New Year's open threadI'm working on other projects today and maybe tomorrow, so here's an open thread so I don't feel so guilty about not blogging quite as much as usual.
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Third anniversary of Nizar Rayyan's deathOn January 1, 2009, Israel warned Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan to leave his home with his family before the IDF would bomb the weapons cache underneath his apartment building.
He refused, attempting to use his wives and childre…Read More
Ilan Grapel writes about his incarceration in EgyptFrom the Washington Post:
When I went to Egypt to spend the summer working at a nongovernmental organization that provides legal assistance to asylum seekers from Sudan and Iraq, I was no stranger to the Middle East. I had s…Read More
More problems between Hamas and FatahLast week, I quoted a Palestine Press Agency article alleging that there were serious problems between the Hamas leadership in Damascus and Gaza, with the Khaled Meshal trying to sabotage Gaza leader Ismail Han…Read More
Israeli Druse singer banned from RamallahFrom JPost:
The Palestinian Authority banned a well-know Israeli Druse singer from appearing at a New Year’s Eve party in Ramallah.
The decision to ban Mike Sharif, known as “The Druse Boy,” was taken following strong prote…Read More
Egypt wants to keep their colonists fighting Israel. They armed them, but then requires Israel to take of them. The Egyptian invaders must be returned to...
Kaja Kallas is referring all along to the post-cold-war strategy emphasizing “soft power” and low-profile warfare—a poor strategy that shows off today in...
A statement by Gaza academics has been making the rounds. I want to caution that much of the statement just rehashes anti-Israel stuff, and nowhere does the...
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Apartheid? The boot is still on the Arab foot
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Although it’s almost drowned out by charges of Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza,
this week is Israel Apartheid Week – a global, multimedia extravaganza
devot...
Visas for Terrorists, No Visas for Israelis
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There was outrage after the move to deport foreign campus terrorist
supporters, including Momodou Taal, who had urged student protesters to
take their c...
This is what terrorist propaganda looks like
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Just a few weeks after the BBC were forced to take down a documentary
because of Hamas family ties to the narrator – the BBC anti-Israel factory
has chur...
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This is Sali, the LSW posting for Yaakov. Yaakov is recovering from a stoke
that he had about a month ago. Thank you all so very much for your good
wishes,...
Peter Beinart’s anti-Jewish Purim Propaganda
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Master propagandist Peter Beinart has written a polemic in The Guardian,
adapted from his most recent book, that can only be described as
antisemitic. He d...
Emigration to Mandate Palestine from the Hauran
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A report on the present conditions in the Hauran was published in the
Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society in 1936.
One of the topics was the emigr...
One Choice: Fight to Win
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Yesterday Israel preempted a potentially disastrous attack by Hezbollah on
the center of the country. Thirty minutes before launch time, our aircraft
destr...
Closing Jews Down Under Website
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With a heavyish heart I am closing down the website after ten years.
It is and it isn’t an easy decision after 10 years of constant work. The
past...
‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage
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Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on
about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than
the govern...
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Elder of Ziyon
