Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
These are happy Palestinians: You can see more wildly happy Palestinians here. This is why they are having a celebratory party, complete with drums, bagpipes, guns and babies: You can see more examples of the images and facts that give the Palestinians their jollies here and here. Do you still
Continue readingI noted a couple of posts ago that the UN, predictably, is up in arms about the fact that Israel finally took action against the militants firing rockets at civilians. I’m sure, though, that the UN will greet with mind-numbing silence the fact that terrorists invaded a school in Jerusalem
Continue readingFor a year, Gaza has rained over 2,000 rockets onto Israeli soil, aiming specifically for civilian communities. There was, of course, nary a peep from the UN. Now that Israel has struck back, targeting specifically militants who happen to hide amongst civilian populations, the UN Rights Council springs into action:
Continue readingMy father, who was a veteran of World War II and the Israeli War of Independence, was still alive during the first Gulf War. I vividly remember his comment that it was idiotic how much the press made of how nice Americans were and how our troops were so good
Continue readingAt Treppenwitz, David Bogner describes a scenario in Israel in which both Olmert and the Shas opposition, blind to anything but their own desire to stay in government, sacrifice the country to disastrous politics. This is not the kind of power of corruption one sees in someone like Mugabe, where
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I asked how America in the 60s managed to swing over to and completely accept its enemy’s way of defining the situation. That is, the logical American point of view should have been that we were defeating Communism, which is an evil scourge that was trying
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