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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2011 14 Comments
Turkey is threatening unspecified intervention if Israel again uses military action to prevent a flotilla, organized in part by Turkish Islamist groups, from reaching Gaza.  Via AFP: Turkey on Saturday warned Israel against another act of bloodshed in international waters after activists announced plans to send a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2011 30 Comments
Jeffrey Goldberg writes a ridiculous article expressing indignation that Bibi Netanyahu used the word “expect” in connection with U.S. policy towards Israel, Dear Mr. Netanyahu, Please Don’t Speak to My President That Way: For whatever reason, I tend to react strongly when a foreign leader...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2011 28 Comments
Why yesterday for Obama to unload the demand that Israel withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, with some negotiated land swaps?  Contrary to what some are claiming, this is a new formulation.  Under the Obama formulation, Israel has a land mass fixed by the 1949 armistice lines,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2011 35 Comments
That’s pretty much the upshot of Obama coming down firmly on the side of the pre-1967 borders being the end result of a peace agreement, plus some land swapping. While some have contended this merely states prior policy, there is an important shift.  Prior policy emphasized...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2011 2 Comments
Actually, I’d rather watch sausage being made. International humanitarian law, while it sounds nice, often is nothing more than power politics.  Witness Turkey’s attempt to manipulate and influence a draft U.N. report on last summer’s Gaza flotilla, sponsored in substantial part by Turkish Islamist organizations:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2011 11 Comments
The carnage in Syria continues at a dramatic pace, with the Syrian armed forces and/or police routinesly using live fire against protesters. Yet there is virtual silence from the world community and the Obama adminsitration.  Some recent words of  condemnation, but not much more.  No...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 10, 2011 12 Comments
Via The Muqata comes the video below of the Israeli Iron Dome system taking down a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza.  The technology is not perfect, but it has taken down numerous Hamas rockets in the past few days: The success of the Iron Dome...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2011 4 Comments
What is it with Nobel Peace Prize winners lately? Now its 2005 Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei threatening war with Israel if Israel gets into another war with Hamas in Gaza: Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2011 17 Comments
As noted yesterday, Richard Goldstone has recanted and regretted much of his report issued on behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Council accusing Israel of serious war crimes during the Gaza war. So how do we cleanse the world of the putrid stench of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2011 14 Comments
The Report issued by Richard Goldstone on the Gaza war is the single most influential document in the arsenal of those around the world — including on campuses in the United States — who seek to demonize and delegitimize Israel. That Goldstone is Jewish gave supposed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2011 2 Comments
Reports are just filtering in of a bus bombing in Jerusalem.  I’ll update as casualties and other information is reported. This is not surprising.  Hamas several days ago launched dozens of mortars against Israel leading to a round of retaliation, and the Israeli Fogel family...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 17 Comments
stabs a three-month old infant to death? Children have been killed in war before, unfortunately. But the thought of the person or people who stood over her, and what was going through their minds as they cut her, is just unimaginable. More of the photos...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2011 12 Comments
On the anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre, which I wrote about yesterday, a Palestinian terrorist broke into a Jewish home on the West Bank and stabbed five members of a family, including a one-month old baby, to death while they slept: Five family members...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2011 24 Comments
The video sting operation which showed two senior NPR employees, including Ron Schiller, dining with purported members of a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group which was considering a large donation to NPR, is being presented by NPR and its supporters as some sort of horrific surprise. In fact, the contents...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 04, 2011 11 Comments
In what will come as a shock to no one who lives in reality, the revolutions throughout the Middle East, while sparked in many instances by people who share western-style democratic values, are turning Islamist, and the Obama administration is dithering and accepting the outcome as a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2011 6 Comments
The video below (h/t Markos Krugman) has received a lot of attention because the pro-union protester called someone who apparently supported Gov. Scott Walker a “bad Jew.” But I found equally interesting the woman’s response when the person she called a “bad Jew” asked her...
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