Bookworm on Jul 17 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Hezbollah, Israel
In my post yesterday about the corpse/prisoner swap in which Israel exchanged, I noted that an inviolate body is a very important part of Jewish religious law, going back to the ancient Jewish revulsion against pagan sacrifice and the subsequent desecration of corpses. (I also noted that I didn’t think that was a sufficient reason [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hezbollah
Not that they were ever really on, but when it comes to Obama, my gloves are off. I’ve concluded that the man is not just a liar and an ideologue, he’s stupid. With regard to the situation in Lebanon (where Hezbollah is using terror to topple the power of the democratically elected government), [...]
Bookworm on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Syria
I respect Condi Rice for the most part, but have thought her naive for believing (or, at least, appearing to believe) that the Palestinians want peace with Israel, as opposed to Israel in pieces. David Brooks, however, thinks that there is a method to her madness, and that Iran’s follies may result in a back [...]
Bookworm on Feb 02 2007 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel
Let’s see if I’ve got my chronology right here:
On January 29, Hamas and Fatah announced a ceasefire prompted, I think by a reminder from their compatriots that their real job is to kill Jews.
On February 1, Hamas gunman ambushed Fatah trucks, killing 6 people, injuring 70, and kidnapping 15 people. A Fatah spokesman seemed [...]
Bookworm on Jan 15 2007 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
I’ve long thought the UN irredeemably corrupt, with the miserable Kofi Annan merely a symptom, not a cause of the problem there. I’m wondering, though, if I might have to revise that thinking just a little bit, in light of something new at UNIFIL. Thanks to Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles, I’ve learned that [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, Media matters
Israel has usually, although not always, been adept in the battlefield. She’s been a total failure in the media. However, for the first time, I’m seeing signs that she’s fighting back:
Israel’s military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video images and prisoner interrogations [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2006 | Filed under: France, Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
From American Thinker:
The French will flex military their “military muscle” to shoot down Israeli observation jets. After years of ignoring Hezbollah preparations to terrorize Israel, after hiding a video that could have helped Israel find out what happened to soldiers murdered by Hezbollah in 2001 (the kidnappers used trucks with UNIFIL identification, trucks that UNIFIL [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah
As you read this about Hezbollah’s victory party, remember this: “[A]t the end of the day, even if you put a calico dress on it and call it Florence, a pig is still a pig.” Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corporation, Inc., 147 F.Supp.2d 668, (S.D. Tex. 2001). In this case, you can call [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
Writing at National Review Online, Emanuele Ottolenghi makes a good case that, while Israel might not have won decisively in this last go round, Hezbollah did not achieve any of its objectives at all, and suffered some serious losses all around, both in terms of soldiers and materiels. Ottolenghi also shows that the myth [...]
Bookworm on Aug 27 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah
As part of a superb article about Hezbollah, the war with Israel, and the larger ramifications of that war and its outcome, Dan Gordon properly identifies Hezbollah and its goals:
Hezb’allah is not your father’s terrorist organization. This is not a group of loosely affiliated cells of would-be hijackers or suicide bombers. Hezb’allah is a terrorist [...]
Bookworm on Aug 19 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel
The meme has been that Israel lost. Hezbollah still exists, Israel had to cede control of her fight to the UN (blech), and so on and so on. However, winning or losing is often described in terms of what the parties to the engagement sought to achieve. Hezbollah sought to destroy Israel. Israel sought to [...]
Bookworm on Aug 18 2006 | Filed under: Arabs, Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
At the UN today, the “Arab Group” made its ad hoc contribution to the Draft International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. To the existing preamble paragraph, they proposed including this language to describe what they perceive as an existing problem:
“Concerned that situations of armed conflict, foreign occupation and the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 17 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, Silly Stuff
In the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, stories are popping up all over that Hezbollah, Iran and the New York Times have loudly been trumpeting a Hezbollah victory. Others say the opposite is true. And even I, while I don’t think Hezbollah won, don’t think Israel won other, something that may be [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, Uncategorized
This is the start of a Stratfor analysis I received today:
An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army faced an Arab army and did not defeat it — did not render it incapable of continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 14 2006 | Filed under: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Euthanasia, Hezbollah, War crimes
Before the Nazis killed the Jews, they executed those they deemed unfit because of physical or mental handicaps. My goyish uncle, who was institutionalized because he was “crazy” (we now think he might have been homosexual), was one of the first the Nazis executed in their drive to purify the Aryan nation.
In yet another [...]
Bookworm on Aug 13 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, United Nations
Again, fairly overwhelming work and family commitments will keep my blogging nonexistent, but there’s interesting stuff in the Middle East as I discovered when I took a break to read up-to-the-minute news and analysis at the Captain’s Quarters. The Lebanese government is falling, Hezbollah is fighting harder, and Israel may actually have ended up in [...]
Bookworm on Aug 11 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel
Say it ain’t so, Joe. The latest report is that Olmert accepted the UN brokered peace deal. Without even knowing the details, I’m absolutely certain that any “peace” deal that goes through the is a loss for Israel:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal and informed the United States of [...]
Bookworm on Aug 11 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah
I can’t remember where I read it, but someone pointed out that, while in Iraq the terrorists like to show themselves, Hezbollah prefers an off camera presence, with the emphasis on the real and imagined bomb damage to Lebanese people and structures. It is interesting, therefore, to see at least one Hezbollah face. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 11 2006 | Filed under: BBC, England, Hezbollah, Media matters
The foiled bomb plot in England is again bringing into stark relief how the BBC manipulates the news to hide the Islamist component behind all the terror attacks worldwide and to focus blame on Israel. The most recent indictment is a Wall Street Journal commentary from William Shawcross, a British writer. As far [...]
Bookworm on Aug 10 2006 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
I just got to my computer now, which has me many hours behind early risers, let alone those early risers on the East Cost. I’m therefore only just assimilating the news about the foiled plot to blow up multiple US-bound British planes in the air. My first thought on hearing the news was [...]
Bookworm on Aug 09 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel
Just because I was curious, I checked out the Kuwait Times online to see how an Arab nation that’s pretty much on the sidelines is reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah War. I didn’t have to look very far. One of the headlined articles is “Israel on baby-killing spree.” Bizarrely, the article not only [...]
Bookworm on Aug 09 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Media matters
My past few photograph posts have been following stories about Hajj’s decision to manipulate the photographs he took. Of course, that’s not the only thing that’s happening in Lebanon. Another huge problem is the fact that Hezbollah is faking entire scenes for photographers’ benefit. EU Referendum follows one such staged event which is especially disturbing [...]
Bookworm on Aug 09 2006 | Filed under: Anti-war, Hezbollah, Iran, Islam, Israel
The MSM has fallen into the comforting (to it) rote of “land for peace” regarding the Israel/Hezbollah conflict. After all, this worked wonderfully in the media for the past 20 years when they were reporting about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. So well, that they were utterly unperturbed when Israel gave land, but got [...]
Bookworm on Aug 08 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Media matters
NPR ran a short segment on the faked Reuters photos, using an interview with a Reuter’s photoeditor. It soft pedals the whole thing, including omitting any mention about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs, which exposed the fraud; and letting stand unchallenged the photographer’s new claim, not that it was a mistake, but that he [...]
Bookworm on Aug 07 2006 | Filed under: Hezbollah, Israel, Syria
From Debka:
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose: Hizballah’s rocket offensive against Israel is orchestrated from a rear command located in the Syrian town of Anjar
August 7, 2006, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Israeli officials keep on insisting that Syria must be kept out of the conflict, the fact is that the Assad regime is already in it up to [...]
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