David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 23, 2009, 5:25 am
RDECOM - the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command - has a new blog focusing on the latest (unclassified) military technology. One of the more interesting developments is of the XM-2...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 23, 2009, 5:10 am
In a perfectly bewildering column Jim Hoagland blames President Obama and Judge Goldstone for undermining Mahmoud Abbas. In It's up to Netanyahu he writes: No one could accuse President Obama or J...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 23, 2009, 3:44 am
Ross Douthat in They chose celebrity writing about Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin (via memeorandum): Nobody should begrudge them their choices. Think tanks are a snooze; Senate races are a grind. Signi...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 22, 2009, 7:34 pm
Please check out Haveil Havalim #244 at A Mother in Israel. It opens with a section on the Mumbai terror attack a year ago. Reasonable people then assumed that the Chabad house was targeted. Recent ev...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 22, 2009, 7:31 pm
Yossi Beilin the head of a party Israel that couldn't garner more than three seats in Knesset, is nonetheless loved in France. He just received the French Legion of Honour. So a failure in his own...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 22, 2009, 3:04 pm
But Russia isn't delivering at the moment:Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday that Iran is asking Russia to fulfill its commitments in delivering S-300 air defense missiles to Iran. The S...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 22, 2009, 9:23 am
David Beamer, father of Todd Beamer, wrote an excellent critique of the administration's decision to try Khaled Sheikh Mohammed in a federal court. There's one paragraph that sums up the case ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 22, 2009, 8:29 am
Occasionally, a little inconvenient truth slips out in a news report. In the case of School dropout high among Palestinian refugees: UN, it's this: Lebanese law prevents Palestinian refugees from ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 22, 2009, 6:14 am
This week's council winners are up. Here are the winners and runners. For the complete list check here. Council SubmissionsFirst place with 2 2/3 points! - Bookworm Room - The Perils Of An Affirma...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 20, 2009, 10:10 am
In conjunction with the Goldstone Report accusing Israel of war crimes, there has been a move to blame Israel for the breaking of the truce which led to the commencement of the war itself.Typical is t...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 20, 2009, 5:29 am
In a paper on how the term "apartheid" is being used to deny Israel's right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces: The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature. It rarely deals w...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 19, 2009, 11:19 pm
The New York Times has a fawning article about the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). If you read the article you'd learn that the biggest challenge the university is ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 19, 2009, 11:58 am
But not a glove has been landed on the report itself ... It cannot and will not be buried. It will not go away.Col. Desmond Travers, participant in the Goldstone fact-finding missionAnd neither will t...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 19, 2009, 4:44 am
About two weeks ago when Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he was quitting, Daled Amos observed that this less a dramatic announcement than standard operating procedure noting 14 times that he ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 19, 2009, 4:43 am
Here are this week's Watcher's Council submissions: Council Submissions Soccer Dad - I am not a schnook Joshuapundit - The Afghan Shuffle Right Truth- When Muslims AttackBookworm Room - The pe...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 18, 2009, 4:51 am
In some ways there's little to quibble with in Howard Schneider's To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg in the Washington Post. It begins: It is one of the most watch...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 18, 2009, 4:12 am
Israel Matzav observes about a recent American criticism of Jewish construction in Gilo - that's part of Jerusalem. Obama's not going to let up on this, but given the broad consensus within Is...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 18, 2009, 4:02 am
When called upon by CBS, legal analyst Andrew Cohen often states the obvious and occasionally adds an interesting insight about legal matters that are in the news. But when the law and politics inters...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 17, 2009, 2:52 pm
Submitted for your approval...Meet Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority--a position he has threatened to resign from for years.And yet Mr. Abbas has found himself strangely drawn to p...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 17, 2009, 6:13 am
Given the acknowledgment in Sunday's Washington Post editorial that the guidelines for asymmetrical warfare are lacking, there are two recent stories of note. The first is from the National that d...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 17, 2009, 3:34 am
This is just odd. Muammar Qaddafi was just in Italy, so he sent invitations to a group of beautiful women. The women, all between the ages of 18 and 35, assembled in a Rome hotel before being screened...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 16, 2009, 9:34 pm
That should be a colon after the word "Media," but I'm not fixing ISNA's punctuation for them.The establishment and employment of media is the lever of the international Zionism to dominate th...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 15, 2009, 2:17 am
The Large Hadron Collider keeps having the wrong sort of collisions. According to a Time article, the latest mishap may have happened when a "passing bird . . . dropped the chunk of bread on an electr...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 13, 2009, 7:16 am
In Context observed about Judge Goldstone: There's something horrifying about the amount of damage that a slight to one man's ego can do. I'm well aware that there was more to the Goldston...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 13, 2009, 4:57 am
Is it just me, or do other people think that Levii Johnston is well on his to becoming a poster boy for abstinence education? (I know this kills the post, but what I mean is: after watching Levi implo...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 13, 2009, 1:23 am
These pictures look like they were taken from the latest issue of Maryam Stewart Sniping. I hate to sound prejudiced, but I can't tell them apart.. How touching, a Kalashnikov in one arm, her chil...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 12, 2009, 10:49 pm
Remember Bill Sparkman? He was the census taker who was killed in eastern Kentucky at the end of September. His ID was taped to his upper body and the word "Fed" was written across his chest. Given th...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 12, 2009, 9:52 am
"I have yet to hear what the flaws of the report are. I'd be happy to respond if I know what they are." Judge Goldstone by Daled Amos...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 12, 2009, 6:27 am
Is anyone else reminded of the old Jack Benny routine when they read this:'Obama must choose - Israel or Iran' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the US to choose between Israel a...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 12, 2009, 5:15 am
In an excellent op-ed, Steve Huntley gives a synopsis of how the Obama administration botched the Middle East. Enter Obama. Rather than adopting a go-slow, build-on-the-past approach to a fragile situ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 12, 2009, 5:10 am
It's hard to match the title A Chronicle of Gaza, in Kitsch Form with the opening paragraph: "I can offer you a discount on the headbands," said Tareq Abu Dayyeh, souvenir-store owner. "They'r...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 11, 2009, 11:59 pm
I had not noticed this before. Last week in advance of the vote on the congressional resolution criticizing the Goldstone report, Minnesota representative Keith Ellison, offered his reasons for opposi...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 11, 2009, 11:57 am
Summarizing the resolution passed by the UN Human Rights farce Council, UN-Truth writes: The resolution endorsed the recommendations in the Goldstone report, and recommended that the UN General Assemb...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 10, 2009, 7:01 am
The Goldstone Commission uses the term "disproportionate force" five times in describing the Israeli war against Hamas. It uses the term "proportional" or "proportionality," 22 times. Let's check ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2009, 2:04 pm
Megan McArdle, who blogs at the Atlantic, gained some current notoriety for writing about the Fort Hood massacre "there is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this." Now she writes a fol...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2009, 9:42 am
JudeoPundit excerpts a bit of Moshe Halberthal's critique of the Goldstone report: In addressing this vexing issue, the Goldstone Report uses a rather strange formulation: "While reports reviewed ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2009, 9:08 am
At 1:15 AM she turned 166 weeks old. . Last time I paid attention to the benchmarks of marking her passage from baby to little girl. Though she wasn't quite toilet trained, now she is. Even at nig...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2009, 8:55 am
The New York Times had a symposium on Mahmoud Abbas's resignation. Three of the participants, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, and Daoud Kuttab took the approach that Abbas had his authority undermin...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2009, 5:03 am
Remember when Stuart Nozette was arrested last month, that the Washington Post reported: Nozette's actions could be misinterpreted in ways that damage American impressions of Jews or provoke an ov...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 9, 2009, 4:45 am
The Francop, the ship that was intercepted last week by the Israeli navy ferrying arms to Beirut, docked in Egypt on October 11, apparently to load the cargo. It then headed towards Cyprus and then he...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 8, 2009, 6:01 pm
Moshe Halbertal, an Israeli philosophy professor who was involved in formulating the IDF ethics code, presents a serious analysis of the Goldstone Report. In the opening paragraphs he rather scathingl...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 8, 2009, 12:39 pm
The New York City Opera put on a work featuring Mordechai, Esther, Haman, and 12 of your favorite tones! . . . the company opened its season Saturday night by reviving an atonal opera that it premiere...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 8, 2009, 9:30 am
Thomas Freidman, today relives one of his greatest hits on Israel. In an op-ed entitled "Call White House, Ask for Barack," Friedman writes: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly n...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 5, 2009, 4:05 am
While there are problems with this article an analysis by Glenn Kessler observes Administration missteps hamper Mideast efforts. Here's the key: The administration's key error, many analysts s...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 5, 2009, 3:37 am
In regards to whether UN has proof that Iran is smuggling arms to Hezbollah, after the Israeli capture of an Iranian ship bound for Lebanon, Yaacov Lozowick makes the mischievous observation: Try to i...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 4, 2009, 11:39 pm
Just when I start thinking they don't love me anymore, they post this:The Zionist state is accelerating its Hasbara campaign, by forming "Internet Warfare Squads", their sole remit: to post pro-Is...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 4, 2009, 5:03 am
Judge Richard Goldstone has repeatedly referred to his commission's finding 36 incidents during Israel's war against Hamas to investigate. Augean Stables has studied the report and identified ...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 3, 2009, 4:59 am
Ron Kampeas reported that Judge Goldstone objected to a Congressional resolution criticizing his report. We reported earlier this week the resolution that U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the s...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 3, 2009, 4:59 am
Israel's former Justice Minister, Daniel Friedmann, in an op-ed calls the Goldstone report - "the terrorists' Magna Carta." Friedmann makes note of the inherent conflict between Goldstone'...
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David G. posted an article on Soccer Dad - Nov 3, 2009, 4:41 am
Meryl noticed this yesterday. (See the end of the post.) Barry Rubin summarized the administration's efforts in the Middle East like this: The president of the United States has said that he wants...
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