Monthly Archives: February 2010

A riddle wrapped in an enigma and mocked on Facebook

Posted on 02/28/2010 by Soccerdad

I’ve been skeptical of the ever growing hit team that knocked off Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, but Robert Baer (h/t Powerline) provides an explanation: The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh’s assassination was conducted according to the book—a military operation in which the … Continue reading →

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Sunday morning snarks, media bias edition

Posted on 02/28/2010 by Meryl Yourish

What a difference an angle makes: Biased AP headline of the morning: Israel police storm holy site to quell protest. Ynet news headline: Riots erupt on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Awesome AFP anti-Israel slant of the month: The Dubai assassination of … Continue reading →

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Dubai police chief: All Jews are suspects

Posted on 02/27/2010 by Meryl Yourish

No wonder there’s now a Facebook group called “I was also a part of the Dubai Assassination Squad.” Because the Arabs are now declaring all of us Jews guilty of being part of assassination squads. According to Emarat Al Youm, … Continue reading →

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More on the Dubai hit

Posted on 02/27/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The AP has a story that isn’t getting nearly as wide release as the stories about the Mossad being responsible for the Dubai hit, but it’s interesting for what countries are doing—and not doing—to find the killers. A killer – … Continue reading →

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Friday news dump: Crooked congressmen

Posted on 02/27/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The misnamed Congressional ethics comittee cleared seven representatives of ethics violations, released the report on Friday, (papers like the Washington Post are making sure to cover it in their Saturday editions, which nobody reads) and issued a unanimous statement that … Continue reading →

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Mabhouh’s razor

Posted on 02/26/2010 by Soccerdad

There’s a concept of Occam’s razor, which explains that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is likely correct. So why does the hit on Mahmoud Mabhouh keep getting more complicated. Yossi Melman explains (h/t Aussie Dave): The story just gets … Continue reading →

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The blogger’s guide to anti-Semitic comment trolls

Posted on 02/26/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Eight years ago this spring, at the height of the suicide bombings of Yasser Arafat’s terror war known as the second intifada, I started blogging about Jewish and Israeli issues. This, of course, brought out the anti-Israel crazies. I came … Continue reading →

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The marketing genius of Yasser Arafat

Posted on 02/25/2010 by Soccerdad

In the West an attitude towards Palestinian terrorism developed along the lines of “we don’t condone the violence but you have to understand the Palestinian grievance.” Of course that attitude implicitly excuses the violence it claims not to condone. But … Continue reading →

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Terrorist used fake passport to get to Dubai, media will not care

Posted on 02/25/2010 by Meryl Yourish

So, in all this uproar about Israel allegedly using fake passports to get Mossad agents into Dubai to kill a Hamas terrorist, the part of the story that will be utterly ignored is that the ex-terrorist was in Dubai on … Continue reading →

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Weaning Syria away from Iran

Posted on 02/25/2010 by Soccerdad

Lots of foreign policy sophisticates have told us that the American way forward in the Middle East is to engage Syria and draw it out of Iran’s orbit. Last week the Washington Post editorialized in response to President Obama’s naming … Continue reading →

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When fighting terror is an outrage

Posted on 02/24/2010 by Soccerdad

After the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985, the United States attempted to capture the terrorist responsible by forcing the plane they were on to land on an American-Italian base in Sicily. However, Italy and Egypt were outraged and … Continue reading →

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Compare and contrast

Posted on 02/24/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The AP reports that a truce has been signed, “raising hopes the bloody seven-year conflict could draw to a close.” They then go on to expand on the truce, the people involved, the leaders, international promises of $1 billion to … Continue reading →

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Jewish history denial

Posted on 02/23/2010 by Soccerdad

The New York Times reports Israel’s Plans for 2 Sites Stir Unrest in West Bank. The article is illustrated with a young man throwing a Molotov cocktail and begins: Scores of Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank … Continue reading →

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Tuesday morning snarks

Posted on 02/23/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The definition of hypocrisy: Iran is calling the Dubai assassination “Israeli terror.” Because gee, Iran never blew up a Jewish community center, an army barracks, or murdered Iranian expats in other nations. Israel eliminated a terrorist murderer arms supplier. One … Continue reading →

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Inspector Clouseau is on the Dubai case

Posted on 02/22/2010 by Meryl Yourish

You have to love the gathering of evidence that the Dubai police insist “prove” that the Mossad was involved. In an interview to Emirati paper al-Bayan published on Monday, Tamim said that “despite Israel’s attempts at denial, claiming there is … Continue reading →

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Not quite at death’s door

Posted on 02/22/2010 by Soccerdad

No doubt you remember this: Still protesting his innocence and offering “sincere sympathy” to the families of those who died in the bombing, Mr. Megrahi was granted his freedom under the terms of Scottish laws permitting the early release of … Continue reading →

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The sophistication of antisemitism

Posted on 02/22/2010 by Soccerdad

Wilhelm Marr invented the term antisemitism, not as an epithet, but as a sign of enlightenment. The Chief Rabbi of England, Sir Jonathan Sacks explains: We can date the third mutation to 1879 when the German journalist Wilhelm Marr coined … Continue reading →

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“Gee, I hope nothing happened to him…”

Posted on 02/21/2010 by Soccerdad

I remember a joke from my youth. Two Arabs in Israel were plotting to kill Moshe Dayan. They tracked him day after day for two months. They noticed that every day he showed up to the same restaurant at 11:30 … Continue reading →

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Checkpoint “misery” exaggerated by the AP

Posted on 02/21/2010 by Meryl Yourish

This get-out-your-hankie story is the latest profile by the AP of the horrors the Palestinians have to go through—all, of course, caused by Israel. This one is an AP correspondent who spent a week (five days, actually) going through the … Continue reading →

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The whole world is wrong

Posted on 02/21/2010 by Meryl Yourish

I don’t really want to encourage the anti-Israel troll from my previous post, but there is a concept that he brought up that bears further examination. It is the world’s contention that Israel must be wrong, because the whole world … Continue reading →

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