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A Letter to Rachel Corrie’s parents
Mar 9th
Pajamas Media highlights a letter from a set of Israeli parents to the parents of Rachel Corrie:
Jerusalem — Craig and Cindy Corrie, I welcome you to Israel where, I understand, you plan to bring a civil suit before an Israeli court on March 10 “to put on public record,” the British Guardian wrote, “the events that led to [your] daughter Rachel’s death in March 2003.”
I thank God for the well-being of my children and grandchildren, and I cannot imagine the pain and anger you feel over the loss of your daughter, Rachel.
My sons have served as combat soldiers, and may have More >
Here’s a puzzle, can you guess?
Mar 9th
Someone really, really famous and well-known wrote the passage below. Can you guess who it was?
The change which has taken place in our climate is one of those facts which all men of years are sensible of and yet none can prove by regular evidence. They can only appeal to each other’s general observation for the fact.
I remember that when I was a small boy, say sixty years ago, snows were frequent and deep in every winter, to my knee very often, to my waist sometimes, and that they covered the earth long. And I remember while yet young to More >
500 people massacred with machetes in Nigeria
Mar 9th
Where is the mainstream news on this?! I found a small article on it in the Daily Mail but no one else is covering it. Where’s the U.N.? Where’s the outrage?
Nigerian villagers wailed in the streets as dump trucks carried hundreds of bodies past burned-out homes towards a mass grave.
This was the scene of insurmountable grief after rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 500 people in a revenge attack following religious clashes near Nigeria’s city of Jos.
The killers had shown no mercy. They didn’t spare women and children, or even a four-day-old baby, from their machetes. In one area More >
The Green Prince
Mar 8th
Mosab Hassan Yousef is one of the bravest people around. He pulls no punches whether it be about Hamas, Islam or Israel. In the clip below, Yair Lapid gets an Israeli exclusive with an interview with “The Green Prince,” the son of the Hamas leader in the West Bank who became part of the Israeli Shin Bet. The introduction is in Hebrew but those who don’t speak Hebrew no worries, the interview itself is all done in English. Really fascinating! (click on more to view the clips and read the rest):
He also gave an interview with Sean Hannity last More >
East Jerusalem plan: demolish to build
Mar 8th
Nir Barkat has already proved to be, 100 times over, a better mayor than his predecessors. He is planning to demolish some illegally built Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, in the Silwan neighbourhood, and has come under fire for it. The U.S. has condemned the planned demolitions in a knee-jerk reaction without bothering to look at what is actually happening. Yes, he is planning to demolish some 88 homes but the people who live in those homes are not being thrown on the street or kicked out of the area. Instead, new homes with safe construction are going to be built More >
Teeth happy
Mar 7th
I’ve just returned from the dentist and my primary and secondary opinion agree with one another: The root is fractured BUT since the antibiotics sent the raging infection into remission, I can wait to do surgery. It will hopefully be at least a year and maybe as long as two before it will be absolutely necessary, unless the infection returns in force before then and antibiotics don’t send it away. It would be best to do the surgery now and hopefully kill off the problem entirely but not if undergoing fertility treatment and the possibility of pregnancy. Both agreed that More >
A quick break and an Obama 180
Mar 7th
Taking a quick break between giving shots, pilling cats, meeting students, grading papers, and a dentist appointment in a couple of hours. I’m wondering why Obama has not only come out against the bill condemning the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians that occurred in Turkey 90 odd years ago, but vowed to block the bill, wholly going against his pledge made in his Presidential bid when he said, “I shared with Secretary Rice my firmly held conviction that the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported More >
give it a shot
Mar 6th
Go me Although yesterday I felt really confident sticking a needle into the little cat, Smokey One Eye, under Ronen’s supervision, this morning when I was all on my own was a bit of a different story. I decided I’d try to give it to her while she ate in the hopes it would help her to stand still and give me a good clear shot, no pun intended, at the scruff of her neck. I’d decided to give her the shot there since I’ve inserted needles for sub Q fluids there before. But when I brought her out of More >
Mr. Dubai police chief, WHAT suspects?
Mar 5th
This is extremely funny. It is ludicrous as well. The Dubai police chief says they have DNA evidence on the assassins in Dubai. So far so good. But, then he challenges Israel to “bring the suspects to Dubai” and have their DNA tested. Ehhhhh what suspects is the man talking about? Does he mean the dual-nationality Israeli citizens whose identities were stolen? Because, I mean, their countries of origin (e.g., the U.K., Australia) have already determined that these people bear no physical resemblance at all to the people seen on those CCTV images who were using passports in their names, More >
welcome to Yael’s vet clinic
Mar 5th
My apartment is being set up today as a kitty hospital for these sick beasts. Flora did not ingest glass, she has what Little Mouse had only she is even sicker with it than he was. She got fluids and I gave her my first shot to reduce fever under Ronen’s instruction. Yes! Ronen is back. The poor guy got back from the States late last night and when I finally found the clinic number woke him two hours before he opened. So he opened an hour early for me and the kitties. She’s on antibiotic pills twice a day More >
(Photo by Dani Machlis)
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