Category Archives: Israel

N or c?

The Times of London purports to report on the details of the Israeli raid into Syria including a new “detail” that Israel seized some nuclear material. But as Hot Air and Israel Matzav point out, the reporter has been known … Continue reading

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More on the Gaza “hostile territory” designation

The Jerusalem Post says the designation of Gaza as a hostile entity is a prelude towards dumping responsibility for Gaza back to Egypt—who, I’m sure, doesn’t want the responsibility. I wonder how that’s going to go over. A day after … Continue reading

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A big hole in the desert (and in the story)

It’s been a bit disquieting to read the newspapers lately. Something big is possibly happening and little if any reporting is being done about it. Until yesterday. Yesterday’s Washington Post ran an editorial Shock Waves from Syria: Media accounts are … Continue reading

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Faces of evil

Dara Mandle in Contentions Today, the New York Times makes available photographs obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the other side of Auschwitz: not the familiar images of starving prisoners, but new shots of vivacious German officers. … Continue reading

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A whole lot of listenin’ goin’ on

The spy ships are busy, busy, busy in Israel lately. Espionage ships and aircraft have been causing disturbances in satellite company Yes’ broadcasts, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported Thursday. “The disturbances began on September 6, on the day Damascus announced that … Continue reading

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Score one for the IDF

Hamas and the PFLP have been working triple overtime to murder innocent men, women, and children, preferably in a shopping mall or on a bus. The IDF has been racing against the clock trying to get one specific terror cell … Continue reading

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Jimmy Carter: Iran is no threat to Israel

Well, that’s great news. Israel can forget about incidents like this one in Syria, with Iranian engineers. Israel can also forget about Iranian-funded Hezbollah missiles. Jimmy Carter has spoken. Former President Jimmy Carter said that he does not think Iran … Continue reading

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Specifics of peace

Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler’s U.S. Faces a Middle East Hungry for Peace Specifics is pretty standard fare. The Bush administration has so far failed to generate serious traction behind its latest Middle East peace effort, with the opening session … Continue reading

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Israel ups the ante against Hamas

Israel has declared Gaza a “hostile entity.” One might be tempted to call that a keen grasp of the obvious. One might be right. The security cabinet voted on Wednesday to declare the Gaza Strip a hostile political entity. The … Continue reading

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Democracy, whiskey, sexy

but not in Gaza For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer … Continue reading

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Olmert must go

Syria hosts the exiled head of Hamas, and has done so for years. Syria arms Israel’s enemies in Lebanon, and has done that for years. Syria regularly holds what is, in effect, conventions of terrorists so that they may plot … Continue reading

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Israel, Iran, and North Korea

Israel’s satellite technology is about to get even better. In a unique flight scheduled for liftoff from India Sept. 17-20, Israel’s first “Polaris/TecSat” military imaging radar satellite is to be launched along with India’s first military recon spacecraft. They will … Continue reading

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Detering the deterrers

On September 9, 2003 16 people and more than 80 were wounded in two suicide bombings in Israel. Sept 9, 2003 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post … Continue reading

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Egyptians shoot refugee in back, world yawns

Once again, Egpytian border guards have murdered an African refugee. And once again, the world utterly ignores it. Egyptian border guards shot dead an Eritrean man trying to cross the border into Israel, Egyptian police sources said on Monday. The … Continue reading

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1 to 600 ratio

1 to 600 would be the ratio of Israeli missiles to Iranian missiles needed to win a war between the two. Iran says it has 600 Shihab-3 missiles aimed and primed to hit Israel if either Iran or Syria is … Continue reading

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