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I’d heard about this video while I was abroad, but didn’t have the chance to see it.  Having seen it now, I must share it:

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Please watch this and send it to your friends:

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Yid With Lid reminds us that July 4th marks more than just America’s independence day.  (H/t:  Sadie)  It’s also the anniversary of Israel’s spectacular rescue at Entebbe in 1976.  That was another place and time, when most in the world actually cared about Jewish lives.  I wrote about the rescue back in 2007 and reprint [...]

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I wish Israel would do more of these short, informative, user-friendly videos:

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North Korea assumes presidency of U.N. arms control conference http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/29/north-korea-assumes-presidency-of-u-n-arms-control-conference/#ixzz1Ql1gXN44 “Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world’s disarmament agency,” the executive director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer said in a statement protesting the move. “It’s asking [...]

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Hat tip:  Power Line, who got it from Pamela Geller

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I forget in which thread it arose, but someone tried to argue that Israelis were disappointed by Netanyahu’s performance, because the liberal media concluded they were.  Barry Rubin challenges that line of thinking.

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If you haven’t listened to Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, you must.  And I mean listen.  I’m usually a speech reader, because I read quickly, and seldom have the time or the patience to sit down and listen to someone give a 45 minute speech. In addition, some speakers have so many rhetorical tics and twitches [...]

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If we’re going to do a Right of Return, I think we should be methodical.  Those who had first dibs on the land currently known as Israel get first dibs today.  Let’s work our way down the list: The first known occupiers were probably the Canaanites.  As far as I know, there are no Canaanites [...]

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Excerpts from Netanyahu’s speech to AIPAC.  Please note his clarity, as opposed to the muddled, self-exculpatory, whining, ahistorical, ignorant speech of our own “great communicator.” Yesterday, they let me out. My wife got to visit Washington’s majestic memorials. I read Jefferson’s timeless words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created [...]

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Given Obama’s obsession with the 1948 borders, this seemed like an appropriate day to resurrect some contemporary coverage of the Six Day War, culled from a commemorative issue that Life Magazine published back in 1967.  (For those with long memories, I first published these excerpts back in 2006.  It’s a shame Obama wasn’t reading my [...]

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I agree with the following thoughts, and pass them on to you for what they’re worth. From Peter Wehner, giving the historical context that makes Obama’s position appalling: To be specific: Is Obama aware that Israel has been willing to “act boldly to advance a lasting peace” since before its existence, when Israel accepted a [...]

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If you haven’t watched it already, please see Bibi’s remarks, which very, very politely explain to Obama that his speech yesterday was horse poop.

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Obama is supposed to be hot stuff when it comes to communicating.  I’ve long had my doubts, but his reference in today’s speech to Israel’s 1967 borders should put to rest forever the media created canard that this is a guy who can get his points across.  You know why?  Because he committed the heinous [...]

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The following isn’t my normal musical choice, but I’m highlighting Deep Purple today in honor of the band’s integrity: Here’s the back story.  Deep Purple, the 70s hard rock band, is heading back to Israel for the third time.  Unlike other bands, Deep Purple will not pressured to back off of a booking: Ahead of [...]

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I’m with Sadie, that there’s something deeply off-putting about Obama casually applying the ancient Passover story to the uprisings in the Middle East: Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in Muslim uprisings. In his annual [...]

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The Muslims, the UN, the Europeans, the Left — they all imagine a world without Israel as a world that will be peaceful and calm.  Doubtful.  Very doubtful. What we know for certain is that a world without Israel is a less rich world — not in terms of wealth, but it terms of applied [...]

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Israel as the next Saudia Arabia?   According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html   These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas reserves, also anticipated to be [...]

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Out in the wide world, every day is hate and boycott Israel.  Among the sane people, Wednesday, March 30 is buy Israeli Day, when we make an effort to purchase Israeli products.  If nothing else, get some Passover matzoh or some Ahava skin care products.  Trader Joe’s is also always a good stop for Israeli [...]

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The world’s useful idiots never get it.  Israel targets Palestinian soldiers, and is terribly troubled when she inadvertently kills the civilians amongst whom the fighters hide.  The Palestinians deliberately target civilians, and try to kill the largest number possible.  Today, they succeeded: A bus explosion in Jerusalem has caused dozens of casualties, police said Wednesday. [...]

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Poor Cassandra was cursed by the Gods with the gift of making accurate prophecies that no one would believe.  The disasters she foresaw always came true, but she was helpless to stop people (and nations) from racing towards their doom.  The endings were always so terrible — and Cassandra was herself swept up in them [...]

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If there is one defining characteristic of liberals, it is their sense that they are better than everyone else.  Nowhere was that more explicitly illustrated than in Ron Schiller’s comments: In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives. Schiller wasn’t unique, just unguarded.  The whole point of liberalism, [...]

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I’m so upset about what happened at the UN today, I can’t speak (or write).  Hot Air explains what happened:  after casting a veto against the Security Council’s vote on Israeli settlements, the U.S.’s Ambassador, Susan Rice, launched into a vitriolic attack that would have come easily from the lips of the Syrian or Iranian [...]

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If you want a good lesson in the depth, breadth and virulence of Muslim antisemitism, Andrew Bostom provides it.  Then think long and hard about the fact that the current administration is siding with these Muslims at the United Nations.  I’m still struggling to come to terms with the appalling nature of the administration’s decision, [...]

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Let’s think about Israel from the Israeli viewpoint for a minute, shall we?  It is, by any standards, an extremely small country.  Within its own borders, it is a sophisticated Western-style nation that leads the world in scientific innovation.  Its political system is a parliamentary style democratic republic.  Although its system isn’t perfect, no one [...]

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