Did Hezbollah’s Chief Financial Officer Defect to Israel?
October 11, 2012 13:07 by Pesach Benson
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1. According to the Jewish Press, Hezbollah’s chief financial officer defected to Israel, bringing with him maps, classified documents, and a large sum of money. Why’d Hussein Fahs do it? He had been arrested for embezzling Hezbollah money. Daniel Greenfield of FrontPageMag adds:
As a Shiite, there are few places that Fahs can go that are outside the Shiite or Sunni axis. Israel is religiously neutral in the Muslim religious civil war and it has a definite interest in gaining intelligence on Hezbollah.
Fahs’ defection suggests panic in the upper ranks of the Shiite group, which has committed manpower to Syria, but fears a Muslim Brotherhood takeover there. With Iran under pressure and Syria at war, Hezbollah rightly fears being isolated. Some of the upper rank rats are now trying to figure out how to scurry off the Shiite Islamist ship.
(Via Israel Matzav)
2. Liberal bias at the BBC is in the spotlight thanks to an independent inquiry set up by the BBC Trust. The review, headed by ITV’s former chief executive, Stuart Prebble, will investigate Beeb bias in coverage of religion, immigration and Europe. The Guardian adds:
It may also include coverage of Islamophobia . . .
Prebble will investigate whether the opinions of viewers and listeners who participate through phone-ins are given appropriate significance. The review will look at whether the BBC has ensured that those who hold minority views are aware they can take part in on-air debates.
3. Abdulateef Al-Mulhim’s awesome commentary on the Israeli-Arab conflict is getting a lot of welcome attention. The Times of London republished it, though there’s a paywall.It also got the attention of Sky News correspondent Tim Marshall, among others.
But most notably, skimming through some of the 453 comments at Arab News shows there’s a real conversation going on.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Times of Israel: Khaled Mashaal admits that Hamas’ attempt “to combine resistance and governance” was a failure.
• Former PA minister Hassan Asfour boasts on Lebanese TV how many Israelis died since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. Good heads up by Memri.
• EU cautions the PA on statehood bid.
jeb stuart
3:18 pm
Oct 11, 2012
Including Islam extremists in debates is antithetical to democracy. You can not include people who demand that anyone who criticizes Islam should have their head cut off. Immediately, after the false narrative spun about a short video causing mayhem and death in Islamic nations, President Obama and Hillary Clinton apologized for freedom of speech. The aim is to declare any criticism of Islam as hate speech and any malevolent mob violence that results as some sort of “Muslim Rage”. Americans have already been through the process of “Black Rage” an attempt to justify any black on white crime. It is time for a US administration to stand up for speech and demand murderers be tried.
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10:26 pm
Oct 11, 2012
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Solomon Gelgor
8:05 pm
Oct 13, 2012
A few days ago, on the BBC world news, it was reported that a hospital ship, fully equipped, with medical staff, had anchored off the coast of Morocco, to do abortions to those who wanted it. This procedure is banned in that country, which has illegally performed ones, which lead to damage to the woman or even death. Then a woman wearing a head scarf, retorted. ‘My body does not belong to me, it is Allah’s, I cannot do what I like, I can not commit suicide.’
So, why are they allowed to martyr themselves, or, circumcise, men or women?
Come on?
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Solomon Gelgor
8:09 pm
Oct 13, 2012
No, I have never yet written this. You say I duplicated this!!!!
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