Category Archives: Israel

Echoes of a blue dress

As my co-blogger JudeoPundit and others have noted, Iran’s Press TV is accusing Binyamin Netanyahu of starting the Obama birth rumors. Read the excerpt at Don Surber’s: California attorney Orly Taitz, who filed the lawsuit challenging President Obama’s citizenship, was … Continue reading

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HRW to Israel: How dare you question our biased reports?

It’s almost funny. Human Rights Watch is in a huff because Israel is questioning their reports and calling HRW biased against Israel. Which it is. Human Rights Watch on Friday accused the Israeli government of waging a propaganda war after … Continue reading

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A tale of two headlines

The AP anti-Israel bias, exhibit 4,678: First, the AP report on the HRW report on Hamas war crimes: Rights group: Hamas may have committed war crimes Next, the AP report on the current HRW accusation that Israely committed war crimes: … Continue reading

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Malley’s folly

The other day the New York Times published an op-ed by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, The Two state solution doesn’t solve anything: They conclude: For years, virtually all attention has been focused on the question of a future Palestinian … Continue reading

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Cynical misery

Often those of us who support Israel claim that the Palestinian issue is one that was created and maintained by the Arab world in order to have a weapon against Israel. A few weeks ago, Daniel Pipes linked to a … Continue reading

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Thursday SNB

Oh, so THAT’s why HRW released a report about Hamas: So they could accuse Israel of more war crimes. I was thinking it was more to do with being caught trying to bash Israel to the Saudis so they could … Continue reading

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Letters of disapproval

Ronald Lauder writes: Respect the sovereignty of democratic allies. When free people in a democracy express their preferences, the United States should respect their opinions. The current administration should not try to impose ideas on allies like Israel. The administration … Continue reading

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Where “liquidate” means “living side by side peacefully”

Back on August 30, 1993 Clyde Haberman of the New York Times reported the significant change that the PLO was going to undergo: Another important step is that the P.L.O. is to renounce terrorism, according to some officials. But they … Continue reading

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Israeli sues the EU for damages from Hamas rockets

It’s just perfect. Israeli and Belgian lawyers acting for Eyal Katorza, who is also a French citizen, are preparing a legal case demanding that the EU does more to protect the 300,000 Europeans living in Israel. Legal documents, seen by … Continue reading

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Moral hazards

Dion Nissenbaum who has never seen a rationalization of terror or condemnation of Israel that he hasn’t accepted uncritically wrote about “Breaking the Silence” a few weeks ago. He accepted the view that some soldiers claimed that the IDF operated … Continue reading

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Monday SNB

Funny how the AP keeps on missing these tidbits: Fatah has approved adding “the right to resist occupation in all its forms” to its new platform. (This is on top of insising that all of Jerusalem is theirs.) They further … Continue reading

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The fog of war lifted

The BBC at the time it happened. Strike at Gaza school ‘kills 40’ … The UN officials said they regularly provided the Israeli military with exact co-ordinates of their facilities, and that the school was in a built-up area. UN … Continue reading

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Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival

It is time to go read one of the longest running blog carnivals around. Yes, it is Haveil Havalim time, the best of the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere. This is where you go when you want to get a sense of what is … Continue reading

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Fatah to Israel: All your Jerusalem are belong to us

If anyone had any doubt that the Palestinian Authority has never given up on “reclaiming” all of “Palestine,” this current Fatah assembly declaration should shine a little light into their true intent towards Israel. The sixth Fatah General Assembly decreed … Continue reading

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Friday SNB

(That’s Snark News Briefs, to those of you who haven’t been paying attention.) Fatah blames Israel for Arafat’s AIDS: Not really. Fatah refuses to even consider the idea that their dead (and unmourned) leader did not die because of Israeli … Continue reading

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