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Israel: Iran is Next Cuba
March 9, 2010Yesterday, I read a story in Haaretz which claimed that Israel would introduce next week “unilateral” measures that it wished the U.S. to adopt in its relations with Iran. Considering that all our efforts are now supposedly being expended to create a multilateral sanctions proposal, I thought it strange that Israel would be introducing any [...]
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Bronner Prepares NY Times Readers for Israeli Attack on Iran
March 7, 2010Ethan Bronner has published yet another softball story about Israeli policy towards its enemies, in this case Iran. The story is a curious jumble of bellicosity and caution supposedly meant to mirror the current state of affairs among western allies in relation to Iran and its nuclear policy. If you ever wanted to judge Bronner’s [...]
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Obama Israel-Palestine Policy Founders Even in Security Council
March 6, 2010If this isn’t a perfect exemplar of the total disarray of U.S. policy toward the Israel-Palestine conflict I don’t know what is. The background: after the Netanyahu government unilaterally declared the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb in the tinderbox area of Hebron to be national heritage sites, Palestinian protests and demonstrations began almost [...]
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A basket of Purim links
February 28, 2010Happy Purim! Not surprisingly, given the existence of our three-month-old son, I haven’t had the chance this year to write anything new about the festival. So instead, I figured I’d point to this blog’s Purim category, which includes all of the Purim-related posts I’ve made in years past. And as a kind of virtual mishloach [...]
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Martin Kramer, Genocidaire
February 25, 2010For those who followed my posts about Martin Kramer’s extraordinary talk (watch video) at the Herzliya conference, in which he claimed that overpopulation fueled Islamic radicalism and that the way to control Palestinian terror was through putting Gaza on a “diet” that discouraged having children–I’ve shied away until now from calling this statement genocide (though [...]
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Brooklyn Bundler, Chabad Rabbi, Charged With $4-Million Extortion
February 23, 2010Brooklyn Chabad Rabbi Milton Balkany has been accused of extorting $3.25-million from a New York hedge fund in order to fend off a non-existent federal probe of insider trading allegations. Unfortunately, the notion that Orthodox rabbis engage in acts of corruption is not news. What is news is this fellow’s previous background. [...] Related posts:Chabad [...]
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Interpol Warrants Against Dagan, Netanyahu Likely
February 20, 2010The Dubai police have announced that they plan to introduce in the coming days new evidence in the Mossad assassination of Hamas’ Mahmoud al-Mabouh that traces the crime directly to the agency and its Herziliya headquarters. When that happens, the police chief indicated he would ask Interpol to file arrest warrants for Mossad chief [...] [...]
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Bankruptcy of J Street on Goldstone, Iran Sanctions
February 19, 2010J Street just sent out an e mail blast trumpeting a Jerusalem Post story (!) which first caught my glance because of an outrageous statement by an anonymous Israeli foreign affairs source, who had the temerity to claim that when J Street “forced” Danny Ayalon to boycott its Congressional delegation it was J Street that [...]
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Abitbol Calls Me Moser, Claims Goldstone Would Approve of Dubai Assassination
February 19, 2010To some of you this may seem like inside Jewish baseball, but to me it’s deadly serious both because it involves a perversion of Jewish law and a personal calumny. The perpetrator is David Abitbol, purveyor of lies and smears at Jewlicious who stated I was a moser because I advocated the capture and trial [...]
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Dubai Assassination: Fisk Claims European Collaboration
February 18, 2010I know that Robert Fisk has his fans and detractors. I’m personally neutral on the subject as I don’t read him regularly enough to have the confidence I do, say that Ethan Bronner or Tom Friedman are intelligent journalist-shills for the Israeli establishment. But Fisk has written an intriguing, suggestive column today claiming that European [...]
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Hagees Gifts to Pro-Settler Groups
February 13, 2010Recently, Max Blumenthal uncovered that Elie Wiesel accepted a $500,000 gift from John Hagee, the anti-Semitic pro-settler televangelist. Wiesel appears to have resisted Hagee’s blandishments to come to San Antonio to speak to his congregation as he admits in a video available at the Hagee website. But once Hagee waved that $500,000 check [...] Related [...]
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Settler Threatens Gun Violence in Sheikh Jarrah
February 9, 2010This is precisely the type of chaos, lawlessness and violence one should expect from an out of control nation which countenances the theft of homes lived in by their Palestinian residents for decades. Why shouldn’t we expect settler hooligans not only to cock an M-16, but fire it at someone and wound or kill. [...] [...]
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Netanyahu Proposes Israeli Expatriates Vote
February 9, 2010I wanted to be conservative in my choice of blog title, but Dimi Reider really said it as it should be: Netanyahu invites the refugees to vote. Here is how Ynetnews portrays the story: PM: We’ll let Israelis vote abroad Netanyahu tells Likud faction his government plans to submit bill allowing every Israeli citizen to [...]
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Palin: My Plan is Quite Simple
February 8, 2010A high school friend of my wife’s tells the following hilarious story on her Facebook page. She was sitting in her living room watching Sarah Palin’s Tea Party speech and when the latter got to the part of her speech where she said: “My plan is quite simple.” The high school friend’s 85 [...] Related [...]
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Wiesel Nobel Laureate Ad Urges Iran Sanctions
February 8, 2010Elie Wiesel’s much ballyhooed full page N.Y. Times ad came out today. It offers strong support for the Iranian reform movement and denounces the clerical regime. The only purely political stance it advocates is sanctions. There is no mention of force. As close as the statement gets is: Concrete measures much be [...] Related posts:Former [...]