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Send a message of hope directly to the Israelis

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Bookworm

If you believe, as I do, that the Israelis are fighting the good fight in the international war against Jihadist terrorism, and if you would like to let the Israelis know how you feel, have I got a link for you.  YnetNews, which is a great source of up to

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I did not feel the earth move under my feet

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Bookworm

I missed the Loma Prieta quake because I was on vacation.  Throughout my life, I’ve been around for many smaller quakes, but I’ve managed not to notice any of them.  The most recent one I missed noticing was a small one, an hour ago, centered about twenty miles north of

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Silly Stuff
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Watch footage of some “civilians” whom the Israelis bomb

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Bookworm

Here are just a few videos that the Israeli military has released showing Hezbollah terrorists firing missiles at Israel. In each case, the videos show that Hezbollah was using civilian buildings as launching pads. It’s entirely possible that when Israel took out these military targets, civilians unlucky enough to have

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If you fight [fill in the blank] it will get stronger

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Bookworm

The Hydra of mythology was a fearsome multi-headed monster. One of its great strengths was the fact that, if you severed one of its heads, another head (or maybe more than one) would grow in its place. Nevertheless, the Hydra could be defeated. Here’s one version of how Hercules defeated

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Afghanistan, Anti-war, Hezbollah, Islam, Israel, Muslim violence
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I think I witnessed the beginning of the end

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Bookworm

The Daily Standard has a post about the fact that the Episcopal Church elected its first female presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori.  She’s a rather typical modern Leftist, although her casual dismissal of Jesus as the path to Heaven, as well as her referring to the “Mother Jesus” are both

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Up to its old tricks

Posted on August 2, 2006 by Bookworm

A few days ago, I did a long post about the media’s distorted coverage of damage in San Francisco following the Loma Prieta earthquake. Briefly, I pointed out that, with no political end in sight, but merely to satisfy the maw of a visual medium, the media made it look

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Israel and NGAs — and what this means for America

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Bookworm

[NGA, as opposed to the familiar NGO, is not a typo. I’ll explain in a minute.] I had lunch with DQ today and, at his request, gave him a run-down of Israel’s history, starting with Herzl and modern Zionism. I took him through the Eastern European pogroms; the declining Ottoman

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America, Anti-war, Arabs, Hezbollah, Israel
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Manly men versus slackers

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Bookworm

I don’t ordinarily read Time Magazine, since I decided years ago, even before my political transformation, that it held little interest for me. (Although I distinctly remember, in 1982, a “hip” young man I worked with castigating it as a conservative mag fit only for parents.) The only reason I

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Culture, Feminism, Hollywood
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Palestinians and the two-state solution

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Don Quixote

     DQ here.  In an earlier comment, Clint puts forth the premise that the Palestinians would accept a two-state solution, his proof being a 30-year-old Syrian UN resolution.  Well, being the least well informed of anyone in this discussion, this sent me off to do a little research.  I found some

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Bits and Pieces
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Female group think

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Bookworm

Over at the Independent Women’s Forum, they’ve had a series of amusing posts about the shenanigans at the NOW annual meeting.  So much about the NOW worldview, but this particular loonines, which Allison Kasic reports, really caught my eye: At the “I’m not a feminist, but…” workshop at the NOW

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Morality and the world

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Bookworm

When we were school age, and we whined that “everybody’s doing it,” our parents always responded with some variation of “If everybody jumped off a cliff, does that mean you would too?” Good advice. We knew it then, but we’ve forgotten it now. Fortunately, Jewish über-parent, Dennis Prager, is here

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Numbers don’t lie, but people lie about numbers

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Bookworm

It seems that our credulous press, always the first to believe any bad story about Israel, was once again hoodwinked by the Hezbollah propaganda machine. While it’s true (and tragic) that children died in Qana, it’s becoming equally clear that (a) not as many died as were first claimed (and

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Hezbollah, Israel, Media matters
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Hezbollah’s West Coast media office

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Bookworm

A child’s death is always a tragedy, but this SF Chron report about Qana sounds like a Hezbollah PR office press release: The tiny, lifeless bodies were laid out in a row on a black straw sheet in the concrete courtyard of the Tyre Government Hospital. Twenty-one of them, all

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Who is killing whom

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Bookworm

Jay Nordlinger reminds us of Golda Meir’s prescient words: “When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” FacebookTweet

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Death by propaganda

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Bookworm

It’s beginning to look as if those children’s deaths in Qana are a replay of the family death in Palestine. You know the latter — it was the one where the Palestinians, swiftly joined by the world media, blamed Israel when a family died while on the beach (complete with

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Hezbollah, Israel
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