Category Archives: Israel

Saudi king insults everyone’s intelligence in Britain

Saudi King Abdullah spoke to the BBC before his trip to Britain and made some amazingly hypocritical statements. Of course, the Beeb couldn’t be expected to call him on them, as the formerly great kingdom submits to the current Kingdom, … Continue reading

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Qassams and rights

Rights groups challenge Gaza energy cuts Human rights groups challenged Israel’s reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza and its intention to cut back on electricity, and Palestinians warned the measures could lead to a humanitarian crisis.The Israeli Supreme Court on … Continue reading

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And we shall… investigate

Meryl just mentioned “The lack of world condemnation of the Israeli raid on an nascent Syrian nuclear plant…“, and here it comes: Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information … Continue reading

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Another day, another “protection racket” threat by Fatah

Fatah has a real good racket going on – they do the Mafia-style “threats” and no one calls them on it: The top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), warned on Sunday that the region would suffer … Continue reading

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Apologists

In The Attempt to Kill Olmert, Barry Rubin writes Several Fatah security force officers assigned to protect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he went to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, it has just been revealed, planned … Continue reading

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Headlines of the week

Abbas, Olmert pledge ‘meaningful’ understandings Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas agreed on Friday to try to find a meaningful agreement to take to a planned Middle East meeting, an Israeli official said.”They agreed to try … Continue reading

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Haveil Havalim #138 is UP!

At Soccer Dad. The topics are: Blogging Antisemitism Culture History Israel The Rabin Assassination Judaism Politics Torah Kiruv Next week’s hostess is Mother in Israel. To submit a post for next week, click here. Deadline for submissions is Friday.

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Palestinians paying the piper

And about damned time. Of course, we can’t discount this being the usual Palestinian spokesliar propaganda. A senior Palestinian official said Israel dramatically reduced fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip on Sunday after threatening to impose sanctions in response to … Continue reading

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Democratically-elected govt. of Palestinians attacks Israeli civilians

In other nations, when the elected government of a nation takes responsibility for an armed attack on another nation’s soldiers, it’s called a war. But this is Israel, where none of the regular rules apply. Hamas took responsibility on Friday … Continue reading

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Rabbi Kanefsky’s plea to put Jerusalem on the table

A modern Orthodox rabbi from Los Angeles has published an essay in the Jewish Journal saying his reasons why Jerusalem should be negotiated. In order not to take any of his comments out of context I will print the entire … Continue reading

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Iranian sanctions

The Washington Post about the sanctions against the Revolutionary guards: “The president does not want to be stuck — and doesn’t want his successor to be stuck — between two bad choices: living with an Iranian nuclear weapon or using … Continue reading

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Am ha-aretz-ut

There was a typically arrogant column in Ha’aretz earlier this week, Nimrodi’s Test by one Ehud Asheri. It’s about the change in leadership at the helm of the competing daily, Ma’ariv. Ofer Nimrodi, owner of the mass-circulation daily newspaper Ma’ariv, … Continue reading

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Wiped clean

via memeorandum The New York Times reports that – commercially available – satellite photographs confirm what the Washington Post reported a few days ago: Syria has cleaned up the target of Israel’s September raid. “It’s a magic act — here … Continue reading

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Israel may dump CNN

Israel’s main cable provider may drop CNN from their menu. With negotiations over a new contract at a stalemate, Israel’s largest cable provider is set to bump CNN from its program roster at the end of the month. The news … Continue reading

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Spoiling for a fight

According to the NY Times the United States is prepared to declare the Quds unit of Iran’s Revolutionary guards a terrorist organization. The administration also plans to accuse the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the … Continue reading

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