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Tag: Israel

  • Obama Will Not Stop Iran’s Nuke Program — But Surely Israel Will Try

    William Kristol argues persuasively that “President Barack Obama [has] made it clear that he’s resigned to a nuclear Iran.” Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Obama told George Stephanopoulos: If the question is do we have a guarantee [that] the sanctions we are able to institute at this stage are automatically going to change Iranian […]

  • Ahmadinejad Seems to Have a Death Wish

    It has become hard to imagine a peaceful ending to the Iranian nuclear problem. I’ve gone back and forth on this, but it seems highly likely that Israel, which twice before has launched pre-emptive attacks on nuclear facilities in hostile countries, will do so again.

  • Rethinking an Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nukes

    Will the Sunni Saudis side with the Jews against Shiite Iran? The Sunday Times today reports that Saudia Arabia has quietly let Israel know that “that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.”  Israel’s Prime Minister promptly denied it. But […]

  • Pace Bolton, I’m Betting Against an Israeli Air Strike on Iran’s Nuke Facilities

    Osirak was quite a hike, and Iran is even farther In today’s Washington Post, former UN Ambassador John Bolton stops just short of openly rooting for Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities: Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of […]

  • Oliphant Takes Dehumanization of Jews into the Mainstream

    Clifford May of the indispensable Foundation for Defense of Democracies weighs in on the Oliphant cartoon: Let’s not call the political cartoonist Pat Oliphant an anti-Semite or even an Israel-basher. Let’s just be clear about what he is doing: encouraging those whose intentions are genocidal. … The symbolism here is unoriginal. Dehumanizing Jews in cartoons […]

  • Oliphant’s Cartoon Is Not Just Despicable, It’s Dangerous

    At Israel Insider, Barry Rubin does the best job I’ve seen of describing precisely why Pat Oliphant’s recent cartoon — featuring a goose-stepping, headless swordsman pushing a Jew-shark-on-a-unicycle — is so powerful, and so powerfully offensive. Hat tip: Andy McCarthy. Is the cartoon truly anti-Semitic, or is it “merely” anti-Israel? I say both, but whatever. […]

  • Freeman Screed Shows America Dodged A Bullet

    Chas Freeman — who would have been in charge of producing policy-neutral reports synthesizing the findings of America’s 16 intelligence agencies — described the opposition to his appointment thusly: The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the […]

  • Captured Hamas Map Shows "Human Shield" Strategy

    Further proof that Hamas deliberately puts Palestinians in harm’s way. The only thing more valuable to Hamas than dead Israelis is dead Palestinians. (Hat tip: Jonah)

  • "A Sickness in the Soul of Middle-Eastern Islam"

    I don’t agree with every syllable of Ralph Peters’s column in today’s New York Post, but this part works: Israel hasn’t killed a single civilian in the Gaza Strip. Over a hundred civilians have died, and Israeli bombs or shells may have ended their lives. But Israel didn’t kill them. Hamas did. … Peace is […]

  • Gaza: A Time for War, a Time for Peace

    At Pajamas Media, Middle East commentator Eli Bernstein examines Israel’s war against Hamas in the context of the ancient doctrine of a “just war.” He concludes, of course, that Israel has the right to use military force to protect its people. Further, he argues that Israel now has a moral obligation to continue its operation […]