Mar 01 2008
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
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
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
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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Feb 04 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/clinton-obama-and-clust_b_84811.html For those of you who will be voting tomorrow on “Super Tuesday” and days following, this post has some relevance to the wee little “droppings” Israel left all over south Lebanon during the last days of its war with Hezbollah (or, as I still call it, “The Rape of Lebanon”)… +++ Clinton, Obama, and …
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Feb 02 2008
I like Barak more for what his election would say to the world and about us as Americans, than for his positions or his personality. I think Arun Ghandi stated something similar. I have seen Mrs. Bill Clinton (really, that’s her only credential, isn’t it?) operate for many years, and am unimpressed. The victimized female …
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Jan 27 2008
Yehuda Shaul sounds like an interesting (and courageous) fellow: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/a-rough-guide-to-hebron-the-worlds-strangest-guided-tour-highlights-the-abuse-of-palestinians-773018.html
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