http://www.yourish.com Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:46:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, we start with a 101-year-old man who bought a brand-new yellow Camaro. Bob Lamb, a nephew who accompanied Mr. Coffman on his visit, said the sales staff at Miles Chevrolet was a bit skeptical of a 101-year-old man who came in looking for the $38,000 Camaro but more than happy ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/21/9423 One thing nearly all [anti-]Israel pundits have in common is the sheer inability to access reality. The only villain in the inability to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians is Israel, generally due to settlements, and as a result of the security fence. Just ask Roger Cohen, for instance. But ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/20/9419 In a paper on how the term "apartheid" is being used to deny Israel's right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces: The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature. It rarely deals with the massive abuse of human rights or cases of real Apartheid elsewhere in the world. In other words, ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/20/9417 The Channel 4 "documentary" on The Israel Lobby, vigorously defended by its authors as not in any way antisemitic, is yet another example of the Israeli Double Standard. The specter of Jewish control over Britain's politicians is so hideously scary, that the authors simply had to understand why a British ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/19/9411 Someone explain to China the meaning of "chutzpah": China, the current occupier of Tibet, is telling Israel that adding new apartments to Gilo is an obstacle to peace. Because it's not like they're not occupying an entire nation that was really a nation before China took it over. Unlike the ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/19/9409 About two weeks ago when Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he was quitting, Daled Amos observed that this less a dramatic announcement than standard operating procedure noting 14 times that he has threatened to quit since 2003. This isn't an ultimatum for Abbas, but standard operating procedure. Knowing that he's ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/19/9407 Settlements, the conventional wisdom says, are the true obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Not Palestinian intransigence. Not the fact that the Palestinians have been split into two groups---Hamas and the Palestinian Authority---for years. Not the fact that if the Palestinians really wanted to run their own lives, they ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/19/9405 Ship with armed security team prevents hijacking: Wow, having armed security agents on board to fight off armed pirates stopped the pirates cold. Armed guards prevent piracy? Who woulda thunk it? And the pirates may very well be lost at sea or killed. World's smallest violin orchestra queuing up now. WTF ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/18/9402 In some ways there's little to quibble with in Howard Schneider's To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg in the Washington Post. It begins: It is one of the most watched pieces of real estate in the world, 35 acres where an under-the-breath prayer ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/18/9400 Israel Matzav observes about a recent American criticism of Jewish construction in Gilo - that's part of Jerusalem. Obama's not going to let up on this, but given the broad consensus within Israel, I doubt Israelis are going to yield to Obama on it either. A year from now, if election ... http://www.yourish.com/2009/11/18/9398