Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

1. Always A Difficult Issue - The Holocaust's shadow over Israel's choices | csmonitor.com. Whatever one thinks about the subject, I always find it interesting to see how outsiders tell Jews and Israelis that they are too paranoid about their own survival - especially when there is a genocidal maniac in the neighborhood loudly proclaiming his intent to wipe Israel off the map. That said, and this is just a personal anecdotal observation, I think that the Israelis I have met would like nothing more to live in peace and security and not ever worry about their physical safety.

2. This Doesn't Help One Bit - Sources: UN watchdog hiding evidence on Iran nuclear program - Haaretz - Israel News.

3. Though This Does (Perhaps) - Peres: Russia to reconsider missile sale to Iran - Yahoo! News

4. An Absolute Disgrace - This is one of the worst things I have read in a very long time - and it comes from Sweden - not from Gaza, the West Bank or Iran. A new version of the blood libel - Foreign Ministry aghast at Swedish report | Israel | Jerusalem Post and Deputy FM: Sweden must denounce Aftonbladet article - Israel News, Ynetnews. If this is freedom of the press, then things are just out of control. Here is an additional story reporting the story from the perspective of Swedish Jews - Swedish Jews: Aftonbladet story doesn't resonate | International | Jerusalem Post.

5. Victor Davis Hanson - Spot on as always - VDH's Private Papers::Our Road to Oceania and Works and Days » Our Ongoing Catharsis.

6. Another Broken Promise By Me - Lorne Gunter: The United Church is blind to true suffering - Full Comment

7. Which Leads Me To This - Pajamas Media » Liberalism: Because We Know What’s Best For You.

8. Yale - FrontPage Magazine - Yale Surrenders

9. Campus War Continues - FrontPage Magazine - The Campus War Against Israel and the Jews: The As-Sabiqun Movement

10. Nasrallah of the North - Of Israel, that is (or the south of Lebanon, if you prefer) - Nasrallah is scared - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews

11. You Cannot Hide Some Things - Chadors in the Cabinet can’t cloak Iran’s misogyny - The Boston Globe.

12. Way, Way, Way, Too Much Time On Their Hands - But VERY cool.....