Tag Archive 'Palestinians'
Bookworm on Dec 01 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Lefties on Parade, Media matters, Republicans, Socialism
Tweet I’ve had the same ten tabs open in Firefox this entire day. I feel like a madman, trying to create order out of the chaos in my mind. I’m convinced that there’s a thread tying together these articles, but I can’t figure out precisely what that thread is. Maybe it’s just that each is [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2012 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet A simple but effective video: Hat tip: JoshuaPundit
Bookworm on Nov 28 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing someone slice and dice Paul Krugman’s latest idiocies. Randall Hoven does a magnificent job. The only sad thing about it is that he’s preaching to the choir. The ones who really should read his article — namely, the ones who think Krugman is actually smart and honest [...]
Bookworm on Nov 26 2012 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Reality, stripped of politically-correct pap — or, Hamas is even worse than the Nazis:
Bookworm on Nov 21 2012 | Filed under: Israel, Leftist morality, Media matters
Tweet One of the really icky things about the Left is that it lacks a moral compass. There is no good or evil. There are only evil haves and victimized have-nots. In a sane moral universe, cultural arbiters would readily be able to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in the Middle East. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2012 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Yesterday, I wrote about those rare individuals who can rise above fear in a terrorist state to become part of the solution, rather than a mere victim of the problem. With perfect timing, a friend sent me an article from the Times of Israel, about Mosab Hasson Yousef, a young man of unusual moral [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Palestinians, United Nations
Tweet Another powerful Danny Ayalon video. Watch it, then, please, please, please share it with people. (Or view it here if it doesn’t load on my webpage.) Incidentally, will it make you feel better to know that Danny Ayalon, reciting just the facts set forth in the above video, is causing some embarrassment for the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 15 2011 | Filed under: Media matters
Tweet “Facts are stubborn things.” — John Adams. “Ideologues are even more stubborn than facts.” — Bookworm A few nights ago, Mr. Bookworm watched the movie Shattered Glass with the children. It’s a fairly good retelling of the way in which Stephen Glass, a young feature writer at The New Republic, wrote a series of [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2011 | Filed under: Palestinians
Tweet Others have said it, but I like best the way Evelyn Gordon said it. After confirming the historic accuracy of Newt’s claim (namely, that Arabs moved into the land at the end of the 19th century, rather than having lived there since time immemorial), Gordon goes on: One might ask why this should matter: [...]
Bookworm on Oct 07 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Wouldn’t you like to have lunch with this guy?
Bookworm on Sep 21 2011 | Filed under: Palestinians, United Nations
Tweet Are you familiar with Achmed the Dead Terrorist? Jeff Dunham, a ventriloquist, came up with a skeleton-shaped dummy named Achmed. Achmed is a self-identified terrorist, with the catch-phrase “I kill you.” Here, see for yourself: Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with Achmed, read this bit of wisdom from the Palestinian representative to the UN: [...]
Bookworm on Sep 14 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Palestinians
Tweet Pro-Palestinian putzes have consistently claimed that if Israel would just bend a little more, and still a little more, then there would be peace in the Middle East. The execrable President Carter (I always affix that adjective to this loathsome human being) now claims that he’s being forced to urge a UN vote for [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2010 | Filed under: Israel, San Francisco
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Capitalism, Palestinians, Second Amendment
Tweet “Logic! Why don’t they teach logic at these schools?” — C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Neither Data nor Mr. Spock, two relentlessly logical creations, could ever be liberals or Democrats or Progressives, or whatever the Hell else they’re calling themselves nowadays. (For convenience, I’ll just lump them all together under [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel
Tweet Never assume stupidity when malevolence can apply — words that aptly characterize the Obama administration’s approach to Israel. Evelyn Gordon takes a look at the new “proximity” talks between Israel and the Palestinians, talks that no one expects to yield any results. After all, the predicate is that the Obama administration has made demands [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet We all know that Palestinians are victims, right? That’s why they get a free pass for eating up billions of dollars in foreign aid without establishing viable communities, for launching tens of thousands of missiles aimed at Israeli civilians, and for periodically boarding Israeli buses or entering Israeli restaurants to get an up-close-and-personal approach [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet For anyone struggling to understand what has happened in the Middle East since the Oslo “Peace” Accord, I cannot recommend anything more highly than Evelyn Gordon’s Commentary magazine article, The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace. The so-called peace process, by destroying Israel’s long-standing legal rights, caused her to lose focus and room to negotiate. [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet With every passing post, I am more impressed by Evelyn Gordon’s opinings about Israel. Today’s post is another home run, this time showing, in clear language, that the Palestinian demand for a two-state solution is one more dangerous, expensive fraud, in an age of dangerous, expensive frauds.
Bookworm on Nov 11 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet I think Obama has done a good thing for Israel. With his abandonment of Israel, leaving Israel hanging out in the wind on her own, even the Israeli Left has been forced to face a reality they previously denied: Palestinians are not partners in peace. They are a force aimed at Israel’s total destruction [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Palestinians
Tweet Here’s the beginning of the story about why $200 million in taxpayer money is being poured into the bottomless pit that is the Palestinian people (emphasis mine): The United States has transferred $200 million to the Palestinian government to help ease a growing budget deficit, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Media matters
Tweet Most of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value. Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein. They care deeply, but they’ve seen it all. To [...]
Bookworm on Jun 30 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Israel stopped a contingent of Hamas supporters who tried to run a blockade bringing money and supplies into Gaza. Cynthia McKinney figures prominently in their number: The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists – including a San Rafael woman – trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced [...]
Bookworm on Jun 19 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel
Tweet Things are not going well for Mr. Obama in Washington. (Please note the studied lack of an honorific in the way I am referring to the man in the White House. I don’t think he worked hard enough to earn it. The things we learn when we listen to our BabBoxer tapes.) I mean, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 18 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Palestinians
Tweet Do you recall that, in France, Palestinians raided a grocery store and stripped the shelves of Israeli products, while store personnel and customers passively stood by and watched? Flush with their success in France, Palestinians, and their friends, are planning on “de-shelving” Israeli products here at home, and they’ve selected Trader Joe’s as their [...]
Bookworm on Jun 14 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Palestinians
Tweet I commented on and graded Obama’s much heralded speech to the Muslim world, so I think it only fair to grade Bibi’s speech, which is directed to much the same audience (plus the western world, too). As I did with Obama’s speech, I’m making me comments in real time, without having read ahead, so [...]
