Category Archives: Israel

The best Air Force in the world

Posted on July 28, 2009 | Comments Off on The best Air Force in the world

Certainly the most tested. I’m not sure why the video is so badly out of focus. Perhaps it was meant to be played smaller.

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The Zionists did it

Posted on July 15, 2009 | Comments Off on The Zionists did it

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Via Dust My Broom and Simply Jews.

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Vanities

Posted on June 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Vanities

Mr. Boy went off to four weeks of day camp at the JCC this morning. He rebuffed Mrs. Charm’s offer to help him find his group at the flag raising. Being a rising fourth grader he’s too big for nanny stuff. He was looking forward to a hot game of Ga-ga, an Israeli form of dodge ball. With a forecast high of 102, it definitely will be hot.

Meanwhile, I was honored to have two posts linked in the new Haveil Havalim, a carnival of Jewish blog posts founded way back when by Soccer Dad. It is, appropriately, the Hot and Humid Edition. Haveil Havalim means Vanity of Vanities, a reference to King Solomon’s discovery that materialism for its own sake is a dead end. Or something like that.

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Unhappy Father’s Day for Noam Shalit

Posted on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Unhappy Father’s Day for Noam Shalit

Three years after Hamas kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the terrorist group that former President Jimmy Carter recently asked be removed from the U.S. terrorist list, still has not provided his family any news of his health. Let alone agreed to release him or even allow him access to the International Red Cross.

Now the Jewish Community Association of Austin is joining in a JTA e-letter campaign to urge President Obama to not forget Gilad’s father, Noam, and his friends praying for Gilad’s safe return as former President Carter apparently has. Especially not on this Father’s Day.

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Stephen Tyrone Johns, R.I.P.

Posted on June 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Stephen Tyrone Johns, R.I.P.

While the crazed shooter, as usual, gets the news, the dead security guard plays second fiddle. Pity. Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39, was a brave man, obviously, and well worth remembering.

Via Simply Jews.

UPDATE:  The American Jewish Committee has set up a fund to raise money for his family, which includes a new child.

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Ethnic cleansing in Gaza?

Posted on June 10, 2009 | Comments Off on Ethnic cleansing in Gaza?

So says Pastor Wright, Barry’s longtime, forsworn minister of the gospel (so to speak):

"Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity…"

Quick, Barry, shove Jeremiah back into his box before people start remembering where you come from.

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Truism

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Posted on June 1, 2009 in Israel

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