Category Archives: Israel

Recruiting children to die

Posted on June 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Recruiting children to die

Why recruit your child to be a suicide bomber? A new documentary lets Palestinian parents explain. The filmmaker, an aspiring lawyer who stays in the background, knows a lawsuit when she sees one:

"I was thinking, ‘You know, there’s a legal argument here that no one is making, which is that the suicide bomber himself — 18 and under — is as much a victim as the Israeli civilians being killed,’" she said. ‘These kids are not doing this of their own accord.’"

Meanwhile, the rockets rain down on Sderot. The IDF hesitates to invade Gaza because they think Syria will attack this summer. And British academic leftists, chattering endlessly about the ‘peace process,’ are boycotting Israel.

Via LGF 

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Rocket rain

Posted on May 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Rocket rain

Under the rocket rain from Hamas. Scroll down to the video clip where one turns a neighbor’s house in Sderot into a fireball.

Snoopy The Goon goes over the options and finds none of them good. Maybe it’s time to bring carpet bombing back into vogue? It worked for the Greatest Generation and they’re still getting good notices.

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Israel’s struggle with media bias

Posted on April 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Israel’s struggle with media bias

Israel shot itself in the foot in several ways last summer when it responded to a Hez provocation by going to war in Lebanon. But the MSM did the rest, becoming a propaganda organ for Hez, according to a new Harvard study showing how…

"…the trajectory of the media [shifted] from objective observer to fiery advocate, becoming in fact a weapon of modern warfare. The paper also shows how an open society, Israel, is victimized by its own openness and how a closed sect, Hezbollah, can retain almost total control of the daily message of journalism and propaganda."

This is something new. Almost in the "when pigs fly" category. 

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Argument for term limits

Posted on April 22, 2007 | Comments Off on Argument for term limits

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English translation: Diapers and politicians should be replaced frequently and for the same reason.

Via SimplyJews 

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The hero’s burial

Posted on April 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The hero’s burial

Virginia Tech engineering professor Liviu Librescu, 77, was buried today in Israel where his sons live. One said at the graveside service:

"’From our childhood, you taught us to care for people, to work hard to succeed. But you never taught us to be heroes. That was more theoretical a lesson than aerodynamics.’"

Worth a read.

UPDATE  Some of the students who fled as Librescu barred the door to his classroom told his widow that they feel guilty they didn’t stay to help him.

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The hero

Posted on April 18, 2007 | Comments Off on The hero

As Michael, a commenter at SimplyJews, puts it: "So many Holocaust survivors feel guilty, wondering why they lived when others died. I guess we now know why Prof Librescu lived."

So far, Israeli engineering professor and Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu, 77, is the only one of the victims of Virginia Tech killer Seung Cho known to have fought back. He blocked a door while his students jumped out windows. If a few had stayed to help him, would it all have turned out the same?

UPDATE  Nice to be in such company as Mark Steyn: "It is a poor reflection on us that, in those first critical seconds where one has to make a decision, only an elderly Holocaust survivor, Professor Librescu, understood instinctively the obligation to act."

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Cooperative remembering

Posted on April 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Cooperative remembering

This seems right to me:

"The Internet as the new medium of cultural memory offers us never existing forms of creative and participative remembering, which can be practiced independently of time and place. It allows people all around the world to cooperate with each other."

It’s from a virtual reconstruction of building plans and other records: 

"…to remember more than 2200 synagogues that were closed, desecrated or destroyed in Germany and Austria during the Nazi regime."

Worth a visit. Via this article which I stumbled over looking for something else. Sunday, as it happens, is Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel.

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