Time for Obamalot to extract a real concession from Hamas before expecting Israel to do real business with the Palis. Like, at the least, letting the Red Cross visit the kidnapped soldier Gilad, the way it does duly-convicted and imprisoned Palestinian criminals.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obamalot
Tagged Free Gilad Shalit, Gaza, Hamas, Israel
No Palis hurt, no settlers involved, so no big Western media whoop-de-do. Just more babble about the two-state solution. How’s that for court-media cynicism?
“Yesterday a car carrying a husband and wife – Jewish residents of a Jordan Valley community inside the green line – came under fire from a passing car between Rimonim and Kochav HaShachar in the Binyamin region (located outside the green line).
“The husband (who was driving) was wounded by the gunfire and lost control of the car. His wife was injured in the subsequent roll-over/crash caused by attack.”
I’m paying more attention to these items, being just about thirty days away from visiting Israel. Altho I’m sure my host and guide, Mr. Goon, will not be taking me anywhere outside the green line.
Via Treppenwitz.
UPDATE: When they do report on Israel, the increasingly irrelevant court media lies. Not that they didn’t before.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Scribbles
Tagged Binyamin, green line, Israel, Jordan Valley, Palestinians
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August 27, 2010 in Israel, Scribbles
Tagged Auschwitz, Israel, Israeli F-15s
Well, it’s official. I have bought the airline tickets for my solo trip to Israel in the fall. Planning to spend about ten days with my good blog- and Skype-friend STG who has offered to show me around. I’m looking forward to the visit, though not the trip itself.
Indeed, it brings to mind these lines from The Jade Owl, a good adventure yarn I recently finished: “He viewed the twenty-hour haul to China like a middle passage—voluntary bondage in the hull of a modern metallic slaver.”
Just so. Fortunately, the flight to Israel (counting the in-country one to the East Coast first) is only thirteen hours. But the principal is the same. Meanwhile, I am collecting the necessary documents for my first passport since I was a college student in Germany back in the Dark Ages. Hope to have that done by July.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Library
Tagged Israel, long-haul air travel, Simply Jews, The Jade Owl, the middle passage
The life and thoughtful blog remarks of an Israeli soldier serving in an Israel Defense Forces field unit. Including this good post on checkpoints and Passover.
Via Middle East Analysis.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Scribbles, The War, Troops
Tagged IDF, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Soldier's Life and Thoughts, Passover
This is a wonderful novel about the Jews of London, observant and secular, and their struggles with identity and anti-Jewish hostility (“In every generation…”). Jack Silver, who thought he raised a secular like himself discovers otherwise and is charmingly transformed by a tradition-seeking grandchild. There is also the fractured, multicultural British welfare state and the delays, indifference and friction it inevitably produces. I was already smitten with author Andrew Sanger’s 4th edition of “Fodor’s Exploring Israel” (which is a visit all by itself) so I was not surprised to find he had such a good story in him and the talent to convey it with humor and substance. I can’t imagine how anyone could be anything but pleased with either volume. And in light of the probability that “The J-Word” will not be seconded for some time, I have begun reading it again.
UPDATE: A good interview with the author on his intentions. And a nice link from him, as well. Thank you.
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Tagged Andrew Sanger, anti-Jewish, Holocaust, Israel, Jews in London, multiculturalism, The J-Word
Photo by Snoopy-the-Goon’s son. Taken in the Angels (Malachim) Forest.
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Posted in Israel, Scribbles, Weather/Climate
Tagged Israel, Malachim Forest, Simply Jews
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
