Category Archives: Terrorism

Nighttime briefs

Interpreting the Times, so you don’t have to. Shorter Gail Collins: If only ten percent get to dictated American policy, then by Gaia, it had better be the ten percent that the elites (David Brooks’ “educated class“) are in! Smells … Continue reading

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Idealizing terrorism

The single biggest lie of the Israel Lobby crowd is how being anti-Israel harms a person’s career. You can’t speak out against Israel, the narrative goes, without suffering for it. Never mind that Jimmy Carter, Walt & Mearsheimer, Pat Buchanan, … Continue reading

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Briefly

He’s Gumby, dammit! Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, died yesterday. I know that Davey and Goliath is Christian proselytizing, but it’s one of the shows from my childhood and I watched it every Saturday morning. Even … Continue reading

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Briefly

It isn’t raining rain, you know: Israel had a successful test of Iron Dome recently (even the AP has noticed it), and is set to begin deploying the anti-missile batteries in Sderot this summer. Considering the renewed rain of rockets … Continue reading

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Go, go, go; no, no, no

A while back the New York Times reported on Saudi efforts to “rehab” jihadis. Jilani frowned slightly and wrote Ali’s answer up on the white board behind him. He read it out to the class before turning back to Ali. … Continue reading

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Sunday snarks

I know you are, but what am I? A spoiled rich Saudi prince calls Israel a spoiled child. Really. Irony is apparently not a part of the Arab world. Priceless: Number of non-Israeli newspapers carrying Israel’s strike on Gaza tunnels: … Continue reading

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New Year’s Eve snark

Jimmy Carter’s moderate buds call for the end of Israel: The “moderate” Hamas calls for all of Jerusalem to “remain” Islamic. Not just the eastern part (which contains the Jewish Quarter, but hey, why let a few facts that occurred … Continue reading

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Day 2 – 1 year ago

According to JCPA’s Daily Alert last December 29th was an admission by Hamas that many of those killed were police officers. Hamas TV acknowledged this morning that the vast majority of those killed are from the Hamas military (Elder of … Continue reading

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Obamaspeak in Bizarro World

On what planet did this system work other than Bizarro World, the DC Comics-Superman world where everything is the reverse of what it’s supposed to be: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to … Continue reading

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Things you won’t see in the AP coverage

Regarding the terror attack last week that killed an Israeli father of seven, and the IDF raids that killed three terrorists suspected of carrying out the attack, well, it’s official: One of the dead terrorists owned the rifle that killed … Continue reading

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Sunday snarks

Shorter Soccer Dad: NYTimes says: “Tough Military Stance Stirs Little Debate in Israel.” Meryl says: It works. Duh! Al Qaeda’s nefarious plan succeeded: You know, it’s becoming apparent to me that al Qaeda’s real plan is to make flying the … Continue reading

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Unspinning the anti-Israel spin

If you read only the wire services, you wouldn’t understand exactly why the IDF killed three terrorists in the West Bank early this morning. Allow me to show you the depths to which the AP falls to justify the murderers, … Continue reading

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Briefings

What, no articles about how Hamas is killing Christmas? That’s okay, the world media will spin this anti-Israel. Three hundred Christians are leaving Gaza to go to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas. Huh. I didn’t know there were that many Christians … Continue reading

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Tuesday real-life snarks

Apology not accepted: Jimmy Carter thinks that an apology will make up for his years of anti-Israel propaganda. Stop calling Israel an “apartheid” state, stop calling the security fence an “apartheid” fence, stop blaming Israel for all of the region’s … Continue reading

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The AP spin: Hamas calls for destruction of Israel are “suggestions”

Really, you just can’t make this stuff up. Buried deep inside the whitewashed AP version of Hamas’ anniversary festivities in Gaza is this nugged of wisdom from the AP, which purports to show the moderation of the terrorist group even … Continue reading

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