August 2010
22 posts
The last refuge of a liberal By Charles... →
What’s a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. The most venerable of these trumps is, of course, the race card. When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to...
The Media’s Anti-Semitic Hate Machine By Daniel... →
By linking Islamic terrorism to some form of Israeli provocation, and from there to the support for Israel by American Jews—the same media which would commit seppuku rather than blame Muslims for Islamic terrorism, instead blames Jews for Islamic terrorism. The steady drumbeat of such rhetoric, which exonerates Muslims but indicts Jews, for the actions of Muslims, is brilliantly perverse. And...
In the Mideast, the peace process is only a... →
The Obama administration, which seems to consider itself too talented to bother with anything but “comprehensive” solutions to problems, may yet make matters worse by presenting its own plan for a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Barack Obama insists that it is “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure,” although he does not say...
Facebook flooded with photos of detainees By... →
// ]]]]>]]> A new Facebook page in support of former IDF soldier and photo-poster Eden Abergil was opened on Wednesday, calling on soldiers to post similar pictures from their army service. “We’re All With Eden Abergil,” the new group, was created with the following description: “Eden was an excellent soldier, and now the army is throwing her to hell and putting her on...
'Communist for Kerry' Now GOP Congressional... →
The GOP establishment is appalled: a young tea party activist and Navy veteran, who was once seen dressed up as Che Guevara holding a “Communists For Kerry” sign, may now defeat their moderate candidate in the primaries and take a seat in the U.S. Congress - the very place he claims is out of control and needs to be cleaned up. It’s funny how life turns out. That...
Obama in Cairo by Melanie Phillips →
Wish I would have linked to this when it was first published.
For his egregious sanitising of Islam and its history, and his absurd claims about its contribution to western civilisation, read Robert Spencer here. But in this regard, one of Obama’s references in particular made me catch my breath. It was this:
The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed...
Ambassador Dore Gold: Israeli-Palestinian... →
Formally, the 1967 line in the West Bank should properly be called the 1949 Armistice Line. Looking back to that period, on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts there had been a history of international boundaries between British Mandate and its neighbors.
But along the Jordanian front, what created the armistice line was solely where Israeli and Arab forces stopped at the end of the War of...
Fake graves cleared from J'lem cemetery By ABE... →
In what city officials are calling “one of the largest acts of deception in recent years,” Jerusalem municipal employees last week cleared away some 300 “fictitious tombstones” from a historic Muslim cemetery located in the heart of the capital. The cemetery abuts the planned site of a future “Museum of Tolerance.” On Thursday, city officials confirmed that the fraudulent markers had been...
The Worst Federal Disaster Response in Our... →
Let’s put that in perspective: 1) The Obama administration wasted months of clear weather delaying skimmers, barriers and clean-up responses, leaving the Gulf vulnerable to oil being washed ashore in hurricane season; and 2) The Obama administration now won’t allow residents to even clean the oil ‘onshore’ that their incompetence allowed to happen.
This is simply incredible. Or, as LSU...
Israel At War: 586 BCE—1982—2010 by Phyllis... →
Allow me to suggest that one reason might be that Jews have long suffered from such a bystander phenomenon. Throughout our history, so many people — Christians and Muslims, both in the West and in the East — have functioned as “bystanders” in the incessant massacres and genocidal slaughter of the Jews. Jewish Israelis are supremely tuned to this phenomenon. We all know that evil people commit...
Group has ties to terrorists by Benyamin Korn →
The founder of a CAIR chapter in Texas, Ghassan Elashi, is serving a 65-year prison term for assisting Hamas. And CAIR fund-raiser Rabih Haddad, whose charity was suspected of supporting terrorism, was deported from the United States.
Despite all this, Sestak hired CAIR’s director of communications in Philadelphia, Adeeba Al-Zaman, to work in his new Washington office in 2007. Soon...
The Palestinians, Alone By EFRAIM KARSH →
IT has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to peace and stability in the Middle East. Since Arabs and Muslims are so passionate about the Palestine problem, this argument runs, the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate feeds regional anger and despair, gives a larger rationale to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and to the insurgency...
Homage to Pilar Rahola by Nick Cohen →
There are more leftists than Conservatives might imagine who are astonished and horrified by the mainstream liberal-left’s indulgence of inquisitorial and anti-Enlightenment movements. Not many though are in prominent positions. Most keep their heads down for fear of being accused of “Zionism,” “Islamophobia,” “warmongering” or any of the other ...
Gazans: Blast that hurt 50 Hamas's fault →
GAZA CITY – A mysterious explosion that obliterated eight Gazan homes, damaged another 30 and wounded over 50 people on Monday originated in a house used by Hamas to manufacture weapons, The Media Line has learned. The Deir el-Balah refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip was rocked Monday by an explosion centered in an uninhabited house belonging to Alaa al-Danaf, a field commander of Izzadin...
New Post at the Bayonet! →
Some other factors: these people grew up (or lived) during the Depression. Most of them had sung songs around the piano, or at church, when they were kids. Of course they played outside, as television hadn’t been invented. They read story books and they dreamed up fantasies. If a dog got sick, you had to worm it; if you were hungry, you killed the chicken out back; the women canned; the...
Demonizing Israel is bad for the Palestinians By... →
While Palestinians targeted by the IDF are mostly fighters pledging war on Israel, the world swiftly overlooked the Sabra and Shatila massacre in which Lebanese Christian and Shi’ite militiamen butchered thousands of Palestinian women and children. Unsurprisingly, the international media accused Israel of being responsible for the massacre, despite the fact that live testimonies aired by...
Why do so many intelligent people, when talking... →
This historic treason to freedom is reproduced nowadays, with mathematical precision. For example, the leaders of Hezbollah are considered resistance heroes, while pacifists like the Israeli singer Noa, are insulted in the streets of Barcelona. Today too, as yesterday, the left is hawking totalitarian ideologies, falls in love with dictators and, in its offensive against Israel, ignores...
