Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Yesterday, White House officials were telling Jake Tapper that Obama would support Israel. Any minute moments of hope I cherished that the administration actually meant what it said were swiftly dashed. This is Obama’s version of support: The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans
Continue readingPlease, please, please, please, spread this video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg[/youtube]
Continue readingI like Bibi. I have always liked Bibi. The world might have been a different place if his arrogance hadn’t knocked him out of the running for a while there. Here, in its entirety, is his post-flotilla statement. The statement also includes video embeds, so I urge you to follow
Continue readingIsrael 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 reading[I’ll keep this at the top through Memorial Day. Scroll down for lots of new posts.] Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words as part of a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished
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 readingAs I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction.
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
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