Archive for February, 2010
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Anti-Semites? Anti-Zionists? Who US?
Sunday, February 28th, 2010We have nothing against Jews as such. We just hate Zionism and Zionists. We think Israel does not have a right to exist. But that does not mean we have anything against Jews as such. Heavens to Mergatroyd. Marx Forbid. We are humanists. Progressives. Peace lovers.
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Deir Yassin โโ the big lie that caused untold misery
Sunday, February 28th, 2010The false story of a massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948 is a typical example of a BIG LIE demonizing Israel based on fabricated evidence. Startling indisputable evidence came to light in 1998 revealing that the story of a massacre and rapes at Deir Yassin was a complete fabrication.
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Facing Nuclear Madmen? Israel’s Security and Enemy Rationality
Saturday, February 27th, 2010By Prof. Louis Rene Beres “Do you know what it means to find yourselves face to face with a madman,” asks Luigi Pirandello’s Henry IV. “Madmen, lucky folk, construct without logic, or rather with a logic that flies like a feather.” What is true for individuals is sometimes also true for states. In the often […]
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An anti-Israel extremist seeks revenge through the Goldstone Report
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Posted by Prof. Alan Dershowitz in the Double Standard Watch When Irish Colonel Desmond Travers eagerly accepted an appointment to the Goldstone Commission, he was hell-bent on revenge against Israel based on paranoid fantasies and hard left anti-Israel propaganda. He actually believed, as he put it in a recent interview, that “so many Irish soldiers […]
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Dir Yassin Excerpted from The Revolt by Menachem Begin pages163/4
Saturday, February 20th, 2010One would have thought, rightly, that an episode such as the 1948 battle for Deir Yassin would have been forgotten by now. Youd be wrong. It is still being used to besmirch Israel in the worlds media and especially on the internet. Sixty two years after this so called atrocity Google offers 44,200 Deir Yassin […]
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New Revelations About the UN Goldstone Report
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Seriously Undermine its CredibilityBy Dore Gold and Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers was one of the four members of the UN Fact Finding Mission that produced what is widely called the Goldstone Report. The Mission investigated Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009. Travers joined […]
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A writer’s view of today’s Germany
Friday, February 12th, 2010“A few weeks later I’m at a business meeting with four young highly-educated Germans who are polite, charming and soft-spoken to say the least. When the subject matter changes to a business deal with a man in New York named Rubinstein, their nostrils flair, their demeanor attain a threatening mien And one of them actually says, and I’m quoting verbatim here: ‘The problem with America is that the Jews have all the money.’ They start laughing and another one says, โYeah, all the Jews care about is money.โย
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Israel’s Ballistic Missile Defense:Current Strategic Options For Dealing With Iran
Thursday, February 4th, 2010By Prof. Louis Renรฉ Beres The core of Israel’s active defense plan remains the phased Arrow anti-ballistic missile program. Designed to intercept medium and short-range ballistic missiles, the various operationalized forms of Arrow (Hetz in Hebrew) are expected to deal especially with Iran’s surface-to-surface missile threat. Basically a high stratospheric system, Arrow is also capable […]
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“Cruel and Usual Punishment” by Nonie Darwish Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Nonie Darwish knows a fair amount about Islam. She was an Egyptian Muslim for the first 30 years of her life. Then she fled to America and she is now a Christian. In this book she continues her important story, but she does so by highlighting two crucial themes: what sharia law means, and how women are treated in Islam.