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Mattisisms
The Weekly Standard had in last week’s Scrapbook some memorable quotes heard from new Central Command head Marine General James Mattis: ■ Speaking to tribal leaders in Iraq: “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f— with me, I’ll kill you... »
Global Double Standard Re Palestinians
When it comes to Palestinians there is a monumental double standard in the world, such that Israel gets condemned right and left for their supposed “treatment” of the Palestinians, while Arab countries get a complete free pass for doing the exact same things (and often worse). Squalid Palestinian refugee camps are not only found... »
Two kinds of Palestinians?
In a very confusing move, the State Department has decided that it will resettle almost 1,400 Palestinians in the United States due to their having spent recent years in one of the roughest refugee camps. You may be forgiven for actually thinking that the rough refugee camps mentioned are in the West Bank or... »
A Couple Of Green Lights For Israeli Raid On Iran
Looks like Sunday has been a good day for some interesting developments regarding Israel’s potential strike on Iran’s nuclear targets. After seeing the outcome of Israel’s destruction of Iraq’s nuclear facilities in 1981 and their destruction of Syria’s nuclear facilities in 2007, I firmly believe that if they don’t do the same with Iran... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]