November 29th, 2009 // comments (0)

ISRAEL SHALIT RELEASE

Gilad Shalit to be traded for, get this, 980 Palestinian prisoners…

April 27th, 2009 // comments (0)

Israeli Health Minister: Can We Call It Mexican Flu Instead?

Israel is jumping on the swine flu mania train. Except they don’t quite feel comfortable calling the disease ‘swine flu’. Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman would like it a whole lot better if we called the disease ‘Mexican flu’. No word on whether Mexico is down with that change… but I think the name is pretty well established at this point.

April 1st, 2009 // comments (0)

Patraeus: Israel May Bomb Iran

Here’ the full statement (.pdf download) if you want more context…

April 1 (Bloomberg) — Israel might choose to attack Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said today.

Army General David Petraeus told Congress that “the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it.”

March 5th, 2009 // comments (0)

Another Failed Backhoe Terror Attack

If at first you don’t succeed, try again and fail…:

JERUSALEM (CNN) — A man who drove a construction vehicle into a police car and an empty bus on a major road in Jerusalem has been shot and killed, Israeli police and medical services.

Two Israeli policemen sustained minor injuries in the incident, police said. The driver was shot by an Israeli policeman and a taxi driver at the scene, according to a police spokesman and eyewitnesses. He

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March 1st, 2009 // comments (0)

Israel Threatens Gaza Retaliation

Since the Gaza ground incursion, Hamas has fired more than 100 rockets…:

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened a painful response to Palestinian rocket fire menacing southern Israel, suggesting Sunday that the blistering offensive against Gaza Strip militants fell short of its goals.
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More than 110 rockets and mortar shells have exploded in Israel in the six weeks since it ended its air and ground onslaught against Gaza, which was meant to end the rocket

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February 26th, 2009 // comments (0)

Pastagate: Israel Blocking Macaroni

Israel says it’s refusing to allow the delivery because macaroni isn’t ‘an essential food item’. A few years back and a few dollars ago, I virtually lived on macaroni and cheese so I would take them to task on their food item classification methods if this weren’t such a ridiculous story. Why not check the shipment for weapons and if it has none, and it is clearly a ‘food item’, let it pass on through. I understand that…

February 25th, 2009 // comments (0)

The Mysterious Bush Unpaid Tab Scandal

Did President Bush’s team dine and dash on last Israel visit?:

JERUSALEM — It may be known as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s last scandal. If it isn’t settled soon, the brewing controversy also has the potential to become the first diplomatic dust-up between President Barack Obama and America’s strongest Middle East ally.

At issue is an unpaid $320 bill for dinner with a White House advance team at a restaurant near Olmert’s official residence.

For nine months,

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February 13th, 2009 // comments (0)

Moderates Lead In Israeli Vote

A quick update on the elections in Israel…:

JERUSALEM — Final results from Israel’s election, announced Thursday, leave the Kadima Party of moderate Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni with a slight lead over Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish Likud, but the hard-line bloc in the new parliament would have the power to stymie Mideast peace efforts.

Kadima will receive 28 seats in the 120-seat parliament and Likud 27, far less than the majority each would need to govern. Livni and Netanyahu are already

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February 10th, 2009 // comments (0)

Tie?: Israeli Election Is A Squeaker

It looks like Tzipi Livni’s party just edged out Likud…:

Both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party and Binyamin Netanyahu’s opposition Likud styled themselves the winners of Tuesday’s elections, after exit polls broadcast on the three television networks showed Kadima would be the largest party in the new Knesset, but the Likud-led right-wing would constitute the larger bloc.

February 10th, 2009 // comments (0)

Israeli Exit Polls Show Likud Defeat

Exit polls aren’t always (or ever) accurate… but here’s the prediction:

Exit polls by Israel’s three main television stations on Tuesday night showed Kadima as the clear winner in the 2009 general elections, with Likud coming a narrow second.

Channel 1, Channel 2 and Channel 10 polling of voters as they left the ballot box all showed victory for Kadima, headed by Tzipi Livni.

According to the Channel 2 poll, Likud will take 27 seats, Kadima will hold 29

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February 6th, 2009 // comments (0)

U.N. To Halt Gaza Aid Over Hamas

Why? Because the U.N. also helps ‘enemies of Hamas‘…:

JERUSALEM — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday it has halted all aid shipments into the Gaza Strip due to interference by the ruling Hamas militant group.

The U.N. Relief and Works agency said it made the decision after Hamas personnel intercepted an aid shipment for the second time this week.

In a statement, UNRWA said 10 truckloads of flour and rice that had been delivered into Gaza

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January 12th, 2009 // comments (0)

The Oh-So-Silent Majority

If this Rasmussen poll is accurate, where are all of the supporters?

Two weeks of military action in the Gaza Strip has done nothing to move public opinion in America.

Today, 56% of voters nationwide say that the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza while 13% say the Israelis are at fault. Two weeks ago, a nationwide survey of adults found that 55% placed the blame on the Palestinians and 13% pointed the finger at

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January 12th, 2009 // comments (0)

Video: Booby Trapped Gaza School

IDF forces in Gaza document how Hamas had booby trapped a school and a zoo with explosives.

There was quite a bit of controversy over Israel firing on a pair of U.N. schools in Gaza. The IDF argued that Hamas was using these seemingly ‘safe sites’ as attack bases. This video seems to back up those claims.

January 6th, 2009 // comments (0)

IAF Hits UN School, 10+ Dead

At least ten people were killed in an IDF attack on a UN-run school in the village of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports. There were reportedly also scores of wounded on the scene.

The United Nations said hundreds of people from a Gaza City refugee camp had gone to seek shelter in the school from Israel’s 11-day offensive against the Hamas terror group.

The missile landed in a courtyard late Monday, also damaging the building.

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January 3rd, 2009 // comments (0)

Most Biased Headline, EVER

A short message to the pilots in the Israeli F-16s: does it make you feel happy to kill Palestinian children and women? Do you feel it’s your duty? Killing every child and woman, man and teenager in Gaza? I don’t know what exactly you feel, what exactly you think, but please think of your mother and sister, your son and daughter.

I’ll let this insanity speak for itself…

via… HotAir.