Monthly Archives: April 2011

Gee, boycotting Israel costs a lot of money!

Posted on 04/14/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Reality sets in: An Australian town council voted to boycott Israel, and did the number-crunching of what it would cost to replace “Israeli” products with something else: $3.7 million (and even in Australian dollars, that’s a lot). It’s being inundated … Continue reading →

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The city that outsourced everything

Posted on 04/13/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Sandy Springs, GA.

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Gaza Flotilla, the sequel: The second time, definitely not farce

Posted on 04/13/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The blockade has eased. Gazans can get pretty much everything they want except, of course, for weapons and building materials for bunkers. Building material is going into Gaza. Is some of it being diverted to bunkers? Of course it is. … Continue reading →

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Israelis Care

Posted on 04/12/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

With all of the world’s attention focused on fighting, attacks on school buses, Israeli attempts to stop them, rockets launched against Israeli targets and Israeli attempts to stop them, little attention is given to Israel’s contributions in the world. All … Continue reading →

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Judge Goldstone: the man or the role?

Posted on 04/12/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

Several widely diverse discussions of Judge Richard Goldstone’s personality were already published in the media, and there will surely be more. The aftershock of the WaPo article Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes caused an about turn … Continue reading →

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Tuesday working briefs

Posted on 04/12/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Ew, Jew Cooties! Tel Aviv is sending a contingent to the Berlin Gay Pride festival, but they’re not going to identify Tel Aviv as part of Israel. They’re not the only Israeli city to do so. Eilat is being branded … Continue reading →

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Monday, briefly

Posted on 04/11/2011 by Meryl Yourish

And the word “Muslim” does not appear in this news story: French immigrants of “North African” descent attacked and badly beat a Jew for being a Jew. I think they meant to attack him for being a Zionist, and the … Continue reading →

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Banning kosher practices: Be honest, it’s all about the Jews

Posted on 04/11/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Sure, it’s not at all about Jews. The Dutch are going to outlaw kosher slaughter. New Zealand has already done so on the pretext of animal welfare. The AP article incorrectly states that NZ banned halal slaughter. Halal slaughter is … Continue reading →

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Iron Dome: The Game-changer

Posted on 04/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The Grad rocket threat against Israel has been a huge problem to the southern cities for years. They have landed in, on, and between buildings, as well as in empty areas. They’ve landed near schools, hospitals, and residences. So far, … Continue reading →

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The Sunday media bias post, now with extra hypocrisy!

Posted on 04/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Hamas is still firing rockets into Israel. So of course, the world media are concentrating on how Israel is “pounding” Gaza. And the Arab League, using the newly-issued R2P (responsibility to protect) hobbyhorse, wants the UN to authorize a no-fly … Continue reading →

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Iron Dome missile defense in action

Posted on 04/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Ynet caught Iron Dome on video. And their embed code isn’t working. Click the link.

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Targeting Jews in America

Posted on 04/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The explosion that was a bomb, then was a “freak accident” is now a bomb again—and the FBI has a suspect. And he seems to be Jewish. Wonderful. The FBI said evidence found near the scene of an explosion Thursday … Continue reading →

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Hamas doubling down on civilian rocket attacks

Posted on 04/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Iron Dome did its job again, but Hamas and its fellow terrorists are shelling Israel on a constant basis. But the war crimes of the terrorists continue: Meanwhile, the IDF continues to hunt down rocket -aunching cells, which military officials … Continue reading →

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When a war crime is not a war crime

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The charge of “war crime” is thrown endlessly at Israel, to the point that the Goldstone Report was commissioned and issued by the United Nations Human Rights Committee. It dealt with supposed war crimes by Israel, yet did not once … Continue reading →

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Casus belli: Deliberately targeting school buses

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Two years ago, I wrote about Hamas terrorists deliberately targeting Israeli schoolchildren, and the lack of response from the world. Today, history repeats itself. Hamas terrorists deliberately targeted a schoolbus yesterday, using a laser-guided anti-tank missile to make sure of … Continue reading →

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A Laser Guided War Crime

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

There are no few arguing this morning about whether or not Hamas should have known that the yellow bus that it fired upon yesterday was a school bus. Yellow is the color of school buses in the United States and … Continue reading →

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My Reaction to Goldstone and Rosenberg

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

I have been more than a bit infuriated by the left’s reaction to Richard Goldstone’s statement that Israel did not intentionally target civilians during Operation Cast Lead. In fact, I wrote two articles about it for We Are For Israel. … Continue reading →

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Beating a dead horse: The anti-Israel meme continues

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

In today’s updates on Israel’s attacks on Hamas terrorists, who fired 45 missiles into Israel yesterday, we learn that Israel is now attacking Hamas during a truce. This is the AFP, which is a wire service used throughout Europe: Israel … Continue reading →

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Hamas wants war with Israel; media wants to whitewash Hamas

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Yesterday, Hamas declared their pretend unilateral cease-fire, after lobbing 45 missiles—including a Grad rocket shot down by the Iron Dome defense system before it could hit Ashdod—into southern Israel. The reason for the cease-fire? Well, this time, Netanyahu unleashed the … Continue reading →

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Bias? What anti-Israel bias?

Posted on 04/07/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Get a load of this headline from AFP:      Israel pounds Gaza, kills 3 after missile hits bus And here’s the lede: Gaza militants on Thursday fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, critically injuring a teenager, prompting the … Continue reading →

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