* Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick comments on France 2 TV’s defamation suit against Philippe Karsenty.
* A recent poll found that a whopping 32 percent of Palestinians would like to emigrate from the West Bank and Gaza. The Christian Science Monitor explains why:
The catalyst, the pollster says, has been Palestinian disillusionment following Hamas’s half-year in government. “What the Israelis were unable to do – try to push the Palestinian out of the country – the internal strife is achieving,” he says.
Even more telling, adds Said, is that the percentage surges to 44 percent among Palestinians in their 20s and 30s. Among young men, it surges beyond 50 percent.
* Reuters picked up on a campaign by Justice for Jews From Arab Countries to recognize the estimated 900,000 Jewish refugees who fled Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen since 1948. See this March, 2004 report in the San Francisco Chronicle for more background.
