THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Planning my trip to Israel in early October. I’m told to expect the weather to be much like Texas, a little warmer, maybe, but not much. I am wondering how big a melatonin pill I need to start taking 1-3 days before the flight? Also how much Vitamin C to ward off the colds and [...]

Well, what do you know? The Jew-baiters have migrated to The Onion. Taking lessons from Hamas? (The cartoon is straight out of the Arab media.) Or just the good, old American neo-Nazi version? Amazing, really.
UPDATE:  Yes, I know, they probably intended it to be satire. But it cuts way too close to the bone to [...]

Playing with fire is trendy again. So listen up. You’ll know it when you hear or read it, and you will, you will:
“The Israel Lobby,” “Neocons,” “Good Jews vs. Bad Jews,” “Conflict of Interest,” “No One Can Criticize Israel Without Being Labeled An Anti-Semite,” “Hasbara,” “I Like Jews, I Just Don’t Like Zionists,” “The Uniquely [...]

My Israeli friend “Snoopy the Goon” (he prefers anonymity on the Web) has written a nice review of my Civil War historical battle novel and posted it on his blog with links to the Amazon sales page and the book’s new blog, “Knoxville 1863, the novel.”
Thanks, Snoop. Considering that you don’t normally like military history [...]

I’m already somewhat mentally agitated by the thought of the roughly twelve hours flying time (in two planes) I have to make in October to get from Austin to Israel. I can hardly imagine long-haul commuting from Tel Aviv to New York and back again every week. Yipes.

There is no such thing as a PR war. Soldiers do not risk their lives for public relations, but for the security of their country and its people.
The more countries like Turkey and, soon, Ireland, try, in  conjunction with Jihadi terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah, to “break” Israel’s self-defense blockade of Gaza—to prevent the importation [...]

“We con the world, We con the people, We’ll make them all believe the Hamas is Momma Teresa. We’ll make them all believe the IDF is Jack-The-Ripper”
Very funny music video by “Captain Stabbing & Friends” (including Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick.) Hebrew subtitled version here.
Ridicule is the best revenge. Are you listening, Hillary? Barry?
Via Yourish.
UPDATE:  [...]

Much is made of Turkey’s alleged history of secularism. They banned the fez and the veil, etc., etc. Yet when I went to high school in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara in 1961-62, Turkish intolerance of non-Muslim religions was extreme.
Anyone openly espousing Judaism or Christianity was liable to wind up very dead— murdered in the [...]

As always. “Rage” screamed the daily’s lede headline this morning. Rage over the “raid.” Turned out to be a truncated NYTimes story. As always. In which the UN was treated like a reasonable, deliberative body instead of a gang of human rights-denying dictators in humanitarian drag. As always. And the armed terrorists on the Turkey-sponsored, [...]