There are many take-aways from the Wikileaks documents dump.
The left is focused on the failure of the U.S. to stop Iraqi-on-Iraqi brutality and torture.
But there is a theme in the documents which has enormous implications not so much for the past, but for the future. Iran has been killing American...
Mahmood Ahmadinejad completed his trip to Lebanon. While almost everyone had anticipated he would be more provocative than usual, Ahmadinejad was merely as provocative as usual. Ahmadinejad attended a rally about three miles from the Israeli border, but did not approach the border fence as many had anticipated.
At an official state...
The organizers of the failed Gaza flotilla last June are at it again, planning a flotilla to Gaza next January. At least this time they are honest that it has nothing to do with humanitarian efforts.
As reported by The
Associated Press:
Pro-Palestinian groups plan to sail a flotilla of boats through Israel’s sea blockade of...
As of now, Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon on October 13, and to conduct a joint appearance with Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on October 14.
The situation is very tense and provocative.
Ahmadinejad will go to South Lebanon as far south as the border with the Israeli town...
A post at Israel Matzav about a failed attempt at a university in South Africa to boycott Israel’s Ben Gurion University reminded me that there has been a vicious war underway, albeit one fought mostly under the media radar.
The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, which brought you such above-the-radar events as the Gaza flotilla,...
There is no other reasonable interpretation.
Here is how Obama described the end of combat operations in Iraq in his speech Tuesday night:
Tonight, I’d like to talk to you about the end of our comb...
Today is al-Quds Day, the day on which the anti-Israel rejectionist front hopes for the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Jerusalem. On this day, Mahmood Ahmadinejad gave a speech in celebration of al-Quds Day declaring that “the Zionists are groups of hypocrite racists who have been operating under the pretext of...
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Who’s this guysaying nice things about Bush on our Iraq successbashing Bush over our economic failure?
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Not in New York City. In Beirut, by other Muslims,
following
shooting between Shiite Hezbollah and Sunni militias:
Shortly afterward, Shi’ite supporters of Hizbullah and sister organization Amal set fire to a Sunni mosque in the nearby neighborhood of Basta, according to an AP photographer.Salah, a 40-year-old who did not wish to...
Except that throughout much of the world, it is not.
Read Christopher Hitchens’s post, A Test of Tolerance:
Let us by all means make the “Ground Zero” debate a test of tolerance. But this will be a one-way street unless it is to be a test of Muslim tolerance as well.
Which makes this...
From the Lebanese website
Naharnet:
“Israel once again penetrated Lebanon’s mobile phone networks on Tuesday, sending text messages to citizens announcing a tangible reward for information about the fate of Israeli airman Ron Arad, NBN television reported.”
It is hard to believe that the Israelis actually think the messages will result in...
Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.
How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most of its Arab neighbors (and
…for thinking that the election of David Cameron in Britain might make a real difference in the direction of British policy.
I was wrong. In a
speech in Ankara, Turkey, Cameron did his best imitation of
Barack Obama’s apology tour:
… let me turn to the prejudiced – those who don’t differentiate between...
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...
Harry Reid has a failed record on Iraq for which he never has been held accountable. Reid voted for the war, then falsely claimed he was misled, then tried to defund the war, then declared the war lost, and then stubbornly refused to acknowledge the success of the surge after it...
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...
