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Israel’s secret weapon

Posted on April 18, 2009 | Comments Off on Israel’s secret weapon

Instapundit finally discovers the secret. Now the whole world will know. Just in case it didn’t already.

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JPost: Elliot Abrams

Posted on February 15, 2009 | Comments Off on JPost: Elliot Abrams

G. W. Bush’s former deputy national security adviser on the disconnect between what a president like W. wants in the U.S.-Israel relationship and what the State Department actually gives him:

"It is partly because the State Department is less concerned with domestic politics than the White House is, and partly because the cadre of officials who handle Middle East affairs in the State Department are people who are mostly trained in Arabic – and who spend the bulk of their careers in Arab countries – rather than having a knowledge of Hebrew and being posted in Israel. This is not to say that they are anti-Semitic or hostile to Israel, as some people suggest. I think that is actually false. It does mean, however, that they lack an understanding of Israel."

A good read, this lengthy interview. Worth a look – as we wait to see how Obamalot influences the relationship. 

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Peace? With a people who celebrate mass murder?

Posted on February 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Peace? With a people who celebrate mass murder?

The fraudulent "peace process" imposed on Israel with the Palestinian Arabs will no doubt continue under Obamalot. It was disgusting enough to watch Condi Rice play the discredited game. As always, it has zero chance of success. Simply because the Palestinians are not interested in much of anything but mass murder. The names may change, but the old game remains the same.

Via Treppenwitz.

MORE:  The Hamas TV bunny Assud calls on his child viewers to liberate Tel Aviv and Haifa "from the filth of the Zionists." It doesn’t get any clearer than that.

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Brothers In Arms

Posted on January 18, 2009 | Comments Off on Brothers In Arms

Black Five has a good video on the men and women of the IDF which, inronically, uses an anti-war song to show how much we have in common with them: liberal democracy, professional military, and many of the same enemies.

MORE:  While you’re at it, send them something via PayPal. In other words, support the IDF.

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It’s the religion, stupid!

Posted on January 17, 2009 | Comments Off on It’s the religion, stupid!

As the IDF continues to push infantry into densely-populated Gaza City, where the brave leaders of the Hamas jihad are believed to be hiding in the basement of a hospital, Washington apparently is working on yet another doomed-to-fail ceasefire to keep the dictator’s club happy.

You’d think American politicians would be smart enough to have figured out what the secular liberal newsrooms of Big Media can’t: that Hamas is a religious movement intent on taking all of Israel back for the Muslims who once controlled it. That’s the reason for their rockets and why no ceasefire will work for long or do anything but allow them to resupply until they can start all over again.

UPDATE: It’s official. Happily, there are no immediate plans for the IDF to withdraw, however. Good thing, as Hamas followed the announcement by launching eight more missiles. And young IDF soldier Gilad Schalit is still their prisoner. Some Israelis feel betrayed by their own government.

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Her first word: Jerusalem

Posted on January 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Her first word: Jerusalem

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Israeli consul general Belaynesh Zevadia of Houston was the most interesting aspect of Thursday’s well-attended service of solidarity and hope at the JCC. A good rebuke for the uneducated who think Jews are a particular race, she is one of fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews who have immigrated to Israel. Alas, the microphone wasn’t that good and she was hard to understand, but she epitomizes something she said in San Antonio in 2006: “Everybody knows about the Israeli conflict. Nobody knows about what’s going on in Israel.” Thank Big Media’s laziness for that. She also said the first word she spoke as a child was "Jerusalem." Mr. B. and I enjoyed the service, especially the cantorial singing and the prayer for the safety of the IDF. But we had to leave early to get home in time to make supper for Mrs. Charm.

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Double-standard time

Posted on January 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Double-standard time

That’s what Meryl Yourish calls the double standard the world applies to Israel. Every other democratic country has the right to defend itself from attacks. Israel doesn’t. Indeed, the obvious instigator of the attacks becomes at worst a controversial player. Thus the daily’s report this morning on yesterday’s JCC rally, which Mr. B. and I found to be part information, part religious service, is shocking in its timidity: the fulltime religion reporter feels she has to attribute every sentence and make clear that the Jewish views are outliers. This is Hamas we’re talking about, people, a terrorist organization with a service club’s veneer. Where are your guts? Where is your humanity? Whose side are you on? Bleh.

MORE: Whatever, military strategist Edward Luttwak, himself something of an outlier, has a refreshing view: that the idea that Israel might as well quit Gaza because they can’t win is b.s. He says Israel essentially won the 2006 battle with Hezbollah and is winning this one with Hamas. Krauthammer agrees.

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