Israeli News Briefs – October 26th, 2007

Updated throughout the day

  • Palestinian negotiator Saeb “It’s a Massacre” Erekat has appealed for international intervention and called the Israeli decision to cut off electricity to Gaza after each Qassam rocket “particularly provocative given that Palestinians and Israelis are meeting to negotiate an agreement on the core issues for ending the conflict between them.” Apparently, Erekat does not see anything “particularly provocative” about the actual Qassam rocket attacks.
  • More of that sweet Allah fairness: Palestinians have set fire to a synagogue, burning all its contents including prayer books and torah scrolls, as well as a monument to a terror victim and a children’s playpen.
  • Syria have gone all Winston Wolfe over the suspected nuclear site struck by the IDF earlier this month.
  • In a country where every taxi driver thinks they’re an expert on everything, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Science, Culture and Sport Minister thinks he’s an expert on Israeli foreign policy.

2 thoughts on “Israeli News Briefs – October 26th, 2007”

  1. i wonder what you Israelis feel about Al Gore making political capital on the backs of the millions killed in the Holocaust?

    have a look at this:
    http://www.pr-inside.com/gore-amos-oz-holocaust-museum-receive-r268916.htm

    Quote:
    “Yad Vashem raised consciousness of what happened in the past. Scientists are raising consciousness over what might happen in the future,” Gore said.

    So therefore, Gore is comparing his climate change cult to the Holocaust. Maybe I am being over-reactive, but as a non-Jew who has read extensively on the Holocaust, I find this political point scoring by Gore to be utterly appalling.

    What do you think Aussie Dave?

  2. I think you’re overreacting, John!

    I just read the article you linked, and in the quotes they present, Al Gore is in not in fact comparing the Holocaust to Global warming. You can find reasons to criticise him – but this is not one of them.

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