Friday, November 16, 2012


Compare this week's headlines at the New York Times with USA Today's and an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. 
Gaza strikes intensify, frightening Israelis By Michele Chabin, Special for USA TODAY 
vs 
Ferocious Israeli Assault on Gaza Kills a Leader of Hamas By Isabel Kershner and Feres Akram, New York Times
vs
Israel Finally Retaliates Against Hamas Missile Attacks - Editorial, Wall Street Journal. 
For more details see: Timeline of Gaza-Israel Cross-Border Violence (CAMERA)

Canada

Egypt
Rockets Fired from Egypt into Israel (Al-Masry Al-Youm-Egypt    Egyptian military sources confirmed on Wednesday that rockets were launched from the Egyptian border town of Rafah toward Israel. The two countries are forming a joint military committee at Israel's request to determine the circumstances surrounding the rocket launch. 
Iran
Saudis' Proxy War Against Iran - Joseph Braude (Tablet)


Iraq
Is The US Scheming To Kill Giant Iraqi-Russian Weapons Deal? -Ivan Safronov, Yelena Chernenko (KOMMERSANT/Worldcrunch)

Israel
Israel Seeks to Minimize Casualties by Warning Gaza's Civilians  (Israel Defense Forces)
Three Killed in Israel by Gaza Rocket Fire (Ynet News) See also 70 Israelis Injured in Palestinian Rocket Attacks (Jerusalem Post)
Israelis in Sderot Have Faced Ten Years of Rocket Fire - Ben Hartman (Jerusalem Post)
Video: 15 Seconds to Save Your Mama - When rockets are fired from Gaza, the residents of southern Israel have 15 seconds to get to shelter. 15 seconds is all they have to save themselves and the ones they love. (YouTube)

Palestinians - Hamas/Fatah/etc.
Hamas Rockets Target Israeli Cities- Jack Khoury (Ha'aretz)
Palestinians in Gaza Fire Over 140 Rockets at Israel - Yanir Yagna, Gili Cohen and Avi Issacharoff (Ha'aretz)
Hamas Police Attack Women's Gathering with Sticks - Nasouh Nazzal (Gulf News-Dubai)
PA leaders condemn killing of Al-Ja'abari  Official PA daily:  "His self-sacrificing actions (i.e., terror attacks) will be told for generations to come  and will be eternalized in memory"  - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Palestinian Authority leaders have condemned Israel's killing of Ahmed Al-Ja'abari, head of Hamas' military wing, which came as a response to Hamas' and other terrorist organizations' continuous rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Pakistan
Pakistan to restore NATO's Afghan oil supply line after 12-month hiatus - Lisa Lundquist (The Long War Journal) "The bottom line is that Pakistan has manipulated the supply route issue -- which even the Taliban have called a "drama" orchestrated by the Pakistani government -- to continue to siphon billions of US dollars while at the same time maintaining Pakistan's jihadist proxies in Afghanistan and elsewhere."

Syria
Israel says Syrian rebels using borders to limit government’s ability to respond - Sheera Frenkel (McClatchy) Reports indicate the presence of 3 groups of mostly foreign fighters, the “Eagles of the Golan,” a radical Salafist group and two other radical Islamist groups the Eagles: Descendant of the Prophet, and al-Furqan, representing a combined 1,000 jihadis on Israel’s doorstep. 

United States
U.S. Condemns Hamas Rocket Fire (U.S. State Department
Rockets? What Hamas Rockets?  (IPT News) Islamist groups in America protest "Israeli aggression."