12/12 Links Pt1: Abbas Awards Mass Murderer the 'Star of Honor', More Animal...
From Ian:Abbas decorates terror leader Abu Jihadwith Star of Honor:"He was the model of a true fighter and devoted leader"Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has granted a post-mortem honor to...
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IDF debunks Ukrainian game show contestant's claims
Remember a couple of weeks ago, anti-Israel sites were enthusiastically quoting the supposed admission of a Ukrainian woman on a TV game show? Elena Zakusilo claimed she shot and killed lots of Arabs,...
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The CIA's Secret Arabists - and their 1950s anti-Israel organization
From the WSJ:Book Review: 'America's Great Game,' by Hugh Wilfordby Michael DoranKim Philby, the British turncoat who spied for the Soviet Union, described Kermit Roosevelt as "a courteous, soft-spoken...
View Article12/12 Links Pt2: Peace Now and the facade of democratic debate, Falk Calls...
From Ian:Gerald Steinberg: Peace Now and the facade of democratic debatePeace Now and its allies, which use the label but not the values of the “liberal progressive Left,” have long ignored this...
View ArticleA pro-settler Miley Cyrus video spoof
This is not something you see everyday, from Orit Arfa:From the YouTube page:Miley Cyrus raised eyebrows and tongues with her hyper-sexual performance of her hit "We Can't Stop" at the MTV Video Music...
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Al Quds University to offer course on "hate speech"; Brandeis looks to re-engage
Al Quds University is in full firefighting mode.From their website:Al-Quds University, the Arab University in East Jerusalem, whose mission is the encouragement of an open and pluralistic cultural...
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Mahmoud Abbas says "no" to BDS in South Africa
From The Star (SA), courtesy of Electronic Intifada (I could not find this online):The BDS crowd is, predictably, furious.Abbas’ comments conflict “with the Palestinian national consensus that has...
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More Leftist intolerance: Haifa U refuses to give honorary doctorate to right...
Haaretz (Hebrew) reports that the University of Haifa considered, and rejected, giving an honorary doctorate to Professor Robert Aumann, who won the Nobel prize in economics in 2005.The reason? Because...
View Article12/13 Links Pt1: The Neo-Mandate Solution, Palestinian refugees - a reality...
From Ian:Barry Rubin: Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Neo-Mandate SolutionFor example, is the U.S. air force going to bomb a building in Gaza that is an open headquarter for Gaza rocket and terrorist...
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IDF helping West Bank, Gaza Arabs during storm
From the IDF:As a result of the weather and a request by representatives of the United Nations to the head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Major General Eitan...
View Article12/13 Links Pt2: The legal case for Judea and Samaria, EU official defends...
From Ian:The legal case for Judea and SamariaIf we were to make a gross generalization, the world has adopted the Palestinian narrative as it relates to the legal status of the territories. Even those...
View Article"Arab governments gave more for Sandy relief than for Gaza floods"
Palestine Today has an angry article about how Arab governments have abandoned Gaza.The author states that in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on the East Coast of the US last year, Bahrain donated $5...
View Article12/14 Links: Lawrence Summers: Academic boycott is “anti-Semitism in effect",...
From Ian:Lawrence Summers: Academic boycott of Israel is “anti-Semitism in effect”Here is the Summers interview with Charlie Rose specifically on the ASA boycott resolution (full interview here,...
View ArticleGaza woes open the floodgate of anti-Israel lies
Ma'an writes:The Gaza Strip has been without a functioning power plant since the beginning of November, when the plant ran out of diesel fuel as a result of the tightening of a seven-year-long blockade...
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Dam!
Ma'an "reported" on Friday:The Gaza government's Disaster Response Committee announced late Friday that Israeli authorities had opened up dams just east of the Gaza Strip, flooding numerous residential...
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Gulf study warns of Israel's economic power
A new report from the University of Kuwait is warning that Israel intends to grow its economic power. The study is called "Israel seeks to dwarf its neighbors and the Gulf states."The report says that...
View ArticleAmnesty International proven to lie again
In November, I noted that Amnesty International claimed that Israel was restricting fuel into Gaza, and their spokesperson insisted that this was true - that Israel does not allow industrial diesel for...
View Article12/15 Links: Why “Palestine” will not be an ‘Rainbow Nation’, Israeli/Chinese...
From Ian:Linkage, Ltd.Obama believes that if the U.S. were to create a stable Middle East and forge a wide cross-Arab partnership of moderates -- which would supplant the dwindling U.S. presence -- the...
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Unraveling the story behind a 5th century Jewish tombstone
From NYT:They figured out her first name, but not her father’s. They know where and when she died, but not her age or the cause of death. They could not tell whether she was married.This is a detective...
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Going to Israel
I'm on my way to the Holy Land.(Are we still allowed to call it that? It's not a violation of any British advertising laws or anything, is it?)I think most of the snow will be melted by the time I get...
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