Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
YNET: As long as the Palestinian world was divided into two separate entities only on the physical level, this could go on, yet in January this world will be divided into two on the legal front as well - a development that would mark the ultimate collapse of Palestinian politics. What happened in 1936 and in 1948 [...]
Backspin (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Iran Told Hamas to Take Over PA Presidency Move would help the Islamists take over the West Bank. Living to Bomb Another Day Al-Qaida's ideological shift from 70 virgins to robot bombs. Holy Trail A Thai journalist's surprising travel review....
normblog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
If you can see beyond the constant reference by him to his own good self, you might like to have a look at this column by Robert Fisk. The piece concerns the welcome accorded to Samir Kuntar on his return...
Dhimmi Watch (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
JAFFA, Israel Israel and Egypt have embarked on serious discussions about the deployment of an Arab force in the Gaza Strip consisting largely of Egyptian and some Saudi troops, senior defense officials told WND. from this news article...
News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Against the backdrop of Israeli government criticism of the Al Jazeera network for allowing its Beirut office to "celebrate" arch terrorist Samir Quntar's release from Israeli prison last month, many were surprised that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak would grace the Qatar-based network with an exclusive interview -- something seen as a reward in journalistic circles. Israelis opposed to allowing...
Backspin (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak appeared on Al-Jazeera, breaking the Ministry of Foreign Affair's boycott of the Qatar-based network. The Jerusalem Post elaborates: Officials in Peres's office responded that they were unaware of a decision to boycott Al-Jazeera. They said...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Secretary of State Rice's favorite Palestinian 'moderate,' PA president Mahmoud Abbas, made time last week to meet in Lebanon with Samir Kuntar, the terrorist recently freed by Israel in a swap with Hezbollah for the remains of Israeli soldiers. The International Herald Tribune delicately mentions that Kuntar killed three people in 'a grisly attack' in 1979. I posted about that attack around the time...
Ynet News (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reports UNIFIL commander promised Defense Minister Barak that northern part of disputed Golan Heights village will be subject to peacekeepers' control. 'Withdrawing from Shebaa Farms will pull the rug from under Nasrallah's legs,' Israeli official quoted as saying
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
I reported last week that Mahmoud Abbas planned to visit Samir Kuntar on his visit to Lebanon. Either I have better intelligence than the Shin Bet, or Israel's leaders chose to ignore this outrage - until after it happened. Even then, their criticism has been muted, only being mentioned in passing in an Arutz-7 news brief and in the very end of a NYT report yesterday, plus a few other Jewish and Israeli...
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Elan writes: Peace Partner meets with murderer, Israel criticizes it as "mistake" Only my friend Elan would bother to read the entirety of yesterday's (NYT) report: Olmert Turmoil Slows Mideast Peace Effort. Here's the nugget he found buried in the next-to-last and final paragraphs: Also on Sunday, Israel expressed displeasure with Mr. Abbas over his meeting in Beirut last week with Samir Kuntar, a...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
There is a whole genre of literature in which someone makes a deal with the Devil. Usually the protagonist gets the short end of the stick in one way or another. According to Channel 10, a Hamas representative warned on Sunday that if Israel did not agree to a deal, [kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad] Schalit was in danger of suffering the same fate as airman Ron Arad, who disappeared in 1988 after he...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Today, lame duck Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-talks-like-a-duck PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday pledged at a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israelis and Palestinians would try to seal a peace deal this year in line with a target set by Washington. “We have to complete the Annapolis process this year - this...
Israellycool (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Today, lame duck Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-talks-like-a-duck PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday pledged at a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israelis and Palestinians would try to seal a peace deal this year in line with a target set by Washington. “We have to complete the Annapolis process this year - this...
Ynet News (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Prime Minister Olmert reprimands Palestinian leader over his meeting with released murderer Samir Kuntar; Abbas requests another prisoner release but Olmert's associates say PM made no such pledge
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
By P. David Hornik, FrontPageMagazine.com: It is said that in some respects Israel has become an embarrassment to its supporters, and with good reason. Many criticized last July’s exchange with Hezbollah in which Israel released a child-murderer, Samir Kuntar, and four other terrorists in return for the corpses of two soldiers. In the present “gesture” to Abbas, Israel received precisely nothing in...
