Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - An "I Need To Vent" Edition

1. Did I Miss A Memo Or Something? Can someone please tell me what other people and country are subject to the absolutely incessant torrent of abuse and attacks on a regular basis? I don't know if it is a "perfect storm" or what, but the number of antisemitic and anti-Israel issues that are at the forefront of current international events is just shocking.

Consider (and I will spare the adjectives), in no particular order, the following relatively recent events:
  • the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo;
  • the Palestinian statehood gambit, with threats of a Third Intifada;
  • terrorist attacks from Sinai against Israeli citizens;
  • the Durban III Conference;
  • open threats of nuclear attack by Iran;
  • attempts organized by the Syrian "government" to deliberate have massed civilians to breach the Israel-Syrian border;
  • whatever the hell Turkey is up to;
  • the Al-Quds rally on the steps of the Ontario legislature;
  • antisemitic cartoon in "The Walrus" magazine; and
  • I'm sure I've missed some things, but I'm sure the above list will do for now.
I ask again - what other people and nations are subject to all of this? Beats me.....but as I have said, the more it happens, the more I am losing my patience and the less reasonable I become (if anyone cares).

The only "good thing" I can say is that I am not alone in noticing this - at least not in certain circles - Stephens: Israel's Predicament - WSJ.com and Israel Surrounded as Arab Spring Turns Darker: Jeffrey Goldberg - Businessweek.
"No democracy in the world today lies under a darker shadow of existential dread than Israel. And the events of the past month ought to demonstrate that Israel's dread is not of shadows only. Israel's efforts to allay the enmity of its enemies or mollify the scorn of its critics have failed. But is it too much to ask its friends for support—this time, for once, without cavil or reservation?"
2. A Quiet Coffee Shop In Halifax - met a friend today at a quiet cafe on Windsor Street in Halifax to discuss Israel advocacy issues. Didn't notice at first, but soon did - one of the walls was festooned with pictures of the recently aborted Gaza peace flotilla - I'm suspecting they were compliments of the self-proclaimed "Jewish Haligonian" Miles Howe. I wonder when they will put up a copy of the Hamas Charter for all to read, or pictures of the "results' of Hamas terrorist attacks? Not holding my breath......

And I may be paranoid, but I also believe that a young mother with two small children heard us talking about Israel and moved to another part of the cafe.


3. WTF Is With Turkey? In this brief edition, apart from this link, Turkey says flotilla raid was 'cause for war' - Yahoo! News, I will simply let a couple of cartoons suffice. Personally, I think that Erdogan has been ingesting way too much Turkish Delight - and I don't mean the chocolate confectionary be the same name.......




4. WTF Is With Egypt? - can you honestly imagine that the news of the storming of a country's embassy would attract the paucity of media coverage that it has? Can you imagine what would happen if the Russian or Chinese Embassies in Cairo were attacked?
5. WTF Is With Europe? European 'No-Go' Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating - 3 questions - does anyone not understand what this means in terms of the true goals of radical Islam, does anyone think the same thing can't happen (or be permitted to happen) in North America, and who will turn out the lights in Europe when the whole place is a giant no-go zone?


6. WTF Is With These Columbia Students? Columbia students may dine with Ahmadinejad... JPost - International Well, I guess no one knows where Khadaffi is, Assad is busy murdering his own people, Castro and Chavez are ill, and Hitler, Stalin, & Mao are all dead.


7. WTF In General? OK, I like to say WTF. But seriously - check out this Canadian story - Sex workers, Palestinian solidarity mentioned in 6-year-old’s official school planner | News | National Post - a little heavy for a 6 year old, don;'t you think?

By the way, here is the link to the planner itself, which is "not meant to be an exhaustive list" (I cannot imagine what was omitted) - did you know that January 24-28, 2012 is "International No Name Calling Week" - honest to Pete!


8. Great Video #1


9. Great Video #2


10. Mysterious - it doesn't pay to speak up - Syrian Sunni Cleric Who Signed Protest Statement Dies Mysteriously


11. Interesting Theory - Israel As The Dutch Republic

12. Khaled Abu Toameh - always excellent - The UN's Durban III Conference: An Arab View


14. The Controversial Benny Morris - First Report: Is Israel Over? - The Daily Beast


(YIVO library in pre-war Lithuania)


(Lithuanian collaborators)

16. Jerusalem: Jews and Muslims Video


17. "Independent Panel" My Tuches! - UN independent panel rules Israel blockade of Gaza illegal - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News - If the loathsome Richard Falk has anything to do with it, run as fast as you can in the other direction. Here's his picture, just so that you recognize the SOB


18. Are You Ready For Some Football? Please don't mention what the Patriots did to my Dolphins last night. Instead, let's look at the Sunday night Jets-Cowboys game. I hate (in a sports sense) each team with a passion - the only reason I would ever root for Dallas to win is because the Jets play in the same division as the Dolphins.

Anyway - here's a sign of the apocalypse. In the entire history of the Dallas Cowboys (the team joined the NFL in 1960 - so we're talking 50+ years), it has never lost a game when it was leading in the fourth quarter by 14 or more points. Until Sunday night. Here are 3 reasons why that streak is now over.




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  1. A.S.September 14, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    You said that you are losing patience and wondered if anybody else cared about the injustice, I care but I guess that I don't count because I am Jewish. Like you I am confronted by intransigent morons who refuse to see the trees for the forest under the guise of political correctness they claim that it is racist to take sides. This became evident when my neighbour, a university professor, told me that he was acutely aware of the dilemma Israel faces, and that he understands the hostility from the surrounding nations, and yet he concluded that Netanyahu, and not the Arabs had an interesting conundrum facing them. Was this his polite way of saying move out of the neighbourhood if you don't like the scenery or was he implying that the Jews are just not worth the trouble defending despite their many contributions and inventions? Does that mean that we Jews are seen as pushovers because we haven't taken out our heavy artillery or does he think that we simply don't count? Perhaps he thinks that as a Canadian he is immune and experiences this as some sort of game between warlike Avatars who only exist on screen?...Alas and alack soon coming to a neighbourhood near you.....

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