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Send a message of hope directly to the Israelis
If you believe, as I do, that the Israelis are fighting the good fight in the international war against Jihadist terrorism, and if you would like to let the Israelis know how you feel, have I got a link for you. YnetNews, which is a great source of up to
Continue readingIf you fight [fill in the blank] it will get stronger
The Hydra of mythology was a fearsome multi-headed monster. One of its great strengths was the fact that, if you severed one of its heads, another head (or maybe more than one) would grow in its place. Nevertheless, the Hydra could be defeated. Here’s one version of how Hercules defeated
Continue readingIsrael and NGAs — and what this means for America
[NGA, as opposed to the familiar NGO, is not a typo. I’ll explain in a minute.] I had lunch with DQ today and, at his request, gave him a run-down of Israel’s history, starting with Herzl and modern Zionism. I took him through the Eastern European pogroms; the declining Ottoman
Continue readingNumbers don’t lie, but people lie about numbers
It seems that our credulous press, always the first to believe any bad story about Israel, was once again hoodwinked by the Hezbollah propaganda machine. While it’s true (and tragic) that children died in Qana, it’s becoming equally clear that (a) not as many died as were first claimed (and
Continue readingHezbollah’s West Coast media office
A child’s death is always a tragedy, but this SF Chron report about Qana sounds like a Hezbollah PR office press release: The tiny, lifeless bodies were laid out in a row on a black straw sheet in the concrete courtyard of the Tyre Government Hospital. Twenty-one of them, all
Continue readingWho is killing whom
Jay Nordlinger reminds us of Golda Meir’s prescient words: “When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”
Continue readingDeath by propaganda
It’s beginning to look as if those children’s deaths in Qana are a replay of the family death in Palestine. You know the latter — it was the one where the Palestinians, swiftly joined by the world media, blamed Israel when a family died while on the beach (complete with
Continue readingHow to pander with elan
You can’t say that the French lack style. When they pander, they do so with panache. Take their homage, as Reuters reports it, to one of the world’s major terrorist states: French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy says Tehran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East – ‘a great
Continue readingThoughts from Israel
Since Israel is at the epicenter of events right now, I wanted to share with you two emails that I’ve received. The first one is from an Israeli — an old Leftist — writing about the battle in Lebanon. I’ve redacted it for privacy, and edited it for spelling (no
Continue readingSuffer the children, Part II
Drudge linked this morning to an article in Australia’s Herald Sun that displays a series of damning photographs showing Hezbollah terrorists, and their weapons of course, comfortably ensconced in a dense residential neighborhood. The terrorists are dressed in comfy casuals, so that they can easily blend into the crowd. Hezbollah
Continue readingSuffer the little children
The press is all over Israel’s missile strike that killed children. Fortunately, LGF is all over the fact that Israel, unlike any aggressor in the history of the world, warned civilians days in advance that the strike was coming and begged them to leave. The reason Israel was striking that
Continue readingWhat he said
Since I can’t say it better, I won’t try. Here’s just the opening of Charles Krauthammer’s most recent column about the world pile-up against Israel and what Israel should do it about it: What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put
Continue readingProlific blogging about Israel’s war
I’ve rather slacked off on blogging about the war. I’ve made my position very clear, and am only dragging in stories that particularly catch my eye. At Seraphic Secret, however, Robert Avrech is blogging up a storm about the war itself, and about coverage of the war. Since he’s an
Continue readingDigging under ground
I’ve heard a lot in the past week or so about the underground tunnels Hezbollah has built all along Lebanon’s southern (and Israel’s northern) border. These reports led me to wonder why Israel, which has a very well equipped army, didn’t have bunker busters, of the type we heard about
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