Category Archives: Israel

Duck and cover

Duck and cover (if you aren’t sitting in Ground Zero) was always good advice, when I was a schoolkid back in the Dark Ages of the 1950s, despite the mockery of it ever since by Lefty writers and journalists.

But it is odd that Obamalot is promulgating it now.

“What they’re telling you is that you’re going to get nuked, there’s nothing they can do about it, they have no intention of trying to do anything substantive about it, and the best thing for you to do is to learn to be a contortionist — it’s hard to bend over far enough to kiss your ass goodbye.”

Well, even Bush II only said Iran could not have nukes. He never said what, if anything, substantive could be done to stop them.

So far, only Stuxnet has, thanks, in all probability, to the Mossad and Israel’s covert version of its high-tech industry. One German expert estimates for at least two years.

“…Iran’s best move would be to throw out all of the computers that have been infected by the worm, which he said was the most ‘advanced and aggressive malware in history.’ But, he said, even once all of the computers were thrown out, Iran would have to ensure that computers used by outside contractors were also clean of Stuxnet.”

Shalom, guys. Keep it up.

Replacement theology

I doubt most American Christians have any idea what the World Council of Churches does from one year to the next. But many of those who do must be saddened, if not outraged, by the WCC’s recent return to the Middle Ages and its endorsement by the Presbyterian church.

“This understanding denies the connection between today’s Jews and Moses, Jeremiah and Isaiah. It marks a return to ‘replacement theology,’ the medieval view that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan and that all biblical references to Israel refer to the “new Israel”—that is, to Christians. For centuries, that view was the theological basis for denying rights to Jews in Church-dominated Europe.”

This time, of course, it’s intended to deny history, i.e., Israel’s claim to the land and its modern right to exist as a Jewish state. And it forms the basis for such things as financial divestment, and demands to end the checkpoints and tear down the barriers that keep out Palestinian suicide bombers.

Not that any of that will happen. It’s just a philosophical return to the bad old days, and blind to boot. Considering that the majority of the Palestinians all this allegedly is designed to help are Muslims, whose Imams have their own brand of “replacement theology.” Which applies to Christianity as well as Judaism.

To the End of the Land

This lengthy novel by Israeli writer David Grossman has a slow start and a frustratingly ambiguous ending but the rest of it readily captured my attention and imagination.

Perhaps it helps if you have a boy child of your own since much of the story is about the raising of two boys and their inevitable entry into a conscript army.

And the fear this creates in their parents, especially in a country as beset by enemies as Israel. That the author lost his own son in combat while writing the story makes it all the more poignant. After some thought, I even bought the ambiguity, given that it reflects the real situation and there are plenty of hints to help you guess what will happen—at least to the parents.

Seven ways to help fire victims in Israel.

Nicely listed right here for your convenience. And this favorite of mine.

Esther strikes again?

“Originally, all eyes turned toward Israel’s intelligence agencies. Engineers examining the worm found ‘clues’ that hinted at Israel’s involvement. In one case they found the word ‘Myrtus’ embedded in the code and argued that it was a reference to Esther, the biblical figure who saved the ancient Jewish state from the Persians. But computer experts say ‘Myrtus’ is more likely a common reference to ‘My RTUS,’ or remote terminal units.

Works for me, either way.

UPDATE:  The party never ends. Heh. Take that Mahmoud!

The settlements obsession

Nevermind the latest “secret” document dump by obvious traitors within the U.S. State Department. It’s the department’s very explicit behavior an honest media would highlight every day. For instance, the way they ignore:

“….the level of poverty and illiteracy in the Arab and Muslim world and the absence of a free press, independent judiciary, human rights, and of the increasingly savage persecution of women, infidels, dissidents and homosexuals; about the prisons teeming with thousands of Muslim political prisoners…kidnapped and…tortured for ‘thought crimes.'”

Instead, our permanent “diplomatic” bureaucracy whines incessantly about “settlements” in Judea and Samaria (as if they learned nothing from Israel’s abandonment of settlements in Gaza, from which the Hamas rockets continue to fly) and silly (if not so pathetically cynical) fluff about a Palestinian “state.”

It makes about as much sense as this animated cartoon does.

Happy Chanukiahs

9aWe’re sticking with our old fav, the stone Maccabees.

But this traditional-design chanukiah is actually very nontraditional.

It’s made from the pieces of Kassam rockets fired from  Gaza into Israel by that allegedly peace-seeking band of despots known as Hamas.