A splendid piece by Barry Rubin of the GLORIA centre furnishes a withering riposte to the outgoing British ambassador to Israel Tom Phillips, who said Israel’s sanctions regime in Gaza was ‘breeding radicalism’, and to all those like him who believe that -- along with Albert the Alligator or possibly Pogo the Possum -- ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’. Rubin writes: After September 11, America was said to be the cause of the terrorism that struck it. After the bloody July 7 attacks on British mass transport, a top British intelligence official said the terrorism happened due to Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. President Barack Obama has made this a constant theme, most recently putting the Turkish trend toward Islamism (without admitting it exists) on the shoulders of European states that didn't admit Turkey into the Despite the fact that Twitter offers to deal with impersonators, I have now twice followed its procedures to report an impersonation and asked them to block it – but so far, as far as I can see, nothing has happened. I am underwhelmed. Fury as Israel president claims English are ‘anti-semitic’ the story states: Israel's president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters. Shimon Peres said England was ‘deeply pro-Arab ... and anti-Israeli’, adding: ‘They always worked against us.’ He added: ‘There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.’ His remarks, made in an interview on a Jewish website, provoked anger from senior MPs and Jewish leaders who said the 87-year-old president had ‘got it wrong’. I blanched for two reasons. First, although Jew-hatred is certainly part of the English historical story, so too is philosemitism, as well as just plain indifference...Sunday, 1st August 2010
Albert and Pogo and the British Ambassador to Israel
8:59pm
...Trick or tweet?
8:16pm
For anyone who may have been taken in by an impersonator who is pretending that I am now on Twitter, let me make it clear – I am not on Twitter and have never uttered a single Tweet.No-win journalism
12:47pm
When I saw today’s story about Shimon Peres in the Sunday Telegraph, I blanched. Under the headline
Sunday, 1 August 2010
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