Author Archives: Soccerdad

About Soccerdad

I'm a government bureaucrat with delusions of literacy.

Water out of thin air

There’s the high tech way of doing it. The technology, Bar tells ISRAEL21c, works in three steps: first is the absorption of air’s humidity, then the removal of water from a solid desiccant (silica based gel granules) which holds the … Continue reading

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Law and terror

I’ve blogged about this incident before: On Sept. 6, Yaalon felt heavy, not happy, when the prime minister favored his recommendation over Dichter’s: Mission aborted. Sharon called off the strike to decapitate Hamas, Yaalon said, because Sharon demanded “no civilian … Continue reading

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What do they have to hide?

Michael Kraft at the Counterterrorism Blog writes about how the Lashkar-e Tayyiba gets funding through charity organizations in Britain, much the same way the Holy Land Foundation provided funds for Hamas. He writes that when the law was drafted that … Continue reading

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EoZ, Roger Cohen smackdown

Emanuele Ottolenghi and Noah Pollak have already responded to Roger Cohen’s Try Tough Love Hillary. Cohen argues that peace – that is necessary for Israel – can only be achieved if Israel cedes all the land demanded by the Arab … Continue reading

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Cooties

In Hostages to fear, Janet Albrechtsen writes: That said, no one imagines Israel is free from fault. But its Government is not creating civil institutions that preach hatred and violence. By contrast, an entire generation of Palestinian children is being … Continue reading

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Do they CAIR?

Powerline notes, “Muslims ‘Worry About Image’” and conclude: So far, most of the world’s Muslims haven’t been embarrassed enough to take any significant action to reform their religion. They have, I think, a remarkably high threshold of embarrassment. (via Instapundit) … Continue reading

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Hamas humanitarian crises

A few weeks ago Hamas engineered a blackout of Gaza, apparently for propaganda purposes. Now its latest stunt is to deny pilgrims from going on Hajj to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia sets quotas to different regions for the number of … Continue reading

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Targeting Jews

I found this report from Arutz-7 heart breaking. According to ZAKA emergency service, the body of the Rabbi’s wife Rivka was found covered with a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl), which her husband had managed to cover her with. Presumably Rabbi … Continue reading

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Flaunting it

Back in 1988, Commentary magazine had a symposium of intellectuals discussing Israel. One of the contributors, Edward Rothstein, observed that when he drove by Judea and Samaria he was amazed by the number of TV antennas shaped like the Eiffel … Continue reading

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A little less talk, a little more action

Remember the warnings of Hamas, diplomats and self-styled experts? The wisest policy would be to refrain from any intervention and leave Hamas and the Palestinian people alone. If Hamas’ failure is self-inflicted democracy will live on and the people of … Continue reading

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The Miller’s tale (again)

Coming off of his triumphant op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, Aaron David Miller who has successfully participated in getting the Israelis and Palestinians come to agreements and have those agreements violated by the Palestinians, does a curtain call with a … Continue reading

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The press mess, McGirk quirk and the Nissenbaum shuffle

I really could do without the sanctimony. Dion Nissenbaum writes about Israel’s closure of the Gaza Strip to reporters. This week, after filing a letter of protest, the Foreign Press Association (of which Mc Clatchy Newspapers is a par t) … Continue reading

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Montana vs. the lighthouse

I love this story. It starts … ACTUAL transcript of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. This radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10-10-95. What I … Continue reading

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Asking the arsonist to put out the fire

Israel’s foreign minister has asked the UN to take a stand against the continued rocket fire from Gaza. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni demanded in a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday that the world stop … Continue reading

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Iran’s blogfather arrested

Abraham Rabinovich writes: What surprised me about Hossein Derakhshan when I interviewed him in a café on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street two years ago was that the self-exiled Iranian, who was arrested this month during a visit to Tehran on … Continue reading

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