03/19 Links Pt1: Kerry: I Was for a Jewish State Before I Was Against it;...
From Ian:Obama Setting Israel Up to Take the BlameAbbas’s refusal to take the steps necessary to make peace is nothing new when you consider that he and his predecessor Yasir Arafat have already turned...
View ArticleBlonde hair and pink clothes nearly cause riot at Cairo U
From Al Arabiya:A video of a young Egyptian woman with long blonde hair being aggressively sexually harassed by a group of university law students has sparked country-wide controversy.In the video, the...
View Article03/19 Links Pt2: The Problem with Judith Butler; Two Year Anniversary of the...
From Ian:The Problem with Judith Butler: The Political Philosophy of the Movement to Boycott IsraelWhen American Studies Association President Curtis F. Marez gave his absurd “one has to start...
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It is time for my quarterly appeal and review of things that have happened on the blog since my last roundup. .A week or so ago, I wrote the 19,000th post in this blog.My most popular post over the...
View Article"Relationship between PLO and Egypt at all-time low"
Egypt's antipathy towards Palestinian Arab leaders is not limited to Hamas.A senior PLO official who is close to Abbas admitted to Al Jazeera that relations between Egypt and the PLO are at an all time...
View ArticleAbbas says outrageous things to Obama, media let it slide
Whenever Bibi Netanyahu visits the White House, every word and gesture and demeanor is micro-analyzed to find indications of friction or combativeness or discomfort.Yet three days ago Mahmoud Abbas...
View ArticleAl Arabiya and Maan again show they have no journalistic integrity
From Al Arabiya:Several ancient archeological sites were “destroyed” after the Israeli Antiquities Authority conducted controversial digs in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem, a...
View Article03/20 Links Pt1: Talk is cheap, releasing convicted terrorists just to talk...
From Ian:Melanie Phillips: The Failure of the Mideast 'Peace Process'In Israel, there is bewilderment that it alone is being held responsible for the absence of peace. After all, while Mr. Netanyahu...
View ArticleFatah and PA TV again say they want to destroy Israel
One of the many questions that no Western politician or reporter ever bothers to ask Mahmoud Abbas is whether he controls the party, Fatah, that he leads, and the official TV station that the PA...
View ArticleArgentina has a very "Zionist" basketball team
Currently in fourth place in the Argentina National Basketball League A are:The Parana Zionists!So far I haven't been able to figure out how they got that name. But to make it funnier, their mascot is...
View Article03/20 Links Pt2: Boston Jewish Leader Appalled By Arafat Visit; SJP’s...
From Ian:Boston Jewish Leader "Appalled and Offended" By Arafat VisitThe director of Aish Campus Boston, Rabbi Chananel Weiner, was sickened to hear that Boston donors helped support a trip to Yasser...
View ArticleOh, Egypt shoots at Gaza fishing boats too. Now why haven't we heard that?
There have been many reports about how Israel terrorizes Gaza fishermen, enforcing the 6-nautical mile limit off the coast by shooting warning shots towards them.But in the most recent weekly UN OCHA...
View ArticleThe "human rights" activist who loves terrorism
One of the underlying principles of the "peace process" is that everyone is fundamentally decent and wants peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinians are just like us and it is...
View ArticleLet us all gaze at and admire Iran's moderation
This morning, Iran's Supreme Leader tweeted:He unfortunately didn't have the space to add "And the Jews Zionists would have deserved it anyway."(h/t MtTB)
View ArticleWork accident!
Hamas this morning announced yet another of their brave mujahadeen being blown to bits while "engaging in a jihad operation."Ibrahim Rafati died in an accidental explosion in Gaza City. He died, Hamas...
View Article03/21 Links Pt1: IDF Discovers Another Massive Terror Tunnel; 1,700 Hamas...
From Ian:Sarah Honig: Kerry’s cogent connectionsIt’s, therefore, inherently dishonest to deny that the feud is and always was about the creation and continued existence of the Jewish state.That’s why...
View ArticleEU to build desalination plant in Gaza. Guess who is opposed?
AFP reports:The European Union and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water.A joint statement said the...
View Article03/21 Links Pt2: No, you shouldn’t visit Arafat’s grave; Oxfam posts Cynthia...
From Ian:No, you shouldn’t have visited Arafat’s graveI highly doubt though that the PA officials you met with spoke about the town squares throughout the PA named after suicide bombers. I also doubt...
View ArticleToo bad! Jordanian murderer of schoolgirls ends hunger strike
Last week, trying to take advantage of the uproar after Israel killed a Palestinian Jordanian judge at the Allenby bridge, a Jordanian who murdered seven Israeli schoolgirls started a hunger strike to...
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