http://www.yourish.com Cutting straight to the point Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All of those fools who are touting talking to Syria, and giving back the Golan Heights to achieve peace with Syria can stop now. (Oh, they won't, but they should.) Bashar Assad has said quite clearly that even if he gets back the Golan, he won't be dumping his patron-in-terror, ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/09/4796 Yesterday David Ignatius wrote: The game-changing events in the 2008 campaign are issues of war and peace. Both may be in play between now and November, in ways that add extra volatility to the presidential race. And of course the "game changing" event in the Middle East that he refers to is ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/09/4794 There's a group called Follow the Women that's organized a bike ride through the Middle East in the name of peace. Here's what a participant wrote last month: Nearly 250 women, representing 30 nationalities from mostly Europe and the Middle East, but also the United States and Canada, arrived in Beirut ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/09/4793 Anyone out there using Firefox and NoScript? I installed it earlier this week, then got really tired of having to pick and choose what sites I would let show scripts, so I uninstalled it. Now it doesn't show the proper display for Hot Air, and only Hot Air. The javascript wrapper ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/08/4791 The Washington Post's Griff Witte, takes a device from Reuters and focuses on two men who, like Israel, were born in 1948. One is Israeli and one is Palestinian. In Born at the dawn of a new state Witte is careful to emphasize the success of the Israeli with the haplessness ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/08/4790 Making up somewhat for yesterday's insult, The NYT today reported on At 60, Israel Redefines Roles for Itself and for Jews Elsewhere. The conference seems like an extravagance: But there is another form of celebration planned, and its sponsors believe it says something about the national character: a three-day conference of some ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/08/4789 A few days ago Media Backspin asked What is Israel's Greatest Accomplishment? I was in grade school when the 6 Day War was fought. I remember seeing a film strip soon after. It was quite impressive. Though, as a 6 year old I don't think I comprehended the miraculous nature of ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/08/4788 Birthday greetings from Hillel Halkin: Were I prophetically to know that Israel would perish within the next 20 or 30 or 50 years, as many of its bon ton critics are now prognosticating, it would not make the slightest difference to me in terms of my own decisions. I would still ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/07/4787 Eff you. http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/07/4786 The IDF is an army that thinks. The Iranians go with what worked in the past. Like I keep telling you: The IDF is going to be fighting the next war, while Hamas and Hezbullah are fighting the last one. From an interview with Ehud Barak: So how do we deal ... http://www.yourish.com/2008/05/07/4785