Category Archives: Israel

Monday morning briefs

Think the AP will cover this? Egypt is pumping water into smuggling tunnels, without caring if there are people in them. Imagine the world outcry if Israel did this. Double standards? Yeah, we got that. Oh, and the AP thought … Continue reading

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Sunday briefs

The era of entitlement: A high school girl was removed from classes after violating the school’s policy on hair coloring (natural colors only). Her mother says that she refuses to change her daughter’s pink and purple hair and will be … Continue reading

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Well isn’t that interesting…

Update: The story is based on a joke that was not interpreted as such. Chuck Hagel reportedly got funding from a group calling itself “Friends of Hamas“. Breitbart has apparently broken the story. Wouldn’t that be illegal, as Hamas is … Continue reading

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Thursday briefs

You know where you can stick your missiles: Turkey’s Defense Minister says that the Patriot missiles installed there–at Turkey’s request, to guard against Syrian missiles–are really there to help Israel against Iranian missiles. Fine. I say withdraw all U.S. support … Continue reading

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The “armed wing” excuse strikes again

Bulgaria released a report proving without doubt that Hezbollah was behind the bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian. The EU will not be naming Hezbollah as a terrorist organzation, and here’s why: On Tuesday, Bulgaria’s … Continue reading

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The gatekeepers of what is news

The hypocrisy and double standards of the major news organizations are so obvious, one almost doesn’t need to point them out. Almost. Here are things that are given wall-to-wall coverage, op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles … Continue reading

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Monday briefs

Let’s you and him fight: Turkey’s Islamist prime minister is yelling at Syria for not attacking Israel in response to Israel flattening a biological weapons lab and taking out advanced anti-aircraft missiles headed to Lebanon. Some reports are also saying … Continue reading

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“Any support of Israel is hate speech”

The title quote of this post is from this video, at about 19:30. The rest of it is long, boring, and typical sophomoric “analysis” by college students of what is wrong with Zionists and Zionism, filled with words like “oppression” … Continue reading

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Friday briefs

How’m I doing? Ed Koch, a New York Jewish icon, died this morning. The liberal world cast him out because he endorsed George W. Bush in 2004, but it’s one of the things that made me respect him even more–the … Continue reading

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Briefs that make you go hmmm

Probably rhymes with WMD: Israel bombed something inside Syria–a weapons convoy heading to Lebanon. Good for Israel! Now do it again, and again, until Syria stops arming Lebanon. And since Israel is still technically at war with both nations, what … Continue reading

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Friday briefs

Countdown to the end of the oil weapon: Australia is joining the club of nations who can supply themselves and others with oil. A huge shale oil deposit was found in the south. Israel, Cyprus, Australia, America, Canada–pretty soon, the … Continue reading

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The Israeli election double standard

The U.K.’s foreign secretary has once again opened his mouth, and out came the dire “last chance” warning that we’ve been hearing about Israel for, oh, a couple of years now. (It’s apparently a really long-term last chance.) Britain said … Continue reading

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So, the Israeli election

Yes, Bibi won, and yes, the media has egg on its collective face. All those scary, scary stories about how Israel was turning to the extreme right, and who wins the second biggest number of seats? A center-left, secular party. … Continue reading

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Hamas to media: Visiting the Western Wall is a “provocation”

But really, they’re moderating. Israel just needs to withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines and Hamas will be all happy and everything will be great. Except it won’t. A spokesman for Hamas said that a visit to the Kotel–the retaining … Continue reading

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MLK Day briefs

No work for you? Yeah, that’s because you’re not part-time with no holidays or benefits. Al-Qaeda isn’t quite dead yet: The WaPo on how Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is the hottest Jihadi group on the block now that the … Continue reading

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