Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Something weird’s going on regarding a story that, as first reported, had secret meetings between Hamas and the Democrats. The weirdness is both about the reporting and about the implications of the Democratic conduct. Here’s what I know. The first I heard of the story was at LGF: Are officials
Continue readingI don’t think Charles Johnson, at LGF, is Jewish, but that fact doesn’t prevent him from being Israel’s staunch supporter. I think he is, not so much because he’s in love with Israel (and no one asks him to be), but because he recognizes that (a) Israel is the only
Continue readingIsrael has usually, although not always, been adept in the battlefield. She’s been a total failure in the media. However, for the first time, I’m seeing signs that she’s fighting back: Israel’s military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video
Continue readingI posted the other day about an identity politics problem in Israel: an American Palestinian showed up in Israel for the gay pride parade, only to find himself and his friends on the receiving end of a violent beating from Muslim religious authorities. Surprisingly, the gay American Palestinian was surprised.
Continue readingI found intriguing a Reuters story entitled “Imams in Denmark seek to cool cartoon row.” Based on that headline, I thought it would be a story in which thoughtful Imams, looking at the anarchy abyss their followers created during the cartoon riots, stepped back from the precipice, and urged their
Continue readingFrom American Thinker: The French will flex military their “military muscle” to shoot down Israeli observation jets. After years of ignoring Hezbollah preparations to terrorize Israel, after hiding a video that could have helped Israel find out what happened to soldiers murdered by Hezbollah in 2001 (the kidnappers used trucks
Continue readingOn its face, it looks like an article in the New York Times that points out something we have figured out already; namely, that the Europeans have been nursing a viper to their bosom: Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the
Continue readingIsrael has been a very lonely country for a very long time. But for the United States’ continuing support, nation after nation has abandoned Israel to her fate, little caring that she is a bastion of enlightened Western thought in the midst of a churning battlefield of Islamist fascism. Things
Continue readingIsrael, which is that oddity, a free society in the Middle East, is finally figuring out that a free press is one thing, a corrupt, dishonest press another: The Government Press Office held a meeting with heads of foreign news agencies earlier this month to protest the doctoring of photographs
Continue readingThe NY Times headline is in huge, bolded text: “Israeli Attack on Militants Kills 4 Civilians.” The story, however, doesn’t quite jive with the accusation that Israel, a la Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Hamas, whatever, targeted civilians: The Israeli military killed five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today in operations directed
Continue readingIf you’re Jewish, you need to read this Ed Lasky article. It has fact after fact describing increased Democratic hostility to Jews and Israel. What’s striking is that the hostility to Israel isn’t simply phrased in neutral terms of “it’s not good for America to support Israel,” something with which
Continue readingAlthough European venom seems to be leaking away as Europe’s Muslim immigrants turn against the Europeans themselves, Europe still holds remarkably jaundiced views of Israel. In a poll about a year ago (which I’m too lazy to dig up), Europeans opined that Israel was the greatest threat to world peace
Continue readingWriting at National Review Online, Emanuele Ottolenghi makes a good case that, while Israel might not have won decisively in this last go round, Hezbollah did not achieve any of its objectives at all, and suffered some serious losses all around, both in terms of soldiers and materiels. Ottolenghi also
Continue readingMy Mom was quite the packrat. In addition to the Life magazine that I quoted from in the two previous posts (here and here), which was published at the end of the War, my Mom also saved the June 16, 1967 edition of Life magazine, which was written within days
Continue readingI’m still going through my 1967 Life magazine special edition about the 1967 war, and would like to highlight two more articles within the magazine, one about the refugee situation, one about Russia’s involvement in events. First, here, in its entirety, is Life’s, June 23, 1967 editorial, which is both
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