Category: The World At Large

When is a Cease-Fire Not A Cease-Fire »

The important thing to remember about this story is that there each side has entirely different ideas of what a “cease-fire” is.
For the Israelis, a cease-fire means that each side stops all hostilities and negotiates terms leading toward an actual peace treaty. In the worst case, they negotiate terms under which the cease-fire will [...]

It’s Easy to Hate Israel Because They Will Let You. »

Jeffrey Goldberg on the “world’s pornographic interest” in Israel’s flaws.

It’s absolutely astonishing to me how interested the world is in Israel’s failings. This is the source of a bitter but hilarious observation I once heard a Kurdish leader make: He was complaining to me that his people were cursed, and I asked him what he [...]

What Has Israel Done to Earn Such Hate from the West? »

I simply don’t understand the wellspring of blind allegiance to the Palestinans that I’ve been seeing around the world and in the MSM.
Hamas, who the Palestinians elected to the majority even though it has long been known as a mob of killers, has rained over a thousand rockets on Israel every year since 2005 while [...]

Hey, Hussam. What’s that Whistling Noise? »

Stacy McCain: Israeli air strikes kill cute kittens and Hamas terrorist leaders, but mostly Hamas terrorist leaders.
The only thing more brilliant than that post title is that the the Israeli’s bagged not one but two Islamist livestock-molesters with their strike. Every time an Islamist gets blown to bits not of his own doing, a sheep [...]

Hamas’ Choice: Quit or Die »

It seems at this point that Israel is going to send ground forces into Gaza in sufficient amounts to drive the Islamist butchers out, perhaps permanently. This time around, Israel appears determined to destroy Hamas utterly.
Regardless of what Israel chooses to do in reaction to the years of Hamas bombs that have murdered Israelis [...]

Egypt Backs Israel’s Play, Puts the Rhetorical Smackdown on Hamas »

Michael van der Galien has a very interesting post on PoliGazette about Egypt’s new rhetorical war against Hamas. It seems that Egypt has had about enough of Hamas’ use of the Palestinian people as human shields and weapons.
It could also be that Egypt has grown tired of having Hamas thugs shooting at them from [...]

From Nightmare to Museum Exhibit »

This is a positive sign, I think.

On the two-year anniversary of Saddam’s death by hanging, Iraq is preparing to open a new museum that will allow Iraqis to see up close such macabre mementos of mass executions, torture, and other atrocities committed in Saddam’s decades-long rule.

It will showcase torture devices such as a man-shaped metal [...]

Israeli Navy 1; Moron Expeditionary Force 0 »

Cynthia McKinney, fresh from her Election Day performance where she managed to make the Green Party even more irrelevant than it already was, has managed to steam her way into the news once again. The Jew-hating, cop-punching, 9/11 Truther who once accused the US Military of killing 5,000 prisoners and dumping the bodies in a [...]