Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
At the UN today, the “Arab Group” made its ad hoc contribution to the Draft International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. To the existing preamble paragraph, they proposed including this language to describe what they perceive as an existing problem: “Concerned that situations of armed conflict, foreign
Continue readingIn the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, stories are popping up all over that Hezbollah, Iran and the New York Times have loudly been trumpeting a Hezbollah victory. Others say the opposite is true. And even I, while I don’t think Hezbollah won, don’t think Israel won
Continue readingThis is the start of a Stratfor analysis I received today: An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army faced an Arab army and did not defeat it — did not render it incapable of continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967,
Continue readingBefore the Nazis killed the Jews, they executed those they deemed unfit because of physical or mental handicaps. My goyish uncle, who was institutionalized because he was “crazy” (we now think he might have been homosexual), was one of the first the Nazis executed in their drive to purify the
Continue readingAgain, fairly overwhelming work and family commitments will keep my blogging nonexistent, but there’s interesting stuff in the Middle East as I discovered when I took a break to read up-to-the-minute news and analysis at the Captain’s Quarters. The Lebanese government is falling, Hezbollah is fighting harder, and Israel may
Continue readingSay it ain’t so, Joe. The latest report is that Olmert accepted the UN brokered peace deal. Without even knowing the details, I’m absolutely certain that any “peace” deal that goes through the is a loss for Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal
Continue readingI can’t remember where I read it, but someone pointed out that, while in Iraq the terrorists like to show themselves, Hezbollah prefers an off camera presence, with the emphasis on the real and imagined bomb damage to Lebanese people and structures. It is interesting, therefore, to see at least
Continue readingThe foiled bomb plot in England is again bringing into stark relief how the BBC manipulates the news to hide the Islamist component behind all the terror attacks worldwide and to focus blame on Israel. The most recent indictment is a Wall Street Journal commentary from William Shawcross, a British
Continue readingI just got to my computer now, which has me many hours behind early risers, let alone those early risers on the East Cost. I’m therefore only just assimilating the news about the foiled plot to blow up multiple US-bound British planes in the air. My first thought on hearing
Continue readingJust because I was curious, I checked out the Kuwait Times online to see how an Arab nation that’s pretty much on the sidelines is reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah War. I didn’t have to look very far. One of the headlined articles is “Israel on baby-killing spree.” Bizarrely, the article
Continue readingMy past few photograph posts have been following stories about Hajj’s decision to manipulate the photographs he took. Of course, that’s not the only thing that’s happening in Lebanon. Another huge problem is the fact that Hezbollah is faking entire scenes for photographers’ benefit. EU Referendum follows one such staged
Continue readingThe MSM has fallen into the comforting (to it) rote of “land for peace” regarding the Israel/Hezbollah conflict. After all, this worked wonderfully in the media for the past 20 years when they were reporting about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. So well, that they were utterly unperturbed when Israel gave
Continue readingNPR ran a short segment on the faked Reuters photos, using an interview with a Reuter’s photoeditor. It soft pedals the whole thing, including omitting any mention about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs, which exposed the fraud; and letting stand unchallenged the photographer’s new claim, not that it was a
Continue readingFrom Debka: DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose: Hizballah’s rocket offensive against Israel is orchestrated from a rear command located in the Syrian town of Anjar August 7, 2006, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00) While Israeli officials keep on insisting that Syria must be kept out of the conflict, the fact is that the
Continue readingBall bearings. Ball bearings aimed at civilians are disproportionate force: The charred, dismembered bodies, and blood splattered against a stone wall, turned the stomachs of hardened emergency service workers. “Even in this war I have not seen a sight like this,” said Eli Peretz, an ambulance driver. “The wounded people
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