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When a child dies

Posted on June 20, 2007 | Comments Off on When a child dies

Not every child, of course, gets better, and losing one is devastating, as Liza relates.

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Poisoning wells

Posted on June 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Poisoning wells

The Christian Right is the one we always hear we need to fear. The Christian Left just goes its merry way. Its Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme, ever defending the Palestinians, digs deep for an ancient anti-Jewish slur: they poison wells, you know.

Via Simply Jews 

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The Six Day War

Posted on June 5, 2007 | Comments Off on The Six Day War

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Being a new draftee in the US Army basic training at the time, I managed to miss this issue. Snoopy the Goon at SimplyJews says it was an icon of his boyhood. Being rather older, and no more certain of the outcome than most people at the time, I was contemplating deserting to Israel. Just as well I did not, as I would only have been jailed and returned, my Hebrew being beneath contempt, and Israel-American relations not being worth endangering for the sake of one overly-enthusiastic deserter. Now I see I also would have been ignorant of the AK-47–being trained only on M-14s in those days–a weapon I would not encounter up close until 1969 in Vietnam. Forty years later, we are seeing a new conspiracy theory about the war. But however it began, and however it has turned out, the recapture of Jerusalem was worth it.

UPDATE Good look at those days of yore. And more here.

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‘Innocents’ no more

Posted on June 2, 2007 | Comments Off on ‘Innocents’ no more

Israeli historian Michael Oren recommends five books, the oldest published in 1787, the latest in 1993, to understand the American-Arab encounter, from romance such as "The Sheik of Araby," to the Arabists who still are powerful in the State Department, until "9/11, the day the fantasy died."

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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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