Author Archives: Soccerdad

About Soccerdad

I'm a government bureaucrat with delusions of literacy.

What I’ve been doing during my blogging retirement

Posted on 07/28/2011 by Soccerdad

My first Pajamas Media article: The ‘Erase’ to Condemn Israel Meryl, thanks for the nudge and the excellent advice!

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Happy 10th

Posted on 04/22/2011 by Soccerdad

I have written before about my evolution as a blogger. But that was mostly a history of the media I used. Not the activism I practiced. I guess it started in 1987, when I got my first letter to the … Continue reading →

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Purim 5771

Posted on 03/20/2011 by Soccerdad

The New Persia Times Crisis in Shushan The United States is intervening diplomatically to forestall a rapidly developing crisis in the Persian Empire. Sources close to the government of King Achashveirosh have leaked information that the kingdom has sanctioned the … Continue reading →

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Oh, that historic compromise

Posted on 11/15/2010 by Soccerdad

In a bit of fractured history, Saeb Erakat writes in the National (h/t Martin Kramer): On November 15, 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organisation declared statehood by passing the Palestinian Declaration of Independence while exiled in Algiers. That declaration constituted the … Continue reading →

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Mediterranean conference cancelled on account of cooties

Posted on 11/12/2010 by Soccerdad

When I read something like this Mediterranean summit canceled again due to Arab threat to boycott over Israel (via Daily Alert Blog) An international summit of Mediterranean leaders has been canceled for the third time because Arab states threatened to … Continue reading →

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Peace: it’s not about what might have but about what couldn’t have been

Posted on 11/11/2010 by Soccerdad

Last week, Former President Clinton wrote an op-ed making the fanciful claim that there would have been peace in the Middle East had Yitzchak Rabin not been murdered. I showed from the historical record that his claim was not accurate. … Continue reading →

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But Sunnis would never ally themselves with Shi’ites …

Posted on 11/10/2010 by Soccerdad

Tweeted by Martin Kramer – Ehud Ya’ari writes: For the last few months, a forty-three-page Arabic-language booklet has been emailed to Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip and to select members of the group in the West Bank and elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Playing into Hamas’s hands

Posted on 11/09/2010 by Soccerdad

Thomas Friedman who is an expert – “expert” in this case means being able to say things with no factual support and have no one question you – wrote The Reality Principle in 2003. Have you noticed how often Israel … Continue reading →

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The little anti-Israel lies

Posted on 11/08/2010 by Soccerdad

In a recent essay describing her alienation from NPR, Bookworm identified the first point of departure: There was only one problem with this neatly enclosed little universe: Israel. You see, unlike stories about domestic politics, where my only understanding of … Continue reading →

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Sticks and stones, Palestinian edition

Posted on 11/05/2010 by Soccerdad

In January 1998 when Binyamin Netanyahu was serving his first term as President and Bill Clinton was President of the United States, Clinton was pressuring Netanyahu to cede territory to the Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu refused until the Arafat and the … Continue reading →

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Clinton: nostalgic for a past that never was

Posted on 11/04/2010 by Soccerdad

In the weeks following the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, Israel handed over control of six cities to the Palestinian Authority. The New York Times reported at the time. For Mr. Abu-Ghdeib, a local wallpaper dealer who had enlisted in the … Continue reading →

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The UNESCO outrage

Posted on 11/02/2010 by Soccerdad

UNESCO has declared that Ma’arat Hamachpelah and Kever Rachel (the cave of the Patriarchs and the tomb of Rachel) are Palestinian mosques. The UNESCO board voted 44 to 1, with 12 abstentions, to declare Rachel’s Tomb, which it referred to … Continue reading →

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Stones of gold; feet of clay

Posted on 11/01/2010 by Soccerdad

Recently, reports appearing the media contradicted assertions made by the Goldstone report. These go to the beliefs promoted by Judge Goldstone and his confederates that Israel’s restrictions imposed on Gaza constitute collective punishment, that Israel did not take adequate care … Continue reading →

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Rabin remembered; terror forgotten

Posted on 10/29/2010 by Soccerdad

Ethan Bronner reports in a letter from Tel Aviv on Remembering Rabin, Some See His Legacy Fading Bronner quotes Ben Dror Yemini: “The truth is the opposite,” he wrote. “Rabin’s assassination saved the Israeli left wing.” He added that before … Continue reading →

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The UN as accomplice

Posted on 10/28/2010 by Soccerdad

The other day Elder of Ziyon blogged about The Palestinian Arab plan for de-legitimizing Israel, 1968 and observed: While the PLO has not been as successful in rallying the Arab nations behind it in recent years, its propaganda plan has … Continue reading →

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Wanting peace more than the Palestinians

Posted on 10/27/2010 by Soccerdad

A few days ago the Washington Post reported Halt to Palestinian peace talks could become permanent: In perhaps the shortest round of peace negotiations in the history of their conflict, talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have ground to a … Continue reading →

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Some say that the New York Times is anti-Israel

Posted on 10/25/2010 by Soccerdad

With an article titled Some question insistence on Israel as Jewish State, the New York Times officially joins the anti-Israel crowd. No doubt there are those who disagree with Netanyahu as to whether Israel should be called a Jewish state. … Continue reading →

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Distorting Mideast policy

Posted on 10/22/2010 by Soccerdad

According to Laura Rozen (note here yesterday) the administration’s upset that Netnayahu isn’t infinitely pliable. The American team is said to be frustrated and upset at Netanyahu’s dismissal to date of the package, which was drafted by the NSC’s Dennis … Continue reading →

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Will Bolton’s fears be realized?

Posted on 10/21/2010 by Soccerdad

Yesterday I noted that John Bolton feared that the Obama administration would (tacitly) support a Palestinian effort to get support for statehood at the United Nations. The Palestinians clearly are looking to the UN for support: The Palestinian leadership, near … Continue reading →

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The “bash Israel” security blanket

Posted on 10/20/2010 by Soccerdad

The first paragraph of Thomas Friedman’s column today, Just Knock it off, makes sense: Some of Israel’s worst critics are fond of saying that Israel behaves like America’s spoiled child. I’ve always found that analogy excessive. Say what you want … Continue reading →

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