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By December 18, 2012

• Irish Times: The Israeli embassy in Ireland apologized for a Christmas Facebook gaffe. More related links at The Lede.

• The IDF released security footage of last week’s fatal “fake gun” incident in Hebron.

• In a Financial Times commentary (click via Google News), a Saudi academic says the stars are nicely aligned for Mideast peace.

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• A British judge denied parole to Jordanian terrorist Nezar Hindawi, whose plot to blow up an El Al plane was foiled at the last minute. The BBC explains:

Hindawi planted a bomb in his pregnant fiancee’s hand luggage on a flight from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv in 1986.

The device could have killed 375 people had security staff not found it.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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