Monthly Archives: January 2009

And still, they try to post their hate

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Even changing to registered comments doesn’t stop the liars and haters. Liars, like the one who just claimed to be a former IDF soldier. Yeah. Like I haven’t heard that one before. I believe it as much as the ones … Continue reading →

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War in Gaza Update #13.5

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Jack

Update #13.5 on the War in Gaza is now available for your consumption.

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Standing for Israel

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Links to organizations that help soldiers: Yashar LaChayal Standing Together Rahel says: Both of these grassroots organizations send much-needed items such as food, toiletries and warm clothing to the IDF soldiers who are serving in and near Gaza. And also: … Continue reading →

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Muslims attacking Jews on the streets of Norway

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

What’s missing from this report? Around 500 people who had gathered for a legal demonstration in support of Israel outside the Norwegian parliament were attacked Thursday evening by some 1,000 pro-Palestinians, police told AFP. “Almost immediately there was a large … Continue reading →

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Israel/Hamas video hack alert

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Pass this one on to all your readers, fellow bloggers. US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to the Israel/Hamas conflict in Gaza. These messages may contain factual information about the conflict … Continue reading →

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UNSCR 1860: Not worth the paper it’s written on

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

UN Security Council Resolution 1860 is a waste of time and space. It’s not a Chapter Seven, so it’s nonbinding. It makes no mention of Hamas whatsoever, so it’s bullshit. And Israel is treating it as such. Israel’s Operation Cast … Continue reading →

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There’s a kind of hate all over the world

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

There’s a kind of hate Venezuela’s Jews close their schools Brener, 77, who spoke with The Jerusalem Post by telephone from New York, said that Jewish schools in Caracas closed for few days out of concern that they would attract … Continue reading →

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Diehling with Iran

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Soccerdad

The Washington Post has dueling op-eds about Israel’s war against Hamas. Jackson Diehl predictably tells Israel that it’s on the wrong path in Hard Lesson for Israel. Charles Krauthammer disagrees. Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip is failing, but … Continue reading →

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The missing part of Walt’s thought experiment

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Stephen Walt is being oh-so-cute by pretending that if religious Jews replaced religious (fanatic) Palestinians like Hamas, the results would be the same. Here’s his risible “thought experiment”: Imagine that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War, … Continue reading →

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When Amira Hass accuses Hamas

Posted on 01/09/2009 by SnoopyTheGoon

This is not precisely news, but in a way it is – when one of the chief apologists for Palestinian misdeeds says it: Even in the current conditions, Hamas is continuing to arrest those it suspects of criminal activity or … Continue reading →

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War In Gaza Update #13

Posted on 01/09/2009 by Jack

The latest War in Gaza Update is available here.

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W. abandons Israel again

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Meryl Yourish

First he forced Ariel Sharon to give up the Philadelphi Corridor. Then he forced Israel to allow Hamas to run in Palestinian elections, even though Ba’athists were not allowed to run in Iraq, and Taliban were not allowed to run … Continue reading →

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The AP spin on “We will never compromise with Israel”

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Sometimes you wonder if the AP editors and reporters actually hurt themselves by working so hard to twist words like this: In a possible sign Hamas was unwilling to compromise yet, a senior Hamas official in Syria, Mohammed Nazzal, told … Continue reading →

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War in Gaza Updates 12 and 12.5

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Jack

I have been just overwhelmed with work so I am a bit late in announcing that War in Gaza Updates 12.5 and 12 are both live. They offer news and analysis about the war from multiple perspectives. We will keep … Continue reading →

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He writes what I think

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Meryl Yourish

My readers know that I am not shy about writing what I’m thinking. But it’s pretty wonderful to find a blogger who writes what I think, too. This is the end of an excellent post by Yaacov Lozowick, whom I … Continue reading →

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Aint Nick’s boomerang

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Soccerdad

Nicholas Kristof – I’ll call him “Ain’t Nick” – on the NYT, The Gaza Boomerang: When Hamas was founded in 1987, Israel was mostly concerned with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement and figured that a religious Palestinian organization would help undermine … Continue reading →

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Hamas targets schools, world is blind, deaf, and dumb on topic

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Meryl Yourish

First, I researched the grad rocket. It is accurate. It can be targeted. Then, I checked on Google maps to see how easy it is to map out a school in Israel. Satellite view. No problem. Then I checked reports … Continue reading →

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Jimma dandy to the rescue

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Soccerdad

Jimmy Carter, during whose administration, Iran became and Islamist state and started to threaten the world, tells us that if only the parties had listened to him, war could have been avoided, in An Unnecessary War. So much of the … Continue reading →

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How soon they forget?

Posted on 01/08/2009 by SnoopyTheGoon

No, I am not angry at Brits – I am already past that point, being closer to the mood best expressed by this piece. Still, I shall never quit to wonder about this country that (go figure why!) holds, and … Continue reading →

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Iran opens a second front?

Posted on 01/08/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Did Iran order Hezbullah to shell northern Israel yesterday? A Katyusha barrage was fired Thursday at the Nahariya area in the Western Galilee. Police reported that two people were lightly wounded and evacuated to the local hospital. Several residents were … Continue reading →

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