Category Archives: Middle East

Tuesday Snarky Newsy Briefsies

EPA to Americans: Stop breathing, you’re poisoning the planet! Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s “Greenhouse gases,” but it’s still CO2, and the science is not settled, no matter how many times the media and AGW adherents repeat that phrase. I would … Continue reading

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Watch the media spin

The AP released a brief story on the Lebanese government affirming Hezbullah’s defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to disarm. This version holds too much of the truth in it. Prediction: Mention of 1701 will be dropped to the … Continue reading

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Your Tuesday morning snark

Because it’s not like the UN hasn’t passed any anti-Israel resolutions, ever: Mahmoud Abbas thinks it’s time for another anti-Israel resolution. Why? Because the man who refuses to sit down and negotiate with Israel until all of the Palesitnian conditions … Continue reading

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The deflated New York Times hopes for Obama

It’s not just the Arab/Muslim world that’s disappointed with President Obama, the New York Times is too. The Times has come to the belated acknowledgment – the Washington Post noticed this back in July – that the administration hasn’t been … Continue reading

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Black Friday Snark News Briefs

And Nero fiddled while Rome burned: This is just funny. The Dorktator’s senior advisor (what the hell is a “senior advisor” anyway? Is that like “the guy I inherited from Dad that I can’t fire because he has too many … Continue reading

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Lebanon’s descent

In Lebanon, the raidicals keep on strengthening their positions. Peter Berkowitz writes (via memeorandum): Six days later, on March 14, a Sunni, Christian, and Druze crowd of more than 1 million–a quarter of Lebanon’s population–shook their nation by gathering in … Continue reading

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… and creating a nuisance

Investment scandal damages Hezbollah And now, his life’s fortune is gone, too, lost along with the money of thousands of other Lebanese who put their faith in a billionaire financier with close ties to Hezbollah. The investment scheme, which is … Continue reading

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To be overlooked in the next Lebanon war

When Hizbullah attacks Israel, and Israel retaliates by bombing strategic points in the whole of Lebanon, and the world reaction is shock and disgust that Israel attacked the state of Lebanon instead of “just” Hizbullah, kindly refer back to this … Continue reading

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A pillar of moderation

Yesterday, writing about the speculation surrounding a possible prisoner release to gain the freedom of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, Backspin quoted, Dan Meridor: “Those who don’t know can talk,” Dan Meridor, Israel’s intelligence minister, said Monday on state radio. “Those … Continue reading

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When smuggling arms is political

There’s an interesting tidbit in a report of the indictment of Lebanese men for smuggling arms to Hezbollah. Harb, Moussa Ali Hamdan of Brooklyn and Hasan Antar Karaki of Beirut were also charged with seeking to funnel to Hezbollah counterfeit … Continue reading

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The ransom of gilad schalit

In an article about the negotiations between Israel and Hamas over the deal to release Gild Schalit, Ethan Bronner of the New York Times quotes a former Israeli official. Yaakov Perry, former head of the Shin Bet internal security agency, … Continue reading

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The Iranian web: Mullahs ascendant

Iran’s president is on a South American tour, hoping to expand Iranian influence. Ahmadinejad’s good relations with Venezuela’s openly anti-American regime are well-known. As well as President Hugo Chavez, the Iranian leader has already nurtured relations with Nicaragua’s President Daniel … Continue reading

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Monday SNB

Dershowitz turns up the volume on Goldstone: Alan Dershowitz is calling Goldstone a liar and demanding that he show the data on which he based his accusations that the IDF deliberately targeted civilians. I predict that His Narcissist will ignore … Continue reading

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The French think that Jerry Lewis is a genius

Yossi Beilin the head of a party Israel that couldn’t garner more than three seats in Knesset, is nonetheless loved in France. He just received the French Legion of Honour. So a failure in his own country, Beilin can now … Continue reading

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Sunday Snark News Briefs

The Protocols of the Mullahs of Islam: Iran is buying UN votes against Israel. So I guess Walt & Mearsheimer will write a sequal called The Muslim Lobby, right? The Protocols of the Elders of Islam? No? What? Iran’s expanding … Continue reading

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