Denial and self-delusion fascinate me. I just read an article I can’t recommend enough: “Captured ISIS Fighter: Joining Extremists in Syria Ruined My Life.” It confirms everything I thought about the caliber of people who join the Islamic State. This idiotic twenty-four-year-old Turk believed all the propaganda he saw, so he didn’t know that being…
Was the Gaza beach incident a setup?
October 1, 2014
Yesterday I updated a post about the four boys killed on the Gaza beach, July 16, 2014. The world reacted with revulsion and outrage to this incident, and the four boys became international symbols of innocence lost. Israeli artist Amir Schiby created a tribute to the boys, who are wrongly believed by most to have…
The lie of Hamas being a “ragtag militia”
August 7, 2014
Recently a cretinous commenter on YouTube took issue with me over my defense of Operation Protective Edge. He must’ve referred to Hamas as a “ragtag militia” forty times. In the radio talk-show business, these sloganeers are known as “seminar callers,” because they’ve been taught what to say. The phrase “ragtag militia” was obviously sent out…