From @MargieInTelAviv: I would add one thing, "Easy, just stop firing rockets at us ...
There were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Israel overnight (our time, noon Israeli time). At least six people were killed, and the attacks apparently emanated, at least in part, from Egyptian territory. Israel Matzav is gathering the latest information. Updates: The Israel Defense Forces reports that...
Soon after the raid in which Obama got bin Laden took place, as Obama was in the midst of his not-spiking-the-football victory lap, I asked readers to predict when Hollywood would roll out a major motion picture about the raid in order to help Obama's...
Consider this just an ideas open thread. Keep it clean, children could be reading. I'll start: There is a deep sadness at the loss of members of SEAL Team 6. Every soldier is valuable and mourned, but this tragedy seems to be special. Updates: This chart from Division...
As part of the continuing attempt to blame the "right wing blogosphere" for the shooting and bombing in Norway, two Norwegians take to the pages of The NY Times (h/t Left Coast Rebel) to decry the cabal of right wing bloggers and other supposed Islamophobes. Notice how easily...
These statements by Norway's Ambassador to Israel are deeply troubling, particularly at this time (via Israel Matzav): Norway's ambassador to Israel drew distinctions between the Oslo and Utoeya massacres and Palestinian terrorism. Svein Sevje said in an Israeli newspaper interview Tuesday that while the Norwergian bomb and...
The past several days have seen a feeding frenzy by the mainstream media and left-blogosphere trying to blame Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer for the murder of dozens of innocents in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik. It was a horrific crime which deserves universal condemnation. The...
I'm used to left-wing bloggers distorting what I write, which is why I rarely respond. But I was disappointed to read Charles Lemos of MyDD, one of the less crazy of the genre, write the following on Saturday morning: In fact even before all the facts were...
This was the tweet sent out by Media Matters when a radical environmentalist took hostages at the Discovery Channel in September 2010, and there was a concern about how violence by a "liberal" would be portrayed in the media: ...
The Norwegian car bombing and almost simultaneous shooting had all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda operation. As the first reports emerged, I suggested a wait and see approach. With the initial claim of responsibility from a known al-Qaeda group, the narrative seemed set and not particularly surprising;...
Consider me a fan of Norway. I traveled there extensively in my youth, and still have friends there. It is a beautiful country, with a traditionally pro-American foreign policy. It saddens me to see Norway have its version of the London bus bombings. Former congressional candidate...
Several readers have e-mailed me with links to the explosion in downtown Oslo, Norway, outside the Prime Minister's office. The explosion has all the indications of a car bomb, but reports are too preliminary to say. Rather than speculating, I'll wait until more is known. If it...
Thanks to IsraellyCool for reminding me that today also is the 35th anniversary of the Israeli hostage rescue raid in Entebbe, in which Jonathan Nethanyahu, commander of the raid and brother of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was killed. You know the story. I...
Lebanon has been pushed closer to the brink, as four senior members of Hezbollah have been indicted by a U.N. prosecutor: Four Hezbollah members have been indicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese media outlets reported on Thursday. A delegation from the Special Tribunal...
The Fogel Family was murdered by two Palestinians in April. The murderers appeared in court in Israel today, and bragged about the killing in open court, as reported by The Jerusalem Post:"I don't regret what I did, and would do it again," Amjad Awad told reporters...
On Friday the Syrian army killed 63 Syrian protesters against the Assad regime.As before, Assad tried to deflect international attention by sending Palestinians to try to crash the border fence on the Golan Heights, with predictable results that Israel did not allow them to breach...
Although the precise date is not clear, calls have gone out for anti-Israel activists to converge on Israel on or about June 8, in anticipation of a large flotilla of ships trying to break the military sea blockade of Gaza later in June, and additional attempts to crash...
Actually, I'd rather watch sausage being made.International humanitarian law, while it sounds nice, often is nothing more than power politics. Witness Turkey's attempt to manipulate and influence a draft U.N. report on last summer's Gaza flotilla, sponsored in substantial part by Turkish Islamist organizations:The first...
