Daily Archives: 02/21/2008

Chutzpah, Chinese style

China,the nation that launched a satellite-killer last year, is demanding that the U.S. release data from yesterday’s successful satellite kill. China called on the US to release data on the shooting down of an ailing spy satellite, while the Communist … Continue reading

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It blowed up real good

The U.S. Navy shot down the dying satellite. And they said it couldn’t be done! Pentagon officials said they think a Navy missile scored a direct hit on the fuel tank of an errant spy satellite late Wednesday, eliminating a … Continue reading

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Another day, another Iranian death threat

Yet another Iranian official says once again that Israel will be destroyed. International reaction? Yawns. Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Hadad has warned that the “countdown to Israel’s destruction has begun,” in an interview published Thursday in an Iranian newspaper. […] … Continue reading

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Guardian revelations: a boil that erupted

Irene Lancaster, a person and a blogger I respect very much, posted an article under a headline Has The Guardian made history? An article sympathetic to Israel on Comment is Free. My comment to it (something happened with the comment … Continue reading

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More Mughniyeh fallout

Unlike the fanciful account in the Times of London, AP has an interesting view of what it would have taken to kill Imad Mughniyeh, provided by an ex-Mossad agent who saw the results of Mughniyeh’s work first hand.Although Israel and … Continue reading

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Green flags

This is the funeral of Shadi Zghayer and Mohammed Herbawi the two terrorists who launched an attack in Dimona two weeks ago. Israel returned their bodies to their families in Hebron for burial. (Despite my suspicions at the time, they … Continue reading

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Significant microbe

A number of bloggers have noted that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad’s latest rhetorical attacks on Israel.Steven Peter Rosen wonders if the change in terminology is a harbinger of something more sinister. (via memeorandum) Some streams of discourse are chronically laden with … Continue reading

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Confirming the kill

I wrote yesterday about the importance in many situations of killing a terrorist who might still present a threat. It reminded me of an incident in the Old City of Jerusalem a few months ago. The New York Times reported … Continue reading

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