insignificant thoughts

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations [...]

As President Obama gave his mushy feel good speech (I won’t call it historic; the fellatio artists in the media did that enough) about how both sides in the Middle East need to just sacrifice for the good of the people, I have to wonder if he even is aware that the hatred the Muslim [...]

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Nablus University.

Not Hamas Headquarters.

A building of enlightenment and education.

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Not that anyone should really care what Al Jazeera has to say ever, but it is interesting that it isn’t just some fabrication of outrage by the pro-Israel lobby that has Obama taking a beating.

The Al-Jazeera satellite television station recently broadcast footage of Obama on holiday in Hawaii, wearing shorts and playing golf, juxtaposed with [...]

As Barack Obama was running for President, many of us wondered how he would deal with Israel. Typically, very few Democrats ever take strong positions on Israel and Israel defending themselves unless they’re from a predominantly Jewish area (for example, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, for the most part, are very much pro Israel). [...]

Katrina is the daughter of a friend of mine. Try to imagine the world reaction if Israel was shelling the Palestinians the same way. In fact, try to imagine any other country getting shelled like this on a regular basis. Do you think the world’s collective yawn would be as deafening? [...]

I saw an article in today’s New York Times that really bares repeating…

One of two Palestinian suicide bombers from Gaza who apparently sneaked into Israel from the Egyptian Sinai blew himself up at a shopping center in this southern desert town on Monday. He killed an Israeli woman and wounded 11 people, medical officials said.

Israeli [...]

While the IAEA wrings its hands over which wrist to slap Iran on in hopes of staving off a war, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mincing words and being vague as always.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a “countdown button” to bring an end to Israel.

President [...]

Rudy Giuliani is not fit to be President. Anyone who thinks so deserves to have their head checked. In fact, I’m not sure any of the 300 candidates running right now seems to have what it takes to lead this country. In the debate last week, one of “those” moments happened. [...]

Scott Adams on Israel after mentioning Jimmah Carter’s new book…

This got me thinking again about my own opinions on the Palestinian problem. People like to say it’s unsolvable because it’s so “complicated.” But to me it really boils down to one question: If Israel did everything that was asked of it (short eliminating itself), would [...]

After all the hyperbolic claims that Israel used chemical weapons against Lebanon (I imagine claims that a nuke was dropped aren’t far behind at this point), Germany’s ARD TV did their own tests on some of the “victims.” As it turns out, it was horsecrap.

Every time anything said by Lebanon, the Lebanese Government, or [...]

Honest Reporting (what a concept, huh?) reports on the latest fabrication to come out of Lebanon; an ambulance hit by a missile that sustained no more damage than a hole in the roof, because, as everyone knows, Israeli missiles don’t destroy anything, they just puncture and rust things.

Technorati Tags: honestreporting, media bias, israel, [...]

The Disproportionate People
by Yashiko Sagamori

During the first stage of Israel’s war against Hezbollah, when everybody agreed that the Israeli response to the new, deadly round of unprovoked Arab aggression was disproportionate, I suddenly realized that Jews, in every respect, are an extremely disproportionate nation. Although only one in 400 people on earth is Jewish, we [...]

Here’s a shining example of why the UN is useless in its current form. It has a complete and thorough inability to deal with terrorist organizations.

Annan angered Israeli officials when he told Channel 2 on Tuesday that “dismantling Hizbullah is not the direct mandate of the UN,” which could only help Lebanon disarm the [...]

I see that Hisbollah has declared victory over Israel. They’re right, they did win. A terrorist organization has been legitimized by the international community, they successfully used terror to gain an objective, and they still haven’t returned the soldiers they kidnapped—which started the war.

The UN capitulated to terrorism and pressured Israel to capitulate as well.

What [...]

Many on the left are upset that people don’t believe the reports coming out of Lebanon. Well, why should anyone believe anything unskeptically? After all, our friends on the left have been saying how healthy skepticism is with regards to our current idiot in the White House. Well, why doesn’t Al Jazeera [...]

I don’t blog much about politics anymore. People who used to come ’round here were always here with a chip on their shoulder or some talking point to be made, and frankly it was fun for a bit, but in the end it got tiresome, insignificant thoughts got somewhat stale, and I utterly lost [...]

The AP cracks me up. In an effort to provide a healthy dose of moral equivalence, they’ve apparently taken to planting photographers with terrorists.

Here’s the caption from that photo:

A Palestinian militant lies dead next to a homemade rocket prepared to be fired into Israel after he was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the [...]

VIENNA, Austria (AP) – The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that Iran has defied a U.N. Security Council call for a freeze on enriching uranium and its lack of cooperation with nuclear inspectors was a “matter of concern.”

President Bush said “the world is united and concerned” about what he called Iran’s “desire to have [...]