February 6, 2013

Chuck Hagel: Pick Your Poison

In 1998, Chuck Hagel attempted to block the appointment of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxemburg on the grounds that Hormel was "openly and aggressively gay."  Fourteen years later, on the heels of his own political appointment as DOD chief, H...

December 22, 2012

Iran, Stephen Walt Giddy over Prospect of Hagel Nomination

On December 18, Press TV, Iran's official government propaganda outlet, featured a miscreant who attempted to tie the Sandy Hook massacre to "Jewish owned Hollywood" and "Israeli hit squads."  This type of "journalism" is quite the norm for Pres...

December 19, 2012

Chuck Hagel and the 3D-Test of Anti-Semitism

Two career politicians are all but certain to be nominated for top cabinet posts within the Obama administration -- John Kerry for secretary of state and Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense.  While Kerry's record on Israel is troubling at best,...

December 6, 2012

The Czech Republic: A Beacon unto Europe (but Don't Tell that to the New York Times)

November 29, 2012 is a day that will live in infamy.  On that day, the representatives of a contemptible group of nations that occupy prime Manhattan real-estate voted to recognize an invented people's claim to a fictitious land.  By a vote...

December 1, 2012

The French Connection...to Anti-Semitism

When it comes to the Jews, France has a long, checkered history of treachery.  French anti-Semitism is well-known and deeply embedded in French culture.  It therefore comes as no surprise that France was the first major Western power to rec...

November 28, 2012

Roger Cohen Gets It Wrong, Again

Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, once stated, "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth."  No one is more keenly aware of this than fascism's spawned offspring, Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood affiliates.  Bu...

November 27, 2012

Pillar of Defense and the Arab Amnesia Syndrome

On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise coordinated assault against Israel.  In those first few days, the situation was indeed grim.  In the south, some 700 Israeli soldiers manning the neglected Bar Lev fortifications along...

November 21, 2012

Roger Cohen and the New York Times: Useful Idiots

As Operation Pillar of Defense continues apace, the New York Times continues its unrelenting propaganda war against the Jewish state.  This time they employ Roger Cohen, the Times' convenient point man for its anti-Israel crusade, to do their di...

November 17, 2012

Can the New York Times get any worse?

Just when you thought that the New York Times could not stoop to lower levels, the Times outdoes itself by issuing an editorial that implicitly blames Israel for the recent conflagration in the region.  In its November 14 editorial, "Another Isr...

October 26, 2012

The New York Times Whitewashes Everyone but Israel

Last week, Jimmy Carter accompanied by ex-has-been and irrelevant leftist politicians from Norway and Ireland -- the so-called "Elders" -- visited Israel.  Quite predictably, Carter, whose anti-Israel vitriol knows no bounds, condemned Israel fo...

October 11, 2011

The New York Times: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

On Sept 21, 2011, Palestinian Arabs threw rocks at a car driven by an Israeli in Samaria.  One of those rocks hit a 20-month-old passenger in the face, causing a gruesome injury.  Photos of the injured infant showed her clutching her mom as...