Category Archives: Middle East

Crude, homemade rockets score three hits in one week

The “crude, homemade rockets” launched by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza nearly every day have wounded three Israelis in three separate incidents this week, including one today that wounded a two-year-old child. A rocket fired by Palestinian terror groups from northern … Continue reading

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Syria and Iran: 2gether 4ever

Syria and Iran are going to stay bestest buddies like, forever! Syrian President Bashar Assad rejected claims that Syria’s alliance with Iran had been weakened by Damascus’ participation in last month’s US-sponsored Mideast peace conference, saying Thursday that the two … Continue reading

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Hamas to Iran and Syria: Let us kill more Jews

Hamas is asking its Iranian masters for permission to kill more Jews. Hamas has asked Iran to allow the organization to escalate its altercations with Israel, carry out more suicide attacks and if need be – threaten kidnapped IDF soldier … Continue reading

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The anti-checkpoint juggernaut revs up

The post-Annapolis crush toward forcing Israel to lift checkpoints is

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Israel is fighting the next war

I’ve been saying for some time now that the IDF has learned many lessons from the Lebanon war of 2006, and that Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran have not. Here’s what amounts to a throwaway graf at the end of … Continue reading

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The lost art of self-defense

Israel seems to have forgotten how to defend herself. The security cabinet announced Wednesday it would recommend the government refrain from launching a wide-scale operation in Gaza, opting instead to continue with targeted IDF operations. The cabinet thinks the small … Continue reading

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Syria’s quid pro quo for Annapolis

Here’s what the Dorktator took away as a lesson for his sending a representative to Annapolis: A car bomb attack killed one of Lebanon’s top generals and at least two other people Wednesday, the military and state media said, putting … Continue reading

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Ehud Barak says…

According to an article from JP: A large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip has dropped to the back burner in recent days after an assessment within the defense establishment found that the daily border raids the IDF has been conducting … Continue reading

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The long Palestinian money trail

Boker Tov Boulder (as noted by Jewish Current Issues, Noah Pollak at the Corner, Mere Rhetoric and Daled Amos) collected a series of news items documenting what has been pledged to the PA over the past 3 years. It’s quite … Continue reading

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Syrians preventing Internet cooties

The Syrians are making sure their kids don’t get Jew cooties. They’re blocking Facebook. Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according … Continue reading

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Palestinians really do cut off their noses to spite their faces

Let’s do a little reading between the lines here. The AP has a three-hanky story on how the mean ol’ Israelis are shutting off the Gaza fuel supply, just because Hamas is allowing terrorists to fire over 2000 rockets into … Continue reading

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Syria puts on the big boy pants

A Syrian legislator has decided to give us all something to giggle about. Syrian MP Dr. Muhammad Habash warned Israel not to attack his country in an interview with the Israeli-Arab news paper Ma’a al-Hadat published on Thursday saying Israel’s … Continue reading

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Gaza operation a matter of time, says Barak

It’s been all over the AP since yesterday. Ehud Barak says he’s ready to go into Gaza in force and clean out the nests of terrorists. But make no mistake, this is going to be a difficult operation. Hamas terrorists … Continue reading

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The peaceful people of Gaza: 2000 rockets in 2007

The peaceful people of Gaza, who got what they wanted two years ago—all “settlers” out of Gaza, Palestinian self-rule, and Israeli soldiers out of the Gaza Strip—have fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel in 2007. We can make it a … Continue reading

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Conversations with Tehran

The Washington Post demonstrates that its editors possess a sophistication that is absent among the editors of the New York Times with Intelligence on Iran. After noting the positive implications of the 2007 NIE, the editors write ” Tehran at … Continue reading

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