Category Archives: Israel Derangement Syndrome

Arabist apologia

via memeorandum McClatchey’s Washington Bureau provides an analysis of President Bush’s recent tour of the Middle East, Bush departs Mideast with few apparent gains, experts say President Bush wraps up a weeklong tour of the Middle East Wednesday, leaving many … Continue reading

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Norman Finkelstein in Lebanon: when the unmentionable meets the unspeakable

Probably getting booted out from the DePaul university has exacerbated his all-consuming lust for visibility. Now he has found a way – after his other learned friend, who also went on a similar pilgrimage. Finkelstein is known as a vocal … Continue reading

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Libya on the UNSC: Stooge for the Arab League

The new Libyan head of the UN Security Council has proven me right, in less than two weeks. First, the good news: Meanwhile, the Security Council condemned Katyusha rocket fire from Lebanon that struck Shlomi in northern Israel, according to … Continue reading

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Arun amok

Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, gives pacifism a bad name. Here’s a roundup of responses. Shira bat Sarah (who brought this swill to my attention) writes in Family Tradition: Why … Continue reading

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That political money

This was one surprising message: An Israeli Arab anti-Zionist group is calling for the boycott of Jewish agencies looking to contribute to Israeli Arab communities in Israel. The agencies, united under the rubric of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli … Continue reading

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Some myths and facts about Israel

Israel Matzav has a nice roundup of links demonstrating the Palestinian culpability in their own misfortune in 1948. (See also the American Thinker. Both via memeorandum.)For a relevant article see Benny Morris’s Reign of Error by Efraim Karsh. Dennis Mansfield … Continue reading

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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

That Latin stuff (that could be loosely translated as “fear the gift-bearing Greeks”) does not have anything to do with the Greeks in this case. Neither does the phrase “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” have much to … Continue reading

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Getting a “Clue”

Trying to find out what happened in the Middle East is often difficult. Israelly Cool! shows us again. Snapped Shot likens it to a game of Clue. The other day I noticed that a Palestinian woman had been killed. The … Continue reading

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Distorted image

Israeli “human rights” organization, B’tzelem issued its report for 2006. The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in 2007 has fallen by almost two-thirds compared to the figure for 2006, the human rights group B’Tselem reported Sunday.According to … Continue reading

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“Peaceful” Palestinians nearly murder Israeli in Ramallah

Stories like this happen all of the time. An Israeli gets lost and winds up in an Arab city in the West Bank, and the “peaceful” Palestinians—who only want peace and their own state, side-by-side with Israel—nearly murder him. The … Continue reading

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Marcy Winograd – ripping off the muzzle

Follow some excerpts from a unique manuscript that was intercepted by our agents. Its state was extremely poor – our lab* reported later that it was thoroughly chewed by a dog of indeterminate breed who destroyed more than half of … Continue reading

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Everything is Israel’s fault

Really. It’s all Israel’s fault that the gas deal fell through. Palestinian gas project ‘is wrecked by Israel’ An offshore gas project in the Mediterranean, which could have earned desperately needed revenue for the Palestinian economy, is in ruins after … Continue reading

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Tel-Aviv Tech

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich reports: Tel Aviv University has hit the jackpot, with three of its scientists included in the list of 50 of the world’s leading innovators in the coming issue of one of the world’s leading science magazines, Scientific American.Prof. … Continue reading

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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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The Israel-is-stealing-Christmas story season is upon us

Yes, Virginia, there is an anti-Israel bias, and this is the time of year that it becomes the most virulent. Let us take note of two amazing events in the beginning of the “Israel would make the Baby Jesus cry” … Continue reading

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