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Just add this to the list of offensive statements by Andrew Sullivan. I cannot read Netanyahu’s mind. But I can observe Israel’s actions. They intend to occupy and colonize the entire West Bank for ever. Read More »
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US Presbyterians to call for end of State of Israel
Oh, but this isn’t anti-Semitism. Not at all./sarcThe document has yet to be published, but the church news service revealed it regurgitates the most specious anti-Israel canards. It even puts a footnote on the phrase “the right of Israel to exist. Read More »
2 IDF soldiers indicted for using child to open suspicious bag
Two IDF soldiers have been indicted by a military court on Thursday for ordering a child to open a bag that was suspected of being booby-trapped during Operation Cast Lead. The indictment resulted from an investigation that the IDF opened before publication of the Goldstone Report. Read More »
Obama’s ‘engagement’ with Syria means repression for Syrians
I’m amazed they took time to notice, but Human Rights Watch reports that repression has increased in Syria in the last three months, as the United States and other Western countries have expanded their outreach to the Assad dictatorship. Read More »
Would Israel shoot down a plane full of ‘dignitaries’?
I’m sure you all recall the SS Moonbat, which the Israeli Navy kept away from Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. Now, ISM/Free Gaza ‘organizer’ Paul Larudee has a couple of new ideas. One of them involves trying to land a DC-3 in Gaza. – Break the siege of Gaza by AIR. Fly an airplane into Gaza. Read More »
Overnight music video
Tonight, I went to a Bar Mitzva, my third of the week (on top of the wedding Tuesday night, and weddings last Wednesday and Thursday nights – it’s been busy).Here’s Mordechai Ben David singing the Ramban (Nachmonides)’s wise advice to his eldest son. The Hebrew version of the letter the Ramban sent is here and an English translation is here. Read More »
Europeans seethe as H&M opens in Israel
As the ‘Palestinian’ loving Europeans seethed in anger, Swedish fashion house H&M opened its first Israeli store in Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center on Thursday. The store was mobbed. Read More »
Europeans funding Arab land grabs in Gush Etzion area
Jewish activists in the Gush Etzion area claim that European-funded initiatives are allowing ‘Palestinians’ to lay claim to state land through what sounds a bit like a method called adverse possession. Read More »
Let’s get aggressive in answering the ‘apartheid’ charge
Two JPost columns suggest that Israel should be more aggressive in answering charges of ‘apartheid’ that are being made against it overseas. The apartheid charge is an invention of those strange bedfellows – the radical Left and the Islamists. Make no mistake about it, the goal is to cause the disappearance of the Jewish state. Read More »
In private, Biden went berserk
Laura Rozen publishes translated (I assume because there is no link) excerpts of a Shimon Shiffer piece in Thursday’s Yediot Aharonot (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). While standing in front of the cameras, the U.S. Read More »
70% of ‘Israeli Arab’ schoolkids see themselves as ‘Palestinians’
On Wednesday, I blogged an article by JPost ‘Palestinian’ reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, in which Abu Toameh raised concerns about discrimination against ‘Israeli Arabs.’ I argued that Abu Toameh’s concerns are legitimate and that there is discrimination. Read More »
State Department kisses Gadhafi’s butt
This is a new low for the Obama administration and the US State Department (Hat Tip: Fausta). The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for jihad against Switzerland. Read More »
Why don’t Christians care?
John Hinderaker reviews the story of a recent massacre of 500 Christians in Nigeria, and asks a question that I have asked many times on this blog: Why don’t Christians care? Do you remember the “massacre” at Jenin? Of course: Palestinians initially claimed that 500 had been killed, but it turned out that there was no massacre after all. Read More »
Now you’re talking
Haaretz reports with great distress that there are some 50,000 Jewish housing units in various stages of planning for Jerusalem neighborhoods that, like Ramat Shlomo, are beyond the ‘green line. Read More »
Malmo, Sweden: A dangerous place for Jews
Malmo, Sweden is a dangerous place to be a Jew these days. Tundra Tabloid reports that the rabbi of Malmo, Schneur Kesselman, notes that he hears ‘Heil Hitler’ and ‘F***ing Jew’ all the time now in Malmo. And that’s the least of it. Read More »
CJP Boston: Even dumber than we thought
Last week, I reported that CJP – Boston, the local Jewish federation, has been funding the anti-Israel activities of George Soros’ NGO’s. Hillel Stavis of Solomonia now takes that story one step further. CJP is also apparently funding the Sommerville Divestment Project, one of the most virulently anti-Israel local groups in the United States. Read More »
How to move the ‘peace process’ along
David Pryce-Jones argues that the ‘peace process’ is not getting anywhere because the ‘Palestinians’ are happy with the status quo. The Palestinians are happy with the way things are; they see no reason for change; the present situation is playing profitably into their hands. Read More »
Contiguous or not contiguous?
I’ve discussed the question of whether the ‘Palestinian state’ – if there ever is one – ought to be contiguous or not and what that means for Israel. I last discussed it here. Read More »
Netanyahu reassures Biden there won’t be any building in ‘east’ Jerusalem?
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office has released a statement regarding the Ramat Shlomo announcement. Curiously, it hit Twitter during Biden’s speech. Read More »
Biden’s message of reassurance
Some comments from Shmuel Rosner on Biden’s speech (I guess he didn’t wait for the questions). I’m sticking my comments in between his.2. Netanyahu’s advisers asked that Biden will make it clear that there’s no “crisis” between the governments. It is clear to me that both sides do not want this to become a crisis. Read More »
Watch Biden’s speech live from Tel Aviv University
If this works, you should be able to see Jumpin’ Joe Biden’s speech via livestream from Tel Aviv University.Let’s go to the videotape livestreamWatch live video from U.S. Embassy on Justin.tvUPDATE 11: 20 AMSpeech is starting late. Maybe Biden has to rewrite his condemnation of Israel over Ramat Shlomo. Read More »
Sheikh Muhammad Tantawi of al-Azhar dies of heart attack
Sheikh Muhammad Tantawi, who had been the Sheikh of Cairo’s al-Azhar University since 1995, died of a heart attack on Wednesday while on a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81 years old. There’s a fairly balanced obituary for Tantawi here. Read More »
Netanyahu v. Biden
David Hazony apparently agrees with me that the timing of the announcement of new construction in Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood was not coincidental. Read More »
Israeli supermarket spoof of Dubai liquidation
The day got off to a late start – the power went off during the night and without the alarm clock, I did not wake up for my normal sunrise service. Now, I have to drive the boys to school or they will be late. And many of the roads here are closing from 9: 00 – 11: 00 for Biden to go to Tel Aviv. Read More »
Overnight music video
Tonight, the 25th day of the Jewish month of Adar, is the date of death of Nebuchadnezer, the Babylonian king who destroyed the First Jewish Temple.This song, “On the Rivers of Babylon” (Al Naharoth Bavel) is from Psalms. It’s sung here by child star Midad Tash.Let’s go to the videotape. Read More »
A ‘Palestinian’ rips ‘Israel Apartheid Week’
Khaled Abu Toameh rips ‘Israel Apartheid Week.’ An Arab member of the Knesset who goes all the way to the US and Canada to tell university students and professors that Israel is an apartheid state is not only a hypocrite and a liar, but is also causing huge damage to the interests of his own Arab voters and constituents. Read More »
IDF Gaza ground commander on Israel’s measures to avoid casualties
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and Lori Lowenthal Marcus of Z Street interview Colonel Ben Zion Gruber, an IDF ground commander in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.Let’s go to the videotape.This video was part of a much larger post at Atlas Shrugs that includes a lot of pictures and video from the IDF’s annual fundraising dinner in New York. Read More »
A glutton for punishment
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has actually asked to return to the University of California at Irvine. Since then, videos of the incident at Irvine have proliferated on the Internet and attracted significant media attention. I have received heartfelt apologies from UC President Mark Yudof and Chancellor Drake. Read More »
Karl in Washington: ‘We didn’t go to war for Israel’
A new book hit the stores in Washington on Tuesday, and in it, former Bush adviser Karl Rove demolishes one of the central theses of another book, Walt and Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby. Rove asserts unequivocally that the United States did not go to war in Iraq for Israel. Read More »
Arab foreign ministers make a gutsy move (not)
You could see this one coming a mile away. Arab foreign ministers have withdrawn their approval for the ‘proximity talks.’ The Palestinian Authority daily Al-Ayyam reports that in response to Israel’s decision to construct 1,600 housing units in northern Jerusalem, several Arab foreign ministers informed senior U.S. Read More »