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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Richard Falk calls rockets towards Jerusalem "survival cries"

Richard Falk outdoes himself again with his embrace of terrorists and seething hatred for the Jewish state. In a November 18th article he wrote for - where else? - Al Jazeera, Falk liberally sprinkles lies on top of a serving of half-truths to come up with conclusions that would be universally considered the ranting of a lunatic if the object of his vitriol would...

UK pulls Sodastream ad - because of Pepsi or BDS?

From Globes: SodaStream International Ltd. (Nasdaq: SODA) insists that the ban of its new global advertising campaign in the UK is absurd, and censors the company for trying to save the environment. Clearcast, the organization that pre-approves UK television advertising and is jointly funded by the UK's major broadcasters, notified SodaStream that the ad campaign would not be allowed to air in the UK. The decision was made just before the commercial's...

Video: Spectacular precision bombing of a Gaza house

Obviously, the residents of this Gaza house were warned that it would be bombed, so someone set up a video camera to watch the fireworks: Note how well the bombing was calibrated to only destroy the house, and little else. And the cameraman- less than a block away - knows this quite well, with no fear of filming out an open window. (h/t Yoel...

Hamas bears legal responsibility for EVERY civilian death in Gaza.

I just came upon a quick review of the Laws of Armed Conflict written at the beginning of Operation Pillar of Cloud, written by David French, an expert in that topic. It should be required reading for every single reporter, pundit, politician and critic who opines on Israel's actions. The fundamental aim of LOAC [Laws of Armed Conflict] is to prevent unnecessary casualties and destruction within the context of military conflict. In pursuit...

From AP: Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a diagram obtained by The Associated Press. The diagram was leaked by officials from a country critical of Iran's atomic program to bolster their arguments that Iran's nuclear...

WaPo, while not perfect, much fairer than NYT in Gaza article

The Washington Post has a feature article about some innocent victims in Gaza. Even though the reader is naturally empathetic with the stories of those killed and injured, the article did note that Israel takes pains to avoid civilian injury - a critical point that is too often ignored in articles like these. It also notes that Hamas benefits from every civilian death, although it falls short on reporting the fact that Hamas intentionally places...

From American Thinker, by Nira Lee (excerpts): ...When I moved to Israel and enlisted, I joined a unit called the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is devoted to civilian and humanitarian issues. As an International Liaison Officer in the Gaza office, my job primarily entails coordinating transfers of goods, aid, and delegations into...

Tuesday links

From Ian: Stand with Us: So, you think you know a lot about HAMAS? Israel was planning to hit Haniyeh, went for Jabari instead, Kuwaiti report says [Sorry, but Kuwaiti media simply make things up. All the time. I have never once seen a Kuwaiti "scoop" pan out. I cannot believe they still get any attention in YNet or TOI. - EoZ] How the World Saved Hamas 20 Years Ago "The expulsion of top Hamas leaders from Israel would have made it difficult...

The Abbas bus (video)

Posted, surprisingly, on the Israeli Embassy US YouTube account: The video has already made it to Al Arabiya. ...

Follow the energy

Some intriguing news items: Egypt would consider importing natural gas from Oman and Equitorial Guinea, Petroleum Minister Osama Kamal said on Monday. Egypt imports gas to meet developmental need targets as established by the government, Kamal said, adding that there is a growing need for gas in Egyptian power stations. But Egypt also exports gas - to Jordan (and formerly to Israel.) The supply has been disrupted both because of Islamists...

Palestine Today reports that billboards to "Thank Iran" for Gaza's "victory" have been popping up all over Gaza. An analyst interviewed about these billboards (almost certainly paid for by pro-Iranian terror groups like Islamic Jihad) pretends that these are somehow spontaneous expressions of thankfulness by Gazans of Iran. Specifically, Iran created "Quds Day," an annual...

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights wrote: At approximately 09:00, an Israeli drone fired a missile in the vicinity of Dabbour farmland in Jabalya. As a result, Mustafa Awadh Mustafa Abu Hmaidan, 23, was killed. They did not identify him as a member of an "armed group," meaning they assumed he is a civilian and apparently counted him as such. Here is a photo of Mr....

After I wrote my critique of David Carr's slimy article claiming that Israel targets journalists yesterday, other media outlets cited the evidence I used to show that the "journalists" were in fact terrorists. Among them were Tablet and Commentary. Now Carr - a journalist, mind you - is using proof by assertion to double down that the people targeted were nothing...

Palestine Today has video of the "wreckage of a plane shot down by Palestinian resistance:" In fact, these are external fuel tanks that are routinely dropped from F-16s for various reasons. This one was obviously dropped in the Mediterranean. (They come in various sizes.) This must be part of the "fedayeen of truth" that Ismail Haniyeh praised Gaza journalists for...

The UN really, really wants to reward Hamas aggression

Robert Serry, the UN envoy to the Middle East, proves yet again what a complete waste of space the UN is. In this case, he is doing everything he can to pretend that Hamas is a moderate, peace-loving group: The United Nations envoy to the Middle East acknowledged in an interview with McClatchy Sunday that he has maintained quiet contacts with the Islamist group Hamas for “years,” despite the international community’s official policy to isolate...