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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2013 35 Comments

Chuck Hagel was an embarrassment yesterday at this confirmation hearing.  John Podhoretz has it right: Well, as a result of this confirmation hearing — the most disastrous of its kind since another veteran senator, John Tower, blew himself up in his pursuit of the same post...

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 Bisharat (who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2013 39 Comments

Could be either, except that Israel didn't exist in the 1930s. Israel Matzav has the story. Image via CAMERA:   Related: “there is no future for Jews in England”; see also, Melanie Phillips, A LibDem MP gives voice to Britain's national sickness. Update 1-29-2013 -- Rupert Murdoch Apologizes for Netanyahu...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2013 54 Comments

So writes Caroline Glick: After participating last week in a debate in London about Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines organized by the self-consciously pretentious Intelligence Squared debating society, I can now say from personal experience that Amis is correct. The public atmosphere in England...

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 is speaking...

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 to understand...

Posted by Joel Engel on January 09, 2013 41 Comments

Later this month, Bibi Netanyahu will likely be reelected Israel’s prime minister.  Covering his campaign, Reuters noted yesterday that Netanyahu’s theme is essentially “The whole world is against us"—which the news agency at once implicitly ridicules and confirms. "The great danger to the world is not from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2012 8 Comments

The problem is not the 1967 borders, never was, never will be.  The problem is that the Palestinians do not want to give up "one inch." A return to the 1967 borders merely would get the Palestinians closer to that last inch. Via Times of Israel, New...

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 16 Comments

This is one of those "we're really deep into their heads" type stories. Sudan is furious that a large missile factory run by Iran was blown up, presumably by Israel. Sudan has captured the intelligence agent responsible for surveillance, or so it says, via The Independent, Meet operative...

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, Assad...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2012 14 Comments

Interesting post at an interesting blog run by Yaacov Lozowick for the Israeli State Archives, What's a Proportional Response? Here's a fascinating document from December 13th 1955, in which the Ministers' Committee for Security and Foreign Affairs discussed a clash which had taken place two nights...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 03, 2012 12 Comments

We have known for decades that Palestinian leaders talk out of both sides of their mouths, a message of relative restraint to the West and a message of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli agitation at home. Hamas is more honest than the Palestinian Authority, as it has a unified...

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 a concert...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2012 17 Comments

The United States nominally opposed the General Assembly Resolution granting nonmember state status to "Palestine." In the short run, it changes nothing on the ground, but it does embolden the Palestinians to hold out for everything, including  a reversion to the 1949 Armistice borders, commonly and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2012 13 Comments

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird gave a very strong speech (embedded at bottom of post) yesterday at the United Nations against the "nonmember" status for "Palestine," in violation of the Oslo Accords. Damn fine speech by #Canada.— Act for Israel (@ActForIsrael) November 29, 2012 Canada is following...