Category Archives: Israel

Respecting our religion

The Muslims in and around Israel showed the famous Muslim respect for other religions, in only the way they can. First, Syria has moved thousands of soldiers to its border with Lebanon. So it’s no surprise that the IDF scrambled … Continue reading

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Interesting AP note

On the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, I can find only one AP story referring to it: The one about the Israeli version of “Big Brother” shutting down for the holiday. I have found … Continue reading

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A Yom Kippur story

Read this and ponder it on the eve of our Day of Atonement, the day where we think about who we are, what we’ve done, and how we can improve ourselves for the next year. A 12-year-old Iranian boy suffering … Continue reading

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Another crisis not of Israel’s making

Yes we’ve heard of the terrible siege that Israel has laid against Gaza. Mere Rhetoric catalogues all of the charges against Israel and shows them to be bogus. The latest to fall is how Israel’s blockade harmed the sick and … Continue reading

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Abbas at the abyss

Secretary Rice is apparently planning to celebrate the first anniversary of the Annapolis summit with – another summit. Shmuel Rosner describes this proposed summit as maintenance as opposed to a desperate, ill fated and misguided attempt (like Taba in 2001) … Continue reading

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Down on J-Street

via memeorandum A recent pro-Obama video has some of the Israeli officials who appeared in it upset, for they feel that it misrepresented their views. Former head of the Mossad Ephraim Halevy and former IDF deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. … Continue reading

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The Hamas putsch continues

See if you can find the most interesting viewpoint in this article. Yes, you’ll have to read it through first. But here’s the basics: The AP is detailing how Hamas will refuse to recognize a change to the Palestinina Basic … Continue reading

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Breaking news from Gaza

The masked Arab youth opened his hand slowly to expose two bullets. “These are waiting for anyone who harms our leaders,” he said, his eyes staring at the shells. The 19-year-old youth is a member of al-Kassam, a secret military … Continue reading

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A 16 year old lie

In an editorial, the Washington Post writes: AFTER ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was voted out of office in 1992, he gave an interview in which he revealed he had never been serious about peace negotiations with the Palestinians. His … Continue reading

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Olmert to Russians: Please don’t sell weapons to our enemies

Olmert is going to beg the Russians to stop doing what they’ve done for, oh, fifty, sixty years now: Sell weapons to Israel’s enemies. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, traveling to Russia this week on one of his last diplomatic missions, … Continue reading

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Israel to buy American planes

The Wall Street Journal reports that Israel is planning to buy up to 75 American fighter planes: The Defense Department formally notified Congress that it wants to sell Israel as many as 75 of the latest-model fighter jet, which is … Continue reading

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Ronit Lentin and poetic license of the feeble-minded

I shall never stop envying people educated and gainfully employed in one of the modern vaguely defined “sciences”. Like the case of learned Dr Lentin here: Dr Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa prior to the establishment of the State … Continue reading

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Warping your religion

MEMRI’s enemies keeps on accusing the organization of cherry-picking quotes, or pulling them out of context. I’d like to know what MEMRI’s enemies can possibly say to excuse this excrescence, who has managed to both steal and warp one of … Continue reading

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Mahmoud’s awesome, very good week

So a party that advocates the lifting of restrictions of Nazi symbols has won a significant victory in Austrian elections. (h/t LGF) No doubt Austria will now be shunned internationally – and rightly so – just as it was a … Continue reading

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Ehud Olmert and the disregarded doctrines

Some background first. From the The Winograd Commission report: a. The Prime Minister bears supreme and comprehensive responsibility for the decisions of ‘his’ government and the operations of the army. His responsibility for the failures in the initial decisions concerning … Continue reading

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