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Related: About this forumPalestinian terrorism surge runs parallel to negotiations in familiar pattern
Upsurges in Palestinian terrorism have often accompanied progressand eventual breakdownsin Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations over the past 20 years. The latest round of talks, brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is proving to be no different.
Palestinian attacks on Jewish military and civilian targets have been on the rise since a Lebanese sniper killed an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier in mid-December. A civilian hired by the IDF was murdered Dec. 24 while repairing the Israel-Gaza border fence. A bomb exploded on an evacuated bus in the heavily populated city of Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, on Dec. 22. A police officer was stabbed and moderately injured Dec. 23 while directing traffic at one of the West Banks busiest intersections along the Ramallah bypass road in Samaria, and Jewish drivers have reported several potentially deadly stoning attacks. In one of several recent Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza that provoked Israeli retaliatory airstrikes, one rocket landed near a bus stop used by schoolchildren near the city of Ashkelon.
Unfortunately and regrettably, its quite typical to the junctures in which political decisions and painful compromises are expected to be taken by the negotiating parties, Gilead Sher, who served as chief of staff and policy coordinator to Israels former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak, told JNS.org regarding the uptick in Palestinian terror.
http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2013/12/27/palestinian-terrorism-surge-runs-parallel-to-negotiations-in-familiar-pattern
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)"Iranium": Dangerous Bomb-Iran Documentary Directed by Right-Wing Israeli Extremist, Promoted by Neocon Richard Perle
February 6, 2011
The drama never stops unfolding around the Clarion Fund, the operation behind a string of movies dubbed "anti-Muslim" by critics.
The group's latest salvo is an hour-long documentary called "Iranium", which more or less gives airtime to a gaggle of neoconservatives and their allies on the Israeli right to advocate for a hawkish posture against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
While warning of an ideologically-driven, religiously-inspired Iran, however, the filmmaker behind the movie himself comes from among the religious extremes of another Middle Eastern state.
The writer and director of "Iranium", Alex Traiman, hails from the Israeli West Bank settlement of Beit El, one of the ideological religious Jewish outposts in occupied Palestinian territory bedeviling U.S.-Israel relations.
I spoke to Traiman, who sported a black kippah and a bright red tie, after a screening of "Iranium" at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, where neoconservative don Richard Perle introduced the film.
"That's where I live," Traiman told me, after a deep breath, when I asked him if he lived in Beit El. "I just live there."
Traiman worked for four years for the Beit El-based Arutz Sheva , or Channel Seven, also known as Israel National News , a former pirate radio station aligned with Israel's religious settlers. He has in the past referred to Beit El as "a Jewish settlement... located in the Biblical province of Samaria, commonly referred to today as the West Bank." Settlers refer to the West Bank by the Biblical "Judea and Samaria."
On Tuesday at Heritage, Traiman, who has also written for a U.S. conspiracy website, called World Net Daily, and presumably other occupied Palestinian territories, as "disputed territories in Israel."
Beit El is a religious nationalist settlement near Ramallah in the West Bank, where some 5,500 settlers live, Founded in 1977, the settlement is built in land seized in 1970 by the military on what Israeli courts, according to Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, later deemed to be bogus security justifications.
remainder: http://www.alternet.org/story/149810/%22iranium%22%3A_dangerous_bomb-iran_documentary_directed_by_right-wing_israeli_extremist,_promoted_by_neocon_richard_perle
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(4,151 posts)for a different perspective Jefferson23
the devil is in the details ....that are missing from King_David's post .
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In the Israeli newspapers of the next day it was very difficult to find any trace or reference to the death of three year old Hala Al Buheiry. Her photo did not appear on the front pages, nor was it to be found on any page. Also in the banner headlines telling of the armys retaliation in Gaza her death was not mentioned.
Jefferson23
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