Politics in the Zeros

Right-wing extremist settlers in Israel attack IDF soldiers Netanyahu says he will use “all of his power” to respond. But he’s been encouraging such extremism for decades, throwing them red meat, backing them politically. Now he’s shocked, just shocked at what happened?

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Polizeros contributor Byron DeLear attended the recent J Street (“the political home for pro-Israel pro-peace Americans”) conference in D.C., a three year old lobbying group with a decidedly more pro-peace message than the troglodytes at AIPAC. A potent meme emerged at the conference, which, for me, accurately frames the debate between the two rival Jewish-American advocacy organizations. [...]

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A class action lawsuit has just been filed in New York against former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for his 2006 book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.” The suit, captioned Unterberg et al. v. Jimmy Carter et al., is the latest salvo from the right-wing activist Israel Law Center, which claims to be an “Israeli based civil [...]

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There’s a common misperception that the constant state of warfare and conflict that besets the Holy Land, Eretz Israel, or in Arabic, Bilad Ash’ Sham, is a result of some cultural or racial flaw—“oh, they’ve been fighting for two thousand years, they’ll never stop.” Even the most cursory examination of human history reveals skirmishes, battles, [...]

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Wouldn’t it be nice if the U.S. could figure out whether it prefers the democracy it’s always talking about publicly or the “stability of dictatorships” it has always funded with military aid, though? The US (and Israel) are totally in favor of democracy except when they aren’t. In fact, Israel just said “I’m not sure [...]

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The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face. The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.” The UN isn’t usually [...]

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Ahmadinejad: Israel ‘too weak face up to Iran’ Israel Knesset member: “We are preparing for war” If not, then the lunatics have taken over their respective asylums

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Saudia air defenses have been tested and will stand down if Israeli jets pass through them on the way to bombing Iran nuke sites. Despite the tension between the two governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We all know this. We will [...]

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OK, come on now. I mean, really. One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake. But now we have two pictures from the “peace activists” that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists, as they attempted to take soldiers [...]

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Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, says what the commandos did was lunatic and self-defeating. We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege, which is itself becoming Israel’s Vietnam. We were determined to avoid an honest look at the first Gaza war. Now, in international waters and having opened fire on an international [...]

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