Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Did you know that a rocket could break a truce? I didn’t. Being neither a scientist nor a weapons expert, nor a member of the MSM, I kind of thought that, absent human intervention, rockets would just lie around inert. It’s just always seemed to me that, for a rocket to fly through the air [...]
Bookworm on Jun 18 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Palestinians
Richard Baehr initially supported Ariel Sharon’s decision to withdraw Israel from the Gaza Strip. He now believes that the withdrawal was a terrible mistake, and carefully explains why. As for me, I don’t think it was a mistake then. I think it collapsed for a reason that could not be foreseen. Let me explain.
What I [...]
Bookworm on Jun 17 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Hamas, Israel
Hamas never enters into truces with an eye to peace. It enters into truces with an eye to getting its troops rested and rearmed before the next offensive. Israel, equipped with knowledge of both core Islamic doctrine (hudna) and Hamas’ own past behavior, nevertheless keeps giving its opponent a breather, rather than keeping the pressure [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Iran
Michael Ledeen has a written a wonderful article that uses the evil in the world’s recent past (Hitler, Stalin), as a springboard for discussing the West’s resolute refusal to see the evil in its midst. I think the following paragraphs are the core of his argument, but the whole article is well worth reading:
By [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Hamas, Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians
I’m beginning to think that incrementalism is one of the most dangerous things out there, whether it’s the way Obama leaks out the truth about his big lies or the way in which the jihadists keep asking for little things from us — no pigs, no dogs, no occupied territories. As to that latter bit [...]
Bookworm on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Palestinians, Syria
The New York Times again gave a forum to Jimmy Carter. This time Carter defends his immoral, illegal decision to consort with terrorists, something that would be objectionable if the ordinary private citizen were to do it, but that rises to outrageous levels of indecency when a former President does the same thing.
Carter’s most [...]
Bookworm on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Congress, Hamas, Jimmy Carter
Congress isn’t actually doing anything beyond complaining about how upset it is, but I was very pleased nevertheless to see that two representatives have sponsored a bipartisan resolution specifically mentioning Carter in connection with Hamas and reiterating that Hamas is a dangerous terrorist organization that should be isolated, not courted. To date, it has 47 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hamas, Jimmy Carter
Hamas is an official terrorist organization. That minor detail, however, doesn’t seem to deter President Jimmy Carter, a man who has never met a sleazy Islamic or communist terrorist he doesn’t admire and trust:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in remarks to air on Sunday that his upcoming visit to the Middle East probably [...]
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