There is one worthwhile clause in an otherwise worthless article at The Atlantic by Steve Clemons, Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in the Back of the Bus.
Clemons lays out the fiction that the Palestinian strategic move to take land without peace is something Gandhi-like:
Obama’s position on this is dangerous in another sense as well. Obama —...
Why the Palestinians thought that a diplomatic confrontation with the U.S. was the way to go is inexplicable. Once again, they overplayed their hand.
Did they really buy into Obama’s rhetoric from 2009 in Cairo, or earlier this year about the Arab Spring? In part, a big maybe, but I don’t think...
Obama gave a good speech today at the U.N. on the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
President Barack Obama told a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that Mideast peace “will not come through statements and resolutions” by the world body,...
That’s a line from this web ad released by the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is capitalizing on the momentum from the NY-09 election:
Carl at Israel Matzav has given Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, the nickame “Abu Bluff.”
The trip by Abbas to the U.N. this week ostensibly to obtain recognition of a Palestinian state is another bluff. Abbas doesn’t even have...
One lie is that there is a historically and ethnically distinct Palestinian people, but that lie is so well established that it is beyond argument now. Even if Palestinian nationalism was a fiction created in the last few decades as a tool against Israel, that horse has left the gate. Nonetheless, it is...
Turkish Prime Minsister Erdogan’s agitation show no signs of letting up.
He’s back to threats of military confrontation with Israel:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Israel could not do whatever it wanted in...
Dan Senor has a great article in The Wall Street Journal about how fundamentally Obama weakened our support of Israel, and Matthew Knee ...
What a night. Two big wins in NY-09 and NV-02.
Quote of the night: “It’s a very difficult district for Democrats,” said Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, noting its Democratic margins there tend to be the second lowest of all the districts in New York City.
Well yes, if you define...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, having threated to have warships escort ships seeking to break the Gaza blockade, has walked back those comments, claiming he was taken out...
What is going on in Egypt was all foreseeable to those of us who did not harbor the romantic view of the Arab Spring, which in many places was just a venting of anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel which had been suppressed by dictatorial rulers. Just ask Lara Logan, who was sexually abused in...
I wasn’t sure Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan really would follow through on threats of a military confrontation with Israel over the Gaza blockade, but the recent U.N. panel decision upholding the legality of the blockade over Turkish protests seems to have sent Erdogan off the rails.
Turkey just announced that...
I posted yesterday about a U.N. report finding that Israel’s sea blockade of Gaza is legal under international law, that Israel had a right to board and search...
I have posted about this U.N. report before, and Turkey’s attempts to prevent its release or at least modify the findings.
Considering that this is a U.N. report, and the U.N. almost never is fair to Israel, the findings are astounding. As reported by The NY Times:
A United Nations review has found...
When they say Boycott Divest and Sanction Israel, they don’t really mean it. Those are just code words for Destroy Israel.
Below is a video of a demonstration in London as part of the BDS(D) movement, via @EliLake, who notes
This is classic (h/t BlazingCatFur).
A member of the anti-Israel Boycott Divest Sanction movement (we’ve seen their moonbat tactics before) confronted Muslim shop owners in London demanding that they not sell Israeli products. The shop owners were not intimidated and demanded to know why...
From @MargieInTelAviv:
I would add one thing, “Easy, just stop firing rockets at us … and sending people across the border to kill us.”
Update: NY Times covers things pretty much as you would expect.
