Category Archives: The War

Mitznefet

Those strange, floppy "shower cap" helmet covers that IDF infantry wear were introduced in 2006 as a way to cut the contours of an ordinary helmet when seen by a sniper or other enemy soldier in urban as well as rural terrain. It’s said they were also a reaction to the Israeli use of new U.S. Kevlar helmets, which were too Nazi-like in appearance for the Israelis. Curiously enough the mitznefet, or "clown hat," as the cover is called in Hebrew, even has an ancient Jewish religious significance.

That U.N. “school”

You can believe Al Reuters, which never stops shilling for the jihadis, when it says the school was a hiding place for refugees frightened from their homes. Or you can take the IDF’s word, which is that it was another Hamas ammo dump with an active mortar tube and rocket launcher. I’ve made my choice.

Commercial jets return to Baghdad

Best confirming sign yet of 2008’s biggest (perhaps only) blessing: US military’s victory in Iraq.

The Vile Cynthia McKinney

U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a goggle-eyed Democrat harridan with a fright-wig hairdo, has always been pathetic to everyone except, apparently, the Georgians who keep sending her to Congress. Pity she does not sleep with the fishes today off Gaza. Unfortunately, the Israeli navy did not slice in two and sink but only damaged the boat she was using to aid Hamas, in a publicity stunt for her wellknown anti-Semitism. Funny how, whenever the terrorists are under attack, the anti-Semites, anti-democrats, and anti-Americans come out of the woodwork to fist-punch the air and otherwise support them. If only Hamas would take McKinney and her clones permanently.

UPDATE:  Ceasefire is in the daily’s headlines, put together last night although Israel had rejected the idea well before midnight. It comports with the frontpage picture yesterday of the handful of Hamas-supporting protestors outside the Texas capitol. Dead Jews aren’t news, as Ralph Peters says, only besieged terrorists. Meanwhile the local Jewish Community Assoc. sent out an email of moral support while cautioning that, in times like these, "anti-Jewish attitudes, expressions and activity [bring] an added risk to Jewish communal institutions."

Redefining PC

The Dutch Left has issued a new position paper that stands multiculturalism on its head:

"We have to stop the existence of parallel societies within our society."

The issue, of course, is Islam, the least tolerant "parallel society" of all. The question: is it too late?

Via Instapundit.

The UN Interfaith Dialogue Hoax

Apt title. More lies from the Dictator’s Club, via Eye on the UN.

Drive time

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Not just giving the oil ticks a good case of really well-deserved gas, but giving the rest of us really cheap gas. Going to be a good year ahead for a driving vacation or three.

Via Sonia-Belle