Inhabiting Rekab Street (that's Baker Street backwards)

This is an interesting variation of the Nick Cohen thesis found in "What's Left". The main advantage is that it takes a lot le...

A memorial to burnt frozen chicken

A gruesome accident in state of New York attracted my attention: Officials say a truck carrying nearly 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken went...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! Joshuapundit – The Next Islamist Domino – Jordan Second place with 3 votes – Simply Jews –...

The Vatican on Gaza: "Israel is a Baby-Killer”

This is another proof that for some people (too many people, if you ask me) the incessant attempts to kill Jewish babies don't count: T...

Let's hear it for the cheese-mongers! (Bad "Life of Brian" joke)

Here's one for all you hawks out there (and when it comes to Israel, I'm a hawk, whatever anyone might want to believe otherwise abo...

Kim Jong Un the sexiest man alive - a joke?

For some reason so called serious media present the Onion's earnest opinion of the glorious leader of North Korea as a joke. Here is th...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – Line In The Sand Edition

Council Submissions The Independent Sentinel – A Moral Dilemma Simply Jews – The Pillar of Defense fiasco The Political Commentator – Ja...

Arafat's body taken out, put back

Well, and they took some tasters back to Paris. That in the official news . Unofficially, one of the participants said: "It still stin...

16 votes less for Bibi

The photo is taken near the Gaza border, the text created by the 16 (my count, could be wrong) reservists says (in Hebrew): "Bibi loser...

The Pillar of Defense fiasco

I had a rare opportunity to be (mostly) detached from the media - both TV and radio - for the duration of the Pillar of Cloud (for some reas...

Obama passes the Israel test - for now

Despite the views of certain readers of this site, it would appear that (for now, as the writer puts it) President Obama has passed the Isra...

How to tell it like it is

An interesting item from anneinpt's blog. For those who don't her work (though I cross-posted an item from there some time ago), Ann...

And about time too.

The IDF is using social media in a big way to get its case across to fellow users of these media. They are, apparently, giving access to ima...

Israel does have friends: and some of them are good ones.

The Henry Jackson Society is a good friend of Israel's, as demonstrated by its coverage of the Middle east, and it's current issue h...

US Senate unanimously backs Israel

This came into my in-box on Friday 16 November, so "Thursday" below refers to yesterday. This is posted just in case non-US reside...

A Conservative MP speaks out for Israel

This is from today's (16 November) Commentator, and is by a Conservative MP and member of Conservative Friends of Israel. That I wouldn&...

Hamas and cynical injured innocence

I've noted recently that I'm hardly on The Commentator's wavelength as far as UK (let alone US) domestic politics is concerned, ...

Foreign Affairs journal says the US-Israel link is doing just fine.

Here's an item I don't recall seeing in the hard copy of the Foreign Affairs journal when we we're, just recently, in New York (...

On the Golan Heights: have the Syrians really deliberately fired into Israel?

Until the incident related in the piece below from The Times of Israel, via The Tablet, the IDF has been stating that it believes the mortar...

Of mice and men

And you sort them out: I am too busy at the moment.

Vacation notice

Blogging will be very light for the duration of November, unless some people I could mention but wouldn't pick up the slack. Behave, all...

Commentator editor refuses to admit wounded foot injury is self-inflicted

So, on Thursday, 8 November, the New York Times (yes, I know, I know , liberal, pinko, rag) has this article on page 8 of the special sectio...

Commentator editor shoots himself in the (ideological and possibly intellectual) foot

I know that certain types of professional are prone to a degree of certainty that the evidence doesn't allow,especially outside their sp...

Did Tzipi Livni have sex with Arabs when working for Mossad?

You can imagine I had me some laughs on account of this story . A leading Egyptian daily falsely claimed that former foreign minister Tzipi ...

Shifting From Israel, HRW Focuses on Syria

Or so it says in the hard copy of the Forward, which I picked up while strolling along Broadway here in the Big Apple. We're here to vis...

Who didn't have sex with neanderthals?

I took personally these insinuations from Fox. I would have issued a strong protest, declaring that I never laid a finger or even thought a...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit – Obama Agonistes: The Fiction Cracks On Benghazi Second place with  1 2/3...

PETA requests sign to memorialize fish

Really : An animal rights group is asking a California city to put up a sign acknowledging the suffering of fish that died in a traffic inci...

Congrats to San Francisco Giants!

Still, guys, happiness and all things considered, maybe a shower first? Just asking...