Monthly Archives: April 2010

Step back or push ahead

Posted on 04/15/2010 by Soccerdad

At the end of his news conference the other day, President Obama said: And I remain committed to being a partner with countries around the world, and in particular hot spots around the world, to see if we can reduce … Continue reading →

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Thursday’s news

Posted on 04/15/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Gee, I can’t imagine why: 91% of Israelis are opposed to Obama imposing a peace deal on them. I mean, who doesn’t think that a man with no foreign policy experience, coming into a decades-long, complicated problem, should totally be … Continue reading →

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Are your taxes done?

Posted on 04/14/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Just need to mail out the state and I am good for the year. Boy, was it simple this time around. One job. One W-2. My goal for 2010 is to give a lot more to charity, though. I should … Continue reading →

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Wanted: A few good co-bloggers

Posted on 04/14/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Are you an up-and-coming blogger looking for a bigger soapbox for your views? A steady commenter who wants to branch out into the front page? Have you been reading Yourish.com for a long time, and agreeing with most of what … Continue reading →

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Everyone knows, except when they don’t

Posted on 04/14/2010 by Soccerdad

When discussing the Middle East, “Everyone knows” what it will take to make peace. Melanie Philips (h/t JoshuaPundit) mocks with this facile assumption. It is blindingly obvious what, to the Obama administration, ‘everyone knows’ . Everyone knows that everything the … Continue reading →

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Blaming Bibi

Posted on 04/13/2010 by Soccerdad

This week’s Baltimore Jewish Times featured an article (previously mentioned here) U.S.-Israeli Ties: What’s Really Happening? by Dr. Robert O. Freedman. Over the course of the article Dr. Freedman covers much important territory; unfortunately he also lets his prejudices get … Continue reading →

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Israel’s nuclear umbrella

Posted on 04/13/2010 by Meryl Yourish

While President Obama’s nuclear weapons conference takes place in Washington, some nations wanted to try to co-opt it by painting Israel as a nation that needs to be put under the control of the non-proliferation treaty—a treaty that Israel has … Continue reading →

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Site’s back up

Posted on 04/12/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Server issues with my host. They’ve (obviously) been fixed.

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Never again

Posted on 04/11/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The modern state of Israel was created, in part, because of the world’s guilt over the Holocaust. That guilt lasted until about five minutes after Israel’s establishment, but it gave the world’s Jews the chance to stop relying on others … Continue reading →

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No innocent bystanders

Posted on 04/11/2010 by Soccerdad

A half year ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu expressed a common sentiment in the Middle East. The Nobel Prize laureate spoke to Haaretz in Jerusalem as the organization The Elders concluded its tour of Israel and the West Bank. He said … Continue reading →

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‘a liter of sweat is equal to a drop of blood’

Posted on 04/11/2010 by Soccerdad

I originally saw this story in Viewpoint, the magazine of the National Council of Young Israel. It originally appeared at the IDF website (along with profiles of two other “handicapped” soldiers) with the title, There is no such thing as … Continue reading →

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Forcing Israel to make peace the Chicago Way

Posted on 04/11/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post sounds like he’s picked up on the Obama Administration School of Foreign Affairs. The plan he offers is long on showmanship and pretty speeches, but short on realism (and by “realism,” I do … Continue reading →

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U.K.’s NHS: Ten years of screwed-up organ donation lists

Posted on 04/10/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Can’t wait until Obamacare gets to run our healthcare! Then we, too, can have errors like this: Britain’s transplant authority said Saturday that it was investigating several hundred thousand errors in its organ donor list stretching back about a decade. … Continue reading →

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Point of information

Posted on 04/09/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The web and the news is rather annoying and/or depressing today. Expect fluffy kitty posts tomorrow.

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He’s just not that into you … Israel

Posted on 04/09/2010 by Soccerdad

At the same time that the Obama administration decided to make a city planning decision into an international incident, the Palestinian Authority was preparing to honor a vicious murdereress. Palestinian Media Watch has been exposing the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing policy … Continue reading →

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Friday morning briefs

Posted on 04/09/2010 by Meryl Yourish

There’s hope for the AP yet: This is the single most balanced piece by the AP on Israel I’ve read in years. It’s about Netanyahu withdrawing from the upcoming nuclear conference in Washington to prevent Arab nations from making the … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 04/08/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Just because you’re a diplomat doesn’t mean you’re smart: Wow, is this the stupidest diplomatic incident ever, or what? A Qatari diplomat decided that the rules don’t apply to him, so he sneaked a smoke in an airplane bathroom, and … Continue reading →

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Obama, Jews, Israel

Posted on 04/08/2010 by Soccerdad

A few weeks ago Daled Amos observed that Israel could well be an issue in the upcoming midterm elections. Citing a Politico article he wrote: Support for Israel, and its implications for US foreign policy, is already emerging as an … Continue reading →

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Imposing

Posted on 04/07/2010 by Soccerdad

Two weeks ago David Ignatius wrote: In retrospect, it seems clear that the step-by-step approach was a mistake: Constructive ambiguity, in this case, proved destructive. It allowed the Israeli right wing to perpetuate the idea that it could have it … Continue reading →

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Wednesday briefs

Posted on 04/07/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Words that bite: So you think Obama and his aides will call out Iran for this? Netanyahu “insults” the Obama administration by breathing while a bureaucratic announcement of 1,600 new apartments in Jerusalem goes out. Iran actually insults Obama. “Mr. … Continue reading →

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