Today’s Top Stories
1. Federica Mogherini: EU foreign ministers to rediscuss labeling guidelines for Israeli settlement products in December. Might Europe rethink the contentious labels?
2. Israel banned the radical Islamic Movement’s northern branch over incitement. I haven’t seen the foreign press corps acknowledging that the Islamic Movement is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
3. Hamas is pushing to have Israel kicked out of the International Federation of Journalists.
4. HonestReporting’s winter mission began today, with participants hearing from journalists Haviv Rettig Gur, Amotz Asa-El, and advocacy trainer David Olesker.
Israel and the Intifada
• Family of Palestinian terror suspect deny they turned him in
• Israel foiled an attempt to smuggle rocket fuel into Gaza.
• The PA and Egypt reportedly reached a deal on opening Gaza’s borders. Details from the Associated Press are thin and there’s no confirmation from Egypt, but according to an aide to Mahmoud Abbas, the arrangement will bypasses Hamas and will be implemented in stages.
• Israeli commanders face arrest in South Africa after judge issues warrants over Mavi Marmara affair.
• Oh no, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs!
Around the World
• Aliyah from France jumped after the Paris attacks; on Monday alone, 40 immigrating French Jews arrived at Ben Gurion Airport, with dozens more expected to arrive over the course of the week. With terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher market earlier this year, more than 6,000 French Jews have moved to Israel in 2015.
• What to know about Jonathan Pollard’s upcoming release.
• Russia confirmed that a bomb destroyed a passenger jet over the Sinai last month, saying the explosive device used was the equivalent of one kg. of TNT.
• More people were killed by terror in 2014 than in any other year, according to the The Institute for Economics and Peace’s global terrorism index. The IEP report was picked by Sky News and a few other papers. A few takeaways:
– Deaths from terrorism increased 80% last year to the highest level ever, with 32,658 people killed, compared to 18,111 in 2013.
– Boko Haram and ISIL were jointly responsible for 51% of all claimed global fatalities in 2014.
– 78% of all deaths and 57% of all attacks occurred in just five countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria.
– The global economic cost of terrorism reached an all-time peak at US$52.9 billion.
Commentary/Analysis
• Worth reading: Eugene Kontorovich unpacks “the true origins’ of the EU’s Israel labeling policy.”
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– David Horovitz: Will the West now adopt Israel’s anti-terror strategies?
– Ben-Dror Yemini: Wailing sirens in the middle of Kiddush
– Yair Lapid: When Muslims murder Christians, blame the Jews
– Dan Margalit: France now knows what we feel
– Moshe Arens: The world can’t choose which terrorists it chooses to support
– Yonah Bob: Can Israel sue the European Union before the WTO over the labeling crisis?
– Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: An apology to Iran
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