Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Aren’t the Palestinians supposed to be having a ceasefire? Apparently word didn’t reach the valiant troops on the ground, who are still busy wiping out their political opposition: Palestinian Hamas gunmen ambushed what the Islamist group said was a convoy carrying weapons to Mahmoud Abbas’ presidential guard unit in the
Continue readingAre you confused about the situation in the Middle East? Do you lie awake wondering where the boundaries should be drawn to create a real home for the Palestinians? Worry now more. Ocean Guy has the answer, and it’s one that I think will surprise you. Heck, it even surprised
Continue readingOne of the things Jimmy Carter has accused the Israelis of is despoiling Palestinian lands. All may not be as it seems. I got a tip that some Palestinians are trashing their own lands, in the hopes of receiving compensation from the Israeli government and of maligning the settlers. It’s
Continue readingA non-murderous overlord is useful for two reasons: He keeps your own baser impulses battened down, and he provides a lightening rod for those same impulses. Take the overlord away, and those same tamped down impulses explode — against you and yours. Case in point? Gaza, sans Israel: Palestinian factions
Continue readingSomething weird’s going on regarding a story that, as first reported, had secret meetings between Hamas and the Democrats. The weirdness is both about the reporting and about the implications of the Democratic conduct. Here’s what I know. The first I heard of the story was at LGF: Are officials
Continue readingAt the Augean Stables, Richard Landes has posted a brilliant essay about the role the fake Mohammad Al-Durah video played as a catalyst for unleashing the worst modern anti-Semitism around the world, and about the fact that both the video’s creation and its effect are microcosms of the poisonous alchemy
Continue readingThe Left likes underdogs. Gays are underdogs. Palestinians are underdogs. Muslims are underdogs. What happens when you throw all three into the mix? This: A group of gay Palestinian Americans canceled a planned pride march in East Jerusalem on Friday after one of them was beaten unconscious by a local
Continue readingI lost huge amounts of any sympathy I might have had for the Palestinian people when they voted overwhelmingly for Hamas. My sympathy continues low when I read polls about their fervent belief that everything would be wonderful if they could just destroy Israel. I’d therefore be lying, if I
Continue readingThe NY Times headline is in huge, bolded text: “Israeli Attack on Militants Kills 4 Civilians.” The story, however, doesn’t quite jive with the accusation that Israel, a la Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Hamas, whatever, targeted civilians: The Israeli military killed five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today in operations directed
Continue readingI never believed Hezbollah when it pronounced itself the victor in its war with Israel, but I was dubious about whether Israel itself had won. In the weeks since the ceasefire, however, I’ve been reading more and more articles claiming that Israel did achieve a great deal and that Hezbollah
Continue readingGood news out of Anarchy-land: Two Fox journalists kidnapped by militants two weeks ago in Gaza have been released and appear to be in good health. Fox reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig were released shortly after noon Sunday and dropped off at the Beach Hotel in Gaza City,
Continue readingHere’s the headline: “Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza.” The picture that Yahoo News is currently showing with this headlined story is of an injured boy in a hospital bed with an elderly woman sitting next to him. Sort the whole thing out and this is what you get: the
Continue readingThere’s been so much talk about and anger towards Israel because of the wall Israel built in an effort to protect her citizens from suicide bombings. Only occasionally, though, does one hear that Egypt also built a wall — and the Palestinians are as determined to do away with the
Continue readingI mentioned before that I watched The Long Way Home, a documentary about the Jewish experience in the years between the liberation of the camps and the founding of the State of Israel. One of the things that movie reminded me about was the similarities between the tactics Jewish militants
Continue readingEverybody (at least everybody in the anti-Israel, anti-War, pro-Hezbollah, pro-Palestinian side) is in full throttle shrei (Yiddish for “cry”) about Israel’s human rights abuses, at home and abroad. The kidnapping of the three Israeli soldiers is fully justified to some because Israel has in her prisons thousands of Palestinians who
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