The "charade of victimization" goes on and on: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693376195819343.html In his new suburban American home, Shaker Yakub, a Yemeni Jew, folded a large scarf in half, wrapped it around his head and tucked in his spiraling side curls. "This is how I passed for a Muslim," said the 59-year-old father of seven, improvising a turban that hid his black skullcap. The ploy enabled Mr. Yakub and half a dozen members of his family to slip undetected out of the...

I cannot verify this myself as I don't know the interviewed, but it is similar to what I have heard from Jerusalem Arabs and Jewish Israelis. The original is in German. My translation is below. http://www.israelheute.com/default.aspx?tabid=116&view=item&idx=1995 Nisreen Abdel Nabi ist Palästinenserin und lebt in Beit Hanina in Ostjerusalem. Die 24-Jährige machte im August von sich reden, als sie sich in einem Brief an Außenminister Avigdor Liebermann wandte....

AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. ... When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries ... The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations...

March 2009, just after the war: THERE WERE empty beds at Shifa Hospital and a threatening atmosphere. Hamas is reduced to wielding its unchallengeable authority from extensive air raid shelters which, together with the hospital, were built by Israel 30 years ago. Terrorized Gazans used doublespeak when they told me most of the alleged 5,500 wounded were being treated in Egypt and Jordan. They want it known that the figure is a lie, and showed me that the wounded weren't in Gaza. No evidenc...

This is a picture of a so-called "Blue Box", design from 1940. It shows how much land the Jewish National Fund had bought by 1940. You can see that it covers almost the entire coast line, much of the Galil to the lake, and parts of the northern Negev as well as most of Jerusalem. The JNF controlled a bit more than half the land owned by Jews in the country. The land was then under British sovereignty. The land shown on the map on the box was neither owned by Arabs nor under t...

None of these will actually achieve much, but I find it interesting which of the three possibilities people choose. What can the world do to promote peace?   Scenario A: Some Arab terrorist group fires at Israeli cities for a few years. Call 1 (before Israel fires back): "Stop shooting at the Israelis. It's morally wrong!" Call 2 (before Israel fires back): "Stop shooting at the Israelis. They will fire back!" Call 3 (after Israel fired back): "Stop shooting at t...

I am often told that there is anti-Semitism. In fact I have seen it. Almost everyone tells me that anti-Semitism is a bad thing and must be fought. In fact that point is often brought up by the same people who tell me something else as well. They tell me that the "Palestinian Cause" is a noble cause and not related to anti-Semitism in any way; that the leaders of the Palestinian Cause and the Palestinian people have to be supported and that their fight is necessary and noble. And anyway, Isra...

Apparently from Maxim mag originally, via Israellycool: http://www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mahmoudfinalclean.png

The Obama administration has given the Palestinian Authority a "green light" to talk to Hamas about forming a Palestinian unity government, a PA official in Ramallah said over the weekend. ... "The new administration has a different policy than that of [former US president] George W. Bush," the official told The Jerusalem Post. [I'll say!] "The administration of President Barack Obama believes that a Hamas-Fatah government is good for stability." http://w...

Since the 1970s the US have been standing 100% behind Israel. Also since then Israel was not involved in major wars any more. It is clear that this strategy has been a total failure and must be changed. Or so many liberals claim. Peace can only come, they say, when the US doesn't back Israel 100% but takes a more nuanced position. Let's look at this idea for a moment. What do we know about middle-eastern nations the US didn't support 100%. The only nation at war with the Arabs apart fro...

I thought of Gaza, under 100 miles to the south, with similar beaches and balmy weather, and similar possibilities of human advance. Could the Gazans join the Israelis to create a Riviera on their exquisite beaches, their glowing sands? To do so, they would have to leave behind a world of zero-sum chimeras and fantasies of jihadist revenge. And they would discover that their greatest ally is a man long portrayed as their most feared enemy, a man who, having led for decades the fight to liberat...

The ministry has disqualified a team from Ariel University Center of Samaria from the Solar Decathlon. Samaria and Judea are the two Biblical names for the land now known as the West Bank. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3781534,00.html I know, I know. This is not anti-Semitism. And the same thing would have happened to Arab students from a university in the West Bank or to Arab students from a university in Israel. No, I somehow doubt the team would have been dis...

Just kidding... Perhaps if Ahmdinejad were Jewish , the UN would care.  

According to a German article (URL below) Muntasser al-Saidi, the shoe thrower of Baghdad, claimed that he was tortured during his few months in Iraqi prison. http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Bericht-ueber-Folterungen-article505478.html I don't understand this. The same article, as do most the media, claims that all Arabs love him. So who were the people who tortured him? Could it be that supporters of the democratically elected Iraqi government disagree with al-Saidi? Note that I don't ...