All Entries Tagged With: "Richard Silverstein"
Full Time Fool
Anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein loves a good ad hominem attack. Here’s his latest unprovoked one against me, in the context of a wider attack on Understanding the Goldstone Report, the site with which I am involved.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/11/04/house-denounces-goldstone-baird-courageously-dissents/comment-page-1/#comment-115776
You’re right. There’s a website set up by Maize with almost the same name, http://www.ungoldstonereport.com/ which I confused w. the [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Oct 28th, 2009
In an interview with some sycophantic nobody from the website Palestine Note, Head Hamashole Khaled Meshaal insulted the intelligence of everyone by claiming, inter alia, that Hamas respects international law, will form an honest and neutral investigative committee to look into their conduct during Operation Cast Lead, and – here’s my favorite – did not [...]
The Day In Israel: Tues Oct 27th, 2009
Channel 10 reported that a summit of Mediterranean states planned to be held in Turkey in November was canceled after Egypt and other Arab states refused to sit round the same table as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
I don’t know about you, but I feel that giving back the Sinai really paid dividends.
Updates (Israel time; [...]
The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 26th, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have decided to appoint a small team to review Israel’s course of action on the Goldstone report, and make recommendations on what should be done in the diplomatic, legal and public relations planes.
The prime minister said during the meeting that the establishment of an investigation [...]
Chutzpah of the Day Award
..goes to frequently chutzpadik anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein.
After begging for money to send him to a conference..
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/10/05/j-street-national-conference/
I want to urge you to attend, if possible, J Street’s national conference, Driving Change, Securing Peace, from October 26-28th in Washington, DC. Jerry Haber of the Magnes Zionist and I will be hosting a panel of bloggers who [...]
Silverstein Sprung
Not content with disseminating his dishonest rants on his own blog, anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein blogs elsewhere, such as The Guardian’s Comment is Free, and AlterNet. It is at the latter that he has posted his latest attack on those with whom he disagrees.
The latest targets of his venom are those who took Jane Fonda [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 23rd, 2009
It looks like Obama has adopted the annoyed schoolteacher approach to peacemaking,
US President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday that he was dissatisfied with their recent foot-dragging on getting Israeli-Palestinian talks restarted.
A senior White House source yesterday told Haaretz that “during the tripartite meeting Obama strongly expressed [...]
Don’t Forget To Close The Door On Your Way Out
Marc Garlasco has been suspended with pay from his senior military analyst role with HRW, following the revelations of his Nazi fetish broken by the blogosphere.
A leading human rights group has suspended its senior military analyst following revelations that he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.
The group, Human Rights Watch, had initially thrown its [...]
Garlasco-Gate: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
[I know there are a lot of "G"'s in the post title, but there are more "Gee"s to come in the post.]
In the wake of HRW senior analyst Marc Garlasco’s lame response to the publicizing of his Nazi fetish, more of his posts on Nazi memorabilia sites are being unearthed.
And as you will see, they [...]
The Day In Israel: Fri Sept 11th, 2009
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At the annual Likud party Rosh Hashana toast yesterday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said:
“We have proven that we desire peace and we are willing to compromise, but we will not be taken for fools.”
“One thing is clear – there is a government in Israel that bolsters security, [...]
























































