Monthly Archives: February 2008

Hamas threatens to kidnap more soldiers

Posted on 02/25/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Hamas isn’t getting the results they wanted after they kidnapped Gilad Shalit. So they’re going to kidnap more soldiers until Israel gives them what they want. Hamas will abduct more IDF soldiers if Israel does not answer its demands for … Continue reading →

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For Star Trek geeks

Posted on 02/24/2008 by Soccerdad

If you’re really geeky, all episodes of the original Star Trek series are available for download at CBS. (h/t Crossing the Rubicon3)BTW, why is this on CBS and not NBC, as you might recall. Mr. Spock: Here is the readout, … Continue reading →

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Hamas may try to breach Israel’s border

Posted on 02/24/2008 by Meryl Yourish

There’s going to be a demonstration in Gaza tomorrow. And under cover of that demonstration, Hamas may try to use the weapons it smuggled through the downed Rafah border fence—against Israel. Palestinian officials on Sunday announced that they intend to … Continue reading →

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There is no peace with terror

Posted on 02/24/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Ynet has the latest excuse the terrorists are using to launch rockets at southern Israel: They’re not just in response to Israeli “crimes.” They’re also a response to the Danish Mohammed cartoons. The Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees’ … Continue reading →

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Non-violence in gaza

Posted on 02/24/2008 by Soccerdad

In Gaza’s Culture of Self-Destruction Yael Kaynan writes (via memeorandum): The people in Gaza need to stop and take a good look at the culture and society that they are creating and begin to think hard about how they might … Continue reading →

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About that two-state solution

Posted on 02/24/2008 by Soccerdad

Judeopundit, observed an under-noticed story in the New York Times the other day, Arab Leaders Say the Two-State Proposal Is in Peril. In the Perils to Two-State Pauline, by way of introduction he provides some background, in fine factious fashion: … Continue reading →

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What the AP and Reuters won’t tell you about Hezbollah

Posted on 02/23/2008 by Meryl Yourish

The AP practically wrote a Hezbollah press release about Nasrallah’s speech the other day. Reuters was right behind them, eagerly advancing the “Israel will get it now!” theme that the terrorists who are going to “avenge” the killing of Imad … Continue reading →

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Israelis to terrorists: We’re not going anywhere

Posted on 02/22/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Thousands of Israelis gathered in Sderot earlier today to do their Shabbat shopping. A motorcade of several hundred cars arrived in Sderot on Friday morning carrying thousands of people from across Israel who came to do their Shabbat shopping in … Continue reading →

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Cognitive dissonance

Posted on 02/22/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Three headlines: Peres: Muslims not our enemies Ahmadinejad: If we remain quiet, Zionists will act against us Nasrallah: Israel’s disappearance an established fact One conclusion: Muslims are not Israel’s enemies, but most of Israel’s enemies are Muslim. And speaking of … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Lebanon | 5 Comments

Encouraging Hamas: EU cause and effect

Posted on 02/22/2008 by Meryl Yourish

The European Union is encouraging rocket attacks on Israel. How? By emphasizing Israel’s actions taken in self-defense, and minimizing the acts that cause them. The EU passed a a resolution that effectively blames Israel for closing Gaza without really attaching … Continue reading →

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Containing the Iran/Syria axis

Posted on 02/22/2008 by Soccerdad

Der Spiegel reports that Iran will soon have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb. How soon? Hot Air answers: Even if they’re exaggerating, though, EU computer models of the enrichment facility at Natanz show that if Iran’s figured out … Continue reading →

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Craving apartheid

Posted on 02/22/2008 by Soccerdad

LGF links to an exchange between the Israel and Saudi ambassadors in columns in Canada’s National Post.Without seeing the response, I would think that Israeli ambassador Alan Baker won with this paragraph: Complete freedom of religion for all is strictly … Continue reading →

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Nasrallah’s speech – a side remark

Posted on 02/22/2008 by SnoopyTheGoon

From the last videotaped speech by the Lebanese “liberator”: Like all human beings we have a sacred right to defend ourselves. But isn’t hiding a year and a half in a bunker taking that sacred right a bit too far? … Continue reading →

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Chutzpah, Chinese style

Posted on 02/21/2008 by Meryl Yourish

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

Posted on 02/21/2008 by Meryl Yourish

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

Posted on 02/21/2008 by Meryl Yourish

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

Posted on 02/21/2008 by SnoopyTheGoon

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

Posted on 02/21/2008 by Soccerdad

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

Posted on 02/21/2008 by Soccerdad

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

Posted on 02/21/2008 by Soccerdad

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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