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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 14, 2010 8 Comments

Requires no further comment, Obama Descecrates Right-Wing Christmas: Really, Mr. President, don't you know that right-wingers love 9/11, and hold it sacred? It's their favorite day of the year, their favorite day in living history; every year, 9/11 fills them with the unsurpassable bliss of...

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 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 06, 2010 5 Comments

Greta Berlin, one of the leaders of the Gaza flotilla, is one of the crazy anti-Israeli loons who inhabit many of the "peace" groups organized around the country for the sole purpose of attacking everything Israel does.A good round-up of Berlin's history is at Solomonia.Here...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2010 16 Comments

Max Blumenthal thought he had landed the big fish, catching the Israel Defense Forces "doctoring" an audio tape in which statements like "shut up go back to Auschwitz" were shouted by participants in the Gaza flotilla: The IDF’s propaganda is increasingly unbelievable, yet the media is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2010 0 Comments

I have not agreed with Charles Johnson on some things, but on the Gaza flotilla he has been spot on in recognizing the fundamental fraud of the flotilla participants and supporters:Hamas Refuses Flotilla Aid: "Do we need any more evidence that the entire incident was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2010 3 Comments

As thanks to the international community for supporting Hamas in breaking the Israeli military blockade, Hamas has looted and shut down the offices of international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) [added: including some affiliated with the U.N.] which provide services to poor and needy Palestinians:Hamas’s security forces...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2010 7 Comments

Adam Shapiro, one of the organizers of flotillas to break the sea blockade of Gaza in 2009 and again in 2010, was interviewed on PBS. In the interview, Shapiro made clear that the primary purpose of the flotilla was political.Only upon prompting by Gwen...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 58 Comments

The left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who pretend that the flotilla which just was stopped by Israel was a humanitarian mission.The flotilla was organized by the Islamist government in Turkey to aid Hamas with the goal of opening up shipping channels for Turkey's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2010 16 Comments

The United States has a major problem in Turkey, which under increasingly authoritarian Islamist rule, has become a primary player in undermining U.S. policy in the Middle East, not to mention a growing antagonist of Israel.I have posted on Turkey's Islamist government before. The ploy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 8 Comments

The U.N. is taking the first steps in a process which inevitably will lead to various U.N. agencies and international N.G.O.s claiming that the drone strikes ordered by the U.S. government constitute war crimes, as reported by The New York Times:A senior United Nations official...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 7 Comments

and American Jews have not done a good job at forcing Israelis to create the Middle Eastern version of the Upper West Side, or something like that, from Peter Beinart and the usual suspects.You know what, they really don't care what you think. And they...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 13, 2010 14 Comments

The ugly truth behind the anti-Israel campus movement lies just below the surface, but it needs to be coaxed out.Left-wing academics and student groups, who claim only to care about human rights, do not want to admit that they are in political bed with rabidly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2010 19 Comments

Accusing Israel of indirectly killing American soldiers is the newest and most pernicious argument of the anti-Israeli left, traditional Arabists in government, and now, the Executive Branch of the United States government.As detailed here before, the argument goes that because the people who kill American...

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