Category Archives: Israeli Double Standard Time

Accept our peace offer, or we’ll kill you

That’s what the Arabs are telling Israel. And this is how it’s being spun. Reuters: Arab leaders urge Israel, world to take peace offer Mar 29, 2007 — RIYADH (Reuters) – Arab leaders endorsed a peace plan to end decades-old … Continue reading

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Saudis to Israel: Refusing our peace plan = war

The ultimatums keep getting better and better. So this is what the Saudi princes think are negotiations: Telling Israel that she must accept the 2002 initiative as is, with zero changes, no matter what—and if she doesn’t accept, then obviously, … Continue reading

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Arabs to Israel: Do as we say

Saudi Arabia, having presented a so-called peace plan and insisted there will not be any changes made to the five-year-old plan that was rejected in 2002, then tells Israel she must be flexible. Yes, it truly is Israeli Double Standard … Continue reading

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The “growing international momentum for peace” meme

Have you noticed the new meme in the media? There is a “growing international momentum for peace.” It emerged quite suddenly. Its source? The so-called “unity government” of Fatah and Hamas. What has, in actuality, changed? Nothing. No, not nothing. … Continue reading

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Egypt to Israel: No preconditions for you, plenty for us

Egypt insists that Israel must accept the 2002 Saudi peace initiative, which calls for the return of the palestinian refugees and complete withdrawal of all the land taken in 1967, before then being permitted to make any changes to the … Continue reading

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A year later, the world does as expected

A year ago, any commentator on Israel with half a brain said that the world would ultimately deal with Hamas, even if Hamas didn’t actually change its stance in the least. Yep. It’s begun. Earlier Saturday, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas … Continue reading

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Egypt discriminates against Christians; world yawns

Egypt is not allowing 2,000 Coptic Christians to make their annual Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem due to trumped-up spying charges. Will the world rise up against this religious discrimination the way they do when Israel refuses to allow terrorists to … Continue reading

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More blood libels

What a surprise: Given half a chance, Arabs accuse Israelis of another massacre. Only this one is utterly false. Ben Eliezer provided a detailed explanation to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram of why the reports were erroneous. “In the past few days … Continue reading

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Cognitive dissonance alert

What time is it, kids? That’s right. It’s Israeli Double Standard Time. From an editorial in The Gulf News: As the international community ponders ways to revive the Middle East peace process, Israel responds by launching its biggest war games … Continue reading

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Another gay rights parade nixed

But I think the world is not going to have nearly as many headlines about this one as they did regarding the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. Because it’s not in Israel. It’s in Russia. A top Moscow official repeated … Continue reading

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22 dead, 245 wounded in Gaza in 48 hours

Twenty-two dead, including four children, in Gaza in the last two days. And the world condemnations are nowhere to be seen. Because it isn’t Israelis doing the killing. Oh, and children were murdered. But since Israel didn’t kill them, they … Continue reading

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Israel who?

Just for kicks and giggles, since I saw a headline about Human Rights Watch, I checked their front page. There’s a headline calling on the U.S. to stop selling cluster bombs to Israel. There’s a headline calling on the U.S. … Continue reading

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The New York Times’ blinders

Here’s a challenge: Go read this NY Times editorial and see if you can find a single reference to the messages—in the form of rockets loaded with ball-bearings that just destroyed two young boys’ legs—that palestinian terrorists have been sending … Continue reading

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Too good to be true: More kassams fired

Two days of sort-of truce, when there were no kassam rockets fired (Wednesday and Thursday) have ended with a literal bang: The terrorists launched more kassams this morning. Oh, the “sort-of” label? That’s because the pals were trying to kill … Continue reading

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The Israel-only cease-fire

I swear, you could recycle my posts. Just look back in my archives to find the exact same thing. Okay, so a cease-fire is declared for Sunday. Terrorists launch rockets into Israel an hour after it was supposed to take … Continue reading

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