DCI-Palestine called terrorists "innocent children"
Yesterday, I showed that Defense for Children International - Palestine had just released a study that included at least one bogus report, about a Gaza boy who claimed that the IDF used him as a human...
View ArticleProud to be a Zionist - 5775 edition
I wrote the original essay around 2002 and I have been modifying it since then. Here is this year's edition:Every year, the State of Israel seems to be up against yet another unsolvable crisis. These...
View Article04/23 Links Pt1: Happy Independence Day ! ; Obama’s 67 degrees of separation...
From Ian:‘This is our country, there is no other,’ says teary-eyed Aharish in ArabicLucy Aharish, an Israeli-Arab news anchor and actress, was among the 14 torch lighters in the official ceremony...
View ArticleIndependence and self-defense (Vic Rosenthal)
Vic Rosenthal's weekly column:Today is יום העצמאות, Independence Day, and I’m reading lots of articles about the significance of an independent Jewish state. “The meaning of independence in my view is,...
View ArticlePostscript to South African BDS hockey debacle
A few days ago I mentioned that a group of Israel haters tried to disrupt a hockey game between Israel and South Africa. in Cape Town.IOL News quoted the haters as saying that they were the...
View Article04/23 Links Pt2: Amnesty’s Problem with Antisemitism; The Academic War on Israel
From Ian:Amnesty’s Problem with AntisemitismI can’t escape the feeling that not many people take antisemitism seriously. Even now while we witness its rise throughout Europe. Even when Jews are shot...
View ArticleVideo that Arabs claim show Jews provoking them in the Jewish Quarter
Jordan's Dostor news site writes:Israeli Channel 7 published video of provocations practiced by Jewish settlers against Palestinians during the celebrations over 67 years of occupation of the...
View ArticleBlackberry to open center in Israel; will the haters boycott it?
From Globes:Mobile phone manufacturer BlackBerry is buying Israeli file-sharing security company WatchDox. The Canadian company did not disclose financial details about the acquisition but sources...
View ArticleIndependent (UK) says academic journals like The Lancet may lie, "free speech"
The Independent reports:One of the world’s oldest and most venerable medical journals is under attack from an international group of more than 500 doctors over its coverage of the humanitarian disaster...
View Article1080 dead, including over 115 children, since Saudi airstrikes began
The UN News Centre writes:As the United Nations humanitarian wing appealed for “any initiative that can reduce the violence” in Yemen, the World Health Organization (WHO) office in the country reported...
View Article04/24 Links Pt1: Obama's Iran Obsession Has Sunk the Democrats; Biden: F-35's...
From Ian:Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians Vote for Iran's New Ally: HamasHamas has apparently now realigned with Iran, which is "rebuilding relations with the military wing of Hamas." Iran also, it...
View ArticleRemembering Dima Levitas
Received via email:We, as a family want to tell you about our loved one, Dmitri Levitas, who died in Operation Protective Edge.We came to Israel in 1990 from Tashkent, when Dima was 2 years old. Two...
View ArticleSorry, Saudi pilots, no free Bentleys for you
From AFP:A billionaire Saudi prince has purportedly deleted a controversial tweet in which he offered 100 luxury Bentley cars to air force pilots who took part in Saudi-led operations over Yemen.The...
View Article04/24 Links Pt2: Israel ranked 11th happiest country in the world; Falk...
From Ian:Israel ranked 11th happiest country in the world The annual World Happiness Report published on Thursday by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has ranked Israel as the 11th...
View Article04/25 Links: Israel hits Hezbollah in Syria; Young Arabs: Israel Isn’t Arab...
From Ian:3 cops struck by car on Mt. of Olives in suspected attackThree Israeli police officers were injured Saturday evening when struck by a car on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem in what...
View ArticleTime chooses Netanyahu in "Time 100" - and then trashes him
Every year, Time magazine publishes its list of the 100 most influential people.There were very few negative articles describing those chosen. Vladimir Putin was described this way:No leader arouses...
View ArticleOutrage: Putin invites Abbas to celebrate Russian victory over Palestinian...
From Egyptian paper Al Mesryoon:Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received an invitation from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to participate in the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of...
View ArticleJordanian BDS group releases video of IDF "spin the bottle" blood libel
From the Jordan Times last week:Members of the Jordanian National Campaign to Thwart the Gas Deal with the Zionist Entity are planning to organise a motorcade from the capital to Karak on Friday in...
View ArticleThe "Linkage" Falsehood and the Riyadh-Cairo Axis (Mike Lumish)
The primary political fault-line in the Muslim Middle East today is the Iran coalition versus what Jonathan Spyer, writing in the Middle East Forum, calls the Riyadh-Cairo axis.Spyer argues that the...
View Article04/26 Links: San Remo: The Forgotten Milestone; Israel rushes aid to...
From Ian:San Remo: The Forgotten MilestoneNinety five years ago, prime ministers, ambassadors and other dignitaries from Europe and America gathered in the Italian Riviera. Journalists from around the...
View Article