Behind the Times.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been tied to the whipping post, and oh Lord I feel like I’m dying.
Here’s another daft NY Times reporter who thinks that the entire history of the world began on the day she graduated J-school.
Countering criticism of another Jewish building project planned for Sheik Jarrah, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, [...]

Morocco challenges Mideast Holocaust mind-set

The craziest thing is that the AP is attempting to appear even handed and open minded…which is great….except when the topic is the Holocaust….in which case anyone who “argues” that it didn’t happen isn’t really “arguing”…but “ranting”…and should be treated with the “respect” any sane person would ordinarily accord a slug…or an empty beer can…or [...]

Displaced?

The AP once again shilling for “Palestine”:
Laying out his Mideast policy in a speech Sunday, Netanyahu bent to U.S. pressure and backed down on decades of opposition to Palestinian statehood. He invited the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world to resume peace talks.
However, he removed from the negotiating agenda the fate of Palestinian [...]

Will on Israel.

No, not Obama’s will (of which there is none)….I’m talking about George Will, speaking Monday at the Claremont Review of Books on President Obama’s recent genuflection to “the Arab world”:
We’ve seen this in his treatment of Israel in that remarkable speech, the atmospherics of which were fine, the specifics appalling.
I mean, in the [...]

Politician.

As the anniversary of D-Day fast approaches, we can begin to become accustomed to the hoopla surrounding President Obama’s carefully choreographed appearances in and around Europe in the coming weeks.
This from the Timesonline on Friday, describing the possible motives Obama may have in visiting certain strategic locations (because, you know, it isn’t enough to be [...]

Doing the job America won’t?

A German-Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia on Saturday, in which the vessel’s private Israeli security force exchanged fire with the bandits and drove them off, the ship’s commander said yesterday.
Cmdr. Ciro Pinto told Italian state radio that six men in a [...]

What Israel fights against.

This video released by the IDF illuminates the ugly nature of the enemy it faces daily and against which it finally struck back last year in Operation Cast Lead. It is the enemy that is otherwise painted as martyrs and innocents by the world press, likely in the paper you read every day. If, that [...]

Devils.

A 16 year old boy was murdered in Israel today by Muslim terrorist.
With an axe.

Sixteen-year-old Shlomo Nativ was killed and a seven-year-old boy was moderately injured in an attack carried out by a terrorist carrying an axe in the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin Thursday noon.
According to the police, the terrorist managed to flee [...]

Willful ignorance.

Hamas is a pretty disgusting organization. Backed by Iran, their sole purpose is to leverage innocent Palestinians (such as they may be) into concessions by the Israeli government by any means necessary. This is pretty obvious stuff to anyone paying even the most disinterested attention to matters there. Except of course to the AP:
International and [...]

Inescapable conclusion.

Did you know that Hamas is negotiating a ceasefire with Israel?
There has been speculation that a cease-fire deal is close.
However, Hamas official said Saturday that new problems have come up. Hamas wants an 18-month cease-fire. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum says Israel created new obstacles by seeking an open-ended cease-fire.
Yes, you read that right. Hamas is [...]

Out of his league.

This from Reuters today:
[Former Senator George] Mitchell, who helped to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict, was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week to lead U.S. efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mitchell’s tour will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France and Britain. He said he would later [...]

Cease fire?

How to fix this?
Violence marred the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as Hamas gunmen fired mortar shells into Israel and opened fire on IDF troops who remained inside the Palestinian territory.
In the afternoon, IAF aircraft bombed a mortar launcher in the Gaza Strip that had been used hours earlier to fire some eight [...]

January 10?

Ok, this is more than a little creepy.
On January 10, the war between Israel and Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world: what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond were in fact overtly pro-Hamas demonstrations, and [...]

Context.

Regarding the plight of Gaza, remember this: Between 1948, when Israel was created, and 1967, when Israel captured Gaza in a defensive war, the Gaza Strip was administered by Egypt. During those 19 years, the Egyptians never offered citizenship to the Palestinians living in Gaza, nor did they permit them free transit from the Strip [...]

Good. Now finish them off.

Two captured terrorists interviewed by Maariv/NRG say that Hamas was not expecting Israel’s response to the escalation in missile attacks on Israeli targets that preceded Operation Cast Lead. One of them, a 52-year-old victim of a premature detonation who had already done time in an Israeli jail, said, “Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at [...]

Mobs threatening Israel-supporters in Germany.

Outrage over Demonstration in Germany: Police Remove Israeli Flag during Islamist Protest March – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.
As the first protesters recognized the flag, P. and his girlfriend were standing on the street nearby. He said he followed the march because he wanted to document any incidents of anti-Semitism or hate campaigns. He [...]

Israel cleaning house.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Witnesses say Israeli ground troops are advancing into crowded residential areas of Gaza City and thousands of terrified residents are fleeing their homes.
Israeli troops backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy guns thrust deeper into the city than ever before Thursday to seek Hamas fighters, they said.
It wasn’t clear [...]

Animals

Hamas, of course. For booby trapping a zoo. Oh yeah, and a school too. With children and stuff.
Real freedom fighters, these.
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This is heartening.

IDF: Whole Hamas battalions wiped out – Israel News, Ynetnews.
Is Hamas falling apart? A senior IDF officer estimated Saturday that roughly 300 Hamas men have been killed since the army launched its ground incursion in the Gaza Strip. The military official said IDF troops were able to wipe out whole battalions belonging to the Gaza [...]

Red-handed.

Power Line – War Crimes.
More on that UN School bombing the other day. Was it a school or was it a Hamas base? Watch the video and see for yourself.
One wonders, too, what was going on at the UN-run school. Why were dozens or hundreds of children present? Is the UN unaware that Gaza is [...]

Anatomy of a hoax.

Anatomy of a Hoax.
This is stunning to see laid out as it is. With the time that Hamas spends lobbing rockets into civilian cities like Sderot and then fabricating “evidence” of “atrocities” by Israel, you’d think they’d get around to setting up a useful and productive civilization for themselves at some point.
The message they should [...]

Self defense and proportionality.

Deadly And Proportionate Force: The Tragedy Of Hamas – Forbes.com.
The claim is that it is not permissible for the Israelis to kill many individuals, including civilians, to stop sporadic deaths from rocket fire. Sorry. As with individual aggression, proportionality has no place in dealing with deadly force, where the right rule is that all necessary [...]

Disgusting.

Barack Obama administration ‘prepared to talk to Hamas’ | World news | guardian.co.uk.
The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.
The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence [...]

Pride and prejudice?

Dennis Prager : Minorities Should Express Shame, Not Only Pride – Townhall.com.
Why does one almost never hear expressions of group shame from members of any American group other than white Christians (specifically, white Christian male heterosexuals)? Are the only evildoers in America white male heterosexual Christians? Is there something inherently wrong about members of minorities [...]

Faux the love of the game.

Little Green Footballs – A Staged Scene in a Gaza Hospital?.
Did you have any doubt? Not that there isn’t violent stuff happening in Gaza, but if it was reported in CONTEXT, the world would see that Hamas is responsible for most all of it. Not when they fake photos and stage videos, however. That’s when [...]