| Clashes between Egyptian army and ISIS in the Sinai intensifiesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Aug 04:45 AM The number of stories of deadly clashe | | The number of stories of deadly clashes between Egyptian army forces and ISIS has been increasing lately.
In late July, militants from "ISIS" ambushed a checkpoint in the northern part of Sinai, killing at least 5 security personnel.
On August 9, an Egyptian brigadier general was killed when an explosive device exploded in an Egyptian army vehicle in Rafah.
The next day, Egypt said it killed 5 ISIS terrorists.
Eight more Egyptian soldiers were killed in Rafah on Thursday evening. Egypt says it killed 13 ISIS members. This is a low-intensity...Read More |
This week, the popular TV game show Jeopardy announce that Mayim Bialik will become one of the permanent hosts for the show, hosting prime time specials. Since she is a proud and observant Jew, I've lightly followed her career and I am very happy for her.
The Daily Beast just hired a new writer named Tirhakah Love and he is very, very angry at this choice. As we will see, it is either because he is functionally illiterate or an antisemite.
The headline says, "'Jeopardy!' Host Mayim Bialik's Ugly History of Shaming Weinstein's Victims and Being an Anti-Vaxxer." Say what?
After saying that Jeopardy! should have chosen a black man like him instead of a....woman(!) he writes:From promoting anti-vaccine literature in her own writing, where in one breath she wrote that she doesn't want to "dismiss" the families who've endured horrible tragedies due to being unvaccinated, but in the next defended her anti-vax stance by sharing that a "friend's brother had an adverse reaction to a vaccination and he is never going to develop mentally past the age of 6 because of it," seems really tacky and insensitive and wrong (even if true). She conveniently pivoted to admitting that she and her...Read More |
From Ian: What Shakespeare knew about anti-Zionism This past week, there was an anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn. It was promoted by, among other groups, Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Israel group. The demonstrators chanted: "We don't want no two states, we want all of it." "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." The gloves are off; the pretenses, gone. They want a world without Israel. Their banners: "Zionism is terrorism"; "We will free Palestine within our lifetime." And: "Globalize the intifada." "Intifada" is Arabic for uprising or rebellion. In its most current usages, it refers to organized acts of violence and terrorist attacks against Israelis. There have been more than a thousand victims. The intifada has centered itself on Israel proper. No longer. "Globalize the intifada" means that Jews will be uncomfortable and unsafe, wherever they are. Let me remind you: Jews. Not Israelis. Not Zionists. Jews. Let us imagine the scenario. On the Upper West Side, for example. Protesters walk through the streets, accosting passersby. You think they will ask: "Are you Israeli?" No. They will be going after Jews. How they will know who is Jewish is a whole other question. But, let us imagine the frightening dialogue. "Are you Jewish?" "Yes, but … " (guilty with an explanation). I am a victim of history...Read More |
If Human Rights Watch's report on Hamas rockets was so damning, then one would expect that Hamas would be upset, right? Hamas responded to the report instead by understanding that the report was a propaganda piece to make HRW pretend to be even-handed and it was really part of a larger campaign against Israel.
In a statement, Hamas said: The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas stressed the importance of what was stated in the report of Human Rights Watch accusing the Israeli occupation of committing crimes that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Hamas noted the need for the international community to move to hold the occupation and its leaders accountable, and to take all necessary measures to stop this continuous aggression and end the occupation. Hamas and HRW, in perfect sync. What about the rockets that HRW said were war crimes? Hamas mostly ignored that, and addresses the issue obliquely: The group stressed the inherent right of our people to defend themselves and their sanctities...Read More |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Cleveland, August 12 - More than a week after a Democratic Party primary race for a crucial Congressional seat resulted in the victory of a mainstream, pro-Israel candidate over one favored by the party's vocal left wing, prominent figures in that wing have realized that this latest failure to bolster its representation in the halls of power bespeaks a trend: if others are permitted to run against the progressives' choice, those others will siphon votes away from the progressive in sufficient numbers to deny the progressive the sought-after position, an aide to one of those figures disclosed today. Members of the progressive Democratic Congressional group known as The Squad - Rashida Tlaib (D-MN), Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Cori Bush (D-MO), and backed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and activist Linda Sarsour - voiced their conclusion Thursday that the August 3 victory by Shontel Brown over Nina Turner in the primary to run for Ohio's 11th District indicates a recurring challenge facing The Squad's endorsements: opponents almost always run rival campaigns that attract enough votes to win, and that phenomenon must cease. "It's different from their home districts," explained the...Read More |
From Ian: Biden Admin Decision to Hide Info About Palestinian Terrorism From Congress Broke Law, Watchdog Says Biden administration officials may have broken the law when they erased information about the Palestinian government's terror incitement from a mandatory compliance report submitted to Congress in July, according to a legal watchdog group. The America First Legal Foundation (AFLF) in a letter sent Wednesday is asking the State Department inspector general to investigate the Biden administration's decision to omit references to the Palestinian government's calls for violence, as well as its support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement—issues that are being closely monitored by Congress as the Biden administration restarts millions of dollars in U.S. aid to the Palestinians. Information about Palestinian terror incitement and support for the BDS movement were included in the outgoing Trump administration's October 2020 version of the report, but removed by the Biden administration when it came into office, as the Free Beacon first reported. The AFLF letter says the Biden administration removed this information to downplay Palestinian intransigence as it renews taxpayer aid to the government. Lawmakers, including a large portion of Republicans, criticized the resumption of U.S. aid, particularly...Read More |
The controversial demolition of the homes of Palestinian Arab terrorists is in the news again, following a terrorist attack in May: The Judea Military Court on Tuesday [August 3] convicted Muntasir Shalabi for the terror murder of 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta in a drive-by-shooting on May 2 at Tapuah junction. ...Shalabi, 44, was also convicted of multiple attempted-murder counts after he wounded two other 19-year-olds during the attack. The demolition itself was done last month, in July. I already mentioned the obvious, that the house demolitions are controversial -- one problem is that the demolition was already done in July, while the actual conviction was not until later, this month. In an article for the Yale Journal of International Law in 1994, Dan Simon notes in The Demolition of Homes in the Israeli Occupied Territories The provision's breadth affords tremendous discretion to the Military Government on a number of levels. First, Article 119 allows the Military Government to issue demolition orders as an exercise of administrative authority, without recourse to judicial proceedings. [p. 15; emphasis added] And Article 119 requires a history lesson, since it is not an Israeli law. Article 119 is one of the 1945 Defense (Emergency) Regulations [DERs...Read More |
After every Gaza conflict, Human Rights Watch issues massive (and usually multiple) reports accusing Israel of war crimes - and then a perfunctory report saying, yes, Palestinian armed groups may have also committed war crimes by shooting thousands of rockets towards Israeli civilian centers. The May 2021 conflict is no exception.
Human Rights Watch now has something that they can point to in order to claim that they are objective observers and not anti-Israel fanatics.
Their whitewash report on Gaza rockets itself betrays their bias - against Israel.
For example:
In late July, Human Rights Watch reported on Israeli strikes in Gaza in May that accounted for 62 of the 129 or more Palestinian civilians who, according to the United Nations, were killed in Israeli strikes. Human Rights Watch found that these attacks violated the laws of war and amount to apparent war crimes. Human Rights Watch will soon release a report on Israeli airstrikes that destroyed or extensively damaged four high-rise towers in Gaza. HRW always finds multiple angles to release multiple anti-Israel reports, but when it comes to Hamas and other terror groups - only the rockets. Its bias is clear when you look at the war crimes of Gaza groups that they don't report.
Nothing about Hamas using Gazans as human shields - in fact, HRW has issued...Read More |
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