Another foe at the gate

While Israel fervently attempts to terrorize the Palestinians into submission in Gaza, many observers have started to wonder why Hizballah has refrained from stepping in militarily to assist its brothers-in-arms, Hamas. Such musings fail to take account of the constraints on Hizballah’s room for action, as well as the circumstances under which Hizballah would ignore…

Um, you know, Israel is tops

Joe the Plumber, celebrated by conservatives as an average man simply wanting to report on “jihad”, says while in Israel that he thinks the media “should be abolished from war reporting”: North Korean officials would be most pleased with this result.

Nobody said Israel was run by smart people

Anthony H. Cordesman, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, January 9: What is the strategic purpose behind the present fighting? After two weeks of combat Olmert, Livni, and Barak have still not said a word that indicates that Israel will gain strategic or grand strategic benefits, or tactical benefits much larger than the gains it…

And the winner is…

Who has gained so far from the situation? So far it is Hamas, which can claim to have undermined greatly Israel’s ties with Turkey, Jordan and Qatar. And it has only just begun.

Don’t ask such stupid questions

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime. So wrote a number of prominent Britons in a letter to the London Times yesterday. But, ask some Zionists, why does the West condemn Israel when she’s fighting “one of the world’s most extreme terror organizations”? Maybe because thousands of Palestinian civilians have…

Crush them, kill them

Zionist mouthpiece Daniel Pipes argues that Israel’s leadership is “disastrous.” Why? Because they haven’t bombed Iran: The waning days of the Bush administration, with the current president nearly out the door and the president-elect yet in the wings, offers a unique moment to take care of business. Why did Olmert squander this opportunity to confront…

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