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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 14 Comments

Except that throughout much of the world, it is not.  Read Christopher Hitchens's post, A Test of Tolerance:Let us by all means make the "Ground Zero" debate a test of tolerance. But this will be a one-way street unless it is to be a test of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2010 0 Comments

From the Lebanese website Naharnet:"Israel once again penetrated Lebanon's mobile phone networks on Tuesday, sending text messages to citizens announcing a tangible reward for information about the fate of Israeli airman Ron Arad, NBN television reported." It is hard to believe that the Israelis actually...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 3 Comments

On Friday, Barack Obama dropped a political bombshell with wide ranging implications for the U.S. war on terror and relations with the Muslim world.  Obama then disappeared from the domestic political scene, as a fury of recriminations reverberated throughout the political sphere and blogosphere.  Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2010 4 Comments

Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2010 20 Comments

The Anti-Defamation League has come out against the building of a huge Islamic center and Mosque near Ground Zero.Here is the key passage from the ADL statement:Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2010 3 Comments

...for thinking that the election of David Cameron in Britain might make a real difference in the direction of British policy.I was wrong. In a speech in Ankara, Turkey, Cameron did his best imitation of Barack Obama's apology tour:... let me turn to the prejudiced...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2010 3 Comments

I am not someone who tries to keep track of how many of my predictions have come true. That sort of gamesmanship by hindsight is beneath me.And I don't try to settle scores with people who criticize me. That would be petty.So it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2010 3 Comments

Nicholas Kristoff has found the answer to traditional Palestinian suicide bombers, hijackers, and hostage takers: A non-violent movement led by Palestinian women. But for now, Kristoff finds it's still a dream, because it depends on what the meaning of "non-violence" is. Describing one protest, seeking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2010 14 Comments

Unlike some, I have not devoted myself to studying the writings of Glenn Greenwald. Others have devoted the time, because Greenwald has such a large following at Salon.com.I did, however, write about Greenwald's absurd coverage of the Islamist-inspired, Turkish-led Gaza flotilla, particularly Greenwald's offensive use...

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 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 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...

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