Category Archives: Israel

A tale of two riots

The AP is doing what it does best: Refusing to blame the Palestinians for their part in the deaths of Palestinians due to riot. Check out this CBS/AP headline, in REALLY BIG TYPE on the page: Israel forces kill 3 … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 08/25/2013

When is a Red Line not a Red Line? When there’s no Precedent for it. ” It was quiet in Washington—it had been a summer busy with dispatches on the golf game of President Obama, and on the new first … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 08/24/2013 (belated)

In the Middle East, the New York Times Doesn’t Burden Itself with Proof In the little town of Candor in the last year of my youth I learned the final lesson of the levels to the truth – The Mayor … Continue reading

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The demographic lie

The Jewish Press has kindly translated for us an analysis of an Israeli demographic study. The results are not at all what the media and political narrative has been told to you. Arabs are not going to outnumber Jews in … Continue reading

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Thursday briefs

Punching back twice as hard: Jihadis fired rockets from Lebanon into Israel today. So the IDF fired back into Lebanon tonight. Watch for the condemnation of Israel tomorrow. The peasants are revolting: An anti-Hamas group is modeling itself after the … Continue reading

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Wednesday briefs

Red line crossed: Barack Obama said that chemical weapons would be the Syrian red line. Bashar al-Assad used them earlier this year, and the U.S. refused to agree that they’d been used. So now, hundreds of men, women, and children … Continue reading

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Tuesday briefs

The Cowardly Liar: First Ban Ki-Moon tells the truth and agrees that the UN is biased against Israel. Then, after hearing from the Israel-haters in the UN, he turns around and says, “Oh, my bad. The UN treats Israel just … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 08/19/2013 (belated)

The New York Times believes that Israel is preventing President Obama from Doing the Right Thing in Egypt It wasn’t just one article over the weekend. No fewer than four articles in the New York Times over the past few … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler – 08/16/2013

Attention Deficit Peace Process Disorder Last week Thomas Friedman wrote a paean to John Kerry’s peacemaking, Daring to fail. In the middle of the article he presented the same sort of “concern” for Israel that Secretary of State Kerry did. … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler – 08/15/2013

Forgetting the Dangers Posed by the Muslim Brotherhood What should the American response to the latest outbreak of violence in Egypt be? U.S. Pulls Out of Egypt’s Bright Star War Game "Cairo's brutality highlights U.S. fecklessness despite billions… http://t.co/COLolJDG5o — Michael … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 08/14/2013

On his Majesty’s not-so-Secret Peace Process Service For the third time in two weeks we have a report about Secretary of State Kerry’s concern for Israel. First in the New York Times: With the Palestinians poised to take their claim … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler – 08/13/2013

Terrorism is Diplomacy by Other Means Yesterday I wondered Does John Kerry worry about a Palestine that reveres such monsters as the murderer of Nissim Toledano? If he worried about Israel’s future, did he worry about a state that was … Continue reading

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The I’m finally done with all that other stuff briefs

It has been a hellish week for me. TGIF rarely means so much to me as it does today. Taming the terrorists: Egypt and Israel are working together to rid the Sinai of its current terrorist infestation. Israel shut down … Continue reading

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Compare and contrast: Israel vs. the neighbors

Compare and contrast, part one: Syrian civilians are fleeing across the border with Israel, only to be met with–help–for fighters and civilians. Blast victims are being treated in Israeli hospitals. This is coming out of the Israeli taxpayers’ pockets. The … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 08/05/2013

Rouhani Roulette On Friday, the soon to be inaugurated President Hassan Rouhani was reported to have made some very un-moderate comments about Israel. But then it turned out that the comments were not as bad as advertised. Here are some … Continue reading

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