2. Paranoia Second - Christopher Hitchens says that Iranian leaders will always believe Anglo-Saxons are plotting against them. Don't confuse me with reality - my mind is made up!
3. And, Speaking of Paranoia, or Some Other Type of Disorder - This would be funny, except that it isn't - when there is no balance in pubic discourse, you get the paranoia of the Iranian leaders, or stories like this:
Which can then easily lead to the next story. It is a very slippery slope.
4. It Couldn't Happen Here - Sometimes people in Canada get complacent about their own security. They bristle at the notion that there could be terror cells in Canada, and get absolutely apoplectic at any suggestion that terrorists use Canada as an entry point for access to the US. Well, given that according to this article, the Toronto 18 attack was intended to mimic 9/11, maybe they should wake up and smell the double-double (a reference to Tim Horton's coffee, for those uninitiated in the finer aspects of Canada's culture).
5. Tony Judt - Here's another Jewish intellectual who doesn't like Israel. Here is his extremely crtitical op-ed from Monday's New York Times, and as response from Jonathan Tobin of Commentary Magazine - Memo to the Times: The Whole Country is Illegal to Tony.
6. This Just In - in case you were wondering, according to the US, the settlement freeze includes east Jerusalem. As is often the case, Dry Bones says (draws?) it best:
7. Which brings me to.. - as the Dry Bones comic above directly asserts, there's nothing like Double Standards when it comes to the Middle East. And remember, double standards is one of Natan Sharansky's 3D Tests of anti-Semitism.
8. There are Jews Everywhere - When I participated on the 2005 March of the Living, and coming from the small Jewish community that is Halifax, Nova Scotia, it overwhelmed me to observe that there were delegations of Jews from all over the world. Here is further evidence of that fact - maybe it is obvious to others, but who expects that there are Jews in Peru? Check out - Adopting Forebears’ Faith and Leaving Peru for Israel.
9. Here's a First - John Bercow, the son of a Jewish taxi driver, becomes the 1st Jewish speaker of UK House of Commons. Kol Hakavod!
10. Last But Not Least - and now, for something completely different......I love this card trick:
The heck with the rest of the depressing news, I loved the card trick!
ReplyDeleteWow...a picture of Tim Horton's (nice memories for this American) and an idiot piece about Pepsi. Two drinks for summer reading of blogs.
ReplyDeleteI remember visiting Israel for the first time in 1979 and not being to buy Pepsi-- only Coca Cola (and those nice souvenir shirts in Hebrew script). The tale we were told is that Pepsi honored the Arab Boycott of Israel back then.
In 1984 when visiting Refuseniks in Moscow we could buy Pepsi not Coke. Was Coca Cola the more honorable drink of choice then?
Regardless of what that mathematically challenged Muslim commentator says, I'll still drink Pepsi, Coke or Tim Horton's (if I could ever get it here in the USA) and still give my "change" "pennies" or dollars to Israeli causes.