Category Archives: Middle East

Mahmoud’s awesome, very good week

So a party that advocates the lifting of restrictions of Nazi symbols has won a significant victory in Austrian elections. (h/t LGF) No doubt Austria will now be shunned internationally – and rightly so – just as it was a … Continue reading

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Ehud Olmert and the disregarded doctrines

Some background first. From the The Winograd Commission report: a. The Prime Minister bears supreme and comprehensive responsibility for the decisions of ‘his’ government and the operations of the army. His responsibility for the failures in the initial decisions concerning … Continue reading

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Olmert joins the Surrender Party

Ehud Olmert, not content with leaving Israel in a near-shambles, manages to make things even worse on his way out by declaring that Israel needs to surrender entirely to the Palestinians, or there will be no peace. In the farewell … Continue reading

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Words of war from Iran

The AP is broadcasting only half of Iran’s ruler, Ayatollah Khameini, in this short wire service story that, unsurprisingly, is not being picked up and distributed widely. At least, not as widely as the AP’s Rosh Hashanah story, which can’t … Continue reading

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AP: Finding something to criticizen in all things Israeli

The AP couldn’t manage to write a Rosh Hashana story without criticizing Israel. Because gee, when they write Ramadan stories, the first thing they do is bemoan Muslim terrorist attacks. Oh, wait. No they don’t. Here’s what went ’round the … Continue reading

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A general war?

*Please see disclaimer below* Last week Syria built up its forces along the Lebanese border. Assad apologist Andrew Lee Butters wrote: In recent days, anti-Syrian politicians in Beirut have been crying wolf about an increase in Syrian soldiers on the … Continue reading

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American troops on Israeli soil

There is now a permanent American presence in Israel dedicated to keeping an eye on Iranian missile launches. The U.S. Army’s European Command deployed an early-warning radar system in Israel last week along with a 120-member support team, the weekly … Continue reading

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Ahmadinejad: Redefining Jews and Zionism

Mad Mahmoud told his dinner of religious fools leaders yesterday that Zionism—the establishment and maintenance of a state for the Jewish people—has nothing to do with the Jewish people. Ahmadinejad rejected accusations he was anti-Semitic, saying his criticism was aimed … Continue reading

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Accepting Mahmoud

The MSM and world have been rather silent about Ahmadinejad’s anti-semitism. Some tools even thought to take a picture with him, as if he were some cuddly celebrity, not a madman with designs on genocide. Or even really bad on … Continue reading

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The echoing silence of the world on Iranian Jew-hatred

The president of Iran stands in front of the world body whose charter calls for peace among nations and blames Jews for causing wars, working against world peace, worshipping only money, having no god—and the silence of the response is … Continue reading

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The protocols of the unlearned president of Iran

Yesterday, the President of Iran gave a speech to the United Nations that was, of course, widely quoted in the wire services and mainstream media. However, the words below were not widely quoted by the wire services, particularly not the … Continue reading

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Fair Diehl

I’m not a big fan of Jackson Diehl. Earlier in his career he was the Israel correspondent for the Washington Post. More recently, he’s been a foreign affairs columnist for the paper. As columnist he has consistently favored Arab “reformers,” … Continue reading

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Bad faiths

In his J-Street primer for American audiences (an op-ed in the Washington Post), J-Street’s founder, Jeremy Ben Ami wrote: Grateful as I am for decades of U.S. friendship with Israel, I have to wonder, as the state my father helped … Continue reading

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Protesting Dinner With Mahmoud

Religious leaders who think that breaking bread with a man who has called for the destruction of Israel not once, not twice, but many times; a man who is perfectly comfortable with the tyranny that is Iran; a man who … Continue reading

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The connection betweeen J-street and the Obama campaign

One name: Alan Solomont. I posted a comment about him at LGF. There’s suspicion among some observers that the National Jewish Democratic Council was a significant player in the decision to cancel invitations to all politicians to speak at the … Continue reading

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