Bookworm on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters
We hear a lot about dead or wounded Palestinian children, each of whose death or injury is a tragedy. Funnily enough, though, the MSM falls silent when it comes to the Israeli children:
There were a lot of tears of sadness and pain on Monday at the convalescence wing of the Sheba Medical Center at [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Israel
While fanatics fight, ordinary people try to live. In Hebron, a City with a sadly bloody history, a few good men have had the courage to try to achieve stability and some measure of harmony:
Heads of local Palestinian clans in Hebron met on Sunday with representatives from Israeli settlements in the area and [...]
Bookworm on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel
We now know that the Gazans instant collapse into existential despair the last time Israel reduced their electricity flow was a carefully choreographed dance that served two purposes: it enabled Hamas to knock down the wall Egypt had built (a wall about which no one in the West ever complained) and it gave photo [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Here’s what I wrote yesterday:
Laer does a fantastic post about Israel’s decision to cut of power to Gaza. I would be more impressed if it weren’t for the fact that I know that, in a day or two, when Palestinian shrieking reaches fever pitch, the UN, Europe and the US will gang up on Israel [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a deadline, so I thought I’d just give you a few links to things that interested me this morning:
Rick Moran highlights Zimbabwe’s insane inflation, another horrible indictment of Mugabe, who took one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous nations and reduced it to abject poverty.
An Iraq War widow, trying to help others, was [...]
Bookworm on Jan 18 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Leftist morality, Media matters
In one of my recent posts fawning over Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, I mentioned his discussion about the fascistic love for the “fake but accurate” approach to “truth.” Thus,
As the cross-burning incident at Cornell demonstrated, this preference for [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jews
If you’re a liberal Jewish voter, and tremendously excited about Obama’s candidacy as the fulfillment of the civil rights movement, slow down, Pardner. Jews have always assumed that, because they supported the civil rights movement with enthusiasm and hard work, there would be a quid pro quo by which blacks, recognizing Jews as fellow victims, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Although I think he’s fallen into the stupidity trap that plagues all American presidents who get embroiled in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I actually don’t doubt the possibility that Bush will force through another peace agreement within the next year. These agreements are easy to reach, with the Israelis so desperate for peace (especially under the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2007 | Filed under: Holocaust, Israel, Jews, Palestinians
Here you will find amazing film clips from almost one hundred years of 20th Century Jewish history, including images and testimony from Eichmann’s trial. It is a reminder that, while the Jews wanted Israel as an escape from bloodshed and tyranny, the Palestinians joyfully imagine their lands awash in a sea of blood.
Hat tip: [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Israel, Muslim violence
In my post about Jews’ love for Israel and America, I noted Michael Medved’s thought experiment, which was to imagine whether world attitudes towards America would change if Israel magically vanished, as well as his conclusion that nothing would change. Nevertheless, in the comments to that post — and perhaps inevitably given how widespread [...]
Bookworm on Dec 09 2007 | Filed under: America, Israel
I did something fun tonight: I went to a moderated talk concerning Israel. The speakers were Dennis Prager, John Podhoretz and Mona Charen, with Michael Medved moderating. As you can imagine, the discussion was informed, vigorous, amusing, intelligent and opinionated. I enjoyed every minute of it and I gathered from the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2007 | Filed under: Israel, Syria
My view of the Annapolis talks has been that they will turn into something of a gang bang, with Israel, led by the inept Olmert, as the victim. I just know that Israel is going to concede and concede and concede, with nothing to show for the experience except a ruined reputation and some [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2007 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Regarding Annapolis, I’ve had little to say. I feel as if I’m watching a car accident in slow motion, horrified by the spectacle, but helpless to do anything. I do have one hope, though, and one comment. My hope is that the Arab nations attending get into “the enemy of my enemy [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Israel
If you’re a friend of Israel, go here, read and, if you’re like me, you’ll then want to take the recommended action, action that I already suggested here.
I won’t badmouth Condi Rice here, but I’d like to.
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Bookworm on Nov 23 2007 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel
If you are like me and think that it’s insane to use the Annapolis gather to pressure Israel to divide Jerusalem, you can make your voice heard through a free phone call. Go to this link and follow the instructions.
If you’re waffling, keep in mind that, when Jerusalem was in Arab hands after the Israeli [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Israel
England recently made a very big to do over a state visit from the King of Saudi Arabia, the land in which women are veiled, rape victims are beaten, thieves are dislimbed, and Bible owners are imprisoned and killed. That place. That place that is the antithesis of all Western values. However, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: United Nations
It’s obvious, of course, that the UN is no friend to Israel when one reads any report of the proceedings that constantly emanate from UN headquarters. Most of the UN’s effort goes into denouncing Israel. However, a lot of people still naively believe that, on the ground, things are going to be different. That’s why [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Children, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
A few months ago, I took umbrage at a BBC news story that reported that Israel killed Palestinian children and only saw fit to mention, in the 5th and 6th paragraphs, that the children were fiddling around rocket launchers when Israel fired its missiles. I felt that the news was being reported to demonize [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
DQ often says — and I know he’s correct — that I tend to be too harsh on the media, forgetting that the media’s goal is to sell the most interesting spin pm a story, even if that story doesn’t comport with my view of how the same story should be reported. He and [...]
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 Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Hollywood, Jimmy Carter, Media matters
I like to tweak NY Times movie reviews (heck, any MSM movie reviews), because of the relentless Progressive punditry that characterizes them, regardless of the movie’s actual content. With a movie about Jimmy Carter on the table, I was therefore prepared for a full frontal case of anti-Bush commentary in the review. It wasn’t there. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
I have to say that, this week, when I was casting my votes for the Watcher’s Council, I had a really hard time. The caliber of articles that the council members submitted this week — both their own and someone else’s — was incredibly high. I kept going back and forth between articles, practically parsing [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2007 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
A Palestinian human rights group is complaining about major abuses against Palestinian civilians. The malfeasors stand accused of
“extra-judicial and willful killings and shooting at combatants and civilians after capturing them;”
seizing people “in their homes” and dumping their bodies “in remote areas;”
executing “wounded persons during their evacuation to hospitals;”
pushing people “to their deaths from tall [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2007 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel
A few stories caught my eye regarding the Middle East:
The Palestinians say that they won’t negotiate with Israel until Israel agrees in advance to their demands. (That’s an interesting negotiating tactic and definitely one to try during my next Court-ordered settlement conference.)
Egypt has discovered a smuggling tunnel into Gaza, a squiblet that tells lots about [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Iran, Israel, Jihad, Media matters
The media is congratulating itself for “exposing” Ahmadinejad with its constant focus on it’s “we have no gays in Iran” statement. Ha, ha, ha! Isn’t the man an idiot! Look, America, he thinks there are no gays in Iran!
Ahmadinejad is right, of course, when it comes to Iran. But he’s not [...]
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