Monthly Archives: February 2011

Sunday news briefs

Posted on 02/20/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Smart power! The PA is saying that the U.S. should be “ashamed” of vetoing the settlement resolution. Imagine, if you will, the outrage that would spew if an Israeli official—even anonymously—said the U.S. should be ashamed for anything regarding Israel. … Continue reading →

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Tig3.0 is 3.0

Posted on 02/19/2011 by Meryl Yourish

(I should have posted this yesterday, but I was busy.) Tig 3.0 at three: Tig 3.0 at (barely) three months: Yes, that is the same APC. It’s the only one of that color in my house. What a difference a … Continue reading →

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U.S. vetoes settlement resolution

Posted on 02/18/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Sanity prevails. The U.S. today vetoed a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council that would have declared Israel’s settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to be illegal and demanded a halt to such activity. U.S. … Continue reading →

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Purim Katan – The Threat of The Mob

Posted on 02/18/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

Everywhere in the world today, minorities are under threat. Some of you, no–many of you, would note, “They always are.” Yet, the truth is that such threats are relative and today, I am concerned. Americans believe that power is derived … Continue reading →

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Obama’s foreign policy: Pretty dumb power

Posted on 02/18/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Barack Obama is being reviled in Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Barack Obama on Friday, saying the American president “doesn’t even know how to spell his own name properly.” During a visit to Bushehr ahead of a scheduled rally … Continue reading →

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Naive Foreign Policy

Posted on 02/17/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

So the US proposed to back a resolution basically reaffirming what it should not have affirmed in 1979 about the legitimacy of settlements, though a weaker version. The current reported proposal would only condemn “continued” settlement building, something that hardly … Continue reading →

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Obama’s final betrayal: Selling out Israel

Posted on 02/17/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Oil talks. Israel hasn’t got any. The Arab nations do. Though the fact that Israel is America’s truest ally in the Middle East, the fact that the IDF trained American soldiers in city combat to prepare them for Iraq, the … Continue reading →

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Your Zombie self-defense post of the week

Posted on 02/16/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Because we all need to know how to defend ourselves from zombies.

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Wednesday news round-up

Posted on 02/16/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Fleeing the sinking ship: The first wave of Egyptian refugees has reached Europe. Human rights organizations finally picking on someone besides Israel: I guess when you start hanging people whose only crime was protesting the despotic government, even HRW and … Continue reading →

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Addictive Thinking and Israel

Posted on 02/15/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

Those who counsel people who are addicts and their co-dependents are very familiar with the concept of Addictive Thinking and Abraham Twerski’s well known book on the subject. The basic idea is that those who are addicted have distorted thinking. … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, briefly

Posted on 02/15/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Of course we are: Israel and the U.S. are behind the latest protests in Iran. Just ask the Iranian regime. Oh, and the Iranians are calling for the execution of the opposition leaders. Now that’s democracy! Woot! I am breathlessly … Continue reading →

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Monday briefs

Posted on 02/14/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Barry Rubin, the voice of sanity, on Egypt’s revolution: While a wave of attempts at popular revolution will spread, that doesn’t mean they will succeed. In large part, by the way, the world is under an illusion over Egypt. Mubarak … Continue reading →

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A Tiggy valentine

Posted on 02/13/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This is as close as I come to a valentine greeting: This is what happens when you OD on chocolate. Be careful tomorrow, or you’ll end up like Tig.

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Is the barbarism unimaginable? Maybe, but it’s all part of self-defence, a freedom-struggle, martyrdom

Posted on 02/13/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

Kaye Wilson, a person whose personal courage is hard to describe, tells in mute tones, much of it  understatement, about the horrific experience at the hand of two petty criminals turned terrorists. They butchered her friend, Kristine Luken, they stabbed … Continue reading →

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The media pass along lies of Turkey’s inquiry as truth

Posted on 02/12/2011 by Meryl Yourish

When the Israeli Turkel Committee’s report came out exonerating the IDF in the Mavi Marmara incident, the AP included a breakdown of who served on the committee. Reuters mentioned the video footage that showed “activists” attacking Israeli soldiers in an … Continue reading →

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There arose in Egypt…???

Posted on 02/11/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

“Pharaoh is gone.” Mubarak is no longer the leader of Egypt. The military is going to hold down the fort and will most certainly end the emergency laws in place for the past 30 years as soon as circumstances allow. … Continue reading →

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Friday Egypt briefs

Posted on 02/11/2011 by Meryl Yourish

He’s in! He’s out! He’s in! He’s out! Does anyone know what’s going on in Egypt? Beats me, but you know who really doesn’t know what’s going on in Egypt? Our incredibly smart president, the one who everyone said was … Continue reading →

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So…What if?

Posted on 02/11/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

Let us for a moment ask, “What if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to control Egypt?” Let us in addition argue that this would not be in the form of an Iran-esque theocracy, but a Turkish style Islamist democracy. I wrote … Continue reading →

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The Palestinian PR machine

Posted on 02/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

A few days ago, IDF soldiers helped a Palestinian woman give birth, and saved her baby’s life as well. The mainstream media ignored it. Yesterday, an Israeli woman went into labor and had her baby in a Palestinian hospital. The … Continue reading →

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The utterly predictable AP anti-Israel narrative

Posted on 02/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

I told you so. The AP ignored the rocket fire, and only wrote about it when Israel responded with force. Israeli air force strikes Gaza, 8 wounded Note the headline has no context. Those evil Israelis are just randomly bombing … Continue reading →

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