Tag Archives: Gaza
The Wheels of Injustice Grind Slowly, or, Israel Still on The Rack
I haven’t posted for a while; I’ve just been watching while the world tightens the screws on Israel. Or at least tries to—since I last wrote, there have been two amusingly failed attempts to embarrass Israel, the flotilla which never … Continue reading
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Ah well, back to the down & dirty.
GIYUS definitely belongs on my list of truth lovers (and I hope to call your attention to more as time allows), but they get special treatment, being the group that keeps sending me the lists of nasties to act on. … Continue reading
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East is East and West is West…
…and never the twain shall meet? Well, hardly ever. Yesterday I cross-posted a comment from a prominent leader pointing out that Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East. Right away I was presented with a couple of … Continue reading
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Goldstone: ‘Doh!’ PA: ‘Goldstone? Goldstone who?’
The big Israel-related news item I’m reading today is South African judge Richard Goldstone’s retraction of the falsehoods he leveled at Israel back in September of 2009. I consider it fortunate that this news is circulating rapidly and widely. The … Continue reading
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Syrian HQ at Ramallah in view?
A commonly obscured historical fact in the Middle East is that the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 are not Palestinian territories at all, but areas that were wrested at that time from the military control of Jordan, Syria, and … Continue reading
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Uh, tell me – why are we still pretending to be really talking?
In my last post, I was wondering aloud what’s up with the latest round of peace talks. Caroline Glick brings up an interesting point with regard to this: one of the serious effects of these shenanigans is to deflect attention … Continue reading
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One-forties, one-shmorties…
When I first came up with the idea for this “140s” blog post category, I had intended for it to be more or less daily. They say sometimes that less is more, but sometimes I think that’s just a dodge. … Continue reading
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A smattering of 140s
Last week I wrote that so far there didn’t appear to be much substance coming out of Israeli PM Netanyahu’s latest visit to the White House. Of course, since then there has been ample opportunity for the greatest and the … Continue reading
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A sigh of relief – and a moment of sanity.
“Son of Hamas” Mosab Hassan Yousef had his deportation hearing yesterday—and our government had an epiphany. Somehow DHS came to its senses and realized that he is not a terrorist threat, but, as everyone from Israeli Security to the US … Continue reading
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