Jerusalem News (3 June, 2013, Sivan 25, 5773)
Contents:
1. Iran blames Britain [and Israel] for sabotage
2. Obama Emissary, John Kerry, tries to give eastern sections of Israel to Arabs in Jordan.
3. IRISH FILMMAKER: JEWS ARE OWN WORST ENEMIES by Gil Ronen
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1. Iran blames Britain [and Israel] for sabotage
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/iran-blames-britain-for-sabotage-29314439.html
A statement on the ministry's website said its agents had arrested 12 people who had been preparing to enflame ethnic conflicts in Iran through sabotage and assassination.
The statement said the group had links to Israel's spy agency, the Mossad, through a "reactionary" Arab country in the region.
It said they also had links with Britain and spy rings based on the Indian subcontinent, adding that authorities had confiscated a remarkable amount of weapons in the operation.
The statement did not name the detainees or the time and place of the operation.
From time to time Iran announces that it has dismantled groups linked to the Mossad and western intelligence services.
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2. Obama Emissary, Kerry, tries to give eastern sections of Israel to Arabs in Jordan
Kerry: Israel should assume Jordanian monarchy rules forever
Yediot Ahronot correspondent, Alex Fishman, reports in today's edition that
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently succeeded in convincing the Jordanians to agree to support
his plan to have Jordanian forces participate in some form of shared
security control of the Jordan Valley.
Kerry's paternal grandparents were Jews from the Czech section of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They converted to Roman Catholicism. Kerry apparently was not aware of his Jewish ancestry when he grew up and it does not appear to have influenced him since.
It is to be noted that more than a 100,000 Arabs in Syria have killed each other, millions of Syrian Arab are refugees within Syria, Lebanon, in Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, or elsewhere.
Everyday Syrians kill, torture, and behead each other and post films of what they have done on YouTube. And this is only the beginning. Similar lists can be made of numerous other areas in the world. Nevertheless there is an order of priorities and apparently it has been decided to try and dismantle the State of Israel and its defences rather than deal with any other problem.
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3. IRISH FILMMAKER: JEWS ARE OWN WORST ENEMIES
by Gil Ronen
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168569#.UaydiiT8JZg
A featured speaker at a pro-Israel event in Sweden Sunday was a young Irish filmmaker who offered some fascinating insights about Israel and the Jewish people, following his own experiences in creating a documentary titled "40 Shades of Gray."
Nicky Larkin told the audience that in screening his film in different parts of the world, he was "completely devastated" when some of the most anti-Israeli reactions he received came from Jews.
"My interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict was sparked in late 2010, early 2011, with Operation Cast Lead," he related. "Operation Cast Lead, in the Irish media, was painted as an absolute genocide. Very black and white news reporting. So I wanted to go see for myself. I wanted to go and see, were the Israelis as nasty as they were being painted as being in the paper?
Larkin applied for funding from the Irish Arts Council and spent 8 weeks in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Reality turned out to be completely different from what he imagined. The Jews, he decided, were not the bad guys in the conflict. When the film came out a year ago, he said, it was "jumped on" as being slanted toward Israel.
"Obviously I was employed by Mossad and getting all the Jew gold and I was completely in the pocket of the Israeli embassy," he said sarcastically.
To promote the documentary, Larkin wrote an article about the film for an Irish newspaper. To his surprise, some of the reactions were supportive. "I mean, I expected all of the hate mail and the threats and the emails about dead children's blood on your hands and all this kind of thing I was getting every day, but what I didn't expect was the support from Irish people and it was really encouraging. The one thing that was disappointing was that all of the abuse and all of the hatred was very public, all of the support was very private."
"I think sometimes, the worst enemy of Israel can be the Jews themselves," he added somewhat sadly. "In the process of promoting the film, I went around screening it in different places, I was invited to Canada, to show the film. I did three screenings in Canada. The more Jewish the audience, the more they hated the film. I just felt completely devastated really, after having taken all this abuse in Ireland, having my head cut off by the people I was trying to stick up for."