Today’s Top Stories
1. There were two terror attacks near Hebron this morning. In the first attack, two Palestinians rammed their car into a hitchhiking stop near Kiryat Arba, then exited the vehicle and opened fire. Both were killed when soldiers returned fire.
Minutes later, a Palestinian rammed his car into the same location. He was shot and killed by soldiers as he emerged from his car. Knives were found on his person. In all, four soldiers were injured. Police haven’t determined if the two attacks were coordinated. Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel coverage.
Regarding the two car-rammings at Kiryat Arba, Australia’s ABC News disgracefully butchered the headline when it published Reuters‘ coverage of the attacks. Note the difference in context:
Voice of America‘s header also came up short on context.
2. Security experts talked to the Jerusalem Post about why the intifada hasn’t died down after six months. The biggest factor? Instant communication on the internet.
“What is happening now is largely driven by young people who are using social networks,” adds Givati. “They are not breadwinners and their parents do not interest them. There is a complete collapse of authority – parental, educators, leadership. Think how terrible it is that a child did not belong to any organization and provider – makes an attack on a whim, and then destroy the house of his parents.”
3. Another Gaza tunnel collapsed today, killing a Hamas digger. Hamas called the collapse a “work accident,” but the Jerusalem Post writes,
The rash of tunnel collapses has led observers to suspect that they may not be the result of “accidents.”
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4. Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Retaliation”: Aussie broadcaster suggests deaths of two Palestinian kids was an Israeli retaliation for rocket fire.
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Israel and the Palestinians
• Former ambassador Michael Oren’s acerbic response to President Barack Obama’s recent interview in The Atlantic makes me go hmmmmm.
• Can 1,000 Israeli sociologists all be wrong? They announced that they’re boycotting Ariel University, which is located in the northern West Bank, “since it’s not in Israel.” See YNet and Jerusalem Post coverage.
• Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom will condemn BDS at behest of Tzipi Livni.
• How do Israeli Arabs view Hezbollah nowadays?
• The things you find hiking in Israel . . .
Hiker finds rare 2,000-year-old gold coin in northern Israel https://t.co/Jhx8UxeAZ5 #IsraelNews pic.twitter.com/Z5TxVKsmOb
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) March 14, 2016
• As Hamas watches closely, one Palestinian woman is creating a “modest” sensation in Gaza, the New York Times reports. It’s no small feat that Rawan Okasha is allowed to entertain in public.
Among the Culture Ministry’s rules: Ms. Okasha, 24, had to stand still while singing, dress modestly and stick to “patriotic music.”
Wearing a traditional embroidered gown and matching head scarf, Gaza’s chanteuse did not sing about broken hearts, parties or other fripperies. Only in the Arabic folk songs did love shyly appear.
• Newsweek (click via Google News) takes a look at the threat terror tunnels pose to Israel.
• After wrapping up a three-day visit to South Africa, Israeli diplomat Dore Gold shared his thoughts on South African ties with the Times of Israel.
• I was waiting for The Guardian to put some silly spin on the Palestinian trend of using home-made guns. Peter Beaumont did not disappoint.
The use of homemade guns shows how much the Palestinian Authority’s security forces and Palestinian factions have kept control over their large number of weapons.
• Pro-Israel group barred from University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s ‘Social Justice Fair’
Commentary/Analysis
• Professors Eugene Kontorovich and Abraham Bell co-authored a research paper on Israel’s borders in international law. See a summary in the Washington Post.
• I won’t say Bibi’s clean on the way he handled his non-visit to the White House, but I don’t think the Obama administration’s blameless either. You can guess who gets all the blame in this New York Times staff-ed. Draw your own conclusions.
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Edy Cohen: A just war on incitement
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians laughing their heads off
– Yonathan Yavin: The “light” intifada
– Tamara Cofman Wittes: Revisiting the Obama doctrine
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