Category Archives: Media

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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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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The UN Anti-Israel Committee

The UNHCR has endorsed its one-sided report in which it refuses to use video evidence because it was “edited” by Israel, but it relies on eyewitness reports even while noting that those reports are untrue. The U.N. Human Rights Council … Continue reading

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It’s always OK to bash Israel

On the subject of Bill Clinton’s remarks on Russian immigrants in Israel being an obstacle to peace, we find that a generalization is neither sweeping nor wrong when you apply it to Israel (read: Jews). The Telegraph, quoting unnamed “observers”: … Continue reading

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The news that Time forgot … part IX

In response to the Time magazine article, Barry Rubin wrote a history of the future explaining what could go wrong with the creation of Palestinian state and why it would be perfectly rational for Israelis to wish to avoid such … Continue reading

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The Comedy Central rally on the Mall: You can’t be serious

One of my commenters pointed out that CNN is really hyping the Halloween eve Comedy Central rally on the National Mall, which is supposed to be two “opposing” rallies led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I find it utterly … Continue reading

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MSM not even trying to hide their hate for Republicans anymore

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic drew this conclusion about the Tea Party candidates winning some Republican primaries over the establishment candidates: The media is going to help the Democratic Party’s national messaging, which is that the GOP is a party … Continue reading

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Laura Rozen: Shouldn’t you be posting about foreign policy?

Someone needs to explain to me why this should be an item on Laura Rozen’s Foreign Policy blog on Politico. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell apologized Tuesday to groups whose entirely lawful events were the subject of regular anti-terrorism reports provided … Continue reading

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Catchup briefs

Amazing how much stuff they can get through those tunnels: That’s funny, I thought Gazans were having a humanitarian crisis: The IMF says that the Gaza economy grew by 16% so far in 2010. Maybe it’s because there never really … Continue reading

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Check the air for flying pigs

Someone please let me know if they see any airborne Porky Pigs. Because I’m not quite sure I’m really reading this: Clinton said in her in-flight remarks that if the negotiating agenda is sequenced correctly and pursued successfully, settlements could … Continue reading

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When dead people are more important than a living country

Back in July, an Arab man, Sabba Kashur was convicted of rape for lying that he was a Jewish man in order to convince a young woman to sleep with him. Details of the case were really irrelevant, various media … Continue reading

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