Category Archives: Middle East

The modern-day Hitler speaks again

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is channeling Hitler. Think I’m exaggerating? Let’s compare and contrast. Ahmadinejad: “World powers have created a dirty microbe, called the Zionist regime, which they have unleashed on the region’s nations,” said Ahmadinejad in his speech, which was broadcast … Continue reading

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Anti-terror fantasies

Did Israel do it?Who knows? Uzi Mahnaimi claims to know. Uzi Mahnaimi claims to know lots of things, not all of them are true. Mr. Mahnaimi is one of three reporters credited with “Israel kills terror chief with a headrest … Continue reading

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The famous Muslim tolerance strikes again

Muslims in Gaza blew up the YMCA library. Why? To protest the Danish publication of the Mohammed cartoons. Because it follows, logically, that when Danes “insult” Mohammed, Gazan Christians must be punished. Unidentified gunmen blew up the YMCA library in … Continue reading

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Condi Rice notices Egypt’s lack of Gaza security

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that Egypt isn’t policing the Gaza smugglers as hard as the IDF did. Actually, the big shock is that Rice is admitting there’s a problem. Egypt is falling short in its efforts … Continue reading

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The Hamas war with Israel: First, kill the children

The rocket fire from Gaza, which is now being claimed proudly by the democratically-elected government of the Palestinians, has wounded more children in Israel, and nearly killed some on their way to school. Because that’s the tactic that the terrorists … Continue reading

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Abbas’ hollow condemnations

Here is the much-vaunted Mahmoud Abbas condemnation of rocket fire into civilian areas of Israel by terrorists in Gaza: “These rockets that are being fired at Israel must stop. It’s pointless,” he said at a news conference with Austrian Foreign … Continue reading

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Democratically-elected govt. of PA fires rockets into Israel

(NOTE: This post was scheduled to go up yesterday. There have been many more attacks since then. There will be new posts about them.) The democratically-elected government of Israel—the people that Jimmy Carter and the EU think Israel should negotiate … Continue reading

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The difference between us and them

What’s wrong with Palestinian culture: Yellow Fatah flags flew outside the home of one of the attackers, 22-year-old Luay Laghwani, and Al Aqsa gunmen fired in the air in tribute to him. His sobbing mother, Ibtissam, held a picture of … Continue reading

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Sy’s lies

via memeorandumInvestigative reporter, Seymour “Sy” Hersh has an exclusive for the New Yorker, “A strike in the dark,” alleging that Israel didn’t really know what the nature of the facility it bombed last September in Syria was. (As is the … Continue reading

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Closing the barn door

The Washington Post reports Egyptians Reseal Border, Cutting Access From Gaza Egyptian construction workers in blue hard hats rolled barbed wire across the last breaches of the Gaza Strip’s border wall with Egypt on Sunday, reasserting Egyptian control of the … Continue reading

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The real reason for the Hamas border breach

The fix was in. Hamas smuggled large numbers of advanced weapons into Gaza once the Rafah border was down. Hamas’s breach of the security fence along the Egypt-Gaza border has resulted in the smuggling of a large amount of advanced … Continue reading

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No, really, where are the kassams?

Isn’t it interesting that when Hamas needs good world press—like after breaking down the wall between Egypt and Gaza—not a single kassam rocket or mortar shell has fallen on southern Israel? And yet, the world insists that neither Hamas nor … Continue reading

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Yes, please: Hamas wants Gaza to bond with Egypt

Hamas wants Egypt to be Gaza’s economic channel instead of Israel? Yes, please. Feel free. Go right ahead. We’ll even help you do it. Hamas is seriously contemplating severing the Gaza Strip’s economic ties with Israel, said Ahmed Yousef, a … Continue reading

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Wily Jews cause international internet failure

Those wily Jews. The internet outages that you read about yesterday? Check out exactly which countries were hit, and which were not. High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a … Continue reading

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Where are the kassams?

Isn’t it interesting. Hamas has been busy blowing up the wall between Gaza and Egypt, then maintaining crowd control, and now policing the border. And the kassam rockets—over which Hamas insist they have no control—suddenly stopped raining on Sderot for … Continue reading

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