Today’s Top Stories
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1. A Palestinian killed an Israeli and wounded seven more in a shooting attack in Gush Etzyon. Earlier in the day, a Palestinian killed two Israelis and injured a third in a Tel Aviv stabbing attack inside a synagogue this afternoon.
2. YNet updates how Israel plans to fight EU guidelines for labeling settlement products. Measures include re-evaluating Europe’s role in the Mideast peace process, formally rebuking ambassadors, limiting EU diplomats to meetings with lower-tier Israeli officials, curbing European delegations from visiting the West Bank and Gaza, or even denying them entry into Israel, and restricting permits for EU projects in the Palestinian areas.
Several of the countries concerned – such as Italy and the Netherlands – have good relations with Israel, meaning that any measures taken against them will be less pronounced than those taken against countries whose relations with Israel are slightly cooler, such as Ireland and Sweden.
3. French authorities confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected Paris terror mastermind, died in a police raid. Belgium launched several counter-terror raids, while French officials wouldn’t rule out a chemical attack. More from live updates at CNN, Daily Telegraph, and AP.
4. WATCH: “Stop Demonizing Israel and Start Learning From Them”: As Ayaan Hirsi Ali says, Israel knows that terrorism is based on hatred. It must be aggressively fought and defeated. We only wish more journalists would listen to her. Watch here…
5. PODCAST: John Kerry’s “Legitimate” Terrorism, and HR Readers Defeat Anti-Semitic Letter: John Kerry makes a slip by calling some terrorism “legitimate.” The New York Times compares Palestinian exhortations to murder Jews with a video game where the object is to kill terrorists. Yarden Frankl discusses news coverage of Israel with Mottle Wolf. Listen here.
6. HonestReporting’s mission continued with a visit to MediaCentral (an initiative of HonestReporting) to learn about the foreign press in Israel, and to also hear Dr. Mordechai Kedar discuss the struggle for Jerusalem. The mission continued with a tour of the Western Wall tunnels.
Israel and the Intifada
• This morning, a soldier was lightly injured when a homemade grenade was thrown at a checkpoint he was manning during a Palestinian demonstration near Hebron. The IDF arrested three knife-carrying Palestinians alleged to have targeted an army camp.
• Haaretz updates Jerusalem deliberations on suing the EU over its labeling guidelines. Dead Sea products will likely be the first test of EU labeling rules. Here’s why.
• Amman: Only Jordan can access Temple Mount cameras and footage; Jordan alone will decide which segments are shared with Israel or broadcast to the world.
• The International Committee for the Red Cross rejected claims that a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance ignored terror victims.
• Israel convicts police officer in beating of Palestinian-American teen.
• Looks like Jodi Rudoren’s tour of duty as the New York Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief is nearing its end. CNN reports the leading candidate to replace her is Peter Baker, who currently serves as the paper’s White House correspondent. What especially interesting about this is that Baker’s wife, Susan Glasser, is Politico’s top editor. New York Times bureau chiefs typically serve four years before being reassigned elsewhere.
• Israel, Palestinians sign 3G mobile network agreement for the West Bank.
Around the World
• Jewish teacher in Marseille stabbed by Islamic State-supporting gang shouting anti-Semitic obscenities.
• As Swedish police search for a man planning a terrorist attack, the country’s Jewish institutions “were canceling all public activities and shuttering synagogues” as a precaution.
• German intelligence chief: We need to fight terror like Israel does.
• An Iranian cartoonist was reportedly arrested for expressing solidarity with France. Here’s the image that got Hadi Heidari taken into custody. The New York Times reports Heidari’s cartoons have gotten him in trouble with Tehran before.
Iran’s hard-line conservatives, who control the state news media, police and judiciary, have denounced the killings, and like most of the rest of the world consider the Islamic State a terrorist group. At the same time, they are wary of any perceived expression of friendly overtures to secular Western countries, which they might have thought the cartoon conveyed.
• Kerry’s being Kerry.
Kerry Under Fire for Saying Charlie Hebdo Attacks Had a ‘Rationale’
• UN: Iran cut down on some of its nuclear technology, but not all, and thousands of machines remain “on standby.” AP coverage.
• British Jewish lawmaker raps Twitter for handling of anti-Semitic tweets.
Commentary/Analysis
• I’m not taking a position on resettling Syrian refugees, but I am uncomfortable with the parallels being drawn with Jewish refugees from World War II. Joel Pollak explains why the comparisons don’t work.
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Jonathan Tobin: A less awful kind of terrorism?
– Elliott Abrams: Abbas admits he said no to Israel’s peace offer.
– Naftali Bennett: Islamic State understands one thing: Force (via Google News)
– Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: World will be forced to intervene in Syria
– Dan Margalit: Pollard affair’s unanswered questions
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