Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
We now know that the Gazans instant collapse into existential despair the last time Israel reduced their electricity flow was a carefully choreographed dance that served two purposes: it enabled Hamas to knock down the wall Egypt had built (a wall about which no one in the West ever complained)
Continue readingA few months ago, I took umbrage at a BBC news story that reported that Israel killed Palestinian children and only saw fit to mention, in the 5th and 6th paragraphs, that the children were fiddling around rocket launchers when Israel fired its missiles. I felt that the news was
Continue readingI respect Condi Rice for the most part, but have thought her naive for believing (or, at least, appearing to believe) that the Palestinians want peace with Israel, as opposed to Israel in pieces. David Brooks, however, thinks that there is a method to her madness, and that Iran’s follies
Continue readingA Palestinian human rights group is complaining about major abuses against Palestinian civilians. The malfeasors stand accused of “extra-judicial and willful killings and shooting at combatants and civilians after capturing them;” seizing people “in their homes” and dumping their bodies “in remote areas;” executing “wounded persons during their evacuation to
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