Posts Tagged ‘Israel’

“Moderate” is a relative term

Posted: March 16, 2009 by datechguy in war
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It’s not only rockets being used against Israel:

Arab terrorists killed two Israeli traffic policemen Sunday evening near Moshav Massua in an apparent drive-by shooting in the Jordan Valley between Beit She’an and Jericho. The victims’ squad car overturned after the terrorists shot them in head. Medical officials say one victim died as a result of injuries suffered by the car overturning.

Different terrorist groups took responsibility for the attack, the first in the Jordan Valley since January. Fatah-Tanzim terrorists initially were quoted as saying they carried out the murders, (emphasis mine), but an unknown group called the Imad Mughniyeh Squad later said it was behind the attack. The cell is named after the Hizbullah terrorist mastermind who was assassinated a year ago in Damascus. The unknown group said the attack was “in response to the crimes of occupation against the Palestinian people.”

Israellycool points out the irony out.

Yeah, that’s the moderate Fatah party of Mahmoud Abbas, peace partners par excellence.

Funny how the initial reports said Fatah alone, I think this is the 9/11 thing where initial celebrations among the Palestinians were replaced by photos of Arafat donating (AIDS infected) blood. It might be a problem getting the big money from the US if they are shooting cops, who do they think they are? Bill Ayers or Mumia?

Then again maybe they shouldn’t have worried with this administration.

Oh and by the way those rockets…

Posted: March 14, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…they haven’t stopped falling on Israel.

As always Israellycool is on it.

Freeman gone, now what?

Posted: March 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Well Chas Freeman has withdrawn his name. This is good news for the US and although they might not believe it right now even better news for the Obama administration as they won’t a toady who defended the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in China on the team.

Glenn Reynolds as usual notes the most relevant point.

It’s also worth noting that, like the John Edwards story, press covering this withdrawal will have to explain all the stuff they didn’t report before.

At least Morning Joe hinted at it, but this is why the reputation of journalists and newspapers are in the tank and rightly so.

Update Steyn:

Poor old Freeman. He has the guts to spill the beans on the Israel Lobby, and either their stooge Pincus or the sinister cosmopolitan Jews who control America’s Union of Newspaper Delivery Boys hoover any reference to the dark truth out of the paper before it reaches your doorstop.

At least I hope that’s the case. The alternative explanation is that The Washington Post would rather protect anyone even peripherally associated with President Obama than risk giving its readers any “news”.

Manipulating the news was always more about people keeping people ignorant of facts that are dangerous.

Remember when the Lancet was a medical journal?

Posted: March 9, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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Instead of a propaganda organ. It’s hard to do so isn’t it? Tim Blair reports on the amazing disappearing post about bombs that vaporize everything silently:

We have taken down the blog post The wounds of Gaza because of factual inaccuracies.

Funniest line in their Mea Culpa:

We do not endorse any particular side of a debate

Nice job, I’m sure the phony report will suffer the same fate as the phony Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I’m glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that.