Too comfortable. Too numb.

In 2002, seven years ago this past Sunday, a Jewish American journalist named Daniel Pearl was abducted in Pakistan, held captive, and beheaded. Here’s an op-ed in today’s WSJ written by his father.
Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CNN still digging.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » CNN DIGS ITSELF IN DEEPER: “Given that CNN’s own staff can’t vouch for the video first-hand, and th….
The media wants Israel to appear the bad actor here. Obviously.
The question is why?
Ask yourself that the next time you tune into CNN or MSNBC or watch the Today Show. If they’re willing [...]

Big Picture.

Mike Gallagher : Hamas, Israel and the American Media – Townhall.com.
On the question of why so many liberal Americans are siding with Hamas in Israel’s war of self-defense (how’s THAT for an anti-AP headline!), the Author, Mike Gallagher, points to Bill Gertz’s explanation, which to me, makes “big picture” sense:
But perhaps the most astute observation [...]

The voices of Hamas

Hamas in Their Own Voices
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Separated at birth?

RonRosenbaum.com » Some Differences Between Hamas and the Nazi Party.
Hamas and Nazis, that is. In case you were wondering how 2 different Jew-hating organizations went about the business of Jew-hating.
The Hamas founding covenant explicitly calls for the extermination of all Jews. Hitler never made total extermination an official plank of the the Nazi party platform. [...]

Hamas strategy.

Melanie Phillips’s Articles » War is terrible, but the alternative in Gaza was worse.
What people find so hard to grasp is that Hamas actually want to maximise the number of Palestinians who are killed because, as they boast: ‘We desire death as you desire life.’
Despite this fanaticism, many fear that Israel’s attack will merely create [...]

Knee-jerks

Mona Charen : The So-called International Community – Townhall.com.
The so-called international community has a script already prepared for any news from the Middle East. In this script, there is only Israeli violence, Israeli repression, Israeli guilt. The script reads as follows: Palestinian violence and terror against Israel is not to be condemned because it is [...]