The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The Case of the Fake Kosher Sausage

Impersonating a Jew for carnal purposes: A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew. Sabbar Kashur, 30, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after the court ruled that he was guilty of rape by deception. According […]

Jews and Israel: Death by Relativism

Frank Luntz quoted by Evelyn Gordon at Commentary: “The problem that I see is that so many parents in the Jewish community taught their kids not to judge. I’m going to say something that’s a little bit ideological, but I find that kids on the right are far more likely to stand up for Israel […]

Machiavellian, in a Good Way

“[I]f you yield to a threat, you do so in order to avoid war, and more often than not, you do not avoid war. For those before whom you have thus openly demeaned yourself by yielding, will not stop there, but will seek to extort further concessions, and the less they esteem you the more […]

Sudetenland: Are the Czechs Our Friends?

This is the question history professor Thaddeus Russell would have had Britons ask each other in 1938, when Neville Chamberlain sold out the Czechs to Hitler at Munich. Does Israel Make Us Safer? . . . Though many Americans think of Islamic terrorism against the U.S. as part of an inevitable “clash of cultures,” not […]

Methodists Support Hamas

British Methodists have decided that Israel is evil: The Methodists boycott no other country. The fact that an institution professing allegiance to values of love, truth and justice should have succumbed to an agenda of hatred, hypocrisy and barbarism is sadly emblematic of the degraded spirit of our times, and of the moral inversions which […]

‘Marco Rubio Gets It’ on Israel

That’s from Jennifer Rubin at Commentary, who calls the Florida Republican Senate candidate’s speech yesterday “frankly the best speech on Israel since George W. Bush went to the Knesset.” The text of the speech is online and includes some important points: We are in the midst of an all out, concerted global effort to delegitimize […]

Helen Thomas Retires

Dateline, Treblinka: Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately, in the wake of a controversy over her comments on Israel, according to a report from her employer, Hearst News Service. Thomas told a rabbi at a White House event last week that Jews should “get the hell out […]

Obama vs. Israel

Professor William Jacobson asks a provocative question: Can Obama survive a second Obama term? Read the whole thing. One of the points I considered discussing in the “Rachel Corrie Death Cult” post was how, by showing “solidarity” with Hamas, liberals are guaranteeing a continuation of the horrific circumstances which are their primary grievance against Israel. […]

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