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When I saw the title of this article, I knew whom it was about. And I was right. Eric Trager at Commentary has named Israel's Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert the worst politician ever.
Ehud Olmert is hardly your typical leader. Indeed, rather than making any argument for Israeli strength in the aftermath of the prisoner swap, Olmert has declared total failure, saying: There will be much sadness in
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Way off topic, but it's cute. Presenting Young Hillary Clinton. Let's go to the videotape.
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The price for releasing kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit has likely risen as a result of the cabinet's decision on Sunday to trade Samir al-Kuntar - among others - in exchange for the dead bodies of kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. After all, Shalit is alive. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar on Monday hailed the inclusion of jailed Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar in an
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Syrian foreign minister Walid Moallem on his country's nuclear program. "As a Syrian citizen, I think that had Syria had such a secret program, it wouldn't have allowed inspectors to visit the site. ... This is logic," Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said at a joint news conference in Damascus with his Norwegian counterpart, Jonas Gahr Stoere.
"But as a citizen, I wish that Syria would have such
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Finally, something good comes out of this Knesset session. In fact, this almost rates being a flying pigs moment.
On Monday, the Knesset passed the second and third readings of a bill that bans persons who have visited enemy states from running for the Knesset for seven years. The law is aimed at Arab MK's who have gone to Lebanon and Syria to declare their solidarity with terror groups and
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It happens fairly often that the picture and the caption on the JPost's home page don't match, but this one was particularly funny:
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You could just see this coming. On Sunday, Israel's cabinet prostrated itself at the feet of Hezbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah by agreeing to all of his demands in exchange for the dead bodies of kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. And on Monday, Nasrallah issued a new demand, with the inevitable threat that if it is not fulfilled he will once again go to war. Hezbollah
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Labor MK Danny Yatom, who was a candidate for the party's leadership just thirteen months ago, has quit the Knesset in disgust over the corruption and sleaze that is causing the Knesset to rot at its core. "After five and a half years in the Knesset I have decided to resign and leave politics," Yatom told the faction. "For 43 years, I've served the people and the state in all of my positions in
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Google Earth's virtual map of Israel features dozens of orange dots which purport to represent 'destroyed' 'Palestinian' villages. Each of the dots links to a web site called "Palestine Remembered" which features 'Palestinian' propaganda regarding the villages. Some of the dots represent villages that never existed or were never destroyed.
While Google often allows organizations to create
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A 45-year old Iranian electronics merchant, who did business with the country's military and security services, has been sentenced to death for spying for Israel. The Iranian FARS news agency reported that Ali Ashtari was accused of "jeopardizing Iranian security." He was also accused of receiving payment from the Mossad.
"Ali Ashtari, who was accused of spying for the Zionist state and for the
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The chickens are coming home to roost for the Hamas terror government in the Gaza Strip. It seems that someone has decided that - as we Jews would say - they're not fruhm (pious) enough. They have always been in Gaza. Hamas' concerns stem from a rise in support for the sect throughout the Strip. In the past year they have increased their ranks by several times; their number now stands at between
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Nothing happens in this country without a 'Supreme Court' appeal against it. And while as a lawyer I believe that certain actions of a duly constituted government are political decisions that ought to be unassailable in the courts, as a matter of morality, this despicable pretense of a government committed yet another perfidy that deserves redress - if not in the courts of law then in higher
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... this may be the reason why.
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Her successor may not be any better, but could s/he possibly be any worse? Louise Arbour (pictured in a hijab at the far right with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a meeting of the 'non-aligned conference' in Tehran in September 2007) is retiring from her position as the United Nations' 'Human Rights Commissioner.'
Rather than cite from the disgustingly fawning piece that AFP published about her (and
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Al-Aqsa is one of the two mosques that sits atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In this essay, Professor Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University argues that the holiness of al-Aqsa to Muslims was invented to resolve political issues in 7th century Islam, some fifty years after Mohammed's death. Here's an excerpt: Islam rediscovered Jerusalem 50 years after Mohammad's death. In 682 CE, 'Abd Allah
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Are the people of Gaza suffering from an Israeli "siege"?
Who is really responsible for the suffering in Gaza?
Hamas terrorizes its own people and blames Israel, while keeping the media in the dark.
Let's go to the videotape.
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Our 'peace partners' at the 'Palestinian Authority' are quite pleased that Israel is about to release mass murderer Samir Kuntar (Quntar). They consider him a hero. Palestinian Media Watch reports. According to the Palestinian Authority leadership, Samir Quntar epitomizes the ideal Palestinian prisoner. Quntar, who crushed the head of four-year-old Eynat Haran with his rifle, is serving four life
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The Israeli government's cabinet today ratified the exchange of mass murderer Samir al-Kuntar, four Hezbullah terrorists captured in Lebanon and "'Palestinian' prisoners whose number and identity will be determined in the sole discretion of the Israeli government' in exchange for the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev HY"D (may God avenge their blood), body parts of various Israeli
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The weekly Carnival of the Insanities is up at Dr. Pat's place. Make sure you check out all the latest insanity by pointing your browser here. Carnival of the Insanities: Its posts are INNNNNNSSSSSSSAAAAANNNE!
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For those of you who are still in doubt as to whether Israel should accept or reject the proposed 'prisoner exchange' with Hezbullah, I urge you to read Caroline Glick's column from Friday's paper, which does a great job of making the argument against the exchange. Here's an excerpt. TO DATE, the only clear public call to reject these deals was made by former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (
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In an interview in Sunday's London Telegraph, former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit says that Israel has a year - at most - to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. "The time that is left to be ready is getting shorter all the time," he said in an interview.
Mr Shavit, 69, who was deputy director of Mossad when Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq in 1981, added: "As an
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A 'Palestinian' 'youth group' has announced plans to sue the United Kingdom over Israel's creation, charging the British government with committing a 'series of crimes' against the so-called 'Palestinian people.' Representatives of the Watanuna (Our Homeland) Palestinian Youth said the biggest crime the British government committed was when it promised a homeland for the Jewish people in the 1917
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I'm sure you'll all be shocked - just shocked - to hear that the 'justice system' administered by the 'good terrorists' of Fatah - the same 'justice system' for which the West pledged over $200 million at a conference in Berlin this past week - uses torture on prisoners. And by the way, we're not talking about Abu Ghraib type 'torture.' We're talking about the real thing. Western support for
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On Saturday, Iran Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari (pictured) claimed that Israel 'cannot stop' Iran and that Iran has all of Israel within its missile range. In comments published on Saturday in the Iranian newspaper Jam-e Jam, the Guards commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said that Israel "is completely within the range of the Islamic republic's missiles" and it cannot
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Islamic Jihad threatened on Saturday to 'resume' rocket fire against Israel unless the crossings to the Gaza Strip are reopened. The crossings have remained 'closed' all week due to rocket fire on Israel coming from the Strip. But Jihad has also threatened to 'resume' rocket fire if Israel continues military operations in Judea and Samaria, which is not even included in the 'truce.' Meanwhile,
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Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
The German weekly Der Spiegel reports Saturday on a claim by Professor Arnd Kruger that the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games knew that an attempt was going to be made on their lives and that nevertheless they decided not to leave the Olympic village. "I was a journalist in Munich back then," he said, "and I remember Israelis telling me they
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Remember how disgusting Dhimmi Carter looked laying a wreath at the tomb of terrorist Yasser Arafat?
A current world leader has now joined Jimmy the Dhimmi in paying homage to the inventor of modern terrorism. Click here to find out who that leader is.
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Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the site of the El Kibar nuclear reactor in Syria on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this past week. Israel destroyed the reactor in September 2007. As you may recall, Syria denied the inspectors permission to view three sites other than the El Kibar site. But apparently the inspectors took their work a little bit more seriously than
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In yet another sign of the collapse of Western civilization, London's Daily Express reports on Friday that England's Transport Department is going to restrict the use of sniffer dogs on Muslims because Muslim terrorists are offended when they are touched by the 'unclean animals.' A report for the Transport Department has raised the prospect that the animals should only touch passengers’ luggage
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I don't know how much the collapse of the US dollar is being felt in the States, but for those of us (like me) who earn most of our income in dollars and pay most of our expenses in a different currency (in my case, the Israeli shekel), the effect of the dollar's collapse has been devastating. Last August, there were about 4.2 shekels to the US dollar. Today, there are around 3.35. While I can
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There has been much talk in Israel all week of 'prisoners with blood on their hands' whom Hamas wants released in exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. On Friday afternoon, the JPost web site has some of the names of terrorists that Hamas is demanding. The [Egyptian] sources [quoted by London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat] went on to say that among the prisoners Hamas was demanding in
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'Palestinian' terrorists fired two more mortar shells at Israel's Western Negev region today. The shells landed without harming anyone or causing damage, which means that once again Israel will likely not respond. One of the shells hit near Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the Sha'ar HaNegev region, while the other landed in an 'open area.' While the IDF kept the crossings closed again, they did allow the
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In March, I was sitting in downtown Boston's only Kosher restaurant when I saw a familiar face at one of the nearby tables. Unfortunately, I did not have the nerve to try to strike up a conversation with him (can you all believe that?), because when I asked one of the workers in the restaurant it turns out that the familiar face was none other than National Union/National Religious Party MK Effie
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The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new video from dissident members of the Izzadeen al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Palestinian territories – of their recently slain comrade Rami Abu Suweirah (a.k.a. Abu Huzaifah) condemning the political leadership of Hamas for their decision to participate in democratic elections in the Palestinian territories,
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert's 'cabinet' will vote on Sunday to release heinous murderer Samir al-Kuntar (pictured at top with Marwan Barghouti - Kuntar is the bigger man) as part of an exchange for what may be the dead bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev according to Friday's Jerusalem Post. The paper says that its survey shows that at least fifteen ministers - whom it has named - plan
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In an effort to train the troops for urban guerrilla warfare, the IDF spent $30 million about a year and a half ago to build a mock Arab village on a base near Be'er Sheva. With the possibility of a mass invasion of Gaza in the offing, IDF troops have been using the base to prepare. Dozens of infantry companies, mainly from the Givati Brigade, stormed the large "village" set up in the desert, at
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In today's Washington Post, Richard Perle points out why Condoleezza Rice's adoption of Barak Hussein Obama's multilateral approach to foreign policy is failing. The problem, rather, is a dangerous confusion between ends and means, and it is a confusion shared by Condi Rice and Barack Obama. Coalitions, even successful multilateral ones, are instruments, tools, means to an end. They are important
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The UN 'Human Rights Council' decided this week that it is forbidden to criticize Islam because "religious issues can be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense…This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.” From now on, only religious scholars would be permitted to broach 'religious matters' before the Council. Robert Spencer
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert embarrassed the Labor Party on Wednesday when he announced at the Knesset podium that he intends to run for reelection as Kadima chairman despite the deal reached overnight Tuesday in which Labor gave up its effort to initiate an early election. At the Knesset on Wednesday the prime minister was ridiculed and jeered, despite discussing the nation's most pressing
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Following are excerpts from a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on IRINN (the Iranian News Channel) on June 11, 2008.
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: As you know, in the past 30 years – especially in the days of President Bush, but also under other U.S. presidents – they have really wanted to strike at Iran. This is especially
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'Palestinian' terrorists shot yet another Kassam rocket on Thursday in violation of the 'truce' between them and Israel. It was the fifth rocket they have shot since the truce went into effect. The rocket just missed a gas station in Shaar HaNegev, and no one was killed or injured, so Israel will likely do nothing about it. But this should mean that the crossings from Israel into Gaza will remain
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Actually, he looks more like Mr. Bean to me.
But the man who made the statement - Silvan Shalom - made it as part of a great quote: "Barak started off as a doberman and ended up as Olmert's poodle," Shalom said. "He was serious about overthrowing Olmert, but after Olmert threatened to fire him, he peed in his pants and proved that he cared more about his own personal benefit than the good of
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It appears that a framework of a deal has been reached to exchange four captured Hezbullah terrorists from the Second Lebanon War, some terrorists' bodies and Lebanese murderer Samir al-Kuntar for kidnapped IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, body parts of Israeli soldiers, and information regarding IDF navigator Ron Arad whose plane was shot down over Lebanon in 1986 and who has not
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You've probably all heard that the 'Palestinians' are educating their children to terrorism. But watch this (very graphic) video about how the children are being raised. Think about what it would take to undo this. The bottom line: It can never be completely undone.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: NY Nana).
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert's chief negotiator for terrorist releases Ofer Dekel is in Cairo on Thursday morning where he is meeting with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman over the exchange of terrorists for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. While most of the reports here have focused on the gap in the numbers demanded by the 'Palestinians' and the numbers proposed by Israel (
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Six days since the ceasefire went into effect Kassam rockets slammed into the Negev town of Sderot. Two people were lightly wounded and a house damaged. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack after one of its senior commander and a gunman were killed in gunbattles with Israeli security forces in Nablus earlier in the day.The raid took center stage at a conference in Berlin where
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On Friday night in Paris' 19th arrandissement, 17-year old Rudy Haddad was attacked with steel bars by a group of 'African youths' and beaten into a coma. The attack was clearly pre-meditated, and although the mainstream media isn't telling you this - and probably won't - the attackers were most likely Muslims. At Pajamas Media, Phyllis Chesler wonders why the mainstream media has been silent
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Detroit Judge Gerald Rosen refused to recuse himself from sitting on judgment in the case of 48-year old Fawzi Mustapha Assi on Tuesday. Assi has admitted to attempting to smuggle military equipment to Hezbullah in 1998, and Rosen has to sentence him. Fawzi Mustapha Assi, 48, who rose to address the court against the advice of his attorney, said he heard rumors U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen
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Israel closed all of the Gaza crossings into southern Israel on Wednesday morning except for the pedestrian crossing at the Erez checkpoint, but promised Egypt it would not retaliate for the firing of three Kassam rockets by Islamic Jihad at Sderot on Tuesday. It made the commitment despite the fact that Hamas has no intention of making any effort to enforce the 'truce' on its side. Hamas
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CBS News reported Tuesday night from the Pentagon on the eve of Admiral Michael Mullen's trip to Israel that the Bush administration has made a commitment to Israel that it will deal with Iran before leaving office. According to CBS News correspondent David Martin, Israel is getting nervous that the administration won't fulfill the commitment, which would explain the drill over the Mediterranean
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In an earlier post, I noted that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was attending a conference in Berlin on Monday. The conference - which continued Tuesday - was meant to raise money for the 'Palestinian prison and justice' systems in Judea and Samaria. On Tuesday, the Al-Jazzeera Arab propaganda network did a report on the 'Palestinian prison system.'
Let's go to the videotape and then
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Doug Feith, who is a former law partner of one of my law firm colleagues, has now started writing for The Corner. In a comment posted on Tuesday, Doug expresses skepticism as to whether Saddam Hussein transferred his weapons of mass destruction to Syria, but doesn't really have any other likely answers (Hat Tip: Lawhawk via Little Green Footballs). To my knowledge, the best information on the
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The 'Palestinian Authority' has decided that it will defend dozens of lawsuits filed against it in the United States by terror victims who have US citizenship according to a report in Tuesday's New York Sun (Hat Tip: NY Nana). Until now, the Authority has refused to submit to the courts' jurisdiction and default judgments have been entered against it when it did not appear. But whether the
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In 1990, Shimon Peres and then-Shas leader Aryeh Deri attempted to bring down the government of then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir by leaving their national unity government with Shamir and installing Peres as Prime Minister. The incident was dubbed the "stinking maneuver" by Peres' Labor party rival Yitzchak Rabin. It failed when Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox leader Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Mann Shach
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One thing I have to say about my nasty commenters: they're not very articulate.
Hi. My name's Harriet, and I'm italian. I found your blog and read some of it and it's disgusting. Or better, your ideas are disgusting for me. You "israeli" people invade the Palestine and took all you could by violence and weapons, and now you are proud to laugh on these "monsters", the Arabs, that have been
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Here it is folks: All the proof you'll ever need that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim.
Let's go to the videotape.
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The 'Palestinians' believe they have no hope of changing John McCain's position in favor of Israel. But if at one time they thought that Barack Hussein Obama would be squarely in their court, they now believe that they will have to work at it (American politics being what it is) but that they can manage to sway Obama to their position (Hat Tip: The Moderate Voice via Memeorandum). (The following
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One of the reasons that international sanctions against Iran have been so ineffective is that the Iranians have managed to circumvent them by anticipating what sanctions the West will try next and taking effective countermeasures ahead of time. For example, recently the West announced sanctions against Melli Bank, Iran's largest bank. But by the time they had been announced and implemented, Iran
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An elite Israeli border policeman committed suicide by shooting himself on the perimeter of a farewell ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport. Sarkozy and his wife were not harmed in the incident. This was actually first reported as the policeman falling off a tall building and his weapon accidentally discharging, but the
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Well, that didn't take long, did it now?
Four more Kassams hit the Negev on Tuesday afternoon in what ought to be the end of the fake 'truce' in Gaza. At least it means the 'Palestinians' have ended the truce. Maybe the Olmert-Barak-Livni-Yishai government will take a few more hits.... Four Palestinian Qassam rockets fired from Gaza struck Sderot and a surrounding area Tuesday afternoon, further
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Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi, a Saudi marriage officiant, which aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008:
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows.
Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi: Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for the first time – is
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Tariq Abu Ra'ali, a senior commander of Islamic Jihad and another gunman belonging to the group, were killed on Tuesday morning in the West Bank city of Nablus. IDF and Shin Bet forces had entered the city in attempt to arrest Abu Ra'ali, but the Islamic Jihad leader barricaded himself in his apartment with another gunman and opened fire on the Israeli troops. The IDF therefore moved in on the
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An opinion piece in Monday's Washington Post discusses the possibility that the United States may open an 'interests section' in Tehran much like the one it has maintained in Cuba since 1977. This would be short of full diplomatic recognition, but may open a channel of communication to the Iranian people and eventually to their government. The 'trick' is how to do it without easing the pressure
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In yet another sign that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities may be in the offing, Tuesday's Jerusalem Post reports that Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen will be visiting Israel briefly at the end of the week for talks with IDF Chief of General Command Gabi Ashkenazi. While the official reason for the visit is that Mullen was in Europe anyway and had a free day in his
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This is a CBS News report on Israel's 'dress rehearsal' to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. There's nothing real surprising here but it's interesting to watch (Hat Tip: NY Nana).
Let's go to the videotape.
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The Gaza 'cease fire' was broken by the 'Palestinians' late Monday night. A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the western Negev despite the recent ceasefire agreement signed by Israel and armed Palestinian groups in Gaza.
No injuries or damage were reported. The IDF will undoubtedly be ordered to turn the other cheek. After all, no casualties.
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In a paragraph that somehow didn't make it into the English edition of the same article, Haaretz reports in its Hebrew edition on ridiculous new 'open fire' (link in Hebrew) orders that were given to IDF troops operating on the Gaza periphery this past weekend. (Translation by IMRA):
"Last weekend new shooting orders were issued for the area around the Gaza Strip. The soldiers are permitted to
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On Friday, it was reported that Israel conducted a massive training exercise to prepare for taking out Iran's nuclear weapons. Since then, several reports have given further indication that Israel is in fact preparing for such a scenario. It is clear by now that the Israeli government actually wanted Iran to know about the training exercise so that it would get the message that Israel is not
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If this is all it takes, it's probably happening.
London-based Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat reports on Monday that the Egyptians have warned the Hamas delegation that is in Cairo in the hopes of having 'shuttle diplomacy' with Israel (over the release of hundreds of terrorists in exchange for kidnapped IDF corporal Gilad Shalit) that Israel is eavesdropping on phone calls that the delegation
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A Harvard study of Israeli Arabs indicates that 77% of Israel's Arab population would rather live in Israel than in any other country in the world. The survey was conducted by the John Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University with the assistance of researchers from Haifa University.
The study was aimed at examining the relations between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens on the State's
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Israel may be on the brink of an attack against Iran, and as the Wall Street Journal points out in an editorial in Monday's editions, the West has only itself and its own policies of appeasing Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs to blame. Mr. ElBaradei predicted this weekend that such an attack would turn the Middle East into a "ball of fire," yet his own apologies for Iran and the West's diplomatic
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On Sunday, Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert extended the tenure of Mossad chief Meir Dagan for another year to the end of 2009. He cited Dagan's 'exceptional successes,' presumably a reference to the destruction of the Syrian nuclear reactor in September among other things. The organization's list of achievements under his six years of leadership was "very impressive," said the statement. "More, of
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In President Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, he announced the founding of Al-Hurra, an Arabic television network sponsored by the United States government and designed to counter the anti-American and anti-Israeli biases of stations like Al-Jazzeera. While the idea seemed like a good one, it hasn't worked out the way it was planned. Seven years after 9/11, the United States still does not
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Sunday's New York Times included an article by Nicolas Kristof called The Two Israels. As you can probably guess, in Kristof's mind, the two Israels are the 'good Israel' of B'Tselem, Machsom Watch and Akiva Eldar, while the 'bad Israel' is that of the settlers revenants, the 'checkpoints,' and 'Palestinian' poverty. The security system that Israel is steadily establishing is nowhere more
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Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton appeared on Fox News Sunday morning by telephone. He was asked about potential Iranian responses to an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities (in light of Friday's disclosure of a 'massive' Israeli dry run) and said that Iran's options were not as good as they are generally believed to be. Among other things, while they would never say so openly,
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Until now, it seems that everyone outside the United States is crazy about Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama. Now it appears that maybe even the Europeans are beginning to wake up and smell the coffee (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). European officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign pledge to begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program without
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert met on Friday with General (Ret.) Aviam Sela (link in Hebrew), the planner of Operation Opera, the attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981. The Prime Minister's office has confirmed the meeting, which took place in Olmert's Jerusalem residence. According to the Israeli daily Maariv, Sela is considered the father of the idea of refuelling jets in flight, and would
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I wonder what the Laundryman will have to say about that.
No further comment necessary.
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A French Jewish teenager was severely beaten on Saturday night in eastern Paris. 17-year old Rudy Haddad was identifiably Jewish - he was wearing a kippa (skullcap). Haddad was beaten with iron bars, which probably are not lying around in the streets of Paris (at least they were not when I was last there in the fall of 2005). That indicates that the attack was probably premeditated. And the
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We now have a fuller version of the interview with Mohamed ElBaradei on Al-Arabiye from Friday, and it's a doozer. The bottom line is that Iran is six to twelve months away from a nuclear weapon according to the UN's feckless nuclear 'watchdog.'
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows.
Following are excerpts from an interview with IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad Al-Baradei, which
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Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 15, 2008. Of course, he also supports 'Palestinian' rights.... I guess after all they have been through in the Sudan, they don't understand yet that our conflict (and theirs) are existential.
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows.
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Israel Matzav
The weekly Carnival of the Insanities is up online and you can find it and check out all of the week's zaniest events by going here.
Carnival of the Insanities: Its posts are INNNNNNSANNNNNE!
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I was linked by Haveil Havalim # 170 and in accordance with carnival etiquette, I am linking back. Haveil Havalim is run this week by its founder (who no longer manages it), Soccer Dad, and includes some really good posts. I won't spoil the fun by telling you which posts I consider really good posts. You should all check it out.
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Israel Matzav
On Saturday night, I reported that UNICEF has refused to accept donations from Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev because Leviev has financed the construction of Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. Here's the flip side of that story.
Fox News reports that UNICEF is accepting money from the Islamic International Relief Organization, a 'charity' with connections to al-Qaeda and the Taliban (Hat Tip:
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