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I'm a government bureaucrat with delusions of literacy.

Carter at his word

Jimmy Carter on Secretary Rice (via memeorandum): Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to Hamas before a … Continue reading

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1701 still toothless

via memeorandum Ha’aretz reports: According to a government source in Jerusalem, the incident caused great embarrassment for UNIFIL. The source described the incident, explaining that UNIFIL troops on patrol discovered the truck and chased it down and pulled it over. … Continue reading

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Reviving dry bones

One of the famous prophetic events discussed is when God shows the prophet Yechezkel (Ezekiel) a valley of dry bones and asks the prophet if those bones could yet live. In the end God re-forms the bones into living men. … Continue reading

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Revoking the honors

Backspin notes that Mahmoud Abbas has withdrawn his nomination to honor two terror abettors. The Al Kuds Mark of Honor, the PLO’s highest medal, was meant be awarded in a ceremony in Ramallah Thursday to two female terrorists who helped … Continue reading

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A casualty in the Hamas/Fatah civil war

The Washington Post today also features an article about the Fatah Hamas war focusing on the death of Majd Barghouti, a Hamas sympathizer. Missing from the account are the stories of how Hamas killed members of Fatah last year – … Continue reading

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Zahar, with a difference

The Washington Post has once again given op-ed space to the member of a terrorist organization. In it Mahmoud al-Zahar gets to criticize Israel and praise Jimmy Carter. Zahar of course starts off with an outright falsehood: President Jimmy Carter’s … Continue reading

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Jimmy’s antidemocratic tendencies

Bret Stephens nails Jimmy Carter: That’s not quite what Mr. Carter said, however. He said the dictator “speaks” for “all” the people, just as the people in a democracy speak for themselves. Taken at face value, this is a reflection … Continue reading

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The damned lies of J-Street

J-Street is a new group that calls itself “…political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.”Matt Stoller of Open Left writes: It’s a significant moment for progressive Jews who have previously not had our voices represented in the foreign policy realm, … Continue reading

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New anti-israel group has trouble raising funds

Ynet reports (via memeorandum): A new survey conducted by a Washington DC-based evangelical organization among American Christians has found that 82% of them believe they have a moral obligation to support the Jews and Israel. The poll, conducted among Catholics … Continue reading

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Tool rhymes with fool

Jimmy Carter can’t even get respect from Shimon Peres these days.A poster at Firedoglake, Ian Welsh, though, considers Jimmy Carter the best friend Israel ever had! After botching history (Carter created the conditions for Camp David by planning to bring … Continue reading

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Preventing the next Holocaust

The other day I wrote about Charles Krauthammer’s most recent column. He argued that since it’s clear that negotiation and sandtions have failed to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb, the United States had to expressly state its support for defending … Continue reading

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Israel policy failure

Sometimes organizations do what you expect them too. CAIR, for example, has no issue with Jimmy Carter shaking the blood soaked hands of Khaled Meshal.Sometimes the organization that does the advocating is surprising. For example two leaders of the Israeli … Continue reading

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Why read the NYT or Ha’aretz …

when you could have gotten the scoop from Elder of Ziyon. via memeorandum Ha’aretz reports: Hamas seizes half the fuel Israel sends to the Gaza Strip and uses it in part for its military wing’s vehicles, Israeli and Palestinian Authority … Continue reading

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Not just motive

Elder of Ziyon made an important point yesterday about the atttacks at Nahal Oz. On the surface it seemed illogical for an attack against the entry point for gas to Gaza. He points out the terror attack with the complicity … Continue reading

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Endgame

Remember how smug, insufferable, know-it-all David Ignatius informed us that the NIE showed that our policies towards Iran were all wrong? Here’s how he put it in a Post-Global forum: Sometimes events create space for diplomacy where none existed before. … Continue reading

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