Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I don’t know if this was just an isolated sortie, or if the ground war has finally begun: Two Israeli soldiers and a Hezbollah militant have been killed in fierce fighting in southern Lebanon. Clashes erupted after Israeli tanks and infantry crossed the border in search of Hezbollah weapons and
Continue readingSometimes, a picture is worth way more than a thousand words. Michael Ramirez gets it. This goes to the point I’ve been trying to make, which is that the anti-American/anti-Israel groups are willing to countenance a war only if they can assure that there is no possibility that the USA
Continue readingI’ve decided to place this post at the top periodically as a good way to publish links that I find interesting in analyzing the situation in the Middle East. Scroll down for any new posts I may have put up. Here are two good places to go for information about
Continue readingI’m really enjoying the periodic forays I’ve been making into Leftie land regarding the current Israeli/Hezbollah war (you can see my previous posts here and here), so I thought I’d keep going. No survey would be complete without checking in with Howard Dean. I know it’s already old news (two
Continue readingOn it’s face, Richard Cohen’s most recent op-ed for the WaPo looks like a self-hating anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli screed. It’s not really, although it’s inartfully written (very), and some of the conclusions he draws aren’t necessarily correct. I thought, therefore, that I’d give the article a polite fisking to try to
Continue readingThere’s more and more talk lately of a UN peacekeeping force going in to put a fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Now, Putin is chiming in to say he might help out with this. I sure hope that Israel, who has less reason than any nation in the world to
Continue readingIsrael used to win wars because she was smarter than her enemy. I’m not so sure now. Israeli intelligence was deeply asleep when it was unaware of Hezbollah’s ability to tap into her computer, when it was surprised by the tunnels under her borders, and when it didn’t know that
Continue readingI was listening to the radio today, and heard the top of the hour news. As the announcer said “The G8 issued a statement today regarding the situation in the Middle East,” I expected the sentence to finish “condemning Israel.” Boy, was I surprised: Group of Eight leaders told Hizbollah
Continue readingNot only does Mark Steyn get it, he does it with such great prose: The forces at play in the Middle East are beyond the Geopolitical Friars’ Club. The median age in Gaza is 15.8 years old. How likely is it that any of those bespoke Palestinian “moderates” who’ve been
Continue readingMr. Bookworm cannot understand why Israel started a major war over three soldiers. No matter the horrors of their kidnapping, and the infiltration of Israeli terroritory associated with those kidnappings, he thinks that the kidnappings are not a sufficient reason to go to war. I asked, “What about the thousands
Continue readingWith Israel at the epicenter of World War IV today, I thought I’d troll around to the top liberal blogs to see what they have to say on the subject. Crooks and Liars had only one post about what I believe to be the greatest geopolitical crisis of our time.
Continue readingThe vile inanity lives on at the Daily Kos. Today’s revolting post asks us to “Imagine a World Without Israel.” It spins a fantasy of lion living in peace with lamb, flowers and sunshine. How about we imagine a Middle East without Israel? From one end of the Muslim crescent
Continue readingHezbollah has bombed major Israeli cities: A missile fired from Lebanon on Thursday evening exploded in the northern city of Haifa, officials said. Firefighters and rescue services who reached the scene of the attack didn’t report any civilian casualties. Earlier, six Katyusha rockets exploded in central Nahariya on Thursday evening
Continue readingIsrae, as always, is being attack not only by Islamic and Palestinian terrorists, but also by the world’s media, various nations, and the ubiquitously evil UN. If you’d like to dilute some of that horrible pressure on this beleaguered nation, why don’t you send a supportive email to the Israel
Continue readingWe’ve all thought it, but I think Michael Medved has managed to state it with incredible clarity: What lapse of logic (or ancient prejudice) can explain the stubborn, utterly unshakable, and nearly universal insistence that Israel must pursue a “peace process” with its terrorist adversaries? Regarding the United States, not
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