Today’s Top Stories
1. Over at UNESCO, the Palestinians are now laying claim to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Qumran is on the list of preservation areas which the PA wants to see registered under the “state of Palestine” on the World Heritage List.
2. PA foils large-scale attack against IDF forces in Hebron.
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3. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, made a secret trip to Dubai, attending a conference under UN auspices in his capacity as chairman of the UN Legal Committee. Jerusalem Post coverage:
The trip was conducted secretly and under tight security measures so as not arouse criticism of the government by local citizens.
4. Does The Daily Beast Think Jewish Artifacts Are a Hoax? Without any evidence whatsoever, The Daily Beast refers to the Israeli discovery of an ancient artifact relating to Jerusalem as a “hoax.”
Israel and the Palestinians
• Jerusalem mayor wants police to enforce regulations on noise levels of Muslim calls to prayer.
• Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman takes a closer look at what’s known about recent revelations of Palestinians working for the KGB.
As we delved deeper into the secrets Mitrokhin left behind, we discerned another Soviet strategy taking shape: Not content with merely infiltrating centers of power in Israel and gathering intelligence on the Jewish state, the KGB also forged extensive ties with Palestinian terror organizations, greatly abetting their activities. In fact, the Mitrokhin documents show that the Soviet Union waged a kind of “shadow war” with Israel (and the US) for years, using those terror groups as their proxies.
For many years, Israel’s intelligence services suspected that the KGB was aiding at least some of the Palestinian terror organizations, but these were normally general suspicions, which were not necessarily based on quality or reliable intelligence. The Mitrokhin archives prove just how deep the cooperation between the USSR and the Palestinian terror organizations was, and what a bloody cost it exacted from the world in general—and especially from Israelis.
• Canadian Governor-General David Johnston wrapped up his round of state visits to Israel, the PA, and Jordan. More at CTV.
• Israel’s dealing with issues of press freedom as the Knesset debates funding for a public broadcasting authority, but to keep it in perspective, compare that with the latest from Sudan:
Sudanese security agents seized all copies of three newspapers Sunday, a journalists’ association said, just days after they covered a fuel price hike in reports seen as critical of the government.
Around the World
• Here’s how Palestinian media views the US elections.
The US elections in the eyes of a Palestinian cartoonist (https://t.co/PVKDrkw7vY). pic.twitter.com/k8AWWzEw4V
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) November 5, 2016
• Cologne art exhibit compares swastika with star of David.
• Congressman warns U. of California: Failure to prevent anti-Semitism on campuses violates federal law.
• Students at Kent State demand removal of a Golda Meir display, claiming the late Israeli leader engaged in ‘ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.’
• Chicago Jews’ attempt to boycott an Israeli film festival falls flat.
• This is one raison d’etre of Israel:
Fleeing anti-Semitism in France, an African Jewish family makes aliyah
Commentary/Analysis
• Worth reading: Ira Rifkin asks: Has the United Nations become a tool for advancing Muslim nations’ religious agenda? And what does this mean for Israel?
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Nadav Shragai: 10 centuries of Islamic sources confirm Jewish ties to Temple Mount
– Ilan Ben-Zion: How archaeology became an Israeli-Palestinian battleground (click via Google News)
– Hen Mazzig: Campus farhud
– Adam Rubinstein: SJP brings extremism to campus
– Jonathan Schanzer and Kate Havard: BDS attracting groups with terrorist ties
– Haisam Hassanein: Egypt and Israel’s growing economic cooperation
– Evelyn Gordon: After 20 years of PA rule, why is UNRWA still in West Bank?
– Jonathan Tobin: Palestinians vs. mass transit?
Image: CC BY-NC-SA Armando G Alonso; Dead Sea scroll CC BY Ken and Nyetta;
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