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What Did Michael Oren Really Say About Barack Obama?
October 13, 2010From time to time I read the writings of The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick in order to gain insight into the way Klingons understand the Middle East. For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Glick is someone who thinks that Menachem Begin was soft on the Arabs. In any case, Glick is entertaining, except [...]
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A Small Glimpse of the Messianic Age
October 12, 2010Palestinian Media Watch reports that a group of settler rabbis visited a mosque that had been the target of an arson attack by other settlers, in order to make amends. What is notable about this visit is not only that it happened at all, but that the Palestinian media covered it in a very positive [...]
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Pamela Geller, Clinical Paranoid
October 12, 2010You must read the transcript of the interview the Times conducted with Pamela Geller. She’s a wildly prejudiced person. She makes me resent the Internet; no Internet, no Pamela Geller:“…I also believe that a true translation, an accurate translation of the Koran, is really not available in English, according to many of the Islamic scholars [...]
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Thank You, Avigdor Lieberman
October 11, 2010The Israeli cabinet has given its approval to a bill that would require new citizens to swear a loyalty oath to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. The bill was pushed through by Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, who is doing everything in his power to alienate Israel’s friends, and to make Israel [...]
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Pamela Geller: An Embarrassment to Judaism
October 11, 2010Really, how did American Judaism produce this vile, racist creature? I wait for the same rabbis who condemned the racism of Meir Kahane to condemn her.
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On the J Street Controversy
October 9, 2010Nathan Guttman puts the best spin possible on things:(J Street President Jeremy) Ben-Ami took full responsibility for not revealing in public the fact that Soros has been providing funds to J Street. He issued a statement carrying this message as the press and right-wing blogs were already in a frenzy of criticism against the group, [...]
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Unforgivable Press Release of the Week
October 9, 2010From the Israel Project, confronting the existential threat posed by Rick Sanchez: New Program Launched as Sanchez/Stewart Rift Exposes Challenges to Jewish/Hispanic Relations TIP Announces New Spanish-Language Media Program to Bring Israel Closer to U.S., Global Hispanic Communities
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Letting Thy Neighbor's House Burn: The 'Judeo-Christian' Thing to Do
October 9, 2010Via Little Green Footballs, this remarkable statement from the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, who argues that it was right for a subscription-based firefighting service to let a family’s house burn to the ground because its owners had not previously paid a fee:The fire department did the right and Christian thing. The right thing, by [...]
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C-Span Marks an Anniversary
October 9, 2010Via Mike Allen, C-Span marks the 30th anniversary of its first call-in show. Tomorrow: C-Span celebrates its first anti-Semitic caller. Sunday, its first racist.
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Unbelievably, Israel Also Has Hummus
October 9, 2010Matt Yglesias goes to Israel for the first time (you’d think with all his commentary on the place he had actually visited once or twice before, but such is blogging) and discovers that Christians are interested in the Holy Land:I’ve arrived at my hotel in Jerusalem, exhausted as one tends to be after a ten-hour [...]
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The Biggest Problem With NPR
October 9, 2010According to one listener, NPR’s biggest problem is all those fucking words:“I think it can be clever and quirky, and smart and insightful. But I don’t choose to listen to it because it’s too much talking for me.”The thing I hate the most about television: pictures.
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Does Israel Actually Control Its Own Fate?
October 9, 2010Goldblog reader Stuart Abrams writes, in reference to the Daniel Gordis piece in Commentary that also caught the attention of Jim Fallows:Gordis’ piece is seriously flawed and it reflects a misconception, perhaps even a delusion, that underlies the belief that Israel’s survival currently rests entirely within its own control.