Category Archives: Israel

The One-State Solution

Posted on June 8, 2011 | Comments Off on The One-State Solution

Give the whole Middle East to Israel. The “Arab Spring” would truly blossom. The garbage will be picked up, instead of scattered in the streets, the economies will vastly improve, the stonings of women for adultery and the hanging of homosexuals for, uh, homosexuality, will cease—and, as a bonus, our gas prices will go down! Yay!

Not to mention that the legacy news media, the UN, and the politicians can finally stop whining about how a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian “problem” is the key to Middle East peace. They could go do some honest work for a change. (Fat chance.)

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Hate in Hebron, swimming pools in Gaza

Posted on June 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Hate in Hebron, swimming pools in Gaza

One of the places I wanted to visit in Israel was the tomb of the Patriarchs in Arab-dominated Hebron, in Judea, a few miles southeast of Jerusalem.

My host suggested I forget it. He was driving and his car has Israeli plates. And Israeli plates draw, at the very least, hateful stares in Hebron, as my favorite Middle East correspondent Michael Totten recently found out.

Meanwhile, as the latest “humanitarian” flotilla of useful idiots heads for Gaza to relieve the poor, suffering terrorists of Hamas, I wonder how the Gazan kids are enjoying their Olympic-size swimming pool these days? It is hot, this time of year.

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Gamla

Posted on June 4, 2011 | Comments Off on Gamla

One of my favorite spots in Israel is the national park at Gamla. Most of my “establishing” photos came out blurry, so I’ll use this one via Absolute Astronomy.

Gamla dates to 81 BCE and was the capital of the Jewish Golan Heights for about 150 years, until it fell to the Romans in 67 CE, three years before they destroyed Jerusalem. To some sensibilities, Gamla was liberated almost exactly 1,900 years later, in the 1967 war—which was started, as usual for modern Israel, by the Arabs. Archeologists soon discovered that much remained at Gamla, untouched by all but time.

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It’s Israel double-standard time

Posted on June 3, 2011 | Comments Off on It’s Israel double-standard time

My Israeli pal Snoopy-the-Goon really did his homework on this one—stunning evidence of how the U.S. got praised for the extra-legal killing of the terrorist figurehead bin Laden, while Israel got condemned for offing (in the very same manner) an active terrorist operative of Hamas.

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Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Posted on June 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Obamalot’s Israel insults go way back

Bibi’s “lecturing” of Obamalot provoked some of the administration’s pundit acolytes. But Bibi had been under the One’s guns for some time and must have felt a riposte was overdue.

“After one of his meetings with Netanyahu, Barack Obama simply told the prime minister that he was going upstairs to have dinner. You wouldn’t say that to an ordinary neighbor visiting in your home, without inviting him to join you.

“Obama knew that. Netanyahu knew that. It was a calculated insult. And the American public would have heard about it, if so much of the media didn’t have such a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil and speak-no-evil attitude in its coverage of Barack Obama.”

As always, Thomas Sowell is worth a read.

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Aida at Masada

Posted on May 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Aida at Masada

I was picturing my favorite Verdi classical opera, the tragic love story of an Ethiopian princess and an Egyptian army officer, on the largely barren crest of the 2,000-year-old Jewish fortress of Masada.

Alas, it seems it will be “at the footsteps” of Masada in June, apparently on the west side, “with the majestic mountain as a backdrop” not far from the Dead Sea. Well, a few miles from it, actually, though in the stark landscape out there it doesn’t seem that far away.

Now that I think of it, it would be a bear trying to get all those sets and stuff, not to mention the musicians, the dancers, the extras, and the cast, up on the top with only two cable cars. Asking them to use the long, winding “snake path” would be out of the question. Then, there’s the audience, going and coming. Couldn’t work, obviously. Pity.

It’s still impressive, the Israeli Opera doing such a thing out there. Wonder what the ghosts will make of it all?

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IDF girls with guns: Rule 5

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Posted on May 27, 2011 in Israel, Rule 5, Scribbles, The War, Troops

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