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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 20 Comments

John Kerry is not making much diplomatic progress on anything, unless you consider forcing Israel to apologize for acting lawfully in the face of aggression to be progress. Maybe he's been heading too many soccer balls. MT @markhalperin: John Kerry avec soccer ball on his head, as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2013 4 Comments

If you have been a reader here for more than a few weeks, you probably have seen one of the many posts about Pallywood (sometimes referred to as Paliwood), the Palestinian cottage industry of creating faux events to stir up public opinion against Israel. There's another...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2013 16 Comments

What he said, Liberman calls Turkey apology a ‘serious mistake’: Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for his decision to apologize to his Turkish counterpart for the “operational errors” made by Israel during the 2010 raid on the Turkish Gaza-bound...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2013 13 Comments

The sick BDS movement, Leftist-Islamist coalition, and anti-Israel academic movement are frequent topics here. There is good news -- despite all the hoopla and vitriol, these miscreants have made no progress with American public opinion. Via Times of Israel: Americans’ sympathy for Israel is at a 22-year high, according...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 13, 2013 3 Comments

1) Being a reporter means never having to say you're sorry The New York Times has reported on the UN report that raised doubts about the death of Omar Masharawi. Isabel Kershner wrote U.N. Ties Gaza Baby’s Death to Palestinians: Paul Danahar, the BBC Middle East bureau chief,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 10 Comments

This is a follow-up to our posts about Prisoner X. Our resident reader from Down Under s_dog sent me this link to Andrew Bolt's blog, An Israeli tragedy, an Australian silence: Greg Sheridan dismisses conspiracy theories in the Ben Zygier case, following the report released by Foreign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2013 12 Comments

I have been sounding the warning siren about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for years. His mask of moderation has been slipping steadily, if it ever was there. He has engaged in repeated rants against Israel, and now he has gone the full distance reviving the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

We've delved the depths of the despicable Boycott Divest Sanction movement against Israel. We are dealing with real bottom-feeders who have worked their ways onto campuses almost everywhere, supported by vicious people like George Galloway. Given the sordid history of Leftist-Islamist anti-Israel campus agitation, particularly in Britain,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2013 10 Comments

Purim starts Saturday night. Israel Matzav posted this great movie of Purim in Tel Aviv in 1932-34: The Book of Esther is particularly appropriate now....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 11 Comments

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about Prisoner X. I'm not sure there is much greater clarification of why he was imprisoned, but it's clear he was not secretly imprisoned, as the Australian Embassy was informed, he had a lawyer, and the courts were...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 38 Comments

The mother of all mysteries, making Stuxnet look like a B-grade movie, is unfolding in Israel over Prisoner X. The New York Times has a good summary: The story had all the trappings of a spy thriller: an anonymous prisoner linked to Israel’s secret service, Mossad, isolated in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2013 20 Comments

I've written about Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz before, Alan Dershowitz, Praised: Charles C. Johnson (no, not that that CJ) has a post at Big Government, In Praise of Alan Dershowitz.  It’s worth the read, but hardly does justice to someone who for generations has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2013 18 Comments

We have focused frequently on the lawfare strategy against Israel, advocated by people like Hastings College of Law Professor George Bisharat, which has been a primary focus of Palestinian political strategy ever since Israel put a halt to suicide bombings by building the security barrier. Lawfare...

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