I expect this year’s roster of dead Syrians, alone, has far surpassed the Pali total by now.
Although not the toll of dead Syrians in 1982 and, as Bernie reminds us, there wasn’t then and there isn’t now a single Leftist complaint (Code Pink, where are you?) or a single tear from a single Arab government. For the dead Syrians. They only cry for the terror-choosing dead Palis ’cause, of course, they hate Israel.
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Tagged Israel, no tears for palestinians, planck's constant, please, Syria
Not only is the new director of Manhattan (NYC) College’s Holocaust Center a Muslim woman, but she isn’t sure who the Land of Israel belongs to;
“….criticism of Afridi was partially provoked by an article she wrote for Common Ground but widely circulated by the Khaleej Times (Aug. 11, 2008), an Arab newspaper.
“In the article, Afridi recalls an exchange at a Jerusalem bar that happened 18 years before, when she was studying archeology in Israel. An Israeli Jew at the bar, not knowing Afridi wasn’t Jewish, voiced the opinion that ‘surely you know, as a Jew, that this is our ancestral homeland.’
“She responded, ‘Well, no … First, I am not Jewish, and second, I am not quite sure whose land this is.’”
Oh, yes, her new appointment is going to work out really, really well.
As a contemporary translation of Yehuda Halevi’s paean to Zion has it:
“I may be in the West, but my heart is in the East.”
Indeed, especially after my March-April visit to the Zionist entity, better known as Israel. Long may she wave.
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Tagged my heart is in the east, Yehuda Halevi
It helps to have been to Masada near the Dead Sea before reading this new, up-to-date summary of the old and new archaeology of the ancient Jewish fortress. But it really isn’t necessary. Sharing in the discoveries can propel a journey all by itself.
The last few pages devoted to a defense of the honor and work of the deceased Israeli warrior-archaeologist Yigael Yadin is spirited and evidentiary and fully justified by the recent slanders against him and the Masada myth.
It is odd that so few remains of the suicided Zealots were found, but it’s probable that the Roman soldiers, whom author Amnon Ben-Tor shows systematically looted the place after conquering it, simply threw the bodies over the walls.
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Tagged Amon Ben-Tor, archaeology, Masada, The Masada Myth
No, you can’t buy one in Mea Shearim. And, as Pisa, a commenter at Simply Jews suggests, just the act of eating one on the street in that part of Jerusalem could be dangerous to your health. You could discover that the excitable Arabs aren’t the only one who throw stones.
Of the scores of old and new battle tanks on open-air display at the Israeli Armored Corps museum at Latrun, west of Jerusalem, only the M-4 Sherman gets a tall pedestal and flood-lamps to spotlight it by night.
The modified M-4 was Israel’s mainstay in the wars of 1948 and 1956 and was still in use in the wars of 1967 and 1973. So it gets official reverence, anyhow, even if some of its crews probably hated it as much or more than some American veterans of World War II who considered it outclassed by German armor.
But the tank that once graced the lawns of most National Guard armories across the U.S. (now replaced, for the most part, by M-48 Pattons) still has its defenders. Some of them recently unloaded on Death Traps, a new World War II memoir about the problems of maintaining the under-armored and under-gunned beasts. They were, of course, appropriately named for an American Civil War general who was also quite controversial.
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Tagged "Death Traps", Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Israeli Armored Corps, Latrun tank museum, M-4 Sherman tank, M-48 Patton
Shocka, right? But Spock’s alter ego, Leonard Nimoy, is obviously less prudent than the pointy-eared one when it comes to not interfering in the internal development of other civilizations.
Hence his Hollyweird-esque meddling in Israeli domestic policy. Nimoy, who cribbed his split-fingers “live long and prosper” from Israel’s ancient high priests (without, natch, any attribution), should know better.
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Tagged Americans for Peace Now, Israel, Leonard Nimoy, Spock violates the prime directive
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
