Rockets Rain on Israel
November 11, 2012 15:05 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Gaza heats up again. The violence began on Saturday when Palestinians fired an anti-tank rocket at an IDF jeep, injuring four soldiers.
As this post went to press, nearly 80 rockets had been fired in 24 hours, injuring four Israelis. The air force carried out strikes on several Gaza targets while schools near the border were closed. Soldiers also discovered a tunnel packed with explosives under the border. Details at YNet, Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel reports one and two.
2. The BBC’s director-general resigned after Newsnight falsely accused a parliamentarian of being a pedophile.
George Entwistle said his position was untenable after a day of humiliation in which he admitted knowing nothing of a Newsnight investigation which led to Lord McAlpine being falsely named as a child abuser – and nothing of it unravelling. . . .
He has lasted just 54 days in the job. Mr Entwistle’s decision plunges the BBC into its deepest-ever crisis and leaves it leaderless at a time of mounting questions over its journalism.
See HonestReporting’s response: Finally, BBC Admits to “Shoddy Journalism”
3. YNet: The Palestinian girl filmed screaming at Israeli soldiers was hit by a rubber bullet during a protest at Nabi Saleh, according to the girl’s mother. What else can you expect when parents deliberately send the young ‘uns to the front lines for photo ops? A YNet commentary adds more perspective.
Israel and the Palestinians
• According to the Times of Israel/AP, the PA’s seriously considering delaying its UN statehood:
But a senior Palestinian official indicated Friday that Abbas may be willing to postpone a move for upgraded UN status if the US were to offer a “clear objective” for negotiations. According to the official, the objective would have to be a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
• Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy continues his apartheid crusade:
Anyone who tries to draw a comparison between the occupation regime in the territories to the South African apartheid regime – and their number is rising constantly – is instantly labeled anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. But the facts justify the comparison. No, Israel is not an apartheid state, but the occupation in the territories is apartheid.
The comparison is legitimate. It’s a good ting that it upsets a lot of Israelis – perhaps their anger will prod them into looking at the occupation for once.
• The Jerusalem municipality is pushing to have the IDF headquarters relocated to the capital. And a city council member is calling for 60 other government offices now in Tel Aviv to relocated to Jerusalem as well. More at Israel HaYom.
• In a Q&A, LA Times reporter discusses Israel and the Palestinians with historian Professor Benny Morris.
Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore
• A leaked letter reveals that Ireland intends to push anti-settlement boycott when it assumes presidency of the EU. According to the European Jewish Press:
Ahead of the start of Ireland’s 6-month EU presidency on January 1,2013, Gilmore wrote to the chairman of the Irish parliament’ Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade to commit to following up the EU Council’s controversial May conclusions which featured heavy criticism of Israeli settlement policy, with a “stronger response”, as he asserted a ban on settlements products would be “consistent with EU values”.
• AFP looks at the newest trend: Palestinian ex-pats returning to West Bank and outdoing each other to build ostentatiously palatial homes.
• Lyn Julius presses the case for recognizing Jewish refugees at the Huffington Post.
martin
3:50 pm
Nov 11, 2012
Too bad that Israel does not response to Gazas criminal acts of war by shelling Israel in the same manner as it did against Syria.
Israel should shell Gaza back in the same indiscriminate but equal manner to ensure proportionate response. That will keep the UN, EU and all other Jew/Israel hating people and orgagnisations quiet. I think not, but then so long as Israel just allows it with meaningless threats it will continue. I’m even wondering these days, if and when a shell lands on a knesset members home near Tel Aviv whether the response will be just another threat?
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American Israeli
1:21 pm
Nov 12, 2012
How ridiculous! This story about the PA bid to the UN is just more evidence that you can’t negotiate with Muslims. Now they say they’ll withdraw the UN bid if Israel gives them what they want. The UN should just say no. Why should we give them this land in the 1st place? All we need for peace is for the terrorists to quit terror. It’s Jordan that should give them citizenship – they already have an Arab Muslim state there. Oh, that’s right- the king is alawhite & hates the “palestinian” non people Arabs. So why does this become Israel’s problem? Jordan was provided for the Palestinian Arabs while Israel, a much smaller area, was provided to the Jews. This whole problem’s due to anti-semitism.
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M. Edward Triefler
5:17 pm
Nov 12, 2012
Ireland’s Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, has suggested that when Ireland assumes the 6-month Presidency of the EU on January 1, 2013, it should push for a European boycott of Israeli goods. This one-sided view by Ireland and a number of EU Countries should be met with a boycott of Irish goods by the Jews of the US and Europe. It is time for the Jew’s of the World to stand up to the anti-Semitic Europeans’ who, to this day, regularly demonstrate their disdain for the Jewish People. The Second WW may be long over, but the hatred and the jealousy of the Jews continues to smolder. The World refuses to acknowledge the historical right of the Jewish People, the right to have a Homeland. Why does a tinny speck of sand, whose natural resources are mostly found in the People, not the ground, a People whose five thousand years of history, is and always will be Rightfully theirs and thus be acknowledged?
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