Bookworm on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Even thought I didn’t and couldn’t post yesterday, it didn’t mean I wasn’t paying attention. I have a whole bunch of links I want to share with you. I won’t take too much time on any one link, because I have only a short time before the Mom stuff starts again (summer, you know), but [...]
Bookworm on Aug 02 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Palestinians
Sometimes, the bizarre nature of the Middle East defies description (all emphasis mine):
Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles in Gaza City between forces of the rival Hamas and Fatah movements on Saturday, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members.
The fighting, which lasted most of the day, was sparked when [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters
I’ve been moving around the internet a bit looking at stories about the way in which Israel turned a brutal, mass murderer over in exchange for two bodies. What’s fascinating is that the stories keep calling it a “prisoner swap,” as if there’s parity in the exchange. Prisoner swap, after all, implies that Israel gave [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Muslim violence
Palestinians and Hezbollah are wildly celebrating the release of a great Lebanese hero, Samir Kuntar, from Israeli prison. Their excitement matches that felt in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was finally released. Nelson Mandela, of course, was a principled man who spoke up against apartheid and was imprisoned for exercising his freedom of speech against [...]
Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Israel
In a post I did yesterday about the way in which liberals cherry-pick religious writings to support their ideological viewpoints, I discussed Rabbi Gamliel’s ancient edict about hostages, to the effect that the general good (tikkun olam) mandates that families may not pay a premium for a kidnapped family member, even if they can afford [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: Gun control, Israel, Palestinians
This is not a picture in America, but the top two pictures in this story illustrate perfectly why it matters that a nation’s citizens — the vast majority of whom are law abiding — can bear arms.
It is also interesting to note that, while the Beeb instantly tried to paint the Israelis as killers, this [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Honest Reporting captured the first spin that the BBC put on the terrible story of the latest massacre in Israel (a Palestinian versus Israelis, of course) — and, as always, it was Israel who was spun as the brutal aggressor. Orwell clearly understood something in the British psyche when he wrote 1984 — or, more [...]
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 May 31 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
One of the things that has infuriated me for years in the roiling battle between Israel and her neighbors is Israel’s utter ineptitude at courting the media. For decades, after ever single “event,” the Palestinians offered dozens of sympathetic people up for interviews with the MSM, while the Israelis offered terse, uninformative commentaries from tight [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Iran, Israel, Palestinians
The other day I did a lengthy post explaining (to my own satisfaction) why there is nothing “McCarthyite” about the fact that American Jews assume that those who support Palestinians are not just supporting peace, but are in fact hostile to Israel or anti-Semitic — or both. This is because, I said, the relationship [...]
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 May 04 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Israel, Military, Palestinians
We received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in public [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
The New York Times periodically pops up with articles in which its perplexed employees report that the incarceration rate in the US is up but, for reasons they cannot fathom, crime is down. Life is so difficult if you’re absolutely certain that “A” and “B” can’t possibly be related or, even worse, that “A” [...]
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 23 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
One of the common tropes on the Left is that the insanely land-hungry Jews have crowded the Gazans onto an impossibly small strip of land as part of their plan to commit genocide against the Palestinian people. As with so many of the attacks against Israel, this is false, and Soccer Dad explains why.
Sphere: Related [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
I was trolling through the internet this morning and came upon a New York Times article entitled “In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace.” Hmm, insults . . . . Are those things like “You’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny,” or “Those jeans make you look fat,” or “This is [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations
In today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel:
If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians, he said - but on Palestinians [...]
Bookworm on Mar 26 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
In the Leftist world of moral equivalence, there is no right or wrong, there are just cycles, with everything being a meaningless tit-for-tat. In this world, you simply assign blame, not by conduct and intent, but by Leftist assigned “level of oppression.” HonestReporting has a good little video exposing the dishonesty behind this world view.
Sphere: [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2008 | Filed under: Palestinians
Starting with a recent poll taken of Palestinians — one that showed that, despite the Gaza withdrawal, they fully support increased killings in Israel — Richard Baehr has written an exceptionally good article examining the Palestinians. For me to analyze it or try to summarize it would be a waste of your time, when you [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Normally, when a gunman enters a school and treats students like birds in a turkey shoot, the media covers the matter obsessively, dwelling for days on the horror of those trapped in the carnage — and this is true whether the shooting takes place at home or abroad. Such was not the case when [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
This moment of moral clarity wasn’t exactly what CNN interviewer, Fionnuala Sweeney, was seeking. She was trying to use the seminary slaughter as yet another talking point in the “Palestinians as pushed-to-the-limit victims of Israeli aggression” line of thinking. Unfortunately for her, and fortunately for CNN viewers, interviewee David Horovitz absolutely refused to [...]
Bookworm on Mar 07 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians
These are happy Palestinians:
You can see more wildly happy Palestinians here.
This is why they are having a celebratory party, complete with drums, bagpipes, guns and babies:
You can see more examples of the images and facts that give the Palestinians their jollies here and here.
Do you still get the honorific of “human being” if you celebrate [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: United Nations
For a year, Gaza has rained over 2,000 rockets onto Israeli soil, aiming specifically for civilian communities. There was, of course, nary a peep from the UN. Now that Israel has struck back, targeting specifically militants who happen to hide amongst civilian populations, the UN Rights Council springs into action:
The U.N. Human Rights Council has [...]
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