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Haaretz tries to cover up poll results: Jews don’t believe demographic threat

February 9, 2010, 10:26 pm

I received the following emailed press release from Moshe Feiglin’s Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction of the Likud. A poll conducted last week for Haaretz by the Dialog company provided the publication – otherwise known as the official organ of the leftist Israeli establishment – with a statistical nightmare. Read More »

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Oren heckled at UC Irvine

February 9, 2010, 10:23 pm

The University of California at Irvine is one of the most hostile college campuses in the United States. On Monday night, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, tried to speak there.Let’s go to go the videotape.Between ten and twelve students were arrested for disturbing the speech. Read More »

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Video: Israel under Kassam attack

February 9, 2010, 5:54 pm

Just a reminder of why we went to war in December 2008.Let’s go to the videotape.Blixtube.com – Best video collection Read More »

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About the handshake

February 9, 2010, 5:42 pm

At Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch analyzes the handshake between Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal. Read More »

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BBC recognizes Egypt’s role in Gaza ‘blockade’?

February 9, 2010, 4:14 pm

Just Journalism has published a study that shows that the BBC is recognizing Egypt’s role in the ‘blockade’ of Gaza. In the past, the ‘blockade’ was blamed solely on Israel; now both countries’ roles are likely to be recognized, which is at least more accurate. Read More »

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Lipstick

February 9, 2010, 4:12 pm

Heh. Read More »

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Coming to a highway near you

February 9, 2010, 1:56 pm

From I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota: Hat Tip: The Corner via Instapundit. Read More »

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The difference between allowing free speech and funding free speech

February 9, 2010, 12:42 pm

Evelyn Gordon makes an important point about the current controversy involving the New Israel Fund. It’s a point that most Israelis have never understood. Read More »

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Surprise! The ‘West Bank’ economic miracle is mostly foreign aid

February 9, 2010, 11:46 am

I suspected this all along – many of you probably did too.We keep hearing about the ‘economic miracle’ created by ‘Palestinian’ Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (pictured throwing Israeli products into a fire) in the ‘West Bank’ and how the gross domestic product (GDP) for that area is one of the fastest growing in the world. Read More »

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Administrative notice

February 9, 2010, 11:34 am

Because the site was taking too long to load, I have reduced the number of days’ worth of posts that are shown from three to two. This means it will load especially fast on Saturdays.I have also noticed that the search function within the site only works on very recent posts – for anything else you have to use Google. Read More »

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Israel’s first female combat soldier

February 9, 2010, 11:24 am

On Monday, Maariv did a report on Corporal Eleanor Joseph, Israel’s first female Arab combat soldier (link in Hebrew). There’s a Google translation of the story here, and I’m fixing up a few paragraphs of the raw translation below. Read More »

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In video on al-Jazeera, Mabhouh bragged of murdering Israelis

February 9, 2010, 11:06 am

In a video shown by al-Jazeera on Sunday, dead terrorist and arms dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh brags of how he murdered two Israeli soldiers in 1989. Appearing on tape with his face hidden behind a scarf, Mabhuh detailed the kidnapping of Sasportas. Read More »

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But can he look her in the eye?

February 9, 2010, 9:52 am

Andrew Sullivan on Sarah Palin. She can electrify a crowd. She has the kind of charisma that appeals to the sub-rational. and she has crafted a Peronist identity – utterly fraudulent, of course – that is political dynamite in a recession with populism roiling everyone and everything. Read More »

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Video: Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon shakes hands with Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal

February 9, 2010, 8:32 am

This is what you’ve all been waiting for: Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon shakes hands with Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal. Let’s go to the videotape.The Prince has been trying to play down the significance ever since.The LA Times describes what happened. Read More »

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Land for peace is dead: Long live peace for peace

February 9, 2010, 6:46 am

I don’t like everything he does or says, but Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has been telling it like it is a lot lately, and where a lot of other ministers aren’t willing to tread. He did it again at a party Knesset faction meeting on Monday. Read More »

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Please allow extra time for your journey: The driver may need to pray

February 9, 2010, 6:28 am

When I took my now-married daughter to London for a week for a graduation gift, she came back saying “mind the gap, mind the gap.” In fact, the next time I went to London, she insisted I bring her back a t-shirt that says “mind the gap” (yes Americans, they sell them). Read More »

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Where are things headed with Iran?

February 9, 2010, 5:20 am

Following up on war games that show the US and Israel not stopping Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, Rick Richman passes on an exchange that took place with Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley on Friday and concludes Nine months past Read More »

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Overnight music video

February 9, 2010, 4:02 am

This is a clip from Hasc Unforgettable moments with Mordechai Ben David and the Miami Boys Choir.Lyrics: Overnight – a massive construction,On top of Jerusalem mountains.At campus luring innocent souls,To drink from the forbidden fountain.Like many before,They’ve come here for war,We’re warning them now; It won’t pay. Read More »

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We’re not the United States

February 9, 2010, 3:00 am

Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will support a bill introduced by Yisrael Beiteinu that would allow Israelis living abroad to vote (today, only foreign ministry staff and IDF soldiers posted abroad are allowed to vote without returning to Israel). Read More »

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Israel’s moral rules of war

February 9, 2010, 2:52 am

Professor Asa Kasher, who wrote the IDF’s ethical code, has a lengthy piece in the JPost (which also appeared at JCPA) in which he discusses the IDF’s code of ethics and its application to Operation Cast Lead. Here are some things I consider highlights of the discussion. Read More »

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Kadima: Grant amnesty to violent cops

February 9, 2010, 1:40 am

Leave it to Kadima. The party with no values wants to grant amnesty to violent cops, so the next time they won’t hesitate to bash ’settlers’ heads in. Read More »

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Jordan’s Abdullah: ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling’

February 9, 2010, 12:06 am

Jordan’s King Abdullah is playing Chicken Little, touting the ‘fierce moral urgency’ of establishing a ‘Palestinian state’ before the ‘invisible line’ disappears and leaves his kingdom in danger of becoming the ‘Palestinian state’ as it rightfully should. Read More »

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The most unethical act

February 9, 2010, 12:00 am

Jonathan Tobin previews a documentary called The Bombing of Germany, which appeared on PBS’s American experience on Sunday night. The last couple of paragraphs ought to be required reading for both American and Israeli decision makers. The most devastating line of the film is its last, in which historian Conrad C. Crane, director of the U.S. Read More »

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Outsourcing

February 8, 2010, 11:00 pm

Heh. (Click on graphic to expand).Hat Tip: Danielle K. Read More »

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Palin: Obama will win again if he backs Israel and bombs Iran

February 8, 2010, 8:52 pm

On Fox News Sunday, Sarah Palin said that President Obumbler could win re-election if he supported Israel and bombed Iran. Speaking on Fox News, Palin stated, “Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do. Read More »

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Why don’t Obama and Clinton care about women?

February 8, 2010, 8:26 pm

Reacting to the story of the 16-year old girl who was buried alive in Turkey for having male friends, Jennifer Rubin asks: And why is it, then, that the Middle East wrath of the State Department (not to mention the “international community” Read More »

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IDF deporting two ISM ‘activists’? UPDATE: Supreme Court orders them released

February 8, 2010, 6:56 pm

The IDF is deporting two members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who were assisting the rioters along the ’security fence’ and who were being shielded by the ‘Palestinians.’(UPDATE: Or is it? See below). Read More »

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Blockade?

February 8, 2010, 6:08 pm

Here are some statistics pertaining to Israel’s ‘blockade’ of Gaza. In the classic novel “1984,” author George Orwell gives this famous example of how language is manipulated: . “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Read More »

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Change!

February 8, 2010, 5:14 pm

JPost reports that ‘moderate’ ‘Palestinian’ President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen is disappointed that the Obama administration is not putting enough pressure on Israel. Read More »

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Human Rights Watch defends the New Israel Fund

February 8, 2010, 4:20 pm

Human Rights Watch issued the following press release on Sunday in support of the New Israel Fund (Hat Tip: Noah P). Read More »

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