Soccer Dad on Mar 27 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Iran, Israel, Media Watch
In an editorial, the New York Times questions whether Binyamin Netanyahu can be trusted to make peace. There is so much wrong with “Being a partner for peace“, I could spend all day critiquing it. But one point stood out:
If Mr. Netanyahu is serious about being a partner for peace, he will not get in [...]
Joshua Pundit on Feb 24 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hamas
That’s apparently about the amount of your tax dollars Obama wants to pledge to help Hamas rebuild Gaza.
Hey, what recession? It’s only somebody else’s money, right?
The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas and strengthen the Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday. [...]
Okie On The Lam on Feb 23 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Media Watch
In the March issue of The Atlantic, the Editor’s Note column by James Bennet tells about his encounters with Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan at Rayyan’s home in Gaza. Bennet notes that Rayyan was an educated man, having “written his master’s thesis on martyrdom, before turning to the future of Islam for his doctorate.” Rayyan had [...]
Joshua Pundit on Feb 10 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hamas
Apparently President Hope n’Change is lying through his pearly whites about our economy being in crisis.
Our president just signed an executive order appropriating $20.3 million of your tax dollars for `migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.’ It was signed on January 27th and appeared in the Federal Register on February [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Feb 03 2009 | Filed under: Gaza, Hamas
These men aren’t dead yet, but they will be if they’re ever released back to Hamas’ TLC. The men of whom I speak are Gazans whom Israel captured during the recent Gaza incursion, and who have spilled the beans about Hamas’ myriad war crimes and financial defalcations — all of which consistently starve, murder, and [...]
Soccer Dad on Feb 01 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, North Korea
There’s a lot of victory in the news these days. (North) Korean News, for instance, features a story about the “Ever-Victorious Banner of Korean Revolution.” It concludes:
Fully aware of their mission of the times and conscious that to faithfully uphold and implement the Songun revolutionary line is the highest level of patriotism and loyalty, the [...]
Baron Boddisey on Jan 30 2009 | Filed under: Dhimmitude, Hamas
Pro-Palestinian protesters held a rally in front of an AIPAC event in New York City last night. A reader in New York just sent us this report:
The NYPD goes the way of the UK police — not protecting a New York Post photographer.
This is important. The NYPD allowed the “greenshirts” at a rally protesting AIPAC [...]
Soccer Dad on Jan 30 2009 | Filed under: Hamas, Middle East
Martin Kramer explains why Hamas cannot claim to have won its war with Israel:
When Israel launched its operation, Hamas announced a secondary objective: to inflict significant military casualties on the Israelis. For this purpose, it had built up a network of fortifications supposedly on the Lebanon model, which it promised to turn into a “graveyard” [...]
Soccer Dad on Jan 25 2009 | Filed under: Gaza, Hamas
One thing has not changed in Gaza, even with the removal of Israeli troops, Hamas leaders, you know–the ones that brag how they welcome death and paradise–are still in hiding:
Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud A-Zahar are still in hiding, a senior Egyptian official told Al-Hayyat on Friday. The two fear Israel still sees them [...]
Joshua Pundit on Jan 18 2009 | Filed under: Gaza, Hamas, Israel
The current Israeli government once again decided to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, announcing a unilateral ceasefire.
Within minutes of it being announced, Hamas celebrated by firing off a barrage of missiles at southern Israel. One of them scored a direct hit at a synagogue in Tifrah, near Ofakim. Fortunately it was empty,but [...]
