Tag Archives: Gaza

William Schabas resigns from UN’s anti-Israel Gaza inquiry

Posted on 4 February 2015 by

Finally! Some great news from the UN – William Schabas, the head of the kangaroo court known as the Schabas Commission, the commission of inquiry established by the Human Rights Wrongs Council to investigate Israel’s war crimes in Gaza during … Continue reading →

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Once again the NYT’s Roger Cohen wants to save Israel from itself

Posted on 22 December 2014 by

For a long time now I’ve refrained from fisking New York Times’ articles and opinion pieces about Israel because they are either so anti-Israel, or so ignorant as to be irrelevant and even self-defeating in that they just provoke the … Continue reading →

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Matti Friedman’s analysis of AP’s biased reporting and their boycott of NGO Monitor

Posted on 4 December 2014 by

Former AP journalist Matti Friedman, who wrote a blistering essay in the summer about AP’s anti-Israel bias, has hit it out of the ball park once again with another long report in The Atlantic online magazine. This time Friedman’s focus … Continue reading →

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Outrages and double standards of the week

Posted on 24 November 2014 by

Yes, I know the week has barely started but a whole bunch of items caught my attention, and the common thread running through them all is the outrage they stirred up in me, whether for their hypocrisy, their falsehoods or … Continue reading →

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Almost good news – terrorists and weapons captured

Posted on 21 November 2014 by

I usually try to post only good news on Fridays, but I feel the following items need to be posted today and not wait till after Shabbat. Yesterday we learned that the Israel police uncovered a massive weapons cache headed … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 7 November 2014 by

With all the tragic events of this past week, this week’s Good News Friday post is going to concentrate more on good news from the  political front. First we have the quite astonishing news that the ICC rejected a petition … Continue reading →

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