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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 13 Comments
The Obama administration came close to what many of us have feared would happen, abandoning Israel at the U.N. Yes, the U.S. finally — after a sustained bipartisan Congressional outcry — did veto a one-sided and politically opportunistic resolution pushed by the Palestinian Authority declaring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 15 Comments
To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, “folly” would be far, far too kind. Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction “illegal.”  The U.S. vetoed the resolution. Standing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2011 5 Comments
With democracy comes responsibility.  The Egyptian people may find that our relatively soon, as even some of its non-Muslim Brotherhood emerging leaders seem hellbent on war with Israel. Ayman Nour, a leading Egyptian opposition figure who is expected to run for President — and someone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 12, 2011 12 Comments
The wilful ignorance of the Obama administration to the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists in Egypt is astounding.  Just look what happened in Gaza where the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas was elected to office and proceeded to drown out all other voices,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2011 13 Comments
Last June, in the midst of the “Gaza Flotilla” in which leftists joined Islamists against Israel, I asked Can Israel Survive A Second Obama Term?: This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel. Leftists who,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2011 6 Comments
I wish I had written such a post, but instead I happened upon it via an e-mail sent from a relative.  And it was at HuffPo, of all places. Rarely have I seen someone hit the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel movement the way David Suissa does in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2011 7 Comments
I have posted about Juan Cole before, including this sadly humorous assertion that protesters chanting “death to America” really just wanted visas to visit Disneyland: Even the ones who are chanting “Death to America,” if you get them to the side, they say well you know “could...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2011 19 Comments
Mohamed ElBaradei is one of those figures who, because he is fairly westernized, easily manipulates western media and left-of-center bloggers and pundits into thinking he wants a western-style democracy in Egypt. It is not surprising that despite his obvious opportunism, ElBaradei has become something of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 8 Comments
The situation in Egypt does not look dire at this moment, but it does look very serious.  Given the speed with which events can move, the situation could change dramatically for the worse in hours or days. Pursuant to the 1979 peace treaty between Israel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2010 14 Comments
I have posted previously about the plight of the Jews of Malmö, Sweden, who have been under siege by the Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, what I called Malmö Syndrome. Islamists across Europe have used anti-Israel agitation to justify acts of anti-Semitic violence, and anti-Israel leftists have either encouraged or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2010 8 Comments
One of the truly amazing aspects of the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme is that throughout it all, Bernie maintained a smirk on his face.  The almost perfect psychopath, Bernie felt no sympathy for his victims, even those who committed suicide upon discovering that a life’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2010 1 Comment
The Washington Post reports on the U.N. investigation into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harriri, which appears headed towards a year-end indictment of several Hezbollah senior members. The article, based on documents obtained by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, notes how cell phone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2010 2 Comments
A post at Israel Matzav about a failed attempt at a university in South Africa to boycott Israel’s Ben Gurion University reminded me that there has been a vicious war underway, albeit one fought mostly under the media radar. The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition, which brought you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 3 Comments
…for thinking that the election of David Cameron in Britain might make a real difference in the direction of British policy. I was wrong. In a speech in Ankara, Turkey, Cameron did his best imitation of Barack Obama’s apology tour: … let me turn to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2010 3 Comments
The New York Times, July 14, 2010: There are plenty of things to buy in Gaza; goods are brought over the border or smuggled through the tunnels with Egypt. That is not the problem. In fact, talk about food and people here get angry because...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 3 Comments
I am not someone who tries to keep track of how many of my predictions have come true. That sort of gamesmanship by hindsight is beneath me. And I don’t try to settle scores with people who criticize me. That would be petty. So it...
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