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Tools of jihad, then and now

Featured image Robert Satloff is executive director of the Washington Institute. He took issue with the December 2 Washington Post story “Israel’s assault forced a nurse to leave babies behind. They were found decomposing.” Satloff deconstructed the Post story in the 5,000-word critique “Once Again, a ‘Palestinian Babies Story Merits a Washington Post Apology.” Satloff’s critique elicited a response from Post executive editor Sally Buzbee. She stands by the Post’s story and »

They Don’t Mind Being Wrong

Featured image Are journalists, as a group, the least intelligent of any profession? I think they may be, and the war between Israel and Gaza is bringing out the worst in them. Check out this exchange, in which a clueless reporter floats the theory that the ratio of terrorists to innocent hostages released under the recent agreement is evidence of Israeli racism: The first question that left me speechless (but only for »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll reflects on GRATITUDE, INGRATITUDE and SHAME. She writes: As I may have said here before – sometimes I feel like in 10 years I’ve said EVERYTHING here before – Thanksgiving is at least tied with 4th of July for my favorite holiday. First of all, the menu is hard to beat – Turkey, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Cornbread/Hot Sausage Stuffing, Gravy, Squash, Cranberries, Scalloped Corn, Biscuits, and Gravy. »

Notes from underground

Featured image The IDF has carefully overtaken and explored the tunnel system that converges on Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. The IDF seeks to expose the Hamas way of war as inherently criminal — a point that has gotten lost in the media shuffle. Shifa Hospital director Muhammad Abu Salmiya was arrested yesterday along with several other hospital staff members while attempting to evacuate southward along the humanitarian corridor — i.e., the escape »

Live from Tel Aviv

Featured image It’s been several days since IDF Lt. Colonel (reserve) Jonathan Conricus posted an operational update on Twitter. He has returned this morning with the update below in which he “[sets] the record straight, with lots of visual evidence, on how Hamas abuses hospitals and mosques for its military purposes in violation of LOAC. Hard for naysayers to dispute” — “LOAC” being the law of armed conflict, i.e., war crimes.” This »

He didn’t give at the office

Featured image I’m working on a post about AP photographer Abed Khaled. Khaled’s current work from Gaza put me in mind of what I discovered when then Weekly Standard managing editor Richard Starr commissioned me to analyze Charles Enderlin’s 2008 assertion that certain post 9/11 photos of Yasser Arafat had been staged. The Standard ran my article “He didn’t give at the office” in its February 4, 2008 number. I invite readers »

Hamas for dummies

Featured image Ghazi Hamad is a member of Hamas’s decision-making “political bureau.” He is a senior official holed up in Beirut whom the AP caught up with a few days ago. John posted a video of Hamad’s interview with the BBC’s Middle Eastern correspondent here last week. Hamad cut that interview short when the BBC correspondent asked him an unsympathetic question. Hamad was not so curt speaking with an Arab interlocutor in »

Journalists For Mass Murder and Gang Rape

Featured image Britain’s BBC has taken flak for refusing to call Hamas’s fighters “terrorists.” The network’s management has stood fast on this point, arguing that to stigmatize Hamas as terrorists would constitute taking sides in the conflict, and the BBC is staunchly neutral. But that mildly pro-Hamas stance is nowhere near enough for many of the BBC’s employees. The Times of London offers a frightening glimpse into the mentality of many young »

A grudging something

Featured image As I have noted over the past two weeks, IDF Lt. Col. (reserve) Jonathan Conricus is working overtime to get out the truth about the war in which Israel is engaged. In the tweet below, Conricus takes up the job of media critic to address the characteristic shortcomings of the BBC’s coverage of the Gaza hospital (parking lot) explosion this week. Conricus employs the useful hashtag #HamasHospitalSham. The BBC was »

“Israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital”

Featured image “Israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital, Palestinians say” is the headline that the New York Times ran on its story reporting the errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that Hamas turned to its own use in the information war. It wasn’t an Israeli air strike, it was the hospital parking lot that was hit, we don’t know how many casualties were sustained, and it was Hamas that “said” it. However, we »

Shocker: Hamas not a reliable source

Featured image When the explosion went off at the Gaza City hospital property yesterday evening, the mass murderers of Hamas commenced an information operation. “The Health Ministry run by Hamas” (i.e., Hamas, although the AP didn’t put it that bluntly) claimed that Israel was responsible. Given the lack of evidence presented to attribute responsibility, one might think that some doubt was in order. “The Health Ministry run by Hamas” offered no evidence »

Live from Tel Aviv

Featured image IDF Lt. Col. (reserve) Jonathan Conricus is a spokesman for the IDF. He has been working overtime since Hamas attacked Israel and commenced its campaign of atrocities one week ago today. A few hours ago he posted his seventh daily update on the ensuing war (below), this one focused on Gaza. About halfway through the update he turns to Hezbollah’s testing of Israel on the northern border yesterday. “As we »

Israel’s 9/11: The day after

Featured image As William Buckley used to say, herewith a few comments on Hamas’s 10/7 attack on Israel (with apologies for those that have already achieved the status of cliché): • Hamas’s 10/7 attack is something like Israel’s 9/11, only worse. Israel’s death toll has hit more than 400 (and rising). Adjusting for population and measuring by the deaths inflicted so far, Israel has suffered (is suffering) an attack that is something »

Iran’s shadow war

Featured image Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times. He is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor for the New York Times and other publications. Cliff’s most recent column is “Iran’s shadow war” (at FDD, where it is posted with links). Cliff has kindly given us his permission to post his column on Power Line. He »

The Stakes In Britain (Rolling Updates: Exit Polls Indicate Tory Landslide)

Featured image As I write we’re not far away from getting the first results of the British election today. I’ve seen stories of long lines to vote and indicators of a heavy turnout. And the British Pound seems to be under pressure today, which might be an ill omen, except that recall the Dow Jones futures plummeted on election night here in 2016, before soaring the next day when people realized that »

Top Ten Mideast/Israel Media Muffs of 2015

Featured image The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) has published its list of Top Ten Media Mangles of 2015. They include the New York Times’s infamous list of Jewish opponents of Obama’s Iran deal (yellow highlighting in original): MSNBC features prominently, as with this graphic showing the fictitious country of Palestine, among other errors: The openly anti-Semitic BBC scores again, as you would expect. My favorite, however, »

The al-Dura fraud

Featured image Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Based on film footage provided by a Palestinian cameraman, Enderlin’s report has become infamous among students of terrorist propaganda both for its destructive effects and for its probable falsity. The al-Dura affair bids to join the »