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Israel has evidence that the booby trapped building targeted by the IAF yesterday had been serving terrorist groups in the Strip for attacks and kidnapping efforts directed at IDF border patrols.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
5:12PM: Hamas says they will never recognize Israel.
“We cannot, we will not, and we will never recognize the enemy in any way, shape or form.”
Now there’s some people with which to make peace! Right, Jimmah?
3:40PM: If you felt the earth move under your feet in northern Israel today, that was an earthquake that measured 4.3 on the Richter scale. Either that, or I don’t want to know what you were doing.
3:32PM: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing today’s Darwin Award nominee:
Speeding driver accidentally enters mine field as he flees from police in north (Ch. 10)
3:12PM: Melanie Phillips has an excellent column on the BBC’s censure of Jeremy Bowen.
3:00PM: Israeli Arab Member of Knesset Ahmed Tibi has said that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand that the PA recognize Israel as Jewish is ridiculous.
–adjective
causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable:
For example, allowing people like Ahmed Tibi to be a member of the Knesset.
10:25AM: Ma’an’s (predictable) take on this morning’s terror attack: Palestinian shot dead by settlers in Hebron-area settlement
As if what the palestinian was doing there and why he was shot are not relevant.
The report itself does justice to the ridiculous headline.
An armed Palestinian was shot dead after entering an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank Friday morning, news sources reported.
Residents of the Hebron-area settlement of Haggay were patrolling the area when they saw Palestinian man walking around the Israeli-military secured area. Two settlers approached the man and reportedly struggled with him, at which point he pulled out a knife, according to one account.
Yes, that is what happened. A palestinian man just happened to be minding his own business, taking his daily stroll around a Jewish town (which should not be there because it is illegal and an obstacle to peace!) when he was approached by two Jews who accosted him, at which point said palestinian man pulled out a knife that he just happened to be carrying. Because you never know when a stray chicken will approach you, and allah knows that you better come prepared when it does. The food won’t just appear on the table, you know, especially with the siege on Gaza and all.
8:38AM: More on the terror attack:
Initial reports said that the terrorist was armed with a knife, but one resident told Israel National News that the attacker was carrying a handgun. The source added that IDF soldiers and the first-response team were conducting a house-to-house search to make sure the terrorist had no accomplices.
8:20AM: ATTEMPTED TERROR ATTACK: A palestinian terrorist has infiltrated the Jewish community of Beit Hagai in South Mount Hebron early this morning and tried to attack several people with a knife. Thankfully, he was shot and killed by the community’s emergency squad, but not before he lightly injured a resident.
7:35AM: An internal BBC committee has found that the Beeb is biased.
Just kidding.
They’ve found that their Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen had breached guidelines of both accuracy and impartiality, but heaven forbid that this pointed to any anti-Israel bias on the part of the BBC.
BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, reported inaccurate information, an internal BBC committee found this week, suggesting an anti-Israel bias in the national new agency’s reporting.
The BBC’s Trust Editorial Standards Committee responded in a Wednesday report to complaints dealing with two articles: A radio show called “From Our Own Correspondent” aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2008 and a written piece entitled “How 1967 defined the Middle East” from 2007.
The panel reviewed the items following complaints by a member of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, regarding Bowen’s inaccuracy and lack of impartiality.
In the episode of, “From Our Own Correspondent” on Israeli settlement of Har Homa, near Jerusalem, the internal committee found that Bowen had used imprecise wording to assert that the settlement was considered illegal by the United States. As such, they wrote, he had breached the guidelines of accuracy, but not impartiality.
They also found a number of phrases in his 2007 articles inappropriate, such as his reference to “Zionism’s innate instinct to push out the frontier,” his claim that Israeli generals felt that they were dealing with “unfinished business”, left over from the 1948 War of Independence, and his assertion of Israel’s “defiance of everyone’s interpretation of international law except its own.” In this article, the committee found Bowen had breached guidelines of both accuracy and impartiality.
The BBC said it had no intention of taking any disciplinary action against Bowen and rejected claims that Bowen’s actions reflected any anti-Israel bias by the BBC, stating that the inaccuracies were found in a few sections of a few articles.
You can read the full findings here.
The Independent reports:
But the decision to censure Bowen caused anger within the BBC, with some alleging that the trust, which oversees the corporation, was undermining the credibility of its news.
Just to make it clear, I said The Independent, not The Onion. These people apparently think their news is credible and unbiased.
Meanwhile, the decision has caused anti-Israel “journalist” and inspiration-behind-a-verb Robert Fisk to get his panties in a knot.
The BBC Trust’s report on Jeremy Bowen’s dispatches from the Middle East is pusillanimous, cowardly, outrageous, factually wrong and ethically dishonest.
Paging Jackie Chiles?
