THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Recognize her? Perhaps not. This is the photo you might remember better. Not long after placing seventh in an American modeling contest, the young Modern Orthodox Esther Petrak, a native of Jerusalem, joined the IDF to serve and defend Israel as an instructor in the Merkeva (Chariot) tanks.

Used to be, in the American army, it was “smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em,” and almost everyone did. And almost everyone had a Zippo lighter, too. Nowadays, when the American army is so PC that it can’t stop murderous Muslims from joining its ranks and shooting up its bases, smoking is discouraged and the [...]

I can’t say I like Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s short-short stories much. At least not the ones in The Girl On The Fridge collection. Most of them end too abruptly, just about the time I’m getting interested in the tale. Suppose to be the latest thing, these quickies, but most of them read like the [...]

One of the curious features of Israeli life is the way her young conscript soldiers carry their loaded M-4s, M-16s, and other automatic weapons everywhere they go. In uniform and out. It’s required. You see them in the grocery, the mall, the bus stop, the street, heck, even in the elevator. Snoop and I were [...]

Hamas wanted it. Now they’ve got it. And, now, of course, they’re whining for a ceasefire, and their buddies in the European Union and the United Nations are condemning Israel for a “disproportionate response.” As if “you-kill-two-of-mine and I’ll-kill-two-of-yours” is the way real wars are fought. Like Treppenwitz I find it increasingly hard to sympathize [...]

The young warriors of the IDF, who fight the foes of the remnant of Israel. With a great new song and video about them in Hebrew and English via Monkey In The Middle.

Leaving tomorrow morning from Ben Gurion Airport after an interesting, if exhausting, ten days of traveling all over in Israel. Today we did the Armored Corps memorial in Latrun, on the road to Jerusalem, one of the world’s largest displays of main battle tanks and other armored vehicles—as well as the names (and digital pictures) [...]

The 19-year-old Israeli model  is serving her obligated time in the IDF.

I never have cared for American hip hop, but I love this Hebrew remix of “Prahim ba kane,” a victory song from Israel’s 1967 war in which they took back the Western Wall (left). The song was first recorded by an IDF army band but it’s bested by the Zionist rapper Subliminal and his group, [...]