Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Israel made a tactical error in defending a direct assault on her legal blockade. The blockade, incidentally, does nothing to prevent Gaza from importing food, fuel, and all the other necessities and luxuries of ordinary, non-terrorist life. Instead, the blockade’s purpose is to prevent Gaza from importing massive amounts of
Continue readingThis is the public outreach YouTube site for the Israel Defense Forces. Bookmark it, send it to your friends, check it often. Here is the latest IDF real time video from the ship boarding, showing the “peace” activists in full fury: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6sAEYpHF24[/youtube] The West is being played — although perhaps
Continue readingAccording to Jake Tapper, Obama will side with Israel on this one. Assuming that’s true, the next question is whether it will be a full defense of Israel (properly identifying the terrorists arrayed against her, and honoring her restraint) or whether it will be a lukewarm “I guess she sort
Continue readingA friend emailed to me a statement from the Israeli Consulate. Sadly, I doubt any Leftists or media types (but I repeat myself) will read it: The Gaza Flotilla and the Maritime Blockade of Gaza Israel regrets all loss of human life and injuries which came as result of the
Continue readingWord 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,
Continue readingJennifer Rubin explains that the world has tightly bound Israel between the Scylla and Charybdis, rather like a staked goat: The flotilla interdiction raises the same issue as Israel’s original response to Hamas’s rocket attacks into Israel. The fundamental question that Richard Goldstone, the UN, the J Street crowd, and
Continue readingFor once, Israel is trying swiftly to retain some semblance of control over the message. Using facebook, the Navy is disseminating videos of the incident. I’ll show them here, followed by the IDF’s narrative, which the IDF included with the YouTube footage. This video narrative begins yesterday, when the IDF
Continue readingMr. Bookworm called to me today: “Israel did it again.” I can’t fault him for his viewpoint. This is what happens to people who read only the New York Times. To them, it is always Israel’s fault, because that’s what they’re told to think. The possibility that there might be
Continue readingAmerican Jews supported Barack Obama in numbers second only to American Blacks. They still support Obama. This is because the soft life in America has sucked out their brains. How else can one explain that they continue to support him despite things like this: Washington’s unprecedented backing for a UN
Continue readingA few days ago, I mentioned Robin of Berkeley’s American Thinker piece about the two different types of Jews in America: the kind who are reflexively liberal and reflexively pro-Israel, and the kind who are reflexively Leftist and reflexively hostile to Israel. Robin’s point was that the former do not
Continue readingA few things have crossed my radar this morning that I hope you’ll find as interesting as I did: Is Michelle Obama depressed? One of my friends thinks she is. That is, she thinks Michelle has moved beyond anger and arrogance and landed in sheer misery. She sent this link
Continue readingNever 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
Continue readingFrom James Lewis’ must-read article today about the effect of Iran’s ICBM’s (which it has spread throughout the Middle East) and its future nuclear arsenal: Mahmoud Ahmadijenad is the aggressive chess player behind all these missiles surrounding Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Iranian strategy has been to move its missile assets
Continue readingAm I suffering from historical amnesia, or is this the first time in American history that an administration has made a coup attempt against an ally? The administration of President Barack Obama has launched what officials termed a psychological warfare campaign meant to topple Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Sources
Continue readingIsrael is beleaguered right now. If you want a good rundown, just read today’s Commentary Contentions posts, which cover everything from the ambush planned for Netanyahu, to the insanity of Obama’s nuclear plan (which hits Israel, which is not a nuclear treaty signatory, so it is a US target), to
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