Archive for November 11th, 2003

Anti-Semitism from a Non-Jew’s Perspective

US Navy Retiree John Rudolph has a few things to say about the beast known as anti-Semitism from the perspective of a non-Jewish person.

Being a non-Jew, or Gentile, I have been making some observations lately over the past few months, and have observed something terribly odd.
I go into the news groups in Yahoo!, and all [...]

Quote of the Day

“You would have to note that it was only (lately) that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership could even find it in themselves to mention the word Palestinian. So I reject the notion that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, overwhelmingly important as it is, would stop the terrorism that has been directed against [...]

Faine-ing the Truth

Jon Faine, a Jewish journalist at The Age, gushes with praise for Al-Crapeeza after being fed the usual lies about “uncensored media”, “freedom of expression” and “an exchange of ideas” by the curiously named Jihad Ballout.
And how about this for a lie:
“Any Jews working here?” I asked, and was told that if I wanted to [...]

Prize and Prejudice

Padraic McGuinness has written an interesting op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald in which he blasts the Sydney Peace Prize, but claims that Jewish leaders should have just ignored the whole thing.
Peace prizes are getting sillier every day. It used to be there was a fairly simple path to obtaining a Nobel Peace Prize, which [...]

Democracy at Work

Israel is by no means a “perfect” democracy in the sense of equal rights for all citizens. There are a number of reasons for this situation, some stemming from the reality of the situation on the ground (e.g. it is unsafe to make military service mandatory for Israeli Arabs due to their divided loyalties) and [...]

Killing the Infidels

I don’t know about you, but it struck me as odd that al Qaeda would deliberately target Muslims in its terror campaign. But according to Debka, Muslims were indeed not targeted:
Al Qaeda’s targeting of Muhaya and its Arab population at first puzzled Saudi and foreign counter-terror authorities – until it was realized that many of [...]