Thursday, May 26, 2016

Hypocrisy, Demagoguery and the Lie of "Disproportionality" - by Fred Maroun

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...By making an accusation of disproportionality without defining the meaning of the term, Bernie Sanders and Haaretz betrayed not only the...

Israel and a Reuters bureau chief who is neither impartial nor possessed of the requisite integrity

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..."Luke Baker has failed his employers at Reuters, the journalists he has served as head of the FPA, and the millions of readers aroun...

When Christian organizations gamble with Jewish safety in secret - by Dexter Van Zile

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If these church institutions had said, “Yes, we know the Iranian regime is profoundly hostile to Jews and Israel, but we still think this de...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

About That ‘Rigorous Neutrality’?: Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate’s Nasser Abu Baker Moonlights For AFP

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...Does AFP believe that a journalist who freely dispenses accusations of Israeli Nazi-like crimes and ISIS practices shares the agency’s co...

An almost unanimous agreement concerning Pal Arab kleptocrats and the devastation they wreak

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...Very rarely, images do emerge of the armed security men - many thousands of them, in at least eight different official organizations - wh...

(PMW Video) Glorifying terrorists and terror

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...Official PA TV reporter: "Martyr Bashar Masalha, 22, ascended to Heaven in Jaffa on March 8 [2016] (i.e., he was shot after killing ...

It Would Seem, the Party’s Over for Pro-Israel Dems - by Jonathan Tobin

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...It is one thing to be “pro-Israel and pro-peace” as J Street claims to be or even to assert that appeasement of Iran is in Israel’s inter...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Another knife-wielding Pal Arab teenage girl, another pointless, terror-driven death - by Arnold Roth

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...It's simply their culture, and a matter about which, when the subject comes up, they are proud. The rest of us, at least some of us, ...

(Part II) Adjusting the Moral Compass - by Vic Rosenthal

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A Palestinian terrorist who tried to murder a Jew ended up dead. It’s war. Stuff happens in war. Get over it. Vic Rosenthal .. Abu Yehud...

Pitting Israel’s faith in democracy against the views of its military brass - by Bret Stephens

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...The idea of a military coup in today’s Israel is preposterous. But it says something about the arrogance of Mr. Bergman and his military ...

What BBC audiences aren’t told, but should be told about the UNHRC - by Hadar Sela

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...information which BBC audiences obviously need to know in order to be able to put statements such as the one ... from Bryant into their c...

Will the Democratic Platform Dump Israel? - by Jonathan Tobin

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...Those who say that Israel has a right to defend itself but then denounce its attempts to do so and, in effect, grant Hamas terrorists imp...
Monday, May 23, 2016

The French political gymnastics of offering the Palestinians no-cost recognition

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...The Palestinians, on the other hand, are thrilled to have an international conference where others will make demands of Israel as the Pal...

(Part I) Adjusting the Moral Compass - by Vic Rosenthal

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Questions of moral compass and conscience are the essence of the cultural struggle that is going on in Israel today, but few seem to underst...

Human Rights Watch lies again about international law - by Elder of Ziyon

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Why is HRW, which normally errs on the side of protecting civilians when interpreting international law, suddenly deciding to rule against G...

Question - Are building terror tunnels in civilian neighborhoods a war crime? - by Jonathan Tobin

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...But the main thing to understand about Gaza is that an Islamist terror group tyrannizes it and is expending enormous resources, from both...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Guess what? No one has a monopoly on values - by Boaz Bismuth

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...The media must always remember that here, the people are sovereign. We should remember that the chosen people (I suppose that this makes ...

(Alleged) harassment of journalists as news-management strategy: The Hamas model - by Arnold Roth

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...Oh, and did we mention that in rejecting the idea of Hamas harassment, Ms Rudoren of the New York Times confessed she had not been physi...

When Silence is Both Appropriate and Golden - by Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror

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...As part of Israel's coming of age, it is time to formulate clear rules on these matters. Setting clear "do's" and ...