Chuck Hagel at Defense?

by Daniel Pipes January 28, 2013 Three thoughts as the U.S. Senate gears up to consider on Jan 31 the nomination of Chuck Hagel for the position of secretary of defense: (1) It’s more than a bit curious that Barack Obama should nominate a politician of no distinction, with no significant bills to his name, […]

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UN’s Richard Falk Compares Hamas to French Resistance During WWII

The United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the PA Territories, Richard Falk, has once again illustrated his lack of objectivity and deep bias against the State of Israel by comparing Hamas terrorists to French resistance fighters during World War II. Richard Falk, who has become notorious for his blatantly anti-Israel views, made the comments in a piece […]

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IAF UAVs

UN to Probe Israeli Drone Strikes

Today’s Top Stories 1. A UN lawyer is investigating fatal drone strikes by Israel, the US, and Britain. Bottom line, it’s a UN probe that Israel won’t cooperate with, and that the US will block. More at the Times of Israel: The main focus of the investigation will be 25 reported drone strikes in Afghanistan, […]

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Pro-Israel Groups Prepare to Battle BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) ‘Day of Action’

Anti-Israel Arab sympathizers and international anarchists are targeting several Israeli fruit exporters with protests, in their ongoing efforts to promote boycotts of Israel. In a statement released several weeks ago, the international BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement named February 9 as a “Day of Action” against two major Israeli agricultural exporters to Europe, Mehadrin […]

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Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day

January 27, 2013 15:26 by Simon Plosker This cartoon published in The Sunday Times (subscription-only) would be offensive at the best of times. That it has appeared on Holocaust Memorial Day is doubly so. Penned by Gerald Scarfe (the cartoonist behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall), the caption reads: “Israeli Elections… Will Cementing Peace Continue?” A hideous looking […]

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Defense Against Gaza Terrorism: Trees

To protect Israelis living near Gaza, the IDF is using the latest technology. But the army is also going back to a decades-old, low-tech solution: defensive forestation. The tactic is based in the simple concept of reducing terrorists’ accuracy by blocking their view. Defensive forestation was a common technique from the first years of the […]

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Israel at UN: Mali Threatens France? Gaza’s in our Living Room!

As the world begins to lend international support to a French-led military intervention against Islamic terrorists in Mali, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday brought the issue home, comparing the situation in northern Africa to Israel’s fight against terrorism in Gaza. “France’s foreign minister said this month that his country was fighting to […]

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