Today’s Top Stories
1. The majority of Palestinians support a third intifada against Israel, according to a Palestinian Center for Public Opinion poll picked up by the Jerusalem Post.
2. France and Russia are working as allies against Islamic State. A Times of London staff-ed notes the significance of this new partnership for the Mideast:
Whatever is happening to the global balance of soft power, the balance of hard power in the Middle East is tipping away from Washington. Mr Kerry says a big transition is possible in Syria within the next few weeks. He may be right, but only if France and Russia sustain their new resolve to shut down the Isis menace at its source. If so, it will be Russia, the conqueror of Ukraine and ally of President Assad, that determines the contours of this transition as the only big power with significant military assets on the ground in Syria.
3. A police raid on Paris terror suspects turned deadly, a German-Dutch soccer match was cancelled for security concerns, and more. CNN and the Daily Telegraph are live-blogging the latest developments.
4. SUCCESS: Upstate NY Paper Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories: “We made a mistake in publishing the letter as it was written and did not do a sufficient job in evaluating the claims it made.”
5. HonestReporting’s mission continued with a full day trip to Haifa and the Carmel region to learn more about Jewish-Arab co-existence and Israel’s Druze community.
Israel and the Intifada
• Police arrested a 16-year-old Palestinian who attempted to stab a policeman outside Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. Last night, Israeli soldiers on a routine patrol near Ramallah came under fire. AFter an exchange of gunfire, one Palestinian was killed and two were arrested.
• Israeli police raided an eastern Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Red Crescent. No reason was given, but Israel and the PRC are at odds over a recent West Bank shooting attack. The teenage son of Rabbi Yaakov Litman told Magen David Adom that a PRC ambulance saw and ignored the dead and injured family members.
• Context-free journalism: You won’t know this from Reuters, but the Islamic Movement, which Israel banned for inciting violence, is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. For comparison, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and McClatchy News had more background, but still overlooked the Brotherhood tie-in.
• Mahmoud Abbas admitted for the first time that he turned down Ehud Olmert’s peace proposal in 2008.
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict to blame for Paris attacks, says Dutch politician.
• The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and a South African newspaper got some egg on their faces after South African police denied warrants were issued for the arrest of four IDF commanders connected to the Mavi Marmara affair.
Based on a BDS statement, The Citizen, a Gauteng-based daily, reported yesterday that the commanders would be extradited to Turkey in response to a complaint filed by Gadija Davids, a South African national who was aboard the Mavi Marmara when Israeli commandos intercepted the ship trying to break the Gaza blockade in 2010.
• Shin Bet arrests Israeli-Arabs planning to join Islamic State in Syria.
• JTA: American security officials tour Israel.
Around the World
• This Day in Jewish History: The Haaretz feature caught our eye, noting a BBC orders to workers to soft-pedal Nazi persecution of Jews.
On November 18, 1943, the head of the BBC warned employees not to broadcast anything that might be designed “to correct the undoubted anti-Semitic feeling which is held very largely throughout the country.”
We now know that the BBC also edited out references to Jews from reporter Richard Dimbleby’s April, 1945 broadcast from the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
• In aftermath of Paris attacks, French-Jewish children afraid to attend school.
• UK Jewish leaders met with Sky News officials to discuss concerns over its Israel reporting. The Jewish Chronicle writes:
The Board’s chief executive Gillian Merron said: “We raised the way in which headlines in the UK media have frequently minimised the violence against Israelis and expressed the community’s deep concern that the context of anti-Jewish incitement was often missing from reports.
• Anti-Israel, anti-Semitic images now a ‘Facebook feature’
• 2 women arrested over German synagogue attack.
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Dan Margalit: Raed Salah: A reckless pyromaniac
– Yonah Bob: Can the ICC recognize Palestine, even if the move violates intenational law.
– Eldad Beck: France must end its denial
– Bret Stephens: The Islamist tantrum (click via Google News)
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