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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2012 10 Comments
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,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 11 Comments
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...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 29, 2012 33 Comments
Remember after 9/11 (the original, not the Benghazi update), when Reuters decided its stylebook would require putting the word terrorist in scare quotes on the grounds that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”? Well, now the Associated Press stylebook apparently insists that Mohammed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2012 7 Comments
Gaza! Egypt! Actually, the heavy fighting is in Syria, and it is not looking good for Assad (still). Syrian rebels reportedly seize major dam in north Syrian Rebels Seize Military Base Syrian rebels destroy Assad’s radar station facing Israel Syrian rebels struggle to keep regime...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 21 Comments
So let’s condemn Israel for defending itself against missile attacks from Gaza. Via JPost: More than 40,000 people have been killed in 20 months of conflict between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and those fighting for his overthrow, a violence monitoring group said on Friday....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2012 22 Comments
The Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt already had brought the military to heel. Now he is discarding the judiciary: With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and protesters battling the police in the streets here over the slow pace of change, President Mohamed Morsi issued...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 21, 2012 6 Comments
Every year, young Jews from all over the world show up in Israel and volunteer to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Called “lone soldiers,” they commit to the same enlistment mandated for most Israelis, male and female, and decades more of reserve duty.  As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 14 Comments
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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 15 Comments
Some important developments. Two journalists have confirmed that Palestinians have fired a long-range rocket at Israel from next to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza.  Neither journalist, of course, made it the headline, it was just mentioned in passing.  The first was Jodi Rudgren of The New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 15 Comments
Israel reportedly has been under cyber attack by Anonymous, although the lethality of the attacks is questioned: Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel’s cyber problems. Its campaign against Israel is a minor annoyance compared...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 24 Comments
Israel caught Hamas off guard.  While Hamas reasonably could have expected retaliation for stepped-up missile fire, it did not anticipate the nature of the retaliation — the assassination of the head of Hamas’ military wing and the bombing of numerous long-range missile depots. The lesson of...
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