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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...

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...
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