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Israelis NOT raping is racist

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 27, 2007 · Comments (14)

America is hardly the only country where the far left dominates academia. When a study showed the Israel Defense Forces commit rape at far lower rates than other "occupying armies," a research paper suggesting political reasons for the low incidence won a prize! Hillel Fendel reports for IsraelNN.com: A research... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (18 votes cast)

Palestinians protest peace

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: November 28, 2007 · Comments (6)

With the Middle East peace confab going on at Annapolis, Palestinians marched, protested, and rioted in Gaza and West Bank. They weren't protesting for peace, though; they are against it, and angry at Abbas for daring even to talk about peace with Israel. Video from kasper10623: I saw a television... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (13 votes cast)

New York Times: Israel bombed Syrian nuke plant

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 14, 2007 · Comments (18)

Israel's September attack in Syria was indeed directed against a nuclear reactor site under construction, report David E. Sanger and Mark Mazzetti for The New York Times" Israel's air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.7/5 (53 votes cast)

Silence in Syria, Panic in Iran

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 26, 2007 · Comments (59)

In the wake of the Israeli air strike near Dayr az-Zawr in Syria, the one thing most universally noted by observers was the silence from Israeli, American, and other Western security sources. The sudden ability to keep a secret from leaking amazes us all. But the telling silence may have... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (55 votes cast)

Which Child Do I Save?

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 27, 2007 · Comments (10)

I read a moving blog post at the Jerusalem Post this morning about the fear a mother living in Israel has of Kassam rocket attacks as she carpools her kids and her neighbor's kids to school everyday. We are very lucky here in America that we don't live with this... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (17 votes cast)

Did You Hear About the Sderot Attack?

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: May 17, 2007 · Comments (58)

Bob Owens has a post at Confederate Yankee about the rocket attack on a high school in Israel that is getting far less attention than the Israeli response to it. (I bet it would have gotten plenty of attention if that high school had been in Iraq.)... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (20 votes cast)

Exposing the Media's Role in the Israel-Hezbollah War

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: April 26, 2007 · Comments (26)

Read the following fascinating reports that have been released on the media's role in the Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006. Marvin Kalb's study, The Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict, and at World Politics Watch, How the Media Partnered With Hezbollah: Harvard's Cautionary Report, an... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (8 votes cast)

Reports: Israel Planning Nuclear Attack on Iran

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: January 6, 2007 · Comments (41)

Sunday am update: Israel denies the Sunday Times report that it's planning a nuclear attack on Iran: A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israel has drafted plans to strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran's uranium enrichment program. The Israeli Foreign... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

The Fraudulent Ambulance Story

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 24, 2006 · Comments (17)

***Scroll for Updates*** Rembember this ambulance that the media said Israel deliberately bombed? Dan Riehl thought something didn't look right and wrote a great post in which he argued that the ambulance couldn't have been hit with a missile. Now Zombietime picked up the ball and put together a fantastic... [Full Story]

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Israel Conducts Raid to Stop Arms Shipments to Hezbollah

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 19, 2006 · Comments (17)

Updated From the Beeb: Israel carried out an overnight raid inside Lebanon aimed at disrupting an arms transfer, the Israeli army says. One soldier died and two were injured in the Bekaa Valley operation, it said. Lebanese sources earlier told Reuters agency that three militants also died. The incident came... [Full Story]

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Israel to UN and Lebanon: War Resumes if Hezbollah not Disarmed

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 15, 2006 · Comments (10)

Updated Israel will resume its offensive against Hezbollah if it does not disarm. From the Jerusalem Post: The IDF will have to resume operations in Lebanon if the expanded United Nations force being assembled does not fulfill its obligation to dismantle Hizbullah, an official in the Prime Minister's Office warned... [Full Story]

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Hezbollah Will Keep Its Weapons

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 15, 2006 · Comments (8)

Hezbollah and Lebanon blatantly violate the cease-fire without a peep from the UN. Hizbullah will not hand over its weapons to the Lebanese government but rather refrain from exhibiting them publicly, according to a new compromise that is reportedly brewing between Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Seniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan... [Full Story]

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And They Can Save Your Life Too

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 15, 2006 · Comments (15)

This woman's breast implants protected her from shrapnel that would have probably seriously injured her: One Israeli woman has received an unexpected boost from her breast implants during the Lebanon war -- the silicone embeds saved her life during a Hezbollah rocket attack, a doctor said. "This is an extraordinary... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israeli Forces in Southern Lebanon

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 14, 2006 · Comments (14)

Fox News Channel is reporting that Hezbollah has just fired 10 Katyusha rockets at Israeli forces camped in Southern Lebanon. No one was hurt. CNN also has a headline on its site. From the AP: Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes... [Full Story]

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Was the Cease-Fire a Trap for Hezbollah?

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 13, 2006 · Comments (14)

Captain Ed offers the most interesting idea, that this cease-fire deal may have been a kind of trap for Hezbollah: Does anyone not believe that this crisis has been precipitated by Hezbollah's refusal to leave southern Lebanon and disarm? The cease-fire proposal put the onus on them to cease their... [Full Story]

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Hezbollah Official Says Israel Can Be Destroyed...Soon

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 13, 2006 · Comments (15)

Hezbollah sees the cease-fire as a defeat for Israel. Now the terrorist organization is even more convinced that Israel can be destroyed: As the war reaches an end, more and more worrisome voices are heard from Arab nations, asking loudly and boldly if the 'triumph' against Israel in Lebanon will... [Full Story]

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Cease-Fire To Take Effect on Monday but Fighting Continues

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 12, 2006 · Comments (2)

Kofi Annan says the cease-fire will begin Monday at 8:00am: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that a cease-fire in the Hezbollah-Israel fighting will take effect at 8 a.m. Lebanese time (1 a.m. EDT) Monday. Annan said in a statement distributed in Beirut early Sunday that he had been in touch... [Full Story]

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Israeli Prime Minister Accepts Cease-Fire Deal

Posted by Kevin · Published: August 11, 2006 · Comments (24)

Hours before a UN Security Council vote both Israel and Lebanon have indicated they will accept a cease-fire deal put together by the U.S. and France.JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal and informed the United States of his decision, Israeli officials... [Full Story]

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American Fighting for Israel Laid to Rest in Jerusalem

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: August 3, 2006 · Comments (13)

There are around 100 Americans in Israel's army, and Michael Levin was one of them. He was killed on Tuesday in a Lebanese village rooting out Hezbollah terrorists. JERUSALEM- A young American who cut short a visit to his family in Pennsylvania to return to his Israeli army unit fighting... [Full Story]

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Syrian Cabinet Minister Compares Israel to Nazi Germany on CNN and Blitzer Says Nothing

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 30, 2006 · Comments (16)

Greg Tinti at Outside the Beltway has video of the Syrian Cabinet Minister on CNN arguing that Syria and the rest of the Middle East are facing the same kind of enemy in Israel today that the world faced in Nazi Germany: "Nazi Germany was claiming that it was fighting... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Israel Agrees to Temporarily Halt Air Strikes

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 30, 2006 · Comments (10)

Israel has said it would halt air strikes for 24-48 hours to investigate the Qana strikes and to allow humanitarian aid into Lebanon and to allow the regufees to get out. It is conditional suspension. Israel will strike during this time if it sees Hezbollah attempting to strike at Israel.... [Full Story]

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I Like The Sound Of This

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: July 23, 2006 · Comments (32)

The picture above is an old one, but one of my favorites and it just seemed fitting to go along with recent statements from Condi Rice regarding her trip to the Middle East this weekend.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected the "false promise" of an immediate cease-fire in the... [Full Story]

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I Almost Expected To See Snow Fall When I Heard Bill Maher's Latest

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: July 21, 2006 · Comments (20)

On the way back from the beach last night, in humid, 90 plus degree weather, I almost expected to see snow flakes. I figured it was as likely as the reference I heard on the radio to Bill Maher's latest words of praise for President Bush. Maher has spent the... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Hezbollah Attacks Holy City of Nazareth

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 19, 2006 · Comments (7)

Updated Two children have been killed. From the AP: A Hezbollah rocket slammed into a building Wednesday in the mainly Arab town of Nazareth, killing two children and wounding at least two other people, Israeli authorities said. Smoke billowed from the damaged building and its roof appeared to be mostly... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Richard Cohen: Israel is a Mistake

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: July 19, 2006 · Comments (50)

Updated Richard Cohen wrote this in his article from yesterday: The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

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