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Posted by David Gerstman on April 14, 2013 17 Comments

Holocaust Memorial Day was commemorated last week. The day occasioned a number of remarkable stories. Orin Kerr wrote about his late father: The death march brought Aronek and his group to a death camp called Rieben in West Prussia. On the way there, they slept on church floors...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 12, 2013 2 Comments

1) How to fight asymmetric warfare Once again Charles Enderlein and Philipe Karsenty are back in court. Enderlein was the reporter who created the story of Mohammed al-Dura. Karsenty is the media critic who had the temerity to question the much honored "journalist." Back in 2008...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 08, 2013 2 Comments

1) The language of concessions The Washington Post reports Kerry presses Israel and Palestinians for concessions to pave way for peace talks: Kerry first visited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has resisted new talks for most of the past four years. His government had sought to file...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 2 Comments

Mandy will have an update on #OpIsrael either later tonight or in the morning. My suspicion is that we have another historic Palestinian victory inflicting severe injury on the Zionist entity, just like all their other victories. One of the victories attempted by the hackers was to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 12 Comments

John Kerry tagged team with Obama to extract a humiliating apology from Israel over the deaths of Turks who violently attacked Israeli soldiers lawfully boarding a ship breaking the lawful Gaza military blockade. The Turks and others in the Muslim world took the apology as a...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Last November, a faction claiming association to the hacker collective Anonymous launched #OpIsrael, in retaliation for Israel’s strikes on Gaza. Earlier this week, those operations were resurrected in another wave of #OpIsrael that is scheduled to commence on April 7th, the date of Holocaust Memorial Day. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2013 3 Comments

Pallywood never sleeps. You already now that Pallywood is the longest running series in the history of fiction. Now it's being used to help incite a Third Intifada over the death of a Palestinian terrorist from cancer while in prison in Israel, via WaPo: Maysara Abu Hamdiya, 63, died...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 7 Comments

You may recall Professor Eugene Kontorovich's presentation, The Legal Case for Israel, in which he pointed out that the West Bank legally belonged to Israel and was illegally occupied by Jordan prior to 1967. That puts a very different perspective on all the hyped-up claims that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2013 12 Comments

In case you wondered how they really feel. Via Times of Israel (h/t @CiFWatch): Hackers around the world are plotting to strike Israel’s online presence in a coordinated cyber-attack later this week. The effort, known as “OpIsrael,” which is being organized by hacktivist group Anonymous, aims to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2013 32 Comments

Israel now is pumping natural gas from one of the enormous offshore fields which will transform Israel into an energy-independent nation and a global energy powerhouse: Natural gas from the offshore Tamar field was pumped to Israeli shores for the first time Saturday, four years after...

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...