Category Archives: Israel

Palestinians kills Palestinians, world yawns

So while Abbas and Qurei and various other Palestinian leaders drone on about final status issues, Jerusalem, insisting on moving back to the 1949 Armistice lines (a.k.a. “pre-1967 borders”), UN resolutions, yadda yadda, blah blah blah, ad nauseum, the Palestinians, … Continue reading

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Private anti-terror efforts

Last week Hugh Hewitt wrote about An Astonishing And Sickening Breach Of Trust. A private firm that tracks terrorist movements got a hold of the Osama bin Laden video last month, before its release. It gave two senior officials access … Continue reading

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Condi: “Now is the time to reward terror”

From AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza said Monday it was “time for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” and described Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts as the most serious in years. Let’s see. In the seven years since the last great lame-duck … Continue reading

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Anti-semitic act at the UN? Reporters stay mum.

Steven Edwards in the National Post writes an opinion piece saying that sometimes it is best to ignore racist and bigoted acts because publicizing them plays into the hands of the haters. The example that he brings, of a Jewish/Israeli … Continue reading

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Air of uncertainty

William Arkin will soon be publishing a book about the Israeli-Hezbollah war of last summer. According to the New York Times. the book will be “critical” of Israel. A study of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war commissioned by the United States … Continue reading

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A few notes on Coulter

The Ann Coulter/Donnie Deutsch kerfuffle has elicited a lot of comment in the JBlogosphere, with the battle lines seeming to mostly depend on the political leanings of the specific blogger. Right-leaning Jews tended to defend her, saying that her comments … Continue reading

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Haveil Havalim #136 is UP!

Haveil Havalim #136 is UP! It’s about a NEW grandson NEW blogger NEW season NEW word NEW job And much more and more Ann Coulter than you can shake a stick at.

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The Syria strike: Toldja it was nukes

More evidence is piling up that Israel destroyed a nascent nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert. Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear … Continue reading

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Creative … or delusional?

Earlier this week came the news that a bipartisan group of 8 former government officials were urging the Bush administration to include talks with Syria and Hamas. Joe Klein calls the effort “creative.” The letter (cited here via The Washington … Continue reading

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The British and the Wall

Yisrael Medad points out that the PalArabs are claiming ownership of the Western Wall and notes the claimed basis for this in international law, from a British commission in 1930 that was established in wake of the 1929 Muslim pogroms … Continue reading

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The Israel boycott movement: Dying?

A little background on Ann Arbor and UMich: Ann Arbor is an extremely liberal college town. So when UMich and Ann Arbor liberals vote down a boycott of Israeli products by an overwhelming margin, you have to think that the … Continue reading

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The meaning of confidence building gestures

As a goodwill gesture to Mahmoud Abbas Israel will allow 3500 illegal Palesitnian immigrants to stay. In a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel will grant residency permits to 3,500 Palestinians who have been living illegally in the occupied … Continue reading

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Another Walt/Mearsheimer lie

From JPost, on a W/M talk at MIT: “A critically important issue when talking about America’s terrorism problem is the matter of how US support for Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians relates to what happened on September 11,” said … Continue reading

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Tunnel collapse in Gaza – another mega-attack thwarted?

From Ma’an: Gaza – Ma’an – A tunnel collapsed in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring a number of people. The casualties are believed to have suffocated in the incident, according to Mu’awiya Hassanain, … Continue reading

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We are looking for nuclear wessels

Nothing to see here. Move on. With revelations suggesting that Israel struck a nuclear facility, Syria eager to keep ts good name and reputation intact has invited journalists to see that nothing happened. Foreign journalists perused the rows of corn … Continue reading

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