Heads Roll at BBC; Scandal Looms Over NY Times
November 12, 2012 16:01 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
Sattar Beheshti
• CNN: Iran to investigate the death of an imprisoned blogger Sattar Beheshti. I can’t wait to see what excuse they come up with:
The human rights group said Beheshti, 35, was arrested October 30 by men thought to be from Iran’s “cyber police.” His family was told to pick up his body on November 6, Amnesty International said.
• Diplomats behind a cancelled confab pushing for a nuclear-free Mideast will simply say the timing wasn’t right. AP coverage.
Arab Spring Winter
• Syrian opposition groups took another stab at organizing some unity. According to the LA Times, the National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and the Syrian Opposition is intended to serve as an umbrella organization and (hopefully) the single address for financial, military and humanitarian aid. Their leader?
Dissidents elected a Sunni Muslim cleric, Moaz Khatib, as the coalition’s president. Khatib was described as a moderate former preacher at the historic Umayyad mosque in Damascus, the capital, who fled the country during the summer after he was arrested. He is said to retain a considerable following inside Syria.
• Hezbollah lost Robert Fisk. What else is there to say?
Today, it looks more like yet another Arab “security” institution – or insecurity institution – as it flies drones over Israel and continues to support, to the increasing condemnation of many Lebanese, the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Nile Delta at night
• Will a water crisis and Nile neighbors make Egypt pay for years of fixation on the Zionists? The LA Times ain’t ruling it out:
An advisor to the president quoted in Al Ahram Weekly said this of Morsi: “The man was shocked when he received a review about the state of ties we have with Nile basin countries. The previous regime should be tried for overlooking such a strategic interest.”
For decades, Egypt had concentrated on problems closer to home, including keeping the Arab-Israeli peace . . .
• Worth reading: Mandela and the Arab Spring
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The brother of the Toulouse gunman says his family was raised on a steady diet of anti-Semitism. AP writes:
According to excerpts published in Le Figaro and other newspapers, Abdelghani made a silent vow on the day of Mohamed’s funeral to tell the world how they were raised on anti-Semitism.
“I will explain how my parents raised you in an atmosphere of racism and hate before the Salafis could douse you in religious extremism,” he writes in “My Brother, That Terrorist,” due out Wednesday . . .
In an excerpt publish in Belgian media, Abdelghani remembers how his mother drove home a message of anti-Semitism.
“My mother always said, `We, the Arabs, we were born to hate Jews.’ This speech, I heard it all throughout my childhood,” Abdelghani says in the documentary, according to the RTL.be website.
• U.S. Fears Hezbollah Operative Held in Iraq May Go Free
A senior Iraqi official has told the Obama administration that Iraq no longer has a legal basis to hold a Lebanese Hezbollah operative who has been accused of helping to kill American troops in Iraq, and United States officials are concerned that he may soon be released, American officials said Sunday.
• The Daily Mail was on hand as the chairman of the British Press Complaints Commission spoke out on the future of UK media regulation.
(Image of Nile via Wikimedia Commons/NASA Earth Observatory)
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Nov 12, 2012
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Leonard Kahn
7:26 pm
Nov 12, 2012
How can heads roll at either the BBC or the New York times ?? Impossible–it’s up their asses.
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Moll
8:05 pm
Nov 12, 2012
Re: Stories 1,2&3 —
The G-d of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob caused it to be written in His WORD, that He would “bless those who bless ISRAEL [whether individual OR as a collective], and He would curse those who curse ISRAEL” (Gen.12:3) and that “God’s Judgment Day is near for all the godless nations. As you have done [to the jews, either individually or collectively], it will be done to you. What you did [to the jews, either individually or collectively] will boomerang back and hit your own head…”(Obadiah 1:15).
King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, wrote “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”(Proverbs 9:10).
Think Twice BEFORE you act! Actions have consequences.
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Kibbitzer
10:01 pm
Nov 12, 2012
Wow, J.C. was a Muslim 700 years before Islam was invented. Now that’s a miracle!!
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Paul Tenenbaum
10:27 pm
Nov 12, 2012
If the P.A. has no other “spokesman” than this imbecile, the truly matters will remain as they are.
Abbas on one hand indicates that he is willing to wotk with Israel, on the other hand some shoot themselves in the foot. Next thing we’ll hear that the Pharaos of Egypt were Muslims.
It is regrettable that people like him can convince other people in that area to actually believe that Jesus was not a Jew.
In retrospect, when the Arabs did not accept th 1948 peace proposition, Israelis should have annexed the entire area, with certain “enclaves” within that territory.
Unfortunately we have to live with reality.
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BUTSeriously
4:00 am
Nov 13, 2012
Jesus an Islamic martyr!? False! Jesus passed away in 31. The name Palestine was dumped on Judea [not an Islamic or Arab land!] – 100 years later. So Jesus could not be a Palestinian – he was a Jew. This name was applied to Jews exclusively for 2,000 years – it was hijacked by an Egyptian born terrorist named Arafat in 1955; Jordan changed the name of Samaria [a Hebrew cty!] to ‘WEST BANK’ in 1955. Jerusalem is a Hebrew name & city – Hebron is the birthplace of Judaism.
A? KAFFIR IS ONE WHO LIES OPENLY BEFORE THE WORLD WITH NO FEAR OF HEAVEN.
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Jeffrey Nakar
4:03 pm
Nov 13, 2012
How could Jesus be an Islamic martyr 700 years before Islam. Jesus was actually a Jewish nationalist who opposed foreign occupation. If he was alive today, my guess is that he would be a settler and probably quite a militant one. After all, he was born in the Jewish town of Bethlehem. Nowadays he would not be allowed to live there. Just how and when did his home town become Arab?
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Andrew
4:52 pm
Nov 13, 2012
well well, they want Israel, Jerusalem, the world and now they are willing to change people’s nationalities to Palestinian, wow, how blind can people be, in fact, how deceived are people really going to become before He comes and settles the whole matter, I for one would not want to counted among those who teach such blatant lies as the judgement written fothem is terrible. I am an ‘Aussie”. …… boy, I hope we don’t become another palestine, couldn’t handle the whinging victim mentality
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dany
5:38 pm
Nov 13, 2012
The fact that Arabs, muslims or christians, lie as much as they breath is no secret to us and to themselves, what is mind boggling is that the rest of the world accepts their lies and are ready to demonize the people that suffer from these lies.
Jesus a Palestinian? How about Buddha! Perhaps Apollo? Zeus? anyone else?
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dany
5:42 pm
Nov 13, 2012
You nare right to fear that Australia will become another Palestine hoax, look at all European countries, they already are
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