Excellent video about the UN and Israel
Please watch this and send it to your friends: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Mupoo1At8[/youtube]
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Remembering Entebbe
Yid With Lid reminds us that July 4th marks more than just America’s independence day. (H/t: Sadie) It’s also the anniversary of Israel’s spectacular rescue at Entebbe in 1976. That was another place and time, when most in the world actually cared about Jewish lives. I wrote about the rescue
Continue readingPutting the Left’s “humanitarian” aid to Gaza in perspective
I wish Israel would do more of these short, informative, user-friendly videos: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPd_cLpjShY[/youtube]
Continue readingSnapshots of insanity
North Korea assumes presidency of U.N. arms control conference http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/29/north-korea-assumes-presidency-of-u-n-arms-control-conference/#ixzz1Ql1gXN44 “Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world’s disarmament agency,” the executive director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer said in a statement
Continue readingMichele Bachmann on Israel: not just a pretty face
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0nN_hAiWY[/youtube] Hat tip: Power Line, who got it from Pamela Geller
Continue readingNever trust the liberal media
I forget in which thread it arose, but someone tried to argue that Israelis were disappointed by Netanyahu’s performance, because the liberal media concluded they were. Barry Rubin challenges that line of thinking.
Continue readingThe rhetorical clarity of moral clarity
If you haven’t listened to Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, you must. And I mean listen. I’m usually a speech reader, because I read quickly, and seldom have the time or the patience to sit down and listen to someone give a 45 minute speech. In addition, some speakers have so
Continue readingRight of Return
If we’re going to do a Right of Return, I think we should be methodical. Those who had first dibs on the land currently known as Israel get first dibs today. Let’s work our way down the list: The first known occupiers were probably the Canaanites. As far as I
Continue reading“Israel is what’s right with the Middle East”
Excerpts from Netanyahu’s speech to AIPAC. Please note his clarity, as opposed to the muddled, self-exculpatory, whining, ahistorical, ignorant speech of our own “great communicator.” Yesterday, they let me out. My wife got to visit Washington’s majestic memorials. I read Jefferson’s timeless words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident
Continue readingContemporary coverage of the Six Day War — clear-sighted and moral
Given Obama’s obsession with the 1948 borders, this seemed like an appropriate day to resurrect some contemporary coverage of the Six Day War, culled from a commemorative issue that Life Magazine published back in 1967. (For those with long memories, I first published these excerpts back in 2006. It’s a
Continue readingOther people’s thoughts on Obama’s Israel speech *UPDATED*
I agree with the following thoughts, and pass them on to you for what they’re worth. From Peter Wehner, giving the historical context that makes Obama’s position appalling: To be specific: Is Obama aware that Israel has been willing to “act boldly to advance a lasting peace” since before its
Continue reading“That’s not going to happen”
If you haven’t watched it already, please see Bibi’s remarks, which very, very politely explain to Obama that his speech yesterday was horse poop.
Continue readingThe Great Communicator communicates not so greatly *UPDATED*
Obama is supposed to be hot stuff when it comes to communicating. I’ve long had my doubts, but his reference in today’s speech to Israel’s 1967 borders should put to rest forever the media created canard that this is a guy who can get his points across. You know why?
Continue readingBands that cancel Israel bookings are “wimps”
The following isn’t my normal musical choice, but I’m highlighting Deep Purple today in honor of the band’s integrity: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MSyFA84u48[/youtube] Here’s the back story. Deep Purple, the 70s hard rock band, is heading back to Israel for the third time. Unlike other bands, Deep Purple will not pressured to back
Continue readingAside from trendiness, there’s something wrong here
I’m with Sadie, that there’s something deeply off-putting about Obama casually applying the ancient Passover story to the uprisings in the Middle East: Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in
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