Category Archives: World

Barack Obama’s Great Adventure

President Obama will be spending most of the day today meeting with world leaders in New York. Even the AP is writing that little will come out of these sessions. But of course, the focus will be on the trilateral … Continue reading

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Your morning snark

I know you are, but what am I? Ahmadinejad exhibits the grown-up attitude we’ve come to expect from the Holocaust Denier-in-Chief: He flips the bird to the world in response to the worldwide denunciations of his Holocaust-denying speech on Quds … Continue reading

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Sunday morning briefs

If you won’t meet with me, then I don’t want to meet with you! The Swedish foreign minister has canceled his trip to Israel after hearing that Benjamin Netanyahu was about to snub him. It’s good to know that the … Continue reading

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Friday SNB

Never mind about those 16 deaths per month; war’s over: The outgoing UN peacekeeping head of the Darfur reason says the war’s over, because only 16 people per month are dying, as opposed to 130 per month last year. Two … Continue reading

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Palestinian family: We never talked to a Swedish reporter

The Jerusalem Post’s crack reporter, Khaled Abu Toameh, interviewed the family of the Palestinian that is the centerpiece of the Aftonbladet story accusing the IDF of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians. And the family says they never said anything about … Continue reading

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Sweden’s double standard on freedom of the press

There is a decided double standard in the Sweden Foreign Ministry when it comes to freedom of the press, particularly in response to running anti-Semitic tropes in a major Swedish daily. Representatives of the Swedish government are standing up for … Continue reading

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Swedish newspaper channels der Sturmer

It’s 2009, but you wouldn’t know it from reading this Swedish newspaper article. It’s like a mixture of urban legend and anti-Semitic blood libel. It’s so awful, you just have to wonder: Are the editors of this newspaper out of … Continue reading

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Tuesday Snark News Briefs

Britain’s FM: Hey, terrorism can be useful sometimes! He was talking about South Africa, not the U.K., so it must be okay, right? (And of course, he probably doesn’t shed a tear for any Jews killed in terrorist attacks. What … Continue reading

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Israeli sues the EU for damages from Hamas rockets

It’s just perfect. Israeli and Belgian lawyers acting for Eyal Katorza, who is also a French citizen, are preparing a legal case demanding that the EU does more to protect the 300,000 Europeans living in Israel. Legal documents, seen by … Continue reading

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Welcome to World Hypocrisy 101

Say, folks. Let’s take a look at the ongoing peace talks between two sides of a country that’s been occupied for 35 years. “We haven’t set a timeline,” Alexander Downer, the top U.N. official on the war-divided island, said in … Continue reading

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Wednesday SNB

Human rights, shmuman rights: The U.K. is perfectly fine with backing an economic pact between Syria and the EU in spite of its “concerns” about Syria’s human rights violations. Because after all, the almighty Euro is more important than the … Continue reading

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The Nanny State: Alive and well in the U.K.

What if, instead of taking children out of the homes of lousy parents (drug addicts, alcoholics, abusers), there was a way you could monitor the family 24/7 and try to influence their behavior that way? Do you think that American … Continue reading

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The blood chilling affinity or songs that change color

There is nothing more painful for an indoctrinated old-style communist than this subject. Indeed, such communist will vastly prefer that you stick a fork in his/her eye… It is a long post, so for the impatient here comes a clip … Continue reading

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Mustaf Jama – when a niqab doesn’t help

Apparently there still are some cases when the approved dressing code for a Muslim woman doesn’t help. Not it the long run, at least. A gangster who fled to his native Somalia, after taking part in a bungled robbery in … Continue reading

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Wednesday Snark News Briefs

Cognitive dissonance: A KKKer hides from the law in Israel? Okay, on a scale of one to ten, the weirdness factor here is seven hundred. I mean, really—a kluxer on the run from the law goes and hides in Israel. … Continue reading

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