Monday, February 23, 2015

Submission to the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict by Richard Kemp

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...Many people believe that your findings are a foregone conclusion, as the findings of the 2008-09 Commission regrettably proved to be. The...

When the 'Jewish Voice for Peace' Takes Off Its Mask

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...This studied ambiguity helps keep both those who merely would like Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and those who would like Israel ...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Terming a Palestinian Arab news source 'independent' might require some flexibility of definition

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...The report concludes by pointing out that the Ma'an Network has close links to highly politicised non-governmental organizations that...

The Death of Adele Biton and The NY Times’ Justification of Lopsided Reporting

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...The Society of Professional Journalist's code of ethics calls on journalists, among other things, to recognize their own cultural val...

BDS and the cultural terrorism of Roger Waters

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...Both el-Hussein, BDS and Waters are a real threat to freedom of thought and the free world. They cultivate hatred; they cultivate silenci...

Financially Strapped Hamas's New Army of Children

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...Hamas has made it clear that it plans to send the teenagers to launch rockets and mortars at Israel, with the hope that they would achiev...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Some Thoughts Concerning the White House Freak-Out

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...The price that Obama thought was reasonable—sign a piece of paper and smile for the cameras—was simply not a price that Khamenei has prov...

She was a human being whose right to life deserved to be respected

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...The death of this child wasn’t mourned, let alone mentioned in the Western press. Israel’s critics don’t care about her because she was a...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Netanyahu’s true electoral rival by Caroline Glick

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...It is hard to understand either Israel’s election or Obama’s hysterical response to Netanyahu’s scheduled speech without recognizing that...

Jerusalem and Paris: Abuse and disabuse

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...Israelis and those who visit here might be wondering why the reality of people living different styles of life in this city even needs di...

Why Obama’s Insistence that Iran Freeze Worked Scares Me (and Should Scare You Too!)

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Iran has BOASTED that it has dramatically increased its enrichment capacity by producing centrifuges that are generations more advanced and ...

Variation On the Bird-Jew Theme by Sarah Honig

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...Our slavish striving not to incur more wrath makes just about as much sense as it did for the two Jews in the following variation on the ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

The West’s Israel Obsession and Its Palestinian Victims

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...In short, in numerous cases where the West could use its leverage over the PA to better the lot of ordinary Palestinians, it has refused ...

Californians and Jewish Palestinians

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...So, yes, everyone who resides in the former British Mandate of Palestine is "Palestinian," if we insist on using outmoded and c...

And the Winner of 'The Most Miserable People in Israel Are....

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...The amount of self-loathing shown here is off the charts. But at Haaretz , this is pretty much par for the course. To be fair, the writer...

Can and Will Britain Do the Right Thing on Boycotts?

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...The anti-Israel artists-turned-activists insist they won’t be silenced. Very well. But then the rest of us cannot afford to stay silent e...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

As the Threat to Israel is No Longer Theoretical, is an Iranian Assault on Israel Drawing Near?

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..."Israel faces a fateful crisis. As much as it feared the Iranian nuclear program, it never imagined that Iran would be standing on i...

Surprise! More Bad Advice From a False Prophet

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...Shimon Peres’s lifetime of service to Israel may balance out the disastrous nature of some of the policies he advocated in the historian’...

Excellent question. Why are Israel's cultural power centers ceded without putting up a fight?

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...It’s true that the left exploits its control of Israel’s cultural power centers to systematically exclude people of the wrong political p...

An Appreciation of the Miracle of Israel

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...We knew many cared about the plight of the Syrian people Assad and ISIS are killing with total abandon, but who would have thought Israel...