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Solidarity

Posted on January 7, 2009 | Comments Off on Solidarity

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It’ll be interesting to see whether the new Obama administration continues Bush’s support for Israel’s campaign against Hamas after his inauguration in a couple of weeks. Optimists cite Barry’s previous remarks condemning the Hamas rockets, but he’s well known for turning on a dime.

Al Q is already blaming him for Gaza. Whether that matters to him remains to be seen.

I don’t get a lot of commenters, as you can tell. So I haven’t drawn the foul-mouthed anti-Semites that other pro-Israel blogs have. But I drew a stranger the other day with a relatively mild rebuke of US support for Israel. I thought about it, but I decided there’s plenty of places for that in Big Media and elsewhere on the Web. This is my private turf and I’m declaring it an Israel no-bashing zone. If you want your comment deleted and you banned permanently, like he was, just try me.

Meanwhile, there’s an Israel support rally at the JCC on Thursday. Mrs. Charm will be working, so I’m taking Mr. B. I got the above banner from their email announcing it. Should be interesting. The JCC is gated, with armed security guards who I’m sure are nervous despite Austin’s relative calm. This is, after all, prime time for jihadis and assorted scum who’ve been popping up around the country defacing synagogues and so forth.

But, for the first time in such a conflict, we have the alternative of Pajamas TV from Jerusalem.

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The media war

Posted on January 7, 2009 | Comments Off on The media war

Hamas knows it cannot beat the IDF militarily so it must try to do so in Big Media, particularly using gullible, if not converted, organizations with permanent, sycophantic staff in Gaza, such as BBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera to convey the Hamas propaganda.

It is chiefly photos of bleeding children and wailing women. Of course they are may be real and unfortunate. But the journos never seem to ask how they got that way. Hamas blames bloodthirsty Israelis. But Hamas, itself, created the situation by shooting thousands of rockets into Israeli cities and uses Palestinian children and women as shields, puppet tenants for their ammo dumps, to produce the needed pictures.

Too little of Big Media isn’t seems interested in the story about the rockets terrorizing Israeli children. The Israeli government builds shelters for them and doesn’t use them as shields. So no pictures of them bleeding, and no coverage, no interest from the coifed, empty-headed journos. It’s hard to believe that a war can be won this way. But it sure better change. If Israel can be destroyed like this, so can all of us.

UPDATE: When a fuzzy-minded liberal like Alan Colmes does get his "disproportionate response" ears pinned back by a warrior, it’s a treat to see.

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Israel: land of Odin and Thor

Posted on January 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Israel: land of Odin and Thor

David Bogner has a discerning eye for the detail behind the facade, and here he  finds the inherent bias in Sky News’ presentation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict readily apparent for all to see.

MORE: To paraphrase one of David’s commenters, any decent person would feel comfortable in the presence of any armed member of the IDF. Even a child would feel safe. Decidedly not the case with any Arab Palestinian with an AK-47.

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Love those secondaries

Posted on January 3, 2009 | Comments Off on Love those secondaries

Great Israeli Air Force video of a huge secondary explosion at another air-struck Gaza mosque. The second mosque bombing video I’ve seen. Debka reports that Egypt is urging Israel not to bomb any more mosques, even when they are known ammo and armament dumps. So far the IAF is ignoring them. Keep it up. More bombing, please. Save the troops as long as you can.

Via LGF.

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The Vile Cynthia McKinney

Posted on December 31, 2008 | Comments Off on 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."

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Defend, don’t invade

Posted on December 29, 2008 | Comments Off on Defend, don’t invade

As much as I support the Israeli bombing response to Palestinian rocket attacks, I hope the IDF follows Haaretz’s logic and avoids a ground invasion. Not for the enemy’s sake but for the sake of the young soldiers of the IDF. Certainly, nothing besides full-scale war is likely to stop the rockets permanently. And such war is impossible of success as long as Israel’s munitions come from the West which has a Leftist news media and its own interests in keeping the oil ticks happy. Even if we became energy independent, those interests (and the media) would remain. So periodic bombing to make the rocketing expensive, followed by more diplomacy, is probably the best that can be achieved.

UPDATE:  Indeed, Hamas’ strategy relies on counting on its client media telling it like it isn’t.  Uh oh, IDF has called up the reserves.

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The rocket rain

Posted on December 27, 2008 | Comments Off on The rocket rain

It’s ho-hum, media-and-big-politician-business-as-usual when the Palestinians are raining rockets and mortars on southern Israeli towns, week after week. But let the Israelis retaliate and Big Media pulls out the stops, plastering photos of wailing Palestinians all over the air- and Web-waves. Yegads but those people can act. They sure know a camera when they see one. Al-Reuters bemoans the end to "six months of relative calm." Suddenly the Arab street is a’blaze. The Left is all a’ flutter. European leaders are aghast. Israel’s side, meanwhile, is, uh, conveniently forgotten. Bleh.

MORE: Fortunately, there are alternatives to the usual blather, here and here, via Instapundit. And one more.

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