The Other McCain

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

The Holy Church of St. Pancake
The International Solidarity Movement and the Rachel Corrie Death Cult

Back in 2003, when Charles Johnson was still able to maintain some semblance of sanity, a commenter at Little Green Footballs — no doubt long since banished — responded to the death of Rachel Corrie by dubbing her “St. Pancake.” A jest both crude and arguably cruel, yet in two words, that LGF commenter captured a reality that has endured, […]

Video Of The Day: ‘We Con The World’

by Smitty (h/t Black Five) There comes a time When we need to make a show For the world, the Web and CNN There’s no people dying, so the best that we can do Is create the greatest bluff of all We must go on pretending day by day That in Gaza, there’s crisis, hunger […]

Hmmmmm

“We have been working non-stop for the last twenty-four hours examining the cargo holds of the three large cargo ships and I can say with great assurance, that none of the equipment on board is needed in Gaza. The equipment that we found is all equipment that we have regularly allowed into the strip over […]

Associated Press: Bias? What Bias?

Strictly neutral and objective: Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis. Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation […]

It Was Not ‘Violence-Violence’

by Smitty (via Memeorandum) Andrew Sullivan treats us to the Full Whoopi in relating the IDF raid on the Gaza flotilla, emphasis mine: A simple point. The violence by the activists is pretty abhorrent. These are not followers of Gandhi or MLK Jr. But the violence is not fatal to anyone and it is in […]

Israel Update: Prime Minister Netanyahu Cancels White House Meeting

Not giving Obama another chance to snub him: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled plans to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli statement said, in the wake of a deadly Israeli raid on Gaza-bound ships. “Netanyahu decided to cut short his visit to Canada and return to Israel early,” […]

Flotilla of Fools vs. Israeli Navy

Like a scene straight from the pages of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, a group of activists calling themselves the “Freedom Flotilla” have attempted — and evidently, failed — to break the Israeli blockade of Hamas-held Gaza: The Israeli Navy made its first contact with a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and […]

Two Kinds of Jews

Philip Klein explains:  [T]he difference between a Jewish liberal and a Jewish conservative is that when a Jewish liberal walks out of the Holocaust Museum, he feels, “This shows why we need to have more tolerance and multiculturalism.” The Jewish conservative feels, “We should have killed a lot more Nazis, and sooner.” Exactly so, and […]

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