I won’t be buying Max Blumenthal’s The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. It’s a book for cretinous Jew-haters too stupid and passive to think for themselves. Still, it’s fun to debunk the claims that Blumenthal makes. Full disclosure: He once singled me out on Twitter for some reason. A “truther” is someone…
Fake story and fake photos
September 4, 2014
“How Many Bombs Has Israel Dropped on Gaza?” by Ali Abunimah, may be the dumbest fake story to come out of Operation Protective Edge. A few days before he was killed trying to disarm an unexploded Israeli missile, Hazem Abu Murad, the head of Gaza’s bomb squad, estimated that Israel had dropped between eighteen to…
What are inert bombs?
August 25, 2014
I’ve gotten several e-mails asking me, “What are inert bombs? You talk about them a lot, but what are they?” Inert bombs are aerial munitions filled with wet sand or cement. They’re also called “dumb bombs.” Though they were originally designed for training, air forces began using them during wartime in order to reduce collateral…