Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Mona Charen has a short, lucid column that nice exposes the myth that Jews were a minority in the Promised Land who deliberately and brutally exiled the majority Arab population. (What’s interesting is how those same people exercised about the mythical Arab expulsions from Jewish land never seem particularly perturbed
Continue readingThere is a belief that the “mutually assured destruction” deterrence that worked during the Cold War will work in Iran. Hillary certainly believes it, which is why she promised that, if Iran hits Israel with a nuclear bomb during her presidency, she will hit Iran with a nuclear bomb. She
Continue readingOn the occasion of her 60th birthday, Bret Stephens, writing in the WSJ, has written one of the best, pithiest articles I’ve seen about the continued attacks on Israel’s existence, about the illogic of those attacks, and about the reality behind her conduct — a reality utterly at odds with
Continue readingWe received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in
Continue readingThe New York Times periodically pops up with articles in which its perplexed employees report that the incarceration rate in the US is up but, for reasons they cannot fathom, crime is down. Life is so difficult if you’re absolutely certain that “A” and “B” can’t possibly be related or,
Continue readingThe New York Times again gave a forum to Jimmy Carter. This time Carter defends his immoral, illegal decision to consort with terrorists, something that would be objectionable if the ordinary private citizen were to do it, but that rises to outrageous levels of indecency when a former President does
Continue readingThe Mohammad al-Dura film that France2 TV showed sparked the second, bloody Intifatah, since the video appeared to show a 12 year old boy being killed by Israeli gun fire. In the years since then, analysts have demonstrated that, given where the Israelis were positioned, it would have been virtually
Continue readingOne of the common tropes on the Left is that the insanely land-hungry Jews have crowded the Gazans onto an impossibly small strip of land as part of their plan to commit genocide against the Palestinian people. As with so many of the attacks against Israel, this is false, and
Continue readingI was trolling through the internet this morning and came upon a New York Times article entitled “In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace.” Hmm, insults . . . . Are those things like “You’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny,” or “Those jeans make you look fat,”
Continue readingThe accepted wisdom is that the intense hatred the Palestinians feel for Jews is a direct result of Jewish annexation of the West Bank and Gaza after the 1967 War. Of course, as with most propaganda, this is false. Aside from conveniently ignoring the 1956 and 1948 Wars, not to
Continue readingIn today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel: If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians,
Continue readingIn the Leftist world of moral equivalence, there is no right or wrong, there are just cycles, with everything being a meaningless tit-for-tat. In this world, you simply assign blame, not by conduct and intent, but by Leftist assigned “level of oppression.” HonestReporting has a good little video exposing the
Continue readingStarting with a recent poll taken of Palestinians — one that showed that, despite the Gaza withdrawal, they fully support increased killings in Israel — Richard Baehr has written an exceptionally good article examining the Palestinians. For me to analyze it or try to summarize it would be a waste
Continue readingWhen I was growing up, the hostilities between Jews and Arabs living in America weren’t so strong, our Israeli-Arab friends regularly flew El Al to go back to Israel. They complained bitterly about the treatment meted out to them — but they flew it anyway, because it was the only
Continue readingNormally, when a gunman enters a school and treats students like birds in a turkey shoot, the media covers the matter obsessively, dwelling for days on the horror of those trapped in the carnage — and this is true whether the shooting takes place at home or abroad. Such was
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