Archive for January, 2008

Liveblogging the Latest – Saturday January 26th – Sunday January 27th

Liveblogging the Latest – Saturday January 26th – Sunday January 27th

Here’s a run down on what I missed this Jewish Sabbath… Israel has demanded that Egypt restore order in Rafah, and take action to prevent the unsupervised crossing of palestinians back and forth between Egypt and Gaza. For their part, Egypt today announced that they will ask Hamas (as well as the PA) to send [...]

In Praise of Himself

In further evidence that Ha’aretz has completely lost the plot, they have published a piece from none other than anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein. The piece – entitled In Praise of the Jewish Blogosphere – is nothing more than an exercise in self-promotion, and an attempt by Silverstein to get more readership, and blast those who [...]

Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day

Rapper and producer Pharrell gets down with the Orthodox Jewish homeboys.

Great Moments in UN History

During the discussion around yesterday’s routine UNHRC one-sided condemnation of Israel came this exchange, which pretty much says it all about how serious one should take that august institution: HILLEL NEUER, of United Nations Watch , said that the proposed draft resolution constituted a case of psychological projection. It was Hamas which deliberately fired rockets [...]

Liveblogging the Latest – Friday January 25th

Liveblogging the Latest – Friday January 25th

Egyptian border guards reportedly moved to close the border with the Gaza Strip this morning, forming a human shield and blocking the movement of palestinians into Egypt. But this is too little, too late, with news that Hamas and other terrorist organizations already sent terrorists into the Sinai peninsula over the last two days, with [...]

Liveblogging the Latest – Thursday January 24th

Liveblogging the Latest – Thursday January 24th

Hot on the heels of yet more confirmation that Hamas had planned the “Great Wall Blast of 2008″ well in advance of Israel’s so-called “siege” of Gaza, comes confirmation that Hamas staged scenes of darkness, by closing the curtains and holding candle-lit meeting at daytime. Given that it was Hamas who closed Gaza’s power plant, [...]

Finding Darwin

It looks like terror leaders are recruiting more and more Mr Beans. A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on [...]

Liveblogging the Latest – Wednesday January 23rd

Liveblogging the Latest – Wednesday January 23rd

Early this morning, terrorists blew holes in the concrete wall between Gaza and Egypt, allowing thousands of palestinians to cross over, while Egyptian guards stood by and watched – I guess being beaten up by women damages your confidence. While Ha’aretz reports that the people rushed “to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have [...]

Rafah Blasts Were Planned For Months

From Dion Nissenbaum of McClatchy Newspapers: Before dawn, Palestinian militants blew up and tore down large sections of the concrete and iron walls separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt. They had apparently been planning the attack for weeks. With the knowledge of locals, militants had spent weeks methodically using blow torches to cut along the [...]

Hamas Mimicking Arafat

Yasir Arafat was infamous for directing terror attacks while denying any responsibility as he used other front organizations to do the work. (And Arafat was copying his mentor, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who instigated anti-Jewish pogroms in the 1920s and ’30s while denying any responsibility to the British.) The events of the past two days shows [...]