Either Prime Minister Siniora studied at the George Bush – John McSame School of Diplomacy or he is suffering profound memory loss. According to Haaretz, he has today branded Hezbollah as worse than Israel, saying “even the Israeli enemy never dared to do to Beirut what Hezbollah has done.” http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982080.html According to Wikipedia, it is …
Category: Israel
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Apr 19 2008
Nazis
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Mar 13 2008
Broad brush
Anti-Semite. My, my, my, but aren’t we quick these days to paint someone as an anti-Semite?! As in “Charley Reese is an anti-Semite” because he dares suggest Israel’s manifest influence on foreign policy may not be in America’s best interest. As in “Charley Reese is an anti-Semite” because he reminds us of the inconvenient truth, despite systematic efforts by the Israeli …
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Mar 01 2008
The shoah must go on…
On Friday, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai threatened a “shoah” on Gaza in response to qassam rocket fire directed at Ashkelon. “Shoah” is a Hebrew term for “big disaster” and is often used to describe the Holocaust. Vilnai’s comment to Israeli Army Radio (according to a CNIF bulletin): “The more Qassam fire intensifies and …
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Feb 18 2008
Plethoric pandering
I had hoped, in part because he seemed like a nice-enough guy, that Mike Huckabee would not descend to the level of pandering epitomized by the other Republican candidates. There were warning signs last fall, when he revealed he was getting up to speed on Middle East issues by reading books written by far-right messianic …
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Feb 11 2008
Breaking the Silence
Yehuda Shaul is live on C-Span now. He’s a former IDF commander and co-founder of Breaking the Silence. He’s showing slides and talking about the systematic degradation of Palestinians by the IDF. Very interesting and hopefully helpful. The follow-up questions seem to indicate a friendly/sympathetic audience, but I missed a few minutes (and just noticed …
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Feb 08 2008
Jacob Heilbrunn
Here’s the comment I left yesterday on the Washington Post’s ridiculous opinion piece “5 myths about neoconservatism” by Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at The National Interest (founded by the grandaddy of all neocons, Irving Kristol)… +++ Asking a senior editor of The National Interest to debunk neocon myths is about like asking Stalin to …
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