This, according to a Lebanese source, concerning a truck that the IAF believed to have been carrying weapons from Syria. Given that terrorists are notorious for not exactly telling the truth, and that their “holy” Koran tells them that it is their duty to lie to us infidels, I’d go with the IAF’s version.
The re-supply [...]
Archive for July, 2006
“private relief supplies from Syria”
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on July 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry you were living with Hizbullah
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The bombing of a building in Qana, resulting in 50 or so “innocent” deaths, will be taken up by the Arabs and the Western press as proof-positive that the Israelis are the same as the Nazis — a common enough theme in these circles.
The hard truth is that those killed were being used as human [...]
"worst possible outcome"
Posted in Arabs, Israel, Terrorism on July 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The full quotation from the Wall Street Journal’s article, “The Road to Damascus,” No, this isn’t a latter-day Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road movie — the subtitle is “The strange new respect for Syria’s Bashar Assad”.
The unavoidable conclusion is that Syria is part of the problem, and diplomatic measures alone will not work. Just [...]
Kofi, you lying piece of garbage…
Posted in Israel, War and Peace, anti-Semitism on July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Kofi Annan, the gutless anti-Semite, knee-jerked (appropriate, for Kofi…) when he claimed that Israel had “apparently deliberately” targeted the UN peacekeepers [sic].
Here’s a little background, via Tom Gross’ Mideast Dispatch Archive:
Retired Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie has said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the Canadian soldier killed at a UN post in [...]
Clarity from Christians
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It is more than passing strange that some of Israel’s best defenders are Christians. And, no, not know-nothing Christian fundamentalists who see the end times in the re-establishment of the State of Israel. After all, this event would be accompanied by the conversion or death of the Jews…if one believes in the Book of Revelation.
No, the Christians [...]
"The only way to stop terrorism is to kill terrorists"
Posted in Terrorism, War and Peace on July 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The title says it all. It is the last of Steven Plaut’s 50 “lessons learned” in Israel’s constant struggle with Arab and Iranian terrorism. Or, more accurately, 50 lessons that should have been learned but, to a large extent, don’t seem to have been.
This statement by Professor Plaut may seem harsh [...]
Basics
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
For all the blather and hypocritical hand-wringing, the brutal fact is that Israel is within international norms in doing what it is doing. No other nation would be asked to stop before its legitimate war objectives were met, given that Israel did not start the conflict.
An op-ed in today’s Washington Post, by David Rivkin [...]
Chemo
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on July 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The best analogy I can think of for the conflict in the Middle East is chemo, short for chemotherapy. Those who contract certain kinds of cancer must undergo chemo, which is more akin to fighting fire with fire than an actual medical treatment.
The operating principle in chemo is that we will flood your body with [...]
It’s all Bush’s fault
Posted in Arabs, Politics, anti-Semitism on July 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Global warming, tsunamis, hurricanes, and, presumably, everything unpleasant in the world. The latest idiotarians to be heard from are the stone-apologists for terror, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Which has filed a lawsuit, presumably demanding that Israel commit national suicide.
Despite their clever naming, “American-Arab” instead of the more accurate “Arab-American,” these are [...]
“Islamic Thinkers Society”
Posted in Islam, Israel on July 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Hmm. So this is what passes for thought in the Islamic world. Their mammas must be so proud… From a demonstration in New York City.
Beer Sunday
Posted in The good life on July 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Beer is Food” is one of my ground truths, and Tim F.’s posting today at Baloon Juice has awakened fond memories of the pictured product.
Anchor Steam is native to the San Francisco Bay area, and I first had an Anchor Steam on a business trip there some 20 years ago. And I was hooked.
Since it [...]
Our friends the Shiites
Posted in Arabs, War and Peace on July 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In our misadventures in Iraq, we have made two blunders with regards to the Shiites. First and worst, we did not smash the Shiite resistance in Sadr City and elsewhere in the Shiite strongholds of Iraq. Second, and almost as bad, we seem to think that we can use the Shiites against the [...]
This is Not ‘Our War’
Posted in Idiotarians, War and Peace, anti-Semitism on July 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Actually, it very much is. “Pitchfork Pat” Buchanan is on his own warpath, again, with the usual targets in his sights: Jews, Israel, and our foreign policy. Buchanan has a history of being an isolationist, and, unfortunately, seems to carry some of the anti-Semitic baggage that some isolationists did back in the [...]
Cedar revolution
Posted in Arabs on July 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
For all the intellectually lazy talk of a “Cedar revolution,” what remains clear is that Lebanon is just another Middle East rathole of sectarian passions. A place in which tribe and sect count for more than any noble ideas about democracy, liberty, or, God forfend, freedom of conscience.
Lebanon, as an entity, does not [...]
fatuous fatwa?
Posted in Terrorism on July 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Is this a falling out between the two nasty strains of Islam, Shiite and Wahhabi? No, they fell out centuries ago, over an argument about how many virgins a martyr will get in heaven…or something really vital like that.
It is hard to tell the crazies from the stupids, and both sects seem to have plenty [...]
23 tons
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on July 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
According to this report in the Jerusalem Post, the IAF dropped 23 tons of bombs on a bunker that was believed to house some Hizbollah biggies, including the head terrorist Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. From the JP:
The IDF obtained intelligence information late Wednesday night that Hizbullah leaders possibly including Nasrallah had taken refuge inside the bunker. [...]
“America’s crucial ally”
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on July 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Thus writes a reliably soft-power, left (very left) columnist, David Ignatius. His column today is a woe-is-us jeremiad on the hazards of the continuing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. He even dredges up the slide to war in 1914, as evidence that today’s conflict is, somehow, in any way shape or form, related to the [...]
Morning prayers
Posted in Israel, Judaism, War and Peace on July 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This picture is worth many, many words. Via the Jerusalem Post, showing some of our soldiers praying.
Just hunker down…
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on July 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…and wait for Islamist rockets to destroy you. This is the advice of Richard Cohen, writing in today’s WaPo. Well, sorry Mr. Cohen, you could not be more wrong.
Cohen is wrong on several counts, not least in his statement that “Israel itself is a mistake.” I must assume that he is either ignorant of Torah, [...]
All’s fair in love and war…
Posted in Islam, Israel, War and Peace on July 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…except when it is patently unfair. What brings this is up is actually a sign of hope for the good guys in the current conflict in the Middle East.
No, contrary to what our State Department and the Euros may wish to believe, this current iteration of the Islamic world’s attempt to complete Adolf Hitler’s [...]
This time it may be Bush’s fault
Posted in Islam, War and Peace on July 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Islamist aggression against Israel was clearly orchestrated by Iran and Syria. There has to be some reason why Hamas and Hezbollah waited until July 2006 to commit brazen acts of war that they had to have known would bring a fierce Israeli response.
The reason may be quite close to home, if you live in [...]
The “G” Word
Posted in Islam, Israel, War and Peace on July 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
That’s genocide, the exact aim of Iran, Syria, and their Islamist puppets in Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories. There should be no mistake here. This latest acts of war by Hamas, and then Hezbollah, are orchestrated from Tehran and Damascus. And have as their principal objective the elimination of Jews from the Middle East.
Just [...]
"exercise restraint"
Posted in Idiotarians, anti-Semitism on July 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The good news is that Kofi Annan has said something right about this latest Arab provocation. According to a Reuters report, our Fearless Leader has stated “I condemn without reservation the attack that took place … and demand that the Israeli troops be released immediately…”
Then, old Kofi goes into anti-Zionist code. Anti-Zionist because it [...]
Mumbai
Posted in Terrorism on July 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s heinous attacks in Mumbai should remind us: Islamic terror is worldwide, and they are always open for business. 24/7. 365 days a year.
Jews, Hindus, Christians. All natural allies as targets of the world-wide jihad of Islam for domination. There should never be any mistake as to what Islam wants, or that, since its first days [...]
It’s everyone else’s fault
Posted in Arabs, Israel on July 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Via the Jerusalem Post, the latest from the Hamas buttwipe who is posing as their leader:
The American administration shoulders the responsibility for what is happening on the land of Palestine: the humanitarian catastrophe, the strikes against the infrastructure.
There’s also the usual blather about the “Zionist entity.” And therein lies a clue as the real [...]
"racist, ethnocentric connotations"
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on July 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Until I got to the phrase “racist, ethnocentric connotations”, Andrew Bacevich’s opinion piece in today’s WaPo seemed to be asking the right questions. Principally, the article’s title, “What’s an Iraqi Life Worth?”
It is clear that Bacevich believes that our war in Iraq was a grave error. While I’m not at all sure that [...]
Jesus standing on one foot
Posted in Judaism, Religion on July 8, 2006 | 2 Comments »
One of the problems with reading the New Testament lies with many, if not most of its readers. Because of the bad behavior of a few Jews (“woe to ye, scribes and hypocrites…”), they have to go and pretend that they’ve reinvented the wheel. And, along the way, invented the myth that Jesus started a [...]
So sorry I missed it
Posted in Iran, Islam, anti-Semitism on July 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It being an anti-Israeli rally in Teheran. How unusual; an anti-Semitic, oh, sorry, anti-Israel rally being held in the capital of one of the axis of evil partners.
From this nest of vipers, we find that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has (hope you’re sitting down), questioned Israel’s right to exist. From the Jerusalem Post, here’s old [...]
In case you were wondering…
Posted in North Korea on July 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…why the North Korean maniacs pose a threat, consider this from the AP (via Jerusalem Post):
Japanese and US defense officials have concluded that the Taepodong-2 had targeted US state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, after analyzing data collected from their intelligence equipment.
The American response to date has been, essentially, “well, there’s no problem; the [...]
“the orthodox approach is fundamentally wrong”
Posted in Islam on July 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
No, this isn’t a post slamming my frumish relatives. This is about a sliver of hope from the Muslim world. The quotation in full relates to Islam: “To Be a Rationalist is to Acknowledge That the Orthodox Approach is Fundamentally Wrong.” It is taken from an interview with Dr. Bassam Tahhan, published in MEMRI. From [...]
