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Saturday night links Posted: 06 Oct 2012 07:30 PM PDT From Ian: BBC coverage of Gaza abuses story is deliberately pro-Hamas Human Rights Watch report condemns injustice towards civilians in Gaza under Hamas rule "It is disappointing to say the least that the BBC has decided to disregard this information and rather, to afford Hamas a 'right of reply' which takes precedence over the main story. It is unfortunate that nearly 25 million people involuntarily subscribe to the BBC through the license fee and yet they are persistently and intentionally misled about the systematic abuse which is taking place by Hamas in Gaza. Does this correlate with the BBC's editorial guidelines? I think not." Banking protest mural resembling Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda to be removed from East End East London's Tower Hamlets council says it has received numerous complaints about the mural Councillor Peter Golds said it is 'horribly similar to the propaganda used by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany' He has urged the police to pursue artist Mear One - real name Kalen Ockerman -under race hate laws The piece is also being defended by resident Azmel Hussain, who owns the property Geneva mayor heads to anti-Israel tribunal condemned by UN's Richard Goldstone As a taxpayer of Geneva, a great city with its rightful place in the history of human rights and international law, I cannot understand why my mayor this weekend will be lending the good name of Geneva to the "Russell Tribunal on Palestine," an extremist political exercise that corrupts the core principles of justice, including Audi alteram partem. Mayor Rémy Pagani, head of Geneva's À gauche toute! – a regrouping of the city's Communist Party and other left-wing factions — is scheduled to participate in the anti-Israel event on Oct. 6-7 in New York. Man killed in French anti-terror raid was member of Salafi Muslim group 10 terror suspects arrested in Paris and Nice as part of an investigation into the firebombing of a kosher store in September "French authorities have released that the man killed by police in an anti-terror operation in Strasbourg on Saturday was a member of an ultraconservative Salafi Muslim group. Ten people were arrested in concurrent raids on anti-terror suspects in Paris and Nice. Saturday's operations were part of a larger investigation into the firebombing of a kosher supermarket in a Paris suburb last month, according to officials." With Syria ablaze, dozens of Golan Heights Druze seek Israeli citizenship Long loyal to Damascus, many young Druze now consider their best option is to become Israeli "Syrian Druze residing in the Golan Heights once burned ID cards offered to them by Israeli government authorities, after Israeli law was extended to the area in 1981. Three decades later, after 19-months of brutal civil war in Syria, Druze residents of the Golan are flocking to the Interior Ministry by the dozens to request Israeli citizenship." Egypt's hardline Islamist party unravels, pointing to fragility in political Islam "Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt's ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark, puritanical version of Islam." U.S. Cracks Down on Lebanese Charities Tied to Hamas The United States on Oct. 4 imposed financial penalties on two Lebanese charities that fundraise for Hamas, an effort by the Obama administration to disrupt the Islamist group's activities. The U.S. Treasury added the two Beirut based charities, Al-Waqfiya and Al-Quds International Foundation, to its list of entities hit with asset freezes. Does Archbishop Tutu Endorse Holocaust Conspiracies? Tutu, however, seems to have let his animosity toward Israel sully him and tarnish the Nobel Prize he wields as a symbol of supposed moral authority. He is a long-time endorser of the Free Gaza movement, the organization which brought us the Gaza "flotilla" and any number of other protests and marches. Greta Berlin, the American co-founder of Free Gaza, recently tweeted, "Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews." Free Gaza has also, according to the Jerusalem Post, claimed that the Jews supported Hitler. Mo Ibrahim Foundation: Desmond Tutu awarded $1m Good riddance: Hate preacher Abu Hamza lands in the U.S. after losing last-ditch bid to stay in Britain "Hamza is expected to face a judge in New York within 24 hours on charges that include conspiring with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and helping abduct 16 hostages, two of them American tourists, in Yemen in 1998. The Islamist fanatic lost the last of his countless appeals in a legal farce that has seen him thwart extradition for more than eight years at a cost to taxpayers of millions of pounds." Gujarat seeks to deepen biz ties with Israel "The combination of strategic geographic location, skilled manpower, multi-language speakers, and local Authority which placed the economic growth and development at the top of its list of priorities, makes Gujarat an attractive market for the Israeli companies," Offer Zaks, the CEO of Israel Export Institute said explaining the overwhelming response from the Israeli business community." Israeli Startup Gets Boost from Apple's 'Maps' Debacle With millions of Apple users frustrated over bugs and errors associated with the release of the "Maps" feature, Apple CEO Tim Cook is encouraging them to turn to competing software such as the Israeli mapping application Waze while Apple fixes the issues. CIFWatch: My photos from yesterday's march in Jerusalem by thousands of Christian friends of Israel Also: Electronic Intifada feeling uncomfortable (Harry's Place) Defending Free Gaza's anti-semitism at Open Zion and 972mag Translation of August interview with Iranian woman on Israeli TV: Syria unrest sparks rifts among Lebanon's Palestinian factions (h/t Ronald. Yoel, Daniel)

IDF shoots down UAV over Negev Posted: 06 Oct 2012 05:37 PM PDT From the IDF: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was identified penetrating Israeli airspace from the west this morning (Saturday, October 6), and was intercepted by the IAF at approximately 10:00 AM. The aircraft remained under the surveillance of IDF forces on the ground and in the air, including fighter planes. The UAV was downed in the area of the Yatir Forest, in the northern Negev, so as to avoid damage to a civilian area. IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yoav (Poly) Mordechai emphasized that this was a full operational success. He noted that the aircraft was identified before entering Israeli airspace and was downed in accordance with a decision of the IDF's top leaders. Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was briefed on the incident. IDF soldiers are currently searching the area where the drone was downed, in open areas in the northern Negev, to locate debris and identify the drone. YNet adds that it seems likely to have come from Hezbollah via the Mediterranean: After IDF collects remnants of unmanned aircraft shot down over southern forest, security establishment examining possibility it was launched by Hezbollah to photograph Israeli reactor; army fears drones will be used to hit strategic sites After Israeli fighter jets shot down a drone over the Yatir forest in the south Mount Hebron area on Saturday, the army is trying to figure out what its destination was. One of the possibilities the security establishment is looking into is that the unmanned aircraft, which was apparently Iranian-made, was on its way to test the option of infiltrating the nuclear reactor in Dimona, perhaps even to examine the option of targeting the plant in a future conflict. A drone such as the one that was downed on Saturday after penetrating Israel's airspace through the Mediterranean Sea could not cause serious damage to the reactor, but such an incident would mark a psychological victory for Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, whose leader Hassan Nasrallah recently threatened to attack strategic targets in Israel, including power plants. Operating a drone by remote control from such a long distance requires advanced capabilities, which Israel was not aware Hezbollah had acquired. By examining the drone's parts, the army hopes to find out whether the drone was controlled from a command center in Lebanon or was directed by a space-based satellite navigation system (GPS) according to predetermined coordinates. If that was the case, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may have directed itself automatically and was supposed to return to its base or self-destruct over the sea.

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