The New York Times, July 14, 2010:

There are plenty of things to buy in Gaza; goods are brought over the border or smuggled through the tunnels with Egypt. That is not the problem.

In fact, talk about food and people here get angry because it implies that their struggle is over...

I am not someone who tries to keep track of how many of my predictions have come true. That sort of gamesmanship by hindsight is beneath me.

And I don’t try to settle scores with people who criticize me. That would be petty.

So it brings me absolutely no joy to...

Nicholas Kristoff has found the answer to traditional Palestinian suicide bombers, hijackers, and hostage takers: A non-violent movement led by Palestinian women.

But for now, Kristoff finds it’s still a dream, because it depends on what the meaning of “non-violence” is.

Describing one protest, seeking the removal of a security barrier...

Unlike some, I have not devoted myself to studying the writings of Glenn Greenwald. Others have devoted the time, because Greenwald has such a large following at Salon.com.

I did, however, write about Greenwald’s absurd coverage of the Islamist-inspired, Turkish-led Gaza flotilla, particularly Greenwald’s offensive use of the term “Israel-Firsters” in connection...

I almost forgot that today is the anniversary of another liberation, the Israeli commando raid to free hostages of PLO terrorists in Entebbe, Uganda. Thanks to @KurtSchlichter for the reminder.

The leader of the commandos, and the only Israeli killed during the raid, was Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of the current Israeli Prime...

They merely want a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, Group of youths attack Jewish dance group:

A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of Hannover, police said Thursday. One dancer...

The decision by Israel to “ease” the blockade of Gaza has evoked pretty strong opinions as to whether it represents a wise strategic move by Israel (my view) or a caving in which strengthens ...

Israel has announced an “easing” of the land blockade on Gaza, a largely symbolic step since large quantities of humanitarian and other supplies already enter Gaza.

While The NY Times and others portr...

The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition has found its most successful tactic — the use of human shields in the form of Western Useful Idiots backed by Islamist Martyrs-in-Waiting to confront Israeli soldiers in the hope that Israel will be forced either to weaken its defenses or to use lethal force.

This is exactly...

Thanks to Solomonia for posting this 1956 cartoon about Israel’s aggression. (Added) The cartoon shows Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser repeatedly taunting Israel’s David Ben-Gurion, and in the last segment Ben Gurion finally hits back. The cartoon appears to be an allusion to the 1956 Suez Crisis.

With Turkey, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah,...

Helen Thomas’ comments that Jews in Israel should go back to Poland and Germany perpetuated the falsehood that Israel is a European implant, which fits nicely into the narrative of the Islamist-Leftist anti-Israel coalition.

In fact, as I documented before, there was an exchange of populations at the time of and after...

I originally saw this video linked a while ago at Israellycool.

Now that it has gone viral (over 750,000 YouTube views as of this writing), with further links by Jeffrey Goldberg and an explanation of what it all means at The NY Review of Books (slow book day, I guess), I am...

I hope this is not true, but nothing would surprise me when it comes to Obama and the Middle East, Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration intends to support...

In 2006 Richard Cohen of The Washington Post wrote a column arguing “[t]he greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake.”

The argument, that Israel should not have been created as a Jew...

So what she said was no big deal.

That apparently is John Cole’s point in You Got Played, because in the full video which was just released Thomas was nice to the Jewish students:

Now that Helen Hitler Thomas has been...

Remember Joe Biden’s comment that hostile forces would test Obama in his first six months?

Well, whatever tests have come before, the big test is about to take place, as Russia, Iran and Turkey are uniting to break American influence in...

The biggest problem with the Helen Thomas story is that she kept it under wraps for so long.

Anyone who watched a presidential press conference knew she was hostile to Israel, but the depth of that hostility was not known.

We have created a media culture where inappropriate or politically incorrect thoughts cannot...