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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 were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2011 4 Comments

Today marks the anniversary of The Coastal Road Massacre, one of the most notorious PLO terrorist attacks on Israel, in which dozens of Israelis were killed when PLO operatives from Lebanon landed at a beach north of Tel Aviv, and proceeded on a killing spree. ...

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 of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 03, 2011 4 Comments

Andrew Sullivan loves to accuse conservatives and Republicans of blowing various racial and other dog whistles:The Bald Racism Of Rush Limbaugh ("Is any American more adept at exploiting racial dog whistles?")"Media Is Everything" ("Breitbart, like Drudge, gets the web. He understands its subversive and rhetorical power: the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2011 2 Comments

Well, maybe with the Libyans and others in the Middle East who, according to The New York Times, have embraced this Israeli spoof of Muammar Gaddafi:A satirical YouTube clip mocking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s megalomania is fast becoming a popular token of the Libya uprising across...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2011 16 Comments

Aroma Cafe is an Israeli chain of espresso bars which has expanded internationally, including in the U.S.:Being Israeli, Aroma Cafe has come under attack (h/t AussieDave) by the Boycott Divestment Sanction movement of anti-Israeli activists.  Watch as the moonbats protest outside an Aroma Cafe location in New...

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 if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2011 10 Comments

The worldwide Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel has mostly been a failure in the U.S., but that does not stop brainwashed youth brigades from trying to delegitimze Israel anyway.Via IsraellyCool comes this video posted by the Philadelphia wing of the BDS movement, trying stop a supermarket chain from carrying...

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 Israeli...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2011 4 Comments

The New York Times has a story on the return of Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi to Egypt (emphasis mine): Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered his...

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 in isolation,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 6 Comments

Is there anything more sickening than senior U.S. diplomats begging the Palestinian Authority delegates at the U.N. to "compromise" with just a Security Council "statement" condemning Israel, rather than a "resolution" condeming Israel?To which the response from the P.A. delegates was:  "Jump higher," no compromise for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 7 Comments

... I have seen in a while, from A Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim, To an American-Jewish friend (h/t JHoward):"Just ponder how a third-rate community organizer — from the most incestuously corrupt political region in the U.S.; with a record of participation in the most vulgar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 18 Comments

We don't know the details of the "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" of CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Tahrir Square as the Egyptian crowd celebrated the resignation of Hosni Mubarek, but we know enough. Among the things we know is that the night before the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 5 Comments

It has not received much attention in the U.S. media, perhaps because we are more concerned with our national debt spinning out of control than the spinning of Iranian centrifuges.But news reports abroad indicate that the outgoing commander of the Israel Defense Forces may have...

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 who...

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, among other...

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