Category Archives: Israel

Crude, homemade rockets score three hits in one week

The “crude, homemade rockets” launched by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza nearly every day have wounded three Israelis in three separate incidents this week, including one today that wounded a two-year-old child. A rocket fired by Palestinian terror groups from northern … Continue reading

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Hamas to Israel: It’s Jihad time

The Reuters coverage of the Hamas rally is different from the AP coverage in several ways. Reuters uses the Hamas crowd estimate (insert eyeroll here), and puts in far more harsh quotes than the AP editors. The lede also more … Continue reading

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The anti-checkpoint juggernaut revs up

The post-Annapolis crush toward forcing Israel to lift checkpoints is

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An Olympic question

Treppenwitz recently wondered if Munich was an appropriate venue for the 2018 Winter games given the city’s unfortunate past when it had hosted the Olympics. A recent article in OpinionJournal told of Qatar’s Olympic bid. In the whole article not … Continue reading

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Lebanese general killed

Snapped Shot informs us Wow, so yesterday’s concussion grenade was not anything major, but it was followed up by a major car bombing in a different part of town, an event that took the life of one of Lebanon’s most … Continue reading

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E-yenta

Rabbi Weber wants to encourage Jews to marry Jews. Rabbi Donald Weber is far from the first rabbi to call for single Jews in his congregation to marry other Jews.Such pulpit calls have become commonplace in an age of high … Continue reading

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Palestinian terrorists aiming for farmers now

Not content with trying to murder schoolchildren with “crude, homemade rockets,” the Palestinian thugs are trying to kill farmers in the field now. These are the attacks you never read about in the AP or Reuters reports. All you read … Continue reading

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North Korea, Iran, Syria: Axis of Evil

The new Axis of Evil carries on. The Dear Leader isn’t satisfied with just starving and murdering his own people. He’s working on making sure he helps murder Israelis as well. This is on top of supplying Syria with nukes. … Continue reading

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Nose, face, slice

Earlier this week, the UN passed a resolution introduced by Israel. In a historic first, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted an Israeli-initiated resolution on working matters. The resolution deals with agricultural technology for development, a relatively … Continue reading

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Israel is fighting the next war

I’ve been saying for some time now that the IDF has learned many lessons from the Lebanon war of 2006, and that Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran have not. Here’s what amounts to a throwaway graf at the end of … Continue reading

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The peace talks in “discord”—because of Israel, mostly

The world media spins against Israel yet again. And of course, here’s how it works. A barrage of rockets into Israel on the morning of the peace talks comes fifteen paragraphs into the main AP story released a few minutes … Continue reading

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Familar unproductive editorial

The editors of the NYT are all for Starting the peace process Israelis and Palestinians are supposed to begin serious negotiations tomorrow after last month’s long-on-optics, short-on-specifics Annapolis peace meeting. Despite all the smiles and handshakes, both sides went home … Continue reading

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Ehud Barak says…

According to an article from JP: A large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip has dropped to the back burner in recent days after an assessment within the defense establishment found that the daily border raids the IDF has been conducting … Continue reading

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The long Palestinian money trail

Boker Tov Boulder (as noted by Jewish Current Issues, Noah Pollak at the Corner, Mere Rhetoric and Daled Amos) collected a series of news items documenting what has been pledged to the PA over the past 3 years. It’s quite … Continue reading

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The Israel-is-stealing-Christmas story season is upon us

Yes, Virginia, there is an anti-Israel bias, and this is the time of year that it becomes the most virulent. Let us take note of two amazing events in the beginning of the “Israel would make the Baby Jesus cry” … Continue reading

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