Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Mahmoud Abbas’

Winning wars requires that we fight like the Arab League

Western powers don’t accept that journalism has transformed itself into advocacy for decay. The old dictum “If it bleeds, it leads” was meant to sell copies of newspapers, attract eyeballs to screens, and bewitch ears with radio stations. Now, journalists are opponents of progress. Rather than report, they choose to be propagandists for malefactors. It’s…

 

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Words are worse than killing

Today I had an utterly fruitless conversation. It was a giant waste of time, but I didn’t realize it until I went out on my walk. I do some of my best thinking while walking. It struck me again that for many people, words are worse than killing. What happened was that someone posted a…

 

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The Israelis didn’t kill Ziad Abu Ein

Today terrorist and convicted murderer Ziad Abu Ein died after a confrontation with the Israeli Defense Forces and Border Police in Ramallah. Ein was a Palestinian Authority “minister without portfolio.”   Ein therefore didn’t actually do anything in the Palestinian Authority. He headed the PLO’s Commission Against the Separation Wall and Settlements, which leads protests…

 

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Indestructible denial

Very few things really anger me. One human failing for which I feel a lot of hostility is denial. I’ve noticed that deniers often think of themselves as superior to others, which is grotesque, since they’re living in a fantasy world. When someone uses their delusions as evidence that they have the upper hand, it…

 

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Hamas caused most of the casualties in Gaza

When you factor in everything that we know about Operation Protective Edge, it becomes inarguable that Hamas caused most of the casualties in Gaza. Yes, the Israeli Defense Forces killed terrorists and some civilians, but Hamas directly and indirectly, deliberately and accidentally brought about most of the deaths during the conflict. Palestinian casualty figures are…

 

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