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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2010 5 Comments

I almost forgot that today is the anniversary of another liberation, the Israeli commando raid to free hostages of PLO terrorists in Entebbe, Uganda. Thanks to @KurtSchlichter for the reminder.The leader of the commandos, and the only Israeli killed during the raid, was Yonatan Netanyahu,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2010 2 Comments

They merely want a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, Group of youths attack Jewish dance group:A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 22, 2010 2 Comments

The decision by Israel to "ease" the blockade of Gaza has evoked pretty strong opinions as to whether it represents a wise strategic move by Israel (my view) or a caving in which strengthens Hamas.One thing is clear, however, the easing of the land blockade...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2010 2 Comments

Israel has announced an "easing" of the land blockade on Gaza, a largely symbolic step since large quantities of humanitarian and other supplies already enter Gaza.While The NY Times and others portray this as a loss for Israel, which had to bow to world pressure,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 3 Comments

The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition has found its most successful tactic -- the use of human shields in the form of Western Useful Idiots backed by Islamist Martyrs-in-Waiting to confront Israeli soldiers in the hope that Israel will be forced either to weaken its defenses or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 2 Comments

Thanks to Solomonia for posting this 1956 cartoon about Israel's aggression. (Added) The cartoon shows Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser repeatedly taunting Israel's David Ben-Gurion, and in the last segment Ben Gurion finally hits back. The cartoon appears to be an allusion to the 1956 Suez...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2010 5 Comments

Helen Thomas' comments that Jews in Israel should go back to Poland and Germany perpetuated the falsehood that Israel is a European implant, which fits nicely into the narrative of the Islamist-Leftist anti-Israel coalition.In fact, as I documented before, there was an exchange of populations...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 4 Comments

I originally saw this video linked a while ago at Israellycool.Now that it has gone viral (over 750,000 YouTube views as of this writing), with further links by Jeffrey Goldberg and an explanation of what it all means at The NY Review of Books (slow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2010 9 Comments

I hope this is not true, but nothing would surprise me when it comes to Obama and the Middle East, Sources: Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week:THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2010 5 Comments

In 2006 Richard Cohen of The Washington Post wrote a column arguing "[t]he greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake."The argument, that Israel should not have been created as a Jewish state because the Muslim...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 9 Comments

So what she said was no big deal.That apparently is John Cole's point in You Got Played, because in the full video which was just released Thomas was nice to the Jewish students:Now that Helen Hitler Thomas has been forcibly retired, more video of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2010 17 Comments

Remember Joe Biden's comment that hostile forces would test Obama in his first six months?Well, whatever tests have come before, the big test is about to take place, as Russia, Iran and Turkey are uniting to break American influence in the greater Middle East and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2010 7 Comments

The biggest problem with the Helen Thomas story is that she kept it under wraps for so long.Anyone who watched a presidential press conference knew she was hostile to Israel, but the depth of that hostility was not known.We have created a media culture where...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2010 7 Comments

Well I guess Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's repeated warning to Israel that "thou shall not kill" only applies to Israel:"I am speaking to them in their own language. The sixth commandment says 'thou shalt not kill'. Did you not understand?" Prime Minister Tayyip...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2010 4 Comments

I certainly understand why Helen Thomas' comments that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back to Germany and Poland have created such a stir.But really, don't lose sight of the fact that by anti-Israeli standards, Thomas is a moderate.Thomas merely wants...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2010 3 Comments

The "Freedom Flotilla" to Gaza, organized and financed by Turkey, purports to address the poor health conditions in Gaza.One critical measure of public health is infant mortality (children who die before reaching 1 year of age), because it reflects a wide range of underlying heath...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2010 2 Comments

Is it any wonder why our foreign policy is failing at a miserable pace?Hillary Clinton just announced that Iran may attempt to pull a "stunt" to derail U.N. sanctions efforts: Clinton said she fully expected Iran to "pull some stunt" in the coming days to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2010 19 Comments

This past week has seen the coming together of the growing Islamist-Leftist Coalition in the war against Israel.Leftists who, among other things, claim to believe in freedom of speech, women's rights and equality for gays, are in political bed with people who would cut their...

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