Category Archives: Israeli Double Standard Time

Olmert caves

Gee, no way this can go wrong: Under the plan that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced, Israel will remove about 50 roadblocks and upgrade checkpoints to speed up the movement of Palestinians through the West Bank. The Israelis also … Continue reading

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Showing a bad risk in a few week’s time

Erekat: Barak busy planning incursions – Jerusalem Post – March 13, 2008 Meanwhile, The Jerusalem Post has learned that Fraser will not publicize the report on compliance with the road map obligations he was expected to present at Friday’s trilateral … Continue reading

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March mideast media madness

Contents The Egyptian Israel media bias watcher Al Jazeera’s Jewish anchor – quits South African sponsored reconciliation radio The Egyptian Israel media bias watcher Adel Darwish wants to change the way Israel is covered in the British media. (h/t ETBuzz) … Continue reading

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Gaza war continues; MSM does not notice

So let’s see what the Palestinians sent out of Gaza yesterday. Mortars: Palestinians fired five mortar shells from the Gaza Strip into the Eshkol area in the western Negev on Tuesday. The shells fell in agricultural areas in one of … Continue reading

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No-confidence building measure

I had a hard time understanding this: Israel will transfer to the Palestinian Authority 25 armored vehicles from Russia for use in PA controlled areas of Judea and Samaria. Permission for the transfer was granted by the Olmert government during … Continue reading

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It’s only make believe

Judeopundit recently posted Koznik sez, “Nakba Denial as Much a Crime as Holocaust Denial” and rebuts such nonsense with: Holocaust deniers deny that 6 million Jews were killed. Nobody denies that 700,000 Palestinians became refugees. What the diarist means by … Continue reading

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Humoring the extremes

A month ago JoshuaPundit questioned the wisdom of President Bush naming an envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference. After noting some previous antics of the OIC, JoshuaPundit writes: This is the racist, anti-American group our president legitimized and is … Continue reading

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Polling for peace

A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald argued that Underscoring that point rather vividly is the issue of negotiations with Hamas. Needless to say, isolating the democratically elected Hamas government and childishly pretending that they don’t exist is a central prong … Continue reading

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Soccer Dad urges UN SG to end ‘disproportionate’ sanctimony

Secretary-General’s address to the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference As I told the Security Council when I briefed them earlier this month, Israel’s disproportionate and excessive use of force has killed and injured many civilians, including … Continue reading

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A call for revenge by a rabbi that will go unnoticed

Say, remember how the wire services all managed to point out that in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on yeshiva students, outraged Israelis chanted “Death to the Arabs”? Think this call for revenge will get as much notice … Continue reading

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More real ethnic cleansing

Boker Tov Boulder describes the moderate doctor of Holocaust denial, Mahmoud Abbas as Old Terrorist, New Suit, Big Mouth. Abbas claims that Israel is guilty of “ethnic cleansing” in Jerusalem. As Meryl points out, there’s been plenty of ethnic cleansing … Continue reading

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Ethnic cleansing, real and false

Mahmoud Abbas, the man who wrote a Holocaust-denial thesis, is accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing.” Abbas told a summit of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), being held in Senegal’s capital Dakar, the success of US-brokered peace talks … Continue reading

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Israel treats Gaza girls; Abbas calls Israel barbaric

Earlier I wrote: Aside from the silliness of allowing Hamas to re-arm unmolested, Israel is setting itself up for a PR hit. The first time an Israeli soldier fires on a terrorist approaching the border, Israel will be the party … Continue reading

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When will the cease-lull start?

I was kind of put off by this headline in the NYT: Rocket endangers Palestinian-Israeli respite. The rocket doesn’t endanger the respite. It ends the respite. And it’s not the rocket, it’s the people who fired the rocket. Of course … Continue reading

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Building homes for Jews is unhelpful

US Says Israel Housing Move Unhelpful Earlier, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack chided Israel more directly for the announcement Sunday that hundreds of new Jewish houses would be built in disputed areas of the West Bank and east Jerusalem.”The announcement … Continue reading

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