Wednesday, June 9, 2010

1. Telling It Like It Is - Michael Ross: A friend for Hamas among Canada’s chardonnay socialists Full Comment National Post#comments#comments. I took the time to write to Mr. Ross to express my appreciation for his column, and received a very nice personal note in return. Please take the time to do so yourselves - it means a lot! By the way, Mr. Ross is also the author of The Volunteer - a very interesting read chronicling his time in the Mossad.



2. Speaking Of Useful Idiots - Commentary » Blog Archive » Annals of Useful Idiocy, Circa 2010 - this guy is no dummy (in terms of formal education at least) - his position is really unbelievable - I mean, shouldn't you know why you are protesting?
"Earlier in the interview, Spiegel asked Mankell whether he had ever been to Gaza (“no”), whether he knows the IHH and the Free Gaza movement that organized the flotilla (“not well enough to be able to form an opinion”), whether Hamas was a source of hope for him (“I don’t know enough about the issue”), and why he ignored multiple Israeli warnings that the ship could not proceed to Gaza (“At least they should have let us continue for another two hours, until we were just off the coast”)." (my emphasis)


4. Uh, Sir, Don't Use the Word "Regime" - but you from Syria, please keep on singing about the Israeli schoolchildren sucking the blood of Arabs - it's got a beat, and the kids can dance to it....Jonathan Kay: Syria’s hateful chutzpah Full Comment National Post. And the world says nothing.......


5. Well At Least He's Honest About It - not that anyone will listen - Gaddafi: "We await the day when Turkey joins the European Union to serve as a Trojan horse" - Jihad Watch


6. Call The UNSC - Use Of Disproportionate Force!! - The Associated Press: Officials: Border agent shoots suspect at bridge - oops - didn't involve the evil IDF - move along, nothing to see here.

7. This Is Queer, Or Should I Say Weird? - Pajamas Media » Nothing to Be Proud of: Madrid’s Gay Pride Parade Bans Israel. And I think back to Saturday where a young lady attended the anti-Israel rally in Halifax and proudly wrote out her sign right in front of me - see below:


8. Uh, Oh - I cannot help but think of the sports world, where shortly after a coach or manager gets a vote of support from the owner, he is fired. Blair: 'I am 100% on Israel's side'


9. Toronto The Good - don't worry - nothing can happen here - it's Canada - Pajamas Media » Toronto’s Love of Diversity Is Tested by Islamists


10. With Friends Like These, Part 1 - Bret Stephens: Israel and Its Liberal 'Friends' - WSJ.com

11. With Friends Like These, Part 2 - I guess that she really is "Hezbollah Helen". Hezbollah lauds Helen Thomas - Israel News, Ynetnews




13. Attention All Boycotters!! - Chicago, IL - A New Way to Treat Brain Cancer? -- VosIzNeias.com - developed in that evil rat's nest of Israel, so you better not use it. But don't worry, pretty much all of the boycotters don't have brains anyway.

14. Leave Us Alone - might the ivory tower types listen? It’s time to stop demonizing Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News - after all, he is a prominent European philosopher - oh, but he's Jewish.


16. Flotilla Fatigue - I think that we are all suffering some fatigue from this story - nonetheless, it is a very important story on many levels, so here are some further links:

18. Yes We Can! - fall asleep while the President speaks.....

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

1. Birds of An Activist Feather - flock together. The usual tactics of people who do not have the ability to talk about something intelligently - bullying, intimidation and threats - Spain: Pro-Palestinian activists attack Israeli businessmen - Israel News, Ynetnews.



2. A Kernel Of Sense - Mottaki humiliated at European Parliament - from the usually Muslim-compliant and gutless Europeans. Wow.



4. Look In The Mirror - The current governmental leadership in Turkey, which has apparently anointed itself as Israel's moral mentor, has a few skeletons in its closet. First, the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Here is a useful FAQ summary about the subject.



5. Look In The Mirror Again - Or then there's the issue about the Kurds and their human rights. Hmmmmm - maybe these guys aren't as pure as the driven snow after all......


6. And One Last Time, Look In The Mirror - Then there's that troublesome issue of Cyprus......


7. I'm A Nutjob Speaks Again - 'Death knell for Zionist regime'









14. Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens has just published a new memoir - "Hitch-22". Here are some reviews, as well as his take on the Flotilla Story:


16. Salam Fayyad - too good to be true? The emergence of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is the best thing to happen to the Middle East in ages. - By Michael Weiss - Slate Magazine. Khaled Abu Toameh, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and whose views I respect, thinks so, but perhaps not for the reasons you'd think - The Palestinians: Why Salam Fayyad Cannot Deliver - Hudson New York.


17. Death Of A Rabbi - Former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Eliyahu died yesterday at age 81. Rabbi Eliyahu laid to rest. According to press reports, he was a spiritual leader of religious Zionism. Various controversial statements were attributed to the Rabbi, such as that the death of some 230,000 people in Asia and Africa as a result of the 2004 tsumani was divine retribution for their government's support of concessions to the Palestinians, or that the murder of victims of the Shoah was caused by changes to Jewish ritual initiated by the Reform Judaism movement. I would speak out against a priest or imam saying something similar, so I will do the same here. If they are correctly reported, I think that those statements are outrageous and deeply offensive.


18. Today's Sign Of The Apocalypse:

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Monday, June 7, 2010

1. See Ya!! - Don't call, and don't write. Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas retiring - CNN.com - her outburst was inexcusable (she should have had the brains to keep her thoughts to herself) and her apology was anything but. Look at what she said:
"I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”
Would she have allowed a politician to get away with such a mealy-mouthed pile of crap? I think not.


2. More Flotilla Fallout - This story still has the world's attention. Here are some current perspectives:
3. But If You Prefer Moving Pictures:







8. Ground Zero Mosque - This is really alarming. I mean, there's tolerant and there's tolerant. 'No Mosque At Ground Zero' Protest (6/6/10) : The Current Truth




10. World Cup Of Soccer - Nike's New Ad for the 2010 World Cup which starts next week.


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Sunday, June 6, 2010

1. They Walk Among Us - in this morning's email, I had the "pleasure" to receive an anonymous comment that was absolutely vile and disgusting - I did not publish it as a result - but suffice it to say that this person thought that the Holocaust was a good thing.

Of course, the gutless wonder did not have the balls to publish their real name or contact info. Typical of a moronic, chickenshit, racist, hate-spewing waste of a human life form.

So to my gutless anonymous poster wanna-be: Hey pal, if you're so superior to us Jews, why do you feel the need to hide? It's because you are a chicken - probably the type that blows up innocent civilians on buses, pizza parlors, World Trade Centers, and so on. Go slither back under your filthy rock. The world does not need you.



2. They Walk Among Us #2 - Yesterday, there were a string of rallies held across Canada to condemn Israel for its "war crimes" regarding the Freedom Flotilla. Despite it being Shabbat, and strictly as a private citizen and not as a representative of any group, I attended the rally in Halifax, took some pictures and shot some video.


Compared to other such rallies I have attended, this one was pretty tame. Just the usual shouted slogans, the usual speakers, the usual allegations, and so on. In the time that I was at the rally, there were no Hamas or Hezbollah flags, no chants of Death to Jews, etc.


One person attended to rally to support Israel - he did nothing to disrupt the proceedings - he stood at the edge of the rally with a large Israeli flag, and passed out flyers. Since I know him well, and to give him some support, I stood by him while I was not shooting pictures.


Three things in particular worth reporting on. First, a Palestinian supporter came over to him (while I was next to him) and politely asked what he was doing. He equally as politely responded - "I'm here to support Israel. I support a 2 state solution. Do you?" The polite Palestinian responded "No" and walked away.





Second, an elderly Palestinian and his spouse were walking past me toward the rally. The husband pointed at another person taking pictures and said to his wife - "See that guy, he's from CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service). He then looked at me and said - "I don't know where he's from" I was tempted to say "Lithuania", but held my tongue. What I thought was funny - and admittedly, as my family often tells me - maybe it's just me - was that it appeared to me that the man had seen the front of a vehicle from the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) that was parked nearby and which - if you took a nanosecond look at it and did not process the image correctly, you might have thought was a RCMP vehicle. Look at this picture to see what I mean.

(SPCA vehicle in background)
(RCMP vehicle - not at rally)

Lastly, one of the organizations that so proudly unfurled its banner in criticism of Israel was the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group - NSPIRG - which is an organization at Dalhousie University that is supported by a deduction from students' tuitions that purports to be, among other things - "non-partisan".

I understand that the deduction ($2 per term) is mandatory unless the student goes to the PIRG offices to opt out (I wonder how many students will do that for $2 per term?). I'm not sure what a student-funded organization is doing at such a rally. And check out the website - it will not take you long to see the real agenda of this organization, and also to find links to pro-Palestinian websites like "electronicintifada".


3. They Walk Among Us #3 - In Saturday's Halifax Herald, there was the usual denunciatory letter from Ismail Zayid, who always seems to recognize Israel's crimes against humanity but never seems to be able to recognize any Palestinian ones. Also appearing was a letter by Judy "Not In My Name" Haiven ridiculing the suggestion, or shall I say the fact, that the Israeli commandos were armed with paint guns and saying - yet again - that she is Jewish and that what Israel does is not done in her name.

For some reason, yesterday's Herald letters are not available on the website as they usually are. In any event, here is the letter I submitted in response - let's see if it gets published:
"To the Editor:

Since she says it so often, writer Judy Haiven must think that there is some novelty to being a Jew who criticizes Israel. The fact that she claims to be a Jew is irrelevant. What is relevant is not her religion nor what she is against, but what she is for.

So let me pose a very simple question. Does Ms. Haiven support Hamas, whose Charter clearly calls for, among other things, the elimination of Israel and the killing of Jews? Yes or no? Your readers deserve to know the answer."
By the way, here is a link to the Hamas Charter - read it for yourself and see what Hamas stands for.

4. More Flotilla Fallout - the blogosphere and cyberspace is filled with stories and opinions about the Flotilla. Here are a variety:

5. From The Other Side - Here are some stories from what is touted as Turkey's largest English-language newspaper. They contain what one might expect, but I do admit that there were surprising bits as well. Also, the posted comments did express a wide range of opinion:
6. Rex Murphy - one of my favorite columnists has a great column about the UN condemnation of Israel - Propaganda floats - here's an excerpt:

"I don't suppose the world needs to remember Rwanda to note how sluggish in the face of imminent horror the United Nations is and can be. If that is not a sufficient cue, we could bring in other examples of areas of great threat or immiseration or both: Darfur, Tibet, Chechnya, North Korea, Zimbabwe, the Congo or Iran. On these the UN has the patience of a stone but only some of its energy.

But torpid as is its nature, and comatose as are its eternal deliberations, on one subject, and toward one state, the United Nations acquires a strange and uniquely transformative power. Bring Israel under its gaze and the diplomatic sloths at UN headquarters morph into the swiftest of gazelles. From lotus-eaters to adrenalin junkies in the twinkling of an eye. Quite amazing, really."



8. Hamas - What were they up to this week? Try - Hamas raids, closes NGO offices and Islamists torch summer camp in Gaza. Attention all you leftist, communistic, anarchistic supporters of Hamas - does this bother you in the least?




9. The Lovely Helen Thomas - "Hezbollah Helen" as she is apparently known, is one of the best-known journalists who cover the White House beat. Hopefully no more - can you believe this - Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas, The Plum Line- Saturday Roundup: Hearst won't say whether Helen Thomas will keep job and Thomas under fire for Israel remarks - PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK? I would like to see what would happen if she told the black population of America that they should go home to Africa.......by the way, Helen, where are you from?



10. Lithuania - Perhaps Helen is too stupid, too lazy, too senile or too bigoted to know, but here's an example of what happened to Jews in their former homes in Eastern Europe - The Holocaust in Lithuania: One man's crusade to bring justice - CNN.com.


11. D-Day - Today is the 66th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe. Please take a moment to remember the brave service personnel who participated in the Allied return to Northwest Europe and which greatly contributed to the destruction of the Nazi regime. Allied casualties - killed, wounded, missing - on that one day are estimated to be in the range of 10,000.



12. Need A Laugh - Go To The Onion:

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