LGF Archives: March 2002
very scary
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 4:29:17 pm PST
Booga booga!
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anger as a way of life
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 4:17:52 pm PST
The next Islamic hatefest coming up: a 3-day conference of the Organization of Islamic States. Imagine my surprise and shock—shock!—to discover that: Islamic states' anger with Israel and the United States over the bloody Middle East crisis is likely to dominate a three-day meeting of the Organization of the Islamic ...
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there is a season
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 3:53:10 pm PST
A former Israeli peace activist explains why it’s now time for war. (via Chris Kerstiens.)
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bjørn turns red
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 3:43:28 pm PST
My God. What’s happened to Bjørn?
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israelis united
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 3:31:53 pm PST
All those who are trying to make the Israeli refuseniks (Army personnel who refuse to serve in the disputed territories) into a big deal, please take note: response to the emergency call-up of reservists has been almost 100%.
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oil ticks
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 3:24:51 pm PST
Second Deputy Yadda Yadda of Saudi Arabia Prince Sultan says the Israeli siege of Arafat’s compound is the greatest crime in the history of humanity. That’s what I mean by the “insane shrieking” at the Arab News today. The oil ticks are all stirred up.
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the raving murderer
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 3:08:29 pm PST
MEMRI has translations from Arafat’s interviews with Arab TV channels. The old monster sounds a mite ... perturbed. "Let those far and near understand: None among the Palestinian people or the Arab nation will be willing to bow and surrender. But we ask Allah to grant us martyrdom, to grant ...
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more calls to attack US
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 1:13:28 pm PST
Just heard on Fox News about another Palestinian group in Bethlehem that has issued a pamphlet calling for attacks on Americans. Nothing on the web yet.
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do it, yasser
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:41:06 pm PST
The grand high fruitcake of Islamic Jihad is calling on Arafat to go to that great bordello in the sky. A splendid idea! Islamic Jihad leader Abdallah Ramadan Shallah, in a statement during an interview with the al-Jazeera satellite station this morning, called on Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to ...
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zinni return watch
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:09:17 am PST
In the latest Palestinian poll, 81.1% support Yasser Arafat, and 76.8% do not trust Anthony Zinni. Hence, I’m starting the Zinni Return Watch. I’ll be surprised if he’s still in Israel at the end of this week. Must suck to be him right now.
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fatah threatens US
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 9:28:24 am PST
Even as Arafat begs the US to save his bacon, the head of his Fatah movement in Lebanon is threatening the United States. "Only the Americans can stop this massacre. They can stop the massacre with one phone call. If there is harm to one hair of the head of ...
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losing it in saudi arabia
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 7:28:00 am PST
Wow. I’m not even going to link to the Arab News today—the insane shrieking over there is deafening.
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attack on paramedics
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 7:19:07 am PST
Now those sick fuckers have attacked a paramedic station in the West Bank.
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suicidal lies
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 7:13:41 am PST
In a way, Thomas Friedman is partly responsible for what’s happening in Israel right now. His disastrous column promoting the Saudi peace scam led to a sense of impending victory in the Arab/Palestinian world, a feeling that the Palestinians’ barbaric strategy of suicide terrorism could actually succeed in forcing Israel ...
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another atrocity
Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 6:39:28 am PST
In a restaurant in Haifa. At least 12 are dead.
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some thoughts
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 7:01:34 pm PST
There is no political solution for the Middle East. There is only a military solution. Israel has only enjoyed relative peace immediately after they’ve beaten back the barbarians. A hard rain is gonna fall.
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arafat’s war
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 5:23:15 pm PST
Here’s a powerful and poetic essay by Arab scholar Fouad Ajami: Arafat's War. I couldn’t easily pull a quote from this one; just go and read.
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new! improved! not a speck of cereal!
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 4:17:58 pm PST
I’ve added a passel of new anti-idiotarian links today, and split the list into three columns to make it easier to peruse leisurely, whilst imbibing caffeine or a civilized mind-altering substance of your choice. No chewing of qat allowed.
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defining terrorism down
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:59:53 am PST
An excellent Jonah Goldberg column (via InstantMan) about the growing tendency of Western media to put terrorists and defenders against terrorism on the same moral level—as long as the targets aren’t us. He hits one of my pet peeves: the increasing use of the morally neutral term “activist” to describe ...
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and again
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:32:44 am PST
Like a runaway train heading for a cliff, or a drug addict filling the syringe for a fatal overdose, the Palestinians continue their orgy of insane violence. Another suicide bomber, this time at a cafe in downtown Tel Aviv.
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dubya gets it
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:23:34 am PST
Thank you, Dubya. CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush said Saturday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "can do a lot more" to prevent attacks against Israelis and that the United States supports Israel's right to defend itself.
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arab death wish
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 8:44:08 am PST
Does the Arab world have a death wish? Orrin Judd finds truth in a scene from To Kill A Mockingbird. There's a great scene in To Kill a Mockingbird (one among many in this outstanding film), where a rabid dog shows up on the Finch family's street. Scout and Jem ...
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appeasement
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 8:15:47 am PST
The US has voted with the killers and despots of the UN Security Council to call on Israel to withdraw from Ramallah. Syria abstained from the vote because they wanted even harsher language condemning Israel. I understand realpolitik. I know Bush and Powell are trying to appear as if they’re still ...
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evading the boneyard
Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 7:54:59 am PST
Arafat is still breathing. How disappointing. It’s beginning to look like the murdering old bastard will get away again.
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weasel words
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 6:35:32 pm PST
William Quick uncovers the truth hidden beneath the weasel words of the Arab League’s peace scam, in a reply to Gary Farber.
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the power of restraint
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 5:41:40 pm PST
An unbelievably starry-eyed and completely asinine editorial in today’s LA Times (the worst major newspaper in the US) argues that Israel should just continue to let their citizens be slaughtered: The Power of Restraint. The despicable attack of a Palestinian suicide bomber on Israeli families about to share the traditional ...
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which way is up?
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 2:26:26 pm PST
We’ve heard the spin: that Dick Cheney’s whirlwind Middle East Tour was a success, that despite the publicly belligerent statements of Arab despots, Cheney’s private conversations with them were “productive.” I’ve been cynical about it from the start, and also cynical about the idea that the Bushies have a master ...
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why do bad things happen to bad people?
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:10:24 pm PST
Here are some excerpts from Tim Blair’s new self-help book, Reclaim Your Crazy Life: Advice for Mad Bombers, Taliban Lunatics, Stupid Journalists, and Other Losers.
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chinese missiles in saudi arabia
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:44:06 am PST
An Israeli paper is reporting that Saudi Arabia has built a secret base in the desert south of Riyadh for the deployment of Chinese long-range missiles. The Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot reported on Wednesday that the complex was built in the Al Sulial desert about 500 kilometers south of the ...
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saudi hatred
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:23:08 am PST
Today’s Arab News proves once again that in spite of their supposed repudiation of anti-Semitic horror stories like the disgusting blood libel published in Al Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian government is still actively promoting anti-Semitism, this time by repeating a 1935 Nazi forgery alleging that Benjamin Franklin was a Jew-hater: ...
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postmodern palestine
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 8:35:16 am PST
Another brilliant essay by Victor Davis Hanson, on the crippling amorality of utopian pacifism and multiculturalism: Postmodern Palestine. Facts mean nothing. The dispute is purportedly over the principle of occupation — but next-door Syria holds far more Lebanese land than Israel does the West Bank. The dispute is supposedly over ...
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room to room
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 8:28:16 am PST
ABC news radio says the Israeli army is fighting room to room inside Arafat’s compound.
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halleluja
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 8:20:59 am PST
The New York Times today, suffering an unusual attack of moral clarity, actually referred to the latest Palestinian atrocities as terror bombings. Another sign that American sympathy is running out?
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passover killings
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 8:09:10 am PST
The suicide bombings are getting all the press coverage, but Palestinians are also stabbing and shooting Israeli civilians in the West Bank and Gaza.
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arafat under fire
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 7:05:46 am PST
Israel declares Arafat an enemy. Finally. I hope they put an end to him once and for all. Sound harsh? That’s because it is. The decrepit old murderer has been terrorizing innocents for far far far too long. It’s time to finish him.
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and again
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 6:39:56 am PST
Another suicide bomber in a Jerusalem supermarket. This time the monster took the form of an 18-year old girl. The Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility in a phone call to The Associated Press, and identified the bomber as Ayat Akhras, ...
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speaking truth to monsters
Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 7:10:05 pm PST
I know I’m the last blogger in the western hemisphere to link to James Lileks’s piece about the Park Hotel bombing. (Been at the dentist all day.) But if you haven’t read it yet, you must. Immediately. Either he’s an incredible writer or I’m an incredible push-over, because the conclusion of ...
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the piece process
Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 6:45:06 pm PST
David Warren has an excellent analysis of the disgraceful charade known as the Middle East “peace process.”
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the anti-idiotarian street
Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 5:58:43 pm PST
Kathy Kinsley’s Blogwatch 2.5 has a list of links to weblogger reactions to the Park Hotel bombing—a universal wave of revulsion and anger at this atrocity. Be sure to read Geoff Meltzner’s sobering comments too. I wonder to myself, are these people representative of America (and the world) at large, or ...
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fed up
Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:18:42 am PST
Palestinians should be afraid of the reaction of the American street. Very afraid. People are fed up. Americans will give you lots of chances to prove your intentions; Arafat and his people have had more than their share, and they have proved their intentions. And the well of sympathy has ...
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arabs want peace
Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 8:19:51 am PST
It can be very instructive to examine how the Saudi propaganda machine subtly alters syndicated infidel media articles. Today’s Arab News runs this AP story (uncredited) about yesterday’s terrorist attack ... with a few interesting changes: Bomber kills 17 in Israel. First, they removed all mention of “suicide.” Most other versions ...
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the great mediator
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 6:00:34 pm PST
Never one to let a bandwagon go unexploited, no matter how tasteless, Jesse Jackson is offering to “mediate” a peace deal in the Middle East. Does it matter that in an unguarded moment, he once referred to New York as “Hymie Town?”
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the tentacles of ibn saud
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 2:46:18 pm PST
My God. The tentacles of ibn Saud really are everywhere. Prepare your mind to be blown. MEMRI publishes excerpts from an article in a Saudi government daily detailing the Kingdom’s efforts to spread extremist Wahhabism throughout the world—efforts that involve “many billions” of Saudi Riyals. "The cost of King Fahd's efforts ...
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daniel pipes interview
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:59:08 am PST
Daniel Pipes says the Palestinians cannot continue their orgy of terrorism for much longer. Insight: Let's turn to what's happening in Israel. Do you see an end to the Palestinian violence?DP: Yes, I do. Probably [during] this calendar year the Palestinians will realize they are getting nowhere and just stop.Insight: ...
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and again
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:33:16 am PST
At least 10 people are dead in the lobby of the Park Hotel in Netanya.
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exploding ambulances
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 9:36:22 am PST
Examples of Palestinian treachery continue to mount. Today soldiers at a roadblock searched a Red Crescent ambulance transporting a sick Palestinian boy, and discovered a suicide bomber’s explosive belt hidden under a stretcher. The Palestinian Authority doesn’t even bother to come up with excuses or wild theories for this stuff ...
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palestinian perfidy
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 7:03:45 am PST
In southern Israel two Palestinian terrorists were killed by Israeli police as they tried to sneak into a kibbutz, presumably to heroically slaughter sleeping women and children. This Reuters article has some interesting details about a couple of other incidents: In Nablus, a Palestinian was killed apparently while preparing a ...
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knock three times
Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 6:37:53 am PST
Lileks has been screeding again, exposing a fatuous Nick Kristof column that argues for suing Saddam Hussein. I do know this: an additional ten years of diplomacy and sanctions against Iraq would have the same effect as the last ten years. The technical term, as used by diplomats, is “bupkis, ...
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signs and portents
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 7:35:04 pm PST
Very interesting news: the US may be moving its Persian Gulf military bases from Saudi Arabia to Qatar. Evidence for the “Machiavellian plan” theory?
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the great terror
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 5:13:55 pm PST
Jeffrey Goldberg’s important article about Saddam Hussein’s genocidal war against the Kurds is finally online: The Great Terror. A riveting, horrifying must-read.
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cute little anarchists
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 4:58:13 pm PST
A reader points us to this hilarious Indymedia thread in which the anarchy kidz claim that yesterday’s earthquake in Afghanistan was actually a US nuclear bomb.
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peaceful religion watch
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 4:37:18 pm PST
In Pakistan, 5 Shi'ite Muslims have died of self-inflicted wounds in Ashura celebrations: Mourners flail themselves in deadly show of devotion. Get a load of these little torture devices (like something out of a Clive Barker movie): ... police said five men died across Punjab province, after lashing their own ...
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suicide pays
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 1:23:53 pm PST
Great Ken Layne column at Fox News today, about Saddam Hussein’s blood money payouts to the families of Palestinian “martyrs.”
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forget the arab street
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 8:32:30 am PST
Reuel Marc Gerecht says we should Forget the "Arab Street". Whether the Bush administration really believes in the power of the mythical "Arab street" isn't important; Cheney's visit to the Middle East and General Zinni's diplomatic athletics make it appear that the United States must travel around the Middle East ...
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arafat stays home
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 7:39:08 am PST
Israel says no trip to Beirut for Arafat. But ... they leave the door open for a last minute change. Expect to hear screaming from all sides. I sure hope we’re seeing the choreographed steps of a Machiavellian plan, and not the indecisive waffling it appears to be.
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harvest of hate
Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 6:38:47 am PST
Palestinians didn’t spontaneously decide one morning to start turning their children into bombs. As Charles Krauthammer writes, the current orgy of murder has been carefully planned and nurtured by a relentless campaign of hate: Arafat's Harvest of Hate. During the past eight years -- the years of the Oslo "peace ...
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isratine!
Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 6:43:30 pm PST
Wacky old ex-terrorist Muammar Gaddafi has his own Middle East peace proposal ... and it makes almost as much sense as the Saudi Peace Scam. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said Israel should be replaced by a democracy called "Isratine" where unarmed Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace.
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has to be a frame
Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 6:26:00 pm PST
Traces of cocaine? In Marion Barry’s car? No way.
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peaceful religion watch
Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:37:33 pm PST
In Iran today, crowds of men marched in the streets weeping and injuring themselves while their women watched from balconies, ululating. The occasion? For once it wasn’t a staged anti-US protest. They were losing it because Mohammed’s grandson Hussein was killed in a battle. In the 7th century. The death ...
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the demands begin
Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 9:10:03 am PST
Here’s a taste of the insane demands and anti-Israel rhetoric we can expect to hear from the Arab summit meeting in Beirut: "We want peace, not surrender. We will not accept anything less than regaining our firm rights," the foreign minister from host nation Lebanon, Mahmoud Hammoud, said in his ...
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losing their grip
Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 8:30:10 am PST
The mullahs are losing their grip on Iran, as Michael Ledeen shows: Norouz, the Persian New Year, is a Zoroastrian festival, and does not meet with the favor of the ruling Iranian tyrants. Against the background of the many anti-regime street demonstrations during recent months, the country's Supreme Leader, the ...
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a hard rain
Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 7:52:26 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson runs the voodoo down: The 1930s, Again. After 30 years of listening to nauseating chanting from Teheran to Islamabad to Nablus, hearing the childish rants about "The Mother of All Battles" and "The Great Satan," and witnessing presidents from Carter to Bush burned in effigy, the ritual ...
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he’s cavorting with the raisins
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 3:56:19 pm PST
And speaking of Saudi Arabian terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden ... oh, that’s right. We haven’t been speaking much about him. In fact, we haven’t heard a peep from Crazy Sammy in ... well ... an awfully long time, have we? I have to think that if he were still consuming ...
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job hunting
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 3:11:03 pm PST
Asparagirl applies to Qorvis Communications for a job. I’d love to see the face of the exec who reads that...
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indymedia defends lynching
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:41:49 am PST
Indymedia republishes an article (written by a woman) from the Palestine Chronicle defending lynching. (Warning: grisly photo. And even grislier comments from the Indymedia kiddies.) I vaguely remember a time when being leftist/liberal meant being at least nominally opposed to mob violence and murder, and the hanging of corpses in public ...
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how will israel survive?
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:12:42 am PST
An excellent piece at Newsweek, looking at the essential issues that surround the big question: How Will Israel Survive?
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peace-loving arabs
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:14:09 am PST
Crown Prince Abdullah says “We’re not bloodthirsty! We don’t want war!” But I guess they forgot to tell Hezbollah about the scam. BEIRUT - Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called Sunday on Arab leaders meeting at a crucial summit to reject peace with Israel and supply arms to the Palestinians. ...
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culture war
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 9:58:33 am PST
Steven Den Beste has a great post comparing the samurai culture of imperial Japan with the Islamofascists threatening the world today.
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the arab summit
Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 8:59:17 am PST
When Ariel Sharon made an offer to attend the Arab summit in Beirut this Wednesday to discuss the “peace plan” supposedly being considered by the Arab world, Amr Moussa and other Arab leaders responded with threats and ridicule. "I tell Sharon that he knows how Beirut dealt with him, and ...
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saudi censorship
Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 2:57:58 pm PST
A week ago I linked to an article at the Arab News that exhibited uncharacteristic signs of self-examination. Well, the Saudi Information Ministry (Orwellian enough for you?) noticed too; last Thursday they arrested a dangerous poet. And today Gary Farber sent us the link to this NY Times article with ...
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the iran-arafat connection
Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 2:22:02 pm PST
The NY Times has an important story today about the new linkage between the mad mullahs of Iran and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat: A Secret Iran-Arafat Connection Is Seen Fueling the Mideast Fire. Again, no surprises here (if you were paying attention to the Karine-A weapons shipment scandal), ...
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UN hatred watch
Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 8:53:59 am PST
Brian Silverman has appointed himself the anti-idiotarian monitor of the UN Human Rights Commission, which, judging from this press release, should be renamed the UN Israel Wrongs Commission. Countries launching verbal attacks against Israel included such paragons of human rights as Oman, Tunisia, Qatar, Yemen, and Jordan. Obsess much? The grand ...
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not a war of despair
Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 8:07:53 am PST
Some excellent points in this op-ed by Israel Harel: A war of no choice. The war of suicides is not the Arabs' war of despair. Anyone claiming so is looking for a way to validate the enemy and heap fallacious feelings of guilt on us. It is not despair that ...
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senators against arafat
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 6:33:21 pm PST
More than half of the U.S. Senate urged Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday not to meet with Yasser Arafat until the Palestinian leader does more to curb the violence in the Middle East.
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the pig-pile ratio
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 4:09:22 pm PST
Brian Silverman has been keeping track of the anti-Israel agenda at the meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission, with his highly scientific Pig-Pile-ometer™.
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UN anti-semitism
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:55:02 am PST
The United Nations “Human Rights Commission” has become a forum for the most extreme forms of Arab anti-Semitism, as this story shows: Algeria says Israelis are like Nazis. Repeated comparisons to Nazi Germany punctuated a vicious verbal attack on Israel yesterday at the annual meeting of the United Nations Human ...
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al qaeda bioweapons
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 9:57:51 am PST
Reuters reports that US troops in southeast Afghanistan discovered an Al Qaeda biological weapons laboratory.
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what the hell is wrong with these people?
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 9:40:34 am PST
At the National Review, Derbyshire gets it right: Kill a Jew for Allah. I don't think we should be sending diplomats to the Middle East. I think we should be sending teams of psychiatrists. This is a diseased culture, a sick culture. Go back to that disgraceful recycling of the ...
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saudis still funding al qaeda
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 9:19:18 am PST
Middle East Newsline reports that members of the Saudi royal family continue to fund Al Qaeda, and the money transfers are still being tolerated by the Saudi government. (via Robert Crawford.)
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i don’t think bob zimmerman would approve
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 8:04:25 am PST
At the old reliable “moderate” Arab News, Fawaz Turki uses the words of Bob Dylan while gloating over the Arab world’s progress toward the elimination of Israel: The times they are a-changin.
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saudi shills
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:07:05 am PST
Combatting the international Zionist conspiracy sure does get expensive for the noble, tireless House of Saud. American PR firm Qorvis Communications is currently pulling down $200,000 a month shilling for the Saudis.
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canada supports israel
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:20:09 am PST
Canada has lent her support to Israeli charges that the UN Human Rights Commission has been unfair and one-sided in its attacks on the Jewish state. Israel appealed last week for help from Canada, which is one of the few Western members able to demand a vote on the resolutions, ...
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syria in favor of murder
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 9:42:23 am PST
UN Security Council member Syria urges the Arab League to support the Palestinian terror campaign.
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poetry is dangerous
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 9:29:00 am PST
Speaking of sandy tentacles, after a few showy PR displays intended to trick us into believing they allow criticism in their press, the Saudis are back to business as usual: Saudi Arabia arrests poet for criticizing corruption. The Saudi authorities have arrested a Saudi poet who described in one of ...
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sandy tentacles
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 9:13:22 am PST
Ken Layne admits he has sand in his shoes. The tentacles of ibn Saud are everywhere.
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be so mean
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 9:07:32 am PST
Lileks drops a 4-megaton screed on bloated planetoid Michael Moore. If you ask me, Michael Moore is a gasbag who, if stuck with a pin, would fly around the room until he ended up on the floor as three pounds of wrinkled hot-dog skin and a sweat-stained ballcap. And if ...
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we’re being played
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 8:03:54 am PST
The US is being played for a sucker in the Middle East. Dr. Manhattan thinks we have a plan. I hope he’s right, but I don’t really believe it. After blustering incessantly about how the US needs to “do more,” here’s a graphic illustration of the barely hidden contempt with which the ...
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another bombing
Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 6:38:47 am PST
I just heard on the news that there has been another suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Nothing on the wires yet.
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most annoying javascript
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 6:01:29 pm PST
Is there a more annoying web site than Ha'aretz? Not for its content, which is usually very good, but for the bizarre Javascript code they use that refreshes the page every few seconds. It makes everything on their site react like molasses on Jupiter. And watch what happens if you scroll ...
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saudi editor “apologizes”
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:01:22 pm PST
The editor in chief of Saudi government rag Al Riyadh has issued a backhanded apology for the blood libel story that got the world’s attention with its sheer malice: Saudi newspaper editor 'apologizes' for Purim blood libel. Of course, while apologizing he made sure to get in an attack against ...
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the information terrorhighway
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:39:49 am PST
In the aftermath of Operation Anaconda, coalition forces are making some amazing discoveries in East Afghanistan: Al Qaeda Used Web in High-Tech Caves. The al Qaeda forces routed in a recent bloody battle were so well organized, they used the Internet and laptop computers to communicate as they dashed from ...
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hey ma! we’re on tv!
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:32:20 am PST
We just got a note from TechTV’s The Screen Savers, saying that LGF is going to be featured on today’s show! How cool is that? (Tonight at 7PM and 10PM EST.)
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bush rewards terror
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 8:13:57 am PST
I’ve had big differences with William Bennett in the past, but he gets it exactly right in this op-ed for the Washington Post: Where Bush Rewards Terror. We pressure Israel and make no demands on our Arab allies to cease the dissemination of medieval, terror-inspiring propaganda. Instead, the president appeased ...
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the peace process at work
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 7:53:53 am PST
I have no doubt that the Kofi Annan letter to Israel was cynically leaked by the UN, perhaps even by Annan himself, to embarrass Israel. I’ll be waiting to hear the UN’s morally outraged denunciation of today’s atrocity. By the way, many of today’s victims were Israeli Arabs, not Jews, not ...
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the difference
Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 6:31:28 am PST
When their evil suicide bombers destroy the lives of innocent women and children, Palestinians have huge ecstatic death-worshipping celebrations, firing machine guns into the air. When innocent Palestinians are killed or injured in Israeli police actions, the victims are awarded compensation by Israeli courts.
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yet again...
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:52:33 pm PST
Why must this keep on happening?
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planning a comeback
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 6:11:23 pm PST
Al Qaeda is planning a comeback led by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian with close ties to the Pakistani terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed.
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mein kampf in london
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:59:12 am PST
Here’s an article in the Telegraph with more details on the sale of Hitler’s turgid slab of anti-Semitism in Arab areas of London: Mein Kampf for sale, in Arabic.
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the man behind the curtain
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:53:01 am PST
Many people have commented on CNN’s very blatant anti-Israel bias, but as I was Googling around for the previous entry I made a discovery that may explain it: guess who’s the largest shareholder in CNN’s parent company, AOL? None other than our old Saudi Arabian pal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Wait ...
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UNfunny business as usual
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:24:57 am PST
Kofi Annan (who the NY Times says “is not known as a critic of Israel” ... !) wrote a harsh letter to Ariel Sharon denouncing Israel’s tactics, making absolutely no mention of Palestinian terror attacks and brushing aside Israel’s claims that Palestinians use ambulances to smuggle attackers and weapons—claims that ...
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near miss
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 9:33:22 am PST
For the second time this year, a killer asteroid nearly hit the Earth. Back in January a large rock flew past at 2 times the distance of the moon; this one was even closer. A sizable asteroid zipped near our planet this month without anyone noticing because it traveled through ...
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national socialism in the PA
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 9:16:09 am PST
Arabic language copies of Mein Kampf are being sold in Arab areas of London, and it has become a bestseller in the Palestinian Authority. The Arab edition, published by a Lebanon-based company, has a picture of Hitler and a swastika on the cover. Translator Luis al-Haj writes in his foreword ...
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palestinians angry again
Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 7:54:38 am PST
The Arab News reports that Dick Cheney’s refusal to meet with Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat has provoked anger among the Palestinians. Is there anything that doesn’t provoke anger among Palestinians? (Besides killing Jews?)
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just cut it out
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 6:30:48 pm PST
Finally! The Voice of America is running an official editorial urging the Saudis and other Arabs to halt anti-Jewish incitement in their media. I think the tipping point was that disgusting blood libel published in Al-Riyadh. It would be nice to think LGF played a small part in bringing this noxious ...
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i dreamed i saw geraldo...
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 4:50:21 pm PST
Orson Scott Card has a great column on the Middle East conflict, and on über buffoon Jerry Rivers’ disgraceful interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat.
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noam the woam
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 4:00:11 pm PST
Chomsky, our dear friend, speaks at USF today. I thought the air smelled a little strange today around here...
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bureaucracy at code red
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:00:10 am PST
While Tom Ridge unveils his new improved color-coded alert system, a mindless drone in an anonymous INS cubicle mails out visa approvals for the most famous recently deceased terrorists in the world. The same security firms and personnel who failed us so dramatically are still on the job, confiscating tweezers, ...
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pretense and reality
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:28:16 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson trains his laser-guided logic on the Middle East, in one of the clearest analyses I’ve seen yet: Palestinian Pretense & Israeli Reality. Given pressure from all sides and short of an all-out war, Israel may well have to exist as a fortress next to Mr. Arafat's state, ...
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about our mascot
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 9:30:58 am PST
Gary Farber visited the weblog of our own Idiotarian Mascot (who will get no front page linky love from me, alas), followed a few of his links, and discovered what everyone who reads our comments already knows.
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correspondent or pr0n star?
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 8:09:49 am PST
James Lileks has a few words for the War Correspondent Who Looks like a 70s Pr0n Star, whose disgraceful comments on Fox News also prompted this open letter from an editor of Arutz Sheva.
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move along, nothing to see
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 7:52:37 am PST
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef (whose last appearance in these pages found him grudgingly and nastily admitting that there may have been Saudi citizens involved in the 9/11 attacks) is denying reports that the religious police blocked rescue attempts at the girls’ school fire in Mecca.
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a noble phenomenon
Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 7:34:47 am PST
Gloating Palestinian Authority leaders are praising the “noble” Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (whose “heroes” slaughter babies in their strollers) and promising the killing will continue. Israel Radio, citing an interview with Al-Hayam newspaper, quoted West Bank Preventative Security service chief Rajoub as saying "The Al Aqsa Brigades are the noblest ...
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krazy kaption kontest
Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 6:56:09 pm PST
Hey everybody! It’s the Little Green Footballs Krazy Kaption Kontest™! The person who comes up with the funniest caption for this photo: wins our approbation, benedictions, and utmost esteem.
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the soothing voice of the arab news
Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 6:12:53 pm PST
Here’s an unbelievable article in today’s NY Times Week in Review, about the editor in chief of the Arab News. If this article were your only exposure to the Arab News, you’d come away with the impression that the Americans who write letters to them are a bunch of ...
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US cannot use saudi bases
Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:04:35 am PST
It’s not a surprise, but it is curious how little media attention is being paid to Saudi Arabia’s refusal to allow the US to use its Saudi bases for attacks against Iraq. It’s buried way deep in this AP report, that makes Cheney’s meeting with Abdullah sound like an amiable ...
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what cease-fire?
Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 7:21:11 am PST
With no sense of irony the AP headline for this story about the new terrorist attacks against Israeli women and children is: Mideast Violence Hampers Cease-Fire. None of this is a surprise, although it is horribly sad. The PLO strategy is to embarrass the United States by luring us in with ...
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make the bad man go away
Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 6:51:07 am PST
Childhood trauma.
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terrorist funding
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 7:36:29 pm PST
The FBI is closing in on a network of businesses and charities that provide funding for Hamas.
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the money is moving
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 3:27:14 pm PST
In an ominous development, Al Qaeda is moving money again.
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linkage overhaul
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 2:02:04 pm PST
That thing I’ve been threatening to do? I did it. The list of anti-idiotarian weblogs has been getting longer and longer, bogging down the page and frankly becoming an eyesore. Also a pain to maintain and a strain on my brain. Therefore, the list now shows 25 randomly selected weblogs from the ...
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suicide of the palestinians
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 9:39:22 am PST
Some perceptive observations from David Gelernter: The Suicide of the Palestinians. We now know what Palestinians want, and what they think of Israelis. After all, what exactly is the point of sending killers to massacre children at random? What do you accomplish? You impose hatred. You ask Israel, in effect: ...
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the wages of religious tyranny
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 9:17:07 am PST
William Quick writes about the Mecca girls’ school fire. Let every decent human in the world avert their eyes from those who believe and practice in this manner, for they have forfeited their humanity and become savages. And know that the sooner men and beliefs like this - all such ...
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comment posting problems
Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 7:47:20 am PST
We’re having some issues with the comment posting system, and trying to work them out with our web host. Please hold off on posting comments until I give the all clear. Carry on. Update: All clear. If you’re feeling feisty today, there’s a nice long post from a Palestinian apologist here. ...
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amnesty international on the mecca school fire
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 7:16:54 pm PST
Amnesty International does the right thing.
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top of the heap
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 4:08:48 pm PST
All right! Megan McArdle’s page is search result #1 for Marc Herold Afghan casualties.
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google news bookmarklets
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 3:51:10 pm PST
Google News is insanely great, and I was inspired to convert my Dictionary/Thesaurus bookmarklets for use with it. To use these bookmarklets, drag the link (PC or Mac version) to your browser toolbar. Highlight any word or words on a web page and click the bookmarklet, and you'll be taken to ...
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google news!
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 2:13:46 pm PST
My respect for Google’s code geeks just increased even more: Google News.
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google’s on to us
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:59:55 pm PST
A good post at Slashdot explains that Google is already on to Googlebombing. I have lots of respect for Google’s software engineers; here’s why: In addition to other spam prevention methods, google uses complex matrix/vector filtering to ignore link circles. Basically, if (say) the same 100 different sites link to ...
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self-examination?
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:12:59 am PST
Buried at the bottom of this Arab News article about the girls’ school fire in Mecca (which is mostly devoted to making a scapegoat of the Presidency of Girls’ Education) is an uncharacteristic bit of self-examination that somehow got past the censors: School tragedy should sound alarm bells. Why does ...
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our pals the egyptians
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:08:11 am PST
The Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar exults over last weekend’s Palestinian suicide bomb attack against Israeli civilians: A Heroic Operation. "The heroic operation carried out by the military arm of the Hamas movement, the 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, in West Jerusalem is an important turning point in Palestinian resistance activities." "This ...
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questions
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 9:27:22 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson asks some Questions. One of the advantages of living in relative isolation on a farm is the opportunity to ponder idle questions when there are few experts around to give the proper answers. I list in no particular order a sampling of them that arose last night ...
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new AI blogs
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 6:12:05 pm PST
If you put all the new anti-idiotarian weblogs end to end, they would stretch halfway around Michael Moore’s belly. That’s not a comment on the paucity of weblogs. In fact, I have so many new ones I want to add to our list that I’m being forced to get off my lazy ...
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searching for geraldo, part 2
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 5:31:50 pm PST
Ah ha! So he did say something especially stupid.
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searching for geraldo
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 4:52:16 pm PST
We’ve had quite a few search engine hits today for “Geraldo Rivera comments about Israel” and similar phrases. Did I miss something? Did Jerry say something especially stupid today?
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good luck, tony
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 4:12:14 pm PST
Well, Zinni the yoyo is back in Israel, and Ariel Sharon has ordered a pullout from the terrorist refugee camps. So of course, Fatah (the terror group linked to Yasser Arafat) is sending in the heroic babykillers. Two Fatah militants on their way to carry out a terror attack in ...
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pals
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 3:16:51 pm PST
They make a lovely couple, don’t you think?
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lowry scares cair
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 2:40:32 pm PST
Rich Lowry at the National Review has gotten himself onto the front page of the Arab News with some comments he made in The Corner about nuking Mecca. CAIR (who gets no linky love from me) has one of their infamous action alerts about it; they provide a handy form ...
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the egyptian janus
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 1:00:51 pm PST
While Hosni Mubarak was smiling at photo ops in Washington DC, back home in Egypt the government-controlled Al Ahram was telling its readers that the true axis of evil is the US, Israel, and Turkey. "From the Arab and Iranian point of view, this is the new 'axis of evil,' ...
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the nuclear future
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 9:53:17 am PST
Rich Lowry is trying to scare us: Be Afraid, Very Afraid.
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bugged again
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 9:39:29 am PST
I’m starting to get confused—is this a new bug, or just a new way to use an unpatched old one? Internet Explorer Exploit Gives Windows XP Users The Boot! Seriously, though, isn’t it about time Microsoft got its act together? If nothing else, check out the cute little Explorer/bug icon on ...
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afghan civilian casualties
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 8:34:48 am PST
Reader Tim Callahan tipped us to this very good AP story on Afghan Civilian Deaths, that illustrates the difficulty of obtaining accurate numbers. (Especially if you’re an anti-American Women’s Studies professor sitting in New Hampshire.)
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our friends the misogynists
Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 7:41:08 am PST
Young girls trying to flee a burning school building in Mecca were beaten and forced back inside by the Saudi mutaween (the religious police). Fifteen of them died. Why would anyone do such a monstrous thing? Because they were not wearing their robes and scarves. The Arab News, always ready with ...
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13 more
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 7:08:06 pm PST
Six months after: 13 More Bodies Recovered at Ground Zero.
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cyberbombs
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 5:55:16 pm PST
Thanks to the efforts of Megan McArdle, Ben Sheriff, Dan Hartung, and all the other anti-idiotarians who’ve joined in the crusade (oooh! scary word!), it looks like the Googlebomb is starting to have an effect.
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blood libel
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 5:30:09 pm PST
(Ed. note: I don’t usually do this, but just this once I’m going to reprint several sections of this item from MEMRI because I think it needs to be seen by as many people as possible. I won’t even comment on it, except to emphasize that the original article appeared ...
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mideast business as usual
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 5:00:59 pm PST
I liked a lot of what Bush said in his speech today. He sounded the right notes on Iraq and the nuclear policy study. But this ... "Frankly, it's not helpful what the Israelis have recently done in order to create conditions for peace. I understand someone trying to defend ...
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you dropped a bomb on me
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 4:26:49 pm PST
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disputed territories
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:19:25 pm PST
Here’s a good resource for understanding the history and issues surrounding what has become known as the “Israeli occupation:” From “Occupied Territories” to “Disputed Territories.” (via Smarter Times.)
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down for a long time
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 8:16:40 am PST
Blogspot is down down down. Has been for several hours. This doesn’t look good.
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set up us the bomb
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 7:45:37 am PST
No sooner do we suggest (via Ben Sheriff) Googlebombing the Marc Herold Afghan casualties study than an article about the practice appears in the BBC: Google hit by link bombers. Coincidence? LGF. Ahead of the curve, so you don’t have to be. (Hat tip: Chris Hester.)
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“extremism”
Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 7:30:16 am PST
Kofi Annan demands that Israel stop defending herself. The article in the NY Times contains this distorted bit of moral equivalence: But on both sides, violence and extremism appeared to be tightening their grip. Today, a mob here shot dead a Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel, then hung his ...
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i’ll never learn
Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 6:07:05 pm PST
One day I will learn my lesson and never, under any circumstances, try to upgrade my computer. I spent all day wrestling with a new 80 Gigabyte hard drive, in a USB enclosure that turned out to be defective. My fingers hurt. Why do they make those power plugs so ...
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arab news roundup
Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:14:39 am PST
It’s a cornucopia of incoherence, hate, and anti-Americanism at the Arab News today! First, let’s see how the ever-murkier, going-down-for-the-third-time Saudi Peace Scam is doing. GCC seeks world support for Saudi peace scam initiative. The Gulf Cooperation Council (Oxymoron of the Year Award winner) “agreed to seek international support for a ...
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killing the meme
Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 8:50:09 am PST
Ben Sheriff says we can kill the Marc Herold Afghan casualties meme by Googlebombing it. For the uninitiated, “Googlebombing” takes advantage of the fact that Google gives a high ranking to regularly updated sites; this means that if a lot of bloggers link to, say, Iain Murray’s take-down of the ...
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the laws of war
Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 6:51:40 am PST
Under international law Israel has a clear right (in fact, a duty) to retaliate for the barbarous, perfidious crimes of the PLO/PA, writes political science professor Louis Rene Beres: Palestinian atrocities, Israeli retaliations and the laws of war. When television news reports create parallel images between Palestinian attacks upon Jews ...
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lessons from kuwait
Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 6:43:06 pm PST
In an incredible essay (one of many since 9/11) Victor Davis Hanson sees Kuwait as a microcosm for the Arab world, and asks, “What can we learn from the baffling stance of the Kuwaitis?” I can’t pull a quote; the whole damned thing is great. Go ye and read of ...
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somebody kill this meme
Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 8:39:05 am PST
Remember the long-discredited, thoroughly dishonest Marc Herold guesstimate on civilian casualties in Afghanistan? The one that uses the Taliban as a source? This meme refuses to die, probably because it fits so neatly into the morality mathematics of the anti-American agenda; less than 3000 dead in New York, more than ...
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9/11
Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 8:05:19 am PST
The planes streaking like demonic sharks toward their victims. The sound of people crashing to the ground after leaping from the upper floors. The lost look in Father Michal Judge’s eyes, in the final minutes of his life. This must never be allowed to happen again. Never forget.
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he rocks, dude
Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 6:40:04 pm PST
A great Ronald Radosh column on Edward Said’s latest neo-Marxist tract: Edward Said and the War Against Terrorism.
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the LAT-Saudi connection
Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 1:31:13 pm PST
Glenn Reynolds (whose archives seem to be hosed at the moment) and Matt Welch both ripped the LA Times (the worst major newspaper in the US) today for this silly fog-minded exercise in alarmism: Civil Liberties Take Back Seat to Safety. As Glenn and Matt say, there are some real ...
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thanks for the credit, but...
Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:20:15 am PST
It has come to my attention that I’m being credited with “leading the charge” to have Ted Rall’s “Terror Widows” pulled from the NY Times. While I wasn’t unhappy to see it removed, I just want to set the record straight, because I never, no how, no way, called for the ...
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beneath the surface
Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:06:36 am PST
At the Washington Post, a good article by Nafisa Hoodbhoy digs for the real meaning of Daniel Pearl’s death: There's Much More To Daniel Pearl's Murder Than Meets the Eye.
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mideast escalation
Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 9:48:54 am PST
Steven Den Beste has some thoughts about the escalation of the Mideast conflict. I’ve been thinking about this a lot too, and something about Steven’s post inspired me to get some of my thoughts out; here’s my reply (which I also posted in Steven’s forum): ---------- Although there is obviously enormous strain ...
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and again
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 2:15:06 pm PST
Filthy murdering beasts.
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terrorists under the bed
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 1:06:39 pm PST
Reader David Rosen told us about this attack dog review of Steve Emerson’s book American Jihad, by Eric Boehlert: Terrorists under the bed. The subheading says Emerson “doesn't know the difference between Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat,” and that’s one of the main premises of the review. Boehlert says ...
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losing the middle east
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 10:46:56 am PST
In a must-read deconstruction of the Saudi Peace Scam, former CIA agent Reuel Marc Gerecht says when it comes to peacemaking, don’t trust the Egyptians and the Saudis: Losing the Middle East? September 11 should have told us that we must break free from the State Department's traditional interpretation of ...
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hezbollah admission
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 9:38:54 am PST
To no one’s great surprise, the Secretary General of the Hezbollah has admitted smuggling weapons into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Speaking in Beirut on Friday, Nasrallah said that the two Lebanese citizens arrested in Jordan last year were indeed trying to smuggle Katyusha rockets into the West Bank. ...
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a note to ted
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 8:36:17 am PST
Dear Mr. Rall, Just thought you might like to read this article at one of your former publishers (the New York Times), about the suffering people you decided needed a little more pain: Six Months Later. MIDDLETOWN, N.J., March 8 — A middle-aged widow rarely gets out of bed when the ...
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the slyer virus
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 7:44:34 am PST
Here’s a great Mark Steyn essay on “the West’s anti-Westernism,” a curious trait that gives rise to disgraceful circuses of self-loathing like the UN Conference on Racism in Durban: The slyer virus. Underneath the surface controversy, the United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial Intolerance, Xenophobia and/ or Related Intolerance in ...
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the son also speaks
Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 7:24:32 am PST
The 29-year old son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is interviewed by TIME magazine: The Son Also Speaks. They’re still trying to duck responsibility for the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, but in many ways they actually seem interested in joining the 21st century. Worth reading.
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provocation
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 at 6:00:21 pm PST
Rajeev Srinivasan writes about the horrific attack on a train full of Hindu pilgrims that set off India’s worst Hindu-Muslim violence in a decade: The attack on the Sabarmati Express. “Progressive” Indian media immediately blamed the massacre on Muslim resentment over “provocative” Hindu plans to build a temple in Ayodhya. ...
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in the name of god
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 at 1:40:09 pm PST
Salman Rushdie writes about the Hindu-Muslim violence in India, and the sad propensity of human beings to commit Slaughter in the Name of God.
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posterity
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 at 11:02:06 am PST
This morning I added a new feature to our comments; there’s a checkbox right above the “post” button that lets you save your information (name, email, URL) in a cookie on your computer. You can do this on our preferences page as well, but it makes sense to put the ...
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the inspections trap
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 at 9:24:56 am PST
Apart from Kofi Annan, are there actually people naive enough to believe UN inspections will prevent Saddam Hussein from obtaining megadeath weapons? OpinionJournal provides a helpful summary of the sad history of UNSCOM: The Inspections Trap.
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why do they hate us? who cares?
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 at 7:18:42 am PST
When that poll came out showing that the Muslim world hates the West (what a surprise!), Arab American Institute president James Zogby said we “should attempt more dialogue and cultural interaction” with our Muslim critics. It’s hard to argue against increased dialogue. But as Paul Mulshine writes, what good will ...
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a screedy bleat
Thu, Mar 7, 2002 at 5:45:39 pm PST
James Lileks has the wrap-up on Rall: ...he seems so besotted by his need to prove his intellectual bravery that he doesn’t realize when he’s walked off the cliff. It’s a Wile E. Coyote moment in a man’s career; we can only watch him shrink, and wait for the single ...
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the axis of said and pilger
Thu, Mar 7, 2002 at 12:01:06 pm PST
I’ve been kind of busy with several projects lately and haven’t had as much time for blog-surfing. So when he first posted them, I missed these great back-to-back takedowns of Edward Said’s and John Pilger’s latest tired recycled columns by Brian Silverman.
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palestinian bravery
Thu, Mar 7, 2002 at 10:04:28 am PST
Another Palestinian walked into a hotel lobby and blew himself up today, in still another brave, heroic attempt to kill and injure as many unsuspecting civilians as possible. Luckily, he killed only himself (although at least one Israeli is reported to have been seriously injured). Do you still get the ...
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terror and pity
Thu, Mar 7, 2002 at 9:44:46 am PST
An excellent, insightful essay by Barry Rubin on the Palestinian strategy of Terror and Pity. "Terror and pity" might be the best way to describe Palestinian strategy - a sharp change from the peace-process approach of "negotiate and build a state." To Israelis, the key message is terror: "Give us ...
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the end of indifference
Thu, Mar 7, 2002 at 9:01:27 am PST
It’s hard to describe the cold rage I felt, reading this story and watching the video: U.S. hostages in Philippines deliver statement at gunpoint. Once again, the anti-Semitic message is loud and clear. Here’s the full statement Martin Burnham was forced to read. I was struck by point four: Four, their indifference ...
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unrepentant murderers
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 6:10:53 pm PST
Well, if you’re not already depressed enough about the Middle East, here are a couple of articles at MSNBC worth reading. Deadly al-Aqsa militants emerge. “A New Phase of the Intifada.”
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outsmarted
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 5:57:32 pm PST
Al Qaeda freakazoids taunting US forces received a nasty surprise. Just another reason why, in the long haul, we will prevail. (via William Quick.)
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rall has crossed the line
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 2:40:55 pm PST
The Ted Rall “Terror Widows” strip is all over the news today. Of course, anti-idiotarians have been on to Rall and his psycho ravings for quite a while. But this time he managed to come up with something so mean-spirited and ugly that he’s registering on the national media radar. He ...
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alternative to common sense
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 12:02:21 pm PST
Kevin Deenihan points out this article in the Berkeley Daily Planet about a group of play-socialist “journalists and activists” on a field trip to festive Cuba, to experience firsthand Uncle Fidel’s “alternative to capitalism.” Listen to Martin Bourque, one of the trip’s organizers, positively giddy about the joys of a government ...
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ny times statement
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 9:55:15 am PST
Here’s the NY Times’s statement about why they removed Ted Rall’s evil-minded cartoon: Editorial Cartoon Removed From Web. Rall, of course, is unapologetic.
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so?
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 9:16:03 am PST
Why is this still news?
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terror from the cradle to the grave
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 8:43:49 am PST
Here’s an excellent paper on the history, ideology, funding, and goals of the terrorist group Hamas–The Islamic Resistance Movement of Palestine. Hamas recruits activists to its ranks through the medium of da'awa, nonviolent ideological indoctrination that takes place in mosques, schools, and other social institutions. Mirroring the methodology of the ...
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the peace sham
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 8:05:29 am PST
A fantastic column by Charles Krauthammer rips the Saudi Peace Sham to shreds, and spells out why it would be a huge mistake for the Bush administration to buy it. In 35 years of studying the Middle East, I have rarely seen anything to rival the Saudi "peace plan" for ...
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a violent society
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 7:52:22 am PST
It looks like the ceaseless indoctrination of their children into a life of violence and hate is really working. The results of a recent Palestinian poll: 64.1% support Yasser Arafat. 66.5% support the continuation of the Intifada. 22.8% support a halt to the Intifada. 64.3% in favor of suicidal attacks in Israel. 42.9% agree to ...
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melting the permafrost
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 7:47:21 am PST
I just heard a lisping British writer on LA radio call the Saudi “peace scam” a “breath of fresh air that can melt the permafrost that grips the Middle East.” Gag.
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smells like a foot
Wed, Mar 6, 2002 at 7:40:26 am PST
Geoff Meltzner takes down another Guardian exercise in moral equivalency.
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what the hell is wrong with these people?
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 3:40:55 pm PST
Wow. You can almost see the spittle spraying from this hysterically exaggerated rant by an Egyptian Islamist: Guantanamo is the Real Auschwitz. After babbling for a while about Emile Zola and J'Accuse (which he seems to think is about an evil Jewish plot) he emits this kneeslapper: "With his article, ...
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the ny times responds
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 2:18:50 pm PST
I just received an email from the NY Times publisher apologizing for that disgusting Ted Rall cartoon, and informing me that it had been taken off their site. I’ll bet they got a flood of email about that one.
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how he escaped (if he did)
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 2:04:20 pm PST
Here’s the story of how Osama bin Laden got away. I’m not convinced; I think every day we don’t hear from him, the probability increases that he’s a thin coating of protein paint on a cave wall.
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provenance of the ordnance
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 10:20:43 am PST
Ira Stoll observes: A front-page dispatch from Jerusalem in today's New York Times makes a point of noting that Israel used "American-supplied F-16 fighter planes and Apache attack helicopters" to strike at Palestinian Arab targets. No mention by the Times of who supplied the "M-16 assault rifle" and "two ...
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long term viability
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 9:06:45 am PST
The Boston Globe’s series on Saudi Arabia continues today with a look at the long term viability of the Saudi monarchy.
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rall hits bottom
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 7:48:57 am PST
If you thought Ted Rall was a loathsome little anti-American freak before, wait til you see his latest unbelievably disgusting excrescence. I’d like to put him in a room with these women. I urge all of our readers to write to the NY Times and tell them what you think about ...
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the saudi scam
Tue, Mar 5, 2002 at 7:34:47 am PST
Frank Gaffney is another who sees through the Friedman/Abdullah “peace plan” (which I’m going to start calling the “peace scam”): The Saudi Scam. The surrender of the "occupied territories" will both 1) encourage Israel's enemies to realize their historic and oft-stated goal of "driving the Jews into the sea" and ...
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the inspection ploy
Mon, Mar 4, 2002 at 12:34:14 pm PST
William Safire says we shouldn’t fall for Saddam Hussein’s delaying tactics: The Inspection Ploy. As predicted here, Saddam Hussein — faced with the certainty of a U.S.-led overthrow of his brutal regime — has restarted the business of postponing the attack until he can finish making weapons of mass destruction. ...
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shame on the times
Mon, Mar 4, 2002 at 12:23:37 pm PST
Underneath this horrifying photo of Hamas suicide bombers partying after their latest slaughter of women and children: The New York Times runs this caption: Hamas activists, dressed as suicide bombers, vowed more attacks on Israel after the weekend's bombing and shooting. “Activists?” This is a new low for the Times.
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israel/palestine faq
Mon, Mar 4, 2002 at 12:02:52 pm PST
The Israeli government has posted an excellent document with answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the issues surrounding Palestinian terrorism and violence. Many of these questions have often been brought up in our comment areas: * Is Israel using excessive force in its response to the violence? * Why are there more ...
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teaching intolerance
Mon, Mar 4, 2002 at 8:31:01 am PST
The Boston Globe is running a good series on Saudi Arabia. Today’s installment looks at the hatred and anti-Semitism taught by the Saudi educational system: Saudi schools fuel anti-US anger. ABHA, Saudi Arabia - At the Islamic Law department here at King Khalid University, students line up to buy cassette ...
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neighbors
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 6:57:53 pm PST
Look at the picture accompanying this article and ask yourself how you would feel, what you would do, if these were your neighbors?
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peace plan endangers israel
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 6:22:25 pm PST
In their first official statement about the Friedman/Abdullah “peace plan,” the Israeli government makes it clear that unless the plan is open to negotiation it’s dead in the water. Cabinet Secretary Gideon Sa'ar said after the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday that "a decision calling for a complete withdrawal to the ...
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peace plan goes to pieces
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 6:05:07 pm PST
Crazy old Moammar Gadhafi (or however he’s spelling his name nowadays) says he’ll quit the Arab League over the Friedman/Abdullah “peace plan.”
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southeast asian terror
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 5:08:31 pm PST
Here’s a good article at the LA Times about Southeast Asian Islamofascist groups linked to Al Qaeda: Southeast Asian Terror Exhibits Al Qaeda Traits.
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myths vs. facts
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 4:18:48 pm PST
Here’s a good resource for understanding the history of the Middle East: Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The viewpoint is admittedly pro-Israel, but the historical facts speak for themselves.
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waiting for the shoe to drop
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 1:46:03 pm PST
TIME.com has a good piece about intelligence hits and misses: Can We Stop the Next Attack? The article contains this surprising revelation: For a few harrowing weeks last fall, a group of U.S. officials believed that the worst nightmare of their lives—something even more horrific than 9/11—was about to come ...
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reactions to the plan
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 12:54:32 pm PST
From MEMRI, here are some more reactions in the Arab press to the Friedman/Abdullah “peace plan.” Yesterday’s quotes from Arab media made it clear that Palestinian/Arab demands for return of land were completely non-negotiable. That may seem like a strange position for someone who claims to be “negotiating.” But incredibly, they ...
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gloat resistance
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 12:33:04 pm PST
Hey! All you bloggers with Bravenet counters! Take ’em out of your pages, because Bravenet has been hacked, and it’s causing your blogs to stall. And nothing hurts like a clogged blog. (Once again I resist the urge to gloat over my custom PHP statistics application.)
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nuclear terror
Sun, Mar 3, 2002 at 9:18:12 am PST
My darkest fear is that a terrorist group will smuggle nuclear weapons into the US and set them off in several cities simultaneously. This is the premise of an award winning science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson (The Wild Shore), and ever since I read it I’ve been haunted ...
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seeing all the way through
Sat, Mar 2, 2002 at 6:13:30 pm PST
Ira Stoll is another who sees through the Friedman/Saudi “peace plan,” in spite of the relentless hyping of the New York Times.
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plans of the islamists
Sat, Mar 2, 2002 at 1:24:21 pm PST
Bala Ambati is forwarding us some fascinating stuff. Here’s an interview with a Pakistani Islamist, who talks frankly about the militants’ plans to split India into a million pieces. Their vision for the future: Q: What kind of government that JI envisages for Pakistan?A: It will be the Sharia govt. ...
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and again
Sat, Mar 2, 2002 at 12:09:29 pm PST
Today another sick freak blew himself up in Jerusalem, killing 9 people and injuring 57. One of those killed was a baby girl.
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sharon calls abdullah’s bluff
Sat, Mar 2, 2002 at 8:47:24 am PST
Ariel Sharon says that unless the Saudis agree to meet with Israel, there is nothing to talk about. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sent a clear message to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud yesterday that, without contact between Israel and Saudi Arabia, his peace deal is doomed to ...
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simplisme, schmimplisme
Fri, Mar 1, 2002 at 11:43:10 am PST
Our sophisticated European cousins are subjected to a serious Krauthammering in The Axis of Petulance. Our enemies have already turned against us. Our allies will not. Europe knows that in the end, its security depends on our strength and our protection. Europeans are the ultimate free-riders on American power. We ...
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nothing new under the desert sun
Fri, Mar 1, 2002 at 9:01:16 am PST
Bret Stephens at the OpinionJournal shares my belief that the Saudi “peace plan” is nothing new; whenever they need to curry favor with the West they trot this tired old horse out of the stable: "Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after acceptance of a Palestinian ...
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