Monthly Archives: December 2007

The anti-checkpoint juggernaut revs up

The post-Annapolis crush toward forcing Israel to lift checkpoints is

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An Olympic question

Treppenwitz recently wondered if Munich was an appropriate venue for the 2018 Winter games given the city’s unfortunate past when it had hosted the Olympics. A recent article in OpinionJournal told of Qatar’s Olympic bid. In the whole article not … Continue reading

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Lebanese general killed

Snapped Shot informs us Wow, so yesterday’s concussion grenade was not anything major, but it was followed up by a major car bombing in a different part of town, an event that took the life of one of Lebanon’s most … Continue reading

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E-yenta

Rabbi Weber wants to encourage Jews to marry Jews. Rabbi Donald Weber is far from the first rabbi to call for single Jews in his congregation to marry other Jews.Such pulpit calls have become commonplace in an age of high … Continue reading

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Palestinian terrorists aiming for farmers now

Not content with trying to murder schoolchildren with “crude, homemade rockets,” the Palestinian thugs are trying to kill farmers in the field now. These are the attacks you never read about in the AP or Reuters reports. All you read … Continue reading

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North Korea, Iran, Syria: Axis of Evil

The new Axis of Evil carries on. The Dear Leader isn’t satisfied with just starving and murdering his own people. He’s working on making sure he helps murder Israelis as well. This is on top of supplying Syria with nukes. … Continue reading

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Nose, face, slice

Earlier this week, the UN passed a resolution introduced by Israel. In a historic first, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted an Israeli-initiated resolution on working matters. The resolution deals with agricultural technology for development, a relatively … Continue reading

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Muslim man defends Jews on NYC subway

A Muslim man came to the defense of Jews under attack in the New York subway last Friday. NEW YORK (CNN) — A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a … Continue reading

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Stop complaining about the winter weather

Lynn got me to find this site, which has the sunrise and sunsets in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sunrise tomorrow is 11:13 a.m. Sunset is 3:31 p.m. Quitcherbitchin, people. Just think how much it would suck to be in Iceland right now.

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Israel is fighting the next war

I’ve been saying for some time now that the IDF has learned many lessons from the Lebanon war of 2006, and that Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran have not. Here’s what amounts to a throwaway graf at the end of … Continue reading

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The wire services: Working for the Palestinians

Let’s look at the ledes on the various wire service articles about the current round of peace talks. Earlier, Reuters: Israel and Palestinians launch peace talks in discord JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinians said on Wednesday they had demanded a halt … Continue reading

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The lost art of self-defense

Israel seems to have forgotten how to defend herself. The security cabinet announced Wednesday it would recommend the government refrain from launching a wide-scale operation in Gaza, opting instead to continue with targeted IDF operations. The cabinet thinks the small … Continue reading

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The peace talks in “discord”—because of Israel, mostly

The world media spins against Israel yet again. And of course, here’s how it works. A barrage of rockets into Israel on the morning of the peace talks comes fifteen paragraphs into the main AP story released a few minutes … Continue reading

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Syria’s quid pro quo for Annapolis

Here’s what the Dorktator took away as a lesson for his sending a representative to Annapolis: A car bomb attack killed one of Lebanon’s top generals and at least two other people Wednesday, the military and state media said, putting … Continue reading

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Familar unproductive editorial

The editors of the NYT are all for Starting the peace process Israelis and Palestinians are supposed to begin serious negotiations tomorrow after last month’s long-on-optics, short-on-specifics Annapolis peace meeting. Despite all the smiles and handshakes, both sides went home … Continue reading

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