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TOCS, “Offensive Diplomacy” At 4:30pm, More Anti-Israel WH Diplomacy, Crisis In Egypt, Etc. Consider today’s show something of a followup to Wednesday’s regularly scheduled episode. There was one segment on UK/Turkey and on...

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Jihadist On Libyan Gaza-Bound Ship: “We’d Love To Die As Shahids” [Video]

Libya has apparently decided that, if they’re going to have a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, they’re going...
Weekly TOCS, “Meeting Bias” at 7:30pm PDT, Obama-Bibi, Octavia Nasr, The B’Tselem Media Campaign, Etc.

First note the time change for today. BlogTalkRadio had some technical hiccups, and so we’re going to start an hour...
Weekly TOCS, “Mainstreaming Hamas” at 6:30pm PDT, The Iran’s Lobby’s New Campaign, Rolling Back Disengagement Assurances, Etc.

After a month of wall-to-wall Flotilla-related episodes on One Jerusalem Radio’s Omri Ceren Show, I think we’re ready to go...

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TOCS, “Offensive Diplomacy” At 4:30pm, More Anti-Israel WH Diplomacy, Crisis In Egypt, Etc.

Consider today’s show something of a followup to Wednesday’s regularly scheduled episode. There was one segment on UK/Turkey and on Cameron’s disastrous Ankara gambit, and since then news has trickled out directly linking the White House to that wretched little spectacle. That segment included a bit on how breathtakingly unremarkable quotidian Muslim entitlement has become [...]
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Weekly TOCS, “Anglo Appeasement” At 6:30pm PDT, Cameron In Turkey, Obama On Proximity Talks, Etc.

We’re back on our regular schedule this week, with the promise of an additional show some time tomorrow to round out the month. Today’s top story – after we get through the opening segment and what promises to be a barn burner of an Iran segment – is Cameron’s anti-Western, anti-Israel obsequiousness in Ankara. He [...]
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Hamas Cracking Down On Un-Islamic Panties

The word you’re looking for is pathological, from the Greek pathos meaning “suffering,” logia meaning “study,” and ical meaning totally batshit crazy: The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have ordered lingerie shops to display more modesty… the Hamas-run police force has told stores selling women’s underwear to remove scantily-clad mannequins and any posters of racy [...]
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Sunday Cute – Tiger Cubs Are Kind Of Cute

I’m posting this first set from the Jerusalem Zoo because (a) it’s an exquisite park with nary a bar nor fence, even inside the birds of prey exhibit, and you should know that and (b) I’m insanely jealous of the keeper, and I’d like you to share that frustration. Via ZooBorns, where you can [...]
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Merely Tweeted, “Goldstone On The Case…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and appreciation for leftist humanitarians from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: Goldstone on the case no doubt | RT @BreakingNews: Sudan army says 300+ Darfur rebels killed in recent days http://bit.ly/aA4eMD Always touching to see left get outraged re "implicit" antisemitism from Coulter, Beck, etc while excusing genocidal Iran, Hezbollah, etc Europe’s new emphasis on [...]
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Merely Tweeted, “The Real JournoList Scandal…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and “can you believe these tools”-type comments from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: The real journolist scandal is that elite reporters are very enamored with themselves despite being, ya know, blistering morons Comparing rhetoric/style on "JournoList," "DKos comments section," and "activist stoner dorm room" – not striking in dissimilarity Classy. @attackerman indulging in impotent revenge [...]
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TOCS, “Listing Media” at 10:00am PDT, JournoList, Passports Again, Human Rights Double Standards, Etc.

As promised we’re back this morning, with the show scheduled to start in just under an hour. Also as promised, today’s episode is going to be heavy on media bias, from the JournoList leaks about liberal foreign policy thinking to this pointed confirmation of the international media’s anti-Israel double standards. Just the rundown of things [...]
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TOCS Returns Thursday With Back-To-Back Episodes

It’s going to be one more day before One Jerusalem Radio’s TOCS returns to the air, but starting tomorrow morning we’ll have back-to-back episodes, one on Thursday and one on Friday. I’m still nailing down the exact times but I think we’ll be on the air both days around 10am PDT. I’ll post more details [...]
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Sunday Cute – Very Confused Puppies

First your picture of the day, with a dog that seems confused about its evolutionary role. Courtesy of MR readers PS: And now your video. You might want to turn down the sound on this one, as the owners’ pet parent tone gets a little typical. Plus the visuals speak for themselves: This month’s Sunday Cute posts [...]
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Merely Tweeted, “I Wonder If People In Israel Feel Confused…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and stupid polling tricks from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: I wonder if people in Israel feel confused when @NJDC says 40% of Israelis support Obama but they don’t know even one. Charming | RT @jtanews: Chavez to Assad: Israel will be ‘put in its place’ http://bit.ly/abn4tM So when do we get to point at [...]
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Israeli Hottie Wednesdays – Bar Refaeli Looks Good In Pearls, A Bra

I was going to hand over today’s Israeli Hottie Wednesday post exclusively to this viral video of cute IDF girls dancing to Avril Lavigne, except (a) YouTube’s bot keeps nuking the video because the background music violates Sony’s copyright and (b) the choreography is – improbably – even worse than that Nahal Tik Tok video. [...]
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Jihadist On Libyan Gaza-Bound Ship: “We’d Love To Die As Shahids” [Video]

Libya has apparently decided that, if they’re going to have a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, they’re going to own it. So in between using the UNHRC to spread antisemitic organ harvesting libels, they’ve dispatched a ship in the direction of Gaza. This is actually the second time in three years that they’ve [...]
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Merely Tweeted, “Democrats Have Found A War They’re Willing To Fight…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and observations about the most competent administration ever, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: I’m just glad the Democrats have found a war they’re willing to fight. It’s against an inanimate oil slick – but baby steps! Obama’s worldview: we can’t fight "terrorism" because it’s an ephemeral tactic but we can "wage a battle" [...]
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Sunday Cute – The Dusky Damselfish Is An Obsessive But Adorable Gardener

Turns out, there are fish that garden and weed. The dusky damselfish, or stegastes nigricans, is a tropical reed fish that tends to its own patch of algae, cultivating the kind it likes and uprooting the strains it doesn’t. It also chases away anything else that tries to swim or crawl onto it’s lawn, as [...]
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Merely Tweeted, “From Mideast Experts…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and obnoxious pseudo-sophistication from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: From Mideast experts who said “fence won’t work bc people climb over it”: both “Gaza blockade fails” and “Gaza starving” Say what you will re Obama obsequiously apologizing for America to despots and lunatics, at least he’s made the Mideast more stable Looking at [...]
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