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Posted by David Gerstman on March 12, 2013 3 Comments
Mendacious Max Beyond Iron Dome Max Fisher, the blogger for the Washington Post who publicized the picture of Jihad Mishrawi has now responded to a new United Nations report that concluded that the rocket that killed Mishrawi’s son was likely fired by Hamas. Originally he...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 11, 2013 5 Comments
1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week’s revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, Samuel Tadros, the scholar who...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 08, 2013 5 Comments
The state of the Secretaries of State One of John Kerry’s first acts in office as Secretary of State was a good one. Lee Smith writes in John Kerry Roasts Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not a man who minces words. He...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 04, 2013 4 Comments
1) Taking the lede in blaming Israel A number of bloggers have commented on the anti-Israel remarks made by Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan last week. Fortunatly, Secretary of State, John Kerry and others rebuked Turkey. Here’s how the New York Times’ anti-Israel blogger Robert Mackey provided context for the remarks: The Turkish prime minister has expressed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2013 12 Comments
I have been sounding the warning siren about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for years. His mask of moderation has been slipping steadily, if it ever was there. He has engaged in repeated rants against Israel, and now he has gone the full distance...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 27, 2013 8 Comments
1) It’s been more than 20 years  Jonathan Tobin writes in The Day the War on America Began: Exactly 20 years ago on this date, a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center took the lives of six people and injured more than a thousand...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 26, 2013 5 Comments
1) Why are they staying away?  Yesterday the New York Times reported Syrian Opposition’s Complaints Shadow Kerry’s First Official Trip: Mr. Kerry and foreign ministers from Europe and the Middle East are scheduled to meet in Rome on Thursday with opponents of President Bashar al-Assad...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 25, 2013 8 Comments
Intifada: then and now In response to a recent news program in Israel, Col. Jonathan D. Halevi wrote The Palestinian Authority’s Responsibility for the Outbreak of the Second Intifada: Its Own Damning Testimony for the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs. Even now, as Halevi writes:...

Posted by David Gerstman on February 22, 2013 7 Comments
WAJ Note — As mentioned yesterday, David produces an almost daily Mideast Media Sampler newsletter, which we will be running at LI.  It is a great way to keep up with media reports about the Middle East. ——— 1) One last Hagel post In the Hagel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2013 5 Comments
Just yesterday I pointed out that the Turkish gov’t again proves how far it has slipped, after its Foreign Minister again lashed out at Israel in overtly religious terms Don’t blame the Foreign Minister, the anti-Israel rhetoric emanates from the top, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 4 Comments
David Gerstman a/k/a SoccerDad has a Mideast Media Sampler he circulates by email which is very informative and used by many bloggers. With his permission, I’m posting today’s sampler about the anti-Israel lawfare being conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council cheered on by The New York Times and law professor George...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2013 18 Comments
Obama wants Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders, and he’s squarely placed the blame on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not being willing to go along. I addressed this the other day in my post, Obama’s interference in Israel’s election. Now Netanyahu...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2013 24 Comments
You don’t need to be an expert in Israeli politics to understand that Israeli voters don’t like it when their leaders fight with an American president. That’s nothing new, and it’s not new in the age of Obama. That’s the context in which you need...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2013 31 Comments
I have not been on team anti-Chuck Hagel mostly because I didn’t know a lot about Chuck Hagel. But what I’m finding out is deeply troubling — including David Brooks’ excellent post highlighted in my post Hagel the perfect foil to manage military’s decline over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2012 11 Comments
In March 2011, two Palestinians from a nearby village infiltrated an Israeli community on the West Bank and killed the Fogel family with knives, first the parents as they slept and then the children.  I asked, “What Kind Of Person stabs a three-month old infant to...

Posted by Joel Engel on December 08, 2012 28 Comments
Earlier this week I received an email from a friend (and former colleague) who teaches at Stanford.  The email, containing a link to an Examiner.com column, had been forwarded several times before reaching him and arrived in my inbox complete with a good dozen endorsements...
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