Tag Archive 'Israel'
Danny Lemieux on Jun 30 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Nuclear Disarmament, United Nations
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 [...]
Bookworm on May 26 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel
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 [...]
Danny Lemieux on Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Energy, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Saudi Arabia, Self-reliance
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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 15 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia
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 [...]
Bookworm on Feb 11 2011 | Filed under: Egypt, Israel
In honor of Mubarak’s strategic retreat to Sharm El Sheikh, here is the anthem of the 1967 War, which saw Sharm El Sheikh end in Israel’s hands, a situation that lasted up until Egypt got it back in 1982, as part of the peace treaty:
Bookworm on Dec 05 2010 | Filed under: Christians, Iran, Israel, Jews
I struggled for a few minutes to find a clever title for this post that would convey the volume of information I’m about to download from my brain, but realized I couldn’t. A laundry list description will just have to do. You see, last night, I had the pleasure of attending a Hanukkah party that [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2010 | Filed under: Muslim violence, National Security
Sometimes, a reader leaves a comment that is too good not to elevate to post status. This time, it was Spartacus, writing in response to my question about real ways (not stupid, embarrassing, intrusive ways) to improve airport security: *** A childhood friend of mine got married in the Tel Aviv area in 2002. By [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Britain, England, Islam, Israel, Muslim violence
Yes, you read that post caption correctly. British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge, in a speech in the House of Lords, claims that terrorism around the world is Israel’s fault, because Israel treats the Palestinian’s badly: On the issue of world conflict prevention, Tonge then said: “It is a disgrace to us all that problems such [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2010 | Filed under: Israel
Judo, which I don’t do, is a beautiful martial art predicated on using your opponent’s own momentum against him. Gabriel Latner, a 19 year old Canadian, has proven himself to be a master of intellectual judo. You can read here the overall context within which he exercised his intellectual martial arts; and here you can [...]
Bookworm on Oct 21 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters
[Despite being about the pompous and boring Tom Friedman, this is not an appropriate post for the under-18 crowd.] I don’t think that there’s any doubt BUT that Tom Friedman is an idiot. His worship for Communist China — which in typical Friedman fashion routinely takes the form of acknowledging its failings, yet nevertheless lusting [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel
Barry Rubin thinks he knows. I would say “what a sad, pathetic little man,” except for the fact that his “sad, pathetic little man” is one of the richest people in the world, and is using his personal pathologies to destroy a nation and its people.
Bookworm on Sep 15 2010 | Filed under: Israel
José María Aznar. It’s not a name that meant much to me in the past, since Spain’s internal politics weren’t of overriding interesting to me. It’s a name that interests me a great deal now, because it is the name of a man of extraordinary integrity, of true righteousness. It is he who started an [...]
Bookworm on Jul 04 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel
I spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair. It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America. The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute nausea, and being suspended upside [...]
Bookworm on Jun 27 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia
In 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked in dewy flowers. What actually [...]
Bookworm on Jun 10 2010 | Filed under: Israel
While Obama’s team slobbered all over itself to join up with the UN crowd to investigate Israel’s blockade against a hostile country and its efforts to enforce that blockade, the Jewish Community Relations Council is seeking signatures on a petition asking for a somewhat more useful investigation: one into the affiliations (and, I’m sure, terrorist [...]
Bookworm on Jun 10 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Israel
Are you aware that Iran was caught smuggling weapons into Gaza? Do you think Israelis have any legitimate reason to be concerned that Hamas may try to receive weapons via boat? Did you know that Hamas activists have shot about 4000 rockets into southern Israel since Israel withdrew form Gaza? Does that trouble you? Do [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel
In my post about Helen Thomas, I focused on her incredible stupidity in saying that Jews are the interlopers and “Palestinians” the indigenous people. In fact, the opposite is true. Jews have lived in Israel non-stop since about 1800 B.C. The “Palestinians” — a name I put in scare quotes because there really aren’t such [...]
Bookworm on Jun 07 2010 | Filed under: Israel
I attended a very large pro-Israel rally at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles today. Numerus blocks were closed off. First thing, whatever the media reports, there were more people there than they claim. To my untrained eye, there appeared to be many thousands. The crowd was tightly packed for blocks. There were so many people we [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Uplifting stories
I’ve written about the warriors among us. By that, I do not mean people who are simply willing to kill. That’s easy, if you have the right mind set. Instead, I mean people armed with an overwhelming sense of justice and morality, who will push themselves far above and beyond ordinary people in order to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Hamas, Israel
Yesterday, White House officials were telling Jake Tapper that Obama would support Israel. Any minute moments of hope I cherished that the administration actually meant what it said were swiftly dashed. This is Obama’s version of support: The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2010 | Filed under: Israel
I like Bibi. I have always liked Bibi. The world might have been a different place if his arrogance hadn’t knocked him out of the running for a while there. Here, in its entirety, is his post-flotilla statement. The statement also includes video embeds, so I urge you to follow the link and view the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2010 | Filed under: Israel
Israel made a tactical error in defending a direct assault on her legal blockade. The blockade, incidentally, does nothing to prevent Gaza from importing food, fuel, and all the other necessities and luxuries of ordinary, non-terrorist life. Instead, the blockade’s purpose is to prevent Gaza from importing massive amounts of weapons from Syria and Iran, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2010 | Filed under: Israel, United Nations
This is the public outreach YouTube site for the Israel Defense Forces. Bookmark it, send it to your friends, check it often. Here is the latest IDF real time video from the ship boarding, showing the “peace” activists in full fury: The West is being played — although perhaps that’s the wrong thing to say. [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2010 | Filed under: Israel, San Francisco
Word got out that ANSWER, a Communist front group, is planning a protest at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco today (June 1), so Stand With Us in San Francisco is trying to gather for a counter-protest. So, the email you see below is from a group friendly to Israel, giving information about ANSWER’s protest, [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2010 | Filed under: Israel
For once, Israel is trying swiftly to retain some semblance of control over the message. Using facebook, the Navy is disseminating videos of the incident. I’ll show them here, followed by the IDF’s narrative, which the IDF included with the YouTube footage. This video narrative begins yesterday, when the IDF carefully warned the flotilla about [...]
