Today’s Top Stories
1. The PA demands full Muslim oversight over Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount. If not, the PA will (yawn) end security cooperation with Israel.
2. Adnan Gaith, who heads the Tanzim militia’s “organizational branch” in eastern Jerusalem told YNet that Mahmoud Abbas can’t control escalating Palestinian violence. The Tanzim militia is Fatah’s “armed wing.”
3. The US, along with several European powers asked the UN Security Council’s committee on Iranian sanctions to investigate Iran’s recent missile test. AFP writes:
British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters that there was no deadline for the committee to report back to the 15-member Security Council on its findings, but that there was a “clear sense of urgency.”
The four countries maintain that the missile test violates Security Council resolution 1929, which was adopted in 2010.
That resolution prohibits Tehran from conducting launches of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
4. PLO Stats and New York Times Hacks: The New York Times uses PLO stats for a graphic implying that Palestinians are the real victims.
5. Daily Mail: Palestinian Terrorist Shot Dead in “Retaliation” For Stabbing Soldier: What’s the distinction between self-defense and retaliation, and what difference does it make anyway?
6. HonestReporting Events in the US: Our North American executive director, Gary Kenzer, will be speaking at upcoming Limmud events in Boston and Arizona.
Israel and the Intifada
• Two Palestinian stabbers shot after attacking Israeli man in Beit Shemesh after unsuccessfully trying to board a school bus full of children. The Jerusalem Post adds that the attackers — who are now hospitalized — were wearing undershirts featuring the insignia of Hamas’s Iz a-Din al-Kassam Brigades.
• A Palestinian rammed his car into a group of soldiers near Hebron last night. Four were injured, one seriously.
Palestinian rioters at the scene of the attack threw stones and prevented emergency services from reaching the victims, according to Channel 2.
• This afternoon, a Palestinian tried to stab a soldier in Hebron.
• Worth reading: I’m grateful that NPR‘s Emily Harris gave a voice to two Israeli families shattered by the deaths of loved ones in recent terror attacks.
I’ve seen almost zero Western media interest in Israeli terror victims. That’s due to a combination of factors, primarily reporters fixated on Palestinian victimhood, and terror victims either opting for privacy or wary of journalists.
• In response to a Palestinian request for international protection, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon prepared a report for the UN Security Council detailing the precedents for such a deployment. See New York Times coverage.
• Israeli cops to begin wearing body cameras next month.
• In Berlin, Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Secretary of State John Kerry and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. Both are Kerry’s due to meet Mahmoud Abbas. ‘Nuff said.
• The International Business Times picked up on a video featuring a Palestinian girl wielding a knife who says she wants to stab a Jew. According to MEMRI, the video was uploaded onto Facebook by the girl’s mother, a teacher for Palestinian refugees in Jordan.
• Terror wave hits Israeli retail sales hard.
• American students visiting Israel told Time they’re not dissuaded by the unrest.
• Who knew Facebook had an armed wing operating in the West Bank?
• Israeli officials continued speaking out. Consul general Yaron Sideman got an op-ed platform in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette. And MK Yair Lapid weighs in on the “media intifada.”
Before I was a politician I worked in the media for 31 years. I covered wars, international conflicts and countless clashes. As someone who has been on both sides of the media I can say, with total responsibility, that this is an incomprehensible number of incorrect reports, misleading headlines, distortions of fact and total falsifications of the truth.
The most suspicious and angering thing is that it doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world where democratic countries fight Islamic fundamentalism.
Lapid also discussed the violence on BBC’s HARDtalk. Stephen Sackur’s a very aggressive interviewer and Lapid didn’t back down.
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On the other hand, check out CNN‘s Jake Tapper’s incredulous response to the PLO’s envoy to the US. Tapper demolished Maen Rashid Areikat’s spin games of excessive Israeli force.
• Nobody’s going to debate whether the police response was excessive force or legitimate self-defense. It’s just a knife attack, right?
Masked man shot after fatal stabbing of teacher at Swedish school
Commentary/Analysis
• Islamic State has been boosting its rhetoric against Israel. Is it trying to hijack Palestinian jihad as its own?
• How to stop the wave of terror in Israel? A European Jewish Press Q+A picked Yossi Kuperwasser’s brains.
• Tweet of the day, by David Hazony:
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Yaakov Amidror: This is not the third intifada
– Emmanuel Navon: John Kerry’s foolish statements about terror and settlements
– Aziz Abu Sarah: Israelis and Palestinians — rage, fear and misunderstanding
– Eyal Zisser: A new Middle East
– Boston Globe (staff-ed): With Israel on edge, Kerry must help cool tensions
• Last but not least, Aaron David Miller points out quite a few signs that the Iranian regime isn’t moderating its behavior, but rather consolidating it. Writing in the Wall St. Journal (click via Google News), Miller concludes:
Anyone who thinks Iran is on a linear course to moderation ought to lay down until the feeling passes.
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