Given the news, that could refer to several different issues.

But I mean it with regard to Syria, where almost everyone seems to view Assad’s days are numbered, but no one seems to be sure how many days.  With Iran and Hezbollah at this side, Assad may hold on longer than...

Interesting post at an interesting blog run by Yaacov Lozowick for the Israeli State Archives, What’s a Proportional Response?

Here’s a fascinating document from December 13th 1955, in which...

We have known for decades that Palestinian leaders talk out of both sides of their mouths, a message of relative restraint to the West and a message of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli agitation at home.

Hamas is more honest than the Palestinian Authority, as it has a unified message of hate.

Now that Mahmoud Abbas...

This is courage week for Canada. 

First, a very strong statement of support for Israel at the U.N.

Now, unlike Stevie Wonder, who cancelled a pro-Israel concert under mild pressure from the U.N. and anti-Israel groups, Alanis Morissette, the Canadian singer, has arrived in Israel for a concert despite calls from the lunatic and...

The United States nominally opposed the General Assembly Resolution granting nonmember state status to “Palestine.”

In the short run, it changes nothing on the ground, but it does embolden the Palestinians to hold out for everything, including  a reversion to the 1949 Armistice borders, commonly and somewhat erroneously referred to at the...

Via Times of Israel, With ‘a heavy heart,’ Stevie Wonder pulls out of Friends of the IDF concert:

Stevie Wonder is calling off a concert for a group that raises money...

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird gave a very strong speech (embedded at bottom of post) yesterday at the United Nations against the “nonmember” status for “Palestine,” in violation of the Oslo Accords.

Damn fine speech by #Canada.

— Act for Israel (@ActForIsrael) November 29, 2012

Canada is following up that rhetoric,Canada recalling diplomats from...

Yesterday was other-worldly, watching the sick march of hypocrisy on display at the U.N. for the vote in the General Assembly to grant “Palestine” nonmember state status.

Of course, “Palestine” already declared independence in 1988 and that declaration was recognized by almost all of the 138 countries that voted “yes” yesterday.

What was...

Around 5 p.m. today the U.N. General Assembly will vote to grant “Palestine” non-member status.

For what is the General Assembly voting?

Definitely not for a state. “Palestine” clearly does not qualify.

Definitely not for a government.  Who controls?  H...

Less than 2 years ago Rachel Maddow, unofficial spokeswoman for the really, really smart “reality-based community,” parroted the left-wing line that missile defense cannot work, despite evidence to the contrary. Via Newsbusters (emphasis mine)

MADDOW: You know what? Here’s the country, here’s the kind of thing you put over like a...

Ehud Barak, Israel’s current Defense Minister, announced he is retiring from politics.

The Times of Israel provides this brief bio:

Born on a kibbutz in 1942, Barak was central to the early successes of the IDF’s most elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal, and is the most decorated soldier in Israeli Army history, having...

Iron Dome has been declared the only real Israeli winner in the recent Gaza fighting.

But it has a big brother coming on line soon, Magic Wand (aka David’s Sling):

The IDF is in the final stages of laying the groundwork...

Don’t answer.

It’s a trick question.

I wonder if the Shoe Fauxtographer got in on the act this time. If anyone finds recent Gaza shoe photos by Abid Katib, post the link in the coments.

Israel and Hamas, via Egypt and the U.S., have reached a “truce.”  Via AP:

Israel and the Hamas militant group reached a cease-fire agreement Wednesday to end the fiercest round of fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an Israeli blockade constricting the Gaza Strip.

Egypt’s...

A counter protest directed at a “Stand with Israel” rally held in downtown Chicago Tuesday chanted that Israel should “end the occupation now.”

The counter group on around 30, a coalition of pro-Palestinian forces along with Communist Party USA’s Andy Thayer and others, accused Israel of being the aggressor in the...