Monthly Archives: July 2014

How US Congress Can Help Israel Against Hamas

GATESTONE by Malcolm Lowe July 16, 2014 Last Friday, July 11, the US House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 657 in support of Israel’s right to defend itself against the rockets fired from the Gaza strip. A similar resolution has also been submitted to … Continue reading

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Winning the Moral High Ground is a Loser’s Game

SULTAN KNISH BLOG by Daniel Greenfield July 16, 2014 In our modern age, things no longer exist to perform their function. Washing machines aren’t designed to clean clothes, but to save water and energy. Food isn’t there to be eaten, … Continue reading

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Hamas Wants to Die

MIDDLE EAST FORUM by David P. Goldman July 15, 2014 It’s like the old joke: Why do Jewish men die before their wives? Because they want to. Civilizations for the most part die because they no longer want to live. … Continue reading

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Don’t Put Terrorists on Trial. Treating terrorist attacks as criminal incidents is a futile approach.

NATIONAL REVIEW by Daniel Pipes July 14, 2014 The Obama administration has brought an accused Libyan terrorist named Ahmed Abu Khattala to Washington for trial. His saga reveals how the government views the Islamist threat, and it’s discouraging. Fortunately, a … Continue reading

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Young Israelis Fight Hashtag Battle to Defend #IsraelUnderFire [includes VIDEO]

NEW YORK TIMES by Robert Mackey July 15, 2014 Confronted with an outpouring of sympathy on social networks for Palestinians killed or wounded in Gaza in an eight-day military confrontation, a group of young Israelis is pushing back, using the … Continue reading

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Hamas death cult celebrates first ‘success’

ISRAEL HAYOM by Richard Baehr July 16, 2014 The death cult known as Hamas is celebrating its first great success of the current ‎campaign to murder Jews indiscriminately across the length and width of Israel. ‎Today it struck gold as … Continue reading

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Smug Jon Stewart — so funny, so wrong on Israel-Gaza. He helps low-information viewers stay that way.

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz July 16, 2014 It’s an asymmetrical war, all right. But America’s satirical news host has got it the wrong way around. That Jon Stewart, he’s sooooo funny. Just watch his amusing take on the current … Continue reading

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President Obama: Now is the time

JERUSALEM POST by Marvin Hier July 15, 2014 This fantasy idea that Abbas sold to the State Department and White House is absolutely dead even though it has not yet officially been buried. Now is the time for President Barack … Continue reading

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Undermining Israel’s right to self-defense: The UN pathology

JERUSALEM POST by Anne Bayefsky July 15, 2014 When the people of Israel exercise their inherent right of self-defense, they are forced to withstand an additional onslaught from today’s morally bankrupt United Nations. The 20th century job description of the … Continue reading

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Hamas, the dying shark, has no sponsor and is losing popular support; Israel should finish it off.

GLOBES by Dr Norman Bailey July 14, 2014 The current battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza resembles nothing so much as the violent thrashing-about of a mortally wounded shark leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Nothing remains … Continue reading

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