Monthly Archives: October 2007

Down to the wire

Posted on 10/31/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Well, it’s down to the wire for my bat mitzvah. The haftarah is coming along nicely, though if Elisson and I were in the same room, I think blows would have been exchanged tonight. Or books thrown. I really want … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion | 9 Comments

Bush offers a half-billion for the “moderate” terrorists

Posted on 10/31/2007 by Elder of Ziyon

From the Washington Post: President Bush has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $150 million in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the government in advance of a Middle East … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, palestinian politics, Politics | 5 Comments

Diogenes of the Middle East

Posted on 10/31/2007 by Soccerdad

In a controversial essay in the LA Jewish Journal Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky asks to Consider a divided Jerusalem. After acknowledging the controversial nature of his views and getting a few formalities out of the way, he says he seeks honesty. … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome | 3 Comments

Ann Coulter, liar extraordinaire

Posted on 10/31/2007 by Meryl Yourish

One quote from Coulter’s appearance on Hannity & Colmes last night leaped out at me: And if you’re going to go around citing all the people I have offended, Alan, I have a thousand Orthodox rabbis supporting me. Name three. … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion | 10 Comments

Gaza switch-off and armchair generals

Posted on 10/31/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

Seth Freedman has, in his endearingly provocative manner, slapped together another piece for CiF. As in most of his other articles, the recipe was simple: take one side of the Israeli/Palestinian strife, ignore all that is not black and white … Continue reading →

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Googling terror

Posted on 10/31/2007 by Soccerdad

Last week several bloggers noted a Guaridan story that terrorists in Gaza were using Google Earth to target locations in Israel. So when I saw this item, I thought, “Oh good, Google has responded to the concerns.” A tipster to … Continue reading →

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Hamas to Israel: We’re going to keep on killing

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Meryl Yourish

The democratically-elected government of the Palestinian terrortories[sic] is declaring its intention to murder large numbers of Israelis and, indeed, to start an “offensive war” with Israel (like they’re not already doing that). Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas’ military wing, … Continue reading →

Posted in Hamas, Israel | 2 Comments

Saudi king insults everyone’s intelligence in Britain

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Elder of Ziyon

Saudi King Abdullah spoke to the BBC before his trip to Britain and made some amazingly hypocritical statements. Of course, the Beeb couldn’t be expected to call him on them, as the formerly great kingdom submits to the current Kingdom, … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Media Bias, palestinian politics | 5 Comments

Qassams and rights

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Soccerdad

Rights groups challenge Gaza energy cuts Human rights groups challenged Israel’s reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza and its intention to cut back on electricity, and Palestinians warned the measures could lead to a humanitarian crisis.The Israeli Supreme Court on … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel | 1 Comment

Harper Lee: All the honors

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Meryl Yourish

President Bush is awarding Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bravo, Mr. President, and Brava, Ms. Lee. From the press release: Harper Lee has made an outstanding contribution to America’s literary tradition. At … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | 4 Comments

And we shall… investigate

Posted on 10/30/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

Meryl just mentioned “The lack of world condemnation of the Israeli raid on an nascent Syrian nuclear plant…“, and here it comes: Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Syria | 3 Comments

Where have all the comments gone?

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Meryl Yourish

It’s funny, but one of the things that I seem to have lost in the changeover from writing the HTML for this site myself to using WordPress was my regular commenters. Granted, I have regular commenters now, and some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Site news | 9 Comments

Darth Vader in Love

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Very, VERY funny. Thanks to Allahpundit. The rest are at the link.

Posted in Humor | 1 Comment

Another day, another “protection racket” threat by Fatah

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Elder of Ziyon

Fatah has a real good racket going on – they do the Mafia-style “threats” and no one calls them on it: The top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), warned on Sunday that the region would suffer … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel | 1 Comment

Apologists

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Soccerdad

In The Attempt to Kill Olmert, Barry Rubin writes Several Fatah security force officers assigned to protect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he went to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, it has just been revealed, planned … Continue reading →

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Iran war preparations continue

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Meryl Yourish

President Bush is preparing for the failure of sanctions against Iran. I think he really means it when he says that Iran will not be allowed to produce nuclear weapons. The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran | 6 Comments

Headlines of the week

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Soccerdad

Abbas, Olmert pledge ‘meaningful’ understandings Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas agreed on Friday to try to find a meaningful agreement to take to a planned Middle East meeting, an Israeli official said.”They agreed to try … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel | 2 Comments

Flag-folding recitation banned – another coup for political correctness

Posted on 10/29/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 26 (UPI) — A federal agency has banned flag-folding recitations at U.S. veterans cemeteries after a complaint over religious content. The Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise said the recitation, used at thousands of military burials, explains the significance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | 8 Comments

Haveil Havalim #138 is UP!

Posted on 10/28/2007 by Soccerdad

At Soccer Dad. The topics are: Blogging Antisemitism Culture History Israel The Rabin Assassination Judaism Politics Torah Kiruv Next week’s hostess is Mother in Israel. To submit a post for next week, click here. Deadline for submissions is Friday.

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Palestinians paying the piper

Posted on 10/28/2007 by Meryl Yourish

And about damned time. Of course, we can’t discount this being the usual Palestinian spokesliar propaganda. A senior Palestinian official said Israel dramatically reduced fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip on Sunday after threatening to impose sanctions in response to … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaza, Israel | 4 Comments