Israel Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University. Mon, 06 May 2024 23:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 United Nations Recognizes Palestine https://www.scottbradford.us/2012/11/29/united-nations-recognizes-palestine/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:28:18 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=10681 The United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly has voted by an overwhelming margin to recognize the Palestinian National Authority as a ‘non-member observer state,’ essentially granting it recognition as a sovereign, independent country. Previously the U.N. had recognized the Palestinian government only as a ‘non-member observer entity.’ The General Assembly is a body in which all […]

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]]> Recognize Palestine (and Hold the PNA Accountable) https://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/04/recognize-palestine-and-hold-the-pna-accountable/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:23:06 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=8068 The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), the official government of Palestine (which controls the West Bank, but has essentially no power whatsoever in Hamas-dominated Gaza), will be petitioning the United Nations General Assembly for recognition as an independent state. The United States and Israel oppose the PNA’s move, but I figure it’s a good idea. Give ’em the […]

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]]> The Ugly Face of Antisemitism https://www.scottbradford.us/2011/03/18/the-ugly-face-of-antisemitism/ Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:42:04 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=6468 Human society has come a long way in the last hundred years, but every once in a while somebody comes out and demonstrates just how far we have yet to go. Few things are more illustrative of this fact than the remaining vestiges of antisemitism that exist out there in the world. It is most obvious in […]

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]]> Much Ado About Nothing https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/06/07/much-ado-about-nothing/ Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:13:33 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2894 You’d have to be living in a cave to have missed the big news from the last week. President Barack Obama (D) delivered a lengthy speech—over 6,000 words in length—in Cairo, Egypt. The speech was directed at the Muslim world and expressed the President’s desire to ‘reboot’ the relationship between the United States and the […]

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]]> Speaking of National Sovereignty . . . https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/04/19/speaking-of-national-sovereignty/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:48:22 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2649 As I promised when Barack Obama (D) was elected President of the United States, I will oppose him when he is wrong and support him when he is right. Today, Obama did something 100 percent right: he announced that the United States will not participate in the United Nations’ Durban II conference. Formally known as […]

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]]> Israel Attacked Sudan Convoy in January https://www.scottbradford.us/2009/03/26/israel-attacked-sudan-convoy-in-january/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:21:55 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2567 The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck a convoy in Sudan in January, according to media reports released today. The convoy was apparently transporting weapons, possibly including missiles, destined for Gaza and likely to be used by Palestinian terrorist groups against targets in Israel. The IAF will not comment on the reports. As usual, the Israeli […]

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]]> Israel Targets Hamas Leadership in Air Raid https://www.scottbradford.us/2008/12/27/israel-targets-hamas-leadership-in-air-raid/ Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:38:54 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2163 Israel launched an air raid on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip today. At least 225 have been killed, including many high-ranking Hamas leaders. The Israeli raid was carried out in direct response to ongoing Hamas rocket attacks on Israel over the preceding months and years. Hamas is recognized by the U.S. State Department as […]

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]]> Carter Cavorting Again With Terrorists https://www.scottbradford.us/2008/12/14/carter-cavorting-again-with-terrorists/ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:28:33 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=2120 President Jimmy Carter (D), who presided over a period of general national malaise and foreign policy calamity in the late 1970s, periodically jumps back into the news and generally in ways that most thinking Americans would find unpleasant. Well, he’s at it again. Carter has met with the exiled leader of Hamas, a recognized terrorist […]

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]]> The Nuclear Genie https://www.scottbradford.us/2008/11/20/the-nuclear-genie/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:45:01 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=1991 You can’t put the Genie back in the bottle. The twentieth century brought about a weapon of such magnitude that we now, for the first time in the history of our existence as a species, have the power to utterly destroy our entire planet. I’m not talking about fossil fuels, though their use ranks with […]

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]]> Remembering ‘Black Tuesday’ (and the ‘Right of Return’) https://www.scottbradford.us/2008/05/29/remembering-black-tuesday/ Fri, 30 May 2008 01:11:57 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=1176 Today was the anniversary of one of the most vicious conquests in history—the fall of Constantinople (and the Byzantine Empire) to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453. On this day in 1453, the conquerers were extraordinarily brutal. Historian Steven Runciman notes that the Muslim soldiers “slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, […]

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