Tuesday, November 26, 2013

NYTimes Public Editor breaks silence to hide behind hair-splitting policies

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...At the NYTimes, when they hide behind pseudo rules and policies like this, do they demonstrate visible signs of embarrassment? We're ...

Israel was the real target of the Geneva negotiations

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...But the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program goes beyond not standing with Israel against an existential threat. The president has now ent...

The Arab states pre-1948? Also no room for ethnic and religious groups that deviated from the norm

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...To paraphrase TS Eliot, November was always a bad month for Jewish citizens of Arab states – and never more so than in the 1940s. Lyn...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Why Kerry Is Always the Last to Know

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...Kerry is operating under the assumption that the administration still has reserves of credibility on this issue in the region, which bord...
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The willfully blind and delusional? Meet the Israeli Left

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...All the Daniel Seidemanns in the world willing to work to help all the Palestinian Arabs in the world will not bring them one step closer...

From the deep darkness of Syrian Arab-on-Arab savagery, pin-pricks of light in northern Israel

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...The humanitarian chain that got the woman from her home village under heavy shellfire to the boundary fence and then to hospital links gu...

The mistaken and potentially damaging narrative of the Netanyahu critics

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...The issue of enrichment and other elements that place Iran weeks from making a bomb at any time are matters that President Obama is clear...

Revisiting Neville Chamberlain's Peace in our Time

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So often cited but rarely reviewed. Any similarities you may notice are not coincidental but are because you may have learned something from...

It’s time to return to the facts - International law and Judea and Samaria

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...It is time to return to the intentions and words of the original drafters of international law, and rely less on specious interpretations...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

(Video) Why We Came to Help in the Philippines - IDF Humanitarian Aid Team

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idfblog.com .. 24 November '13.. The IDF Humanitarian Aid team in Bogo City is made up of some of Israel’s top medical and disaster...

Sherwood misleads on UNRWA statement about Gaza construction ban

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...Alternately, if Sherwood was merely attempting to characterize the Commissioner General’s opinion on the broader issue of the Israeli blo...

Attention NY Times editors: What, if anything, is the public entitled to expect from a Public Editor?

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...In ignoring the public outcry over the manipulative use of a murderer's mother's portrait, and in pretending that the Public Ed...

Game Advantage, Iran

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...Despite Netanyahu's warnings, the U.S. at this very moment is rushing headlong into a deal while still hovering over an abyss along w...

The Geneva deal - Pros and Cons

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...To sum things up, the problem is that the freeze agreement does not fully guarantee that Iran will not deceive the powers, especially in ...

Not many details yet, but Iranian nuclear deal reached

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...As expected, it appears that the language is vague enough that Iran can claim that they have a "right" to enrich uranium, while...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Setting the Record Straight on East Jerusalem

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...The media often blurs these distinct questions together as one, answered with the facile and misleading conclusion that Israel is guilty ...

Who else? NY Times Blames Israel for Deaths of Two Lion Cubs

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...One possibility, readers are told, is that their mother refused to feed them. Another possibility was the November chill. But this being ...
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Thomas Friedman - There He Goes Again

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...It ought to be beyond the pale. It is a gift to anti-Semites everywhere, it will increase anti-Semitism, and it is a vile and baseless in...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Israel and Looking at the Bright Side of Life

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...It was an opportunity to count my personal and our national blessings. It was an opportunity to coldly evaluate Israel’s strengths versus...

And what happened next at the NY Times? Nothing. Zilch.

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...Most people, including most of the NY Times readers, will yawn and move on, though we wonder if they would be as apathetic if the photo o...