- Ahmadinejad: Israel is a corrupt microbe on way to collapse - Haaretz - Israel News
- Thug-In-Chief rattles his genocidal saber: "You (Zionists) should know that an attack on Gaza will end your inauspicious and filthy life" - Jihad Watch
2. On The Subject Of Iran - meanwhile, on the subject of developments in that thugocracy:
3. General David Petraeus - More on this American General, "designer" of the Surge - The Professor of War Politics Vanity Fair
4. Human Rights Developments - a number of stories on this topic.
- National Post editorial board: From Saskatchewan, a great idea on human rights - Full Comment
- So now, it’s no business of the state - Mark Steyn - Macleans.ca
- Judges grapple with Canada's legal test for hatred
6. When All Else Fails, Blame The Jews - Pajamas Media » What Happened in Kyrgyzstan? Don’t Know, but Let’s Blame the Jews and Pajamas Media » Is Obama Using Israel as a Scapegoat for His Foreign Policy Failures?
7. When All Else Fails, Blame Israel - You may recall that a couple weeks ago I had strongly objected to an allegation in a letter published in the Halifax newspaper that blamed most of the world's hostilities on Israel's unwillingness to make a fair peace with the Palestinians. After much editing, the letter finally appeared in last Sunday's newspaper - the final version is here:
"I was offended by the anti-Israel comments in Jack Warkentin’s April 3 opinion piece.
Limited space does not allow me to reply to his allegations about Israel’s seizure or control of Palestinian lands. I will focus instead on his assertion that Israel’s "refusal to negotiate a just peace … with the Palestinians" (which ignores any question of Palestinian responsibility) is the "root cause of much of the world’s hostilities."
To which hostilities does he refer? To name but a few: the Russian-Georgian dispute? The Russian-Chechen dispute? The war in the Congo that leaves 45,000 people dead every month? The Sudanese civil war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur? The civil war in Somalia that has reduced that country to a lawless no-man’s land? The tensions between North and South Korea, India and Pakistan, or China and Taiwan? Afghanistan? Shia and Sunni Muslims murdering each other all over the globe?
Mr. Warkentin would have readers believe that if only Israel would make peace with the Palestinians, all of these problems would simply vanish — a truly breathtaking assertion.
The serious issues of the Israeli-Palestinian interaction deserve much better analysis."
In any event, here is a much more detailed and articulate response from Professor Barry Rubin - Gloria Center: The Middle East's Biggest Con-Game: Claiming Israel is the Cause of the Region's Problems [Article]
8. Speaking Of Which - RubinReports: Palestinian Leaders Do It Again! Throw Away Opportunity Obama is Giving Them and Poke Him in the Eye
9. An Elephant In The Room - that few in the West care to address - Promoting a Genocidal “Peace” | FrontPage Magazine - maybe this is because of the considerable history of antisemitism (albeit generally not genocidal antisemitism) that has existed since after the death of Christ - more on that in the next item.
10. Constantine's Sword - I may have posted about this before. I have just finished (last night in fact) this in-depth study of the history between the Catholic Church and the Jews written by former Paulist priest James Carroll. The book is not some summer novel you tear off while at the beach - it requires a lot of attention and concentration - and I see that I will have to read it at least one more time.
While generally familiar with the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and the Shoah (more so), I did not have a good grasp of the extent of Church-driven antisemitism over the centuries. As well, it was depressing to learn of the many times when there were leaders of the Church who were prepared to depart from the antisemitism of the Church but were not followed.
In any event, Mr. Carroll lives in Boston and published this article in advance of Easter. Obviously that was a few weeks ago, but the message continues to be relevant - Preach peace in Holy Week - The Boston Globe.
"This week, Christian preachers must preach against these texts. Christians must hear these texts as if they are themselves Jewish, having foremost in mind that Jesus never stopped being a faithful Jew. If Christians had remembered that, and measured both their doctrines and their behavior against their Lord’s undying love of his own people, the history of the last 2,000 years would be very different."
11. Then There Is This Disgusting Bastard - The Associated Press: Bishop convicted for denying Holocaust - did I hear that Mel Gibson is going to play him in the movie??? (relax - there's no movie).
12. Polish Tragedy - Last week, the plane carrying a Polish delegation to an ceremony to mark the massacre in the Katyn Forest crashed, killing the Polish President and a very large number of senior politicians, military leaders and bureaucrats. Here are some reflections on that tragedy seen in the light of the event being commemorated.
13. A Lone Voice - In Good Faith: Guest post: Children of Abraham - A blog for news and discussion on matters of faith - baltimoresun.com
14. The Pacific - The miniseries "The Pacific" continues on HBO Canada this evening with Episode 6. It is clearly different from the "Band of Brothers" series in the same way that the Pacific Theatre of Operations differed from the European Theatre. Here is a concise overview of the Pacific War by the excellent Victor Davis Hanson - VDH's Private Papers:: Remembering the Pacific War.
15. Reflections on Yom HaShoah - one thought to throw into the mix before we move on to Yom HaZikaron and Yom Haatzmaut. I think that it is very important to consider and talk about the Jewish life in Europe that was obliterated by the Nazis. For good reason we hear a tremendous amount about how Jews died, but we rarely talk about how they lived - I think that this is a theme that needs much more attention. Check out this article - Recovering Ashkenaz
16. Woe Canada - various news items with a Canuck-ian twist:
- 'Canada's Rosa Parks,' Viola Desmond, posthumously pardoned
- Oh, Canada - by Gil Troy > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
- The case against Helena Guergis
17. Good Advice - this excerpt from The Italian Job pretty much sums it up:
so in that context - Volcanic plume has far reaching effects on the weather, Earth. Mother Nature rules when she wants!
18. Moron Alert - Worker falls after sawing off branch in a 'Laurel and Hardy'-style accident - and then, of course, seeks legal recourse from the Hotel. I guess that common sense is in short supply. Which reminds me of the following (there's even a tree-cutting guy!):
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