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Kissinger, Mehta awarded Israel’s Presidential Medal
President Shimon Peres announced new initiative meant to honor individuals who contribute to society, Israel’s global image….YAIR ALTMAN

KISSINGER’S TREATMENT OF ISRAEL WAS APPALLING. HE THREATENED “REASSESSMENT” OF AMERICAN POLICY IF ISRAEL DID NOT ACCEDE TO THE DEMANDS OF ANWAR SADAT IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HARD FOUGHT 1973 WAR WHICH SADAT AND HIS OLD PAL ASSAD LAUNCHED IN A SURPRISE ATTACK ON YOM KIPPUR. MORE RECENTLY, TAPES REVEALED HIS ANIMUS TO ISRAEL…..RSK

Renowned diplomat Henry Kissinger, Human rights activist Judith Feld Carr, Chairman of Variety Israel Uri Slonim and famed Philharmonic Orchestra Director Zubin Mehta were awarded Israel’s Presidential Medal at a press conference held at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Thursday.

The Medal, awarded for the first time, is considered a gesture of gratitude by President Shimon Peres, honoring individuals who made a significant contribution to Israel’s society and its global image.

The selection process entailed an advisory committee headed by the former Chief Justice Meir Shamgar and Israel’s fifth President Yitzhak Navon.
Kissinger, who served as secretary of state during the Nixon Administration and the Yom Kippur War, received the award for his “unique contribution to Israel and his peace-making efforts in the Middle East.”

CNN’s Israel bureau is downsizing, reportedly to cope with a reduced budget due to falling advertising revenues.

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That doesn’t explain why they fired four Israeli Jewish journalists (out of a crew of 8), and retained only Arab journalists. The local chief editor of CNN is now an Arab.

Among the long time news personnel let go were Moshe Cohen, editor, fired after 10 years with CNN; Izi Landberg, Producer, about 25 years with CNN; Avi Kaner cameraman fired after 10 years with CNN; and Michal Zippori desk producer.

CNN’s usual procedure in the past was to send both a Jewish and an Arab reporter out on stories. Now, they’re only going to send an Arab journalist, with all that implies. It’s no secret to anyone that Arab journalists have to toe the Fatah and Hamas line if they want to do reporting on stories in Gaza and the Arab occupied areas of Judea and Samaria without taking the risk of being murdered.

CNN’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East conflict has been questionable for a very long time, and it’s going to get even worse now that it will only be reported from one side’s point of view. The fact that this also coincides with the brass at CNN’s point of view and their willingness to take steps to ignore even basic journalistic ethics to promote shows how far a once respected news source has fallen.

Designs on Jerusalem are on the Vatican’s agenda, now that the city is in Jewish hands. From Giulio Meotti

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Controls/SendFriend.ashx?print=1&type=1&item=11255

Several days ago, Israel gave up to the Vatican some sovereignty over the “Hall of the Last Supper” on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the complex of buildings where David, Solomon, and Jewish kings of Judea, are said to be buried, although that is contested.

Vatican officials then met with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ramallah. The talks were co-chaired by Mgr. Ettore Balestrero, the Holy See’s Under-Secretary for Relations with States, and by Palestinian minister, Ziad Al-Bandak.

The basis for the new Vatican-PLO agreement is a memorandum signed by Palestinian and Vatican officials in 2000 and which repeated the Vatican’s call for an international mandate to preserve “the proper identity and sacred character” of Jerusalem. The Catholic Church wants Israel relinquishing sovereignty at the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.