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The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]
Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Smuggling, Weapons Smuggling, Hezbollah, Terrorism
Robert Bernstein, a former chairman of Human Rights Watch, had an extraordinary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his former organization for its overwhelming bias against the state of Israel: Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast. AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for ...
Here’s an amazing speech at the United Nations by the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, about the UN’s latest attempt to demonize Israel, the Goldstone Report. [Video] UN Watch has more information, and a complete transcript of Col. Kemp’s speech.
United Nations, Colonel Richard Kemp, Israel, Terrorism, UN Watch, Gaza, Goldstone Report
Another eruption of antisemitism from Turkey. JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama series which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby, strained already tense relations on Thursday between Israel and Turkey, a strategic Muslim ally. Previously close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, ...
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Weapons, Smuggling, Terrorism, Israel, Video
The rumors that President Obama would throw Israel under the bus appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Palestinian moderates say hope in President Obama has “evaporated.” That’s the damning message contained in a memo circulated among the top leadership of the Palestinian faction Fatah, the faction which is led ...
I must admit this is a real surprise; after three years I was very afraid that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was dead: Video Shows Captive Israeli Soldier in Good Health. [Video]
Violence broke out this morning on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, when Muslim protesters began shouting and throwing rocks at a small group of Jews who entered the compound. Twelve policemen and 15 rioters were wounded Sunday in riots on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and later in the ...
Here’s a video clip from the Israeli Defense Forces, showing what happened September 25, 2009, when Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza prepared to launch rockets into Israel to attempt random murder, unaware that their every move was being watched. [Video] In the above video an Unmanned Air Vehicle captures ...
Following our earlier post about Ron Dermer, senior adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his praise for LGF, an admirer in New York City by the name of Susan Saxe emailed the following note of appreciation: The Jews don’t want your sorry liberal ass defending them anymore, ...
Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the ...
Benjamin Netanyahu is calling out the United Nations: “Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists?” It looks like quite a few delegates walked out on his speech. The speech is live on CNN. Here’s a thread to discuss... UPDATE at 9/24/09 3:11:00 pm: The speech ...
In his speech to the United Nations this morning, President Obama reiterated his call for Israel to cease building settlements, and for the Palestinians to end incitement against Israel. I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world. Yesterday, I ...
United Nations, Israel, Palestinians, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama
You mean the Saudis lied when they said they would stop participating in the Arab League boycott of Israel? Shocka! Leading Democratic and Republican congressmen expressed outrage following a report in Monday’s Jerusalem Post that Saudi Arabia has been violating its promise to Washington to stop enforcing the Arab ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Israel, Boycott, Antisemitism, Arab League
A new blog is keeping an eye on the biased stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that continue to pour out of one of the world’s main sources of news: Reuters Middle East Watch.
Even for someone like me who expects very little in the way of ethics from the astoundingly biased NGO Human Rights Watch, this report is a jawdropper. The author of the last HRW report accusing Israel of “war crimes” is a radical Marxist who has written in explicit support of ...
Human Rights Watch, Israel, Anti-Israel, Hamas, Human Shields, IDF, NGO, Munich Olympics
This video from January 2009 was released by the IDF to counter the Human Rights Watch report that just came out, which claimed that HRW could find no evidence that Hamas terrorists employ human shields in the Palestinian population. [Video] Also see: Augean Stables » Human Rights Complex Take 13476: ...
Human Rights Watch, Israel, Anti-Israel, Hamas, Human Shields, IDF, NGO, Video
Remember that Human Rights Watch report accusing Hamas of war crimes? I hope you didn’t think that meant they were changing their ways, because they’re right back at their main occupation again: Human Rights Watch Earns Their Saudi Pay, Publishes Another Thinly-Sourced Report Demonizing Israel.
Human Rights Watch, Israel, Anti-Israel, Saudi Arabia, Hamas, Human Shields
Here’s an interesting new website just launched by the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by Natan Sharansky, featuring commentary, analysis, and essays by leading experts such as Martin Kramer and Yossi Klein Halevi. Bookmark this one.
Ladies and gentlemen, the pig has left the hangar, as Human Rights Watch issues a new report on war crimes committed by — Hamas. Airborne porker sighted over Middle EastJERUSALEM (AFP) – Rocket attacks carried out against Israel by the Hamas rulers of Gaza and other Palestinian militants amount ...
Human Rights Watch, Hamas, War Crimes, Rockets, Israel, Terrorism, Palestinians
Far right Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is probably going to be indicted on bribery and fraud charges: Israeli Police Recommend Indictment of Foreign Minister. JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 — Israeli police Sunday recommended that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness ...
I had to read this one twice to be sure I wasn’t imagining it: Netanyahu says West Bank barrier to stay for now. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Wednesday any notion he would order Israel’s barrier in the West Bank to be torn down in ...
The journal Azure has a detailed and thoughtful examination of Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just War by Israeli philosopher Asa Kasher, as the usual non-governmental organizations issue the usual reports accusing Israel of “war crimes.” On Saturday, December 27, 2008, after eight years of continuing rocket ...
Michael Totten talks with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about The Real Quagmire in the Middle East. MJT: You have talked to Hamas people. Should the Israelis or Americans talk to them? Goldberg: I don’t know what they’d get out of it. MJT: What did you get out of it ...
Michael J. Totten, Middle East, Journalism, Israel, Palestinians, Hamas
Imagine my surprise; Barack Obama’s bold new initiative for Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel is getting nowhere. The U.S. administration has not been successful in securing commitments from Arab countries to take steps toward normalizing relations with Israel, a senior source in Jerusalem said Wednesday. The source ...
Israel, Arab World, King Abdullah, Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia