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Buy Israel

Posted on January 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Buy Israel

It’s easy to assume that Austin’s predominant leftist politics preclude things beyond their talking points. Not so when it comes to what the JCAA’s CEO Jay Rubin calls the “buycot” answer to anti-Israel boycotts, and calls for divestment and sanctions:

“Whole Foods has begun carrying delicious Jaffa clementines direct from Israel…  You can support Israel in Austin by buying a crate, encouraging your friends to buy crates and  thanking Whole Foods produce managers for carrying them.

“Of course, H-E-B is no slouch as far as Israeli food products are concerned. Our recent visitors from the Partnership with the Western Galilee were astounded by the selection of Israeli products available at the H-E-B Kosher Store.”

Whole Foods is too pricey and too far away for me, but the H-E-B with the Kosher Store is just a few blocks away. I’m there or in the vicinity about every day.

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Israel in Haiti

Posted on January 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Israel in Haiti

The Euro medical ninnies fled, while one American doctor stayed to help. Meanwhile, Israel Defense Forces medics and rescue teams were working 24/7. They even delivered a baby whose grateful mother named him Israel.

Via Simply Jews.

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Battle at the Kotel

Posted on January 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Battle at the Kotel

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Phyllis Chesler, Pajamas Media’s chief warrior against “honor” killings of Islamic women by their fathers, husbands and brothers, takes on the battle between the Israeli feminists and Israeli Ultra-Orthodox men:

“Compared to Saudi Arabia or Iran, Israel is a paradise on earth for women. However, just like the rest of the Middle East, and like Europe, Israel is being rapidly Arabized and Islamified in terms of women and religion.”

Worth a read. (See also the battle of the commenters at the end. You know, two Jews, three opinions.)

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Moral equivalence at the New York Times

Posted on January 13, 2010 | Comments Off on Moral equivalence at the New York Times

Although, when you think about it, where else could you find a more insane example of trying to balance the aims of the terrorists and their victims:

“Are both sides really teaching to hate? No, not at all. In this article, at least they are treated as being equal. In much of the media, especially outside the United States, Israel is being treated as the party responsible for all these problems. The truth, of course, is the exact opposite. When will the Western media have the courage and honesty to write that truth?”

When real courage and honesty are rewarded over political correctness.

Via Simply Jews.

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Texas’ next governor? Not.

Posted on December 26, 2009 | Comments Off on Texas’ next governor? Not.

Nobody with any knowledge of Texas politics is taking Democrat Farouk Shami’s run for governor seriously. For one thing his incumbent opponent, Republican Rick Perry, is too popular. For another, well, when was the last time Texas had an Arab-American Muslim governor? Exactly never.

On the other hand, Shami has ten million dollars of his own money to invest in his campaign. Consequently he’s getting a lot of media, free and otherwise. They all quote him saying he’s from Palestine, wherever that is. It’s not the Texas Palestine. Apparently he’s from the West Bank, though no one is sure because he doesn’t call it that.

He tells the American Task Force for Palestine, which seems to think he’s a Muslim though some Texans think he’s a Quaker, that he’s for peace and love and equality in the Middle East. Debbie Schlussel thinks he’s a clandestine Jihadi in an anti-Semitic package. She cites as partial evidence this column he wrote two years ago for the Houston Chronicle in which he implies that the nasty Israelis are forcing the poor Palestinians to ration water "while Jewish settlers cultivate lush lawns and fill their swimming pools." That’s libel enough for me to be glad that Shami’s chance of election is exactly nil.

UPDATE:  The daily’s Ken Herman did a job on Shami: "The downtrodden minority/victim role is particularly unattractive on a guy who lives in a 24,585-square-foot-home like Shami does."

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Happy Chanukah

Posted on December 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Happy Chanukah

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Bring on the stone Maccabees, our favorite menorah, and the book about them I’ve been reading to Mr. B. since he was five. And Aish is a good, all-around, all-purpose site about Judaism.

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Posted in Israel, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles

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Moral: Be careful who you sue

Posted on November 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Moral: Be careful who you sue

You may find you have much more to lose in the long run as your target’s lawyer sifts through your files in the discovery process. Much the way the National Iranian American Council has had its illegal lobbying for changes in American foreign policy apparently discovered. Why NIAC even supplies money to J Street, a supposed but thereby obviously unlikely backer of Israel. And all because NIAC sued for redress of a journalistic piece they didn’t like.

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