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After re-opening Rafah, the law of unintended consequences bites Egypt. The Wall St. Journal (click via Google News) writes: A full opening at Egypt’s Rafah border, analysts say, could allow Israel...

 A new study by the Pew Research Center found Facebookers, the Twitterverse and bloggers expressing support for Israel over the Palestinians by a whopping 3-1 margin. The study looked at a week’s...

Aussie cartoonist Bruce Petty, who draws for The Age, thinks Israeli colonial masters are only interested in cheap Palestinian labor. Memo to Petty: Why not accuse Israel of organ-harvesting too? P.S....

Congrats to Israel Muse for winning the second semi-final of the 2011 Pro-Israel Blogoff. It’s been a great blogoff with great posts by all the competitors. Now we move on to the finals, which...

Last week, Sheikh Nasrallah came out with his first public statement supporting Bashar Assad. Now Syrian protesters are burning pictures of Hezbollah’s head honcho. What the heck was Nasrallah thinking...

• Remember the EU monitors who fled their border posts at the first sign of fighting? Turns out the monitors are eager to re-establish their relevance. According to the WSJ: Despite the fact that the...

A borderline-confused Greg in Australia wants to know: Why the stink over the ’67 borders now? Charles Krauthammer articulates the clearest explanation I’ve seen on why the 1967 borders are...

Doug Saunders, the Globe & Mail’s European bureau chief, thinks there’s no difference between Hamas and the Israeli parties that make up Prime Minister Netanyahu’s governing coalition. He’d...

Egypt announced it will permanently open the Rafah border crossing this weekend. With Palestinians able to travel back and forth, and consumer goods already plentiful, you’d think the Free Gaza flotilla...

Congrats to the winner of iPad 2 give-away, Ami Maishlish. The Markham, Ontario resident’s thrilled. In his correspondence with us, Maishlish wrote: HonestReporting’s a valuable watchdog protecting...