Category Archives: Israel

I do not think that word means what you think it means

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one of Iran’s proxy arms, held a victory rally in Gaza today. Yes, really. Thousands of Islamic Jihad sympathizers participated in the group’s victory rally celebrating the end of the current round of violence against Israel on … Continue reading

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When is a truce not a truce? When it concerns Israel

A truce was declared, so naturally PIJ launched more rockets and Israel withheld fire. That’s a truce in the Arab world: They get to continue to try to kill Israelis, and Israel doesn’t react. This is also, of course, a … Continue reading

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Monday briefs, rocket attack version

The IDF is learning: This time around, the IDF is immediately releasing videos of terrorists shooting rockets and drones hitting weapons warehouse. I don’t know why I can’t see the video on Ynet, though, as I don’t know what the … Continue reading

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Media bias as the rockets fall on Israel? Yeah, we got that

There’s so very much material, one hardly knows where to start. The Guardian: At least 15 killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 15 people in an escalation of … Continue reading

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Israel under fire from Gaza

The IDF took out some major terrorists, including some that were released in the prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit. The result? Southern Israel under heavy fire: Four people were wounded after a rocket exploded in southern Israel’s Eshkol region Friday … Continue reading

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Friday briefs, with extra media bias thrown in

The narrative: The Ynet version of an attack on an IDF medic, and the AP version of what happened. Strangely enough, the AP version has a witness saying the Palestinian who was killed was not taking part in the attack, … Continue reading

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The Exception Clause, Part 2

Longtime readers know that The Exception Clause on this blog consists of the words “except for Israel” added to situations that every other nation is allowed. One example would be that all nations have the right to retaliate when being … Continue reading

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Wednesday news roundup

And yet, in every generation, another enemy tries to destroy us: Marc Tracy in The Tablet on why Iran isn’t Haman, and how the world isn’t trying to destroy Israel. That’s a false choice, though. The whole world isn’t trying. … Continue reading

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The always objective AP and Israel

Say, AP, bias much? Once again, the AP uses extremely biased language to slant a story as anti-Israel as possible. Here’s the Ynet description of what happened at yet another Palestinian “protest” (Ynet called it what it was, a “violent … Continue reading

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Monday snowy briefs

Really? Snow in Richmond? Really? This is why they pay such a high price for hostages: A cadet in Israel went AWOL over the weekend, but nobody knew why he was missing at first. The entire country mobilized to find … Continue reading

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Yeah, not feeling too confident about Iran

Nope. Not after Obama’s speech. There is no shortage of speeches on the friendship between the United States and Israel. But I’m also mindful of the proverb, “A man is judged by his deeds, not his words.” So if you … Continue reading

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Thursday briefs

Racist, apartheid state appoints Ethiopan Jew ambassador: Yes, those horrible, awful, apartheid racist Israelis did it again. They defied the narrative and made an Ethiopian Jew an officer of the state. Oh, but wait–this doesn’t impact the narrative at all, … Continue reading

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What if you invited a terror supporter to speak and nobody came?

Really? A crowd of about 30 people? That’s all Azzam Tamimi could draw? Hamas supporters just ain’t the crowd-pleasers they used to be. Oh, and they banned a pro-Israel blogger from the event. Because it’s all about freedom of speech, … Continue reading

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Tom Friedman and the Jewish lobby libel

Buried deep inside Tom Friedman’s latest column are these words: In Egypt, every day it becomes clearer that the Army has used the Tahrir uprising to get rid of its main long-term rival for succession — President Hosni Mubarak’s more … Continue reading

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Wednesday briefs

An unnamed source said it in a stolen email, so it must be true: My bullshit detector is pinging at Over-the-top on this story that Russia and Israel exchanged missile and drone codes. Really, Stratfor was a bit of a … Continue reading

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