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Israel briefs, snarkly

Better late than never: The AP explains the Israeli side of the Gaza flotilla incident in the 11th paragraph of this story about Turkish protests at an Israeli volleyball game in Turkey. (It’s for a European tournament.) How dangerous is … Continue reading

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Naming and shaming the U.N.

This guy is my new hero: Phillip Ruch’s monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes, more than 16,000 of them, each pair representing a victim of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Seen from afar it … Continue reading

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Obama throws Israel under the bus

Abu Ghraib did not merit a UN investigation. The United States would have vetoed any such effort from the UN. British soldiers killing Iraqi POWs did not merit a UN investigation. The United States would have vetoed any such effort … Continue reading

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The UN condemns “acts”

No surprise. The United States tried for some ambiguity, but didn’t really get it. In a formal statement that seemed less forceful than what had been demanded by Palestinians, Arabs and Turkey the council also demanded an impartial investigation into … Continue reading

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The joke that is the UN Human Rights Council

The latest addition to the UN Human Rights Council? Libya. Libya was elected Thursday to the United Nations Human Rights Council, over the objections of numerous NGOs that said the country was unfit to serve on the rights body. A … Continue reading

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Out of context

What’s missing from this AP piece on the Lebanese president insisting he won’t ask Hizballah to disarm? Lebanon’s president says the government cannot ask Hezbollah to give up its weapons at a time of heightened tension with Israel. A U.N. … Continue reading

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Traveling briefs

The Dubai Assassination Squad Facebook group lives! The Dubai police chief must have gotten bored with being a nobody again. He’s says he’s identified five more suspects, and of course, the uncritical press is lapping it up. And yet, with … Continue reading

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Concentrating on the wrong nuclear program

There are four nuclear nations that are not signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. One of them is Israel. The other three are Pakistan, India, and North Korea. Of those three, North Korea has threatened its neighbors and enemies with nuclear … Continue reading

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Briefs

UN promoting blood libel: Awesome. Libya’s managed to get a document accusing Israeli doctors of stealing Palestinian organs on the UNHRC agenda. Which just goes to show you, the UN isn’t worth the land it’s sitting on. What next, a … Continue reading

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The pro-Palestinian media bias

The media bashes Israel on every occasion, acts as an echo chamber for the Obama administration’s successful attempt to bully the democratically-elected prime minister of Israel into doing what Obama wants him to do. The secretary-general of the UN arrives … Continue reading

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Watch the media spin

The AP released a brief story on the Lebanese government affirming Hezbullah’s defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 to disarm. This version holds too much of the truth in it. Prediction: Mention of 1701 will be dropped to the … 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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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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“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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Friday snarkly

NObama: Looks like the Palestinians aren’t going to take Obama’s suggestion and get back to the negotiating table anytime soon. I like how they no longer insist that all settlement activity be frozen first—they don’t dare add a precondition for … Continue reading

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