Archives for the 'Israel' Category
Great News!
Published on 2 Nov 2009 at 7:14 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Israel, al qaeda.
Al-Shabab, the Somali al-Qaeda affiliate, has threatened to attack Israel. It’s PO’d about al-Aqsa, which shows a new worldliness for a group whose top agenda items have been getting a cut of the local piracy bonanza, getting Somalia off its khat habit, and turning Mogadishu into an Islamic paradise, or else. CNN:
It’s A Small World After All!
Published on 3 Oct 2009 at 2:59 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, dhimmi.
I love it when this happens … though some Jews might not be too crazy about the kinship. Guess who’s eligible to immigrate to Israel. It’s big news, even bigger than Letterman turning out to be the butt of his own jokes …
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Kumbayah Express
Published on 3 Aug 2009 at 8:39 am.
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Filed under Arabs, Israel, Obama.
In the wake of the Iranian nuke talks/election train wreckage, the Obama admin, pumping like crazy on its Cairo handcar, rolls toward a major new foreign policy derailment. NYT:
Wannabe Wolf Goes Sheepishly
Published on 14 Jul 2009 at 8:55 am.
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Filed under Israel, illegals, racism.
Violent KKK fugitive surprised, goes quietly when arrested in Jewish homeland by Israeli immigration cops. OK, that’s all kinds of ironic, that a raving racist American nutjob thought Israel was the place to go to ground. Can’t wait to hear why. I bet all the other white supremacists will laugh at him. Either that, or they’ll think he [...]
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Saying The Wright Thing …
Published on 13 Jul 2009 at 11:56 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Obama.
Obama to US Jewish leaders: Israel needs to “engage in serious self-reflection.” via Ha’aretz, which goes on to report Obama making what doesn’t really sound like the same demand of Iran.
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Absolute Green Light Deniability
Published on 7 Jul 2009 at 2:15 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Obama.
Defense Ministry Command Bunker, Tel Aviv.
Bibi: Look, Ehud, Obama himself as confirmed it. It is chjust as Shlomo from Mossad said.
Ehud: ChHuh? ChWhat are you chtalking about?
Bibi: About Biden greenlighting us for an attack on the mullahs’ nukes. Obama has chconfirmed it. We are chgood to chgo. It’s all here in the Jerusalem Post.
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The Biden Option
Published on 6 Jul 2009 at 9:37 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Obama.
Defense Ministry command bunker, deep under Tel Aviv:
Bibi: … the vice president of the United States said chwhat?
Ehud: Well, Bibi, according to the New York Times, Joe Biden said if we want to chwhack Iran, that’s our business.
Whack Now
Published on 2 Jul 2009 at 8:43 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Obama.
That’s the advice from John Bolton, who explains on today’s Washington Post op-ed page that President Obama’s mullah-coaxing plans make less sense now than ever. It’s time to greenlight Israel, if Israel isn’t already greenlighting herself. There’s a couple of other ways that could work, though. Theoretically. If someone else was president. Bolton first:
IDF Has a Whack At Sudan
Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 9:08 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Palestinians.
Israel hit weapons smugglers in Sudan three times this year, reportedly targeting Iranian shipments headed for Gaza. ABC.
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Meanwhile, In IDF News
Published on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:58 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, military, sex.
The IDF isn’t just about killing terrorists. They’re also showcasing IDF cheesecake on their English language website. Miss Israel 2009 is no petty officer herself. Danger Room suggests the IDF’s focus on eye candy is a bid to change the subject amid questions over the behavior of IDF troops in Gaza. Looks more like IDF PR as usual.
Israel by the way is [...]
Report From Malmo
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:03 am.
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Filed under Israel.
Powerline, with a backgrounder on the bitter insult to Israeli athletes in Sweden that makes it clear it was not security concerns that kept them from seating an audience, asks:
What Western country isn’t prepared to compromise its principles rather than stem the tide of hostile immigrants? Or is prepared to insist on the assimilation of those who [...]
Can’t Buy Love
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 10:36 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, terrorists.
You can rent it, though. For a while. Ha’aretz:
$900 million pledged by the United States to the Palestinians will be withdrawn if the expected Palestinian Authority coalition government between Fatah and Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, Western and Israeli diplomats said Wednesday.
During her visit to the region last week Secretary of State Hillary [...]
A Nation’s Loss
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 12:01 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Obama, media.
Broder: Dissing my Israel-bashing, China-loving breakfast pal was a grievous error. Your loss, America. (With slightly unhinged-looking Freeman art).
Andrew Sullivan likes the part where Broder likes how Freeman understands how our adversaries think. Sullivan tuts:
But some opinions - those that might actually see how the US-Israel alliance looks to all those countries we need to engage diplomatically - [...]
Tennis (Lack Of) Diplomacy
Published on 9 Mar 2009 at 6:09 am.
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Filed under Israel.
Decried by an Israeli player in Sweden, after a bitter victory. Andy Ram via Ynet:
Never in my career as an athlete have I encountered such hatred and such blend of sports and politics. Up until the last moment, the protestors attempted to prompt the cancelation of the David Cup match between Israel and Sweden. After [...]
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Cold War
Published on 6 Mar 2009 at 9:09 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Palestinians, saudi arabia.
MEMRI posits that is what has been going on, from Lebanon to Gaza, between Saudi Arabia and Iran. One caveat. While Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies, Israel is hardly Saudi’s. More a matter of enlightened self-interest in Saudi actions. And while Israel obviously considers world and Arab opinion in its actions, specifically their termination, Israel has [...]
Quick Israel Update
Published on 5 Mar 2009 at 9:58 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Clinton whacks Israel plan to level Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. LAT
Palestinian proceeds with plan to level cop car, bus in West Jerusalem. UK Telegraph
Matzav: Palestinians are allowed to drive tractors in Jerusalem?
Ha’aretz: If Israel were nicer, there’d be no anti-Semitism. (hey, that sounds familiar.)
Xinhua: Gaza militants fire back in response to Israel strike on militants [...]
IDF Hit Parade
Published on 1 Mar 2009 at 12:40 am.
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Filed under Israel, song.
It’s Zionist-Oriented Metal. A friend of mine just got back from Israel with a couple of CDs recommended by his IDF pals:
Things You Won’t See In Gaza
Published on 12 Feb 2009 at 10:11 pm.
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Filed under Israel, supermodels, western civilization.
So we give Israel something like $4 billion a year. What’s Israel ever given us?
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Business As Usual
Published on 2 Feb 2009 at 10:18 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
In Gaza, as an Israeli missile proportinately whacks a terrorist vehicle involved in mortar-lobbing operations. via FOX. While PM Olmert talks up disproportionality, Israel’s defense minister says war is not back on. Reuters:
Energizer Hamas
Published on 30 Jan 2009 at 7:51 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, media, terrorists.
Still going! Hamas leader emerges from the rubble to declare victory. I’m getting the impression even the AP appreciates the absurdity:
Pragmatist On Irrationality
Published on 21 Jan 2009 at 9:50 pm.
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Filed under Arabs, Israel, Palestinians.
Solomonia with a good read from sociologist Sami Alrabaa, who puts his fellow Arabs on the couch re Hamas, Israel.
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Unfinished Business
Published on 19 Jan 2009 at 8:16 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
If all Hamas terrorists had been killed by the IDF, these Fatah members would be home by now. JPost:
High Road
Published on 18 Jan 2009 at 8:48 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Taken by the Israelis, yet again. Hamas obligingly invites its own destruction. NYT:
World Gone Gaza
Published on 17 Jan 2009 at 10:15 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Zomblog posits an Intifada gone global as peace demonstrations get violent around the marble. (The following news and views roundup as the Israeli cabinet mulls a unilateral ceasefire will be updated when I get back from taking my son to see “Defiance,” fine Jewish propaganda flick with lots of dead Nazis … UPDATE: Magnificent, inspiring flick. Something wrong [...]
Hamas “Surprised”
Published on 16 Jan 2009 at 7:59 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Captured Hamas terrorist, via IsraelNationalNews.com:
”Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at worst Israel will come and do something from the air - something superficial. They’ll come in and go out. We never thought that we would reach the point where fear will swallow the heart and the feet will want to flee. You [Israel] are fighting [...]
Media War
Published on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:06 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, media.
Ynet suggests Israel is losing it and suggests keeping the western media out of Gaza was a mistake. Anyone ever think Israel had a shot at winning the media war? Letting the handwringing Israel-bashers in would mean more of what we have seen from those that are already in there. News roundup kicks off with glad [...]
Time Short
Published on 9 Jan 2009 at 9:15 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Obama transition team signals to Israel they’d better get on with it and destroy Hamas quick. Because Obama plans to reverse the isolation policy and initiate diplomatic talks with the terrorist group. OK, that’s not exactly what the UK Guardian is reporting:
Gaza, Trash Heap of Moral Authority
Published on 8 Jan 2009 at 9:37 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
History’s running update on moral myopia, Gaza edition, kicks off with Jimmy Carter, who never failed to not stand up to a terrorist he didn’t like. Says none of this needed to happen and it could all be over tomorrow. If Israel would just trust Hamas. Washington Post.
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Martyrdom Opportunities Mulled
Published on 7 Jan 2009 at 10:12 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Israeli cabinet debates whether to finish the job in Gaza’s urban centers and honor Hamas’ deeply held shahid lust, or allow Hamas to live to fire missiles into Israeli neighborhoods another day. Roundup kicks off with Reuters:
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War Crimes In Gaza
Published on 6 Jan 2009 at 11:19 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, media.
AP, of all terrorist-enabling, Israel-bashing news agencies, locates some Palestinians who confirm that Hamas was firing mortars from the vicinity of the school, and other aspects of the IDF’s story:
Great American War Correspondent
Published on 6 Jan 2009 at 8:57 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, media.
Weighs in. Robert Kaplan pulls way back for some perspective on what the fight in Gaza is about, and counsels the destruction of Iran’s proxy army at the outer edge of the modern Persian empire. Atlantic:
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Bleeding, Leading
Published on 6 Jan 2009 at 8:55 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, media.
You’d almost get the idea that this was all Israel’s fault, from the coverage of new horrors emerging in Gaza. But before we get to the news, what looks almost like a Greenwald parody of Greenwald, while attempting to disparage Gaza war coverage, instead seems to have captured its spirit:
Last night, I was on The Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss the Israeli attack [...]
Heil Hamas!
Published on 5 Jan 2009 at 8:44 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Gaza roundup kicks off with Nazis and Hamas, as Hitler scholar Ron Rosenbaum at PJM compares and contrasts. Hamas gets points for honesty. Meanwhile, the hated Zionist entity gets points for greater humanitarian concerns and practices than the WWII Allies. OK, news via JPost:
We Regret To Inform
Published on 2 Jan 2009 at 1:16 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
The sheikh won’t be down for pita bread. JPost with the news, plus assorted product links of the hated Zionist entity:
French Humanitarianism
Published on 31 Dec 2008 at 8:20 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
UPDATE: VOA now reporting: Ceasefire rejected. Allah be praised.
Israel has rejected an immediate 48-hour cease-fire with Hamas, saying it will push ahead with its military assault on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials say Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his defense and foreign ministers made the decision after discussing the French-proposed truce during a meeting overnight.
Earlier:
Is there [...]
Boneheaded New World
Published on 30 Dec 2008 at 12:05 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
The modern battlespace is a trip. Roundup starts with important news of boneheaded meddlers, trying to run the blockade into Gaza, encountering difficulties. Atlanta Journal Constitution:
So, What Next?
Published on 29 Dec 2008 at 10:13 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants “war to the bitter end.” Hamas is on the run, its terrorist infrastructure and personnel being blown to bits as we speak. All good, but at the end of the day, all that gets you is a pile of rubble and a bunch of dead terrorists, international condemnation, and [...]
“War To The Bitter End”
Published on 29 Dec 2008 at 10:58 am.
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Filed under America, Israel, Obama, Palestinians, middle east.
Promises Israel’s defense minister re Gaza. I thought that was what Lebanon and prior incursions in Gaza were about. via Yahoo. In any case, the IDF is making it personal, taking out Hamas symbols of power.
Gateway rounds up the news with art, and adds this through-the-looking-glass news from Mosul: Israel blamed for suicide bmob at pro-Hamas rally.
Speaking [...]
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Earnestly Wrung Hands
Published on 28 Dec 2008 at 4:12 pm.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians, moronocy.
Glenn Greenwald: Killing people is wrong, and it is reprehensible that anyone would blindly support Israel’s efforts to get Hamas to stop doing it. Israelis out of Israel now! At least I think that’s what he’s saying.
American media opinionator Greg Mitchell at HuffPo, silent on missiles coming out of Gaza, decries American media opinion silence on missiles going [...]
Gotcha
Published on 28 Dec 2008 at 9:51 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Fooling Hamas … how hard could it possibly be? That was “Beat the stuff out of Hamas,” not “eat lots of stuff with hummus.”
OK, OK, killing terrorists is serious business. News and commentary roundup starts with Ha’aretz on the careful planning and critical deception campaign that reportedly preceded the current operation, with the desired effect of catching a lot of them [...]
Heads Up, Hamas!
Published on 22 Dec 2008 at 9:44 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
It’s hammer time. AFP:
Kumbayah My Lord, And Prepare The Airstrikes
Published on 4 Dec 2008 at 9:33 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Obama, nukes.
As Obama prepares to chat with mullahs, Israel gets into the new spirit of Obamist foreign policy and prepares to speak to mullahs in its own way. Jerusalem Post:
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The Israeli Vote
Published on 29 Sep 2008 at 10:25 am.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, pols.
Robert Baer at NY Daily News on the potential for an October surprise, Bet on Israel Bombing Iran:
A’Jad In The Great Satan
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 10:32 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, pols.
U.S. aggression behind Wall Street woes, says Ahmadinejad, in NYC for the big General Assembly opener. Oh yeah, and Israel’s doomed. LA Times.
Teheran Times reports on Rabbis for Ahmadinejad, poo-poos the 3000-odd mullah-bashers down the street. Meanwhile, Ha’aretz has the speech Palin was going to deliver at the big anti-Iran protest before she was disinvited. There’s a [...]
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Soon To Disappear from Geographical Charts
Published on 2 Jun 2008 at 8:51 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, pols.
Ahmadinejad re Israel. via JPost:
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Iran = Hitler + Nukes, Hamas = Wall
Published on 5 May 2008 at 8:58 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, Palestinians.
Elder statesman Shimon Peres’ quick nuisance assessment. J Post:
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Another Zionist Trick
Published on 15 Apr 2008 at 12:01 pm.
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Filed under Arabs, Israel.
Shin Bet seeks to win hearts and minds of Arabs and the pro-Pal West, also rope in some top IT talent on the Web. Good luck with that! No obvious cloak and dagger skulduggery here. Just the intelligence business at its most corporately bland and lifeless. Ha’aretz:
Israel = Hamas
Published on 7 Apr 2008 at 6:33 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Israel, Palestinians, media, vietnam.
That’s the official NYT Radio position. Powerline.
Meanwhile, in other NYT distortions, Basra = Tet. Malkin.
Axis of Evil
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 7:37 am.
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Filed under Israel, Palestinians.
Ha’aretz: Jerusalem killer acted on a plot drawn up by Hamas and Hezbollah in Damascus.
Shinbet via AFP: Iran is acting through Hezbollah and Hamas.
Jerusalem
Published on 6 Mar 2008 at 10:57 pm.
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Filed under Israel.
Hit. Celebrations in Gaza.
