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April 30, 2004
Shabbat Shalom

Debby Friedman relaying a story from Auschwitz on the significance of prayer:

...my mother saw a young girl of about 16 who stood shivering in fear and quaking from emotion. "Please, tell me, do you speak Czech or German?" the girl asked.

"I speak Czech," my mother answered.

"And are you Jewish?" the young girl asked.

"Yes, of course I am," my mother replied.

"Do you, perhaps, also know how to pray?" the girl continued.

"Certainly, but why are you asking all these questions?" asked my mother.

Visibly relieved, the girl explained: "I heard that we are being taken to the gas chambers tonight. I'm Jewish but I was never taught how to pray. I am terrified. If this camp is empty tomorrow morning, you will know that I'm no longer alive. If that happens, please pray for my soul. My name is Anichka."

Her heart breaking for this child just three years younger than herself, my mother reassured her and promised that should Anichka's camp be empty, she would pray for her.

The next day, the camp on the other side of the fence was eerily, irrevocably silent. Not one person remained. My mother tearfully fulfilled young Anichka's last request.

...continue reading the whole story and a second.


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November 30, 2005

Caroline Glick offers a glimpse of a possible news report we could see next fall if the Israelis do pull out of Gaza... she's against the move.

On the other side is Brett Stephens who looks at the issue form the varying viewpoints of Demography, Legitimacy, Strategy and Morality... he supports the move now, but was once against it.

Allison remarks on the same two columns. With the vote coming this weekend there is plenty of material all around. I'll just point to one more from Charles Krauthammer. Read them all.

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Idiots

The people involved in this should suffer the full force of law. NO deals, maximum punishment for all of the guilty... and the courts martial should convene as soon as is humanly possible. Fortunately, for them, our legal system does not allow us to force the kind of shame onto them that they made those prisoners endure, nor the level of shame they broght upon their country. They disgraced their uniforms, their service and their country. It makes me sick.


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April 29, 2004
Natan Sharansky on Disengagement

I'm not sure how I feel about the disengagement plans of Ariel Sharon, mainly because I don't understand the details. In theory I understand that the palestinians are incapable of offering a real solution. Their society is not ready for any form of sovereignty and they are utterly incapable of policing any agreement that any of their leaders would make. It's not simply a matter of Arafat not being a partner for peace.... their entire society is unable to take on that responsibility.

That being a given the two choices are to keep playing with them or to ignore them until they grow up as a society. Will it be safer for Israelis to disengage? Will it save lives? Is the withdrawal from Gaza handing the Arabs an unearned victory which will only hurt long term prospects for peace?

With questions like these always on my mind, I appreciated reading Natan Sharansky's article today which affirmed my initial reactions.

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April 28, 2004
Mangling?

I enjoy reading David Bognor's blog, Treppenwitz. He's another of Israel's immigrants from the USA whose insights I love to read. Today he's talking about a Hebrew slang word: Mangle...

David has now added two new words to my vocabulary...
Treppenwitz is a feeling you've likely had hundreds of times and probably never even thought to give it a name...

And to Mangle??? It's something I'd do every night if I could! But how do you spell it in Hebrew?


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April 27, 2004
WMD

The guys at Power Line point to a couple of not to be missed articles, about discovery of some of Saddam's WMD and the circumstances surrounding the find as well as the reporting on it.

Saddam's WMD Have Been Found and Iraqi Weapons in Syria And... it'll be worth your time to take a look at their post on John Kerry's DBunker. Kerry just may be on his way to a loss bigger than Dukakis'.

Update: Even The Village Voice thinks Kerry is toast. ...hat tip Dean Esmay

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Chag Ha'atzmut Sameach

חג עצמאות שמח

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Kerry is Toast

The political winds over the past month or two have battered the President... It seems that nothing can go his way, yet his position in the polls is strengthening. It's a real pity the Democrats don't have a candidate that can take advantage of all of Bush’s miscues.

Kerry can’t seem to find any issue to make his own… even "his" anti-war theme was stolen from Howard Dean… still Kerry wants us to believe that he’s the “Strong on Defense” candidate. He can’t decide how to present himself, his record is contrary to the image he wants to present.

The current controversy over his Navy Awards and Decorations, which has been introduced and maintained entirely by the candidate and the Democratic chairman, is just one example. The self-implosion over the matter has been painful to witness.

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April 26, 2004
Our Egyptian Friends

I don't know how much aid we GIVE to Egypt every year, but however much it is, it's too much.

Here's Jeff Jacoby:

Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, had some unhappy tidings to deliver the other day. The US occupation in Iraq, he said, has turned the Arab world against the American people.
Egypt loved us before we occupied Iraq? Jacoby continues...

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April 23, 2004
Idea of the Week

Amish Tech Support's head honcho has won the coveted, first and likely the last, "A1A Idea of the Week Month Award.. " A beautiful Bazooka bubble gum sculpture in the shape of a light bulb is awarded, for proposing Another Kind of Draft, the Pat Tillman Memorial Catchall Rule: Any player declaring themselves eligible for the draft that doesn't get picked by an NFL team, must serve two years in the armed forces.

There is no way the NFL Players Association could adequately honor Pat Tillman, but I hope they try. His memory deserves the best we can give him. Spoons has another suggestion.

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Thank You.

Shabbat Shalom


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More on the Conference on Terrorism

The organizers have been disappointed by the lack of International Media coverage of the terrorism conference at Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University. The Saudi Embassy was hopeful:

It is hoped that the participants will be able to refute false allegations about the Kingdom’s position on terrorism, and clarify that Islam, a religion of moderation and tolerance, has nothing to do with terrorism and violence.
From the Conference's Stated Objectives

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News???

This headline was a bit deceiving: Palestinian fighters break out of jail since I assumed that for it to be classified as News, it meant they broke out of an Israeli prison.... I should have considered the source.


The three escapees were imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority on charges they had planted bombs which killed three US security guards travelling in a convoy in October.

The Popular Resistance Committees helped break the fighters out of prison on Wednesday in defiance of Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat, who overruled a high court decision last month to drop charges against the three and release them.

Popular Resistance Committees spokesman Abu Abir on Friday said the group helped free the three during a "special" visit.

It just amazes me that crap like this passes as news to the Arab world.


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April 22, 2004
TRUTH from The Arab News

Terrorism is affecting life in Saudi Arabia. The latest terrorists attacks come as a Conference on Terrorism and Islam is being held at Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. According to the Arab News,

The blast that destroyed a security forces building killing and injuring many people yesterday overshadowed the deliberations of the conference
I'd be very interested to know what happens at such a conference in Riyadh... Terrorism and Islam... Again the Arab News Speaks Truth

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April 21, 2004
Moderate Islam Watch

Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, has been interviewed before, and no doubt will be again, but if you missed Melissa Radler's report over the weekend in the Jerusalem Post about her interview, you might want to go read it now.

One question, in particular hit home with me. I spent 3 years with the Royal Navy as an exchange pilot in the mid-80's and, more than once, made the same point to my British friends.

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April 20, 2004
CNN

For the first time in months I watched a few minutes of CNN. The occasion was Rantisi's death and Fox was concentrating on the discovery of the North Dakota College student's body, and I wanted to hear a little about Rantisi. I happened to catch the remarkably beautiful, but woefully untalented News anchor, Fredricka Whitfield interviewing Gideon Meir to get the Israeli side of the story.

Her performance was disgraceful, she's either stupid or she's a liar.

Update: Thanks to Smooth for referring us to Galganov.com read the archived article, Good-bye Rantisi - Rest In Pieces - Shame On You CNN. His impressions were pretty similar:

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April 18, 2004
Yom HaShoah

The Last Jew In Stolin
by Sara Salzman

He holds the shovel with infinite patience
chink chink chink
as dry earth and tiny stones fall upon bones, bleached by time.

His body davens to the sound of Kaddish

chink chink
yitgadal v'yitkadash

They watch from the edge of the pit.
A ripple passes through the crowd,
each smooth naked body bends slightly at the waist
davens in time with the shovel.

Chink chink
Yitborach v'yishtabach v'yitpo'ar v'yitromam v'yitnaseh v'yit-hador

Chink chink
one by one they fade from view
until no bones are seen no bodies stare from the edge
only grass and dirt and stone.

He bows. Turns.
Walks back to town.

Through the woods, slowly pacing his steps.

Chashka.
Velvul.
Avram.
Sara.

To the edge of the woods, the edge of town.

Leah.
Yosef.
Channa.
Yankel.

Past the wood framed houses.

Shlemka.
Mindel.
Reb Ariyah
and the babies.

And in the town,
the wagons pass,
the peddlers cry.

A stone obelisk points to the sky.
Empty dates. No names.

Human feces at the base of the stone.

NOTE: In 1942, the Jews of Stolin, Poland, were rounded up by the Nazis and forced, naked and shivering, to dig a pit 11 miles from town. They were then shot, their bodies buried by the Nazis in the pit. In 1945, Russian soldiers liberating Poland, dug up the bodies, searching for Jewish gold. The bodies were not reburied. Since then, the sole surviving Jew in Stolin, now in his 80s, walks every morning to the pit to cover up bones exposed by the elements, and walks back home. His journey lasts the entire day.

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Ace of Diamonds

The Ace of Spades ...taken care of a month ago.... $25 for the MDA... Oh, and the headline from the article?

Rantisi's time will come too
Well, his time has come and gone. Ace of Diamonds ... another $25 for the MDA...

Who's next? Ace of Clubs -- Hasan Nasrallah? (Godfather of the Hizbollah)
or the Ace of Hearts -- Haled Mashal? (Hamas' political head hiding in Damascus)

...btw, Rantisi was not an Arab dictator? Still, Meryl is offering Sweets... Who's Next?

MDA total for 2004, is now up to $100. Happily helping Israelis: Jew and Arab.


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April 16, 2004
Shabbat Shalom

I'll be reading the Haftarah tomorrow, I need a little time to practice... Back on Sunday.

Shabbat Shalom


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Kerry Doesn't Get iT

In today's Washington Post, John Kerry proves he doesn't get it.

"And everything he did in Iraq, he's going to try to persuade people it has to do with terror, even though everybody here knows that it has nothing whatsoever to do with al Qaeda and everything to do with an agenda that they had preset, determined. That's where they're going to go."
No Senator, thankfully "everybody here" does not see things your way.

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April 15, 2004
The War on Muslim Extremism (Islamofaschism)

From the NY Times, that bastion of pacifism, (ok maybe that's unfair), comes today's column by Paul Berman that's worth a look. Seen first at Roger Simon's.

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April 14, 2004
9/11

The world changed that morning. I cannot identify the precise time. Indeed for some people that time has not yet come. But as NZ bear recalls, for most of us, the world changed sometime between 8:46amEDT and 10:03 on the morning of September 11, 2001. Between the time that American Flight 11 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, and the time that United 93 hit in the Pennsylvania countryside, our world, and our perspective, had changed.

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Another Arteeest
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A Self-Portrait, a Jew... Using Mr. Picassohead... Thanks to Ruder-Finn Interactive via Accidental Verbosity

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April 13, 2004
CoV

This Week's Carnival being hosted by Boi from Troy.


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April 12, 2004
Nasty, Brutish and Short

I admit it, I chuckled upon seeing the Title to Thomas Friedman's column yesterday. Is Nasty, Brutish and Short a physical description of the author or something else... I think.

It's hard to argue with what he's written:

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April 11, 2004
Politics of No

A cock has climbed onto a pile of dung and is crowing about the Politics of No... which he lifted from a Liberal Slayer Steve explains...

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April 09, 2004
The Commission...

Bush was right to fight its formation. It has been nothing but a waste of money and a grand-standing opportunity for the commission members and their staffs.

Anyone who expected Accountability or apportioning the responsibility among guilty parties was incredibly naive. Any who expected non-partisan proceedings were fooling themselves. The whole spectacle has been nothing but depressing.

If any effective investigation were to be accomplished, none of us would know about it... at lest we would not know who testified or what they testified to. Any effective investigation meant to further our safety would demand secrecy to protect the candor of individuals who may have made a mistake. With no protection against law suits or even public disclosure, we should not expect anyone to be completely forthcoming. In fact in the litigious climate we live in, anyone stepping forward to voluntarily speak the "whole truth and nothing but the truth" invites suspicion and scrutiny. Especially when the gesture is also an effort to make money... call me cynical.

The goal of the commission was wrong-headed. Instead of seeking to hold some group or individual accountable for the disaster, they should have been looking into ways to prevent other attacks in the future. Such a public, Political body has no chance to accomplish either.

I'm with Roger Simon in my frustration with our entire system being focused on "the last five minutes" or on the sound bites that will make the news cycle. The juxtaposition of Bob Kerrey's WSJ column and his statement to, and questioning of, Dr. Rice is today's example of the shortsightedness of our politicians and the utter disdain for their viewers'/readers' intelligence that most of the media has. It's insulting and depressing.

At least the weekend is here and the weather is supposed to be fantastic... low 80's sunny, no rain.... Time to recharge:

Shabbat Shalom

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April 08, 2004
Leadership???

Where did the President's leadership cease? At some time, in the weeks following 9/11, Bush stepped forward and led. He spoke and acted with a moral clarity that has been sorely lacking in America's Foreign Policy. Where has that man gone?

Today, Thomas Friedman asks, Are There Any Iraqis in Iraq?

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Whose Side are they on?

As the fighting in Iraq has intensified over the past few days so has the rhetoric from the Anti-War crowd. The networks are loving it. With Kennedy and Kerry (Democratic Ticket?) making comparisons to Viet Nam at every opportunity, lines are being drawn which are meant to divide America. It's working, and the media are playing it for ratings.

I fault the Administration, not for taking on the challenge of bringing Democracy to Iraq, but for its failure in leadership in the weeks prior to the invasion and continuing to the present. They have done an abysmal job of making their case for war.

The Administration let their critics define the reasons for war, they failed to prepare the American people for a long and difficult job. They have not explained how Democracy in Iraq fits into the overall war on Islamofaschism. They have made friends into opponents, both domestically and internationally. Yet, they had the courage to take bold action, even though many would have chosen a different road. The bottom line is cause is just and it's worthwhile, and the war goes well, but they are not making that case... the leadership has been poor. The communication has been a failure.

The problem is the tone of the criticism. The problem is with America's penchant for political overstatement. The problem is with our internal debate being misunderstood by the enemy. The problem is with the way the messages are being broadcast. The problem is politics by soundbite. Most of the problem is with American news media.

If some Bush critics are seen as being anti-American, it's because the effects of their words are too often, in fact, anti-American. But more damaging is the way the words are broadcast, and which words we see and hear. The mainstream media is still very much anti-Bush and anti-war, and Fox news is neither a credible, nor an intelligent balance to the them.

When John Kerry says we have to stay the course in Iraq, it appears as a whisper on the air waves, it's buried deep in the papers. But when Kerry and Kennedy speak of the Great Failure of Judgment, it's shouted at us from every newspaper and newscast... even Fox. It serves to fire up the emotions instead of furthering the debate. Intelligent discourse is replaced by angry sloganeering. Campaigns on both sides work hard to reduce their messages to salable sound bites that the networks will air in their drive for ratings... The more controversial and the more venomous, the more likely they are to make the 6:00 news. It's unhealthy and puts the press in a natural adversarial position against whichever party is in power.

Today, some press actions border on treason. Footage aired on all of the networks of the Iraqi insurgents firing machine guns, RPGs and AK-47s at US troops makes me wonder just whose side the press are on? The press, being used as useful idiots by our enemies, air violent sound bites that titillate viewers more than it informs them. The coverage ignores the good, but boring work being done and the steady but boring progress being made in bringing the Iraqis a democratic government and allowing them more freedom than they've ever experienced. Is that bringing aid and comfort to the enemy? It sure looks like it. Why else would the enemy provide sanctuary and protection for the journalists and cameramen? The simple fact is: journalists are helping the insurgents. Is that treason? It sure looks like it.

But they’d respond with, “We’re just being impaaaaaaaaartiaaaaall.” Well, isn’t that just speeeeeeeeeeecial. American journalists, or journalists working for American media are filming the enemy as they kill Americans…. Great for ratings, not so great for our troops.

What do today’s journalistic ethicists say about that? How have the rules changed since Edward Murrow was reporting? Which model of media ethics, today's or that of the Greatest Generation, is better for mankind?

Whose side are they on?


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April 07, 2004
Shabot 6000

After two days on Matzo Ben Baruch made me laugh out loud with his latest Shabot 6000 cartoon.

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April 06, 2004
Illegal Immigrants... When are they Legal?

Florida is entering into the Driver's Licenses for Illegal Immigrants debate. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the state is acknowledging residence with the issuance of a Driver's License, doesn't that make them Legal Immigrants... at least they're legal in someone's eyes. If the country does not have the will to find and deport illegals, then why put a blindfold on and pretend they aren't here.

While the news reports seem to be focused on the anti-terrorism and security aspects of the issue, Governor Bush, at least is making sense, despite the insanity of the immigration laws and enforcement.

Bush said illegal immigrants are here and the state should accept that fact.

"We shouldn't allow them to come into the country to begin with, but once they're here, what do you do? Do you basically say that they're lepers to society? That they don't exist?" he asked. "A policy that ignores them is a policy of denial."

Meanwhile, up the road, in an argument reminiscent of the Marriage/civil union debate,...

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April 05, 2004
Chag Sameach

Mah Nishtanah... Why is this night Different from all other nights?
Tonight, around the world homeregypt.gif
people will sitting at Seder tables, retelling the Passover story and recalling the Exodus from Egypt.

Two of the requirements for the holiday are: to eat no leavened bread...
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and to drink four glasses of wine. homerwineinglass.gif

In other words: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat. Then tomorrow night, some of us will do it all again...

Chag Sameach.

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April 04, 2004
Extremism

I do not intend to equate the Left of the Democratic Party with radical Islam, but there is a comparison to be made due to the extreme nature of both.

I was reading some of the reactions to the despicable words appearing on the Daily Kos earlier this week. When I found this observation at One Find Jay

I know for a fact that his views do not represent all of the American left, but it reflects on them just a little bit. Just a little bit, but it’s enough to make the water a bit too bitter for my taste. I have lost faith in the possibility that the more centrist members of the left would police their own ranks and have shifted my focus on ensuring that the Republican party shed the stigma of hate that surrounds it, so I am actually surprised at the reactions of the Democratic politicians who have decided to pull out their ads from Markos’ site (as detailed in the Friedman post).

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April 02, 2004
Are you ready?

Pesach Starts Monday evening, anyone have any favorite shmears for their matzo?


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Streit's ad lifted from Heeb Magazine.

Shabbat Shalom


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The Anti-Mogadishu

It was clear to anyone with any knowledge fo our operation in Somaliam, that the episode in Fallujah was meant to copy the Blackhawk Down incidnent in Mogadishu. It's logical to assume that the attackers were looking for the same result: a humiliated America in flight from the region. It's not likely to happen.

Not as bad as the savages mutilating corpses, but despicable in its own way is the response of a well-known and previously respected blogger and some of his commenters. Generally the anti-war protests on that site have turned poisonous, the hatred of the Bush Administration is borderline psychotic, but the comments there on the Fallujah incident are beyond the pale.

Roger Simon, tacitus, and the Belmont Club have more. I particularly liked the post at the Belmont Club.

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April 01, 2004
How the Left Baffles Me

We're told: We've brought it on ourselves.... Because we've decided to do something to change the status quo, because we decide to act to make the world a better place and because the results aren't idyllic, (in fact the results are sometimes horrific)... because of all of this, it's our own fault. The world hates America it's our own fault. The world hates Jews, it's our own fault.

The terrorists can't be blamed, because it is US that drove them to violence. The Arabs can't cope with the modern world?... it's our fault for bringing modernity. The Arabs hate Jews?... it's the Jews fault... for being there, for existing... for succeeding. Jewish success MUST come from subjugating Arabs... how else can we explain the combination of Jewish success and the utter failure of Arabs to build a working civil society.

Jews are rich, Arabs are poor, it's OBVIOUSLY the Jews' fault. Arabs kill Jews... it's the Jews' fault... Arabs kill Americans, it's Bush's fault. Arabs kill Spaniards, it's Bush's AND the Jews' fault. Their logic astounds me.

The murderous, barbaric Arab terrorists have become the victims. The real, innocent victims are dubbed the guilty aggressors just because they are American or because they are Jews. Arabs kill because they are poor and desperate... because they have no choice... We make them do it. At least that's what some on the left would have us believe. We know they're wrong. Still, their logic baffles me.


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