Today’s Top Stories
1. According to Syrian opposition sources, yesterday’s Israeli airstrikes destroyed anti-aircraft missiles and drones belonging to Hezbollah. Installations near Damascus International Airport and the town of Dimas were hit. See Jerusalem Post coverage and Amos Harel commentary, while Ron Ben-Yishai examines the Iranian fingerprints. There was no official Israeli comment on the raid.
2. Imagine the outrage if Israel did this.
3. A photo that had become a symbol of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence was outed as a fake. The photo was staged in 1993; both boys are Jewish. See also the Times of Israel.
The picture was taken by Ricki Rosen, an American photojournalist who has been covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for 26 years. Rosen snapped the photo on assignment for Maclean’s, the national news magazine of Canada, for a cover story about the Oslo Peace Accords. Rosen said that the magazine’s art director was so specific in what he wanted that he even drew her a picture — one boy in a yarmulke, the other in a keffiyeh shot from the back walking down a long road, which was supposed to symbolize the road to peace. He didn’t care whether the boys were actually Israelis or Palestinians, nor did it occur to him that the Palestinian’s keffiyeh would be styled in a way more typical for elderly Palestinian men than for young boys.
“It was a symbolic illustration,” said Rosen. “It was never supposed to be a documentary photo.” She also took other real-life photos for the same article.
4. Selling Land to Arabs and Jews: Reuters ignores the PA’s institutional racism while using a single example to tarnish Israel.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Another victim from last month’s car ramming at a Jerusalem light rail station died of his injuries. Abd al-Karim Nafith Hamid, 60, of the West Bank village of Anata, is survived by two widows and 12 children. A Druze border policeman and a 17-year-old yeshiva student were also killed in that attack.
• Palestinian antiquities robbers were caught red-handed trying to loot Dead Sea scrolls in the Judean Desert.
• Israel delivered 1,760 tons of cement to Gaza on Sunday. It was the largest one-day delivery of concrete passing through the Kerem Shalom crossing in years.
• Over at IsraellyCool, journalists Richard Behar and Mark Lavie weigh in on AP bias. Lavie’s a former colleague of Matti Friedman, who recently raised questions about the wire service.
Commentary/Analysis
• The New York Times Room for Debate section features Jonathan Schanzer, Caroline Glick, Max Blumenthal, Diana Buttu, and Professor David Newman discussing the question, “If Israel turns right, where will it end up?”
• For more commentary, see Adi Schwartz (Jews from Arab countries are the key to peace).
Image: CC BY-NC-SA HonestReporting, flickr/Zuhair A. Al-Traifi
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