Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
We’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
Continue readingThose of us who believe in Israel’s right to exist are tired of the old trope that the new anti-Zionists are not also the old anti-Semites. It’s easy enough to point out that these are not people who are simply criticizing a State’s — any state’s — policies vis a
Continue readingMy theory about wars is that one fights them to win. The EU’s theory, apparently, is that they should be fought for Israel to lose. How otherwise to explain its most recent criticism: The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza
Continue readingThis is the latest “wisdom” coming out of the UN, which can rightly be characterized as an organization devoted to the destruction of Israel and the United States: The UN Human Rights Council has passed a resolution demanding a halt to Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. [UN Human Rights
Continue readingLong after I thought the Walt/Mearsheimer anti-Semitic smear had been laid to rest, our good friends at the government-supported (that means taxpayer-supported) National Public Radio have given it a new, national forum. Has else to explain the endless interview Steve Inskeep gave Walt and Mearsheimer on today’s Morning Edition. I
Continue readingDon’t you hate people who say “I told you so”? I do, unless I’m the one saying it. This time, I’m saying it regarding the Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border. But let me back up a bit…. Last night, Mr. Bookworm, who reads only the NY Times, asked
Continue readingIsrael has never negotiated for hostages. Israeli operatives have always known that, if they fall into Arab hands, they're on their own. But apparently the atrocities visited on Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca decided the Israelis that this type of stuff is not going to happen on their watch. How
Continue readingThe Arab countries forcibly evicted their Jewish populations, so as to seize their property and purify their countries from the "stain" of Judiasm. Israel is also asking one of its Arab citizens to leave, but for a very different reason: In a few weeks Ismail Khaldi, a 35-year old Bedouin
Continue readingIt seems as if, just about every week, one of the MSM outlets has a story about an Israeli attack on the Palestinians. You know, the stories where you hear that this bomb builder, or that Hamas leader, was killed while driving in his car. Or perhaps you'll hear that
Continue readingYou probably won't see something like this emerging from the Palestinians anytime soon: Alzheimer's disease is degenerative and leads to a collapse of brain functions. A new Israeli computer program attempts to slow down deterioration in patients' brains. The computerized system, which was developed by students from the engineering faculty
Continue readingThe title of this post is the phonetic spelling of the Hebrew phrase "Jersusalem of Gold," a song I grew up hearing. A modern song, yes, but it captures the Jews' three thousand year old emotional connection to Jerusalem. From Psalm 137: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat
Continue readingI bet someone — not someone famous, just someone — in your State, town, city or county died a violent death today, or yesterday, or the day before. I bet, too, that the death got local news coverage. But I'm pretty sure that, unless your local decedent lived in Israel
Continue readingIsrael has become the most reviled nation in the world. Israel is also the only nation I can think of that would give $11 million in humanitarian aid to a people that has determined, as its primary goal, the complete destruction of Israel and the slaughter of her people. I
Continue readingI've had an unusually (and delightfully) lazy day today, and can't bestir myself to any serious blogging. Fortunately, others are willing to do the heavy lifting. For example, here is James Lewis, at the American Thinker, writing about the fallacy between the attacks on Israel's nuclear weapons that seek to
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