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I thought that Yossi Klein HaLevi did a pretty good job of summing up how Israelis feel about their eventually resigning Prime Minister and his continuing scandals (Hat Tip: Suzanne B). Olmert is the embodiment of what has been, for Israel, the year of scandal: a president accused of rape, a finance minister accused of massive embezzlement, a deputy prime minister found guilty of forcing his
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Maybe this is why?
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Norway, one of the first and biggest supporters of the 'Palestinian Authority' (and Hamas), may stop all funding. Some Norwegian lawmakers have finally been convinced that the PA is fomenting hatred and isn't interested in 'peace.' What convinced many of them was this appearance by Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch on Norwegian television on July 6, 2008 and the clips he showed from '
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Hamas has gone back to shaving off the mustaches of their political opponents in what appears to be a renewal of the Hamas-Fatah wars of last summer. You may recall that several months ago, the 'good terrorists' of Fatah were shaving beards off the 'bad terrorists' from Hamas in Judea and Samaria. Now the situation is reversed and Fatah doesn't like it very much. The latest victim of the
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This should come as a surprise to no one. If an election were held in Israel today, regardless of who leads the Kadima party, Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu and the Likud would win (Hat Tip: Memeorandum) according to a survey released by Channel 10 television just after Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert announced his eventual resignation on Wednesday night. When those polled were asked to pick between
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert may have announced his eventual resignation last night, but that certainly does not signify the end of the danger his government poses to the continued existence of the Jewish state. All his announcement does is make him a lame duck, but one who still holds the reins of executive power and who may continue to hold them for another seven months. During those seven
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I don't know how things are in your part of the world, but finding summer camps for your kids really stretches the budget here. For starters, we pay school tuition twelve months out of the year (so that we don't feel how expensive it really is all year long), which means that paying for camp during the summer months means paying two sets of tuition. And try finding a summer camp that actually
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert is about to announce that he will not run in the Kadima party primary to be held in September. He will remain Prime Minister until he is replaced by new elections or if there is a no confidence vote against his government and someone else (most likely the winner of the Kadima primary) succeeds in forming a new government.
UPDATE 8:03 PM
Olmert will read a written
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert will make a 'personal announcement' at 8:00 Wednesday night Israel time - a bit more than an hour from now. Speculation is that he will either announce his resignation or that he will not run in the Kadima party primary in September.
Heh.
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There's been a lot of attention paid in the media over the last week to a note left in the Kotel (Western Wall) by Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama last Thursday morning. Probably a lot more attention than it deserves.
The note was published in Maariv last Friday and was picked up by the Los Angeles Times. When that led to a lot of outrage, Maariv claimed Obama had asked
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Here's the latest installment (there's one more) in the series of interviews with 'Palestinian' suicide bombers, their relatives and their dispatchers. I don't see how anyone who is not Muslim can make 'peace' with this.
Let's go to the videotape.
For those who missed them, Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.
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Following are excerpts from a report on a Lebanese celebration of the "wedding-funeral" of the first ever female suicide bomber, Sana Mehaidli, known as "The Bride of the South," who detonated a car bomb near an Israeli military convoy in South Lebanon in 1985. The report aired on Al-Jadid/New TV on July 26, 2008.
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows.
Reporter: It all began in the
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Since DEBKA was out ahead of the game in discovering that Hezbullah had seized strategic Jebel Sannine in southern Lebanon, I'm going to bet that they got this story right as well. As Iranian and Syrian radar and anti-air weapons officers settled on the strategic peak, our military sources report the Lebanese terrorist group proceeded to grab positions on the Western ridge of Jebel Barukh, east
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Elder of Ziyon reports on a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear plant that is located in a heavily populated area of Iran. The plant's existence was disclosed by a Kuwaiti newspaper, and part of the article was translated by the Kuwaiti Arab Times, an English language newspaper. A secret nuclear bomb manufacturing center at Al-Zarqan Area in Al-Ahwaziya Region, which was first established in
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In an exclusive telephone interview with Infolive.tv, M. (name withheld from publication), a resident of Gaza talks about life under Hamas rule, the recent violence and arrests of Fatah supporters by Hamas. "Everyone in Gaza walks around armed, people live in fear," he says. "Residents hope that Israel will bomb Gaza and that the people will be rid of Hamas rule once and for all," he says.
Let's
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A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has illegally pushed a 100-billion euro natural gas liquification deal through Germany's Export Control Office, in violation of worldwide sanctions against Iran, because the German firm that obtained the contract is located in his electoral district. In the process, the legislator - Hartmut Schauerte - has also
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Ten days ago, Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei told a tourism convention in Tehran: “No nation in the world is our enemy, Iran is a friend of the nation in the United States and in Israel, and this is an honor. We view the American nation as one with the greatest nations of the world.” But in an interview with Hezbullah's Al-Manar Television on July 28, he changed his tune.
Let's
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'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen warned Israel last week that he will dismantle the 'Palestinian Authority' if Israel frees dozens of Hamas 'lawmakers' that it holds in prison as part of an exchange for kidnapped IDF corporal Gilad Shalit. Abbas sent the warning to GOC Central Command Maj. Gen. Gadi Shamni via Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the PA's civil affairs department,
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Bush administration officials assured Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak (pictured) that a military strike against Iran remains a possibility to prevent that country from acquiring nuclear weapons, but it is not the preferred US solution (Hat Tip: Hot Air). Bush administration officials reassured Israel's defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a
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Now here's an idea whose time has come.
The JPost reports on a cross-party parliamentary caucus in the Knesset whose goal is to work with UNRWA to re-settle 'Palestinian refugees' and their descendants (and purported descendants) in other countries. The move came amid a groundswell of parliamentary activity around the world, including in the US and Canada, to reroute funding from UNRWA - the UN
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It's official. Starting September 2, American Airlines and El Al Israel Airlines will be code sharing (placing their flight numbers on the other's flights).
I can't wait.
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On Sunday, I reported the following jaw-dropping comment from Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on the truce that "I fear that a reality is being created in the south, which, in five years we'll be asking ourselves - How could we let this happen?" Huh? Well if he realizes that's what's happening why the %$#@ doesn't he do something about it? He is still (
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Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, who is a McCain supporter, has criticized two of McCain's more radical foreign policy proposals, and instead urges making Israel part of NATO (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). “I don’t think you can boot Russia out of the G-8,” Bolton said in a small breakfast with reporters at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. “You have to
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The craziest part about this is that there are people out there who actually believe him.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to the foreign ministers of the 'Non-Aligned Movement' at their meeting in Tehran on Tuesday. There are more 118 countries in the Non-Aligned Movement, and as noted earlier this week, Tehran is seeking their support to gain a seat on the UN Security Council.
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At least part of this video apparently comes from that 'birthday party' that Qatar's al-Jazeera threw for released child killer Samir al-Kuntar. But this little clip has to have the Egyptians and the Americans - among others - scratching their heads and wondering why Israel ever released this creep from his prison cell.
Following are excerpts from statements by released Lebanese terrorist Samir
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Could it be that the world's largest recipient of foreign aid per capita with the expert suit-and-tie-clad businessman at its helm is going bankrupt? That's what the 'Palestinian Authority' is telling the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday morning. The reason for the 'bankruptcy'? No, of course it's not that they spent more than they took in. It's that they didn't take in enough. You see, many of the '
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Noah Pollak, who inspired my very first post about Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama's foreign policy team, and who first alerted me to the existential danger this man poses to the State of Israel, has written a piece on Commentary's Contentions blog in which he shows how Obama has adopted what Pollak calls the 'myth of linkage.' Linkage is the notion that if only the '
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An 'Israeli Arab' woman living in Norway who was deported to Algeria when she was 15 as part of a 1983 'prisoner exchange' has asked for an Israeli passport so that she can 'move freely about the world.' The woman was born in Israel and has an Israeli citizenship. Her parents, who are Arab Israeli citizens, carried out a series of terror attacks in Israel, and her mother was sentenced to long
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General Security Service head Yuval Diskin briefed the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday on the security situation in Jerusalem. "Neighborhoods are being abandoned…and it leaves a vacuum where Hamas operates," he added. Smuggling of weapons has increased, and police find it more difficult to deploy forces in neighborhoods where the terrorist infrastructure has strengthened. Public
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Haaretz reports on Monday morning that a group of 'internationals' may be seeking to send a boat to run the Gaza 'blockade.' The boat will likely depart from Cyprus on August 5, although it may also depart from a Turkish or Egyptian port. The boat is being sponsored by the 'Free Gaza Movement' and the International Solidarity Movement, and is supposed to include among its 'passengers' three
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Although this is an American issue and not an Israeli one (and is therefore slightly off topic), I thought that this editorial - which appears in today's JPost print edition - was excellent. Of course, it's still unlikely to serve as a wake-up call. For the past week, Democrat Barack Obama's trek through the Middle East and Europe has enjoyed enormous -- including lengthy interviews with three
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Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Feigele Livni is 'warning' of pressure that may be brought to bear on Israel after the US General Election in a bid to assure President Bush of a legacy. Livni notes - correctly - the pressure that was brought upon Israel at the end of the Clinton administration to which Ehud Barak - who happens to be one of her political rivals these days - did all he could to
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Astoundingly, this is what Kuwaiti columnist Fouad al-Hashem wrote in the Kuwaiti daily al-Watan. Fouad al-Hashem, a columnist for the Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan, wrote that Lebanon should consider itself lucky to be blessed with a neighbor such as Israel, rather than Iraq, for example. "Samir Kuntar lived in Israeli prisons for 29 years," al-Hashem wrote.
"No one cut off his ears, tore out his
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked the 114-member Non-Aligned Movement to support its bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. The request was made by foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki. Iran is seeking to replace Indonesia as the Asian representative for a two-year term beginning in 2009. Iran would join Libya on the Council. Libya has been serving since January 2008. While
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General Security Service chief Yuval Diskin gave his weekly report to the cabinet on Sunday on the amounts of weaponry that Hamas has 'smuggled' (imported would probably be a more accurate term) into the Gaza Strip since the 'truce' began last month. For those of you sitting there saying that part of the deal was that there would be no weapons brought in during the 'truce,' you should know better
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A man who is being called the 'mastermind' of February's suicide bombing in Dimona was liquidated on Sunday morning by IDF troops in Hebron. The man's house was surrounded by troops and he was ordered out. But instead of coming out, he started shooting. Curiously, although Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades originally claimed responsibility for the attack, and the 'Palestinian Authority's official
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The weekly Carnival of the Insanities is up and running today and you can find all of this week's zaniest stories by pointing your browser at the one and only Dr. Pat (who is in only very briefly today, but leaves her message on line for us) right over here.
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An 'Israeli official' told the Jerusalem Post on Saturday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was lying when he claimed on Saturday that Iran has 6000 centrifuges for enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. "Our assessment, based on the latest available information and recent reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency, is that the figure of 6,000 centrifuges is unlikely," the
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A Canadian student ISM tool is facing deportation after he was arrested for photographing IDF soldiers breaking up a 'demonstration' against the 'security fence' at Naalin this past week. According to the report, Victor McDiarmid, a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was detained on Wednesday at a demonstration by women from Naalin, where Israel plans to build the next
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An explosion near a Gaza City beach on Friday night killed five Hamas members and a six-year old girl. Of course, since this is only Muslims killing Muslims, you probably haven't heard much about it. But it's led to a 'roundup' of Fatah 'activists' throughout the Gaza Strip and talks of 'revenge' and 'justice.' 'Palestinian' style of course. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh convened an emergency
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad announced on Saturday that Iran now has 6000 centrifuges at its Natanz facility - double the number it had in April. Al-AP reports that Ahmadinejad's assertion is 'certain to further rankle' the US and other world powers. And if there's anyone out there who thought that sending William Burns to Geneva last Saturday to join the party would deter Ahmadinejad, I
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Shavua tov - a good week to everyone.
The Jerusalem Post was one of only two Israeli publications to interview Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama this week, and after reading the interview one can only hope that it was done before Obama went on the helicopter trip pictured above. If the interview was after the helicopter trip, Obama is even more hopelessly naive than any of
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Friday's London Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awswat is reporting that the 'Palestinian Authority' is considering a unilateral declaration of statereichlethood because Israel is not moving fast enough to give the 'Palestinians' everything they want. As part of the same move, the 'Palestinians' would cut off their diplomatic contacts with Israel. "In light of the crisis we have encountered in talks
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JPost editor David Horovitz interviewed Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama during the latter's trip here on Wednesday, and I have to tell you that parts of this interview sound downright scary. If anything, Obama would be more 'evenhanded' than Bill Clinton and a lot less pro-Israel than George W. Bush. Here's Horovitz's summary: There is a limit to what can be gauged of a
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Egypt has agreed to allow Miriam Farhat, who is also known is Umm Nidal or the 'Mother from Hell' to be treated in a Cairo hospital after she had a heart attack and could not get proper treatment at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. Farhat became famous in Israel in March 2002 after her son murdered five Yeshiva students and wounded 23 others during a Friday night rampage in Atzmona in the Gaza Strip.
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London's Daily Telegraph reports on Friday that a massive explosion took place in Tehran on Saturday July 19, killing 15 people. The explosion occurred as a convoy left a munitions plant belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard terror organization. The convoy was carrying munitions that were apparently destined for Hezbullah in Lebanon. The explosion took place in the Tehran suburb of
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Friday's New York Times takes Israel to task for its decision to build 22 (count 'em) homes for displaced Jews from the Gaza Strip in the Jordan Valley village of Maskiot (Hat Tip: Lance K.). The decision to build in Maskiot comes just days after the Knesset discussed opening a State Commission of Inquiry into the 'resettlement' of the Gaza Strip's Jewish refugees. The Jewish refugees were
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This is a video of 'highlights' of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama's visit to Israel. Much of it is built around a press conference Obama held on Wednesday in Sderot - just about the only press conference he has had this entire trip. Watch him squirm. Ehud Barak seems to be enjoying it in the background. Too bad most of the American media continues to treat Obama like an
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This may be a new low in Israel's relations with its 'Israeli Arab' fifth column. 'Israeli Arab' MK Abbas Zakour of the United Arab List has gone on Hamas' al-Aqsa Television network to justify Arab terror attacks against Israelis.
Let's go to the videotape.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Knesset to ban Zakour or his party (which actually has a deputy speaker in the Knesset - Ahmad
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Iran may begin taking delivery on the new Russian S-300 anti-missile system as soon as September according to 'senior Israeli defense sources.' While the S-300 would likely complicate an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, the good news is that they will take 6-12 months to deploy, leaving a window for American and/or Israeli action against the nukes. But US Defense Secretary Robert Gates -
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While the criticism of Obama in the article below is well-justified, unfortunately a lot of it could also be said about the second Bush administration. In a JPost blog post, Kory Bardash, co-Chairman Republicans Abroad Israel, and Abe Katsman, counsel to Republicans Abroad Israel, explain how Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama has failed to condemn the culture of terrorism
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A women's rights center in Cairo has found that 62% of Egyptian men harass women, saying it is justified by their 'tight and revealing' clothes. And apparently the men who harass women work overtime at it, because an astounding 98% of foreign women who have visited Egypt claim to have been harassed during their stay. Half of local and foreign women surveyed were sexually harassed in some way,
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Al-AP reports that the Ahmadinejad regime ended its 'cooperation' with the IAEA on Thursday after the agency accused Iran of hiding efforts to develop nuclear weapons and asked Iran to explain draft plans to refit missiles with nuclear warheads; explosives tests that could be used to develop a nuclear detonator; military and civilian nuclear links; and a drawing showing how to mold uranium metal
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Writing in Real Clear Politics, Nathan Diament, the director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, tries to summarize what Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama was trying to accomplish here. Obama seems to know that it is this deeper connection that is being looked for. Over the course of the long primary campaign, Obama appeared before American Jewish
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Bnei Brith's Anti-Defamation League published a report on editorial cartoons in the state-run Arab media. It's not pretty. "From Gaza to Ramallah, from Bahrain to Damascus, from Cairo to Riyadh, the press has unleashed a fusillade of virulent anti-Jewish images accusing Senators Barack Obama and John McCain as handmaidens of the Jews or the Israel lobby," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National
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Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama was here in Israel on Wednesday, and it seems that many Israelis are not fooled by him. Despite being inundated for months with op-ed pieces about how we shouldn't be afraid of an Obama presidency, the average Israeli just isn't buying into it.
Over at Gateway Pundit, Midwest Jim has a picture of how Israelis lined up in the streets to '
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Sorry it's been so quiet - I was totally wiped out after working most of the night last night.
There's a video that's been released of Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert talking about his good friend 'Moish' in honor of the latter's 70th birthday in 2003. Of course 'Moish' is Moshe (Morris) Talansky, also known as the 'Laundryman.'
Let's go to the videotape.
Now we all know why Olmert loved '
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Caption this photo II
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Caption this photo
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The New York Times has a report on Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama's Wednesday morning in Israel (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). I won't rehash the whole thing, but here's what you need to know. “The United States of America has one president at a time — that president is George W. Bush,” Susan Rice, a senior foreign policy adviser to the campaign, said Wednesday. “Senator Obama
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Following are excerpts from TV programs with released Lebanese terrorist Samir Al-Quntar, which aired on various TV channels in July 2008.
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows and I will have a comment after that.
Al-Manar TV, July 16, 2008
Samir Al-Quntar: The weapon of a position that has been turned into a culture builds the homeland of the resistance. It has become the culture
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Following are excerpts from a birthday party organized by Al-Jazeera TV for released Lebanese terrorist Samir Al-Quntar. Al-Jazeera TV aired this segment on July 19, 2008
Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows and another story follows that.
Interviewer: Brother Samir, we would like to celebrate your birthday with you. You deserve even more than this. I think that 11,000 prisoners –
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Here's how the 'Palestinians' are telling the story of Tuesday's bulldozer terror attack in Jerusalem. As Israeli forces continue to bulldoze Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, this is the second Palestinian bulldozer incident ever. They both took place in West Jerusalem this month.
Ghassan Mustafa Abu Tair, just 23 years old, died Tuesday afternoon after being shot by an armed Israeli
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Peace Piece by Piece Now, the number one advocate of surrender in this country, did a survey a while back that indicated that 73% of Israelis have not visited Judea and Samaria in recent years, and therefore cannot understand what is at issue when the media discuss 'outposts' or the 'security fence.' Even most of those who did visit, did so in the context of military service or a family event.
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Spain has issued arrest warrants for current infrastructure minister and former defense minister Binyamin (Fouad) Ben Eliezer (pictured), former IDF chiefs of staff Moshe ("Boogie") Yaalon and Dan Halutz and several other high ranking IDF officers to charge them with murder over the IDF's 2002 pre-emptive attack against senior terrorist Salah Shehadeh. Shehada was killed in an Israel Air Force
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You may recall that "M," the off-duty IDF soldier who killed Jerusalem's first bulldozer terrorist nearly three weeks ago, was the brother-in-law of David Shapira, the IDF officer who killed the Merkaz HaRav terrorist back in March. Today's bulldozer terrorist was killed by Yaakov Asael, a border policeman and father of nine children who lives in Susia near Mount Hebron. As it happens, Yaakov is
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Maybe this is why Obama is making such 'brilliant' statements. Here's a segment from Hardball in which veteran NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell slams Hussein for 'fake interviews' and for excluding anyone who might ask him tough questions.
Let's go to the videotape.
I can't wait to see what happens here on Wednesday. Anyone think he'll lay a wreath at Arafat's mausoleum? Anyone think he won't?
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At a news conference in Amman, Jordan on Tuesday, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama made it absolutely perfectly clear who supports Israel (Hat Tip: Hot Air). "Let me be absolutely clear," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said today at a press conference in Amman, Jordan. "Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...
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You may recall that back in June I blogged an article by Uzi Mahnaimi in the Times of London that claimed that foreign minister Tzipi Feigele Livni was 'a Paris agent for the Mossad' and that she 'traveled throughout Europe in pursuit of Arab terrorists.' You may also recall that at the time I quipped that "now we know whom Uzi Mahnaimi is backing to be the next Prime Minister of Israel."
On
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Shin Bet (General Security Service) chief Yuval Diskin updated the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday regarding how Hamas is spending its summer vacation with a 'truce' in Gaza. It's not pretty. Speaking at the weekly meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Diskin said the organization has rockets that can reach Kiryat Gat, and possibly Ashdod.
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Tuesday's terror attack took place less than a kilometer away from the President's residence while 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen was meeting with Israel's dreamer President Shimon Peres. And the headline claims that "Abbas condemns J'lem terror attack." But did he? "I understand this was a deliberate attack," Abbas said, "and we condemn any attack against civilians
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The funny thing about the American media coverage of Tuesday afternoon's terror attack is watching how they're trying to connect it to the Tuesday evening visit of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama. Take CNN: The driver of a backhoe was shot and killed after driving the construction machine over a number of vehicles near the Jerusalem hotel where Sen. Barack Obama is
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There was another terror attack in Jerusalem this afternoon. Fortunately, this time no one was killed, but sixteen people were wounded. The terror attack was a copycat attack of the bulldozer attack earlier this month. The vehicle reportedly left a construction site near Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park (Gan Hapa'amon), near the corner of Keren Hayesod and King David
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Tuesday's New York Times contains details of what was in Iran's two-page response to the West's 'freeze for freeze' proposal that was presented Saturday in Geneva. The Iranian document, which has not been made public, offered a snapshot of Iran’s negotiating style. It put the burden on the other parties. Its imprecise language and misspellings were in sharp contrast to the rigorous approach by
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Israel Radio reported Tuesday morning that in yet another low in Israel's self-image, the 'Palestinian' flag will be flown at the President's residence on Tuesday, as 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen will pay a visit to Israel's President Shimon Peres. Peres, the architect of the Oslo disaster, who has never faced justice for causing the death of more than 1000 Jews
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I knew that Ahmadinejad was seeking to bring about an apocalypse that would bring the Twelfth Imam and that he was willing to sacrifice half his country in the process to destroy Israel (God forbid). But if this article is correct, Ahmadinejad may be seeking to bring about a little bit of death and destruction in his country for a whole different reason.
At The Moderate Voice, Brij Khindaria
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With Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama due to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, Republican Presidential candidate John Sidney McCain took to Israel's airwaves on Monday night. In an interview with Israel's Channel 2 (commercial) television, McCain promised Israel that the United States would never allow a second Holocaust to take place (Hat Tip: Hot Air). Asked about Israel
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Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert has decided that if he can't be Prime Minister anymore, he will at least make sure that Foreign Minister Tzipi Feigele the Failure Livni (the woman who would be Prime Minister who thinks she's Golda Meir) doesn't get the job either. Monday night, Olmert launched an unprecedented personal attack on Livni. And I must admit - nearly all of it is true. Olmert unleashed
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Before he gets around to suggesting that Israel will eventually kill Samir al-Kuntar, Daniel Pipes has some sobering words that ought to give pause to all Israelis. PRIME MINISTER Ehud Olmert endorsed the deal on the grounds that it "will bring an end to this painful episode," a reference to retrieving the bodies of war dead and appeasing the hostages' families demand for closure. In themselves,
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A leading analyst on Iran claims that many Iranian politicians now believe that Iran must give up on its nuclear enrichment program altogether. Menashe Amir, who for many years served as manager of Israel Radio's Farsi broadcasts, said that while Iran appears on the surface to be united in its nuclear drive, "there is a debate in Iran. [Some] say: We are being offered a fantastic, generous
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I've known Soccer Dad for a long time, and I don't think I've ever seen him as angry as he must have been when he wrote this post. He found McClatchey's Dion Nissenbaum's coverage of the release of Samir al-Kuntar infuriating. And when I read about it, so did I. But I'm not even going to try to add anything to what Soccer Dad wrote, because he fisked it thoroughly. Here's a sample.
Dion
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While most of Lebanon celebrated the release of child murderer Samir al-Kuntar from an Israeli prison last week as part of the 'terrorists for corpses' exchange, Lebanon's real prisoners remain neglected and tortured in Syrian jails. Andrew Cochran has more.
While the conditions for Lebanese prisoners in Syria are a taboo discussion point in Lebanon, what were Kuntar’s conditions in the Israeli
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Israel Matzav
In this segment, you'll see reactions from the neighbors and family of the Sbarro suicide bomber to his deed, learn from Abdullah Barghouti (mentioned as a possible 'prisoner' to be exchanged for Gilad Shalit) how to build a suicide bomb, finally learn what female suicide bombers get in lieu of 72 virgins (no, not 72 men) and watch jailed Islamic women study the philosophy of jihad.
Let's go to
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Israel Matzav
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Don't Mention That Middle Name Obama is in the Middle East this week. Here's the one and only Dry Bones' reaction:
More here.
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Israel Matzav
In Monday's Wall Street Journal, Michael Rubin argues that President Bush's newfound embrace of diplomacy with Iran is propping up a regime that would otherwise be drowning in its economic failures (Hat Tip: Hot Air). Diplomacy is not wrong, but President Bush's reversal is diplomatic malpractice on a Carter-esque level that is breathing new life into a failing regime.
The Iranian government has
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Israel Matzav
Some of you may have noticed an ad above the fold for an international JBloggers convention. The convention is taking place on August 20. I don't even know where it is yet - apparently the location is a secret. The convention program is here (yes, yours truly is slotted as one of the speakers). The convention is being sponsored by WebAds (the people who advertise on this blog) and Nefesh b'Nefesh
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