jewish statehood. Since World War II, the plight of refugees the world over has been alleviated by resettlement rather than repatriation.
But compensation has often been a feature of such resettlement. As a result, resettlement of Palestinian refugees not only lacks enticement but the compensation of Jewish refugees this would encompass heralds danger.
Till now, Arab countries have combined risibly low levels of material support with high levels of vocal support for Palestinian refugees and their millions of warehoused descendants. But if Arab states are called upon to pick up the tab for their depredations against their historic Jewish communities as part of a peace settlement, this could abruptly change and the regional pressure on Israel to concede to implacable Palestinian demands like the legally baseless “right of return” might abruptly end.
John Whitbread
8:54 pm
Sep 05, 2012
A question that will probably show my ignorance. I’m just checking the story about ‘Palestinian’ protests at cost of living on the Maan site. The piece finishes with a list of people who were arrested by the ‘Israeli authorities’. Is this invention? It doesn’t seem to make sense given the rest of the report.
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Peter
9:07 pm
Sep 05, 2012
BBC headline and article on Munich refer to Black September as “militants” rather than terrorists. But the 7/7 bombers are terrorists.
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Barry
5:29 am
Sep 06, 2012
That’s because the term “terrorist” would apply only if the cause of their brutality and barbarism conflicted with one’s own sympathies and views. “Militant” would imply a form of validation for those perpetrating such crimes as well as some soft of understanding for their cause. Obviously, to the British, “terrorist” applies to crimes against Brits, but most certainly not against crimes against anyone of lesser importance, like Jews.
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Frederick
10:55 am
Sep 11, 2012
Barry, you may well be justified in accusing the BBC of an anti-Israel bias but please do not extend the accusation to include all ‘Brits’ . This is like accusing the city of New York of anti-semitism, simply because the New York Times is regularly guilty of dishonest reporting. I believe the majority of British people are willing to call a terrorist a terrorist, regardless of the policies and agendas of the BBC and the Guardian!
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Admiral Robert Lewis O'Dell Jr
10:56 pm
Sep 05, 2012
There could really be an avid declaration of Peace if the Old Manachem begin-Amwar Saddat Peace Plan was initialized and The alliances we are now generating between the West, and The muslim Brotherhood, the al-Qaeda networks as well as the Mujahideen and Taliban networks to include the Ottoman, Egyptian, and The babylonian Empires as the opportunities continue to climb the ladders of God’s will to make the world a safer place to embrace God’s Love and fellowship wioth The Jews and The Christians as one Kingdom of god’s people on this earth. The Future belongs to Christ and The heavenly Fathers will for The Whole world not to destroy mankind. Broken Spear, we can win this war against Peria.
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Sep 06, 2012
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Dany
2:06 pm
Sep 06, 2012
We are not less important, on the contrary,
We are more important, more intelligent,
more productive, more inventive, more
musical, more talented, more giving, more
loving, better fighters, better peace makers,
more faithful to G-od, and best of all WE ARE
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, lest one forgets.
The people that call terrorists “militants” should
adopt them in their families, letting them
live in their houses, impose their doctrines,
Cherish them, and leave us to our PEACEFUL
LIFE, and yes WE ARE BRAVER,
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