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I'm a government bureaucrat with delusions of literacy.

The president plans; Abbas throws pie in his face

Last week I offered qualified praise to the editors of the Washington Post for their observations about President Obama’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. The one part of the editorial that I didn’t like was towards the end: Now Mr. … Continue reading

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The Eiland report: spinning it against Israel

Originally the Washington Post reported Israeli troops raid aid flotilla headed for Gaza, killing nine and the New York Times reported Deadly Israeli Raid Draws Condemnation. Both articles seem reasonably accurate in hindsight. Now Israel has released the results of … Continue reading

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They couldn’t possibly have been inspired by the Nazis

What You Can’t Say About Islamism by Paul Berman In our present Age of the Zipped Lip, you are supposed to avoid making any of the following inconvenient observations about the history and doctrines of the Islamist movement: You are … Continue reading

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“… what any mujahedeen woman wants”

Today’s Week in Review features and aritcle, Wanted: Jihadists to Marry Widows: A snippet of news from a shadowy corner of Iraq: Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia recently issued a fatwa telling its fighters to marry the widows of those who … Continue reading

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Why was Ocatavia Nasr fired?

There is currently a rumor going around that CNN reporter, Octavia Nasr was fired for a uncritical eulogy she tweeted for recently departed Sheikh Fadlallah. Don’t get me wrong, Nasr clearly showed a bias that is all too prevalent in … Continue reading

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Like the singin’ bird and the croakin’ toad, I got a name – and Israelis don’t like it

via memeorandum Haaretz reports, Obama: Israelis suspicious of me because my middle name is Hussein During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the … Continue reading

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Why can’t the editors of the New York Times …

… be more like the editors of the Washington Post? Today’s Washington Post features an editorial President Obama’s new Middle East course has promise: FOR MUCH of the past 15 months, President Obama sought to advance his goal of a … Continue reading

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The odd “peace logic” of the New York Times

Yesterday’s meeting between Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Obama did not impress the editors of the New York Times. In Mr. Netanyahu at the White House, they write: President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel satisfied their short-term … Continue reading

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WaPo: President Obama seeks to mend fences with Israel and keep Jews on board

Ahead of today’s visit of Prime Minister Netanyahu to President Obama the Washington Post, In Obama, Netanyahu meet again amid questions over U.S.-Israel relations, catalogues many of the difficulties plaguing the relationship between the two allies. The public show of … Continue reading

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Do not speak ill of dead terrorists

Yesterday the New York Times wrote of the death of Mohammed Oudeh, otherwise known as Abud Daoud the mastermind of the terrorist attack on the Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics, killing eleven of them. In later years, as a … Continue reading

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What part of antisemitism don’t you understand?

Hannah Rosenthal, the administration envoy charged with fighting antisemitism: We welcome the opportunity to speak here today, as the problem of intolerance and discrimination against Muslims is an issue across the OSCE region. The United States strongly supports combating all … Continue reading

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They who must not be named

Today Charles Krauthammer blasts the administration for its refusal to state the obvious in Terror — and candor in describing the Islamist ideology behind it Instead, President Obama’s National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do … Continue reading

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Because that Israel lobby just distorts American policy so much

Yesterday’s Washington Post features At White House, Obama and Saudi king discuss Guantanamo, Mideast peace process by Ann Kornblut. The article features a number of interesting paragraphs: Broaching a sensitive subject, President Obama assured the visiting king of Saudi Arabia … Continue reading

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Australia becomes more pro-Israel, the rest of the world, not so much

Meryl and others have written about the attack on Australia’s new Prime Minister for being insufficiently anti-Israel. On Monday she was caught in her first political storm as prime minister following a letter written by Ross Burns, who served as … Continue reading

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Cohen on Gaza, Hamas: not bad

I can’t agree with everything Richard Cohen writes in Hamas is a threat to the Palestinian cause, but he makes several good points, including his (imperfect) conclusion: The irony is that Israel is often called a colonialist power. In some … Continue reading

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