Posted in PLO, Palestinians, Peace on Mar 21st, 2007
I’m going to need to create a new category in this blog called Stupid People. The problem is that it would hold more than half of my submissions.
What has me so annoyed THIS time?
The Palestinians, of course.
Thanks to Israel, Palestinians are better educated than any other group of Arabs anywhere. They have more engineers, more doctors, [...]
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Posted in Society on Mar 20th, 2007
It may shock you to hear this, but I have always been a supporter of the rights of Israeli Arabs.
Now, calm down. I have my reasons.
The first of them is the Jewish people. When you oppress someone, you do damage to yourself – in fact, MORE damage than you do to the oppressed. Second, the [...]
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Posted in Hitler, Iran, Media on Mar 19th, 2007
I love the hysteria that often surrounds ‘peace initiatives’. It’s usually characterized by talking heads claiming that this is ‘the last chance for peace’. They jump on ANY positive sign as a source for optimism.
In Sunday’s Jerusalem Post, Barry Rubin, offered up his favorite example from Newsweek:Â
‘The Supreme Leader [of Iran, Sayyid Ali Khamenei] was deeply suspicious of the [...]
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Posted in Democracy, Iran, Islam, Media, Russia, Shiite on Mar 16th, 2007
Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to strangle a journalist.
Now, put it down. I can’t type this thing one handed.
The ones that I can’t stand are the sanctimonious journalists who know NOTHING about Israel and yet seem to think that they can shake their finger and tell us how bad we are.
However, living in Israel [...]
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Posted in Democracy, Iran, Russia on Mar 15th, 2007
Here is an interesting list of countries:
Iraq
Russia
Columbia
Philippines
Iran
They represent the five most lethal countries for journalists according to INSI (International News Safety Institute).
Why should you care? Well, it’s like this. Journalists are killed for lots of reasons, by lots of different people, and the biggest threats are criminals, wars, and governments.
We understand war and crime, which [...]
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