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One thing nearly all [anti-]Israel pundits have in common is the sheer inability to access reality. The only villain in the inability to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians is Israel, generally due to settlements, and as a result of the security fence. Just ask Roger Cohen , for ...
World
Israel
Gaza
In a paper on how the term “apartheid” is being used to deny Israel’s right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces :
The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature. It rarely deals with the massive abuse of human rights or cases of real Apartheid elsewhere in ...
World
Israel
Hamas
Iran
The Channel 4 “documentary” on The Israel Lobby, vigorously defended by its authors as not in any way antisemitic, is yet another example of the Israeli Double Standard. The specter of Jewish control over Britain’s politicians is so hideously scary, that the authors simply had ...
World
Israel
Gaza
Someone explain to China the meaning of “chutzpah”: China, the current occupier of Tibet, is telling Israel that adding new apartments to Gilo is an obstacle to peace . Because it’s not like they’re not occupying an entire nation that was really a nation before China ...
World
Israel
China
channel 4
CIA
U.S. Army
About two weeks ago when Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he was quitting, Daled Amos observed that this less a dramatic announcement than standard operating procedure noting 14 times that he has threatened to quit since 2003. This isn’t an ultimatum for Abbas, but standard ...
World
Israel
Settlements, the conventional wisdom says, are the true obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Not Palestinian intransigence. Not the fact that the Palestinians have been split into two groups—Hamas and the Palestinian Authority—for years. Not the fact that if the Palestinians ...
World
Hamas
Israel
Gaza
Ship with armed security team prevents hijacking: Wow, having armed security agents on board to fight off armed pirates stopped the pirates cold . Armed guards prevent piracy? Who woulda thunk it? And the pirates may very well be lost at sea or killed. World’s smallest violin orchestra ...
World
Iran
Israel
In some ways there’s little to quibble with in Howard Schneider’s To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg in the Washington Post. It begins:
It is one of the most watched pieces of real estate in the world, 35 acres where an under-the-breath prayer or a ...
World
Israel
Israel Matzav observes about a recent American criticism of Jewish construction in Gilo – that’s part of Jerusalem.
Obama’s not going to let up on this, but given the broad consensus within Israel, I doubt Israelis are going to yield to Obama on it either. A year from now, ...
White House
Israel
Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
yourish.com - 3 days ago
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This is an utterly hilarious video of a
cop trying to do his job, and a cat
determined to use the cop as a tree. Article is here . Note that the officer was not hurting the cat, just herding it. Or trying to.
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Cop and cat
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Given the acknowledgment in Sunday’s Washington Post editorial that the guidelines for asymmetrical warfare are lacking , there are two recent stories of note.
The first is from the National that describes the American efforts against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
The Predator attacks are ...
World
Israel
Israeli Double Standard Time: The AP kept using qualifiers like “ Israel says ” when covering the 500 tons of weapons discovered on a ship headed for Hezbullah. But there’s no problem whatsoever quoting Iranian newspapers as truthful sources when it comes to discussing the ...
World
Israel
Iran
Yesterday the Washington Post editorialized in War Unchecked (h/t Prof Avi Bell ):
IN ORDER to eliminate the Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, the United States launched at least 15 missile strikes in Pakistan this year and killed, besides Mr. Mehsud, somewhere between 200 and 300 people, ...
World
Washington Post
Israel
Hamas
Huffington Post
Unilateralism is bad when Israel practices it. Go read back a few years to hear the left shrieking about Ariel Sharon withdrawing from Gaza unilaterally, instead of working with the PA (or at least, pretending to work with them so they could get the credit for it). Hamas would claim victory, ...
World
Israel
George W. Bush
Iraq
For the past few years, I’ve tried to do things on my birthday that I haven’t done before, or that challenge me, or that make me feel younger. So today, I went, as Sarah likes to put it, “Shooty-bang-bang.” I took my .38 revolver to the shooting range and worked on my ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Hot Air links to one of these videos, but hey, you should watch them all . Soldiers’ reunions with their pets, and with their kids.
Have a tissue or three handy if you watch the kids one.
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Bud Day
yourish.com - 4 days ago
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It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Holocaust
denier and libel lawsuit loser David Irving was hacked
to pieces yesterday. H/T: Mike S. Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian and Accused Holocaust Denier A group identifying themselves as ...
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David Irving’s website and email hacked
In Context observed about Judge Goldstone :
There’s something horrifying about the amount of damage that a slight to one man’s ego can do. I’m well aware that there was more to the Goldstone report than that, but nevertheless it appears to me to be a factor that can’t ...
World
Richard Goldstone has responded to Shimon Peres’ criticism in typical fashion—by insisting that no matter what people say, his report was fair and balanced.
Peres was quoted Wednesday as calling Goldstone “a small man, devoid of any sense of justice, a technocrat with no ...
World
Gaza
I have no doubt that all of you followed with bated breath the Iranian odyssey of the NYT grand vizier Roger Cohen. Well, if you didn’t, here is a reminder . So enamored was our jolly Roger with the regime, that I was quite sure he became a full time fellow traveler of Ayatollahs. Then, ...
