Abbas Backtracks After Waffling On “Right” of Return
November 5, 2012 17:18 by Pesach Benson• You have to sift through the criticism of Israel, but today’s NY Times staff-ed opposes the Palestinian statehood bid. Here’s the key snippet you might’ve easily overlooked:
It is not a move that will do anyone any good. It will not change facts on the ground, and it will come at a cost.
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And you thought this only happened in the movies. Don’t worry, nobody’s blaming Israel.
Crocodile roams Gaza sewer network
Come to think of it, maybe this’ll stop the Palestinians from ripping up their own sewage pipes to build rockets.
• The Guardian bashes the security barrier. Businesses in Bir Nabala have hit on hard times, and I feel for them. I also feel for the Israeli drivers in the West Bank who used to face stone-throwings, firebombs, and drive-by shootings, but they ruin the mood Harriet Sherwood’s trying to create.
• Arafat’s body to be exhumed on Nov. 26, reports AP. Photographers are probably already staking out spots around the mausoleum.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The Israeli media’s buzzing that we were on the verge of war with Iran in 2010.
• Israeli media confirms secret US-Iran contacts. Following up on a recent NY Times scoop, YNet identifies Valerie Jarrett, an Obama aide born in Iran, as the go-between.
• YNet: “Tehran half-heartedly admits to backing weapons factory in Sudan.”
• Peter Mullen (Daily Telegraph) wonders why David Cameron wants to sell weapons to Arab states, but not Israel.
• 20 killed as Syrian army shells rebel positions in the Yarmouk refugee camp. As Maan News points out the creation of a rebel Palestinian brigade made the shelling inevitable:
Some rebels said last week they had begun arming sympathetic Palestinians to fight the PFLP-GC, which has helped Assad in his crackdown on the 19-month-old revolt.
The shelling of suspected rebel positions in Yarmouk, a swarming camp home to 150,000 Palestinian refugees and perhaps as many Syrians, appeared to be the army’s way of supporting the PFLP-GC.
• Egypt’s interior minister sacked a high-level Sinai security chief after jihadis killed three policemen in El-Arish.
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m
8:26 pm
Nov 05, 2012
“arab” Knesset members that play with ANYTHING treasonous, should not only be tossed out of the Knesset, but out of Israel. If any political figure in Canada called for a boycott of Canada, it would be railroaded out. Democracy is not about anarchy and calling for a boycott against one’s own country is anarchy and treason.
Boycotting your own country is not only moronic, it is treason.
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m
8:42 pm
Nov 05, 2012
PS
If the arab knesset member dislikes the country that feeds it, provided it with health care and an education, then perhaps it can move to any one of the ever so so much better surrounding islamic shit holes.
Just a suggestion.
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8:44 pm
Nov 05, 2012
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Dany
9:28 pm
Nov 05, 2012
Yep, only dogs bite the hand that feeds them
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m
9:29 pm
Nov 05, 2012
“Yep, only dogs bite the hand that feeds them”
You bet and only STUPID dogs would do that….
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spartacus !!!!!!!
11:46 pm
Nov 05, 2012
to “hell” with restraint !!! , turn the “islamic shitholes ‘ into a large hole !!! , this is the only thing that this ” plague on humanity ” understands !!!!!!!
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Zvi
1:37 am
Nov 07, 2012
Zahalka is a Knesset Member; there is no such thing as a “knesset minister.” You should correct this – don’t want quoters to make this site look bad.
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