Middle East Pundit

photo accessed via Drudge Report 6/11/9

Here’s what we know according to corroborated news reports: five Palestinians died due to Egyptian security forces blowing up tunnels Palestinians use for smuggling.
Here’s where the story differs…
Reuters says Egyptian security forces blew up two tunnels beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border due to “smuggling” but with no qualifier.
The Jerusalem Post reports Egyptian security forces […]

Everyone’s witnessed the spectacle that goes by the name Jimmy Carter these past few weeks. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem his very public and very disastrous track record in the Middle East during his brief tenure in office, Carter has decided to meet with Hamas and Syria, much to the protest of the […]

Hamas has recently appeared in the news as making a monumentous peace overture to Israel, which, when Israel rejects it, Hamas will point the finger and say “see, they’re not serious about peace.”
Hamas has said they will offer a full cease fire with Israel, if Israel persuades the international community to recognize the new Palestinian […]

The Israelis purposely left behind synagogues in the Gaza Strip to show the world how Palestinians behave like animals.
Or so goes the thinking of Abu Abir, spokeperson for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
[Israel] left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them,” said Abir.
It’s always Israel’s fault…
Palestinians kill each other and […]

54 Israeli families are leaving Sderot because of the constant rocket fire from Palestinian terrorists.
Instead of paring down the rocket fires, this has encouraged the terrorists to launch even more rockets. “Kill Jews and they run,” or so the thinking goes.
The departure of some 54 families from Sderot is one fruit of the […]

Israel finds 9 explosives labs in the West Bank since the start of 2006, 6 of which they found in Nablus.
Palestinians have fired 12 Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel in just the last week.
The Egyptian police have found two thousand pounds of explosives in the Sinai desert near the Gaza border and […]

Like only a lawyer can do, international attorney John Whitbeck argues a recognition of Israel’s right to exist doesn’t really mean a recognition of Israel’s right to exist, but a rejection of Palestinian rights, namely, the right of return and Israel’s moral justification in taking Palestinian homes.
Whitbeck asks the question “What Israel, within […]

You know it’s bad when al Qaeda the uber-fundamentalist radical
Islamist group is now actively recruiting not just all kinds of Muslims, but
non-Muslims as well to spread Islam "from Spain to Iraq."

On
a side note, this has to make the average Spanish citizen wonder if they
elected the right guy to counter Islamism?  Perhaps Spain will once again […]