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Monday, 27 July 2009
Israel Matzav: British anti-Semitism has doubled this year
British anti-Semitism has doubled this year
Haaretz reports that British anti-Semitism has doubled this year. Haaretz does so with a headline that says that British anti-Semitism has doubled 'since the Gaza war,' reflecting the leftist newspaper's misgivings about that war. But there is no question that all is not well in Londonistan. Israel Matzav: British anti-Semitism has doubled this yearThe Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitism and provides security for the Jewish community in Britain, said that it had recorded 609 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.K. from January to June this year - over double the 276 for the same period last year, mostly connected to Israel's operation in Gaza.
Huhne added that "it is absurd that home-grown bigots should hold British Jews responsible for the actions of a foreign government. We cannot have overseas conflicts echoed on Britain's streets."Read All at :
Israel Matzav: Then how are we going to stop them, Jim?
Then how are we going to stop them, Jim?
In the Washington Post, Jim Hoagland discusses Hillary Clinton's 'nuclear umbrella' speech from this past week. Reading the end of Hoagland's column, I have to wonder what he's smoking. Israel Matzav: Then how are we going to stop them, Jim?Israeli politicians immediately portrayed Clinton's remarks in Thailand as a weakening of the U.S. stance on Iran by suggesting that the Obama administration is looking at scenarios for living with a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Israel Matzav: Awesome: F-35 ordered by Israel is 2 years behind schedule
Awesome: F-35 ordered by Israel is 2 years behind schedule
Two weeks ago, I reported that Israel had placed an initial order for 25 of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, with a contract to be signed in early 2010 and the first plane to be delivered in 2014. Two days later, I reported that the resolution of a dispute with the United States over the F-35 would result in Israel forfeiting the technological advantage of using some of its own technologies in the place. JPost now has more bad news: The F-35 is two years behind production schedule. Read All at :
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Israel Matzav: Holland reconsidering funding Breaking the Silence
Holland reconsidering funding Breaking the Silence
Holland is reconsidering its funding of Breaking the Silence, the organization that two weeks ago released 'confessions' to 'war crimes' by anonymous IDF soldiers who were involved in Operation Cast Lead. It was the second time Breaking the Silence had released 'confessions' from IDF soldiers, and in each case the 'confessions' were based on rumor and hearsay.Ten days ago it came out that Breaking the Silence is funded by, among others, the Dutch embassy in Tel Aviv, the British embassy in Tel Aviv and the European Union. Now, the Dutch embassy is reconsidering its support. Its funding came to €19,999 or about NIS 110,000.
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Israel Matzav: The Obama doctrine
The Obama doctrine
This summary of the 'Obama doctrine' is excellent with the one small caveat that I believe that he ascribes too great a role to the United States in creating the State of Israel. Israel Matzav: The Obama doctrineIn fact, its very objective is to undercut America's pre-eminent global role, reducing its great-power status to that of a multilateral partner equal to Russia, China or the European Union. At its core, the Obama Doctrine maintains that all societies and cultures are morally equal. More important, promoting democracy and human rights has been abandoned in favor of "improving America's standing in the world."
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Israel Matzav: Obama adopts the 'Palestinian' grievance narrative
Obama adopts the 'Palestinian' grievance narrative
Mackubin Thomas Owens does as good a job as anyone in characterizing President Obama's policy on Israel. Israel Matzav: Obama adopts the 'Palestinian' grievance narrativeThe Obama approach in the Middle East is predicated on what might be called the Arab “grievance narrative,” which holds that Israel was created as a result of Western guilt about the Holocaust. It is also based on the idea that, as the president suggested in his Cairo speech, there is moral equivalence between the Holocaust and Palestinian “dislocation.”
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Israel Matzav: The path not taken
The path not taken
Victor Davis Hanson imagines what would have happened during the last six months if President Obama had decided to govern like a Clintonesque moderate rather than like a Jimmy Carter drunk on socialism. I'm only going to highlight the parts that relate to Israel - you may want to read the whole thing (Hat Tip: Instapundit). Read All at :
Israel Matzav: Good fences make good neighbors
Good fences make good neighbors
Canadian poet and essayist David Solway looks at some of the walls that countries around the world have built to protect themselves and questions why only Israel's 'security fence' is controversial. Israel Matzav: Good fences make good neighbors[UN 'Human Rights Commissioner Navi] Pillay, like most of her duplicitous ilk, also has nothing to say about the palisade being built by the government of Thailand, which is higher and longer than the Israeli barrier, to cordon off two million Muslims living in the south of the country. She has nothing to say about the “wall of shame” dividing Morocco from Western Sahara (1,500 miles), the electrified fence between Botswana and Zimbabwe (300 miles), and the soon-to-be-completed, ten-foot-high barrier along the entire border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, built by the Saudis to discourage terrorist infiltration!
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Israel Matzav: I remember when....
I remember when....
This is from an article about the security situation in Judea and Samaria. Avital, the Ofra spokesman, remembers the days in the 1980s before the outbreak of the first intifada when she and her neighbors would go to Ramallah on a daily basis -- something no one has done in years.
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Israel Matzav: Your attitude toward Jews decides whether you love or hate freedom... and mankind
Your attitude toward Jews decides whether you love or hate freedom... and mankind
David Pryce-Jones reviews George Gilder's The Israel Test (Gilder was apparently a passenger on National Review Online's cruise). I particularly liked this: Israel Matzav: Your attitude toward Jews decides whether you love or hate freedom... and mankindNobody but Gilder could have written this book. Israel of course has its defenders, but they use arguments based on nationalism, territory, ethnicity, defence of minorities, rights, historicism, and so on. Gilder sees Jews since their emancipation as the vanguard of human achievement. They may be few in numbers, but their creativity has brought prosperity to themselves and those around them, and that prosperity in turn has brought freedom. Thus Jews spearhead capitalism and the democracy indispensable to its proper functioning. Marxists, Nazis, and now Muslims and their apologists envy Jews because they cannot emulate them, and so set out to destroy the success that shows up their failure. The attitude you take towards Israel and Jews decides whether you love or hate freedom, and beyond that, mankind — that’s the test he is proposing in the book’s title. And just in case the reader risks failing this test by jumping to a false conclusion, Gilder has a portrait of his very non-Jewish ancestry, saying, “We were classic WASPS all.”
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Israel Matzav: Bolton on Iran: 'All options are no longer on the table'
Bolton on Iran: 'All options are no longer on the table'
This is a FoxNews interview with former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton. After a brief discussion of the disclosure of a CIA program to target al-Qaeda terrorists, the discussion turns to Israel and Iran around the 1:20 mark.
There are three quotable quotes from Bolton. They are all spot-on. The first, the Obama administration has a 'neo-religious faith' in 'negotiations' with Iran. The second, there is 'zero chance' that Iran will be negotiated out of its nuclear weapons program. And the third, the one with which I headlined this post, 'all options are no longer on the table.'
I believe that Bolton has nailed it. It's no longer a question of whether there will be an Israeli strike on Iran, but when.
There are three quotable quotes from Bolton. They are all spot-on. The first, the Obama administration has a 'neo-religious faith' in 'negotiations' with Iran. The second, there is 'zero chance' that Iran will be negotiated out of its nuclear weapons program. And the third, the one with which I headlined this post, 'all options are no longer on the table.'
I believe that Bolton has nailed it. It's no longer a question of whether there will be an Israeli strike on Iran, but when.
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Israel Matzav: Bolton on Iran: 'All options are no longer on the table'
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