BACKSTORY: Beware the Mossad’s vulture spies
After AFP’s “news” showed images of Gaza flooding and alleged in a headline that “Gaza village floods after Israel opens dam gates,” Britain’s Daily Mail embellished the yarn by declaring that “Hundreds of Palestinians were left homeless after Israel opens river dam and floods houses… hours before Jewish state’s electric company cuts off power in Gaza’s major West Bank cities.”
Rivers and dams in southern Israel? Gaza’s major West Bank cities?
A new kind of Judaism is emerging in Israel
Some Israeli businessmen are said to have funded a campaign to get their fellow Jewish citizens to the traditional Shabbat table. Their message is commendable, but their ads that ridicule Jews who don’t observe Shabbat in a traditional way have alienated many of those whom they were supposed to attract. Ostensibly non-observant Israelis are scandalized. They insist that their way of life isn’t less authentically Jewish than that of those who denigrate it in the name of Judaism.
12 stabbed and four seriously wounded in Tel Aviv bus attack
TEL AVIV — At least 12 people were wounded, some seriously, when a Palestinian man began stabbing people aboard Tel Aviv’s number 40 bus.
Four victims, including the driver, remained in serious condition following the Wednesday morning attack, which initial reports said injured between 12 and 21 people.
Baird pelted with eggs and shoes in Ramallah
Palestinian protesters threw shoes and eggs at Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird in Ramallah after he met with his Palestinian counterpart.
Baird was not hurt during Sunday’s demonstration, though an egg struck the top of his car as it left the Foreign Ministry compound in Ramallah in the West Bank following a meeting with Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malaki, Reuters reported.
Palestinian Authority appropriates Christmas story
Truth is the foundation of justice.
This notion will not astound anyone raised in a democratic society protected by the rule of law. Disputes between parties, as between states, can only be fairly adjudicated with at least a minimal mutual agreement regarding the facts. Absent truth, there are no facts, only prevarication or propaganda. Absent truth, there can be no justice.
