Category Archives: Politics

Tuesday SNB

Gush Shalom: With friends like these… The background: Israel is looking into making it illegal for foreign countries to fund organizations that actively work against Israel, such as Breaking the Silence, the discredited organization that uses anonymous soldiers without any … Continue reading

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Monday SNB

Fatah old guard: Hey, we’re old, we’re rich, we’re corrupt, and we ain’t movin’: The old guard won’t let the young guard horn in on their territory. Not surprising; the old guard has its lovely villas in the West Bank … Continue reading

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Thursday SNB

Who are you, and what have you done with the AP editors? Look, it’s a profile of Sderot, and it’s actually implies that Operation Cast Lead is responsible for stopping the rockets! Not only that, but it portrays Israelis sympathetically. … Continue reading

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When Bill Maher says “stupid,” he means, “They don’t think like me”

Bill Maher called America a “stupid country” yesterday, and when given a chance to retract it, repeated it. (H/T: Hot Air.) WOLF BLITZER: Do you think she has a future nationally as a presidential candidate? BILL MAHER: I don’t know … Continue reading

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Nancy Pelosi and her negative numbers

Inspired by this report on how Nancy Pelosi simply doesn’t care what the little people think. I’m speaker of the house, you know As such I have my highs and lows The polls say people don’t like me That won’t … Continue reading

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Monday SNB

(That’s Snark News Briefs to you, buster.) Weapons cache? What weapons cache? Lebanon is doubling down on the next war with Israel by (of course) siding with Hezbullah and insisting that the arms cache that exploded was arms “left behind … Continue reading

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If I’ve lost Ha’aretz, I’ve lost Israel

Evelyn Gordon writes about three columns in Ha’aretz that show resistance to the charms of President Obama. (h/t Israel Matzav). She concludes: When even the hard-core leftists of Haaretz’s editorial board feel that a) Obama seems hostile to Israel and … Continue reading

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Obama insults the entire medical profession

I watched the press conference on and off last night, and Hot Air captured my WTF? moment. Obama actually blamed greedy doctors for high healthcare costs. And part of what we want to do is to make sure that those … Continue reading

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The only question to ask Obama tonight about ObamaCare

Really. “What’s the rush?” Okay, there are two. “Do you really think Americans are as stupid as you think they are?”

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Stop ObamaCare: Write your senator

In addition to writing my two senators, I sent a note to Maine’s Senator Olympia Snowe. This is why: Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine is the only Republican in the Senate who has publicly said she could support a government … Continue reading

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Thursday Snark News Briefs

Israel’s enemies will be shooting blanks: Bad news for Hamas and Hezbullah: Iron Dome is working. Bummer, huh? Those wily Jews are figuring out ways to make the last cheap weapon of Israel’s enemies ineffective. It’s only a matter of … Continue reading

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The president’s ear

Jeremy Ben Ami of J-Street who was at the meeting between Jewish leaders and President Obama, thought that the President was amazing. In an extremely soft interview Ben Ami recounts: One is Malcolm Hoenlein’s, and he’s said this publicly, that … Continue reading

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A masterful assuaging

Last year those of us Jews who didn’t support President Obama in his bid to be elected president were subjected to ridicule. If we didn’t support him it was because we were prejudiced or misinformed. This mocking didn’t just come … Continue reading

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They think he still cares

While Alan Dershowitz focuses on those American Jews who are critical of President Obama’s forays into Middle East peacemaking, he fails to acknowledge a different group that’s also unimpressed with his efforts so far: Israeli Jews. As Aluf Benn writes: … Continue reading

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Dershowitz doubles down

Alan Dershowitz defends his (flawed) defense of the Obama administration’s stance on the Israel. This is precisely the situation American supporters of Israel want to avoid. We do not want to replicate the horrible situation that currently exists in Phillips’ … Continue reading

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