Category Archives: Israel

Checkpoint value

Posted on May 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Checkpoint value

To hear the media tell it, Israel’s checkpoints don’t do much more than harrass the long-suffering Palestinians. The Palis are always trying to get the "peace process" to eliminate the security checkpoints. They usually fail because every so often, another suicide bomber tries to get through, like the 20-year-old Arab man wearing five pipe bombs who was shot and killed by the IDF at a Samaria checkpoint last night.

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Happy Independence Day, Israel

Posted on May 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Happy Independence Day, Israel

Different looks at America’s most reliable ally and, so far, the only workable democracy in the Middle East: still sexy at sixty, a time to celebrate, get optimistic, consider the variety, receive the usual MSM insult, and ponder a history lesson of the facts at the heart of the sixty-year Arab war against Israel that are too often ignored.

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Yom HaZikaron

Posted on May 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Yom HaZikaron

The Remembrance Day commemoration of the IDF fallen, and the soldiers who remain in captivity, was very moving this evening, just up the road from the rancho at the Jewish Community Center. The center’s campus streets are alive with Israeli flags, for Sunday’s Israel Independence Day festival. But Remembrance Day always comes first. This one ended with a showing of "With All Your Soul," an Israeli documentary of the death of Major Roi Klein in last summer’s Second Lebanon War.

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Visiting Israel

Posted on May 2, 2008 | Comments Off on Visiting Israel

Had a nice chat this morning on Skype with Snoopy the Goon in Israel. It was almost like visiting the country itself, though, of course, I never left my chair in the study at the rancho. Mr. Goon, who prefers to remain anonymous, reminded me that I have said I want to visit in person, and I do, but there are too many complications at the moment. Mr. B.’s mom is afraid of going, hostage, I think, to the MSM’s drumbeat of rockets and suicide bombings. Like the way they cover Iraq, all blood and guts, and no in-between. I doubt she would let me take Mr. B. by himself, and otherwise arrangements would have to be made for taking care of him while I was gone. So, for now, an actual visit will remain no more than a future intention. But Skype brought me a little closer. My voice, at least. About fifty kilometers (thirty-one miles) from Jerusalem, in fact.

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Israel is safer than you think

Posted on May 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Israel is safer than you think

Wright, Farrakhan, Carter, et al, notwithstanding, Israel is doing quite well, thank you very much.

Via Simply Jews. 

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Yom HaShoah

Posted on May 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Yom HaShoah

Today, in the open-air rotunda on the north side of the Texas Capitol, folks in the Austin Jewish community and others will be reading the names of those who were murdered in the Holocaust. Among the readers on this Holocaust Remembrance Day will be University of Texas members of The White Rose Society. Every April they distribute on campus ten thousand white roses to commemorate the approximate number of people the Nazis killed in just one day at their Auschwitz concentration camp alone.

The society takes its name from a non-violent student group at the University of Munich in 1942-43 which distributed anonymous leaflets calling for resistence against Hitler’s regime. Its six core members were captured by the Gestapo and beheaded. Allied bombers later dropped millions of copies of a society leaflet over the whole country. Holocaust Remembrance Day was begun in 1959 by the State of Israel.

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Happy Passover

Posted on April 19, 2008 | Comments Off on Happy Passover

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Hag Pesah Sameach!

Picture (a photo?!) courtesy of Simply Jews 

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