May 14, 2018 – 7:15 am
Doing this has been U.S. policy for decades, but previous presidents have talked about doing it but never pulled the trigger Jerusalem welcomes the new U.S. Embassy as Palestinians decry ‘hostile’ move The windy road leading up to the city was decorated with fluttering American and Israeli flags on Monday as signs everywhere declared “Trump, […]
December 18, 2017 – 7:43 am
It looks like the United Nations has gotten a bit too big for their britches, thinking they can nullify U.S. law and presidential decisions UN to vote Monday on call for US Jerusalem decision to be withdrawn The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Monday on a draft resolution calling for the […]
December 29, 2016 – 7:54 am
As Allahpundit notes, this was the anti-Israel speech Kerry has been practicing in the mirror for years, which certainly had the approval of Mr. Obama, what with just a few weeks left in his administration (Politico) In a lengthy, at times bitter speech boiling over with frustration, outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday […]
December 28, 2016 – 8:53 am
The outgoing Team Obama has made a hash of the Middle East. They blew off the Iranian Green Revolution. They blew off the Arab Spring, right up till it hit Egypt, then they messed that up, even going as far as to back the Muslim Brotherhood candidates. They started a war in Libya to supposedly […]
April 19, 2016 – 7:41 am
This article from Haaretz was posted at 11:53pm Israel time. Israel is 7 hours ahead of East Coast time At least 20 people were injured, two seriously, when a bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem on Monday. The Shin Bet security service confirmed that the incident was a terror attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
March 19, 2015 – 7:03 am
There’s an old saying: it’s not personal, it’s politics. Another one is politicians need to have thick skins. There’s another from Groucho Marx that says Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. That last one doesn’t necessarily apply, but it does highlight one […]
August 8, 2014 – 9:21 am
There are quite a few idiotic stories on some group in Gaza firing rockets at Israel as the ceasefire ended, and the NY Times has the most idiotic. Here’s what it looks like on the mobile edition (both web and their app) front page Hey, I do that all the time on the golf course […]
August 5, 2014 – 7:23 am
What does this mean? That 38% are Israel haters (Politico) A slim plurality of Americans believe Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, a new poll says. According to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 42 percent of Americans say Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, compared with 38 percent who say they are unjustified. (WT note: […]
August 2, 2014 – 8:58 am
Not unsurprisingly, the Times does not allow comments on the article, because they would surely degenerate into nasty anti-Israel and anti-Jew tirades, as is common when discussing Israel. However, the article mostly links the rising anti-Semitism to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas. This is something that has been going for decades (NY Times) […]
July 25, 2014 – 8:40 am
Yesterday, we learned that the Washington Post editorial board put the blame where it belongs: on the terrorist group Hamas. But, you also had the LA Times printing a front page defense of Hamas terrorism against Israel. The Washington Post editorial was the outlier, as Leftists around the world seem to be of the opinion […]
