http://www.yourish.com Cutting straight to the point Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ha'aretz reports on a new Israeli startup that has developed technology to detect terrorists: Quietly, even stealthily, this unknown company has been working for five years now on one of the more interesting technological innovations to be created in these parts.WeCU ("We see you," in case you are unaccustomed to SMS-speak) ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/13/4814 Jimmy Carter in the Guardian's Comment is Free section: The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/13/4813 One of the thing conservatives like me marvel at is the way the supposedly objective media will describe a conservative politician who adopts liberal positions as having "grown" in office. It doesn't really mean that the politician became more flexible, because a politician moving in the other direction would be ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/13/4812 The woman killed by a kassam rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that Sami al-Arian was convicted of raising money for, has a name: Shuli Katz. She leaves behind her 90-year-old mother. Her mother is in a retirement home. She leaves behind four children. One of them, her son, ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/13/4811 A 70-year-old woman was murdered by a PIJ kassam rocket, aided and abetted by the terrorist government of the Palestinians. There is almost no notice of it in the major media outlets. The AP barely mentions it in the lede of a story about Egypt's intelligence chief coming to Israel to badger ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4810 The "crude, homemade" kassam rockets murdered another Israeli, a 70-year-old woman. A 70-year-old Israeli woman was killed early Monday evening from a Palestinian Qassam rocket which crashed into the backyard of a residential home in Yesha – a small community belonging to the Eshkol Regional Council. The woman sustained critical injuries from ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4809 May her name be remembered. Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Yad Vashem memorial, has died. Sendler's daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated Press her mother died at a Warsaw hospital Monday morning. She was ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4807 The earliest reference I can find to the term "Nakba" (or "Naqba") in the New York Times is this article, from Israel's 50th birthday, a decade ago. So for 50 years, the NYT didn't see fit to use the term to describe the Arab reaction to Israel's independence. It's only recently ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4806 I'm disappointed that Charles Krauthammer hasn't acknowledged Israel's 60th anniversary. 10 years ago, he produced one of the best articles on the meaning of Zionism and its importance, At last Zion. Two columnists recently have celebrated Israel's 60th. First there's Jeff Jacoby who's scheduled to speak at my synagogue tomorrow night, ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4808 Yesterday, Hamas nearly hit a schoolbus. Three children suffered shock and were treated by Magen David Adom paramedics. The bus' windows were shattered and a fire broke out nearby Today, they just missed a kindergarten---in Ashkelon. One rocket hit a southern neighborhood in the seaside city and another in the Ashkelon National ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4804