Category Archives: Israel

Snow in Judea

Posted on January 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Snow in Judea

Our winter is all but officially over, about a month early, oddly enough. So we have to take snow where we can get it. No place better than the Judean Hills.

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No Xmas in Gaza

Posted on December 25, 2011 | Comments Off on No Xmas in Gaza

Since their Hamas rulers played Grinch and cancelled Christmas.

“There hasn’t been a Christmas tree in Gaza City’s main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday…Of the 1.5 million Palestinians now living in the Gaza Strip, fewer than 1,400 are Christian and those who can are leaving.”

This was in the ultra-lefty Guardian, which usually reserves its ink for Israel-bashing, so it’s a story you might have missed.

Via Simply Jews.

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Merry Chanukkah

Posted on December 24, 2011 | Comments Off on Merry Chanukkah

 

 

 

 

Got to be the world’s largest Chanukkah menorah–atop the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv.

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Watchmen upon thy walls

Posted on December 8, 2011 | Comments Off on Watchmen upon thy walls

“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,” (Isaiah 62:6)

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Why Iran won’t build nukes

Posted on December 7, 2011 | Comments Off on Why Iran won’t build nukes

Or so says Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, because, despite the war drums getting louder and louder….

“What can Iran do with a nuclear weapon?” he asked rhetorically. “For example, will they hit Israel? How many Palestinians will die? And you think if Iran hits Israel, their cities will be safe? They will be gone the next day.”

Makes sense, as far as it goes, especially coming from someone whose country is just fifty miles across the Persian Gulf from Iran. But do the Persian Mullahs have any sense? They haven’t made much so far.

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How radical is Obamalot?

Posted on December 5, 2011 | Comments Off on How radical is Obamalot?

We’re about to find out just how far the vacationer-in-chief will take his Leftist, pro-Muslim politics, now that urban, supposedly-sophisticated Egyptians have voted in the radical Islamists.

As Spengler puts it, Egypt is becoming a banana republic without the bananas. One that, indeed, cannot even feed itself.

And it would be, as he adds here, “an obscenity” for us to continue to supply arms to these religious fanatics. We’ll see whether Obamalot—which stupidly pulled the rug out from under our old ally Mubarak—has the decency to sever our military aid to this budding Somalia on the Nile.

Unlike Spengler, I wouldn’t be opposed to some food aid for the hungry—even knowing that the new Muslim Brotherhood kleptocracy would take most of it—but, please, no more M-1 tanks, M- and F-16s, spare parts, and other arms, shells and ammunition.

For our own, as well as for Israel’s sake, stop it all now.

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Titmouse at the feeder

Posted on November 17, 2011 | Comments Off on Titmouse at the feeder

Just a taste of the fauna at the rancho these days: our little buddy the Tufted Titmouse. I think my pal Snoopy-the-Goon took this one on his recent visit.

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