Someone told me today that another big political writer thinks I’m crazy because I wrote a post about photographing the ghost of my dead cat Syd the Second on my front porch. This all stems from a post I wrote about Pallywood, which some bigwig political writer picked up, and then some other political writer…
There was no father
July 29, 2014
What a day. I woke from a deranged nightmare in which I was teaching the Cardinal Ghost how to make pancakes by screaming the instructions at her. Then I was interviewed by Ali Gharib, who writes for the Nation Institute. After that I learned that a post of mine has caused a famous writer to…
People need to learn how to read
July 29, 2014
Boy, the crap has hit the fan! First I was interviewed by Ali Gharib of the Nation Institute about my Pallywood posts, and then I learned that David Frum of The Atlantic had tweeted about them, and then I found an uncredited article by BagNews(?) excoriating Frum and me. You can excoriate me. Ali Ghraib…
Do fake victories really count?
July 28, 2014
Yesterday Hamas claimed it had inflicted massive losses on the Israeli Defense Forces. What the Japanese and Germans learned in World War II and the Arabs learned during Operation Iraqi Freedom, claiming fake victories just ends up biting you in the rear end. I remember reading article after article that Arabs all over the Middle…
The four Palestinian boys killed on the beach
July 25, 2014
On July 16, 2014, four Palestinian boys were killed on the beach at the port of Gaza City. They were Mohammed Bakr (aged 9), Ahed Bakr (aged 10), Zakaria Bakr (aged 10), and Mohammed Bakr (aged 11). The four boys were killed close to the Al-Deira Hotel, which was full of journalists, yet not one…
Proud to make your shit list, Warrior Princess
July 24, 2014
My posts “A fake atrocity video from Gaza” and “More Palestinian fakery” have drawn the attention of the virulently mentally ill. One goes by the Twitter handle of “Warrior Princess.” I knew I’d heard the name before, but I couldn’t remember where. Then it came to me. Xena: Warrior Princess, a fantasy TV Series from…
Now we’re getting propaganda from space
July 24, 2014
Whenever Israel is forced into a war, a well-oiled machine whirs into life. The first time I became aware of it was in 1982, when the Israelis invaded Lebanon after the Abu Nidal Organization tried to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. Although the Lebanese had been slaughtering each other for seven years…
A fake atrocity video from Gaza
July 21, 2014
Hooray for Pallywood! If you’re unfamiliar with the term, Pallywood refers to the fraudulent videos that the Palestinians and their supporters put out to try and convince the world that Israel is the new Third Reich. Today the International Solidarity Movement released the most blatantly phony footage I’ve ever seen. A child could deconstruct this…
A tale of two wars
July 17, 2014
By now you’ve probably heard that Russian separatists in the Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a surface-to-air missile (SAM). You may also have heard that Israel launched a ground invasion into Gaza. This is a tale of two wars and how people react so differently to them. The Ukrainian civil war has…