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Omri Ceren Show - 6:30pm PST - Larry Greenfield On The Jerusalem Conf, Dan Diker On Obama's Sympathy For Palestinian Unilateralism, The WH's Renewed Anti-Israel Push, Etc.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:00 -0800

We're a couple hours away from today's episode of One Jerusalem Radio's Omri Ceren Show. With Mitchell and Biden on the ground the show is going to be extremely diplomacy-heavy, making allowances for the time needed to cover this-week-in-Iranian-warmongering. You can tune in live via the show page or the episode page starting at 6:30pm PST, and as always I'll have the chatroom and the phone lines...

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WaPo: "Biden Flunked" On Israel Trip, Needlessly Alienated Netanyahu

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:45:39 -0800

The concrete and significant Israeli moves on settlements have all been in the direction of unreciprocated concessions. When Netanyahu announced his temporary freeze it was hailed by Clinton as an "unprecedented." Since that praise naturally sent the Palestinians into fits the Obama administration promptly backtracked. It also totally failed to deliver on its promise of international support for...

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"Lazy" British Nurses Leave Agonized Patient To Die Of Thirst

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:48:15 -0800

At one point he actually called the cops, begging for water. I'll have to remember that strategy the next time I'm at the downtown Los Angeles post office, where one of the women posts a sign every Christmas that reads "your lack of planning is not my problem." Job security is a wonderful thing: A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital. Kane Gorny...

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Sunday Cute - Ice Skating Polar Bear Mom And Baby

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:59:59 -0800

Make sure you watch at least until they start sliding around the ice on their bellies. The clips at 0:20, 0:30, and 0:50 - where the baby intentionally bumps and bites mom for the fun of it - are also not without their charm: Unrelatedly, let this be your official reminder to check out MR sponsor Purchase Green, purveyor of such fine goods as artificial grass and the dog potty patch. That...

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DHS Awarding Billions In No-Bid Contracts (Plus: Misplacing Computers, Scopes, And Entire Trucks)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:28:28 -0800

No word on whether those contracts included replacements for the thousand or so computers they lost last year. Or the 235 night vision scopes they misplaced. Or the $116,349 international harvester truck they can't find. Maybe this is why they can't seem to muster the necessary resources to put even one percent of "known or suspected terrorists" on the no-fly list. Your tax dollars at...

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Swedish Mayor Rants About Attacks From "Israel Lobby" On Danish TV

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:39:22 -0800

Almost difficult to understand why Malmo's Jews are getting a Nazi vibe from their political establishment. Europe 2010: where sneering anti-Jewish bigotry is fun again: Representatives for the Jewish Community in Malmö have slammed the city's mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, for his use of the term "Israeli lobby" in a Danish television interview. "I encounter a great many people from what one could call...

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Omri Ceren Show - 6:30pm PST - The Apartheid Blood Libel, Antisemitic Education, Dan Diker On Middle East Tensions, Etc.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:20:51 -0800

We're just a few hours from this week's episode of One Jerusalem Radio's Omri Ceren Show, both the most technologically solid and the most cheerfully optimistic radio on the Internet. Tonight's show will focus on one of the more popular anti-Israel taglines, the apartheid smear that's become a leftist mainstay and a Spanish schoolyard blood libel. It's Israel Apartheid Week around the world -...

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Watchers Council Nominations - Pseudo-Sophistication Breaks Out

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:46:30 -0800

Each week, in a contest for the week's best post, the members of the Watchers Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members. This week's submissions span foreign policy, domestic policy, and have a healthy dose of media criticism. There are also a couple posts on antisemitism and Judaism, an appropriate theme given how the...

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Obama Giving Up On "Crippling" Iran Sanctions

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:22:56 -0800

This is the second time in as many weeks that the State Department has, for reasons that are largely unfathomable, unilaterally taken an anti-Iran option off the table. Two Wednesdays ago Clinton told Al-Arabiya that military action wasn't even a consideration, which had the predictable effect of emboldening the mullahs. Now comes this announcement, which basically tells Tehran they don't have...

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Syria Responds To Obama's Engagement, Publicly Mocks Clinton And Embraces Iran

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:56:01 -0800

Which part of the new "positive, constructive U.S.-Syrian relationship" involves having the US Secretary of State getting publicly mocked by grinning totalitarian thugs? President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a bilateral deal to remove travel visas and attended a Muslim ceremony in the Syrian capital... "We must have understood Clinton wrong because of...

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Compare And Contrast: Obama's Allies-Last Sovereignty Announcements

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:11:36 -0800

Compare... Washington refused to endorse British claims to over the Falkland Islands yesterday... Despite Britain's close alliance with the US, the Obama Administration is determined not to be drawn into the issue. It has also declined to back Britain's claim that oil exploration near the islands is sanctioned by international law, saying that the dispute is strictly a bilateral issue... a State...

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Omri Ceren Show - 6:30pm PST - Al-Mabhouh Media Manipulation, Dan Diker On Israeli-Arab Peacemaking, Etc.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:29:03 -0800

We're mere minutes away from tonight's episode of One Jerusalem Radio's Omri Ceren Show, which will focus mostly on the Al-Mabhouh liquidation and its consequences. Media reports have been filled with "analysis" of Israel is coping with an operation that was disastrous on multiple levels. Nobody's really sure exactly what those levels were - and as of today Israel has yet to be officially...

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Malaysian Sharia Going About How You'd Expect For Women And Christians

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:25:29 -0800

The picture was too small to copy over, but if you click through you can see a mosque in the background while she's on her knees getting beaten. Picturesque: As a result of Shariah law being imposed in Malaysia, Muslim women were caned on Tuesday for engaging in illicit sex... The three women are reportedly the first to receive such a brutal punishment under Shariah law. According to the Home...

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IAEA Stooge Who Nurtured Iran's Bomb: Now I Want To Be President Of Egypt!

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:53:00 -0800

It'll be interesting to watch the guy who proved so critical to Iranian nuclearization... The poor management of the crisis with Iran has to be attributed largely to [ElBaradei]. The Egyptian diplomat is responsible for his organization's placatory approach toward the Iranian nuclear program. For almost a decade, starting in 1992, the agency inspectors did not notice that Iran had a secret...

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Syria Responds To Obama's Engagement, Threatens To Saturation Bomb Israeli Civilians

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:49:59 -0800

Fresh off creeping rapprochement with the US - Obama just reinstated our ambassador and State has dropped their travel advisory - Syria wants you to know that they're ready to return to the Western fold. Or to light up the Middle East in the process of completing a decade-old genocidal war against the Middle East's sole, beleaguered democracy. But definitely one of the two: Syrian Foreign...

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