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Something funny

Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 10:26 pm by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Humor

Another hilarious link, one that will probably not be nearly as amusing to my conservative readers as it is to the rest of us.

It’s a Zork-like look at the Bush years. W., not Daddy.

A Munich widow speaks out

Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 11:15 am by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Israel, Movies, Terrorism

The widow of murdered Israeli Moni Weinberg talked to Ynet about the Spielberg film:

I watched the Golden Globe film awards all tense. When Spielberg and Kushner failed to win anything, I jumped for joy.”

Why?

Because they produced a fantasy. That a Jewish producer and director never bothered to call (former Mossad Chief) Tzvi Zamir or anyone else to learn about what really happened. None of us were invited to premiers in Hollywood or Israel, because they were afraid we’d speak out.

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Arafat’s Legacy, cont’d.

Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 10:31 am by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Gaza, palestinian politics

We’ve had nothing but anarchy in chaos, a legacy of the ruin Yasser Arafat made of any semblance of palestinian civil rule, since the Gaza pullout. In Gaza itself, palestinian elections are near the end stage, and this is what you get:

Thousands of Palestinian security personnel, who voted early, fanned out across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to protect polling stations. More than 1,700 Israeli border police are being deployed to ensure order and the free movement of voters in the Jerusalem area during election day, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.

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Taking on Iran

Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 7:24 am by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Israel, World

Interesting news article from the Asia Times, where I found this information:

… Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz held discussions with the head of the Turkish military, General Hilmi Ozkok, and Turkish President Ahmed Necdet Sezer. The leading left-nationalist daily, the Cumhuriyet, reported that talks centered on how to deal with Iran.

The Turkish Weekly journal claimed further revelations. In a December 27 article it said Halutz had asked permission for training Israeli commandos in Turkey’s Bolu and Hakkari mountains. The magazine speculated that the Israeli request had to do with preparations for operations in northwestern Iran’s mountainous territory.

In November, Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper revealed that private Israeli security firms had sent experts to Iraq’s northern Kurdish region to give Kurdish security forces covert training. The newspaper said the teams had originally entered northern Iraq from Turkey, but had to abandon their mission after receiving a credible warning of an impending al-Qaeda attack on their camp.

The end of the article bolsters my theory that the Iranian nuclear sites will be taken out by the IAF and the USAF working together–I say the USAF will be painting the Star of David on their jets for the operation.

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