Selected Tidbits:

We haven't talked in a while, I would like to share with you some selected tidbits, I've been collecting.  While the world goes on its merry way, we must concern ourselves, with ourselves.


I couldn't resist sharing this one and completely forgot about this event in a re-published article I found in Aish.com Helen Thomas should be Fired by Canera.org http://www.aish.com/ci/s/95751129.html
In this article they mention the incident with Don Imus (for the innocent, Don is/was a NYC-based radio announcer who's been around since I was in high school), who was fired from CBS and MSNBC after he made some nasty racial remarks. As the article states " It took little more than a week before he was fired by CBS and MSNBC, losing both his radio program and his television show. The mainstream media gave the story prominent attention for weeks, including updates on the controversy and opinion pieces denouncing the talk show host."

Back to the whole Aza thing, here is something Ehud Barak said.  I am happy to hear he actually said something both intelligent and timely.
"There are 1.5 million people living in Gaza and only one of them really needs humanitarian aid,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. “Only one of them is locked in a tiny room and never sees the light of day, only one of them is not allowed visits and is in uncertain health – his name is Gilad Shalit, and this month four years will have passed since he was kidnapped.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ZprVPKi-W6s

Board of Inquiry? Well break out the violins, let's all start picking wild flowers and start singing kum-baya.

I have been unusually, and I may say uncharacteristically, quiet about Netanyahu's ill-fated, but all too obvious, decision to allow a 'board of inquiry' to investigate the flotilla thing. What got my blood pressure boiling was the fact that two of the members are foreigners. I want to say I am shocked. I want to, but I can't – it was too bloody obvious. It was also way to obvious that Netanyahu would be the one who would do this. Only a Likud government would do this. Bloody hell.



Of course, the icing on the cake was the statement made by a newscaster sometime after that ill-fated announcement was made, that this may not be enough for the 'international committee' and they (the whole bloody world) may anyway dismiss the findings of this board and still demand their own inquiry.


What was Netanyahu thinking? What do most Israelis who are bent on placating the world think? That this step is the best thing for Israel and that the whole world will love us and accept us. Well break out the violins, let's all start picking wild flowers and start singing kum-baya.


There is nothing to learn; terror activists in the guise of peace activists got on a boat. They know that if they were attacked it was good and if Jews died it was good - so it was a win-win decision for them. They were armed to the teeth and had half the whole bloody world on their side. They had 'holding rooms' ready in advance for abducted Israeli soldiers and handy-dandy cameras everywhere to record the ""terrible deeds"" (double quotes on purpose) of the Israelis.


Then they 'made off for grandmother's house (Gaza)' waiting for the Israelis to meet them in the woods (Israel's territorial waters). No good was going to come out of this. And don’t you believe it, except for the "greatest minds of our times" in the Knesset, everyone else in Israel knew this was not going to end well.


And to answer your question: "No, we are never going to learn." We send tons of aid every bloody day to Gaza. We trained their bloody police force. We give medical aid to their sick. And we do plenty of other good deeds which do not need to be mentioned.


All I would like to say is "Thank you Mr. Prime Minister", but I guess that sentence is no longer so cute.

Remembering our own Rachels

I didn't know that the ship used in the so-called Gaza flotilla was called the Rachel Corrie, named for an American "Peace Activist".

The following Youtube clip was sent to me by a friend; talks about the forgotten Rachels killed by terrorists (yimach shimom u'zichrum). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2X5LKH5n0


I want us to also remember our first Rachel, Rachel Imanu.

Here Yaacov talks about burying his beloved wife Rachel, in Bereshit:

"I didn't even take her into Beit Lechem itself which was in the land, and I know that you feel badly about this. But know that God told me to do this, so that she will be a help to her children. When Nevuzaradan, the King of Babylonia, will exile them and they will pass by her grave, Rachel will come out and cry, and beg God for mercy. God, in turn, will answer and respond to her: 'There is reward for your actions, so says the Lord, and your children will return to their borders.'" (Rashi, Genesis 48:8)

The Flotilla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg&annotation_id=annotation_665723&feature=iv