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LGF Archives: May 2002

Friday, May 31, 2002

survivors face agony

Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:12:19 am PDT

This article at WorldNetDaily graphically shows the horror of being caught in a suicide bombing, with stomach-wrenching X-rays of nails and metal fragments embedded in victims’ bodies: Survivors face agony in suicide attacks.

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peaceful religion watch

Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:42:26 am PDT

Yesterday we had a report that Belgian mosques were becoming recruitment centers for Islamic extremists. Today the Dutch Internal Security Agency reports that the same thing is happening in the Netherlands. PARIS - A network of Islamist militants has been recruiting young Muslim immigrants at mosques in the Netherlands, urging ...

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political bloggers

Fri, May 31, 2002 at 8:53:50 am PDT

John Hawkins of the Right Wing News has ranked his favorite political bloggers ... and LGF is in second place! We even came in ahead of the high-powered conservative cabal at the Corner. Thanks, John.

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out of india

Fri, May 31, 2002 at 8:28:45 am PDT

The State Department has told American citizens to get out of India.

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weenies or moles?

Fri, May 31, 2002 at 8:15:53 am PDT

A provocative column from Peggy Noonan today about the Colleen Rowley memo alleging cover-ups at the FBI. Noonan focuses on a chilling detail from the memo: In the early aftermath of Sept. 11, whenever she told the story of the Moussaoui investigation to FBI personnel, "almost everyone's first question was: ...

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Thursday, May 30, 2002

new pakistani threats

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 4:32:48 pm PDT

Today Pakistan’s new ambassador to the United Nations threatened to use nuclear weapons. United Nations, May 30 (PTI) Pakistan has threatened to use nuclear weapons even if India stuck to conventional arms in any conflict, asserting that it has never subscribed to "no-first-use" of atomic weapons and that ruling out ...

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another splodeydope backs down

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 4:27:39 pm PDT

The creature who blew himself up in a cafe full of mothers with babies had accomplices: a Palestinian man and his Israeli wife who drove him to the site, and another woman suicide bomber who couldn’t go through with it. Reports say she was supposed to lie in wait for ...

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cold feet

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 4:15:23 pm PDT

Here’s another awful story about a 25-year old Palestinian woman trained to be a suicide bomber, who backed out at the last minute. "They wanted me to have my hair loose, wear sun glasses and makeup and tight clothes. I said no because it's against my religion," the Maariv newspaper ...

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belgian jihad

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 3:57:23 pm PDT

A confidential Senate report (although I don’t know how confidential it is if senators are talking to the press about it) says Belgium is a recruiting ground for Islamic extremists, with 10% of Belgium’s 300 mosques identified as “radical.”

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cheese eating surrender profs

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:02:28 am PDT

Here’s a totally ineffectual attack on Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson and others, written by a humanities professor in Pennsylvania: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. I read the piece expecting him to at least put up some kind of argument; but his method consists of little more than extensive quotes from the ...

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still missing

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 8:40:22 am PDT

As we officially mark the end of the World Trade Center site clean-up, remember that there are more than a thousand people still unidentified: Mourning The Still Missing.

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SFSU blogburst

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 8:29:14 am PDT

Joe Katzman has assembled a great collection of links for following the troubling story of anti-Semitism at San Francisco State University.

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blowing the whistle

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 8:03:51 am PDT

As the FBI undergoes massive reforms resulting from their failure to recognize the patterns leading to 9/11, remember that Laurie Mylroie has been blowing the whistle about Saddam Hussein for years. In this article she makes a case that Iraq supports Al Qaeda, and criticizes career diplomats for Letting Saddam ...

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why the settlements should stay

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 7:37:19 am PDT

A very interesting piece at the OpinionJournal by Hillel Halkin, looking at the conventional wisdom that Israel’s settlements in the disputed territories will have to be removed as part of any peace deal: Why the Settlements Should Stay. Among other excellent points: The conventional wisdom is also wrong in asserting--a ...

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Wednesday, May 29, 2002

something about leila

Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:00:28 pm PDT

Occasionally I run across something in the Arab press that is so freaky and twisted I feel like I’ve been kidnapped by evil robots and dragged kicking and screaming into a different dimension. In this bizarre character study from Arabia.com, written in June 2000, the author profanes the memory of ...

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england welcomes hijacker

Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:38:33 am PDT

Unbelievable. Britain allowed notorious Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled into the country, to speak at a London university. Khaled is a leader of the PFLP, the group that murdered Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi and is responsible for numerous suicide bombings. On Wednesday she addressed a packed student meeting at the ...

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face the facts

Wed, May 29, 2002 at 9:59:41 am PDT

It’s important to draw attention to any signs of sanity in the Arab world, and here’s one. Almost buried in the usual flood of half-baked conspiracy allegations and anti-Israel hysteria, the Arab News prints an article telling Arabs to face the facts. I recently received a fax containing some interesting ...

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UNRWA denies all

Wed, May 29, 2002 at 9:30:49 am PDT

David Tell of the Weekly Standard has been highly critical of UNRWA, the UN organization that administers Palestinian refugee camps in Jenin and elsewhere. Well, UNRWA has noticed that people are catching on, and they’ve finally decided to do something about the terrorists and anti-Israel incitement in their camps. They’re writing ...

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Tuesday, May 28, 2002

arafat snack foods

Tue, May 28, 2002 at 1:49:00 pm PDT

In Egypt, they can’t keep the new cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips on store shelves. They’re selling like pipe bombs in Jenin. Coming soon: the fat-free Olestra version. (Warning: may cause anal explosions.)

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apostrophe apocalypse

Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:39 pm PDT

Look, I don’t know for sure. All I’m saying is that “Benny Walton,” who the Arab News claims is from Denver Colorado, sounds more like a ranter from Riyadh named Abdullah Bin Walid. I’m just sayin’, is all. But I do know that by the time I finished reading this noxious ...

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dumping arafat

Tue, May 28, 2002 at 8:02:19 am PDT

James S. Robbins is just as sick of Yasser Arafat and his thug buddies as we are. The American fixation on Arafat is in fact the main obstacle to the emergence of a true nonviolent political opposition movement in the PA. Arafat supporters in this country maintain that he is ...

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terror untruths

Tue, May 28, 2002 at 7:47:27 am PDT

Daniel Pipes says the State Department’s report on terrorism isn’t just politicized ... this year it’s dangerous: State's Terror Untruths.

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the blogosystem

Tue, May 28, 2002 at 7:26:16 am PDT

John Hiler analyzes the blog/media relationship in one of the best articles I’ve seen about weblogs: Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem.

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the IJC FAQ

Tue, May 28, 2002 at 7:09:59 am PDT

Thanks to an alert reader, I’ve discovered incontrovertible proof of the existence of the International Jewish Conspiracy.

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Monday, May 27, 2002

an honest enemy

Mon, May 27, 2002 at 4:56:10 pm PDT

The murderous swine of Hamas are once again vowing to continue suicide bombings. And contradicting the reports from Saudi Arabia and “unnamed US officials,” they say no Arab country has asked them to stop. I believe them; Hamas has never tried to hide their genocidal intentions, unlike the lying Saudis. ...

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Lance wins again

Mon, May 27, 2002 at 2:29:06 pm PDT

It's nice to see this kind of news as the Tour de France approaches - Armstrong takes Midi Libre

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and again

Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:47:48 am PDT

Another noble Palestinian mass murderer has blown himself up, in a shopping mall filled with women and children. This heroic freedom fighter succeeded in massacring an elderly woman and a young girl, and seriously wounding a baby. And while Israeli children continue to be slaughtered by these monsters, Canada’s craven Foreign ...

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more about eurovision

Mon, May 27, 2002 at 8:29:28 am PDT

Israel’s Foreign Ministry will investigate reports of anti-Israel comments made by announcers at the Eurovision Song Contest. An announcer in Belgium reportedly told viewers that although Hadad's song "was not bad, we should hope that Israel does not win. This is not the time for Israel to host the Eurovision." ...

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memorial day

Mon, May 27, 2002 at 8:12:15 am PDT

It‘s Memorial Day, so please take a moment to remember those who gave their lives so we could stay free.

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Sunday, May 26, 2002

eurovision song contest

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 7:08:33 pm PDT

Let’s return to the Eurovision Song Contest for a moment. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Europe, so I was surprised to hear about the sudden appearance of anti-Semitism at the contest this year. I’ve watched the horrible thing more than once (usually when coerced by a ...

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apache on OS X

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 4:21:55 pm PDT

I’m becoming more enamored with OS X every day. I’ve got Apache up and running with PHP, and I’ve downloaded the Apple OS X Developer Tools so I can compile source code, so I now have a sweet little localhost Unix development machine. Here’s an index page at O’Reilly for a ...

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nuclear nightmares

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 4:11:28 pm PDT

Are you sleeping a little too soundly? Need a few more apocalyptic visions to keep you awake? No? Then don’t read Bill Keller’s Nuclear Nightmares piece in the NYT Magazine. But if you can stand a bit more anxiety, this is a very good, unhysterical look at the possible scenarios for ...

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fighting to live

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 3:02:31 pm PDT

Haunting stories of life and death from the World Trade Center, pieced together from cell phones and eyewitness accounts: Fighting to Live as the Towers Died. This is why I do what I do here at LGF. We must never forget that day, or these people.

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more euro disgrace

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:31:15 pm PDT

Swedish and Belgian presenters at the Eurovision Song Contest told their local audiences not to vote for Israeli singer Sarit Hadad. Swedes watching the national TV1 station said that the presenters said before Hadad appeared that Israel was not even meant to take part in the contest "because of what ...

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bye bye times

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:32:19 am PDT

The Times (of London) is now charging only overseas readers 40 Pounds (almost $60) a year to view their online content—and this only gives you access to the last 7 days. What kind of LSD are these guys smoking? Not a bloody chance.

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the abuse of history

Sun, May 26, 2002 at 9:40:57 am PDT

Another excellent Victor Davis Hanson piece (that I missed somehow when it appeared last week) about the historical distortions repeated endlessly by Arabs and Palestinians. US media, and Americans in general, are shamefully ignorant of history. But what excuse does the European press have? We hear frequently of the "Holocaust" ...

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Saturday, May 25, 2002

za for the idf

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:08:37 am PDT

The report of the demise of pizza for the IDF was greatly exaggerated—they’re still in business.

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bloodlust

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 9:13:06 am PDT

This isn’t exactly news, but the hard boys of Hamas plan to keep right on machine-gunning little girls in their beds and sending 16-year olds to blow up old men playing chess: Hamas leader: Attacks against Israeli civilians won't stop. KUWAIT CITY - Members of Hamas will not halt their ...

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anti-semitism in toronto

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 8:43:56 am PDT

David Janes emailed us these disturbing stories in Canada’s National Post, about anti-Israel hatred being taught to children ... in Toronto: Board probes complaints lesson was anti-Israel. The Toronto District School Board is investigating complaints that a newsletter distributed to a Grade 5 social science class at Summit Heights School gave ...

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rumsfeld for president

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 8:18:30 am PDT

At least someone in our government isn’t wallowing in defeatism: U.S. forces not insufficient for Iraq fight, Rumsfeld says. WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld brushed aside news reports yesterday that U.S. forces are stretched too thin because of the war on terrorism to mount a major attack on ...

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foiled attacks

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 8:06:18 am PDT

In the month since the end of Israel’s Operation Defensive Shield, there have been 32 thwarted terror attacks: Hamas - 8 attacks. Palestinian Islamic Jihad - 7 attacks. Fatah - 9 attacks. Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) - 3 attacks. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - 1 attack. Organization unknown ...

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our allies against terrorism

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 7:42:12 am PDT

Last March, according to this AP story, Saudi Arabian government-controlled television broadcast a show that featured a group of masked men explaining in detail how to build a bomb from readily available materials.

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LGF scoops MEMRI

Sat, May 25, 2002 at 7:26:11 am PDT

We scooped MEMRI on this one; LGF had the story about idiotarian French conspiracy author Thierry Meyssan lecturing an Arab League think tank (and I use the term loosely) last week. MEMRI’s report does have a few more interesting details, though; look who else has been at the Zayed Center for ...

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Friday, May 24, 2002

sweet sixteen

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:48:23 pm PDT

The murderer who perpetrated the attack against elderly people playing chess in a park was 16 years old. His family claims to be shocked. At his home in Al Doha village Friday, his brother Khaled remembered joking earlier in the week with young Issa, whose name is Arabic for "Jesus." ...

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explosion in encino

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:15:46 pm PDT

There’s been a huge explosion in an apartment building in Encino.

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a must read

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:57:07 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson has written one of the finest columns of his career, a moving tribute to his namesake—his father’s first cousin Victor Hanson—simply titled A Ring.

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from kabul to kashmir

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:38:01 am PDT

Here’s an excellent piece at the Asia Times looking at the double dealing of our good buddies in Pakistan: Terror trail leads from Kabul to Kashmir. During the first Afghan war in 1980s, the US had turned a blind eye to Pakistan's nuclear program. If Pakistan's unstated assumption based on ...

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still trying

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:19:49 am PDT

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, allied with Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, has taken the blame for yesterday’s aborted terror attack against a discotheque in Tel Aviv. "The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has carried out the remarkable, heroic martyrdom operation in the heart of Tel Aviv this morning, in ...

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rest in pieces

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:03:55 am PDT

Two Palestinian homicidal dumbshits blew themselves up a little early ... well, actually while they were building the bomb. They got exactly what they deserved, of course, and the good thing this time is that only the dumbshits died. That’s two less bomb makers. This article also mentions that Palestinians are ...

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rope-a-dope? nope

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:38:29 am PDT

Mark Steyn starts out in this column listing the many ways in which the Bushies have gone wobbly, but ends up hoping it’s a front.

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mushy dances with the islamonazis

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 9:07:10 am PDT

US Intelligence says that Pakistan’s President Musharraf has allowed guerrilla camps to operate in Kashmir and infiltrate into India to carry out terrorist attacks.

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bush to europe: wake up

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 8:42:58 am PDT

Peggy Noonan writes about President Bush’s extraordinary speech at the Bundestag. I haven’t been very happy with Dubya lately; there’s been an awful lot of State Department-inspired fumbling and loss of clarity in his administration. But this speech is incredibly on point, heart-wrenching in its directness. I hope and pray it’s ...

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attack of the blogs

Fri, May 24, 2002 at 8:25:02 am PDT

Jonah Goldberg says there’s nothing new under the sun, and the blog revolution will not be televised. But excuse me while I gloat ever so slightly about this line: Even National Review Online, which I edit, has the "Corner" a multiple-author blog that runs 24-7. Because on January 24, I ...

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Thursday, May 23, 2002

iran’s missile program

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 7:15:05 pm PDT

Iran is testing missiles capable of reaching Israel, and planning new ones that will put the US within range.

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stinky cheese

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 6:49:44 pm PDT

I must agree with Dr. Weevil, but only partially. Giving up on the Calvados cheeses would be a tragedy. But most of the French gym sock cheeses I would gladly boycott, without a backward glance.

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fun with fidel

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 6:14:17 pm PDT

Matt Welch makes the essential point about Fidel Castro’s anachronistic, doomed socialist experiment: Fidel apologia on the American Left is a topic I never tire of, mostly because it still exists. Later, when the old bastard dies, we won’t be able to believe that U.S. citizens who considered themselves ...

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saudi PR campaign fails miserably

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 2:47:24 pm PDT

This is just delicious. Howard Fienberg writes about a poll released by Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates (not available online) showing that Saudi Arabia’s PR campaign, on which they have spent almost $4 Million to date, is an abject failure. Expect an announcement any day that the campaign has been cancelled, ...

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idiotarians stuffing the ballot box

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:51:30 am PDT

I just discovered a small problem in my polling code that allowed someone to stuff the ballot box in our poll about who should be tried as a war criminal. (More precisely, not a problem in my code, but a subtle difference in the way PHP is configured on our ...

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baboons!

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:46:11 am PDT

It’s time to look at two small baboons! Hugging!

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20 facts

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:25:03 am PDT

Twenty facts about Israel and the Middle East. A great capsule resource of the history and issues.

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india-pakistan

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:14:55 am PDT

Too many weblogs and not enough time. There are now 172 links on our anti-idiotarians page, and that’s the only excuse I have for not visiting Suman Palit’s pad in a while. He’s all over the India-Pakistan conflict. Start at the top and read your way to the bottom.

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please stand up

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 9:56:27 am PDT

An excellent column by Jamie Glazov looks at the totalitarian underpinnings of Islam: Will The Real Islam Please Stand Up? The Muslims with whom I debate always assert that the real Islam can join the modern world, but in the same breath they condemn everything about the modern world and ...

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al qaeda in palestine?

Thu, May 23, 2002 at 8:15:10 am PDT

I’m noticing a disturbing pattern in recent Palestinian terrorist activity. This morning they attacked a fuel depot outside Tel Aviv and a major disaster was narrowly averted. Earlier this week Israeli intelligence announced they had uncovered a plot to explode a 1-ton bomb in the underground parking garage of a high-rise ...

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Wednesday, May 22, 2002

pants on fire

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 6:42:04 pm PDT

Geoff Meltzner catches the Arab News in some selective deletion of inconvenient paragraphs. In English: “lying.”

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nuclear war one?

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 6:32:40 pm PDT

Global News Watch has an overview of the conflict between India and Pakistan, with a list of links to the latest headlines. Keep an eye on this, folks. There’s a very good possibility that we’re about to witness Nuclear War One of the 21st Century. UPDATE: The Indian Navy is being ...

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deported for christianity

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 5:47:51 pm PDT

Reader Randall Parker forwarded the latest disgusting story about our “allies against terrorism,” the corrupt, repressive, misogynist, medieval, theocratic (I could go on like this for quite a while) House of Saud: Saudis deport men for owning Bible. Saudi Arabian authorities have deported two Filipino Christians after the pair spent ...

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security incidents

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 5:33:26 pm PDT

I’ve linked to it before, but Israel Insider has one of the best Flash-based security incident maps for understanding the geographical reality of the terrorist attacks Israel suffers daily.

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and again

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 2:24:54 pm PDT

Another depraved suicide bombing in the pedestrian mall in Rishon Letzion. Two people were killed in the blast and over 30 others were wounded.One person is in critical condition, three are listed as serious, 15 sustained moderate-to-light wounds, with 22 more lightly hurt, according to Magen David Adom spokesmen.Eyewitness Orin ...

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q and a

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:51:51 am PDT

The discussion about guns in the cockpit is raging. This is why I don’t write about the Second Amendment—besides the fact that my eyes glaze over when the conversation turns to guns. I’ve already made my opinion known; the pilots should be allowed to have firearms, with appropriate oversight. But since ...

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no more pie

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:30:54 am PDT

Fearing exploitation by terrorists, the IDF has ordered soldiers not to accept any more Internet pizzas. The army has barred soldiers serving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from accepting pizza deliveries they did not order themselves, for fear the packages might be booby-trapped, the army said Wednesday.Last month, ...

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barghouti mouths off

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:17:46 am PDT

From his jail cell, Fatah leader and terror kingpin Marwan Barghouti is telling Palestinians to continue the violence. A prominent Palestinian in Israeli custody, Marwan Barghouti, sent a message from jail Wednesday urging Palestinians to press ahead with their resistance to Israel's military occupation. ...Barghouti's lawyer, Jawad Boulos, visited Barghouti ...

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the san francairo times

Wed, May 22, 2002 at 9:09:14 am PDT

Following up on that Arab propaganda piece from the Cairo Times that was reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle without attribution, Stefan Sharkansky has posted the belligerent, defensive response he received from Mark Abel at the Chronicle, along with a well-written and pointed reply.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2002

capitulation breeds contempt

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 7:16:06 pm PDT

Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer remind us that in the Arab world, capitulation breeds contempt. * When Israel retreats before an enemy that seeks its destruction, it is perceived as weak. This in turn emboldens that enemy to step up its attacks. The lesson: Israel should consider pulling out of disputed ...

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questions on islam

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 5:42:04 pm PDT

Reader Bala Ambati forwards a lot of great stuff to us, and he’s got a very interesting article at Sulekha about some of the troubling passages in the Koran that are used by extremists to justify anti-Semitism and terrorism: Questions on Islam.

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camps of terror

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 4:13:34 pm PDT

A very damning report at AIPAC accuses the UN of not just turning a blind eye, but actively supporting and aiding the terrorists who’ve taken over the UNRWA refugee camps. For all the talk about their “suffering Palestinian brothers,” the surrounding Arab states have demonstrated conclusively that they won’t lift a ...

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revolving door

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 3:40:17 pm PDT

The Palestinian revolving door of justice continues to spin. Today the PA High Court dismissed the case against Fuad Shubaki, the terrorist who masterminded the Karin-A weapons freighter. Not guilty, they say. Lack of evidence.

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the blasphemy law

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 1:12:03 pm PDT

The Washington Post has an article about a Pakistani educator sentenced to death under Pakistan’s medieval Islamic blasphemy law. Sheikh's problems began in October 2000 when he made some innocuous remarks about the origins of Islam. Muslims believe that the Koran came to the prophet Muhammad as a revelation when ...

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no more BS for glenn

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:11:24 am PDT

Glenn Reynolds is finally off Blogspot! And with a new design too!

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an extremist at marist college

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:46:10 am PDT

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Dr. Naseer Alomari, who excreted one of those ugly “Sharon=Hitler” Holocaust equivalency articles for the Jordan Times, with a byline identifying him as an “assistant professor of education at Marist College, New York.” Well, “Dr. Alomari” is back at the Jordan Times again, ...

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pilots will not be armed

Tue, May 21, 2002 at 8:42:03 am PDT

Here’s another sign that we’re still not serious about security: the federal government will not allow commercial pilots to be armed. Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., who chairs the Commerce Committee, said guns would not be needed as long as pilots kept cockpit doors locked while in flight."You can put the ...

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Monday, May 20, 2002

arafat’s true intent

Mon, May 20, 2002 at 5:52:11 pm PDT

Joseph Farah looks at the blood-soaked history of Yasser Arafat for clues to his true intentions, especially his role in fomenting the 1970 Jordanian civil war against the late King Hussein: The day Arafat was offered power. How far did Hussein bend to accommodate Arafat? So far as to offer ...

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exploders inevitable

Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:23:56 am PDT

FBI Director Robert Mueller says suicide bombers in the US are inevitable. I think he’s right, but when they do start hitting the US they’ll follow the Bin Laden model and avoid claiming responsibility, so that the wrath of the US military has no easy target.

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arab gloating

Mon, May 20, 2002 at 9:56:09 am PDT

Arab News reports on the Netanya market bombing, with barely concealed glee: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 20 May — A Palestinian disguised as an Israeli soldier blew himself up in an Israeli market yesterday, killing three other people and shattering the belief of the Israelis that Ariel Sharon could guarantee them security. ...

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something about mary

Mon, May 20, 2002 at 9:41:39 am PDT

Michael Rubin looks back at the incredibly shabby career of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Mary Robinson, War Criminal?

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troublemakers in damascus

Mon, May 20, 2002 at 9:18:22 am PDT

According to Ha'aretz, UN Security Council member Syria is pressing Hamas and Islamic Jihad to renew suicide attacks against Israel, and offering financial aid if they do. Syria (in cahoots with Iran) is playing the bad cop role in the Middle East con game. There’s quite a debate going on at ...

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LGF world tour

Mon, May 20, 2002 at 8:09:57 am PDT

The LGF march toward world domination continues! Special thanks to Howard Kurtz for linking to us this morning, and welcome to our visitors from the Washington Post. Thanks also to James Taranto for drawing Howard’s attention to us in his Best of the Web column last Friday. And congratulations to ...

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Sunday, May 19, 2002

signs of intelligent life

Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:51:12 am PDT

Reader Peter Borregard emailed us about this letter to the Berkeley Daily Planet, in which Rachel Schorr suggests that the city of Berkeley should divest from Saudi Arabia: The Following are six excellent reasons why Berkeley City Council should vote to divest the city’s interests from Saudi Arabia:1. Saudi Arabia ...

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sub-continent brinkmanship

Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:18:04 am PDT

India is expelling Pakistan's envoy in response to the horrific attack last week by Islamic extremists, pushing the region closer to a nuclear war. The Indian Foreign Ministry said this was the first time India had ever expelled a Pakistani ambassador. Qazi was given one week to leave the country. ...

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our allies against terrorism

Sun, May 19, 2002 at 9:30:50 am PDT

Apparently there’s at least one UN commission that hasn’t been hijacked by Arab dictatorships: the U.N. Committee against Torture has censured Saudi Arabia for its quaint practices of flogging, amputation, and public head-chopping. The U.N. Committee against Torture said such punishments "are not in conformity with the convention" and that ...

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and again

Sun, May 19, 2002 at 7:41:41 am PDT

Another suicide bombing in the center of the Netanya market. One dead (could be the splodeydope) and dozens injured.

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Saturday, May 18, 2002

os x diversion

Sat, May 18, 2002 at 4:20:24 pm PDT

Posting has been light today, because I finally got around to installing OS X on my Mac and I’m lost in a software wonderland. Do I like it? Yep. Now pardon me while I figure out how to install the PHP module for Apache.

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silver lining award

Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:59:17 am PDT

Ha'aretz offers a bizarro-world analysis by Danny Rubinstein. He says Arafat’s speech (link below) confirms that PA leaders are trying to stop terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. A clear sign of the effect the Palestinian effort to stop the terror bombings is having is the fact that nobody has yet ...

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what the white house didn’t read

Sat, May 18, 2002 at 9:28:42 am PDT

The White House said Arafat’s speech last week calling for elections was “positive.” (And by now everyone knows he’s already threatening to back out of the elections unless Israel completely withdraws to the pre-intifada lines—in other words, remove all checkpoints and guards and open up totally to the Hamas kiddies. ...

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infant monkey recognition

Sat, May 18, 2002 at 8:30:02 am PDT

Babies are excellent monkey spotters.

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Friday, May 17, 2002

art student spy ring conspiracy revisited

Fri, May 17, 2002 at 8:10:43 pm PDT

Bruce Rolston has a stellar smackdown of one of our least favorite conspiracy pests, Justin “I Sneer Back At You While Smoking” Raimondo.

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peaceful religion watch

Fri, May 17, 2002 at 5:34:39 pm PDT

Another reminder of the disgusting misogyny practiced in every country where extreme Islam has been allowed to get its slimy tentacles into the government: In Pakistan, Rape Victims Are the “Criminals.” SHORLAKI, Pakistan — The evidence of guilt was there for all to see: a newborn baby in the arms ...

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still an idiot

Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:45:28 pm PDT

Jonah Goldberg says he’s not sorry, he doesn’t apologize, and Cynthia McKinney is still an idiot.

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the chronicle foreign service

Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:36:27 am PDT

What is it with California newspapers and Arab propaganda? On several occasions I’ve caught the Los Angeles Times reprinting columns from the Arab News (here’s one). At least the LA Times said where the columns came from, although without mentioning that they were approved by Saudi government censors. Now the San ...

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no clear evidence

Fri, May 17, 2002 at 9:26:05 am PDT

Despite the Arafat file, and despite a bloody record of murder and mayhem stretching back 40 years that any human with a functioning cerebellum can see, the State Department says there is no clear evidence that Arafat directed terror attacks. It’s easy to be sarcastic here, but the truth is I’m ...

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election noises

Fri, May 17, 2002 at 8:56:27 am PDT

The Rat is already starting to hedge about those elections “in six months.” But his advisers seem intent on dragging him along no matter how much he tries to wiggle out of it: Arafat: no elections in PA until Israel withdraws from territories. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat told reporters ...

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Thursday, May 16, 2002

back to jenin

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 6:42:42 pm PDT

Israeli tanks are back in Jenin. I guess it’s been long enough for some of the losers who escaped the first sweep of Jenin to feel safe enough to come back out into the light.

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a lesson

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 5:59:34 pm PDT

Jonathan Lichterman sent us a PowerPoint slideshow titled A Lesson in Childrens’ Education yesterday, but I didn’t have a chance to watch until now. While PowerPoint is not high on my list of favorite media presentation tools, this one was quite powerful — because it uses photographs and images I ...

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disappearing duke

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 5:07:53 pm PDT

Best of the Web takes note of the amazing disappearing David Duke article at the Arab News, and prints a letter from an anonymous insider: Just a short note to let you know that Arab News immediately removed the David Duke article on Wednesday, May 15, lambasting Israeli Prime Minister ...

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blood libel at SFSU

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 2:18:15 pm PDT

This flyer was posted on campus at San Francisco State University in April. It was funded by the Associated Students of SFSU with public money, and it includes the names of the following organizations: Associated Students, GUPS (General Union of Palestinian Students), and MSA (Muslim Student Association). As you can ...

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arab conspiracy buffs

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 1:48:36 pm PDT

French conspiracy halfwit Thierry Meyssan, author of L'Effroyable Imposture (The Appalling Fraud), which claims that the Pentagon was not hit by a Boeing 757 but by a US missile as part of some nefarious plot against the world’s Muslims, is giving lectures to the Arab League in Abu Dhabi.

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mob rule

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:18:45 am PDT

Illan Berman writes about the rogue regime of Yasser Arafat: Gangster Governance. Back in 1997, amid growing pressure for accountability, Arafat authorized an internal audit to assuage international donors. What the review found was remarkable: a whopping $326 million (more than 40 percent of the total PA budget for that ...

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the ms follies, chapter 3,456

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:12:09 am PDT

The Register has an interesting article about a new Microsoft ploy: Microsoft has come up with another novel way to make its software compulsory - an annual subscription licensing system for schools where you have to pay for all of the computers you're using, even if you don't want them to ...

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cold turkey

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:10:55 am PDT

The poor murderers of Hamas must be about ready to crawl out of their skins; it’s been an awfully long time since they’ve had a fix of Jew-killing. But it’s not for lack of trying. An IDF elite unit was in action in Ramallah, where two Islamic Jihad activists, Mohammed ...

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election noises

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 9:50:10 am PDT

The fox promises to reform the henhouse.

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axis of oil

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 9:47:08 am PDT

The jovial House of Saud, our good buddies, are continuing to strengthen their relationship with Iraq.

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the strange case of scott ritter

Thu, May 16, 2002 at 9:29:13 am PDT

After the first Gulf War I recall being especially impressed with one of the UN weapons inspectors, who seemed like a tenacious, no-BS kind of guy, dedicated to rooting out Saddam Hussein’s plans for WMD. But nowadays, whenever someone says, “People never change,” I respond, “Oh yeah? What about Scott Ritter?” ...

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Wednesday, May 15, 2002

can we please stop?

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 7:27:47 pm PDT

Yes! This is so obviously right that the only question is why it took so long: House targets Pentagon's dress code for servicewomen in Saudi Arabia. U.S. servicewomen in Saudi Arabia should never be required or encouraged to wear Muslim-style head-to-toe robes, the House said Tuesday, unanimously pushing the Pentagon ...

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we should have known

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 6:26:42 pm PDT

It’s becoming clearer every day. We should have known what was about to happen on September 11. We should have been aware of the intense hatred, fueled by dirty oil money. The signs were everywhere. Saudi terrorist Osama Bin Laden told us what he was planning. Many times. To our ...

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arab news yanks duke

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 5:21:30 pm PDT

Hey, what happened to the David Duke piece at the Arab News? (This link now leads to a page with the word “test” printed several times.) Is someone getting a clue? “Praise Allah, Mohammed, but we are receiving many hits from America for this article by the esteemed philosopher David Duke. ...

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the culture of martyrdom

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 5:09:12 pm PDT

Eric Olsen has a tonne of good stuff at his weblog today. He points out an excellent piece at the Atlantic by David Brooks, titled The Culture of Martyrdom. Suicide bombing is the crack cocaine of warfare. It doesn't just inflict death and terror on its victims; it intoxicates the ...

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fun with anagrams

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 2:47:42 pm PDT

Brian Silverman’s Fun With Anagrams: I, CHARLES JOHNSON, LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS = ISRAEL: G.I.'S, BATTLEFRONT CLOSE. HELL NO, JOHN!And um, the "John" is obviously John Pilger.

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hope at the bottom

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 2:36:41 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson finds hope At the Bottom of Pandora’s Box.

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a mean, angry noam

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 1:36:23 pm PDT

Alan Dershowitz rips into Noam Chomsky’s immoral petition to make universities divest from corporations with ties to Israel.

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terrorist protection program

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:59:41 am PDT

Bennett Epstein has some well-deserved acerbic words for the EU’s terrorist protection program. Now it appears that the Nativity Thirteen, a bloody gang of brutal killers, will be sent to Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece, and free to move about at will. The likelihood is that they will wait about ...

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raging volcanoes revisited

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 9:47:48 am PDT

Yesterday’s post about a raving Saudi lunatic “doctor” inspired Edward Nough to pen a hilarious response. This one’s so good I have to repost it on our front page. Ladies and gentlemen, I turn the podium over to E. Nough: ------------------------- A few weeks ago a couple in San Francisco were ...

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greedy monsters

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 9:08:24 am PDT

The exiled Palestinian terrorists are resting comfortably (in case you were worried about them), while the EUnuchs dither as usual. Probably trying desperately to come up with a good reason to put these freakazoids in jail where they belong, instead of in comfortable suburban homes in the Italian countryside. But ...

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oil ticks mouth off

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 8:48:58 am PDT

Well, the petro-parasites of the Saudi entity are issuing empty threats again. If Mideast peace efforts fail, the United States will not be left unscathed by the "dangerous result," a Saudi prince said Wednesday."If things deteriorate to pleasantries and the Palestinian issue is handled by slow-working committees, peace will be ...

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citizens for a constructive UN

Wed, May 15, 2002 at 7:49:56 am PDT

Be sure to check out the Citizens for a Constructive UN weblog, run by some of the people who were inspired to action by the David Tell article about the UN’s Israel obsession.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2002

winds of action

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 5:14:20 pm PDT

Now that you’ve read Meryl Yourish’s report on the appalling anti-Semitic near-riot at SFSU, be sure to check out Joe Katzman’s detailed action plan for making sure that responsible people are held accountable when things like this happen. We’ll need plans like Joe’s—because it’s going to get worse before it ...

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child abuse

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 3:26:58 pm PDT

Another sickening and disheartening article about Palestinian perversion of children: Gaza's Children Worship Martyrdom. Life in the Gaza Strip leaves children with little chance not to think of violence.Funerals and rallies with gunmen firing in the air are almost daily events. Walls are covered with graffiti glorifying 'martyrs' killed in ...

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a billion of raging volcanoes

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 2:55:12 pm PDT

You know, it’s been a while since we’ve linked to a really juicy, bark-at-the-moon Saudi Arabian rant. Without further ado, may I present Dr. (gotta love it! ... “Doctor!” ... they’re always doctors!) Mohammad (and they’re all named Mohammad!) T. Al Rasheed, drooling and raving in the pages of the ...

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ideological blood brothers

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 1:34:15 pm PDT

Isn’t it wonderful when like-minded individuals get together and find a common platform from which to share ideas? For example, David Duke and the Arab News.

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mailbox bomb in philly

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 9:57:55 am PDT

A mailbox bomb packed with nails, with an attached note reading “Free Palestine” and mentioning Al Qaeda has exploded in Philadelphia. No one was hurt. PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Federal agencies were investigating the origin of a mailbox package that exploded while being defused by a bomb squad after a mail ...

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trying to slip one past

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 9:33:34 am PDT

Wait a minute. Let’s go back to that report on the Clown Prince “tutoring” Bush. A second reading reveals this outrageous paragraph, repeated without editing in the New York Times: Prince Abdullah said Bush only read brief reports about the Middle East, where a Palestinian uprising for independence has been ...

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peaceful religion watch

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 8:54:21 am PDT

Three Islamocreep “freedom fighters” managed to kill at least 30 people, including many women and children (their favorite targets) in Kashmir. Three men wearing army uniforms opened fire inside a bus near the Ratnachak army camp, killing several passengers, the news agency quoted the army as saying. They then ran ...

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noble but dumb

Tue, May 14, 2002 at 8:37:03 am PDT

The Clown Prince of the Saudi entity shares his impression of George W. Bush: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah said in remarks published on Tuesday that he had to spend hours getting President Bush up to speed on Middle East issues..."He has noble qualities. He is honest, courageous and highly compassionate. ...

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Monday, May 13, 2002

rollin'

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:21:04 pm PDT

So I'm sitting here watching the news and all of a sudden I notice my orchids swaying as a 5.2 (according to early reports) earthquake hit the Bay area. Apparently it was centered near Gilroy, the garlic capitol just south of San Jose.

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a simple message

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 8:46:27 pm PDT

I’ve gotten some emails asking why I haven’t expressed an opinion about the Likud resolution to reject a Palestinian state. Answer: I think this is Israeli politics, pure and simple. Since Likud has only 18% of the Israeli Parliament, and this is a non-binding resolution, it’s nothing but a message ...

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light goes forever

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 7:29:50 pm PDT

Thanks to our referrer log, I’ve just discovered that the initials LGF are part of a debate among astrophysicists over the fundamental nature of light: whether Light Goes Forever (LGF), or Light Dies Out (LDO). I regret to inform our esteemed physicist visitors (say that 10 times fast) that the solution ...

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arab brothers

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 3:40:03 pm PDT

Well, looks like the 13 “freedom fighters” (currently enjoying the topless sunbathers across the street from the Flamingo Hotel) will be going to Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. They drew M16 rounds to decide who goes where. Kidding. Meanwhile, Arab ambassadors from Syria, Lebanon and Libya dropped in for ...

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bees! bees and bombs!

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 2:50:57 pm PDT

Bomb-sniffing honey bees!

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rat bites wolf

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 1:49:16 pm PDT

Here’s a transcript of a Wolf interviewing a Rat whose brain skitters around like a cockroach in a hot skillet. In this rambling rant, Arafat repeats a blatant lie about the burning of the Al Aqsa Mosque in 1969, somehow triggered by a question from Blitzer about what he can ...

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jeningrad

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:32:27 pm PDT

Tom Gross has a very damning analysis of British media’s outrageously biased reporting about the battle of Jenin.

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proving a negative

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:22:13 am PDT

If you haven’t already, go read Glenn’s snickerworthy (is that a word?) story about his own close encounter with the sinister Zionist art student spy ring.

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US more supportive of israel

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:12:56 am PDT

Opinion polls show that American sympathy for Israel is rising since 9/11. All that money the Saudi entity is spending to counteract the insidious brainwashing of the Zionist lobby is going to waste: The impact of Palestinian terrorism on American public opinion seems to have overwhelmed a public-opinion effort by ...

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anti-semitism at SFSU

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:24:56 am PDT

Go now and read Meryl Yourish’s horrifying post about a pro-Israel rally at San Francisco State University that became an anti-Semitic riot when Palestinian students and supporters disrupted the event. This is a truly sickening story. What the hell is happening on American campuses? When did the ideals of free speech ...

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weblogs in the news

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 9:24:00 am PDT

Salon has a somewhat interesting article on weblogs and their effect on journalism. But blogs can do some things the pros can't. For better and worse, they air hunches and speculations without the filter of an editorial bureaucracy (or the legal vulnerabilities of a corporate parent). They trade links and argue ...

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a weblog foundation

Mon, May 13, 2002 at 7:54:10 am PDT

Jeff Jarvis has been dropping hints for months about a mysterious idea for nudging weblogs a little further along the evolutionary cycle. Well, here’s the deal: he’s proposing the creation of a Weblog Foundation, with honorariums similar to a Pulitzer Prize. It’s Monday, I just woke up, and I haven’t had ...

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Sunday, May 12, 2002

our allies in the war on terrorism

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 4:37:37 pm PDT

So Clown Prince Abdullah is going to bring peace to the Middle East, eh? He must be unaware that last Friday night, his own government TV stations broadcast not one but two sermons asking God to “destroy the Jews and their supporters.” Saudi Arabia TV1: Shaykh Hasan Al al-Shaykh delivers the ...

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the final death of oslo

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 3:55:55 pm PDT

Israel’s ruling Likud Party has voted to reject the creation of a Palestinian state.

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vote on it

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:28:16 pm PDT

Bibi Netanyahu says Arafat should be exiled, and calls for a vote on Palestinian statehood.

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the saudi terror subsidy

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:35:28 am PDT

David Tell tracks down those responsible for the murder of American citizen Joan Davenny in a Palestinian suicide attack: The Saudi-Terror Subsidy. A must-read. Today, almost seven years later, our State Department's Diplomatic Security Service still offers a reward of up to $5 million dollars for "information" leading to the ...

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saudi peace scam revisited

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:16:23 am PDT

In an interview yesterday, Clown Prince Abdullah of the Saudi entity said that Arabs will bestow “real peace” upon Israel. All Israel has to do is withdraw from all Arab territories captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, including East Jerusalem, and let all Palestinian refugees return to Israel. That’s all. ...

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who’s picking up the tab?

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 8:52:47 am PDT

More scenes from Bizarro world. LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) - After weeks holed up in the sacred grounds of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, 13 Palestinian gunmen are now surrounded by the allures of beach life, nightclubs and cabarets in one of Cyprus's top resorts.The bustling coastal strip enticing tourists with ...

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friends in high places

Sun, May 12, 2002 at 8:15:16 am PDT

I hope none of our readers are too worried about Yasser Arafat. Even if Israel exiles him, he’ll still have plenty of friends who’ll let him crash in a guest palace. Friends like Saddam Hussein.

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Saturday, May 11, 2002

EUnuchs back away

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 6:50:16 pm PDT

Poetic justice, people. As the truth about those 13 “deported” Palestinian killers begins to percolate down through the alleged brainpans of Europe’s leaders, every one of them is backing away in horror. Dig Shimon Peres, gettin’ all deadpan wit’ it: Mr Peres said: "The countries themselves will have to take care ...

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now i’m scared

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 6:24:48 pm PDT

Oooo, scary.

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the bad seed

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 6:15:18 pm PDT

At a meeting in Kuala Lumpur of a bunch of top Islamic religious affairs ministers, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia tried to talk sense to the other high mucky mucks: Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said holy war cannot be won with violence and suicide bombers, which ...

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an impossible occupation

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 5:26:44 pm PDT

In the NY Times Magazine, an excellent study of a group of Palsar Tzanhanim, an elite IDF unit similar to US Army Rangers, on missions inside Tulkarem and Atil in the Palestinian territories: An Impossible Occupation. This is a long piece, but really worth reading; it’s been a while since ...

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Abu

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 9:14:10 am PDT

Abu Doha, accused of plotting with Crazy Sammy to blow up LAX, is to be extradited to the US to face trial according to this rather confusingly titled story. Algerian to face terror charges in U.S. / Publicity would hinder British trial, judge says - This sounds to me like ...

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EUnuchs love killers

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 8:16:11 am PDT

Welcome to Bizarro world: EU Says Gunmen Are Not Prisoners. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - The 13 Palestinian militants flown to Cyprus after a five-week Israeli siege in Bethlehem are free men, not prisoners and not deportees, the European Union's envoy to the Middle East said Saturday.Miguel Moratinos spoke to reporters ...

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no change of address

Sat, May 11, 2002 at 1:58:38 am PDT

Well, I see some of our industrious referrer-checking readers have found us at this address: http://lippyespinda.phpwebhosting.com/weblog/ It’s cool to use that address temporarily, but please don’t change your permanent links to us; our old address will bring you here as soon as the DNS change propagates across the Innernut.

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Friday, May 10, 2002

a nation like ours

Fri, May 10, 2002 at 5:54:27 pm PDT

David Gelernter has a beautiful essay about why Americans stand with Israel: A Nation Like Ours. Israeli settlers are not all alike. Some set out for the territories because of patriotism--to strengthen Israeli security (which, Lord knows, needed strengthening). Some set out to find cheaper, wider-open living spaces. Some set ...

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it’s not easy being mean

Fri, May 10, 2002 at 5:08:08 pm PDT

A fascinating interview with Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden about the strange life of Saddam Hussein: It’s Not Easy Being Mean.

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urine trouble

Fri, May 10, 2002 at 2:56:51 pm PDT

Along with an overpowering stench of urine, piles of garbage and unwashed dishes, and altars used as tables, the IDF also found dozens of bombs and guns left behind in the Church of the Nativity. No signs of outrage yet from the international community. Can you imagine the din if the ...

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the arafat file

Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:35:28 am PDT

Here’s a link to the complete Arafat dossier that was given to president Bush: The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption and Crime.

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peace, anyone?

Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:17:39 am PDT

Smirking and strutting, the Palestinian thugs finally left the Church of the Nativity, but the ones who weren’t deported were given a heros’ welcome and fully-loaded weapons when they returned to Gaza. Home sweet home! In densely populated Gaza, home to more than 1 million Palestinians, residents fearing an Israeli ...

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pre-show jitters

Fri, May 10, 2002 at 7:38:48 am PDT

So here I am, just twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the Domain Name Servers to update. Who will be the first to find our new home?

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Thursday, May 09, 2002

new! improved!

Thu, May 9, 2002 at 9:35:19 pm PDT

If you can see this, you’re looking at our site on its new web host.

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bear with us

Thu, May 9, 2002 at 2:15:17 pm PDT

Wow. If you think our weblog page is slow, you should see what FTP is like. Transferring our weblog files is taking all day. Please bear with us, gentle readers. We’ll be back to normal soon.

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give yourselves a round of applause

Thu, May 9, 2002 at 9:37:23 am PDT

It’s time for a HUGE thank you from LGF to our readers; the response to our little blogathon was better than we ever expected. Thanks to you folks, we’re now getting things squared away to move. We haven’t decided 100% on the new host; we’ve got one in mind, but ...

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Wednesday, May 08, 2002

notes from an insane reality

Wed, May 8, 2002 at 7:05:58 pm PDT

Arafat Declaration Encourages Bush. Arrghh. Bush calls Arafat condemnation of terrorism 'incredibly positive,' urges caution on Israel. Aaarrgghhh. Arafat Orders Security to Prevent Attacks on Israel. Aaaarrrggghhhh.

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aaarrrgghhhh

Wed, May 8, 2002 at 5:11:10 pm PDT

Arafat Vows to Fight Terror Attacks. "I call on the U.S. government, President Bush and the international community to provide the support and needed immunity for the Palestinian security forces, whose infrastructure has been destroyed by the Israeli occupation, so that they can carry out and implement their orders ... ...

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i’m back and i’m proud

Wed, May 8, 2002 at 4:31:21 pm PDT

I just returned from a short trip to run some errands that turned into a relentless, mind-numbing, endless headache. Whew. Did anything happen while I was dodging the insane SUV drivers of the 405? One highlight of an otherwise pitiless day was hearing Bill O’Reilly tear the PLO representative a new ...

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arafat condemns terrorism, part 12,763

Wed, May 8, 2002 at 7:22:17 am PDT

Arafat Orders Security to Prevent Attacks on Israel. President Yasser Arafat, under pressure to crack down on militants following a suicide bombing, Wednesday ordered Palestinian security forces to foil any attempt to attack Israeli civilians. "I have given orders to Palestinian security forces to confront and prevent any terrorist operations ...

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Tuesday, May 07, 2002

debka’s prediction

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 3:14:14 pm PDT

Aaron Schatz emailed us to note that DEBKAfile predicted a couple of days ago that suicide attacks were being planned for May 7, to disrupt the Sharon-Bush talks.

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buddy, can you spare a web host?

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 2:34:58 pm PDT

Our web host has been going downhill fast, folks; that’s why LGF is loading very slowly of late. I don’t want to get all Jerry Lewis about it, but if you’d like to see our site get faster, you can help by contributing to the weblog fund through our Paypal ...

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a huge explosion

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 2:15:05 pm PDT

Ha'aretz reports that at least 10 people are dead in a huge explosion in a snooker hall that caused part of the building to collapse.

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NYT correction

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 2:05:36 pm PDT

Since the NY Times came in for quite a bit of criticism about their coverage of the Salute to Israel parade, it’s only fair to point out that today they issued a correction that almost sounds like an apology. An article yesterday about a parade in Manhattan marking Israel's 54th ...

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and again

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 1:48:21 pm PDT

There’s been an explosion at an Israeli nightclub near Tel Aviv. I’ve heard on the news that Israeli radio is reporting a suicide bomber.

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we need a new word for hypocrisy this extreme

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 10:23:00 am PDT

The Vatican shakes hands with Yasser Arafat. Europeans scream about the Israeli “siege” of the Church of the Nativity, and demand the poor Palestinians inside be released. A deal is worked out to send them on a “scholarship” to Italy (because we wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings by calling ...

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patten says, “stop blaming europe”

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 9:30:22 am PDT

Unelected European Union commissioner Chris Patten says the EU is not anti-Semitic, and we should all just stop blaming Europe. The stunningly casual arrogance of this op-ed is summed up nicely in the last sentences: Heaven help Israel, heaven help Palestine, heaven help all of us, if this mad and ...

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our friends the saudis

Tue, May 7, 2002 at 8:44:56 am PDT

In today’s NY Post, Josh Marshall has harsh words for Dubya. The White House marched into the Middle East with a lot of bluster. But they were just no match for Abdullah.In Arabic, Abdullah means Servant of God. If things keep going as they are, the Saudis might start calling ...

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Monday, May 06, 2002

the arafat files online

Mon, May 6, 2002 at 3:19:59 pm PDT

Ben Sheriff forwarded us this index page with links to the various captured documents that are becoming known as the Arafat Files.

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PA cartoons

Mon, May 6, 2002 at 12:00:57 pm PDT

Here’s an interesting article by Danny Rubinstein about the messages in Palestinian political cartoons.

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ghouls with search engines

Mon, May 6, 2002 at 11:32:48 am PDT

It really is kind of disgusting how many search engine hits we’re getting today from people looking for postmortem snapshots of a certain recently deceased celebrity.

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the idler studies the NYT

Mon, May 6, 2002 at 11:20:06 am PDT

Since the pro-Palestinian bias of the New York Times has become a topic of debate (and my own opinion is that the paper is very biased), here’s an eye-opening case study of Palestinian Terrorist Propaganda in The New York Times.

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the arafat file

Mon, May 6, 2002 at 8:59:45 am PDT

At the Jerusalem Post, details from the Arafat File show that EU money was used for funding terror. ...the report states that hundreds of Fatah activists operating in the Fatah's military wing, the Tanzim, and the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, were in fact being paid by the EU's $9 million monthly ...

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failed strategies

Mon, May 6, 2002 at 7:46:34 am PDT

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result. In a way, obsessive behavior is the theme of both of these new articles by Daniel Pipes about failed Mideast strategies. In the first one, Pipes looks at the State Department’s obsession with pursuing ...

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Sunday, May 05, 2002

watching the watchers

Sun, May 5, 2002 at 5:42:58 pm PDT

Screenwriter Daniel Gordon went on a press tour of Jenin conducted by the IDF, and he has an interesting and very damning report on ... the reporters. When I write a screenplay, I start out with an agenda. I decide who my hero is first and who is the villain. ...

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salute to israel

Sun, May 5, 2002 at 2:14:33 pm PDT

Eric emailed us this link to a story at NY1 that says hundreds of thousands of people lined Fifth Avenue in Manhattan today: Salute To Israel Parade Draws Record Crowd. Not a word in the New York Times about this yet; anyone want to bet that if hundreds of thousands ...

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unsigning on the dotted line

Sun, May 5, 2002 at 1:23:02 pm PDT

Here’s a piece of good news: U.S. to Renounce Its Role in Pact for World Tribunal. Bush is going to “unsign” the insidious treaty that would have given an “International Criminal Court” staffed by unelected EUnuchs and Arab dictatorships jurisdiction over American citizens. This is a bold move, and it’s ...

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somebody tell bob

Sun, May 5, 2002 at 11:22:46 am PDT

I’ve noticed before that Arab terror apologists are strangely attracted to the lyrics of Bob Dylan, née Robert Zimmerman. Trying to figure out the “why” of stuff like this will make you feel bad and funny inside. Well, now Damian Penny has found some Palestinian martyr geeks who twisted the classic ...

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genocide on lay-away

Sun, May 5, 2002 at 10:47:15 am PDT

Thomas Sowell exposes the hypocrisy and futility of the so-called “peace process:” Destroying Israel on the Installment Plan. Land for peace has in practice meant land for promises. Perhaps Israel should have responded to this misleading phrase by saying: "You want land for peace? We agree! Give us six months ...

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little abdul doesn’t want to explode

Sun, May 5, 2002 at 9:23:40 am PDT

Steven links to an article in the Arab News that calls the US the “biggest terrorist nation,” praises Palestinian suicide bombers, calls for Saudi youths to train themselves to be “martyrs,” and urges boycotts of American goods. Jihad jihad jihad. Yawn. This is standard Arab blustering; it’s become commonplace for the ...

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Saturday, May 04, 2002

israeli altruism

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 6:09:56 pm PDT

Here’s a vitally important story that doesn’t get told often enough. Reader Benay Katz emailed us with the following personal anecdote: On May 1 my niece and I sat with Yafa Peretz, deputy director of Rambam Hospital in Haifa. She told us about one of her doctors who had been ...

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holocaust equivalence in ohio

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 12:44:56 pm PDT

Aaron Schatz emailed us about a shockingly anti-Semitic political cartoon worthy of the Arab press—but printed in the Springfield News-Sun.

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a filtered interview

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 11:23:33 am PDT

In an interview with the Lebanon Daily Star, Khaled Meshaal, leader of the “political wing” of Hamas, says they’ll continue the suicide bombings because Israel has no right to exist. Meshaal, who chairs the politburo of Hamas, says the only difference between the lands on which Israel was set up ...

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saudi foreign aid

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 10:36:43 am PDT

Arab News reports that the Saudi entity has contributed a total of 9.78 billion Riyals (about 2.5 billion dollars) to the Palestinian Authority and other Palestinian agencies, including billions of Riyals directly to the stupidfada. The Kingdom also contributed SR201 million to Al-Quds Fund and SR1.37 billion to the Intifada ...

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EUnuchs deplore

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 10:21:04 am PDT

The EUnuchs, following in lock-step with their Arab partners, are “deploring” the cancellation of the UN Jenin probe. After recent reports from Human Rights Watch and the Palestinian Authority themselves found no evidence of massacres, Spain’s ambassador to the UN Terror Security Council, Inocencio Arias, is reduced to making ominous ...

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what would the hulk do?

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 9:26:15 am PDT

Joe Katzman takes the Stan Lee Solution proposed by Meryl Yourish to the international level, finding unexpected mythic resonance in the quintessentially American parable of a rational scientist who, due to the awesome power of radioactivity, transforms into an uncontrollable raging green monster when provoked. Or something. L'INCROYABLE 'ULK: 'Ulk, he ...

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new! improved!

Sat, May 4, 2002 at 9:09:10 am PDT

My custom search code, slow as it is, yields more useful results than Google’s site search. Google’s results contain a lot of “noise” because that danged Googlebot is getting awfully crafty, ferreting its way into dynamically generated pages like our show all entries feature and our “email an article” ...

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Friday, May 03, 2002

the road not travelled

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 5:50:05 pm PDT

There are signs that Israel’s crushing blows against the terrorist infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority may have produced cracks in the upper leadership, as a senior PA cabinet official resigns. And if this AP story can be believed, some Palestinian people are also starting to question the wisdom of the ...

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more churchill, less powell, please

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 5:15:55 pm PDT

Charles Krauthammer expresses the outrage so many of us are feeling about the UN’s blatant hypocrisy: Jenin: The Truth. Churchill's great gift to civilization was not just that he rallied good against evil but also that he pierced a suffocating fog of self-deception by speaking truth to lies. Where ...

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a new paper for LA

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 2:05:47 pm PDT

If you’d like to see “a tough and weird new 21st century paper” in Los Angeles, go here and sign up for a risk-free charter subscription.

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a tour of the front

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 12:21:13 pm PDT

In another clear-sighted essay, Victor Davis Hanson takes us on a tour of the front. We must not forget the bought suits. They are Western-educated diplomats, businessmen, and assorted spokesmen from the various autocracies, monarchies, and theocracies who haunt our airwaves and reflect a weird attraction to, and yet repugnance ...

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the phony phuneral

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 11:03:56 am PDT

This page at Yahoo has a link to a more complete version of the Palestinian Phony Phuneral Philm.

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another peace conference

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 10:10:56 am PDT

In spite of the huge caches of illegal weapons found in Arafat’s own compound, and overwhelming evidence of PA complicity in terrorism at the highest levels, Colin Powell thinks it should be a priority to re-arm the Palestinian Authority: U.S. Sets Summer Talks on Mideast. In his remarks, Powell set ...

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the return of the son of mr. stiffy

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 9:57:29 am PDT

At the BBC, Bill Herbert found this RealPlayer video that contains the absolutely freakin’ hilarious video footage of that phony Palestinian funeral. My favorite part is when they drop the poor schlub who’s playing the corpse for the second time, and the people following the parade—who apparently weren’t in on ...

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what about the funk?

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 8:24:51 am PDT

So I’ve been combing through the world press, hoping against hope to find some mention of whether Arafat has taken a shower yet, and nothing. Nothing! The stories all say that he embarked on an “immediate tour” of the damaged areas after emerging from his reeking hellhole of an office. Where ...

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phony phunerals

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 7:53:50 am PDT

The IDF caught a group of Palestinians staging a fake funeral in Jenin: Yesterday, Colonel Miri Eisen, head of field intelligence for land forces in the IDF, presented a film shot from a military drone on April 28 and showing a group of Palestinians carrying a man on a stretcher. ...

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arabs angry again

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 7:39:27 am PDT

Predictably, the Arab dictatorships of the UN Security Council are going ballistic over Kofi Annan’s decision to cancel the Jenin fault fact-finding mission. But... At a council meeting that dragged into the early hours Thursday, the Arabs failed to win enough support for a draft resolution demanding that Israel cooperate ...

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ratting on the rat

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 7:20:47 am PDT

The head of Fatah has dropped a dime on the Rat. Marwan Barghouti, the head of the Fatah in the West Bank, stated when questioned that he was personally involved in directing terrorist attacks which resulted in the killing and injuring of scores of Israeli civilians. Barghouti described in detail ...

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men of god

Fri, May 3, 2002 at 7:03:23 am PDT

Reeling from pedophilia scandals, the Vatican has come up with a new way to improve the image of the Catholic Church.

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Thursday, May 02, 2002

the great mistake

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 7:12:24 pm PDT

Signs of anti-idiotarian life at the Telegraph. Captured documents reveal Arafat's direct connection to smuggling arms and the authorisation of suicide bombing. The European taxpayer thus becomes the unwitting accomplice of the man who has brought violence down on his own people. The Vedrines and Pattens and such spokesmen are ...

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egyptian columnist calls hitler “brother”

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 5:33:38 pm PDT

In the Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar, yet another freakazoid columnist does that funky Arab two-step hate dance—simultaneously denying and applauding the Holocaust. "With regard to the fraud of the Holocaust... Many French studies have proven that this is no more than a fabrication, a lie, and a fraud!! That is, ...

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terror guppy

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 5:06:20 pm PDT

Is the Rat losing it? Arafat, citing the suffering of Palestinians and their resistance to IDF troops during the recent Israeli offensive in the West Bank, said that Jenin, site of the fiercest fighting, would now be called Jeningrad, a reference to the bloody Nazi siege of the Soviet city ...

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thomas bin jefferson

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 2:17:36 pm PDT

Those Arab News guys crack me up! Foreign affairs commentator “Dr. Thomas B. Jefferson!” Who brought in terrorism to Palestine? Guess who? Stop it. You’re killing me. Sharon has shown how he can undertake the crushing of these people during the last month. It was brutal, somewhat like how ...

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the banner solution

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 12:56:19 pm PDT

Meryl Yourish reports that a little-known American scientist, Dr. David Banner, may have the solution to many of the world’s problems: The problem: The world media is extremely biased against Israel, choosing to yammer about massacres without evidence while subsequently ignoring the evidence that there was no massacre. People like ...

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malignant stupidity

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 12:21:49 pm PDT

Several people emailed me about this great column in the Washington Post by George Will (another writer I never agreed with before 9/11): 'Final Solution,' Phase 2. Anti-Semitism's malignant strength derives from its simplicity -- its stupidity, actually. It is a primitivism which, Wisse wrote, makes up in vigor what ...

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qorvis loses arctic power

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 12:02:48 pm PDT

Qorvis Communications, the PR firm that is currently pimping for the Saudis to the tune of $200,000 a month, lost a $4 million account with Arctic Power due to conflict of interest.

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the fifth column

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 10:03:16 am PDT

There’s nothing unusual about an article in the Jordan Times comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, and Ariel Sharon to Adolf Hitler. Hijacking the terminology of the Holocaust victim is a time-honored Arab rhetorical tactic. (They’re great at hijacking things.) The logical contortions necessary to make these comparisons are prodigious: Hitler ...

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it’s not complex

Thu, May 2, 2002 at 8:27:56 am PDT

As James Lileks writes, sometimes the issues really are black and white.

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Wednesday, May 01, 2002

true colors

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 7:20:21 pm PDT

On KABC radio in LA, Al Rantell just said that Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil are the three companies that sell the most Saudi Arabian oil products in the United States. I thought I'd pass this information along, in case you’d like to make sure your business goes to our true ...

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stuck in the middle with U(N)

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 7:06:52 pm PDT

Oh man. No massacre. Arabs are irritated. "This is a scandal of international proportions" ..."[Israel] doesn't want its atrocities in Jenin uncovered" ... Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz called the Israeli-UN impasse over Jenin a "scandal." ...Et cetera. Et cetera. Et cetera.

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trembling with rage

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 4:00:46 pm PDT

Yasser’s out, and he sounds a bit irked. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A furious Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, just freed from a month-old Israeli siege on his headquarters, condemned on Wednesday Israel's chokehold on the West Bank town of Bethlehem."It is not important what happened to me here. What ...

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end of the probe

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 12:54:06 pm PDT

David Tell follows up on his earlier editorial about UN culpability in the Jenin refugee camp situation, pointing out that world media has inexplicably ignored the reports in MEMRI and Al Ahram from Palestinians themselves (all of which we’ve been covering here at LGF) that refuted the “massacre” claims even ...

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pizza: the universal language

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 11:29:28 am PDT

If you’ve got 17 bucks to spare, why not send a pizza to an IDF patrol? (Via File13's Amish Tech Support.)

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what the hell is wrong with these people?

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 11:12:26 am PDT

A couple of weeks ago, a really stupid 24-year old Egyptian tried to cross the Egypt-Israeli border, with delusions of jihad dancing in his alleged mind, only to be shot down by Israeli border guards. It was a totally pointless waste of a life. But the Egyptian weekly Al Ahram ...

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the massacre that wasn’t

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 10:10:04 am PDT

A Palestinian investigation team has reported that the “massacre” in Jenin claimed a total of 56 lives. Note: this is the official Palestinian word. JENIN, West Bank — Palestinian officials yesterday put the death toll at 56 in the two-week Israeli assault on Jenin, dropping claims of a massacre of ...

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anti-semitism at the WMA

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 9:50:03 am PDT

The Simon Wiesenthal Center reports that the World Medical Association is being pressured to expel the Israel Medical Association. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is launching a worldwide campaign to combat the possible expulsion of the Israel Medical Association from the World Medical Association. To protest the spread of Israel bashing ...

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guilt and arrogance

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 9:15:32 am PDT

An excellent column by Jonah Goldberg, trying to make sense of European moral feebleness: Guilt and Arrogance. The European fondness for the obsequious and helpless native has endured. Intellectuals across the continent practice the hard bigotry of no expectations when it comes to violence committed by the downtrodden. The helplessness ...

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15 of 19

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 7:31:28 am PDT

The House of Saud seems to think they can make us forget about their payments to families of suicide bombers, and their support of extremist Islam world-wide, by doing what they do best: spending lots of money to spread sweet-scented lies.

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anti-idiotarians go mainstream?

Wed, May 1, 2002 at 1:13:38 am PDT

Well, William Quick may have coined the term “blogosphere,” but “idiotarian” and “anti-idiotarian” are mine, all mine! Moo ha ha ha ha! And it looks like we have our first mainstream journalist member of the Anti-Idiotarian Party, as Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review uses the word “idiotarian” to aptly describe ...

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