The intolerable provocation of the truth at the Guardian

The Guardian yesterday carried an excellent piece about Israel on its Comment is Free website.

Yes, you read that right. It was by Harold Evans, the legendary ex-editor of the Sunday Times. Evans concluded his piece about the ‘moral atrocity’ of the Goldstone report thus:

The rockets [from Gaza] were war crimes and ought to have been universally condemned as such. While new rockets hit Israel over many months there was no rush by the world’s moralisers – including Britain – to censure Hamas, no urgency as there was in ‘world opinion’ when Israel finally responded. Then Israel was immediately accused of a ‘disproportionate’ response without anyone thinking: ‘What is a “proportionate”attack against an enemy dedicated to exterminating your people?’ A dedication to exterminating all of his?

Israel risked its own forces by imposing unprecedented restraint. In testimony

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Why this man is smiling

As the world wrings its hands rather than the neck of the Iranian terrorist regime (when IAEA Director Mohamed el Baradei says of the talks about a draft agreement with Tehran over its nuclear programme that he feels 'optimistic' because they were 'very constructive', it's time to run for the shelters; just look at that grin today on the face of Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, pictured above ) Israel’s former UN Ambassador Dore Gold spelled out, at a meeting in the House Commons held by the Henry Jackson Society earlier this month, just why we cannot ‘live with a nuclear Iran’:

There are countries in the world that are happy with what they have, that aren't interested in expansion or intruding on their neighbors and basically just want to be left on their own. Then there

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How 'human rights' have turned into inhuman wrongs

Is the ‘human rights’ worm finally beginning to turn?

One of the principal sources of gross smears and distortions about Israel is the prominent NGO Human Rights Watch. It has always swatted away any such charge as an example of pro-Israel special pleading. But now it has been denounced by someone it will find less easy to dismiss in this way – its very own founder. In the New York Times Robert Bernstein, who founded HRW and chaired it for more than 20 years, delivers the devastating verdict that through its reporting of Israel it has lost sight of its founding mission to ‘to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters’:

Now the organization, with increasing frequency, casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies. Nowhere is this more

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Why vote for the monkey when you can elect the organ-grinder?

If the Tories really do introduce all-women short lists for parliamentary seats, as David Cameron has today suggested to the Speaker’s Conference, it really will confirm that the Conservative party is now nothing more than Nu-Labour Lite. All-women short lists are fundamentally unjust. They institute discrimination against men. They are anti-meritocracy, reducing achievement to a rigged procedure which is a conspiracy against the best. Conservative Home features this revealing observation from one constituency about those shortlists on which half are women:

‘We have to have the same number of women on the shortlist even if three or four times as many men apply. To be one of the shortlisted men you have to be very special. To be one of the shortlisted women you do not. Every Association suspects that the members of gender-balanced shortlists are not

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Even perfidy is now gutless in Albion

It appears that these days Albion doesn’t even have the courage to admit to its perfidiousness.

The UN Human Rights Council last week voted overwhelmingly to condemn Israel for war crimes on the back of the Goldstone report. This was hardly a surprise, given that Goldstone – whatever his protestations since – was given a brief by the Israel-bashing UNHRC specifically premised on the advance condemnation of Israel for committing the war crimes the evidence of which his ‘fact-finding mission’ was ostensibly supposed to discover.

As has been detailed in previous posts, his report was a travesty of justice, recycling as fact the unverified propaganda of Hamas and its patsies in the NGO world, ignoring the most heinous crimes of Hamas while giving a spurious air of even-handedness by condemning it just a little, and most disgustingly of all accusing...

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Sinking fast

Marc Morano observes that the great iceberg of anthropogenic global warming theory is now fast disintegrating into the Sea of Reality. AGW zealots are indeed now facing a nightmarish conundrum. What to do to save their reputations and glittering careers as Chief Scientists, Presidents of the Royal Society, Government Ministers for Climate Change, Failed US Presidential Candidates Turned Nobel Prize-Winners, Journalistic Would-Be Stringers-Up of AGW-Deniers, green NGO empire-builders and professors whose entire livelihoods and academic status have accrued from more than two decades of peddling the biggest anti-science scam of all time but which is now threatening to expose them all to ridicule on an epic scale as global temperatures cool?

The answer is that they pretend that this is not happening.

The BBC’s brief and historic outbreak of sanity here last Friday when it asked timorously

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