January in Cairo The push to end the peace with Israel continues in the glorious new democratic Egypt of the Arab Spring. I tried to tell you: “Egypt ‘Spiderman’ hero pulls down Israel flag,” from AFP, August 21 (thanks to Eric): A lone protester became a hero to an exultant crowd of Egyptians and many […]
Archives for August 2011
Hamas in talks with Islamic Jihad, trying to get them to stop firing rockets into Israel — pigs flying? Naaah
If there is any truth to this at all, Hamas is not doing this because deep down, they really, really want a Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace with Israel. It is solely that Hamas is trying to get Islamic Jihad to stop because the clueless dhimmis are giving them Israel on a platter as […]
Israel: Eilat attack was an attempt to abduct a soldier
Thursday’s attack was designed to be an act of war — well beyond the more routine rocket attacks. This report illustrates the coordinated assault that Israeli forces faced more fully than prior coverage. “IDF officer: Terrorists planned an abduction attack,” by Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post, August 21: The terrorists who infiltrated Israel on […]
Afghanistan: Third Taliban suicide bomber opts for turban bomb
Life imitates naughty infidel art, but you’re not supposed to notice. Not surprisingly, the Taliban have ignored Karzai’s protests. “3rd ‘Turban bomb’ attack rocks southern Helmand province,” by Matt Dupee for the Long War Journal, August 20: For the third time this summer, a Taliban suicide bomber with an explosive device hidden within his traditional […]
Report: U.S. threatens to pull aid if Palestinian Authority goes to U.N. for statehood
The “Palestine” to be voted on at the U.N. does not meet the criteria for statehood under international law. Abbas wants the U.N. to rip the proverbial training wheels off of the Palestinian entity when it has never even been able to function like a state with them. If its past few years of governing […]
Lebanon: We don’t know where indicted Hizballah members are. Indicted Hizballah member: They know where I live, but they can’t arrest me.
Lebanon is dying, its sovereignty now symbolic. It is the name on the mailbox, but Syria and Iran run the house, via Hizballah. More on this story. “Lebanon denies report it knows location of Hariri killers,” from the Jerusalem Post, August 20: Lebanese state prosecutor Saeed Mirza on Saturday denied reports made by one of […]
Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatens 100 attacks to avenge bin Laden
That took them long enough, considering that bin Laden was dead and buried at sea in the beginning of May. They’re also making a big deal of launching this in mid-Ramadan. While escalations of jihadist hostilities during Ramadan are commonplace, the members of al-Qaeda in Iraq can’t call themselves The Punctual Jihadists here. They would […]
Iran sentences U.S. hikers to 8 years in jail
All of this should have been a non-event, even if the hikers strayed over the border. Only the Iranians know whether they are actually paranoid enough to believe the hikers were spies, or just saw an opportunity to seize the three and parade them before the world as trophies. In any event, the two remaining […]
Malaysian government policy of ‘economic jihad’ to continue
Lest anyone be swayed by recent Malaysian government flourishes (such as the recent decision to formalise relations with the Vatican), if you’re a Malaysian Muslim, you can be rest assured that your government is looking out for number one. According to a statement made today by no less a personage than the Malaysian Deputy Prime […]
Smearing Geller on Perry
I do not understand this unseemly rush to anoint Perry without vetting him. I’ve never seen anything like this: friends have broken with me, I’ve been attacked on hitherto friendly websites, I’ve gotten calls from people I haven’t heard from in years, telling me to lay off Perry, and more — all because I dared […]