Islamist Rebels Seize Syrian Villages in Golan DMZ
November 14, 2012 14:53 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• CNN: A dispute over a $2.3 million water bill is making for testy times at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre:
As a result, the church is considering closing for a day in protest, shutting the doors to pilgrims for the first time in centuries.
• The International Press Institute and Maan News are taking up the cause of Jihad Harb, a Palestinian journalist who faces prosecution after he questioned irregular hiring practices in Mahmoud Abbas’s office. More background at The Daily Beast.
• The JTA caught up with French-Jewish activist and politician, Philippe Karsenty. He’s still fighting the Mohammed Dura video. I interviewed Karsenty when he started out in his battle with France 2 TV. He was a bulldog then too.
Arab Spring Winter
• France became the first Western country to recognize the new Syrian rebel coalition. According to AP, Paris officials raised the possibility of sending arms. Time‘s Tony Karon reacts.
• Jordanians rioted over rising fuel costs. Blame Israel? Nobody’s doing that — this is squarely Egypt’s fault.
• The LA Times looks at deepening Egyptian-Turkish ties. How concerned should Israel be?
• Depressed about the Mideast, Tom Friedman draws inspiration from Iraq?!
• Accusing the Egyptian government of not keeping post-election promises, Sinai Bedouins plan a Day of Rage on November 20. I wonder what that‘s going to look like.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• How bad is the chaos at the BBC? Count the ways:
- The investigator into Jimmy Savile’s pedophilia now says Savile created his show “as a vehicle for his offending.”
- The Beeb began taking disciplinary actions over the Newsnight scandal.
- Fran Unsworth — filling in as news director for a suspended Helen Boaden — asked her employees not to tweet about “our problems.”
- Mark Thompson, the Beeb’s former news director, had a rough first day at the NY Times.
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MNKarni
4:10 pm
Nov 14, 2012
i hope you noted that in the article you linked to here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/11/13/174550/israel-says-syrian-rebels-using.html
the date line is “Israel Occupied Golan Heights”
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Josephine Bacon
4:58 pm
Nov 14, 2012
Yesterday night, the BBC World Service broadcast a programme that was about philanthropist funding of British universities as government funding reduces. The reporter, Rob Broomby, interviewed Lord Weidenfeld about his intention to set up chairs in Israeli and Jewish studies at various universities, including Sussex University in Brighton. One of the lecturers there, whose name I think was Selby, stated on air that this would be promoting Israel “an apartheid state”. Broomby then went to Exeter and interviewed Ilan Pappé who claimed, of course, that his university was not funded by the Emir of Sharjah in order to promote the latter’s ideals.
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m
5:33 pm
Nov 14, 2012
Isn’t Ilan Pappé a traitor and anarchist? Proof that even Israeli is not immune to the parasitic brain worm disease that have infected the leftist mind.
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4:59 pm
Nov 14, 2012
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Stanley Tee
5:33 pm
Nov 14, 2012
“only 1 rocket” was fired on Tuesday. Gee thanks. Anywhere else, that would still be an act of war.
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B. Lang
6:50 pm
Nov 14, 2012
About the incursion into the Golan DMZ. As the arab said “the camels nose is in the tent.” There is little doubt that this a test of Israels resolve and if they wait you can be sure the rest of camel will follow.
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Jerry
5:24 am
Nov 15, 2012
The calm before the storm!
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