Why now? US says 'The CIA collaborated with the Mossad to kill Imad Mughniyah'

The Washington Post reports that the death of Imad Mughniyah was a joint CIA-Mossad operation.

The United States helped build
the bomb, the former official said, and tested it repeatedly at a CIA
facility in North Carolina to ensure the potential blast area was
contained and would not result in collateral damage.


“We probably blew up 25 bombs to make sure we got it right,” the

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For which football team should fiscal conservatives root on Super Sunday

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

I'm still in Boston and tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. Yes, I'm invited to a Super Bowl party, and you can guess the team for which I am rooting. Yes, of course, it's Israel's football team, the New England Patriots.

But here's an aspect I never really thought about: For which team should you be rooting if you're a fiscal conservative?

Let's go to the

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Why Netanyahu must address Congress: Obama has given in to 80% of Iran's demands

Oh... my... God....

Israeli officials told Channel 10 on Friday that they are convinced the
Obama administration has already agreed to most of Iran’s demands in the
P5+1 negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.According
to unnamed officials, Washington “has given the Iranians 80 percent of
what they want” out of the negotiations, Channel 10 is reporting.Jerusalem

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Israelis make up their minds, spit at Obama

Friday is poll day in Israel, and the polls show that Israelis are siding with their Prime Minister, and spitting in the face of President Obama.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party reached the top spot in a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister newspaper, Ma’ariv Sof Hashavua, on Thursday for the first time since Labor and Hatnua joined forces on

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Krauthammer: 'Obama has less personal sympathy for Israel than any other President'

A reminder that I am in Boston where the Sabbath has not started yet.

Over the past week, I've heard a lot of talk comparing President Obama's relations with Israel with those of American Presidents who seemed more friendly, but with whom we also had disagreements: Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and so on.

But with Obama... it's different. Here's Charles Krauthammer. Let's go to the

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Pat Condell: Time to stop Muslim immigration to Europe

It's about time someone non-Jewish who is not a far Right racist spoke up against Muslim immigration to Europe.

Let's go to the videotape.

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Why the Jews?

Matti Friedman will be speaking here in Boston on Monday night, and I hope to be there. You can look for "Mr. Matzav."

Friedman spoke last week in London and the text of his remarks is embedded below. Serious stuff.


Matti Friedman Speech

Hope to see you all on Monday night.

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School Retaliates Against Student For Parent’s Pro-Israel Stance

Received via email earlier today:


1-29-15

A state education department found that a school district and
School Committee Chair retaliated against a student because of her parent’s
complaint about inaccurate and biased materials.



The decision by the Massachusetts
agency found that the Newton Public Schools (NPS)  and School
Committee Chair
Matthew Hills
sent confidential information

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Sen. Cruz: Has President Obama Launched a Political Campaign Against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu?

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz,
R-Texas, and Congressman Lee Zeldin, R-NY-1, today sent a letter to
Secretary of State John Kerry asking for information regarding media
reports that U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to fund efforts to
influence upcoming elections in Israel. This is from Senator Cruz's press release.


“Has
President Obama launched a political campaign against Prime Minister

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Senate Banking Committee passes Kirk-Menendez 18-4

Here's a pretty strong indicator that the Senate has had enough with President Obama's dithering on Iran. The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday reported out the Kirk-Menendez bill that would increase sanctions on Iran. It wasn't even close. The vote was 18-4.

The Banking Committee vote suggests that the a veto-proof 68 Senators now support the Kirk-Menendez bill. Here's how that

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2 IDF soldiers killed, 7 wounded in Hezbullah attack near Har Dov

Two IDF soldiers have been killed and seven wounded - two moderately and the rest lightly - in an RPG attack on an IDF jeep near Har Dov, where the borders of Israel, Syria and Lebanon all meet. This is from a constantly updated post on the IDF blog. It's in reverse chronological order.

19:24 PM: The IDF has confirmed that during today’s attack, Hezbollah militants fired 5 anti-tank missiles

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Terror attack leaves 140 million without power

A terror attack on the country's power grid left 140 million people without power in Pakistan. It was the third such attack in two weeks.


A terrorist attack on the Pakistani
national grid plunged more than 140 million people into darkness before
power was restored, prompting U.S. experts to warn that terrorist cells
and “lone wolves” in the United States could cause similar damage to the

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Senate Democrats give Obama a deadline on Iran

Ten Senate Democrats have sent a letter to President Hussein Obama threatening to vote for time-triggered sanctions if Iran does not agree to a framework by March 24.

"In acknowledgement of your concern regarding congressional action on
legislation at this moment, we will not vote for this legislation on
the Senate floor before March 24," said the letter, led by Sen. Robert
Menendez (D-N.J.

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IDF: Hezbullah behind rockets launched from Syria

The IDF is confirming that Hezbullah is behind two rockets that were launched from the Golan Heights onto Israel earlier on Tuesday. This is from the first link.

A senior IDF source remarked on the two rockets fired from Syria that hit the Golan Heights Tuesday afternoon, saying the IDF response strike took out the rocket launcher.


The rockets were fired from territory under the control of

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Mohammed Allahdadi died because... he left his cell phone on

Hey youngsters - you have to turn your cell phone off once in a while.

An Iranian general killed in an alleged Israeli air strike last Sunday in Syria may have died because he did not turn off his cellphone.   The Lebanese newspaper Al-Joumhouria
reported on Saturday that a Hezbollah investigation into the strike
found that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Mohammed Allahdadi
kept his

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IDF digging trenches along Syrian border in Golan

Good morning to all of you from snowy Boston where, at least from looking out my window, the storm does not appear to be overrated. My boots are arriving tomorrow (I do have rubbers for my shoes in the meantime).

The IDF is reportedly digging trenches on the Golan Heights to prevent infiltration from Syria. That won't stop rocket fire like what happened this morning (see below), but at least

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Obama reinventing 'protocol'

It's been less than a week since the Obama administration started seething over a surprise invitation extended to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress by Speaker of the House John Boehner. The Obama administration whined to anyone who would listen that the invitation was a  'breach of protocol.'

The Obama administration is reinventing diplomatic protocol. It

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Greetings from Boston

For those who were wondering, I made it.

My flight was supposed to land at 5:55, and after circling to get the most weather-favorable approach, it landed around 6:15. We were one of four international flights that came in at the same time. The international flight after ours, which was scheduled to land at 6:35, was canceled. I have been told that the airport was officially closing at 7:00. I

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Snowed in?

By the time you see this, hopefully my flight will have taken off.

Have to run now.

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More than I bargained for?

So yes, I am in London, and yes, I am heading to Boston and there's a warning for an 'epic snow.'

Will this make up for the fact that I spent the 'Great Blizzard of '78' in school in New York and just took the overnight train up on Friday? (That storm started on Tuesday and by Friday the streets still were not open).

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Travel Day

Really quick. If you ever see me in Ben Gurion Airport, you should know that I am allowed to bring one guest with me to the lounge.

And with that, it's off to my flight. More later.

And you thought I was joking when I said I wanted a ticket to the Super Bowl.....

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Tit for tat: Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declines meeting with Obama

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who is visiting the United States this week, has declined to meet with Barack Hussein Obama.

Rivlin will be in New York this week to speak at
UN Headquarters, for an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event. The
President’s Residence had informed U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro in early December
of Rivlin’s planned visit, and the information was conveyed

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Too good not to share...

As many of you already know, I'm a big Patriots fan, so I hope you'll forgive me if I share this Saturday Night Live skit from last night regarding Deflategate (if you don't know what Deflategate is, you can go crawl back under your rock now).

Let's go to the videotape.



For a more serious take on Deflategate, go here.

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The Labor party? Zionist?

.@GLZRadio: arab commentator: if herzog insists on calling his party "zionist" it will cost him votes and possible partnership w/ arabs
— Ben Waxman (@benwaxman) January 25, 2015
Hey - we wouldn't want to say anything controversial, would we?

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Hezbullah endangering both Syria and Lebanon

In the previous post, I noted that Lebanon understands that if Hezbullah attacks Israel from its territory, Lebanon will suffer. While Lebanon gets it, Hezbullah could care less. Moreover, it is possible that even if Hezbullah attacks Israel from Syria, Israel may respond by hitting Lebanon. Israel is also threatening that if it is dragged into the conflict in Syria, it might just put an end to

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Lebanon gets it

This is a scene that Lebanon would not like to see repeated. It's Beirut Airport on fire during the early hours of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Lebanon is so eager to avoid being attacked that it is making sure that everyone knows that although Hezbullah is part of its government, Lebanon is not responsible for Hezbullah actions outside Lebanon.

....Lebanese circles have taken into

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Winston Churchill died 50 years ago Saturday

Winston Churchill died on January 24, 1965. Here are a couple of relevant quotes from him:







Too bad they don't make them like him anymore.

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Video: Fox News' Chris Wallace goes ballistic over Netanyahu visit

Fox News' Chris Wallace is not very happy that Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to 'sneak' into Washington to speak to Congress about a subject that's an existential threat to Israel.

Let's go to the videotape.



Meanwhile, with all of this week's events, the poll numbers moved slightly (putting Likud and Labor in a tie for the lead), with the Right still leading the Left overall. The only

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'Palestinians' protest Charlie Hebdo, Steimatsky's to sell it in Israel but backed off special event

'Thousands' of 'Palestinians' turned out at protests in Judea and Samaria today. This time, they're protesting the selling of the Mohammed satirizing French magazine Charlie Hebdo.


Thousands of
Palestinians rallied in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to protest
against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.


Simultaneous

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Obama going to Saudi Arabia, will skip Auschwitz liberation anniversary

Having blown off France two weeks ago, Barack HUSSEIN Obama will skip the Taj Mahal next week to visit the new king of Saudi Arabia. In case that doesn't make his priorities clear enough, the President of the United States will then skip the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

This is from the third link.

World leaders have been streaming into the country to pay their
respects

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A non-Jewish journalist dressed as a Jew and walked through Malmo, Sweden. This is what happened to him:

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

One place you do not want to visit - this week or any week - is Malmo, Sweden.

A non-Jewish journalist dressed as a Jew and walked through Malmo, Sweden. This is what happened to him: pic.twitter.com/f7odDaU9R8
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 23, 2015
What nice people those Swedes are....

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Report: Rubio a candidate for 2016 Republican nomination

Some of you may recall that for a while now, I've been saying that I'd find a Marco Rubio candidacy for the Republican nomination for President very exciting. Now, reports ABC News, it looks like it's going to happen (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

Leading the effort to raise the $50 million or more he’ll need to run in
the Republican primaries will be Anna Rogers, currently the finance director for

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Must see video: New York City Councilman blasts pro-'Palestinian' 'activists'

New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield makes remarks on the floor
of the council moments after Pro-Palestine activists protested the
commemoration of 1.1 million people killed in Auschwitz. Greenfield is
the grandson of holocaust survivors.

Let's go to the videotape.



A truly great speech.

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The real reason Obama - and Kerry and Biden - won't meet with Netanyahu

Barak Ravid reports that the real reason why President Obama - and Secretary of State Kerry and Vice President Biden - won't meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he's in Washington in March has nothing to do with pique over the way Netanyahu's invitation to Washington came about. It also has nothing to do with the Israeli elections which will take place two weeks after Netanyahu's visit.

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WaPo gives Obama three Pinocchios for claiming that Iran's nuclear program has been halted

The Washington Post's fact checker has give President Hussein Obama three Pinocchio's (out of a possible four) for lying in his State of the Union message by claiming that Iran's nuclear program has been halted. Three Pinocchio's mean that there is 'significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions' in the claim made.This is from the first link.

Olli Heinonen,
who headed the IAEA’s

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Celebrate Israel Parade bans BDS groups

Groups promoting BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) against Israel have been banned from the 2015 Celebrate Israel Parade.

I am embedding the instructions for groups participating in the parade below. Note Instruction A3 on page 2.


2015 Marching Group Registration Packet


This is long overdue.... BDS supporters are not 'pro-Israel.'

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Here we go: 'Senior Israeli official' slams 'Obama's Mossad lies'

A 'senior Israeli official' has slammed 'Obama's Mossad lies,' a reference to an article in Bloomberg View by @JoshRogin and @Eli Lake. This is from the first link.

"The fraudulent claims against the Mossad Head were raised by the
Americans yesterday, despite a message that had been transmitted to them
on Tuesday by Intelligence Minister [Yuval] Steintz,” the senior
Israeli source told

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Kirchner: 'Nisman was murdered to frame me'

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner now admits that the death of AMIA terror bombing investigator Alberto Nisman was not a suicide. But now Kirchner claims that Nisman was murdered to frame her.

The government says two key witnesses in Nisman's case against the president had been falsely presented to him as state intelligence agents.

Fernandez said the deception discredited

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Obama invents new US policy to avoid meeting with Netanyahu, meets and endorses Cameron for UK Prime Minister

Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress has been moved to March 3, when he was supposed to be in Washington anyway for AIPAC's annual convention (a trip that the Obama administration had approved). But Obama has invented a new policy and will use it to avoid meeting with Netanyahu during his trip.

The decision, said the White House, is in line with US policy not to

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Army Radio: @JoshRogin @EliLake story is Barack's revenge

Israel's Army Radio reports that the story by @JoshRogin and @EliLake in Bloomberg's that many are (falsely) interpreting as showing a split between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Mossad on Iran sanctions is President Obama's revenge for Netanyahu's invitation to address a joint session of Congress.

Sources in Jerusalem told Army Radio Thursday that the story reported in Bloomberg about

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Breaking: Full statement from Mossad head on Iran

The above was just posted on TwitLonger by Israel Radio reporter Chico Menashe. Here's my translation:

Reaction of the Mossad Chairman to the new crisis with Washington:

On 19 January 2015, Mossad Chairman Tamir Pardo met with a delegation of American Senators. The meeting took place at the Senators' request, and with the Prime Minister's approval.

Contrary to the report, the Mossad Chairman

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And it looks like I was right

In an earlier post reviewing an article by @JoshRogin and @EliLake, I argued that the Mossad never recommended not putting additional sanctions on Iran.

It looks like I was right.

Head of Mosad say he didn't say that it is wrong to put more sanctions on Iran
— Udi Segal (@usegal) January 22, 2015
Developing....

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A new scandal

Heh.

Although in Obama's case, it would have been far more accurate to blow the ball up until it's over-inflated with hot air.

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John Kerry's plan to stop ISIS

Too good not to share....



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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Just an ordinary day for an 8th grader in Israel

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No further explanation necessary.

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No, the Mossad didn't say new Iran sanctions are a bad thing

@JoshRogin and @EliLake report on disagreements between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Mossad about the impact of new US sanctions on Iran. Many are taking the report as a reason (excuse?) to vote against the Kirk-Menendez bill that would impose new sanctions on Iran. But notice what's left unsaid.

Already, the Barack Obama administration and some leading Republican
senators are using the

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Change: Netanyahu welcome to speak in the US anytime he wants

now this -- Israel PM 'welcome' to speak in US any time: Kerry @AFP @Jobiddle
— Jonah Mandel (@mandeljonah) January 21, 2015
Maybe Kerry realizes he's not the one retiring in two years?

Oh and by the way, wasn't it Boehner who invited Netanyahu the last time?

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Israeli TV shows first images of Iranian missile that can reach 'far beyond Europe'

As Iran allegedly negotiates an agreement with the P 5+1 with respect to its nuclear program, Israel's Channel 2 showed a satellite image (above) in which a new Iranian missile 'that can reach far beyond Europe' is shown.

Iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a
warhead “far beyond Europe,” and placed it on a launch pad at a site
close to Tehran, an Israeli television

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Disclosed: French police foiled plot to attack anti-Semitism conference

The French newspaper Le Progres disclosed on Tuesday that French police foiled a terror attack that was planned in September against an anti-Semitism conference in Lyon (Hat Tip: Daniel Greenfield).

The five suspects who were arrested in a
series of sweeps by French police between Sept. 16 and Sept. 18 were
planning to strike on Sept. 18 at an event organized in Lyon by the
regional branch

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Obama calls Netanyahu 'chickens**t,' then wonders why he doesn't ask permission to address Congress

Less than three months after a 'senior Obama administration official' referred to him as 'chickens**t,' the White House is wondering why Prime Minister Netanyahu is addressing Congress without President Hussein Obama's permission.

President Barack Obama’s press secretary, Josh
Earnest, said the White House has not officially heard from Israel
whether Netanyahu does indeed plan to speak to

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Planning her next vacation

#RichPeopleProblems choosing the next million-dollar vacation & sticking the taxpayers with the bill pic.twitter.com/m0sPdw7PBQ
— Bossy Brat (@JGalt9) January 21, 2015
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

MOOCH! MOOCH! MOOCH! MOOCH!

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The Middle East for Dummies

I am sure that many of you have heard about the 'selfie' above, which was taken at the Miss World pageant, and includes Miss Israel (left) and Miss Lebanon (second from left). I am sure many of you have also heard that the image caused a scandal in Lebanon, leading Miss Lebanon to accuse Miss Israel of 'photobombing' her, and to release a revised image in which Miss Israel is cropped out.

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Israeli and US Left seethe: Boehner invites Netanyahu to address Congress

Mr. Netanyahu is going to Washington.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-In) has invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress about Iran sanctions on February 11 'without consulting the White House. '

The American Left is seething due to the 'insult' to President Hussein Obama.

The Israeli Left is seething because we are in the middle of an election campaign. That's not

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Has France been mugged?

A liberal who's been mugged is a conservative. Get a load of this:

The French foreign ministry issues a statement expressing solidarity with Israel in its struggle with terror. I think a first. #TelAviv
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) January 21, 2015
Oh my....

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Video: Tel Aviv terrorist up close and personal after his arrest

Not very dignified, is he?

Let's go to the videotape.



Too bad he wasn't killed and buried in pigskin. He'll probably go free in a 'prisoner exchange' in the next few years.

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The Netanyahu kindergarten video

I think this ad has actually been banned from the airwaves, but it's really good and it's still on YouTube, so let's go to the videotape.



With apologies to the Hebrew-impaired....

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Intelligent anti-Semites

Reuters pic of #antisemitic morons in #Pakistan who can't spell "Holocaust"; ignorance and hate go hand in hand pic.twitter.com/en0WaBfpk9
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) January 20, 2015
Heh. 

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'Palestinian Authority' tries to blame Hamas

The 'Palestinian Authority' is trying to shift the blame to Hamas for Wednesday morning's terror attack in Tel Aviv.

גורם ביטחוני פלסטיני: המחבל תומך חמאס. לא פעיל רשום. זומן בעבר לחקירה במנגנוני הרש"פ. אמו, מוכרת לבוש לדתיות מוסלמיות, פעילה בחמאס רמאללה.
— Gal Berger גל ברגר (@galberger) January 21, 2015
The tweet is from Gal Berger, Israel Radio's Arab affairs correspondent. Translation for

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It starts: 'Palestinians' celebrating terror attack

The 'Palestinians' are already celebrating Wednesday morning's terror attack in Tel Aviv.

Macabre Palestinian cartoon celebrates knife attack by Pal man on Tel Aviv bus this AM: "Good morning" MT @PalinfoAr: pic.twitter.com/NrJpzQlhi3
— Noah Browning (@Noah_Browning) January 21, 2015
'Peace partner'?

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Here we go again: 12 Israelis wounded in terror attack on Tel Aviv bus

12 Israelis have been wounded - three of them seriously - in a terror attack aboard a Tel Aviv bus on Wednesday morning.

The assailant, a 23-year-old male from the West Bank city of
Tulkarem who entered Israel illegally, was shot in the leg by an Israel
Prison Service officer on Hamasger Street, near the scene of the
incident, and taken into custody. 

The attack took place on Bus number

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Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide and the AMIA bombing was not 'unsolved'

David Horovitz is certain that Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide and that the AMIA bombing is not 'unsolved.' We all know who was behind it: Iran and Hezbullah.

Perednik despairs at the naivete of anyone
prepared to countenance that a prosecutor who has spent a decade heading
a 30-strong team investigating the worst terror attack ever committed
in Argentina; who

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Does France have any regrets?

Recently #France voted to recognize a "state of #Palestine"

Today, in #Gaza, Palestinians burned the French flag. pic.twitter.com/uN8Coqsp3T
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) January 20, 2015
They should have regrets. But they won't. Because this is the soft bias of diminished expectations. They expect the 'Palestinians' to be ungrateful savages. And they will continue to serve them anyway.

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Who will find me a ticket?

I would love to go (and when I found this, it was actually available for about $4,000 per ticket including airfare).

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They came for the Jews. Will you speak out even if you are not a Jew?

One of the things that was driven home by the terror attack on the Paris Hyper Cacher supermarket is that they are still coming for us Jews, long after 'they' have stopped coming for most others. In England, they are feeling that lesson from up close. But is anyone non-Jewish feeling it?

A couple of days after the Charlie Hebdo attack, I did a debate with the
Guardian’s Simon Jenkins on

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UN Observer Force crying over Hezbullah deaths

The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights says that Israel carried out Sunday's strike with drones (not helicopters as previously reported) and says that the strike violated the disengagement agreement.

The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights
released an official statement on Monday describing its troops' witness
accounts of the

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Judge orders materials in AMIA case seized

The judge investigating Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires has ordered the seizure of all evidence in light of Sunday night's apparent murder of prosecutor Alberto Nisman.



Local newspaper Perfil reported that
[Judge Ariel] Lijo ordered the seizure of all documentation referred to in the
complaint, as well as a number of disks reportedly

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Would the Obama administration ever issue postage stamps like these?

The postage stamp pictured above is newly issued by Canada. That's not a big deal until you ask yourself whether any other country - including the United States under Obama - would ever consider issuing such a stamp (Hat Tip: Jerry G via The American Thinker).

Let's hear for Stephen Harper and his government!

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