Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve had some family management issues taking up my time today (all is good, but, boy, was the management time-consuming), but my faithful friends send me wonderful, thought-provoking things that I can pass along to you. Here’s a good video trying to help Americans understand what Israelis have suffered for
Continue readingPeters has said everything I’d like to say.
Continue readingI can guarantee you that Mr. Jim Bramell, a Mill Valley resident spouting this kind of belly-gazing crap, was not on the streets protesting at any time during the last several years as Hamas fired thousands of missiles into Israel, destroying myriad little castles (for footage of some of those
Continue readingI’m sorry, but when a law professor writes this kind of prima facie garbage, you have to wonder about an administration that keeps him on board. Without even delving into actual facts, let me just fisk the relevant parts of Bisharat’s article regarding Israel and war crimes to reveal logical
Continue readingHamas has been making much of its dead children. It had a field day with photos of those children who died when the IDF shot shells into a “UN school.” Most of the world (including, of course, a credulous and/or complicit media) managed to ignore the fact that it’s bizarre
Continue readingNot a conversation in which I was involved (nor was it politic or appropriate to become involved), but I heard someone this morning praising Carter’s execrable editorial (and I’m not going to dignify that with a link) castigating Israel for defending itself. The liberal praising the article, when asked about
Continue readingHamas’ tried and true tactic worked again — it put children in the line of fire and Israel, rather than moving forward to protect her own children, is caving: Israel has shown the first signs of bowing to the international outcry over its 11-day onslaught of Gaza after some 40
Continue readingIt’s been an incoherent day, one that never gave me the opportunity for contemplation and writing. Instead, I’ve been bopping here and there, and dealing with one thing and another. Nevertheless, I have been tracking the news, so I thought I’d just write up a mish-mash of thoughts about current
Continue readingVacation is over and I’m back to my work schedule, which means no more morning blogging (not that I was very inspired in the morning during vacation). Still, I had to share this gem with you. I spoke with a liberal friend yesterday, who is lukewarm about Israel, and he
Continue readingAlan Dershowitz gives us some insights into the evil that is Hamas (and I use the word evil deliberately and without any artistic hyperbole), and then explains how, under international law, the concept of “proportionality” properly works in the face of that kind of evil. Incidentally, it’s not far from
Continue readingI have an embarrassing confession to make: When I was young, one of my favorite shows was Hogan’s Heroes. I found it a weekly marvel to see the dashing, clever Colonel Hogan run rings around the Germans. Nor was I at all perturbed by the asymmetry of it all, with
Continue readingIsrael finally said “enough is enough” and counterattacked Gaza. I think John Podhoretz nails everything that needs to be said on the subject in the short-term, and I’m impressed enough with his depth and brevity to reproduce his entire paragraph right here: Israel launched a massive air campaign against the
Continue readingI’ve been reading two things that seem to twine together. The first is the ongoing news out of Gaza, about Hamas continuously firing missiles into Israel (as well as into their own population). Noah Pollak wrote a very good commentary in response to a question about why Hamas, through its
Continue readingSometimes, the bizarre nature of the Middle East defies description (all emphasis mine): Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens hurt in battles in Gaza City between forces of the rival Hamas and Fatah movements on Saturday, prompting Israel to open its border to fleeing Fatah members. The fighting, which lasted
Continue readingDid you know that a rocket could break a truce? I didn’t. Being neither a scientist nor a weapons expert, nor a member of the MSM, I kind of thought that, absent human intervention, rockets would just lie around inert. It’s just always seemed to me that, for a rocket
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