Monday, May 30, 2011 - US Memorial Day Edition

In the same way that I make a point to remember those who died fighting against the Nazis as partisans and in the Canadian military, as well as those who have died to protect the State of Israel, it is entirely fitting to remember the war dead of America.

1. Memorial Day #1 - On Memorial Day, Reason to Remember – Forward.com

2. Memorial Day #2 - Senate approves Jewish chaplains monument | JTA - Jewish & Israel News

3. Memorial Day #3 -

4. Memorial Day #4 -

5. Here's Another Smackdown - not delivered by Bibi - The Dreamer Goes Down For The Count | Via Meadia. And for good measure - double ouch! Also see: Israel and Obama’s Radical Past - By Stanley Kurtz - The Corner - National Review Online.

6. Hey Buddy, Would You Mind Having A Word With The President? - France calls for 'agreed upon' solution... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics

7. Quick, While They're Not Looking!! Take out their nukes! Iran in uproar over 'Israeli fruit' - Israel Business, Ynetnews

8. Go To Hell #1 - Turkish group: Israel won't dare attack us - Israel News, Ynetnews - mend your own fences.

9. Go To Hell #2 - Pajamas Media - Burns Night for Israel: Scotland’s Literary Shame

10. Israel's Peace "Partner" (?) - Palestinians Tear Up Another Agreement, the World Yawns - Commentary Magazine

11. Germany - Poland - World War II - Germany's WWII Occupation of Poland: 'When We Finish, Nobody Is Left Alive' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International.

So, quite frankly, I don't get so worked up about this - A Time of Retribution: Paying with Life and Limb for the Crimes of Nazi Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

12. Kishinev Pogrom - from the great Israeli poet Chaim Nachman Bialik - Pajamas Media - The City of Slaughter:

"Indeed, many actually facilitate the process. Elhanan Yakira in his important 2010 book, Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust, transfers Bialik’s thesis into the contemporary milieu, speaking passionately about “the participation of Jews and Israelis in the anti-Zionist campaign,” which he regards as “in effect…annihilationist,” as a position characterized by “ignorance, bad faith, or malice” adopted by a “community of opprobrium.” It is nothing short of a “moral disaster” perpetrated by the descendants of Bialik’s colony of submissives who today have transformed the acceptance of victimhood into the disparagement of their own."

To that end, therefore - In the Tent, or Out: That is Still the J-Street Question | Daniel Gordis - Dispatches from an Anxious State

13. European Visits - Obama honors Holocaust victims, seeks to boost lessons of democracy on Poland trip - The Washington Post and Stephen Harper visits site of Second World War Nazi massacre in Greece - Winnipeg Free Press.

14. Hypocrisy #1 - Thousands of Nazis escaped across the world, including to Canada: book | Posted | National Post

15. Hypocrisy #2 - Pajamas Media - The Appeasers of Ratko Mladic and George Jonas: The West’s Balkan hypocrisy | Full Comment | National Post

16. Hypocrisy #3 - this is as plain as day....

17. And These Guys Are Our Allies In the War Against Terror? First it was, Osama bin who? Living where?

Now it's - Pakistani intel officer ordered jihad massacre of Mumbai Jews - Jihad Watch.

18. Something Light - OK, it's been a intense edition. Here are a couple of light videos that work best if you like Jerry Seinfeld.