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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2009 4 Comments
There are many stupid things said on the internet. Add to the list of top-ten contenders the claim that author Caroline Glick is not concerned with the survival of Israel. This claim is made in a post at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog, a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2009 2 Comments
Bombing the funerals of your opponents is a red line in most conflicts. The Israelis don’t bomb Hamas or Hizbullah funerals, and vice versa. George Bush refused to bomb Taliban funerals. Al-Qaeda, however, has no such compunctions, as it repeatedly has sent suicide bombers to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2009 3 Comments
If you want to know why Barack Obama was spitting into the wind with his “historic” speech to the Muslim world, at least as regards the Israeli-Palestinian issue, there is no better example than this juxtaposition of Palestinians booby-trapping horses as part of a failed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2009 1 Comment
Hamas reacted to Obama’s “historic” speech to the Muslim world by attempting to kidnap Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border last night, in a coordinated assault timed also to coincide with the Lebanese elections: DEBKAfile’s military sources report at least four Palestinians killed after Israeli...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2009 12 Comments
I long have criticized the bias of the NY Times, and mocked its business death spiral. My posts Nude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times and NY Times New Business Strategy: DEATH mocked the sensationalist trend on The Times’ website. I was the first (as far...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2009 1 Comment
George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California*, Hastings College of Law. His is the son of a Palestinian father who immigrated to the U.S. several years before the creation of Israel, and an American mother. I first learned of George Bisharat...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2009 3 Comments
Richard Falk is a long-time anti-Israel (and often anti-American) polemicist. A retired Princeton professor, Falk has dedicated much of his life to blaming Israel and the United States for the world’s woes, while coddling extremism everywhere else in the world. Not surprisingly, Falk also is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2009 0 Comments
The headline of an Op-ed on the website of The Guardian newspaper, the left-wing British newspaper, started out promisingly enough: “Hamas No, Human Rights Yes.” The sub-title was even better: “Why are the left and the anti-war movement ignoring Hamas’s repression of the Palestinian people?”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2009 2 Comments
Good news. Israel opens the border crossing with Gaza — in between missile attacks from Hamas — to allow the export of tens of thousands of carnations. Wait a second, I thought Gaza was a wasteland on the verge of humanitarian catastrophe (along with the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2009 0 Comments
The Guardian newspaper in Britain devotes endless articles and op-eds to criticising Israel. The paper is worth reading if only to keep up to date on what the anti-Israel left is thinking. Few if any columnists are more critical of Israel than Jonathan Freedland. Yet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2009 0 Comments
James G. Lindsay, the former General Counsel of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has issued a detailed 84-page report harshly critical of UNRWA’s policies with regard to Palestinian refugees. The report is titled “Fixing UNRWA...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2009 0 Comments
Hamas set off a massive roadside bomb at the Gaza border, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding several on the Israeli side of the border. In return fire, one Palestinian was killed. So how do British papers report the story? Here are the headlines: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2009 1 Comment
The Associated Press already has announced that Hamas is “restoring order” to Gaza, just like Hamas did in July 2007, before the Israeli invasion. The UN is decrying the “alarming” humanitarian situation, just like it did in July 2008, before the Israeli invasion. And British...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2009 0 Comments
Israel has ended its Gaza operation in the hope that Hamas has learned to change its ways. No surprise, Hamas already is attempting to rearm with even longer-range missiles via a large shipment from Iran: US and Egyptian warships were scouring the Gulf of Aden...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2009 1 Comment
The image on the home page of The New York Times website is startling. A bombed out building in Gaza with a single brightly colored child’s shoe in the middle of the photo. The imagery is powerful, particularly the contrast between the blackened floor and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2009 0 Comments
Paul Krugman is the NY Times columnist who won the Nobel prize for economics work he did over a decade ago before he became a columnist. Khalid Mashal is the political leader of Hamas based in Syria, who attained his position based on terrorist work...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2009 2 Comments
It is always a little dangerous when law professors opine on areas of law with which they have little familiarity. That is why I have stayed away from the issue of whether Israel must use “proportionate” force against Hamas. Although I suspected that the term...
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