Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When my mother was going through her stuff, she came upon a 1967 issue of Life magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. I’ll just cherry-pick my way through those bits of coverage I found most
Continue readingHere’s the headline: “Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza.” The picture that Yahoo News is currently showing with this headlined story is of an injured boy in a hospital bed with an elderly woman sitting next to him. Sort the whole thing out and this is what you get: the
Continue readingJust as the Soviet Union’s fingerprints were all over the local wars that were the testing areas for the Cold War, it’s becoming apparent that both the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s fingerprints are all over the Middle Eastern wars that the testing areas for World War IV (the War Against
Continue readingThere’s been so much talk about and anger towards Israel because of the wall Israel built in an effort to protect her citizens from suicide bombings. Only occasionally, though, does one hear that Egypt also built a wall — and the Palestinians are as determined to do away with the
Continue readingGil Troy writes an enormously uplifting article about Israel’s victory, both in Lebanon and at home. I won’t summarize. You should read it yourself.
Continue readingHis language is a bit more colorful than mine, but Ron Down Under complete nails the fact that the UN buffer is illusory (something already being demonstrated by the fact that no UN member states want to put their troops there), as well as the dangerous dilemma facing the Arab
Continue readingI mentioned before that I watched The Long Way Home, a documentary about the Jewish experience in the years between the liberation of the camps and the founding of the State of Israel. One of the things that movie reminded me about was the similarities between the tactics Jewish militants
Continue readingThe meme has been that Israel lost. Hezbollah still exists, Israel had to cede control of her fight to the UN (blech), and so on and so on. However, winning or losing is often described in terms of what the parties to the engagement sought to achieve. Hezbollah sought to
Continue readingAt the UN today, the “Arab Group” made its ad hoc contribution to the Draft International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. To the existing preamble paragraph, they proposed including this language to describe what they perceive as an existing problem: “Concerned that situations of armed conflict, foreign
Continue readingWe have had sitting around for months a DVD called The Long Way Home. It’s a documentary about the Jewish survivor’s plight in the three years after World War II. I really didn’t want to watch it, because I knew it would upset me — hence, it’s long sojourn on
Continue readingIn the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, stories are popping up all over that Hezbollah, Iran and the New York Times have loudly been trumpeting a Hezbollah victory. Others say the opposite is true. And even I, while I don’t think Hezbollah won, don’t think Israel won
Continue readingThis is the start of a Stratfor analysis I received today: An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army faced an Arab army and did not defeat it — did not render it incapable of continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967,
Continue readingI don’t have to demonstrate it, because YNET news does. In the same vein, Gail, at Crossing the Rubicon, shows the WaPo’s fun little games with facts that will undermine Israel.
Continue readingAgain, fairly overwhelming work and family commitments will keep my blogging nonexistent, but there’s interesting stuff in the Middle East as I discovered when I took a break to read up-to-the-minute news and analysis at the Captain’s Quarters. The Lebanese government is falling, Hezbollah is fighting harder, and Israel may
Continue readingSay it ain’t so, Joe. The latest report is that Olmert accepted the UN brokered peace deal. Without even knowing the details, I’m absolutely certain that any “peace” deal that goes through the is a loss for Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal
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