January 26, 2009
This is the equivalent of telling some ill-behaved little brat - one whom you've indulged for years - that he has to clean up his room. The result: petulant sulking in anticipation of a hysterical temper tantrum: Hamas bears full responsibility for the war in Gaza, a top EU official said Monday in t...
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January 13, 2009
A nation that once vowed to fight the enemies of civilization on the streets and in the hills is now quite literally on the run from fanatical Muslims: British Islam has functionally defeated British Anglicanism. Schools are canceling Christmas in favor of Eid. Defending Christianity on the radio is...
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December 30, 2008
From a cretin who thinks that Israelis are Nazis and that a neocon cabal caused 9/11? Almost difficult to believe that'd be his position: Richard Falk - the special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories - said the international community must put more pressure on Israel to end i...
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Arab hostility toward Israel seems to oscillate between pathological aggression and victimized resentment, underscored the entire time by utterly shameless denial. So Hamas can violate the ceasefire for months by shooting at Israeli civilians and at Israeli soldiers. They can brag openly about those...
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June 24, 2008
AFP got the ball rolling this morning by lining up Israeli West Bank operations and Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. Because it would be an outright lie to suggest that Israel was in violation of the ceasefire, their intrepid staff settled settled for lining up the two events and linking them with...
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June 16, 2008
In January the US promised that they'd have the Palestinians signing a peace agreement by the end of the year. I demurely expressed skepticism and fearlessly predicted that the State Department would go out of its way to blame Israel for the failure. Surprise: The source said that Rice's particularl...
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