The birth and growth of an utterly baseless, extremely damaging claim. If you Google "Gazans celebrate Boston Marathon bombings" or variations of that entry, you will have your reading cut out for you. Such a scene was reported by Pamela Gellar, possibly America's best-known Muslim-basher, on her website Atlas Shrugs. The story was headlined "DANCING IN THE STREETS OF GAZA OVER BOSTON BOMBINGS," and carried the intro, "End US aid to these savages. Now." Such a spectacle in Gaza was also mentioned in a column by Ruthie Blum in the English-language website of Sheldon Adelson's Israel Hayom, this country's most…

Noted right-wingers call to demolish the separation wall. True, they are driven by a desire for annexation, but the Left finds itself in an unseemly position - defending one of the great injustices of the occupation in the name of the distant prospect of two states.  Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens yesterday told Ma'ariv he thinks the separation wall - which snakes its way around the West Bank and has been responsible for cutting tens of thousands of people from their livelihoods and from each other - should be torn down. "The wall is no longer of any use and it's only…

Bibi will be the lamest of ducks in his next and last term as PM. Hold the applause, though – what's rising up to take his place is worse.  If, as expected tomorrow, Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu gets in the low-30s in Knesset seats, this election will mark the beginning of the post-Netanyahu era. Bibi will remain as prime minister as long as the new government survives, but he will be a lame duck, helpless to rein in the demagoguery and wild initiatives of the quasi- and not-so-quasi-fascists in his coalition. He will watch the chasm widen between Israel and the West, Israel…