Syrian Mortars Land in Israel
November 8, 2012 14:22 by Pesach Benson
Natan Sharansky
• Natan Sharansky to Hussein Ibish: I’m guilty of hypocrisy — and proud of it:
I am accused of hypocritically “lecturing” Arabs about human rights. My speeches and writings are in fact directed elsewhere: at the democratic West and particularly at Western leaders who believe that freedom and human rights are the exclusive property of their own societies and cannot take root elsewhere.
For my own part, I have always tried to help the Arab world’s true believers in human rights, the beleaguered democrats who struggle, against often unimaginable odds, to be heard. In this way, I try to repay my debt to those Western defenders of freedom, like the late Senator Henry Jackson, who went out of their way to help us, the dissidents and democratic activists of the Soviet Union, and thus to pass on to others the gifts of hope and courage that he and others gave us. If this is hypocrisy, I’m proud to plead guilty as charged.
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• The Washington Post sifts through unusual Iranian tea leaves:
A sober analysis assessing the possible threat of a military confrontation over Iran’s nuclear program and highlighting the benefits of negotiations to avert a deeper crisis has been published by a surprising source: Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
The report first appeared on the ministry’s Web site Tuesday and has been republished by various Iranian media outlets, adding to growing speculation that new negotiations with the international bloc known as the P5+1, or even direct talks with the United States, may be on the horizon.
• Imagine the outrage if Israel did this: Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 31 Shiite activists involved in anti-government protests. AFP coverage.
• Interviewing Bashar Assad is toxic, as Vogue and Barbara Walters learned. So with Western journalists avoiding the Syrian president like the plague, Assad’s turning to Russia Today to get his message out. If the pattern holds, RT will apologize too . . .
• Digital Innovation on Election Night: a Report
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Stephen Miller
3:49 pm
Nov 08, 2012
There is constant talk about the right of return of the Palestinians. What about all of the Jews who were either kicked out or were forced to leave their homes in Arab countries. What have they received for that and what if they wanted to move back to their “other homeland”?
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Frank Adam
3:54 pm
Nov 08, 2012
It seems now the best policy about any project emerging from the White House is to ask awkward questions about how to implement and enforce it, especially how to stop non-state Arab parties disrupting its provisions.
Meanwhile if Rachel Shabi is so fond of a one state solution she can stay in UK which is its own sort of one state solution to her prospects and ambitions to live comfortably.
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Erik
4:12 pm
Nov 08, 2012
No mortars landed in Israel. Unless, of course, somebody threw them over the fence.
A mortar is the weapon used to fire the projectile, or round, known as a mortar bomb.
As often as Ynet reports on military affairs, they should get the terminology right.
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Shirley
5:10 pm
Nov 08, 2012
Where are you from Erik, >?
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Erik
8:17 pm
Nov 08, 2012
Originally, San Francisco.
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emes
5:48 pm
Nov 08, 2012
Natan Sharansky, you “lecture the arab world about human rights?” it might help if they were human in the first place! – Natan, you share a page here with a situation that Syrian rockets are finding their way into Israel – in fact the whole world is in receipt of terror, attrocities, wickedness and every negative analogy sourcing back to the arab populous and on top of that they bay for our extermination. It is sheer vanity to think that they will acknowledge and change their views on their own lifestyle, desire to take over the world and “kill all infidels,” to appease a “lecturing Jew.” – Natan, take up golf, it is more gratifying!
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Dany
7:15 pm
Nov 08, 2012
When Ishmael was forced to leave, with his mother, by his father on orders from Sarah he was directed to Arabia and there he was to father many nations (tribes). His successors did not understand or did not accept the limited Arabian peninsula for their existence, so they invented Islam and shoved it down the throat of many a people around that peninsula. For about 12 centuries they have conquered many lands and after defeating the local populations they made those lands Arab countries and converted the inhabitants to Islam or to corpses.
That was a many states solution.
The history is repeating itself, a one state solution, a two states solution, a three states solution, a …… states solution, your guess is as good as mine.
This time they are trying to duplicate that feat first in the promised land for the Hebrews known today as Jews, then Europe, then South America, then…. then…. then…. simply the whole world.
Their only mistake is they started in the worst place possible, I s r a e l. They G-d’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (also named Israel), Moses, Joshua, etc… etc…
the rest is known to Him only, B”H.
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Dany
7:19 pm
Nov 08, 2012
They FORGOT G-d’s promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (also named Israel), Moses, Joshua, etc… etc…
the word “forgot” was forgotten, sorry
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