Category Archives: Middle East

Your anti-Israel media bias at work

A 70-year-old woman was murdered by a PIJ kassam rocket, aided and abetted by the terrorist government of the Palestinians. There is almost no notice of it in the major media outlets. The AP barely mentions it in the lede … Continue reading

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Crude, homemade rockets kill another Israeli

The “crude, homemade” kassam rockets murdered another Israeli, a 70-year-old woman. A 70-year-old Israeli woman was killed early Monday evening from a Palestinian Qassam rocket which crashed into the backyard of a residential home in Yesha – a small community … Continue reading

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Hamas bombardment continues

Yesterday, Hamas nearly hit a schoolbus. Three children suffered shock and were treated by Magen David Adom paramedics. The bus’ windows were shattered and a fire broke out nearby Today, they just missed a kindergarten—in Ashkelon. One rocket hit a … Continue reading

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Assad will not cut ties with Iran

All of those fools who are touting talking to Syria, and giving back the Golan Heights to achieve peace with Syria can stop now. (Oh, they won’t, but they should.) Bashar Assad has said quite clearly that even if he … Continue reading

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Follow the useful idiots

There’s a group called Follow the Women that’s organized a bike ride through the Middle East in the name of peace. Here’s what a participant wrote last month: Nearly 250 women, representing 30 nationalities from mostly Europe and the Middle … Continue reading

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British MP: Israel wants to be hurt

A British MP who experienced a kassam rocket attack first-hand took away a lesson that makes me wonder if his wife dons leather boots and whips: An MP who last month came under Kassam rocket fire has said he believes … Continue reading

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IDF officers: Send us into Gaza

The IDF is starting to pressure the Israeli government, or at least, that’s what I’m concluding after reading this: Senior IDF officers serving in Gaza are frustrated over what they describe as the army’s lack of resolve and limited action … Continue reading

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Hamas: No fuel for hospitals, plenty for rockets

Why Gaza has no fuel: A Kassam rocked fired from the northern Gaza Strip hit a mini-market in central Sderot Sunday afternoon. Fortunately, the rocket did not break through the roof of the building, though five people at the scene … Continue reading

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Biased AP headline of the day

How’s this for an objective news source? Rice pushes for peace progress; Israel denies hidden agenda No bias there. Nope. None at all. Nor is there any bias in this article, about Hamas offering free rides to fuel-starved Gazans. Here … Continue reading

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Fourteen years ago

Fourteen years ago. On May 4, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat reached agreement in Cairo on the first stage of Palestinian self-rule.The agreement was made in accordance with the Oslo Accords, signed in Washington, … Continue reading

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“Unprepared” – to protect or to attack?

The Washington reports that Palestinian Recruits Hit Streets Unprepared The first class of Palestinian security officers trained under a multimillion-dollar U.S. program to strengthen the Palestinian Authority is deploying to one of the West Bank’s most restive cities without promised … Continue reading

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IDF: Terrorist’s explosives killed family, not IDF missile

The IDF has released video proving that the blast that killed a Palestinian woman and her four children was due to a terrorist wearing explosives and hiding in civilian areas. The cell members were spotted moving 400 meters (1,312 feet) … Continue reading

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Live action naqba cartoon

How do the Palestinians commemorate Naqba?With a play, of course. LGF in And now the Nakba dwarf describes the scene. … a malignant dwarf with an automatic rifle, dressed as a stereotype Jew. Snapped Shot (and a h/t for alerting … Continue reading

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Mixed message

Daled Amos asks How long have we been trying to ‘bolster’ Abbas? and answers it showing that bolstering Abbas has been going on for some five years now.One of the actions taken by Israel to bolster Abbas has been to … Continue reading

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Mofaz warns world of the Second Holocaust

On the eve of Yom HaShoah, the day that Jews worldwide remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust while most of the world stood by or actively aided the Nazis, Israel’s Shaul Mofaz spoke at Yale yesterday of … Continue reading

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