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Israel Decries Militant Arms Caches in Schools, Mosques: Pot Calls Kettle
January 28, 2011You know the drill: Hamas and Hezbollah commit the cowardly and unpardonable sin of hiding weapons caches in sites like schools, hospitals, mosques, ambulances. This not only justifies attacking sacred sites and any collateral damage to civilians (cf. if only they fought fair), it also serves to reinforce the brutal image of the enemy in [...]
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Kahanist Orthodox Right Seeks to Make Israeli Commerce Arabrein
January 27, 2011In Germany, Nazis were proud to empty important segments of society of Jews and make them Judenrein. Ridding the nation of the noxious influence of Judaism became an idée fixe, an obsession and ideological underpinning of the fascist movement. I’ve noted here in the past, most recently with the rabbinic editorial calling for death camps [...]
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Palestine Papers: PA Collaborated With Israel to Kill Fatah Militants
January 25, 2011Now I see why Fatah protesters occupied Al Jazeera’s offices in Ramallah yesterday. Today’s publication of the Palestine Papers series exposes the PA negotiators with Israel as collaborating in the assassination of their own Fatah-affiliated militants in Gaza. To be clear, I’m not one who favors armed resistance from either side of this conflict and [...]
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Turkel Commission Vindicates Israeli Massacre
January 24, 2011Perhaps only in Israel can even a dead man rise from the grave to sing his country’s praises (well OK, it could happen in a few other places too like North Korea, Belarus and perhaps Iran). That’s what’s happened to poor Shabtai Rosenne, former Israeli foreign ministry official, appointed along with several other elderly cheerleaders [...]
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Fox News Beck Gunnin for 78 Year-Old CUNY University Professor
January 22, 2011Glenn Beck isn’t satisified being a popular FoxNews bloviator. He appears to be driving some of his more deranged followers to take a potshot at a distinguished City University of New York professor, Frances Fox Piven. Maybe he even expects a rating bonanza as a result. Prof. Fox Piven is one of America’s foremost authorities [...]
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Israel Drops Sex Harrassment Charge Against Palestinian Researcher Who Fought Back During Intrusive Security Check
January 21, 201118 months ago, Palestinian academic lecturer, Dr. Honida Gaanam, was trying to fly to France for an academic conference. Her problem is that she was flying while Arab. The Ben Gurion airport security guard began to search Ganaam’s bra invasively and the victim fought back by grabbing the guard’s bra and asking her whether she [...]
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Supreme Court Reopens Israels Guantanamo
January 21, 2011If you’ve ever heard Alan Dershowitz or any liberal Zionist talk about the wonderful role played by the Israeli High Court in protecting democracy and human rights in Israel, do me a favor and quote ‘em this post I’m writing. I’m sorry to say that the Supreme Court is little more than a sham; window [...]
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Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Love That Conquers Hate
January 20, 2011Tonight, I heard a great man. I witnessed brilliance. I heard love and grace. Love that conquers hate. Hope that vanquishes cynicism. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish spoke tonight at Seattle’s Town Hall on his national tour, which will take him to around 20 American cities between this month and April. On January 16, 2009 (today is [...]
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Israeli Settler Right Bullies Rabbi Ascherman, Protesting at His Home
January 19, 2011The Israeli settler far-right, as part of its campaign of vitriol and intimidation is stalking Rabbi Arik Ascherman, founder of Rabbis for Human Rights. They will be demonstrating outside his home later today (Wednesday) against his alleged campaign to destroy Jewish sovereignty over all of historic Eretz Yisrael. The far-right says he “sabotages the redemption [...]
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Rabbi Rotters False Claims
January 18, 2011Within the past hour, Channel 10 Israel news aired a segment (see YouTube Hebrew video above) on our expose of Jerusalem police officer Meir Rotter’s incitement to violence against the non-violent demonstrators at Sheikh Jarrah. In the segment, the reporter called this blog the “Wikileaks of Israel,” to which I can only reply that I’m [...]
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Barak Leaving Labor: Rats Leaving Sinking Ship
January 17, 2011Put this under the category: the Mystifying Doing the Inscrutable. Ehud Barak will announce that he and four other members of the Labor Knesset delegation will leave the party and form a new faction to be called–get this–”Independence” (other suggested names, “The New Center,” the “Jewish Democratic Zionist Center,” what a mouthful!). This is the [...]
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Gaza Doctor Whose Family Was Killed by IDF During Cast Lead on National Speaking Tour
January 15, 2011Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish Interview. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose wife and three daughers were killed by an Israeli tank shell during Operation Cast Lead, is in the midst of a national speaking tour and promoting a new book he’s written on his life and the lessons he’s learned from the tragedy. Though 1,400 were killed in [...]
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Dagan, Peace Activist, Humanitarian?
January 14, 2011Yes, you read the headline right. Though there is a touch of sarcasm in it. Meir Dagan‘s valedictory on leaving the Mossad, where he was director for eight years, was remarkable for a man who was asked when appointed by Ariel Sharon, to go about his job with a “knife between his teeth.” In fact, [...]
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Israeli Settler-Rabbi to Infertile Jewish Couples: Goyish Sperm Leads to Criminality, Barbarism
January 13, 2011I swear these rabbis are such sitting ducks sometimes I feel sorry for ‘em that I have write posts like this. But given the nuttiness they espouse, what choice does one have? One of Israeli Orthodoxy’s leading rabbinic lights, Rabbi Dov Lior, chief rabbi of that idyllic Jewish town of Hebron, told a conference at [...]
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Loughner: In Dreams Begin Murders
January 12, 2011Delmore Schwartz‘s most famous short story is entitled In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. It is about a young man who dreams he is in a movie theater watching a movie which turns out to portray his parent’s courtship. As he watches it, he worries that his parents may not actually end up marrying each other and [...]