Daily Archives: 12/12/2007

Stop complaining about the winter weather

Lynn got me to find this site, which has the sunrise and sunsets in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sunrise tomorrow is 11:13 a.m. Sunset is 3:31 p.m. Quitcherbitchin, people. Just think how much it would suck to be in Iceland right now.

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Israel is fighting the next war

I’ve been saying for some time now that the IDF has learned many lessons from the Lebanon war of 2006, and that Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran have not. Here’s what amounts to a throwaway graf at the end of … Continue reading

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The wire services: Working for the Palestinians

Let’s look at the ledes on the various wire service articles about the current round of peace talks. Earlier, Reuters: Israel and Palestinians launch peace talks in discord JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinians said on Wednesday they had demanded a halt … Continue reading

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The lost art of self-defense

Israel seems to have forgotten how to defend herself. The security cabinet announced Wednesday it would recommend the government refrain from launching a wide-scale operation in Gaza, opting instead to continue with targeted IDF operations. The cabinet thinks the small … Continue reading

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The peace talks in “discord”—because of Israel, mostly

The world media spins against Israel yet again. And of course, here’s how it works. A barrage of rockets into Israel on the morning of the peace talks comes fifteen paragraphs into the main AP story released a few minutes … Continue reading

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Syria’s quid pro quo for Annapolis

Here’s what the Dorktator took away as a lesson for his sending a representative to Annapolis: A car bomb attack killed one of Lebanon’s top generals and at least two other people Wednesday, the military and state media said, putting … Continue reading

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Familar unproductive editorial

The editors of the NYT are all for Starting the peace process Israelis and Palestinians are supposed to begin serious negotiations tomorrow after last month’s long-on-optics, short-on-specifics Annapolis peace meeting. Despite all the smiles and handshakes, both sides went home … Continue reading

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Ehud Barak says…

According to an article from JP: A large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip has dropped to the back burner in recent days after an assessment within the defense establishment found that the daily border raids the IDF has been conducting … Continue reading

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