Category Archives: Israel

Disparate columnists notice the anti-Israel trend

Though I already wrote about this, a week and a half ago Thomas Friedman, in Steal this movie wrote: I write about this now because there is something foul in the air. It is a trend, both deliberate and inadvertent, … Continue reading

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Dr David Lowry – a short study in contradictions

I have stumbled on a curious letter to the Guardian, titled Hiroshima, Israel and nuclear tests, signed by Dr David Lowry, former director, European Proliferation Information Center (EPIC). He starts with the background: I visited the exhibition on images of … Continue reading

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Harvard divests .. er .. not so fast

According to Globes: (via memeorandum) In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of … Continue reading

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Elsewhere

Reading material for while I’m working: Bad girl, bad girl: I have two words to say about this graffiti that Bad Rachel (who is now blogrolled) posted: Awe and some. Barack Obama has “abandonded America”: The 9/11 Families reaction to … Continue reading

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Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity is Good for The United States

The Arab League is pushing to end Israel’s nuclear secrecy and demanding that it come under the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear nation. The Obama Administration asked the Arab League NOT to do this because Israel would clearly resist and … Continue reading

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Enjoy Life

Someone sent this to me recently. Admittedly, it probably was not an actual doctor who said this and putting it in the context of an oriental doctor is likely a literary device. I’m sure it is on snopes somewhere. But … Continue reading

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Your Monday morning briefs

I really don’t like Mondays, particularly because I usually make the drive to Company in Northern Virginia, and it’s a damned boring drive. Because not all of you read Instapundit: The Atlantic rounds up the many opinions about Jeff Goldberg’s … Continue reading

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The failed UN peacekeeping in Lebanon

I think the “U” in UNIFIL should really stand for “Useless.” Witness: In an interview with The Associated Press on Mount Adir, a hill overlooking the border, an officer from the military’s Northern Command pointed through the summer haze at … Continue reading

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The sudden twist in Hamas propaganda

Aussie Dave aka Israelly Cool noticed it: The palestinians, their supporters, and those who do not, but should know, better have been portraying Gaza as a concentration camp/prison camp – replete with widespread poverty and starvation. … The proliferation of … Continue reading

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Friday, briefly

Guess the ethnicity gets even better on the updates! Now you just know he’s from Israel, and is a “religious, God-fearing man“. So once again, I’m going to perform a public service: Elias Abuelazzam (Abu al-Azzam) is NOT a Jewish … Continue reading

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Name the ethnicity in the Israeli serial killer story

Have you heard about the Israeli serial killer/stabber who was apprehended this week while boarding a flight to Israel? Is he a Jew? A suspect in a string of 20 stabbings that terrorized people across three states and left five … Continue reading

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Thursday news roundup

The AP notices that Palestinians have more rights in Israel than in Lebanon: It’s a profile of the Lebanese debate about whether to give Palestinians the right to work in the country where they’ve lived (in many cases) all their … Continue reading

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The Point of No Return

Jeffrey Goldberg has a long piece in the Atlantic on whether or not Israel is going to attack Iran’s nukes. Here’s a hint: He thinks it’s going to be in the coming spring. The main question was, is, and continues … Continue reading

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Wednesday sniefs

Please don’t attack the country we’re selling weapons to: The French stopped Israel from launching a large-scale attack to teach Lebanon that there is a price to pay for ambushing and murdering Israeli soldiers. Oh, and the Obama administration sent … Continue reading

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The AP: Back to its normal anti-Israel bias

The AP bias returns: In this article about Lebanon attempting to “reassure” Congress that Hezbullah has nothing at all to do with its army, the AP describes the Lebanese ambush on the IDF as follows: The Congressman Berman said his … Continue reading

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