Wednesday, August 18, 2010

1. More Mosque - And the fallout continues:

• VDH's Private Papers::Ground Zero Mosque Resistance
• Why Cordoba?
• Caroline Glick :: Standing on a landmine
• The Rosett Report » Imam Feisal Watch: Let’s Try It Again, Where’s the Man Behind the GZ Mosque?
• Roger L. Simon » Ask Walid: Michael Bloomberg Doesn’t Speak Arabic and Other Tales of the Ground Zero Mosque
• Commentary » Blog Archive » Why Didn’t Obama Grasp What the Ground Zero Mosque Is All About?
• Pajamas Media » Ground Zero Mosque Reality Check

2. Stick To Screwing Up The Mail - CUPW - 2010-08-12 - Postal Workers’ Union: Get Mail to Gaza on the Boat - I'm not saying that the ordinary postal worker takes this stance, but why doesn't the CUPW leadership just stick to their knitting?

3. Intolerance - Even a tolerant country cannot tolerate intolerance - The Globe and Mail

4. Sticking Up For The Truth - defeating a blood libel - Pajamas Media » Meet the Man Who Exposed the Al-Dura Hoax

5. Israel's Security Needs - a good overview

6. Israel Museum - Elevated

7. Professor Barry Rubin - an eloquent commentator - here are 3 examples:

• RubinReports: Why All Middle Eastern Politics Can't Be Reduced Merely to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• RubinReports: The Radical War Against Liberal History
• RubinReports: What is the Threat: Islam, Islamism, or Western Sins?

8. Kibbutz Story, Part II - continued from an earlier posting - Together Again

9. Book Review - Unsettling

10. I Hope It Was Very Painful - and may he rot in hell - Plotter of Munich Olympics massacre dies in Jordan - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

11. Orde Wingate - those familiar with the British war in the Far East against Japan will recognize that Wingate was the founder of the famous "Chindits", airborne deep penetration troops who worked far behind enemy lines. He was also a deeply religious man and it was said that he felt that it was his Christian duty to help the Jewish community in Palestine form a Jewish State. Here is an in-depth consideration of Wingate's Zionism.

12. Very Very Strange -