Category Archives: Holocaust

70 years after the Wansee conference

Posted on 01/27/2012 by Meryl Yourish

70 years after the Wansee conference, where Hitler gathered his top men to discuss how to eliminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, these things are happening now: The world ignores Iran’s continuing calls to “wipe Israel off the map”: … Continue reading →

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Thursday, briefly

Posted on 01/05/2012 by Meryl Yourish

Woo, what a great ally! Turkey says if there’s an attack on Iran, it won’t be from Turkey. Yeah, we kinda knew that, what with Turkey refusing to allow American forces to pass through Turkey on their way to Iraq … Continue reading →

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Israel’s relevance on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Posted on 05/01/2011 by Meryl Yourish

From Shimon Peres’ speech: “We, members of the Jewish people, were victims of racism, persecution and discrimination but we never abandoned the obligation to honor every person, we were not blinded by darkness. Even in a dark world, we have … Continue reading →

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Monday, briefly

Posted on 04/11/2011 by Meryl Yourish

And the word “Muslim” does not appear in this news story: French immigrants of “North African” descent attacked and badly beat a Jew for being a Jew. I think they meant to attack him for being a Zionist, and the … Continue reading →

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Thursday news briefs

Posted on 03/31/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Those wily Jews: Israel may be the third nation on the moon. Expect the Palestinians to claim they did it using stolen Palestinian technology. UC-Irvine facilitates secret meeting with Hamas: And a Jewish organization footed the bill. Utterly, utterly, UTTERLY … Continue reading →

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My life, my blog

Posted on 03/13/2011 by Meryl Yourish

I just paid off the last of my credit card debt accrued from years of under- and unemployment (not profligate spending). I am now officially debt-free, except for my mortgage. I am solidly in the black for the first time … Continue reading →

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Wednesday, briefly

Posted on 03/02/2011 by Meryl Yourish

America hearts Israel: Support for Israel is near an all-time high. Let’s hear again how Jews control Congress, and that’s why the U.S. supports Israel, because it’s not like, oh, 63% of Americans sympathize more with the Israelis than the … Continue reading →

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Post-SOTU briefs

Posted on 01/26/2011 by Meryl Yourish

I didn’t bother watching the speech, ’cause it was over 9k words long: Plus, I can’t stand watching Obama. He’s so arrogant. (I listened to a bit of it on the radio. He’s much better heard than seen.) Anyone who … Continue reading →

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Friday, briefly

Posted on 11/12/2010 by Meryl Yourish

So it’s only bad when Israel does it: Remember all the brouhaha over Israel’s refusing to go along with the UN’s one-sided Gaza war investigation? Well, there doesn’t seem to be an eye being batted over Hezbollah declaring that no … Continue reading →

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Thursday morning briefs

Posted on 11/11/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The more you learn, the worse it gets: Really, first we learn (shock!) that German diplomats were complicit in murdering Jews. Now we learn that at least a third of the German war effort was supported by stolen Jewish wealth … Continue reading →

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More briefs!

Posted on 09/02/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Awesome! I get to piss off the Mormons again: Every time I post about the Mormons posthumously baptizing Jews, one of them manages to read my blog and post an angry comment. So here it is: The LDS say they’re … Continue reading →

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Is Oliver Stoned? Nope, just doing a Gibson.

Posted on 08/02/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

I know that this post is a relatively late reaction to the latest tempest in a teapot created by one of the Hollywood finest. However, after reading a few articles on the subject, I was somewhat dissatisfied by the analysis … Continue reading →

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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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Ahmadinejad channels Cabaret

Posted on 03/22/2010 by Meryl Yourish

This is almost frightening in its unconscious nod to the portrayal of the rise of Nazis in Cabaret. Granted, Cabaret isn’t history. It’s a movie. But the symbolism of the infamous But compare this: “The government is determined to assert … Continue reading →

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day…

Posted on 01/27/2010 by Meryl Yourish

A Jewish Prime Minister spoke at Auschwitz: “We will always remember what the Nazi Amalek did to us, and we won’t forget to be prepared for the new Amalek, who is making an appearance on the stage of history and … Continue reading →

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Monday morning sniefs

Posted on 01/18/2010 by Meryl Yourish

(Snark briefs) The passing of a righteous woman: Miep Gies, the woman who helped shelter Anne Frank and who saved her diary from the Nazis, died last week. She did not think she was a hero. “Imagine young people would … Continue reading →

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Nighttime briefs

Posted on 01/14/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Interpreting the Times, so you don’t have to. Shorter Gail Collins: If only ten percent get to dictated American policy, then by Gaia, it had better be the ten percent that the elites (David Brooks’ “educated class“) are in! Smells … Continue reading →

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Demjanjuk the doubtful?

Posted on 12/04/2009 by Soccerdad

At the end of a Bloomberg News report about the Demjanjuk trial in German, there’s a paragraph that reads: His death sentence and conviction were overturned by Israel’s Supreme Court in 1993, saying there was reasonable doubt that he served … Continue reading →

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Briefly

Posted on 09/18/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Germans to Israel: Shut up if you want Gilad Shalit to come home. To be fair, he wants all parties involved to shut up, but really—this is what the mediator thinks is a necessary ingredient to getting Hamas to release … Continue reading →

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