South African Cartoonist in Public Spat Over Zionism
December 5, 2012 13:41 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• I liked this Q&A on E1 by CNN‘s Fred Pleitgen.
• Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat spoke out on the settlement row.
“I don’t know of any city in the world whose regulator is the U.S. president.”
• ESPN: Didier Drogba, a former Chelsea striker, says he never signed a petition calling for UEFA sanctions against Israel. Makes you wonder about the veracity of the other 61 signatures.
“My name was on a list of signatories of a petition supporting Palestine,” Drogba said in a statement. “Please note: I did not sign this petition or give my support to this initiative, because I have never got involved in any conflicts, even in my own country, the Ivory Coast.
Didier Drogba
• NY Times columnist Tom Friedman calls Israel’s latest settlement moves “arrogant.” He also frets that the security barrier and Iron Dome will work too well for Israel’s own good:
Meanwhile, with a few exceptions, the dome and wall have so insulated the Israeli left and center from the effects of the Israeli occupation that their main candidates for the Jan. 22 elections — including those from Yitzhak Rabin’s old Labor Party — are not even offering peace ideas but simply conceding the right’s dominance on that issue and focusing on bringing down housing prices and school class sizes. One settler leader told me the biggest problem in the West Bank today is “traffic jams.”
I am glad that the wall and the Iron Dome are sheltering Israelis from enemies who wish to do them ill, but I fear the wall and the Iron Dome are also blinding them from truths they still badly need to face.
• AP: It won’t be simple for the Palestinians to push war crimes against Israel at the International Criminal Court.
• Worth reading: In a well-articulated YNet commentary,Trevor Asserson explains why the foreign press beats the IDF every time.
• The Daily Telegraph‘s Matt Hill says Bibi’s bluffing on E1:
But few in the media have noticed that the move amounts to far less than it seems. In fact the decision was not an order to start construction in E1, but to begin the process of planning and zoning – as Netanyahu’s office hastily clarified yesterday. The initiative is almost certain to get lost in the wheels of bureaucracy once the front pages move on, as it has done in the past.
• Lead Screed: The Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald on Israel as rogue state.
• Bad news for the BDS movement: India urges Israel to speed up defense projects.
Another major missile project, worth around $1 billion, that Israel could bag is the one to supply third-generation anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) to the 1.13-million strong Indian Army. The Army has already trial-evaluated the Israeli ‘Spike’ ATGM . . .
• StandWithUs recently brought a group of the most popular photographers on Instagram to Israel. The Times of Israel published an impressive selection of their best shots.
Arab Spring Winter
• This headline from The Lede pretty much sums up what you need to know about Egypt, where protesters have surrounded Mohammed Morsi’s presidential palace. The pen phone is indeed mightier than the sword.
Egyptians at the Palace Gates, Phones in Hand
More on the demonstrations at CNN.
Anti-Morsi protest in Tahrir Square
• Asharq al-Awsat‘s Tariq Almohayed says the chickens came home to roost on the Egyptian media:
I am in favor of the rigorous rules found in every respected media domain in the world, but I completely reject the intimidation of the media, and attempts to undermine it with blackmail, insults, and defamation, along the lines of what the Brotherhood is doing, and in the case of Egypt specifically.
The Egyptian media’s biggest mistake was to trust the Muslim Brotherhood’s project, and its shortcomings, without asking serious questions. By trying to keep pace with the disgruntled and enraged revolutionary forces against the Mubarak regime, the Egyptian media opted to go along with the loudest voice instead of undertaking its real role, which is to ask serious questions and provide accurate information. At the time, unfortunately, the Egyptian media decided to put the horse behind the cart, not in front of it, and now we see the media itself falling victim to the intimidation of the Brotherhood and the Salafis.
• A Times of London staff-ed (paywall) supports a Western attack on Syrian WMD stockpiles.
• As the Damascus regime collapses, the Israel-Syria border will get hotter and hotter, an IDF intelligence officer told Israeli TV.
The main problem is not local rebels but those that come from outside of Syria. Fighters have begun to flow into Syria from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Libya. The source told Channel 2 “it’s important to say that we are talking about very dangerous people with experience fighting the U.S. Army” in Iraq or against the regime in Libya. Today, estimates have it that between 3,000 and 4,000 rebels are readying a fight with Israel, according to Channel 2.
Said the Israeli official: “It really doesn’t matter who controls Syria the day after the regime falls. Every indication is that it is not heading in a positive direction for Israel.”
(Image of Drogba via Wikimedia Commons/Ailura, protest via YouTube/BoozWheez)
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Ruedi Mueller
3:16 pm
Dec 05, 2012
It is clear that the uprising in Syria does not change that country’s tension with Israel; yet does it increase the risk of conflict ? I worry much more about the beginning instability of Jordan, a country that has its own Palestinian issue.
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Mustafa Hussein Obama
3:42 pm
Dec 05, 2012
It is good that the Islamic countries are in their summer of conflict with each other. What hand directs the Muslim world to destroy itself or is it that they are just to stupid to understand that a world without Islam would at least be free of fear of destruction.
The new Pharoah Moursi is just about ready to be embalmed and placed in his sarcophagus with his personal property buried with him in his hole in the ground.
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Lynette
3:33 pm
Dec 05, 2012
It is time to have some honest reporting out there of Israel’s achievements for a change to counter all the lies. How about reading http://blogs.jpost.com/content/time-be-proud-israel and passing it on.
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Mustafa Hussein Obama
3:35 pm
Dec 05, 2012
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Carole
3:48 pm
Dec 05, 2012
Yet again.. Jewish conspiracy.
If only it were true- we could rule the world
Mwahaha
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clivel
6:03 pm
Dec 05, 2012
What disgusts me the most about sycophants like Zapiro (and the ever obsequious Ronnie Kasrils), is that the only effect their one sided anti-Israel rhetoric has is to add fuel to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in South Africa.
Nevertheless, there is something more than a little ironic when Zapiro says “perverted by Theodore Herzl and company in order to ethnic-cleanse a land that had a lot of people” and then sends his children to a Jewish days school called Herzlia.
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Spin Dr
7:35 pm
Dec 05, 2012
Re: human rights watch. Strange use of the English language: “advocacy” – advocating (recommending) a policy. “Incite” – to stir up, to urge on to action. The stirring and urging have been accomplished. Now he is stating his intentions to institute the policy of genocide but we dare not call it by its true name.
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Sylvia fellerman
8:57 pm
Dec 05, 2012
What do we jews expect, can’t we c that the
World will always blame Zionist and Jews
Mo matter whether we do good or bad
They forget that without us they will be poorer
In every way
We will always be here no matter what as we
Have seen off many evil regimes throughout
The centuries
Israel is a mirical, the anti- Semites r afraid
So they try to lie and lie what else can they do
Evil will be destroyed eventually.
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Martin Kantor
10:54 pm
Dec 05, 2012
Well, Mr. Roth, is supplying Hamas and other terrorists advocacy or incitement? My view is that the supplying of arms to a puppet state to carry out unprovoked attacks on another state is much more than just advocacy. Provoking and abetting a war against innocent civilians, in my view, is incitement to genocide and should be addressed by the United Nations. (except that this august body is held captive by the combined Islamic powers).
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george Forrai
6:34 am
Dec 06, 2012
So, HRW thinks “advocacy” of genocide is legal but “incitement” is illegal. So, where does ADVOCACY + ARMING Hamas and Hezbollah to kill Israelis ( and,of course, go all the way by killing ALL of them if they only could) fit into their lexicon ? Perhaps “not nice ” would describe that by HRW’s standards.
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2:01 pm
Dec 06, 2012
[...] falls. Every indication is that it is not heading in a positive direction for Israel.” Read More:http://honestreporting.com/israel-daily-news-stream-12052012/2/ —• Asharq al-Awsat‘s Tariq Almohayed says the chickens came home to roost on the Egyptian [...]
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emes
1:51 am
Dec 07, 2012
Syria, fa dreisach dayn cop!
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