Who could know?

The UN has long effectively behaved as a club of terror, excusing, ignoring or condoning acts of terrorism and tyranny while repeatedly singling out their principal state victim, Israel, for grotesque condemnation. The role of its relief agency UNWRA in supervising ‘refugee camps’ which are factories of terrorism has long been deeply compromised. Israel has repeatedly claimed that terrorists operate under the cover of UNWRA vehicles and facilities. The UN however has always strenuously denied any involvement whatsoever in such activities. Now however Reuters tells us that the headmaster of a UN school in Gaza, Awad al-Qiq who was killed last week in an Israeli air strike on a 'mechanic's workshop', taught by day and made rockets for Islamic Jihad by night. Wrapped in an Islamic Jihad flag, he was buried as a...

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Full marks, Boris

Boris’s first move as Mayor of London is a seriously good one. He has appointed Ray Lewis as a deputy mayor with responsibility for tackling youth violence. The Telegraph describes Lewis as ‘inspirational’; I can certainly endorse that. I wrote here in 2005 about his Eastside Young Leaders’ Academy, which takes gifted young black boys who are already well on track for a life of crime, drugs and mayhem and turns them into high-achieving solid citizens. He does so by giving these boys a combination of military-style discipline and profound belief in their potential, and by holding their (overwhelmingly single) mothers to account for their own inadequate parenting. He is tough, loving, uncompromising, charismatic and achieves astounding success in turning round some of the most difficult boys around. But because he identifies the slop and sentimentality...

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Why is Condi Rice breaking international law?

For all those (including Haaretz afficionados) who are either ignorant of or deny the true history of the Jewish claim to what was once called Palestine, and who believe the West Bank (and until 2005 Gaza) is territory that is ‘illegally occupied’ by Israel, this admirable and well-informed resume should be required reading (along with this article by Efraim Karsh in Commentary). Look first at the two maps at the beginning, and certain facts immediately leap out. The first is that in 1920 Mandatory Palestine, which was established in order to set up within it the restored Jewish national home, comprised present day Israel, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. The second is that by 1922, this territory had shrunk with the creation of Transjordan, after Churchill unilaterally gave three quarters of Palestine to the Hashemite dynasty as...

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The war against the Jews (20)

I have often referred to the baleful influence of Haaretz on Israel’s reputation through the writings of a number of its correspondents who promulgate the most vicious distortions about their country. Yet even I am left open mouthed by this account of the lies it published recently in a story by Gideon Levy about Palestinian children being deprived of swimming pools, to the extent that allegedly none of them could swim without life preservers. As you will see from the CAMERA article, a multitude of pictures in themselves (similar to the one above of a swimming pool in Jenin) tell a very different story, as did a previous piece in Haaretz itself:

Nowadays, every city in the West Bank has a

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Harry gets a makeover

The excellent Harry's Place has a stylish new look (goodbye to the cod cyrillic logo, which says something). Invaluable for its open-eyed critiques of the left, from the left, now it looks great too.

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Can someone pause Al Gore for the next decade?

It is, we are told, as inevitable and inexorable as night follows day that, as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere goes up, so too does the temperature of the world. Inconveniently for this axiomatic truth, however, while carbon dioxide has continued to increase the temperature of the planet has stayed flat over the past decade and even recently dropped like a stone. Never mind: man-made global warming turns out to be the most obliging of theories because now we are told that this inexorable process of heating is now to take a ten-year pause.

while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions… This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been

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