Category Archives: Israel

Israel banner

Posted on January 13, 2008 | Comments Off on Israel banner

I seem to have lost my “I Stand With Israel” banner on the top left of this site’s first page. Indeed, Jack Lewis dot net, from whence the banner came, seems to be off the air, as well. I had noticed that JL previously had tried to limit people using the banner, but now it’s gone completely. I’ll have to hunt around for a substitute. I’ve tried uploading thumbnails for the sidebar but no luck so far. I’m either too inept or Movable Type is too obtuse. Or something.

UPDATE:  Then it returned, at least temporarily. Links to a dogs and cats site, now, instead of Lewis’s.

MORE: Three days later, it’s still wavering. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t. I’m going to have to start seeking an alternative, I guess.

ADDENDUM:  With the new site on WordPress, I have a newbie, an “I (heart) Israel” banner, which does the trick nicely.

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Sustainable Conflict Tourism

Posted on January 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Sustainable Conflict Tourism

Spending the first day of the Israel weekend (Friday and Saturday) hugging olive trees with the Leftist Europeans who Identify With Palestinian Suffering–but, of course, spend more time taking pictures than picking olives. A hoot of a read.

Via Simply Jews 

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Those Palestinian Christians

Posted on December 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Those Palestinian Christians

Kenneth L. Woodward, in the Wall Street Journal, wants us to get all outraged because those Jooz are blocking Palestinian Christians from visiting Jerusalem at Christmastime–because (though KLW doesn’t mention it) a Muslim suicide bomber or two might decide to join their party. Meanwhile, the Associated Press sees it a little differently: The Christian Palestinians of Gaza are leaving in fear of being killed by their Muslim compatriots who ain’t at all tolerant of other religions. No big surprise.

Via Yourish 

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Annapolis photo-op

Posted on November 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Annapolis photo-op

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In the end, it seemed to be just a chance for President Bush to show that he was "doing something," in photos of him and the unrepresentative Palestinian leader and the wildly unpopular Israeli one. But the American protestor above summed it up rather well, I think. For more, including more demo photos from both sides, go here.

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The Annapolis nonsense

Posted on November 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The Annapolis nonsense

Once upon a time, Condoleezza Rice was so cool that she–not just a woman, not just an African-American, but also a hard-nosed, no-nonsense intellectual–was touted as potential presidential material. I don’t remember when that idea died, but I think it was about the time she started pressing the Israelis to negotiate peace with their sworn enemies, the rocket-throwing, suicide-bomb-wearing Palis. Now she’s forcing them to meet next week in Annapolis for some kind of pointless "peace" conference, the usual intellectual nonsense no one believes in. Too bad. She isn’t "Condi" anymore, but just another forgettable, no-talent bureaucrat who will be replaced with another one after the ’08 election.

UPDATE: Fred on Annapolis…

"I hope we don’t try to push the Israelis into an agreement just for the sake of an agreement unless both parties are willing, and express a willingness, to have peace and the terrorists renounce terrorism."

…in the transcript of Pajamas Media’s interview of him. 

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To Die in Jerusalem – the unsung hero

Posted on November 7, 2007 | Comments Off on To Die in Jerusalem – the unsung hero

Soccer Dad reminds me of this Bret Stephens piece that shows why the new HBO documentary, "To Die in Jerusalem," is unworthy of much consideration, especially because it follows the journalism of the day in ignoring the hero who thwarted the Palestinian murderer’s intention: Haim Smadar, the supermarket guard and father of five, who alone prevented the beastly killer the documentary romanticises from taking a score or more victims with her. Mr. Smadar, R.I.P.

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Gaza vs Hamburg

Posted on November 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Gaza vs Hamburg

Readers over at Simply Jews are debating what Isaelis should do about the continued rocket bombardment from Gaza. The usual and, I think, easy, high-mindedness is in evidence–Jews don’t stoop to the level of the enemy–as well as realism that nothing will change until the cooperating Gazan civilians, young and old, pay a price along with the masked gunmen of Hamas. I side with the realists, just as did the so-called Greatest Generation–at Hamburg, Dresden, Yokohama, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as Bret Stephens relates. High-mindedness is good, but the cost of keeping your conscience clear will be the certain deaths and cripplings of young soldiers who would no more lob rockets at a daycare center than strap on a bomb belt and detonate themselves in a crowded supermarket. Ethics in warfare have to be situational, as Stephens also seems to be saying, and the deciding factor must be the probable results. In Gaza, that would be an end to the rockets and, quite possibly, something approaching the German and Japanese surrender.

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