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30 April 2008
Frivolous Holocaust Analogies, Update
On the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) I feel it necessary to keep up the crusade against those who resort to petty, simplistic Holocaust comparisons in an attempt to score cheap shock value points. When Hamas engages in Holocaust exploitation, such as their recent claim that the Shoah was a Zionist engineered conspiracy [...]
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24 April 2008
It’s Official: Israel Bombed Syrian Nuclear Reactor
US officials just confirmed what has already been widely reported since it happened in September: that Israel bombed a Syrian nuclear reactor which was being built with help from North Korea. The event was shrouded in secrecy until now, but the US Congress has been pressuring the Bush administration to publicly brief them (and the [...]
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13 March 2008
Lord, Get Me High?
An Israeli psychologist believes that Moses and the Israelites were high on psychedelic drugs at the Sinai revelation:
“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that [...]
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3 March 2008
A Call for an End to Hitler Comparisons
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently declared Israel’s military incursion into Gaza to be “worse than the Holocaust.” Ironically, Abbas’ “doctoral thesis” was a work of Holocaust denial, so it’s not clear what insult was being insinuated by comparing Israel’s actions to something that he claims never happened (perhaps it was actually meant as a compliment?).
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28 February 2008
Is Barack Obama a Gay Muslim Jewish Irishman?
This is my first post (finally, after much arm cajoling) so I decided to make it an attention grabbing one.
I’ve noticed people seem to be confused over Barack Obama’s ethnicity. In his first run for Senate in Illinois, he apparently received a large share of the Irish vote because people saw his name and [...]