Category Archives: Israel

Red Cross ambulance driver killed, world yawns

During the Hezbullah war, a Red Cross ambulance was supposedly fired on by Israel, and headlines race around the world, causing hundreds of fraudulent news stories, what with the ambulance having never been hit by IDF missiles. But the world … Continue reading

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Movement on Gilad Shalit

Hamas is supposedly near a deal that will release Cpl. Gilad Shalit. Ha’aretz blames Israel for holding up the deal. GAZA – A source involved in negotiations for the release of soldier Gilad Shalit told Haaretz that Israel was the … Continue reading

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Picking up the spare

If you didn’t read all of the article at AFP whining about the IDf shooting Palestinians while Mahmoud Abbas clutches Kofi Annan’s skirt and begs, you’d have missed this good news: In the occupied West Bank, Hossam Jaradat, the head … Continue reading

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Briefly

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Walt and Mearsheimer: Wrong again

Gee, Mearsheimer, looks like you were wrong about American attitudes on Israel—again: Americans like Israel even more since the war with Hizbullah. What a surprise—I thought W&M said Americans were siding with the terrorists. I guess they must have lied … Continue reading

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Now this trick does it for me

I have belonged to the relatively small fraction of Israeli public opinion that believed in an independent commission of inquiry into the Lebanon war. Such a commission would have had a full authority to delve into any and all matters … Continue reading

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Walt, Mearsheimer, and CAIR: All that’s missing are Mel Gibson and Jimmy Carter

The reviews are in: W&M are still spreading vague charges with no evidence to back them up, and accusing Jews of controlling America. Funny, as I recall, it was American controlling Israel during the Hezbullah war (and after, and before), … Continue reading

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A letter to Jimmy Carter

Jimmy the Jew-hater gets lectured by Ari Fleischer Continue reading

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Be somewhere else

Yet another person who claims to be pro-Israel appears in my comments threads with yet another “I’m a friend of Israel, BUT” and then goes on to ask us to defend Israel against yet another charge of harming the poor, … Continue reading

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The Nasrallah interview: Some thoughts

The big news hitting the airwaves over the weekend was Hassan Nasrallah’s interview with a Lebanese news station in which he said he wouldn’t have approved the operation that murdered and kidnapped Israeli soldiers had he known the Israeli response … Continue reading

Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Lebanon | 4 Comments

Blood or knowledge?

I have just stumbled on a post by Picow in One Jerusalem that is positively demanding of the “three stooges” (Olmert, Peretz and Halutz) to quit. It is not that this is a new revolutionary approach, but the vehemence of … Continue reading

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The Merkava question

I found statistics on how many Merkavas took damage during the war: Colonel Moti Kidor, Commander of the 401 Armored Corps Brigade, however, says that “those who ask these questions simply don’t understand the field, and unfortunately these include senior … Continue reading

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What’s wrong with this picture?

Media bias against Israel, again Continue reading

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“You can’t have peace if you’re gonna have war”

Jeff Goldstein went undercover to see if people were more amenable to Jew-hatred from the left or the right. It’s an absolutely hilarious video. Doesn’t matter if you like Goldstein or not, he’s wonderful in this. If Jeff would stick … Continue reading

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Stranglehold

Not content to kill Lebanese through the willful use of them as human shields in Hezbollah’s war on Israel, Bashar Assad is now strangling their recovery by cutting off electricity: Syria has cited technical problems for its decision to cut … Continue reading

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