UNHRC report didn't mention Hamas threatening Israeli civilians - a war crime
Rule 2 of ICRC's Customary IHL is "Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited." It quotes Article 51(2) of Additional...
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Iran issues new list of nuclear "red lines"
Iran's Supreme Leader has published a convenient list of his "red lines" for a nuclear deal.They include:No long-term restrictionsContinuation of R&D and construction during limitsImmediate removal...
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Fact-check: Michael Oren vs. Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart has joined the chorus of hysterical voices slamming Michael Oren for his recent interviews and book.Beinart says that it is Oren, not President Obama, who is naive.Let's fact-check...
View Article06/24 Links Pt1: UN report denies Israel's right of self-defense, advocates...
From Ian:Anne Bayefsky: UN report denies Israel's right of self-defense, advocates arrest of Israelis insteadArrest Benjamin Netanyahu and any other “suspected” Israeli war criminals wherever and...
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Next UN Probe Of Israel To Save Time By Just Reprinting Der Stürmer...
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page.Geneva, June 24 - The research team that released a report of its investigation into Israeli and Palestinian...
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UNHRC report ignores Hamas' use of nuclear terrorism
During last summer's Gaza war, Hamas took credit for attacking, and threatened to further attack, Israel's nuclear power plant in Dimona:Hamas remained defiant Thursday, claiming rockets fired at the...
View Article06/24 Links Pt2: UNRWA causes more damage than good; US ready to offer Iran...
From Ian:Israeli NGO: ‘UNRWA causes more damage than good’According to a position paper published recently by an Israeli non-partisan NGO, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian...
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Confederate flag banned from Amazon - but Hamas and Nazi flags still for sale
CNN reported:America's leading merchants have spoken: The Confederate flag is coming off the shelves.Walmart, Amazon, eBay and Sears all announced bans on the sale of Confederate flag merchandise, amid...
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Did Omar Barghouti add a clause to BDS rules to except himself?
Ma'an has an article by Anna Kokko that is, of course, very sympathetic to BDS while saying how difficult it is for Palestinian Arabs to adhere to the boycott fully.One section, though, is...
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Jordanian paper encourages more Arabs to stab Jews
An article in Jordan's Ad-Dustour on Tuesday praised terror attacks against Israeli Jews and encourages Palestinian Arabs to do more of it.The article, by Yaser Azaatreh, calls these "heroic...
View Article06/25 Links Pt1: Kemp: The U.N.’s Gaza Report Is Flawed and Dangerous; Pal...
From Ian:Col. Richard Kemp: The U.N.’s Gaza Report Is Flawed and DangerousJudge Davis suggests that the I.D.F.’s use of air, tank and artillery fire in populated areas may constitute a war crime and...
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Palestinian and American terrorists have similar motivations (Vic Rosenthal)
Vic Rosenthal's weekly column:When I heard about the terrorist mass murder in the South Carolina church, I had a familiar feeling. It was the same feeling I had one morning last November, when I...
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An absurd UNHRC commission story and the games that will result
The UNHRC report released this week includes some clearly ridiculous allegations from Gaza "eyewitnesses." Here is one of them:An eyewitness, Raghad Qdeih, told the commission that, on 25 July around 1...
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Summer appeal to support EoZ! (plus a mazel tov...)
(This post will remain on top for the next several hours, scroll down for newer posts)This past Monday I achieved something that I highly doubt that any writer in any medium has ever accomplished.My...
View Article06/25 Links Pt2: BHL: A yellow star for the Jewish state?; Fmr. Obama...
From Ian:Bernard-Henri Levy: A yellow star for the Jewish state?Is this just a detail that can be safely ignored on the grounds that BDS targets “only” the territories, the Jewish settlements being...
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Something fishy about the "flotilla"
This morning, Palestine News Network said:One of the organizers of Freedom Flotilla III trip, Dror Feiler Wednesday said that Marianne of Gothenburg is about to set off to Gaza within a few hours....
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Is J-Street really against BDS? Their opposition to anti-BDS legislation...
J-Street: Pointing in the wrong directionTimes of Israel reports:After weeks of legislative drama, a trade bill containing provisions opposing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign...
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Saeb Erekat releases strategy to destroy Israel
Saeb Erekat has been busy lately.He issued a document describing a strategy on how to destroy Israel, in the words of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (not yet in English.) His main points...
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Those Gaza kids never let you down
Chris Gunness of UNRWA tweeted this message (misspelling his organization's name):Put your trust in the children of #Gaza they will never let you down. Support @URNWA's #SOS4Gaza campaign. RT...
View Article06/26 Links Pt1: Time to call out those aiding the Israel pogrom; The...
From Ian:Melanie Phillips: Time to call out those aiding the Israel pogromWe know that the NGOs are the instruments of the Soviet-inspired psychological warfare campaign to bend the collective Western...
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