michaelyon-online.com - 1/31/2009
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Published: 01 February 2009 I heard Benjamin Netanyahu, the person who could soon become Israel’s new prime minister, speak this week at the Jerusalem Conference. The most pressing point that he talked about was that under no circumstances should Jerusalem be divided. Many believe that if ...
michaeltotten.com - 2/1/2009
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michaeltotten.com —
Khaled Abu Toameh is not your typical Palestinian
journalist. He began his career at one of Yasser
Arafat's newspapers and today he writes for the Jerusalem Post . He has produced video for European TV stations, and even blogged for a while at ...
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A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza
normblog.typepad.com - 2/4/2009
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normblog.typepad.com —
This is a post about war crimes in
Gaza and the widespread public outrage over them directed
at Israel. Since it is a long post, I begin by providing a brief map of what is to follow. In Part 1...
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One-Eyed in Gaza
commentarymagazine.com - 1/25/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
It is not only our enemies that will
be testing the young new American president. So will
our allies. Or should I say ostensible allies? The latest test comes from Saudi Arabia. Prince Turki al-Faisal, a member of the royal family and a former chief ...
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The Laughable Saudi Peace Plan
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Michael Yon: How Can the World Be Blind to Israel’s Existential Threats?
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... goals: they want to wipe out Israel completely, utterly, with finality. But it s not just Israel that Hamas wants to kill; they want to kill all Jews everywhere. Complete genocide./ppAnd when Iran has the capacity to launch rockets over to Europe or the United States, one can count on it happening. If they can manage to hatch nuclear weapons, we could see Israeli cities annihilated, leaving Israelis with little choice other than to respond with nuclear weapons, which could leave read ...
I THINK THE ANSWER IS, “because they don’t care what happens to Israel.” How Can the World Be Blind…
Instapundit —
... I THINK THE ANSWER IS, “because they don’t care what happens to Israel.” How Can the World Be Blind to Israel’s Existential Threats? ...
Yon: What happened to Never Again?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Never again . Those words reverberate through history as the pledge of Jews around the world after the Holocaust, and supposedly the world stands with them …. except when actual genocidists appear. Michael Yon wonders why Europe seems so infatuated with Hamas, an organization that would cheerfully impose brutal theocratic rule on the Continent just as quickly as they would in Israel, and just as brutally: Israel is a free country that abides by the rule of law. By contrast, if a writer were to go to Gaza or Iran, for instance, and start writing bad words, he might wind up ...
Why the World is blind - or is it?
Israel Matzav —
... I found this post in which Yon asks how the world could be blind to Israel's existential threats . It is simply astounding that many foreign governments do not see this for what it is. Good Muslims are murdered by Muslim extremists in probably dozens of countries, yet certain European governments insist that there is some sort of moral equivalence between Hamas and the democracy called Israel. At this conference, I hear incredulous Jews who are concerned that their soldiers and political leaders might be charged with war crimes and arrested if they travel to Europe. This is ...
Yon Wonders As He Wanders
Comments from Left Field —
... Michael Yon asks how the world can be so “blind to Israel’s existential threats” (emphasis mine): ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Barack Smoot-Hawley Obama
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[image] Jim Cramer on Obama: 'We Heard Lenin' : NewsBusters How Government Prolonged the Depression : WSJ Here comes the Health Care Trojan Horse : AT (J. Smith) Iran launches first satellite into orbit : BBC Ice Storm : Anchoress Novice-in-Chief : Crittenden How can the world be so blind? : Michael Yon El Baradei won't take sides on destruction of Israel : LGF Obama to meet with President-for-Life Hugo Chavez : Fausta The War on Terror lawyers up : QandO Obama's White House: Like Carter's, only ...
Be-yon-d Kristof
Yourish.com —
... Israeli leaders even when they responded to provocations by killing more than 1,300 people in Gaza, according to Gaza health officials — in retaliation for shelling that had killed fewer than 30 Israelis since it began in 2001.
He, of course, doesn’t consider how many of the dead might have been those responsible, in one way or another of launching those rockets. For Kristoff Israel is wrong for defending itself.
Michael Yon observes something entirely different.
It is simply astounding that many foreign governments do ...
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