BOLD like a Leopard

Those that behave illogically cannot use logic to convince their adversaries, so instead they resort to moral finger whagging. Readers of the Times of Israel  Blogs (TOI Blogs) probably are aware of one of the more successful non-Israeli writers on the platform, the Lebanese Canadian Fred Maroun. For many years his posts have often been successful and shared in explosive bursts. At one point I was a fan of Fred's and would correspond with him both in comment threads and by private message. I even interviewed him in 2018 on my YouTube channel. He used to pretend to care what people of different viewpoints have to contribute to discussions of the Middle East, and probably would insist to this day that he hasn't changed but rather he's recognized some flaws that previously he ignored. In other words, he was never wrong, but everyone he disagreed with was and he was too nice to point it out. Fred's latest article is called " Right-wing Zionist attacks o...

Dan Rather and CBS retracted two reports regarding bombings on 9-11, but for whatever reason Dawson believes that only one of them actually occurred. (FAIR) This article is part of a series concerning my debate with AntiNeocon Report founder Ryan Dawson. See part 1 here . 4. Sins of the Cousin At one point in the debate Dawson attempted to deflect toward the issue of United 93 hijacking pilot Ziad Jarrah and the purported spying activities of his cousins Ali and Yusuf al-Jarrah on behalf of Israel. The implication being made, with no further explanation, is that since his cousin had been a deep operative for the Israelis how could they have not known that Ziad Jarrah was involved in the biggest terror plot in American history? I attacked this logic by citing the fact that the immediate families of many of the hijackers had expressed  surprise at their role in the attack, including Ziad Jarrah's uncle Jamal who claimed to the  Boston Globe  that he was ...

House Intelligence Committee counsel Daniel Goldman with committee chair Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump's communications with Ukraine. ( Ha'aretz ) The so-called Jewish "leadership" has scuttled American Jews' future Recently my aunt, who is almost 70 years old, told us that the current climate is the most anti-Semitic that she's seen in the USA having lived here her entire life. But I had to struggle to keep myself from saying how surprised I was that it wasn't worse. And I'm not the only one as a friend, like myself also Jewish, has observed the House impeachment hearings and said to me "this is bad for the Jews" for weeks on end. He says this because a glaringly prominent selection of people, from the heads of the committees (Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler), to their majority counsels (Norm Eisen and Daniel Goldman), to the witnesses (Gordon Sondland, Alexander Vindman), to the experts (Pamela Karlan...

Are defecting Trump voters featured in Super PAC ads truly indicative of a trend, or are the same convenient needles poking out of the haystack in the right place? In the course of his almost three years in office and previously during his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump has burned a lot of bridges, from former spokesman and New York biz pal Anthony Scaramucci to Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis, to former Apprentice  contestant and black outreach coordinator Omarosa Manigault, the Donald hasn't been shy when it comes to dumping what he considers to be dead weight. Yet despite these high profile fall-outs it is virtually unthinkable that he could be ousted ahead of the 2020 election by a conservative challenger. While millions of Republican voters say publicly that they are not happy about supporting Trump the man, but are happy about his results, they usually acknowledge that there is no palatable alternative on the landscape.  But a Democr...