Category Archives: Israel

Shire Network News is up

The podcast is up, complete with my contribution. As Tom wrote: Shire Network News, the Anglosphere’s premier anti-Jihadi podcast is back, and this week we take a uniquely personal look at how one person has decided to take action. Reut … Continue reading

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An Annapolis quid pro quo?

For the last few months, we’ve been reading article after article about what is coming to be known as the Annapolis folly: The conference where nothing will be accomplished, where the U.S. knows that going in, and where the futility … Continue reading

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The fallout from Annapolis

The conference hasn’t even begun, and Hamas is already threatening more terrorist attacks after it’s over. Hamas will step up attacks against Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after a US-hosted peace conference next week, an … Continue reading

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Legacy of legacies

The administration was winding down. It wanted to make its mark on history. A legacy. What better legacy could there be than peace in the Middle East? And so the adminstration worked to make it happen. Shultz Expects Some Progress … Continue reading

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The Annapolis farce force

The Annapolis farce will continue, now with the Golan Heights on the agenda. Let us remember that Israel just bombed a nascent Syrian nuclear plant in the desert, and yet, Syria is the nation that gets to set the demands … Continue reading

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The futility of confidence building measures

In an innocuously title article, Israel Allows Some Gaza Exports, Isabel Kershner of the NY Times reported: Israel has approved the transfer of 25 armored personnel carriers from Russia to the Palestinian Authority and will allow the export of some … Continue reading

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Disorder in the (Israeli) courts

Isabel Kershner writes about the current controversy over Israeli’s judicial system in Friends’ Clash Reflects Battle Over Israeli Court In recent days, Aharon Barak, the internationally esteemed jurist and retired chief justice of Israel, has broken a self-imposed silence and … Continue reading

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All your radar are belong to us

Part of the Israeli attack on Syria included first taking out—via old-fashioned bombing—a critical radar station. And the U.S. helped. The first event in the raid involved Israel’s strike aircraft flying into Syria without alerting Syrian air defenses. The ultimate … Continue reading

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Surprised George and The Bomb

This picture summarizes for me the image of George Monbiot: in essence – a surprised imbecile. The picture, by the way, comes from a BBC article, so it could not be labeled an Elders’ Photoshop job. His new article in … Continue reading

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Israel turns the tables on the ICC

Israel is now using the ICC in ways, I’m sure, the UN never thought possible. Israeli organizations are bringing suit against Hamas for murdering Israeli citizens. ZAKA, a volunteer organization committed to the recovery and identification of human remains, in … Continue reading

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Votes in the Middle East

Voters are headed to the polls in Jordan. Tuesday’s elections for the 110 seats in the lower house are marked by rising expressions of cynicism from among the country’s 2.4 million voters, and from political analysts. Eighteen years after Jordan’s … Continue reading

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Another take on nuclear Iran

Jonathan Spyer in his article An Increasing Possibility: It is not only the scenario of an Iranian nuclear attack that is focusing concerns. Rather, there is concern that a nuclear Iran would use the “immunity” purchased by a nuclear capability … Continue reading

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Muslim street smarts

James Kirchik in the LA Times writes Don’t bow to the ‘Muslim Street’ America’s firebombing of Dresden during World War II surely “angered” many Germans, and our bombing of Belgrade during the Kosovo war perturbed Serbians. Did the fact that … Continue reading

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UN-helpful

Yesterday there was a conference, “Hijacking Human Rights: The Demonization of Israel by the United Nations,” in New York. The Jerusalem Post reported with a headline so obvious, it’s almost funny, US conference: UN biased against Israel. The less obvious … Continue reading

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Hi-tech Israel

AOL, which, in 1998, bought the Israeli company, Mirabilis (ICQ), is buying Israeli again. When US Internet giant America Online wants to go shopping for new Internet technologies, it heads to Israel. In less than a week, the Time Warner … Continue reading

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