Category Archives: Israel

Skunk’d

Barry Rubin identifies two types of unrealistic realists This is explained by saying that the practitioners weren’t good enough–“I’m smarter or more charming than they were,” which today seems to be what President Barack Obama is saying–or didn’t try hard … Continue reading

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Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival #217

If you want to get a sense of what sorts of issues, thoughts and ideas are buzzing through the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere you need to go check out our blog carnival. It is called Haveil Havalim and is one of the … Continue reading

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Obama won’t be throwing Israel under the bus, part I

Here’s where I stick my neck out and look either brilliant or moronic, but I don’t think that Obama is going to sell out Israel. Here’s another reason why: United States President Barack Obama has said he cannot tell Israel … Continue reading

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News Snarks

Hamas is refreshing its weapons supply. Egypt opened its Gaza border for “humanitarian” purposes. I wonder if one of those is picking up the weapons cache in the Sinai that the Egyptian army found. I also wonder if the world … Continue reading

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The UN finds another club to use on Israel: Phantom torture facility

Did you know the UN had an anti-torture committee? You’d think that maybe they’d be checking out the handiwork of places like Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, various South American dictatorships, North Korea, Cuba, Libya, and, gee, pre-2003 Iraq. But … Continue reading

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The coming confrontation?

For now I’m going to persist in my illusion that Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama are not headed for a major showdown next week when they meet. Steve Rosen wrote: The commentariat and the blogs are full of predictions that … Continue reading

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The enema remedy – doing quite well, thank you

Since then, as that ancient Jewish story tells, each time when a Pharaoh gets sick, Jews get the enema. Sorry about that annoying habit of quoting own posts, but the quote is not mine, so… Anyhow, this time it applies … Continue reading

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Two state confusion

Tony Karon writes this bit of inanity in his survey of President Obama’s foreign policy challenges: Unlike Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is fully committed to the two-state solution being championed by the Obama Administration. The problem, however, is … Continue reading

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When Bibi meets Barack

I don’t doubt that Prime Minister Netanyahu will have a major challenge next week when he meets with President Obama. But the chances for his success are not insurmountable. The problems he goes in with are that the President has … Continue reading

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An agenda for J-Street

Short New York Times editorial: When PM Netanyahu visits with President Obama, Netanyahu ought to listen to his superior and faithfully do all that the President, in his infinite wisdom, asks him to do. The NYT has a perfectly obnoxious … Continue reading

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National brotherhood week

Back in March 2000, Pope John Paul visited Israel and held an interfaith meeting. After then Chief Rabbi Lau spoke and caused a bit of an uproar by claiming that the Pope had recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Then Sheikh … Continue reading

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What to look for

Like I did the other day, Jennifer Rubin wonders about the administration’s welcome realism about Syria contrasted with its apparent disregard for Israel. Regarding Israel she writes: There are, it seems, two possible ways to read this. The first is … Continue reading

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Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival

The newest edition of Haveil Havalim, the Best of The Jewish/Israeli blogosphere blog carnival is now live. You can find it here.

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Monster Meshal

Earlier this week Khaled Meshal a leader of Hamas gave an interview to the New York Times. There have been a number of commentaries written about the interview. Now Charles Krauthammer weighs in. Just as Jonathan Tobin noted the other … Continue reading

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Papal bull

There’s been a lot of commentary about the Pope’s upcoming visit to the Middle East. The Pope has refused to be used for Palestinian propaganda. And the NY Times reports that while he’s in the Middle East he’ll be talking … Continue reading

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