Category Archives: Israel

Water out of thin air

There’s the high tech way of doing it. The technology, Bar tells ISRAEL21c, works in three steps: first is the absorption of air’s humidity, then the removal of water from a solid desiccant (silica based gel granules) which holds the … Continue reading

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Law and terror

I’ve blogged about this incident before: On Sept. 6, Yaalon felt heavy, not happy, when the prime minister favored his recommendation over Dichter’s: Mission aborted. Sharon called off the strike to decapitate Hamas, Yaalon said, because Sharon demanded “no civilian … Continue reading

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EoZ, Roger Cohen smackdown

Emanuele Ottolenghi and Noah Pollak have already responded to Roger Cohen’s Try Tough Love Hillary. Cohen argues that peace – that is necessary for Israel – can only be achieved if Israel cedes all the land demanded by the Arab … Continue reading

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Israel breaks the truce by responding to constant rocket fire

Hamas continues its war of attrition against southern Israel. Here’s the tally for the last few days: Several mortar shells landed Tuesday noon near the Kerem Shalom border crossing in southern Gaza. No injuries or damage were reported in the … Continue reading

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Cooties

In Hostages to fear, Janet Albrechtsen writes: That said, no one imagines Israel is free from fault. But its Government is not creating civil institutions that preach hatred and violence. By contrast, an entire generation of Palestinian children is being … Continue reading

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The Gaza blockade: Yes, that means Libya, too

Libya tried to send “humanitarian supplies” through the Gaza naval blockade. Israel was having none of it. A Libyan ship trying to deliver aid to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday turned back in the face of an Israeli naval … Continue reading

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Hamas humanitarian crises

A few weeks ago Hamas engineered a blackout of Gaza, apparently for propaganda purposes. Now its latest stunt is to deny pilgrims from going on Hajj to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia sets quotas to different regions for the number of … Continue reading

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Gaza operation imminent?

This time, it’s not a badly-sourced bunch of rumors from a discredited journalist. This time, there’s a mortar attack from Hamas to respond to, and an Israeli soldier who has lost his leg due to the attack. But it’s starting … Continue reading

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Flaunting it

Back in 1988, Commentary magazine had a symposium of intellectuals discussing Israel. One of the contributors, Edward Rothstein, observed that when he drove by Judea and Samaria he was amazed by the number of TV antennas shaped like the Eiffel … Continue reading

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A little less talk, a little more action

Remember the warnings of Hamas, diplomats and self-styled experts? The wisest policy would be to refrain from any intervention and leave Hamas and the Palestinian people alone. If Hamas’ failure is self-inflicted democracy will live on and the people of … Continue reading

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The Miller’s tale (again)

Coming off of his triumphant op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, Aaron David Miller who has successfully participated in getting the Israelis and Palestinians come to agreements and have those agreements violated by the Palestinians, does a curtain call with a … Continue reading

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The press mess, McGirk quirk and the Nissenbaum shuffle

I really could do without the sanctimony. Dion Nissenbaum writes about Israel’s closure of the Gaza Strip to reporters. This week, after filing a letter of protest, the Foreign Press Association (of which Mc Clatchy Newspapers is a par t) … Continue reading

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Ehud Olmert: Hey, I’m still going to force my agenda down Israel’s throat

Ehud Olmert must think he’s the king of Israel. Because he’s trying to give away the farm without any kind of mandate, or even public backing. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made clear on Tuesday once again that he still has … Continue reading

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Asking the arsonist to put out the fire

Israel’s foreign minister has asked the UN to take a stand against the continued rocket fire from Gaza. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni demanded in a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday that the world stop … Continue reading

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Iran’s blogfather arrested

Abraham Rabinovich writes: What surprised me about Hossein Derakhshan when I interviewed him in a café on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street two years ago was that the self-exiled Iranian, who was arrested this month during a visit to Tehran on … Continue reading

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