Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:38:06 am
50 hostages held by Hamas and 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons are set to be released after a deal was agreed to by the two sides. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports from Tel Aviv and chief foreign affairs correspondent and "Face the Nation" moderator ...

Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:39:33 am
Long-time readers of LGF will recognize many of the names of people and organizations called out in this piece by Charles Hawley; these are the very fascists and antisemites who made alliances with American "counter-jihad" groups years ago, leading me to make a clean break with them and their hateful ...

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:44:35 pm
[large]Exhibit A[/large] 'Jew-hating bitch Pelosi' says Hamas is a humanitarian group http://t.co/EMN37OxqKL — TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) July 30, 2014 A screenshot: CNS also reported as Pelosi: Qataris Have Told Me 'Hamas Is a Humanitarian Organization' which is more accurate. What Rep. Nancy Pelosi really said with context: PELOSI: Well, we all -- war is a ...

Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:19:50 am
Israel and Hamas are trading accusations today; the informal cease-fire collapsed when explosions hit a Palestinian refugee camp playground and an area near Gaza City's main hospital. Both sides are blaming the other for the blasts; Israel says they were caused by misfired Hamas rockets, while Hamas blames Israeli shelling. ...

Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:14:35 am
Via Haaretz, here are the terms of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire proposal from US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry's initiative stipulates the following terms: 1. A one-week, temporary cease-fire, starting Sunday, during which Israel Defense Forces troops will not leave the Gaza Strip entirely and will continue to locate and destroy ...

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:11:45 pm
When NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin was recently called home from Gaza where he had been reporting on the conflict, our good friend Glenn Greenwald immediately took to The Intercept to post one of his over-heated propaganda pieces, very strongly insinuating that Mohyeldin was pulled out because his reporting was ...

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:58:53 am
The man in the photo below, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, was born & raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. He studied hard and received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, then went on to earn a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of London. He subsequently ...

Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 3:28:03 pm
Sometimes Glenn Greenwald does something that really brings out his true agenda -- and it's not at all related to helping advance progressive causes. The most important thing to Greenwald often seems to be simple sabotage of the democratic process, with smear tactics and ugly personal attacks the order of ...

Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:16:38 pm
In the other big news of the day, the expected Israeli ground invasion of Gaza has begun. Israel sent ground forces into the Gaza Strip in a military offensive intended to stop the barrage of missiles fired by Hamas and other Palestinian militants, raising the stakes of the 10-day-old conflict ...

Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:03:27 am
Holly Fisher, aka "Holly Hobby Lobby," thought she was being pretty clever tweeting her super-patriotic selfie this week. There she is, standing in front of a huge American flag, with a huge Bible in her left arm, and a serious looking assault rifle in her right. Take that, librulz! Holly Fisher aka ...

Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:15:42 am
Beloved American poet Maya Angelou passed away today at age 86. Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" -- which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South -- was among the first autobiographies by ...

Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:39:06 pm
YouTube Secretary Kerry should offer President Obama his resignation, and the President should accept it. — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 28, 2014 Sen. Ted Cruz, always first out of the demagogue's gate, is demanding that Secretary of State John F. Kerry resign following his private remarks to a group of world ...

Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:36:07 pm
Swiss forensics examiners found sufficient traces of the deadly radioactive isotope polonium-210 in the exhumed remains of Yasser Arafat to conclude with relative certainty that the late Palestinian leader died of poisoning in 2004, Al Jazeera channel reported Wednesday. The Qatar-based broadcaster said it had obtained exclusive access to ...

Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:55:53 pm
On one level this is great news because everyone wants to see a resolution of some kind. But it's a bit difficult to get very hopeful after the last, oh, two decades or so: US Says Israeli-Palestinian Talks to Start Monday. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department says Israeli and ...

Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:10:19 pm
NPR has details: U.N. Votes to Give Palestinians 'Non-Member Observer State' Status. Exactly 65 years after the General Assembly, convened at Lake Success, New York, voted to divide Palestine between a Jewish state and an Arab one, the same body voted 138 to 9 in favor of recognizing the State ...

Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:49:53 pm
We have a winner in today's Most Ridiculous Right Wing Rant contest, and once again it goes to the inimitable, reliably deranged Breitbart.com, where hack William Bigelow is screaming in all caps: THE ONION GOES ANTI-SEMITIC! So now The Onion, celebrated for their zany approach to the news, has fallen ...

Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:47:38 pm
This is in response to a couple of other Pages posted regarding film footage of this week's Israeli air strikes in Gaza, both of which questioned the authenticity of several BBC video clips that at least one Israeli blog & one far-right Israeli news outlet are presenting as "Pallywood" productions. ...

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:04:39 pm
The latest wingnut outrageous outrage revolves around President Obama's use of the phrase "bumps in the road," while speaking about the road to democracy and peace in the Middle East and the Arab Spring during an interview on 60 Minutes last night. "I think it was absolutely the right thing ...

Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:46:24 am
I think it's highly amusing that Mother Jones is using the Breitbart tactic of timed video releases against the right wing and Mitt Romney, and today they have another batch of videos from that fund-raising event at equity trader Marc Leder's mansion. In the latest video, Romney is again saying ...

Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:18:34 pm
Earlier today Mitt Romney denied he was making any comparison of Israeli and Palestinian culture, and that lasted until 8 PM Eastern tonight, when Romney published an opinion piece at National Review Online that says: Culture Does Matter. Wouldn't want the right wing base to get the wrong idea from those ...

Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:27:48 am
Mitt Romney has learned the lesson of the Big Lie -- how to simply state things that are not true, with authority: Romney: I 'Did Not Speak About' Palestinian Culture. CBS News) Under fire from Palestinian leaders for recent comments suggesting that Israel's economic success is borne out of its ...

Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:47:20 pm
Speaking of dumb propaganda (we were, weren't we?), there's a hilarious post by Joel Pollak at Breitbart.com, desperately trying to spin Mitt Romney's references to "culture" in his Jerusalem fundraiser speech. The screaming all caps headline: HOW AP, NPR LIED ABOUT ROMNEY 'JEWISH DONORS' SPEECH, USING PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA The "vicious lie" Pollak ...

Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:03:09 am
All Mitt Romney had to do in Israel to avoid another embarrassment was to just praise his hosts and refrain from disparaging remarks -- but it's almost as if he can't help himself: Romney Comments on Palestinians Draw Criticism. Speaking to roughly four dozen donors at the King David Hotel ...

Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:14:31 pm
Mitt Romney doesn't want the press around when he meets with his biggest donors in Jerusalem. JERUSALEM — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who touched down here Saturday night for a day of meetings with top Israeli and Palestinian leaders, plans to wrap up his visit to Israel by collecting ...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:49:00 pm
We haven't had one of these posts in a while, not because the hate mail has dried up, but because it's usually so unimaginative and dull. But here's one that pretty much lays bare the deranged bigotry of the anti-Muslim crowd, in a few quick sentences dripping with vitriol. Tonight's bigot ...