Category Archives: Israel

Killing terrorists is an obstacle to peace

The AP doesn’t use quite the langue of this post title, but it’s close enough: Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas militants in an early-morning raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, the Israeli military and Hamas … Continue reading

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Late Thursday briefs

Awesome! Lebanon screws itself by mapping its borders: The Lebanese are trying to steal the gas fields that Israel discovered, so they’re defining the maritime borders between Israel and Lebanon—and giving Israel more territory than previous claimed. Those wily Zionists! … Continue reading

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Hezbollah in passive voice

Many of us have noted that since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Hezbollah has rearmed in violation of UN Security Council resolution. I always wondered when the MSM would catch up with the story. Today the New York … Continue reading

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NYT: peace process failing despite the great work of the administration

Contrary to the upbeat assessment of the Washington Post, Mark Landler of the New York Times can’t figure out why the Middle East peace process isn’t going smoothly. In Risks and Advantages in U.S. Effort in Mideast, Landler begins: When … Continue reading

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AP anti-Israel bias: Today, WITHOUT the editorializing

The AP updated its mosque arson story—without editorializing. Amazingly, there are reporters at the AP (who are not named Mohammed Daraghmeh) that can report the Israeli condemnations of the mosque arson without adding an anti-Israel spin to the reasons behind … Continue reading

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The dancing IDF soldier, BBC, CNN, FFS – and YOU

This post is not about the dancing Israeli nincompoop of a soldier, nor about BBC or CNN or even FFS. It’s about you. But to define “you”, we’ll have to peruse the two following exhibits. Which are simply lists of … Continue reading

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Absolving Arafat; ten years later

In her thoroughly dishonest valedictory as New York Times correspondent from Israel, And yet so far, Deborah Sontag wrote: In the tumble of the all-consuming violence, much has not been revealed or examined. Rather, a potent, simplistic narrative has taken … Continue reading

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Your Tuesday Israel snark briefs

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye: Israel deported the viciously anti-Israel “Nobel laureate” (as the AP continually reminds us) Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Of course, the IRA is still blowing stuff up, but hey, she won … Continue reading

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Your daily dose of anti-Israel bias

Get a load of this one from the AP. They’re not even trying to hide the anti-Israel editorializing anymore. Arsonists torched a mosque in a West Bank village Monday, scrawling “revenge” on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of … Continue reading

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Israel denial in the Washington Post

I love the opening paragraphs of Glenn Kessler’s Defining ‘Jewish state’: For many, term has different meanings Nine years ago, then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell delivered a speech on the Middle East in which he briefly called on Palestinians … Continue reading

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Freezing the Peace Process

Having spent most of the past year dealing with intransigence from the Palestinian side caused by a demand made in his Cairo speech that Israel halt construction in “settlements” and then suffering from damage from the fallout from the Ides … Continue reading

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Monday briefly

I’m not an analyst, nor do I play one on TV, BUT: It seems to me that if the Taliban hits NATO convoys four times after Pakistan shut down a key border crossing, the Taliban is doing this with the … Continue reading

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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At Raceway Snarks!

We want the fox to guard the henhouse, too: Syria wants Turkey to mediate any new indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel. Said an Israeli spokesman: My, Grandma—what big teeth you have! The anti-Israel media bias in bloom: When … Continue reading

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Saturday quick snarks

Yeah, but are they going to allow human sacrifice? The Brits are officially recognizing Druidry (apparently, that’s what you call it) as a religion. Pardon me while I snicker. The Obama Effect:The Palestinians are done with direct negotiatons. This would … Continue reading

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Friday briefs, now with more snark!

Oooh, I hope it’s true: Hezbollah is accusing Egypt and Jordan of arming its rivals. Hey, build up those opponents! If they’re busy fighting each other, they won’t have time to murder Israeli soldiers supervising the pruning of trees. Norway … Continue reading

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