Eradicating Hate Ads, One Bus At A Time

How can any group, let alone a county in the United States, pre­tend its own poli­cies on bus adver­tis­ing isn’t offen­sive if the mere ver­biage incites hate? This is exactly what’s hap­pen­ing in Seattle’s King County while the fringe group, Seat­tle Mideast Aware­ness Cam­paign, defends its planned ads that tout, “Israeli War Crimes.” The group’s spokesperson, […]

Insult Over Injury

On November 13, 2010, in Abbas, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Palestinians, terrorism, UN, United Nations, by jenhanin

As expected, the New York Times is up to their old tricks again. It wasn’t enough that the news­pa­per flaunted their pen­chant for cozy­ing up with Com­mu­nists in its Sunday’s Metro sec­tion, “Where Marx­ists Pon­tif­i­cate, And Play,” now the once-respected pub­li­ca­tion has cast a black shadow over Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu’s state­side visit with Secretary […]

Peace or Pipedream? Palestinians Must Pick

What is for­mer US Pres­i­dent Jimmy Carter think­ing these days? Meet­ing with Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal doesn’t bode well for his rep­u­ta­tion. Pro-Israel sup­port­ers are furi­ous with this as Hamas is a rec­og­nized ter­ror­ist group by the United States and Israel. Then there is Gilad Shalit to con­sider. Hamas has held Gilad Shalit for over four […]

Politicized? Try Pulling the Wool Over Our Eyes

Imam Rauf cre­ated a firestorm yes­ter­day by becom­ing the lat­est media fix­ture to sug­ar­coat why Amer­ica needs an Islamic cen­ter near Ground Zero. He claimed yes­ter­day on CNN that cer­tain politi­cians have “politi­cized” this effort, which has caused a huge rift where none existed before. Well, raise your hand if you’re feel­ing nau­seous after see­ing the Imam […]

Derailing Peace at Every Turn

Imag­ine if there were evil forces out to frame you no mat­ter what you did or how you did it. Then con­sider Israel. Just two days ago, IDF sol­diers per­formed rou­tine main­te­nance by clear­ing bushes to improve the line of sight along the Israeli  –  Lebanese bor­der. Then “suddenly”  –  a word that par­ents read­ing children’s books are all too […]

Cure the Disease, Not the Symptoms

Israeli For­eign Min­is­ter Danny Ayalon set the record straight with his recent Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle on the dou­ble stan­dard the world places on Israel. Ayalon brought up a good ques­tion: where was the world a few years ago when Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ists mur­dered nearly 500 locals at a refugee camp? Now I have one. Where were Oliver Stone, Elvis Costello […]

Too Little, Too Late

Ok, I hate to admit it. I am one of those Jews who voted for Barack Hus­sein Obama (yuck!) think­ing he had all the answers. Wrong! He not only didn’t have ALL the answers, he didn’t have ANY of the answers. And not only did he not have any of the answers but he also lied about […]

The Idiocy of Inversion

There is an ill­ness in soci­ety that is so sub­tle and inva­sive that few have dis­cov­ered it. Yet, it bleeds into every­thing we hear and think. A con­stant noise that deaf­ens even the san­est of ges­tures. It streams through our online news, it speaks through our TV, it hums through our car radios and even purrs […]

The World Did Not Blink

     The world barely noticed when Turk­ish PM Tayyip Erdo­gan left the entire planet in the lurch by vot­ing against Iran’s nuclear sanc­tions last week (ditto for Brazil and Lebanon).   The world stared silently when Russ­ian government-ordered raids slaugh­tered thou­sands of Chechens and dis­placed over 500,000 in two decades.    The world entirely over­looked hundreds […]

United Nations Heads the Line For Human Rights Abusers

I don’t know about you but when I think about who should sit on the United Nations Human Rights Coun­cil, Muam­mar Qaddafi never comes up. But that is not how dic­ta­tors around the world thought when they voted over­whelm­ingly in favor of ush­er­ing one of the most bru­tal and long­stand­ing tyran­nies onto the already pock-marked council. […]

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