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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has declared victory in the Kadima Party leadership race by a narrow margin of 431 votes. The victory gives her the chance to set up Israel’s next government. ap
Ehud Olmert had to go. Not because of the allegations of corruption; rather because he had no clue about how to fight and win the war against Hezbollah.
Will Tzipi do better? I don’t know; but she could hardly do worse. Israel needs a makeover. It needs to move past the Sharon years and get back to the essential principles and tropes of its founding. There is not the slightest reason why Israel cannot be at Peace with the Palis and the
Arab world - save for the Hamas “destruction of the Zionist state thing.
That can be defused. Partially by being tough as nails; but partially by being able to talk. Ehud Olmert couldn’t talk. Tzipi may be able to.
There is no winning in the Mid East; rather there is the possibility of not losing. A new leader can tip the scales.
Mazotov Tzipi. Be as tough as Golda and as prepared; but reach out. There maybe a Peace within your grasp. Reach.
Written by jay on September 17th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Yitzhak Danon, a student, told Israel’s Channel 2 television that an Arab man wearing torn jeans fired for several minutes at students in the library, using an AK-47 assault rifle. globe and mail
I suspect the murderous bastard was following your boy Dr. Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress’s logic about any Israeli citizen over the age of 18 being legit targets. Though there is no word of the terrorist IDing his victims.
So, Warren, let’s get to cases. There are anti-Semites in Canada and they are very real and very dangerous. They operate openly on college campuses “Israel Apartheid Week”, from mosques and on the net. Many, but not all, are Islamists. And here is the deal, Warren, they expressly want to destroy the State of Israel and its supporters. And you don’t have to dig very deep to discover that Israel and some, but by no means all, of its supporters are Jews.
So rather than wasting your time slagging people for supporting free speech why don’t you start digging where the real anti-Semites are burrowed. Start with Dr. Mohamed Elmasry and the CIC (and its now irrelevant CHRC law student sock puppets.) Get in and dig Warren.
Written by jay on March 7th, 2008 with 22 comments.
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Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government’s failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.
Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile which he planned to launch from Ashkelon into the Gaza Strip.
“From this day onwards, we will push back to the stone age every place which dares shoot missiles into Israel’s sovereign territory,” he said Wednesday. “It is time the world understood Israelis’ lives are not expendable.” jerusalem post via israellycool via the flea
As it happened, and Hamas might take note, Nissimpor was stopped from firing his homemade missile by the police who confiscated it. One more time for the dimmer Palis and their leftie enablers - the police stopped him from shooting off the missile.
Got that, “police, stopped, confiscated”. This is not a hard concept.
Written by jay on March 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council held a moment of silence Tuesday for martyrs in Gaza killed in an Israel Defense Forces offensive in the Strip, after a request by Iran’s foreign minister.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called for the gesture on behalf of the women and children who are “nowadays under attack by the Zionist regime,” the term Iranian officials use for Israel because they do not recognize its right to exist. ap
Written by jay on March 5th, 2008 with 11 comments.
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Yo, Warren,
These are alarming developments which require some explanation. Some of it has to do with the resilience of anti-Semitism, to the way in which it is able to mutate, to take different forms and shapes over time, to adapt to changing circumstances by integrating new elements (such as a grossly disproportionate anti-Zionism, in which Israel and the Jews who support it, however critically, are singled out for special opprobrium) into an existing stock of “ideas” and rearticulating them in a new combination. Part of the problem here is the denial of many on the left that this is or indeed can be the case. Rather they insist that there is no connection at all between different bouts of anti-Semitism over time, as if each instance appears from nowhere and can only be explained as a product of specific factors at a particular moment. Philip J Spencer engage journal
Go read Spencer and then check out who your allies are. The Left’s anti Zionism fell over the edge into antisemitism a long time ago. Your real friends are over here on the free speech right. You won’t see any righties sponsoring Israel Apartheid weeks at te U of T. An event you seemed to have missed on your blog.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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Far from being “collateral damage” — that is, women and children killed by accident in the attempt to kill an armed fighter — women and children within Palestinian society can and will become the targets to be murdered by other members of their society. Recall the three little children — Palestinian children, not those “worthy of death” Jewish children –who were gunned down on their way to school as a message to their father:
Balousheh’s three children — 3-year-old Salam, 6-year-old Ahmed and 9-year-old Osama — were in the family car on their way to school when gunmen opened fire from two vehicles. The three were killed along with their driver. Doctors said one of the boys was hit by 10 bullets to the head. Dr. Yael Kaynan, PJ media
Quite a message. Gaza is tragic; it is also redeemable if its inhabitants are willing to forsake the gunmen.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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I must confess that when Hamas militants blasted holes into Egypt’s border to end an Israeli blockade on Gaza, my first thought was how lucky those Gazans were. Landlocked and living on less than $2 a day—their plight rarely elicits envy, I know. But there are Egyptian slums that swim in more sewage and are submerged in even greater poverty. In those slums, chronic diseases go unchecked and uncured, and children grow up next to the dead in tombs turned into makeshift-housing.
Yet nobody rushes to blast holes into the imaginary border of poverty that suffocates those slums, nor are they sporting t-shirts urging us to sympathise. Why?
Because Israel cannot be blamed. two circles
I have no doubt that, if they work at it the pro-Pali people will manage to blame Israel for the squalid conditions in the Sinai. After all, didn’t the Israelis invade it in 1967? Forty years on the horrific scars of the Israelis still exact their terrible toll.
Yeah, right.
Written by jay on February 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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Irshad Manji writes a pretty hardcore piece in The Australian which Terry Glavin cites in his post banging away at John Pilger.
She quotes Edward Said:
Even the eminence grise of Palestinian nationalism, the late Edward Said, stated flat out that “Israel is not South Africa”. How could it be when an Israeli publisher translated Said’s seminal work, Orientalism, into Hebrew? I’ll cap this point with a question that Said himself asked of Arabs: “Why don’t we fight harder for freedom of opinions in our own societies, a freedom, no one needs to be told, that scarcely exists?” the australian
Sadly, we are likely in for a decade or so of Pilgerism as the loonier elements of the left try ever harder to appease the Muslim world and its extremists.
Written by jay on August 31st, 2007 with no comments.
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And all shall have favours:
The Bush administration is laying the groundwork for an announcement of Tony Blair’s appointment as a special Middle East envoy for Palestinian governance and economic issues after he steps down as Britain’s prime minister, following two months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, according to U.S. officials. washington post
Is Blair nuts? Sure, if you “bring Peace to the Middle East” and you have not recently supported American foreign policy there is a Nobel in it for you. But, well, you’d have to be very dumb indeed to think that with Hamas the de facto government of Gaza and Abbas puffing away in Ramallah and the Lebanese army unable to take down a rag tag bunch of Al Qaeda cadet crew in a Pali refugee suburb and Hez busy not fortifying the Israeli border because the UN won’t let them, (snort), that peace thing is going to stand much of a chance.
Go be a corporate director Tony. Make more than Cherie. Have some fun.
Written by jay on June 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Gaza continues its inevitable descent into Hell,
Among yesterday’s dead was a 14-year-old boy and three women, all killed in a Hamas attack on a Fatah security officer’s home.
“They’re firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We’re not Jews,” the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a Fatah commander, pleaded during a live telephone conversation with a Palestinian radio station.
Minutes later both men were dragged into the streets and riddled with bullets. the telegraph
Presumably it would be a-ok to attack a house with women and children in it if they were Jews. Nice to see the disgusting man shot dead, too bad it was by people equally as disgusting.
No question, Israel was right to withdraw and absolutely right to put a wall around Gaza. Unfortunately it keep good people trapped in with the thugs, gunmen and terrorists but they have the power to force change. To date they have not used it.
Written by jay on June 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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