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Thursday Snark News

Israel? What Israel? Fatah won’t recognize Israel, or stop “resistance,” and once again, Palestinians openly state that they only said they’d recognize Israel to get international approval (and billions to use against Israel). But this won’t show up anywhere in … Continue reading

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A masterful assuaging

Last year those of us Jews who didn’t support President Obama in his bid to be elected president were subjected to ridicule. If we didn’t support him it was because we were prejudiced or misinformed. This mocking didn’t just come … Continue reading

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Uzi Mahnaimi lying about Israel again

If it’s a Sunday Times of London piece that declares Israel is about to attack Iran, and the byline contains Uzi Mahnaimi, it must be a bunch of garbage. Filled yet again with anonymous sources—because of course, our old pal … Continue reading

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Shame on Dershowitz

Yesterday, Jennifer Rubin asked: Where is the outrage in the U.S. — especially among the 78% of Jews who voted for Obama? Where are the major Jewish institutions that in the past offered rhetorical and political support for a vibrant … Continue reading

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“This is a massacre”

Terrible news from Iran. Terrible, but not unexpected.

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If everyone else jumped off a bridge…

One of the things I keep seeing on lefty blogs—particularly Nico’s, the one I’m following at HuffPo for Iran news—is statements like this: Obama’s Iran policy. Americans approve of it 52 percent vs. 36 percent who disapprove, according to a … Continue reading

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Words from Iran

I hope there are millions more like this young man. Mohammad: Yes. Let me tell you something. For about three decades our nation has been humiliated and insulted by this regime. Now Iranians are united again one more time after … Continue reading

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What next in Iran?

I looked up through the smoke and saw a poster of the stern visage of Khomeini above the words, “Islam is the religion of freedom.” When he’s not acting as an apologist for the Iranian regime, Roger Cohen has a … Continue reading

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Mad Mahmoud to us: MYOB

Do these people ever speak in conversational English? Or is Farsi really as fuddy-duddy a language as this quote makes it seem? “Definitely by hasty remarks you will not be placed in the circle of friendship with the Iranian nation. … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Iran

Persia is the home of both one of the worst enemies (Haman), and one of the greatest friends (Cyrus the Great) of Jews in history. There are hundreds of thousands of Iranian Jews in Israel and America, who come from … Continue reading

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Chaos in Iran, ice cream in Alexandria

Obama took the opportunity of the quiet Saturday to take his daughters out for a treat. Meantime, Patterico compares Tweets of Obama, and Tweets of Tehran. Must-read.

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A Jewish take on the sitch in Iran

This one made me laugh out loud. Knesset Member Menachem Eliezer Moses, chairman of the United Torah Judaism faction, wished success on Wednesday to the two camps battling in Iran following Friday’s disputed presidential elections. “What I have to say … Continue reading

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Hamas Arabs crushing Iranian dissent

Jimmy Carter is always just one step behind events. As he says he’s going to ask the Obama administration to revoke Hamas’ designation as a terrorist organization (yes, really), Hamas has sent its terrorists to do the dirty work on … Continue reading

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Speak softly and carry no stick

In Obama’s message to Iran, David Ignatius writes: The stormy Iranian elections are one more sign of how the world has been shaken up in the age of Barack Obama. The ruling mullahs are nervous about a threat to the … Continue reading

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No Roger, there is no Santa Claus

It’s always sad when a child has his childhood fantasies ripped away from him. It didn’t seem that long ago that Roger Cohen (and David Ignatius) were telling us that the “Mad Mullahs” of Iran were just a neo-conservative myth. … Continue reading

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