Category Archives: Israeli Double Standard Time

The PA’s torturers: Made in the U.K. (and USA?)

The proponents of peace have declared for years that if only the Palestinians had western-trained security forces, the terrorism would stop. But they didn’t seem to notice that their millions of dollars per year to fund the Palestinian police force … Continue reading

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Gaza report’s author is really full of himself

Today the New York Times reports Gaza Report Author Asks U.S. to Clarify Concerns. The article is flawed for what it gets wrong and for its failure to scrutinize any of Justice Goldstone’s self-aggrandizing claims. What’s wrong with the first … Continue reading

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Degrading self-defense

Twenty years ago In “Legitimizing the PLO,” the late Jeane Kirkpatrick wrote about how international law was subverted over the years by the PLO and its advocates to excuse terrorism. One of the earliest steps in this process was the … Continue reading

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The Human Rights Watch bias against Israel

Matthew Yglesias, who was for Israel before he was against it, takes issue with David Bernstein’s citing of the founder of HRW criticizing its anti-Israel bias in the op-ed pages of the New York Times. It’s certainly news that Human … Continue reading

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HRW founder blasts HRW

In an astonishing op-ed in the New York Times, the founder of Human Rights Watch resoundingly criticizes HRW’s anti-Israel bias. When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries, most of them closed societies. Now … Continue reading

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Richard Goldstone: Liar, liar, pants on fire

Richard Goldstone is bringing his lies to the pages of the Jerusalem Post. The man has no shame. Five weeks after the release of the Report of the Fact Finding Mission on Gaza, there has been no attempt by any … Continue reading

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UNHRC: Ignoring human rights abuses (unless they’re Israel’s)

The UN Human Rights Council voted to send the Goldstone Report to the UN Security Council for further consideration. Of course they did. The fix has been in since the biased mandate was given last year—the mandate that the news … Continue reading

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Mia Farrow: Newest member of Legion of Morons

It almost makes you like Ruth Gordon in Rosemary’s Baby. Mia Farrow joined the Legion of Morons by denouncing Israel for the Gaza blockade while whitewashing the reason for it. The direct quote about firing rockets into civilian areas (which, … Continue reading

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Breaking UN resolutions only counts if you’re Israel

How many times have we heard the tired old argument that Israel is in violation of dozens of UN resolutions? The fact that the resolutions that most people think of are nonbinding makes no difference; Israeli is in violation of … Continue reading

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No sympathy for Goldstone – in Sderot

In Moshav Yated Journal, Isabel Kershner of the New York Times reports: According to the Israeli military, some 3,300 rockets and mortar shells were launched from Gaza at southern Israel in 2008, compared with fewer than 300 since the end … Continue reading

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Why did Israel jail the pregnant woman?

The media likes to boast that they are the “first rough draft of history.” Part of that claim is that they are disinterested parties just reporting the facts as they are. Rafael Broch of Just Journalism had an excellent op-ed … Continue reading

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A story about Gilad Shalit that does not discuss Gilad Shalit

The Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper that has never been a friend to Israel, carries a story with this headline: Israel’s captured youths: Gilad Shalit and a Palestinian girl with braces You would expect it to be a profile of … Continue reading

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Goldstone leaves many stones unturned

Yaacov Lozowick watched Christiane Amanpour’s interview of Judge Goldstone. (video available) He observed: The second is his comparison of the Israeli judicial system and that of the Hamas: Israel’s is secretive and not reliable. Hamas, on the other hand, has … Continue reading

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“Can this trash”

The New York Times has a completely unremarkable account of Tuesday’s proceedings. Apparently neither Dr. Siderer’s testimony nor Cuba’s plea for “freedom of expression” were noteworthy to the Times reporter. Interestingly neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post … Continue reading

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Goldstone impeaches self

Stephanie Guttman noted who Judge Goldstone listened to. I wrote the other day about the ludicrously biased Goldstone Report issued by the UN’s Human Rights Council, which accuses Israel of war crimes in last winter’s war with Hamas in the … Continue reading

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