Monthly Archives: October 2007

Down to the wire

Well, it’s down to the wire for my bat mitzvah. The haftarah is coming along nicely, though if Elisson and I were in the same room, I think blows would have been exchanged tonight. Or books thrown. I really want … Continue reading

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Bush offers a half-billion for the “moderate” terrorists

From the Washington Post: President Bush has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $150 million in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the government in advance of a Middle East … Continue reading

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Diogenes of the Middle East

In a controversial essay in the LA Jewish Journal Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky asks to Consider a divided Jerusalem. After acknowledging the controversial nature of his views and getting a few formalities out of the way, he says he seeks honesty. … Continue reading

Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome | 3 Comments

Ann Coulter, liar extraordinaire

One quote from Coulter’s appearance on Hannity & Colmes last night leaped out at me: And if you’re going to go around citing all the people I have offended, Alan, I have a thousand Orthodox rabbis supporting me. Name three. … Continue reading

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Gaza switch-off and armchair generals

Seth Freedman has, in his endearingly provocative manner, slapped together another piece for CiF. As in most of his other articles, the recipe was simple: take one side of the Israeli/Palestinian strife, ignore all that is not black and white … Continue reading

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Googling terror

Last week several bloggers noted a Guaridan story that terrorists in Gaza were using Google Earth to target locations in Israel. So when I saw this item, I thought, “Oh good, Google has responded to the concerns.” A tipster to … Continue reading

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Hamas to Israel: We’re going to keep on killing

The democratically-elected government of the Palestinian terrortories[sic] is declaring its intention to murder large numbers of Israelis and, indeed, to start an “offensive war” with Israel (like they’re not already doing that). Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas’ military wing, … Continue reading

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Saudi king insults everyone’s intelligence in Britain

Saudi King Abdullah spoke to the BBC before his trip to Britain and made some amazingly hypocritical statements. Of course, the Beeb couldn’t be expected to call him on them, as the formerly great kingdom submits to the current Kingdom, … Continue reading

Posted in Israel, Media Bias, palestinian politics | 5 Comments

Qassams and rights

Rights groups challenge Gaza energy cuts Human rights groups challenged Israel’s reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza and its intention to cut back on electricity, and Palestinians warned the measures could lead to a humanitarian crisis.The Israeli Supreme Court on … Continue reading

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Harper Lee: All the honors

President Bush is awarding Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bravo, Mr. President, and Brava, Ms. Lee. From the press release: Harper Lee has made an outstanding contribution to America’s literary tradition. At … Continue reading

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And we shall… investigate

Meryl just mentioned “The lack of world condemnation of the Israeli raid on an nascent Syrian nuclear plant…“, and here it comes: Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information … Continue reading

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Where have all the comments gone?

It’s funny, but one of the things that I seem to have lost in the changeover from writing the HTML for this site myself to using WordPress was my regular commenters. Granted, I have regular commenters now, and some of … Continue reading

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Darth Vader in Love

Very, VERY funny. Thanks to Allahpundit. The rest are at the link.

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Another day, another “protection racket” threat by Fatah

Fatah has a real good racket going on – they do the Mafia-style “threats” and no one calls them on it: The top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), warned on Sunday that the region would suffer … Continue reading

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Apologists

In The Attempt to Kill Olmert, Barry Rubin writes Several Fatah security force officers assigned to protect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he went to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, it has just been revealed, planned … Continue reading

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