Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 05:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 There’s the truth. And then there’s the mainstream media. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/theres-the-truth-and-then-theres-the-mainstream-media/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/theres-the-truth-and-then-theres-the-mainstream-media/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:00:24 +0000 Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=92072 At some stage in our Western civilisation, we are simply going to have to acknowledge the elephant in the room: that Islamism is per definition irreconcilable with democracy.  Yes, this will immediately elicit howls of protest from PC “liberals” who, in the comfort of numbers, will band together to subvert the truth. But the fact [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/theres-the-truth-and-then-theres-the-mainstream-media/feed/ 0 “What a wonderful world this would be” http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-a-wonderful-world-this-would-be/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-a-wonderful-world-this-would-be/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:18:12 +0000 Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=84336 What are the opening lines of that song by Sam Cooke? Don’t know much about history  Don’t know much biology Don’t know much about a science book Don’t know much about the French I took This could be the anthem of “The Quartet” – that disparate alliance of the EU, UN, US and Russia – [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-a-wonderful-world-this-would-be/feed/ 4 The Islamist onslaught has ended – for now http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-islamist-onslaught-has-ended-for-now/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-islamist-onslaught-has-ended-for-now/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:10:58 +0000 Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81204 Hostilities between Gaza’s Islamist Hamas regime and the Jewish state ended as they began. With Hamas dictating the pace. Hamas started the conflict by raining missiles on Israeli civilians. And after the ceasefire went into effect, Hamas fired up to 20 missiles at Ashkelon, Sderot, Sha’ar Ha’Negev, Kiryat Malachi and Ashdod. That’s the latest “ceasefire” [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-islamist-onslaught-has-ended-for-now/feed/ 1 Swedish media: the writing’s on the wall http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/swedish-media-the-writings-on-the-wall/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/swedish-media-the-writings-on-the-wall/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:30:21 +0000 Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=78810 Welcome to the world of the Swedish mainstream press, led by Swedish state-run TV broadcaster SVT and the printed media’s Pravda-esque disseminator of propaganda, TT. A world in which absurd reversal of chronology is routine, delivered with religious fervour and unquestioned – provided the target is Israel. The Hamas rocket bombardment of Gaza started after [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/swedish-media-the-writings-on-the-wall/feed/ 8 An evolving Swedish view of Islamism http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-evolving-swedish-view-of-islamism/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-evolving-swedish-view-of-islamism/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:10:25 +0000 Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=67174 Middle East democracy faces enemies in the form of regimes such as those of the mullahs in Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and various Arab and Muslim dictatorships, as well as countries such as Saudi Arabia (the only country in the world with apartheid roads), Pakistan (where churches are routinely burned to the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-evolving-swedish-view-of-islamism/feed/ 3 From Sweden with hatred http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-sweden-with-hatred/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-sweden-with-hatred/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:28:07 +0000 Ilya Meyer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=60586 GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The Estelle is a Swedish boat sailing to the coast of Gaza, part of the mostly publicly-funded “Ship to Gaza” propaganda project. On Saturday, August 18, a dangerous and unusual demonstration took place simultaneously in Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city: people walked the streets wearing kippot. And this Sunday, September 2, there will [...]

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