Today’s Top Stories
1. Moscow sort of denied a Russian media report picked up by the Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post that it was moving forward with plans to provide advanced S-300 air defense systems to Syria. Reuters quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying no decision was yet made on the transfer.
The anonymous source behind the report in the Kommersant included a threat to Israel:
The sources told the newspaper that if Israel tried to destroy the anti-aircraft batteries — as analysts have indicated Israel likely would — it would be “catastrophic for all sides.”
Are comments by anonymous Russian military officials — which are then somewhat denied by higher ups — part of a Moscow game to intimidate Israel?
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2. Ynet: IDF to release report detailing how Hamas deliberately sends children towards the border fence as human shields. They’re abusing their own kids, purposely putting them in harm’s way.
“The children are sent to the front to face the (IDF) snipers,” a senior IDF official said. “And under the cover of the smoke, they throw Molotov cocktails or sabotage the (security) fence, out of an understanding that we will not hurt them.”
3. A Hamasnik was injured in an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. Three people, including a child, were reportedly also injured. It wasn’t clear what caused the blast. In a separate incident on Sunday, a Hamasnik was reportedly killed in a Gaza tunnel collapse on Sunday. It wasn’t specified if the collapsed tunnel extended into Israeli territory or was part of a network of other tunnels beneath the Strip.
In the News
• Satellite photos obtained by Israeli media indicate precision of raid on Iranian military base in Syria.
The images obtained by the channel show the charred remains of a single hangar at the Tiyas airbase, with the surrounding area relatively unaffected . . .
The strikes did not appear to target Russian military equipment or Syrian anti-aircraft systems that were also at Tiyas.
• Knox College in turmoil as professor says ‘Jews act like Nazis,’ and a Jewish critic is targeted by hate mail.
• Jeremy Corbyn’s much-anticipated roundtable on relations with British Jews was called off.
Meanwhile, the Times of London reports Corbyn cleaned up his Twitter feed, having been “forced to unfollow Twitter accounts that liken Israel to the Nazis” following a Sunday Times of London report on the antisemites, conspiracy theorists and Bashar Assad apologists the UK Labour party leader follows.
• Boston-area city council turns away BDS resolution
• A California man was charged with hate crimes for allegedly having ‘kill lists’ of prominent Jewish community members.
Commentary
• Its disingenuous of critics like The Guardian to insist Israel withdraw to the 1967 borders, then denounce Israel for defending those borders. What’s okay for Israel to defend if not the Green Line?
• Must-listen: Former Chief British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks discussed antisemitism on a recent BBC Thought of the Day.
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Yossi Yehoshua: Malaysia assassination: Hamas left hanging in the air
– Yonah Jeremy Bob: The Mossad’s hi-tech Hamas hit list
– Seth Frantzman: Why the blind spot to antisemitism?
– New York Daily News (staff-ed): Barnard students against Israel with warped campus vote
– Benjamin Tovias: Natalie Portman and BDS are not one and the same
Featured image: CC0 stevepb; Gaza child via IDF Spokesperson’s Unit; Corbyn via YouTube/The Telegraph; writer CC0 Pixabay;
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