IDNS: Palestinian Censors Mute Townhall Meeting
September 13, 2012 15:39 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• Only at The Guardian: Ben White fisks Dr. Steve Caplan’s take-down of the BDS movement.
BDS makes the link between Israeli crimes and a response to them: the kind of nonviolent, grassroots campaign that has long been used to challenge injustice. Academia is not exempt.
• BDS comes to Los Angeles. At stake is a $150 million bus contract, writes the LA Times:
“As long as Veolia buses and trains carry Israelis between East Jerusalem and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, no Veolia bus should run down Temple, Spring, Grand, Crenshaw, Vermont or any other street here in L.A.,” Romann said. He later said Veolia has been complicit in what he claims is Israel’s violation of international law.
Palestinian Spring?
• Palestinian protesters are calling for mass protests on Friday to end the Oslo accords. Divided on whether to rail against PA corruption or the cost of living, they’re instead opting for the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately for the protesters, a catchphrase like “Occupy Ramallah” wouldn’t resonate like “Occupy Wall Street.” Jerusalem Post coverage.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• After reading the Jerusalem Post article that AP‘s update is based on, I think the wire service went overboard with the headline:
Israeli PM hints he will keep pressuring US on Iran
• Irish cabinet minister compares world’s failure to stand up to Hitler with the Iranian situation. Alan Shatter, the Minister of Defense and Justice was speaking at a conference marking the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg. If you’re looking for a voice in the wilderness, today’s comfort’s at the Irish Times.
• More commentary/analysis from Bill Keller (NY Times), Fareed Zakaria (Washington Post), Crispian Balmer (Reuters), Christian Science Monitor, NY Daily News (staff-ed) and David Horovitz (Times of Israel). Meanwhile, Joe Klein (Time) and David Remnick (New Yorker) make similar arguments of their own — but Klein’s a bit more polite.
Arab Spring Winter
• LA Times: Syrian rebels are frustrated that world’s attention has shifted from Assad atrocities to embassy attacks. Boston Globe columnist Juliette Kayyem makes the same argument.
With Libya and Egypt in violence, a US ambassador dead, and potential uprisings throughout the Muslim world, the only person who had a good day on Wednesday was Bashar Assad.
By that logic, the Palestinian movement (marginalized by Syria), pushed itself further on the backburner with Gaza protests against the film.
• Daily Telegraph: Syrian Christians are taking up arms for the first time:
Residents of the city told The Telegraph that the city’s minorities feared that they would suffer the same fate as Christians in Iraq, who were heavily targeted by the sectarian violence that erupted after the 2003 war.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Al-Qaida released a video of Warren Weinstein, an American aid worker abducted in Pakistan, appealing to Israel to intervene for his release. AP writes:
The aid worker said President Barack Obama and the American government “have shown no interest in my case.” He appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for help “as one Jew to another,” asking him to accept the militant group’s demands so he could return to his family.
He did not specify in his statement how the Israeli leader could end U.S. airstrikes or have militant suspects around the world released.
Unanswered is why Al-Qaida decided to release this video now.
• A former BBC editor fired a heckuva broadside at his former employers. The Daily Mail writes:
A respected BBC broadcaster has claimed television is dominated by ‘liberal sceptical humanists’ who laugh at Christianity but are afraid to mock Islam.
Roger Bolton, a former editor of Panorama, said an obsession with human rights over religious beliefs had left corporation bosses out of touch with the public.
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DJKuulA
4:53 pm
Sep 13, 2012
The photo of the ambassador being dragged through the street is another example of jumping to conclusions — it was initially reported as the mob desecrating his body, when in reality it was Good Samaritans trying to get him to the hospital.
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USA ambassades aangevallen in Egypte, Libie (4 doden) , Marokko en Tunesie, wegens preview film over Mohammed | tora-yeshua.nl | Tora Yeshua | tora-yeshua.nl
5:14 pm
Sep 13, 2012
[...] zijn en is het niet duidelijk of deze man Israelisch is. Hier een stevig protest daartegen: http://honestreporting.com/israel-daily-news-stream-09132012/ , Israel neemt het AP (Associated Press) en de Wall Street Journal kwalijk, dat ze de bron niet [...]
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Ben
6:48 pm
Sep 13, 2012
I think Honest Reporting should initiate a lawsuit against the AP and the Wall Street Journal for libel.
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Moll
7:44 pm
Sep 13, 2012
There is a difference between “nonstate” & “state” actors. The tribal arabs in judea, samaria and gaza, are “nonstate” actors. Why would a sovereign “state” pay attention to the squeakings of nonstate actors? i.e., the Geneva Conventions, the International Courts of Law in the Hague, International Water Treaties, are agreed to amongst sovereign “states”. Nonstate actors, like the tribal arabs in judea, samaria & gaza have no status. Why would any sovereign “state” pay any attention to what they say or do? BDS is a curse on all individual “nonstate” actors who buy into it. Noises made by individual citizens, religious organizations, citizens of various “states” become “irrelevant” BS.
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Henry Federman
8:42 pm
Sep 13, 2012
It may be true that the anti islam movie was produced by an Egyptian Copt but you’ll never convince the majority of Arabs who have a powerful propaganda and also by the liberal press who love to antagonize Israel no matter what the subject is,they’ll find a way to stick Israel’s name in there somehow. I’ve read comments saying that if the US was not helping Israel there would be peace. What has Israel got to do with the attack in Libya and Cairo? Nothing! But they go ahead blame Israel .
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Paul Tenenbaum
9:04 pm
Sep 13, 2012
It has been many years that I learned some Nederlandsch, but I believe you notes are not in favor of Israel. If you are against Israel you are probably a remnent of Quisling.
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Steve Edelman
4:15 pm
Sep 14, 2012
It is with deep regret that a President of the U.S,. blames his opposing candidate
for speaking out, while he and his awful foreign policy has caused more disruptions in the Middle East as he shows signs of weakness. The Arab Spring and the Iranian Nuclear menace
will prove that he is as much a leader, as MICKEY MOUSE., although
Mickey is far more respected in the World……..
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Henry Federman
5:19 pm
Sep 14, 2012
I don’t believe that all those sudden demonstrations in Libya,Egypt,Kuwait and Sudan were not coordinated by Iran to take pressure off all those talks of war and nuclear inspections. They have nothing to lose as long as they are not involved personally. Create problems so they can continue to go ahead with their nuclear programme. The movie on islam is over a month old and it popped up all of a sudden and all those countries without speaking to one another decided to attack American embassies. Are we that naïve?
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Jerry c
9:57 pm
Sep 14, 2012
Cltv news Chicago is still reporting as fact that The uprising in the middle east is caused by an “Israeli American business man producing an anti Islam movie Outrageous
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Jeffrey Nakar
3:56 pm
Sep 16, 2012
What Henry Federman says is very interesting. That is exactly what happened with the Danish “anti-Islamic” cartoons. The protests started on the day that Iran was due to be debated at the UN, months after the cartoons were actually published. Just how much of a fifth column has Iran established around the world? Perhaps it is not surprising that they have been able to orchestrate trouble in the Arab world, but Australia and Malaysia?
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Henry Federman
7:01 pm
Sep 16, 2012
This so called anti Islam movie is only an excuse for Iran to push their propaganda, like Jeffrey says but it is not a fifth column it is Hezbollah and Al Qaida that Iran pushes to cause trouble. I would love to be able to listen to Tehran television comments to hear the propaganda they feed their people and also read their newspapers, the anti American comments must have a ball with it. I just heard Susan Rice our ambassador to the UN saying that it not anti American that they are angry about but only to the film that film that causes the problem, does anybody believes that!
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