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US-Israel fallout?

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 8:57 pm

My email box was full today of emails (from a mailing list) about the apparent deterioration in US-Israel relations as of late. Even Ambassador Oren sees it: Israeli envoy sees “historic crisis” with U.S.-report

What does this all mean?

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Crazy Conspiracy Theory

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Moonbats and Wingnuts, Wierd Side — Jaws @ 10:47 am

Muslim Cleric: Pepsi is “Zionist Plot”

What’s really ironic is that the cleric is obviously rather ignorant of Pepsi’s history vis-a-vis Israel (Pepsi wasn’t sold in Israel until 1992 if fear of Pepsi losing its market share in the Arab bloc)

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Bibi’s Speech

Filed under: Israel, Jewish Stuff/Judaism, Middle East — Jaws @ 9:31 pm

Nothing too “earth shattering” within PM Netanyahu’s speech earlier today at Bar-Ilan

I sort of like the analysis over at AoSHQ on the speech.

Bibi scores some points for showing up Obama’s omission of the real historical origins of the (modern) State of Israel.

Otherwise, there was nothing in the speech that hadn’t been heard before.

Funny to read the Palestinian responses though. The “peace process” is once again DOA (though–was it ever “alive” to begin with?)

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Killer Zionist Snakes!

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 9:51 pm

Israeli military developing battlefield robot snake.

Awesome! Killer Zionist Snakes! I love it!

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Obama’s Mideast Speech

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Politics — Jaws @ 9:45 pm

Didn’t read all 6,000 words of it yet (nor do I really have any intention too)

But from all the articles I’ve read, I”m not pleased.

Israel is getting royally screwed over–and based on that alone, I don’t like it. Others can say more, but that’s my 2 cents.

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Life imitates The Onion

Filed under: Israel, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 11:06 pm

Iran complains to UN about Israeli “threats”

Meanwhile, what has the UN done about threats to Israel from Iran?

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Further sighs of a bad choice

Filed under: Israel, Politics — Jaws @ 9:59 pm

Providing futher proof that he would’ve been a poor choice for Chairman of the National Intel Council–Charles Freeman Jr. decides to play the “blame the Israel lobby card”

Sort of funny though, that none of the usual suspects (e.g. AIPAC) had ever publicly stated a position on Mr. Freeman’s nomination. It was Freeman’s own writings/past quotes which sunk him.

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Let the wheeling and dealing begin

Filed under: Israel, Politics — Jaws @ 11:16 pm

No…this has nothing to do with the “Stimulus” plan.

Rather, it’s the jockeying that’s about to start over in Israel over forming a coalition government. (Assuming it hasn’t already started).

As of right now, Kadima has 29 seats and Likud has 27 (out of 120). It takes 61 votes to become the Prime Minister.
However, this years election has given the right-of-center parties more seats–so at first glance, it would appear Bibi may be in the drivers seat.

That is unless, Kadima can start making some deals with cetrain parties….

Let the fun begin!

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Literary Artists and Reality

Filed under: Israel, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 4:59 pm

THough they are excellent Hebrew literary wordsmiths, the likes of whom include Amos Oz, David Grossman, A.B. Yehoshua, and Meir Shalev–they are often dead wrong when it comes to security and politics.

I like their literary works a lot…but their politics couldn’t be more hopelessly wrong.

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Hot-dog propaganda

Filed under: Israel, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 6:19 pm

Islamic Jihad seizes IDF rocket, hotdogs

Two things that instantly come to mind:

1. The rocket has already been used (looks like a LAW)
2. How does one prepare hot dogs in the field?

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Often overlooked

Filed under: Israel, Middle East — Jaws @ 9:34 pm

A blog post about the significant role of the USSR in fhe Arab-Israeli conflict.

Come to think of it, this is indeed something that is often overlooked.

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Further proof to support Israel

Filed under: Israel, Moonbats and Wingnuts — Jaws @ 10:01 pm

Carter: Israel’s response to rockets disproportionate

Since Carter thinks its wrong….it’s probably the right thing to do then!

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Just as the sun rises in the east…

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 9:53 pm

Israel is getting the short end of the stick at the UN

Nu?

I wonder if many of the major news agencies just have some sort of boilerplate type of article along these lines that they publish every so often.

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A rightful demonstration

Filed under: Israel, New York City — Jaws @ 10:13 pm

NY Rally cries out against Hamas

Finally a representation by people who are much brighter than the rabid moonbats.

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Goodbye Tunnels

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 10:18 pm

IAF unleashes massive strike on Hamas tunnel network near Rafah

The real question should be…why has Israel waited so long to do this?

Bonus: There’s video too from the IDF!

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Long Overdue…

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 12:18 pm

Operation “cast lead”: The IDF launched a massive operation, striking Hamas installations throughout the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

The wide-scale offensive on Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip was codenamed ‘Operation Cast Lead,’ after a Hanukkah poem by H.N. Bialik referring to a “dreidel cast from solid lead.”

A good opening salvo, but the IDF really needs to go in and make a very decisive statement (unlike Lebanon in 2006).

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Lame Duck Fest

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 10:38 pm

Bush, Olmert have last meeting before ending terms

And this meeting accomplishes what exactly?

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Anti-Iran Rall turns partisan

Filed under: Campaign 2008, Israel, Jewish Stuff/Judaism, Middle East — Jaws @ 9:56 pm

Can’t say I didn’t see this coming: Anti-Iran rally turns into anti-Obama rally.

First off, I wasn’t in attendance, not for political reasons, but rather because I had work. [Try getting from the Columbus Circle area over to the UN, on a weekday, mid-day].

Second, ever since the organizers were (politically) pressured/threatened by certain groups on the left to have Palin withdraw, there’s been an uproar.

Fact is, the most vocal, anti-Iran segments of the community are probably leaning towards McCain/Plain to begin with. Second, Palin’s still got that “rock star” vibe going on–and an Alaskan in NYC could definitely draw quite the crowd. However, since the disinvite, there were calls of disapproval from some segments plus other calls for boycott by others. Doesn’t help things.

It’s a shame the rally didn’t get more than the estimated ~2000 attendees.

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Water chicken

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Sports — Jaws @ 10:29 pm

Iran swimmer avoids Israeli pool showdown in Beijing

How does one say “chicken” in Farsi? Is it کلمات مرتبط
‘Cause that’s what the swimmer was.

As for the article itself, what was with this little comment by the author:

Israel, the Middle East region’s sole if undeclared nuclear power, considers Iran its main strategic threat because of its nuclear programme and repeated predictions of the Jewish state’s demise by senior Iranian leaders.

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