Today’s Top Stories
1. Iran says it began implementing the nuclear accord: According to Reuters, the mullahs began decommissioning uranium enrichment centrifuges.
2. Jordanian sheikh stirs controversy with fatwa against killing Jews.
Sheikh Ali Halabi said in a video distributed via social media that Jews can be killed during war only, and that killing them at other times is a betrayal. When asked by a student if it is permissible to kill Jews in Palestine, the sheikh answered: “Someone who protects you, gives you electricity and water, transfers you money and you work for him and take his money – would you betray him, even if he was a Jew?”
3. Israel returned the bodies of seven Palestinian terrorists, but the PA broke a pledge not to hold celebrations. YNet reports that after meeting with clan leaders in Hebron, Israel will continue returning bodies. The Media Line delved more into the political and ethical issues.
Israel and the Intifada
• As this roundup went to press, breaking reports of three Israelis stabbed in Rishon LeTzion. This morning, two Palestinians tried to stab an IDF soldier at a checkpoint near Jenin. One assailant was shot and killed, the other arrested.
• Police thwart attempted terror attack in Hebron when they found an improvised explosive device (IED) in a car stopped at a checkpoint.
• The PA’s Health Ministry is stirring up Palestinians with a claim that Israel harvested the eyes of a dead terrorist. The ministry also announced that “71 martyrs” died in October.
• AP: Gaza family is first to return to rebuilt home after war.
• Tweet of the day, from Yair Rosenberg:
• As Syria crumbles, Golan Druze increasingly seek Israeli citizenship, according to Israeli media reports.
The marked increase in applications could be an indication that the community’s 45-year-long loyalty to its Syrian homeland has become fractured by the raging war across the border.
In addition to disillusioned youth, some Golan Heights Druze are embracing Israeli citizenship out of a fear of widespread persecution in Syria if Assad’s regime — a government that protected the minority group — falls, or is forced out of power.
• The Freedom Flotilla Coaltion is organizing a women’s boat to Gaza next year.
Around the World
• Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won national elections, taking more than 49 percent of the vote, enabling single-party rule.
• Do they qualify for 72 virgins too?
Errant Russia airstrike kills Hezbollah fighters: report
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– David Horovitz: President Abbas, please tell your people to stop stabbing us
– Mohammad Al-Kassim: Time not ripe for third intifada
– Nesia Shemer: The Palestinian ‘war of history’
– Moshe Maoz: From Moscow to Tartous, with Jerusalem’s blessing
– Jonathan Tobin: Sorry Bill, it’s not up to Israel
– Yaakov Amidror: Syria’s unraveling gives way to new regional order
– Jonathan Spyer: Russian intervention in Syria isn’t a “game changer”
– Ira Rifkin: Is European-style, opinion-marbled journalism playing a bigger role in American news?
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