Israel Prepares Its Response to Statehood Vote
November 28, 2012 16:52 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Gaza next week. Today’s Zaman says he’ll be accompanied by Khaled Meshaal.
Yasser Arafat
• A staff-ed in the Daily Telegraph nicely blasts the Arafat exhumation and its associated conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, it also refers to Tel Aviv instead of Jerusalem:
This strange episode is a sign of the extent to which politics across the Arab world has been contaminated – and corrupted – by conspiracy theory. If signs of poison are indeed found, the blame will immediately be put on Israel – ignoring the fact that Tel Aviv had every reason to keep the erratic and discredited Arafat alive and kicking. Then again, the absence of evidence has scarcely kept those in the Middle East from buying into conspiracy theories of any and every kind, usually with Israel and the United States as the culprits.
• Does Big Media’s Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Gaza Give Free Pass to Congolese Massacres?
• Worth reading: Nira Lee — an IDF liaison officer helping coordinate the passage of aid, goods and delegations to Gaza — describes What I Saw During Operation Pillar of Defense.
• NY Times public editor: Gaza Photo Caption Should’ve Been Better. But “Orwellian?” Naaaah.
• 52 Nobel laureates call for a boycott of Israel. They probably dug up that other Nobel laureate, Yasser Arafat to pad their list, but he was still dead . . .
• For more commentary on Israeli-Palestinian issues, see the Melbourne Herald Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Jonathan Kay, and Melanie Phillips.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Anti-Israel hackers got into the UN nuclear agency’s computer server. Details at the BBC.
• NY Times: Video of rebels downing a Syrian helicopter suggests new surface-to-air capabilities. But is that necessarily good news?
“Once these weapons are outside of government control, it is often extremely difficult to track their movement and control who has access to them,” said Matthew Schroeder, an analyst who studies missile proliferation at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington.
• Andrew Keen urges Twitterers to take responsibility for their tweets.
(Image of UN via Flickr/stevecadman, Arafat via National Photo Collection)
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Frank Adam
6:04 pm
Nov 28, 2012
The UN will please its OIC manipulators so it is time to look at what to do when PA becomes an Observer “state” at the UN.
Precedents were set in 1949 when Egypt and friends were members of the UN, Israel joined but the Arabs still would not talk to her. It was the same with West and East Germany. Both halves of a quarrel still have to eventually talk and agree.
Like Egypt & Jordan, Palestine will have to talk and agree borders face to face with Israel, irrespective of any UN flat Earth resolution that its frontier is the 49 – 67 lines. It can only buy those borders by paying Israel by dumping “the return” of the refugees of 1948, and a bit more for keeping everybody waiting.
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alan
8:20 pm
Nov 28, 2012
the two state solution within israel’s boundaris including Judaea, Samaria and Gaza is a no go regardless of what the arabs promise or have the UN say.
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Robert Skole
6:24 pm
Nov 28, 2012
Your item head, “52 Nobel laureates call for a boycott of Israel”, is inaccurate. There are only a few Nobel Laureates named among the 52, according to the story.
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hfiers
7:08 pm
Nov 28, 2012
No matter what the UN desicion is, where is this “state?” If I am correct, the Palestinians live in the territory of the West Bank (considered a territory seized from Jordan by Israel), which is yet in the STATE of Israel (ask any Israeli). Until direct negotiations settle this dispute, shouldn’t Abbas be asking for “observer status as a (stateless) people?” When and only when there is a Palestinian state, borders will have to be determined. Israel, only through a Peace of Deterrance, will not, and should not give up it’s security either militarily or politically.
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Joseph Notovitz
7:59 pm
Nov 28, 2012
Much of the world allows its hatred for Jews stand in the way its clear thinking and logic.
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Israel Prepares Its Response to Statehood Vote | Blogs about Israel aggregation
9:44 pm
Nov 28, 2012
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David L. Fried
11:46 pm
Nov 28, 2012
I just want to point out that the (Iranian) graph of nuclear weapon power and yield shows incompatible results. The power curve (the solid line curve) has a width of the order of 1E-7 sec and a peak power of 1.6E+13 kT/sec. That would indicate a total yield of the order of 1.6E+6 kT (i.e. 1,600,000 kT). The yield curve (the dotted line curve) indicates a yield of about 50 kT.
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Michael H. Manning
4:46 am
Nov 29, 2012
Opinion on UN
In the 67 years since its establishment, the UN has accomplished little to nothing in meaningful world affairs. Other than making empty promises it has done nothing of consequence except allowing the creation of a Jewish homeland, a most monumental and wonderful event. However, the UN has consistently hammered Israel over several decades when Israel has only sought to be recognized as a legitimate State and live in peace.
Over the years, the UN has had many opportunities to intervene and stop genocidal insanity (e.g. Rwanda; Darfur, Sudan) but has done little to nothing except talk. Moreover, when a country, which is part of the UN, asks for help in stopping the continued rocketing of its targeted civilian population by neighboring Arabs, the UN has done and continues do nothing except ignore or excoriate that country seeking help (e.g. Goldstone report later repudiated by its author) it’s time to ask whether the UN deserves continued existence.
It seems clear that the UN has become the main character in the story of “The Portrait of Dorian Gray.” Its life has been a continuous series of vile corruptions (e.g. allowing Yasser Arafat, a terrorist, to speak to the UN General Assembly and do so while wearing a sidearm) which it tries to hide beneath a veil respectability.
However, its true character has long been revealed to those whose eyes have been and continue to remain open.
It is now time to recognize the reality that the UN, as envisioned, no longer exists, if it ever did. It is a corruption of the international body politic such that it should now be viewed as if it were a putrid rotting corpse that, like any human body, requires burial deep beneath the earth lest its stink be allowed to continue.
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steven L
5:54 am
Nov 29, 2012
The war of the West and Muslims against the Jews continues.
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Jeffrey
3:54 pm
Nov 29, 2012
The message that the UN should be sending to the Arab inhabitants of Judea and Samaria is that the only way to achieve an indpendent state is by negotiating and agreeing its borders with the state of Israel. Anything else undermines the whole process of giving them independence. There is a risk that it will end in their total expulsion because if the world backs their attempts to avoid the negotiating process, in the end, the world will give Israel no choice but to reenter the disputed territories and drive out the Arab occupiers. Will the world take responsibility for creating this situation? I doubt it.
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Dany
8:36 pm
Nov 29, 2012
The UN has just confirmed its irrelevancy,
and at the same time annulled the Oslo
Accords which were witnessed by the EU
Israel is now free from any and all Oslo
agreements, good bye Falasteen, you
never existed and probably will never be
a fact state only a de-facto one, always
relying on hand-outs and thievery for your
Survival. Pity!!
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Donald
4:28 am
Dec 02, 2012
Negotiating with a terrorist entitiy obsessed with your destruction won’t solve any short or long term issues. Loud wheels get attention, but also annoy.
After the Intifada, the Wall Street Journal attributed the world wide reactions to OIL.
Palestinians need to recognize the Israeli right to exist. Otherwise, what is there to negotiate?
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