Here's the hypocrisy. Jordan's King Hussein Airport is just about as close to the border as Ramon Airport is. If Israel's new airport threatens to violate Jordan'a airspace, then Jordan's airport does the same to Israel.
Jordan is simply trying to irritate Israel even though there is little reason for airplanes landing at Ramon to violate Jordanian airspace.
If Jordan decides to make a stink over this - and I cannot find anything in international air agreements that Israel would be violating, as the kingdom claims - it can lose far more than it can gain.
MSNBC APOLOGIZES FOR USING INACCURATE MAPS IN DISCUSSION OF MIDEAST CONFLICT
MSNBC apologized for using “not factually accurate” maps in a segment discussing the violence that has erupted across Israel in recent weeks.
“MSNBC Live” host Kate Snow acknowledged Monday that her show displayed maps describing present-day Israel as a Palestinian state in 1946, when the area was under British mandate rule. The series of maps shown last Thursday gave the impression that Palestinians had control over all of modern-day Israel and have continuously lost land since.
“n an attempt to talk about the context for the current turmoil in the Middle East, we showed a series of maps of the changing geography in that region,” Snow said. “We realized after we went off the air the maps were not factually accurate and we regret using them.”
Ambassador Danon revealed Iran's plan in Judea and Samaria, stating: "With the help of Saleh Al-Arouri, Hamas’s Deputy Political Chief, and Saeed Izadi, the head of the Palestinian branch of the Iranian Quds Force, Iran is trying to turn Judea and Samaria into a fourth military front against Israel. The world's silence allows Iran to continue with its operations and aggression to undermine stability in the Middle East."
Danon called on the Security Council to recognize Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations and impose sanctions on them, adding that "weakening these terrorist organizations is the first step to dismantling the epicenter of terrorism that sits in Tehran."
The terrorist attacks on Israeli vehicles on the Gush Etzion-Hebron road do not stop.
Today, Rabbi Uzi Sharafaf, a resident of Hebron, was injured when his car was stoned by Arabs south of Karmei Tzur
Rescue Center for Judea and Samaria reported that Rabbi Sharaf, who was driving a car, was hit in the head by a stone that shattered the windshield and his condition was defined as light.
The organization reported that two months ago, Rabbi Sharaf was stoned in Al Arub near the site of the incident today, and an elderly woman in the car sustained minor injuries.
Rabbi Sharaf, a veteran of the Jewish community in Hebron, is a well-known public figure in Judea and Samaria and one of the leaders of the Nahal movement.
Earlier in the afternoon, Arabs threw a Molotov cocktail at a vehicle on the Gush Etzion road near Jerusalem
Last Sunday, a farmer from Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley discovered that Arabs had come to his vineyard and cut about 200 trees. Last week, Arabs vandalized the fence that surrounds the vineyard, apparently in preparation for its removal last night. The trees in the vineyard are relatively mature trees which have given fruit. According to the farmer, the damage is hundreds of thousands of shekels for the next three years, he hopes, the trees will recover from the blow
In a video released yesterday by Tomer's security coordinator who also experienced a similar agricultural terror attack in Keremo a few months ago, he says: "The vineyard was uprooted today, a week ago all the plastic covers were cut here. "There was a similar damage in my vineyard a year ago, then I said it was nationalistic and today I think it's nationalistic" he says firmly.
Last month, about 150 vines were cut down in the vineyard of Tomer Yossi Kirshberg's security coordinator. The estimated damage is about NIS 15,000 a year, until the trees grow again.
In a video taken by Krishnberg after the incident, he described that "my worker arrived in the morning and saw the tremendous damage done to the vineyard. As far as I'm concerned, this is a nationalistic attack in every respect. They chose to act against me because I am a representative of the security establishment and the security coordinator of the community. "
David Elhayani, head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council, said: "In the past year, the farmers of the Jordan Valley have been under a terrorist attack for all intents and purposes, and these acts are clearly nationalistic and aimed at harming the working settlements in the Jordan Valley, And security cameras were deployed throughout the council, so I'm sure we'll get to the perpetrators tonight, but that's not enough.
"We demand that the establishment of the Border Police's planned volunteer base in the area be approved immediately, as a step that will strengthen the security of the residents and make it clear to the terrorists: "Your path will not succeed".
Both of the largest bubbles represent not all resolutions, but only those under UNHRC Item 7, which is dedicated to bashing Israel (“Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories”.)
By separating Israel and "Palestine" the artist attempts to minimize the absurdity of how much time the UNHRC spends on Israel, but even afterwards the two bubbles dominate the map, highlighting the absurdity of how the organization is single-mindedly focused on criticizing Israel.
A staff-editorial reflects the official view of a newspaper, which is why The Guardian’s is so horrifying. What follows is a vicious attack on Israel’s credibility. Here are some of the “highlights.”
Rock-throwing has always been depicted as a harmless act of symbolism used by the powerless, but after an alleged settler attack, it’s time to agree that it’s an act of terror.
JVP wrote:
Zionism is and was an Ashkenazi-led movement that othered, marginalized and discriminated against Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa that it termed Mizrahim (the ‘Eastern Ones’).
In a scathing response, the Sephardic groups showed how JVP was racist in its misrepresenting the Sephardic experience:
We are writing to express our denunciation with Jewish Voice for Peace’s (JVP) latest document, “Our Approach to Zionism”, which tokenizes, appropriates, revises and explicitly lies about Mizrahi and Sephardic history and experiences in order to promote a hostile, anti-Israel agenda. As Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, we reject JVP’s framing of the Mizrahi and Sephardic experience as a driving force of their anti-Zionism and we request that JVP remove all references to Mizrahi and Sephardic history in this document and in all other organizational literature. We ask them to stop in their failed attempts to represent Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, in any capacity.
.... Because it cannot accept the simple historical truth that most Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews are and continue to identify as Zionist, JVP instead propagates a portrayal of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews as pawns without any agency. We reject this revisionism, and call it out for the orientalism and racism that it is.