Monthly Archives: October 2009

Caturday

Posted on 10/31/2009 by Meryl Yourish

I watched Sarah’s kids last night while she and Larry went out to see their favorite local band. I brought a picture of Tig to show Sarah, forgetting that I had put it on the blog last month. Well, Max … Continue reading →

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Despair and hope / 2001 and 2009

Posted on 10/30/2009 by Soccerdad

Back in 2001, Yossi Klein Halevi wrote State of Despair for the August 6 issue of the New Republic (no link available): Rachel Dahan left her native Kiryat Shemonah 18 years ago and settled in her husband’s town, Sderot, near … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 10/30/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Obama administration forces Honduras to let anti-Semitic nutjob back in power: So, the guy who said that Mossad agents were poisoning him is going to be back in charge of Honduras in some fashion, forced there by the United States … Continue reading →

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Time after Time about Israel

Posted on 10/30/2009 by Soccerdad

I was looking for something else when I found an article about published in the June 9, 1967 issue of Time Magazine. (Despite the publication date, the article was clearly written beforeThe tone towards Israel was a lot more sympathetic … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 10/29/2009 by Meryl Yourish

You can’t make this stuff up dept.: Okay, let’s be clear. When Israelis protested to the Turks that their portrayal of IDF soldiers as bloodthirsty murderers and rapists, the Turks said that it wasn’t meant to be harmful, and that … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel Derangement Syndrome, News Briefs, Religion, Terrorism | 1 Comment

Orwell, antisemitism and Egypt

Posted on 10/29/2009 by Soccerdad

Barry Rubin observes about antisemitism: Orwell noted that anti-Semitism had been driven underground by the war and that the authorities and media went out of their way to avoid offending Jews in order to establish their credentials as not being … Continue reading →

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Scientology descendant

Posted on 10/28/2009 by Meryl Yourish

A Paris court convicted Scientology of fraud. The court convicted the Church of Scientology’s French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 10/28/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Hamas to Israel: Your refusal to release our murderers is causing us to keep Gilad Shalit hostage. You know, I pretty much don’t have to describe the article after that headline. Israel files complaint with UN; complaint goes into circular … Continue reading →

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Queers for Palestine: They’re on the wrong side

Posted on 10/28/2009 by Meryl Yourish

So, let me get this straight—a gay Palestinian, who has been living in Israel with an Israeli partner for years, gets denied entry to Israel, can’t go back to his home town because he’s already been tortured by the Palestinian … Continue reading →

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Ignoring a decade

Posted on 10/28/2009 by Soccerdad

Matthew Yglesias (via memeorandum): I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, most of which … Continue reading →

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The PA’s torturers: Made in the U.K. (and USA?)

Posted on 10/27/2009 by Meryl Yourish

The proponents of peace have declared for years that if only the Palestinians had western-trained security forces, the terrorism would stop. But they didn’t seem to notice that their millions of dollars per year to fund the Palestinian police force … Continue reading →

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Temple Mount clashes

Posted on 10/27/2009 by Soccerdad

In its report on the violence in Jerusalem, the Washington Post reports: Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land’s most volatile shrine, where past violence has … Continue reading →

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Wear the label proudly

Posted on 10/27/2009 by Soccerdad

David Bernstein offers some friendly advice to J-Street. I certainly agree with his advice. However, I disagree with one of his premises. Second, from approximately 1988 to Fall 2000, I held views on the Arab-Israeli conflict that would put me … Continue reading →

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The non-moderate Hamas: All of Jerusalem is Arab and Muslim

Posted on 10/26/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Jimmy Carter, the EU, and various American State Department officials (as well as presidential aides for the last two administrations) all insist that Hamas will moderate. That Hamas will work with Israel to reach some form of agreement. That the … Continue reading →

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Weymouth interviews Netanyahu

Posted on 10/26/2009 by Soccerdad

In the Washington Post the other day, Lally Weymouth interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu. The first page of the interview was on the subject of the Goldstone commission report. Netanyahu was emphatic. Q: What did you think of the Goldstone report? A: … Continue reading →

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The whiner that roared

Posted on 10/25/2009 by Soccerdad

You may not be aware, but the NJDC just had a conference. It was attended by many Democratic legislators, an advisor to the President and even, yes, Ambassador Michael Oren. But if you didn’t know about it, you won’t read … Continue reading →

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The unbiased media, part the next

Posted on 10/25/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Say, take a look at this headline and tell me what kind of images it conjures up: Israeli police storm Jerusalem’s holiest site Holy crap! Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount? Really? Let’s see what the Israeli media have to … Continue reading →

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Compare and contrast

Posted on 10/25/2009 by Meryl Yourish

This is why Israel has more Nobel prize winners than the entire Arab world combined. Lebanese chefs prepared a massive plate of hummus weighing over two tons Saturday that broke a world record organizers said was previously held by Israel … Continue reading →

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Lessons from teaching

Posted on 10/24/2009 by Meryl Yourish

This weekend was Brandon and Brittany’s b’nai mitzvah. In my six years of teaching fourth grade, I had four sets of boy-girl twins. I was always struck by both the bond between them, and their attempts to hide it because, … Continue reading →

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You know you’re a redneck when…

Posted on 10/23/2009 by Meryl Yourish

You get charged with a DUI in a motorized La-Z-Boy. A Proctor man driving a motorized La-Z-Boy lounge chair hit a parked vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. There’s a picture at the link. Anderson claimed he was driving … Continue reading →

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