 The pretense of peace programs
Yoga for peace Is there any word more degraded than the word peace? Peace seems to be leaking all of its meaning, a catch word for getting money from the European Union (it seems that any co-existence group is ensured funding). The peacemakers seem to think if you bring Israelis and Palestinians together in the same room, then there will be peace. And the world apparently buys this idea. Oprah is going to run an article on a group of Israel and Palestinian women in a diet club. I am reminded of Peter, a man I met in East Hampton, New York who harangued me when he learned I was from Israel. "You people have to be in dialogue with the Palestinians. It's your fault that you don't have peace." When I asked him about himself, he admitted that he was living with a friend because his wife had kicked him out of the house. I am the reason there is no world peace
I am the problem. I am the one. The head of the free world referred to
me, personally, my family, as the reason for the unrest in the world .
With a broom in my hand, trying gamely to clean up the popcorn from my
son's movie party, I am the reason that there is no world peace. Obama
handed me the world's destiny. He told me - 'if you stop building,
stop growing, all will be right in the Middle East. Don't even think of
Iran or Darfur or the honor killing of the women in your region. Your
home renovation is the cause of war.' Renewable energy and the war on terror
Years ago a friend of mine in Israel bought a gas guzzling 9 passenger GMC van. On one of his first visits to a gas station he pulled in next to a guy who was filling up an identical vehicle. Leaning out the window my friend asked his compatriot "How many kilometers do you get to the liter?" The guy looked over "If you start asking that question," he said, "you'll never drive anywhere." New York Times star columnist Thomas Friedman would have been appalled. Last week he climbed back onto his green revolution horse and advised US President Barak Obama to impose a $1 a gallon "freedom tax" on American drivers. As a rationale he invoked comedian Bill Maher who quipped that the imposition of the tax would "make the bad guys fight all of us." What he means is that in the same way that the Arabs can use the "oil weapon" against Western democracies, the US and others can declare an "oil war" on the Arab Sheikdoms and simply buy less gas. That would throw their economies into a tailspin forcing them to stop funding terror and the expansion of Islamist educational institutions. The radical Islamist revolution would literally run out of gas. The world, and Israel would be a better and safer place. Jimmy Carter - The Prince of Peace?
I met former US president Jimmy Carter on June 14th and left the meeting profoundly unsettled. The Hundred Years War
For the first time in years, probably since Israel invited Yasser Arafat and his minions back into the West Bank in a march of folly that resulted in the death of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians including my 13-year-old son Koby Mandell, the sanctity of the "two states for two peoples" concept is being challenged. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu [Bibi] so far has refused to utter the phrase and his Likud backers are begging him to resist the temptation. Conjecture about his Bar Ilan University policy speech touted as a response to Obama's Cairo address centers almost completely on whether he will utter the two state formula. Not that anybody really thinks the idea is a good one. Dear Barack, do not reward terror with gifts
Dear President Obama, This week the entire country of Israel performed a security exercise. At 11:00am a siren sounded and all of us, every man, woman and child had to take shelter. At a home for seniors who are Alzheimer's patients, it took much longer than the allotted 3 minutes for the staff to help find these patients protection. (They were pushed in their wheelchairs to sit next to an interior wall.) This whole country is a target for attack. All of us are imperiled. More Sundays, less stress
I have lived most of my adult life in Israel and there are really only two things I miss about the American Diaspora: One is Tropicana orange juice - can someone please tell me why we can't get a good, sweet half gallon of the stuff at a reasonable price? After all they grow the oranges right here - and the other is Sunday. I was reminded of this last night when, while leafing through an old copy (May 13th) of The Jerusalem Post, I ran across an article entitled Israel needs time off suggesting that the advent of Sunday as a day off would reduce the stress in Israeli society. The second-class fallen
Even the headline in the Jerusalem Post gets it wrong ... Remembrance Day to honor thousands of servicemen and servicewomen. Those who were killed in war. But there is no mention of the thousands that have been murdered in terror attacks. Even though this day is officially for families like ours as well, the Post doesn't mention it. Which racist state?
The states and organizations behind The Durban II so-called Anti-Racism conference and in particular Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are vociferous in their outlandish claim that Israel's policy toward the Palestinians is racist and, more, that Israel, in its very essence, is a racist state. But recent actions by the Palestinian Authority tell a different and opposite story. That the truly racist state may be ruled by the Palestinians. Last week Ynet reported:
A hatchet job
I belong to an "elite" group of mothers of children who were bludgeoned to death by Palestinian terrorists. Murdered cruelly, intentionally, and in cold blood. Murdered because they were innocent. Murdered because they were Jews. Targeted by cowardly terrorists because they were defenseless kids. My 13-year old-son Koby was beaten to death with stones. Now the Nativ family from Bat Ayin has joined our group. Their 13-year-old son Shlomo was murdered last Thursday by a Palestinian terrorist wielding an ax. The family has a passport into the never-ending pain of losing a child. |
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