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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2013 11 Comments

We don't know what or why Israel carried out a secretive bombing mission in Syria earlier this week. Speculation runs from hitting advanced anti-aircraft missiles on their way to Hezbollah, to a biological or chemicals weapons institute, to other unnamed but sufficiently important targets. One thing we...

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...

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