I was born in Brooklyn (like everybody), but I served in the Israeli army; my first reserve duty was the Six-Day War. My father was a Palestinian--born in Poland, emigrated to Palestine when he was three years old, in 1920. I inherited a deep love of Israel from him. I hate the stream of lies I read and hear daily about Israel. I love Israel's people--all of them. [Contact me: joel dot orr at gmail dot com]
Saturday, April 06, 2002
Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Zionist Organization of America - April 2, 2002 - Bush Is Wrong To Deny Arafat's A Terrorist; He Orders Terror, Pays Terrorists, And Shelters Them I really wonder what pressure is being put on him that is causing him to take such an absurd position.
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
My friend is a music therapist in Jerusalem. He wrote me, "Our "shomer " (guard) in the school of the autistic children (and regular kids) had a vacation for the Pessach but he needed the money so he got a temporary job at the supermarket at Kiryat Hayovel, He stopped the terrorist with his body preventing many casualties by stopping her at the entrance of the super. Chyim was great with the kids and especially with the autistic children,
"He has a wife a five kids that were left behind ...
"I can not see another person replacing him at the school entrance....
"That's life."
"He has a wife a five kids that were left behind ...
"I can not see another person replacing him at the school entrance....
"That's life."
Monday, April 01, 2002
Amnesiac media forget Arafat's broken deals. Andrew Schmookler on the "elephant in the room." You need to register to read this Baltimore Sun article; it will be available for free until about April 10.
Sunday, March 31, 2002
Some responses to PM Sharon's speech:
The head of the ultra-secularist Shinui party, MK Yosef Lapid, said that “it appears that Sharon’s speech was cut off in the middle and that after the technical difficulties are resolved, he will continue and explain to the nation what are his plans, what are the objectives of entering into the Palestinian towns and where all this is supposed to lead.”
Chairman of the Knesset, Labor MK Avraham Burg, echoed Lapid saying, “The Prime Minister’s speech proves that we do not know where we are going… When there is no choice, one must act with a heavy hand, but it must not be a war for the sake of war. Rather, a war that would give hope for a normal future life in Israel. The government must understand this and act accordingly.”
MK Michael Kleiner, of the one-man Herut faction, stated that the Prime Minister seems ridiculous when he calls Yasser Arafat an enemy of the nation and of the entire free world, while at the same time seeing to it that he received pita bread over the Passover holiday. “It’s a good thing he didn’t give him matzot,” Kleiner said, “If Arafat is the enemy of the nation and of the free world, then it is unconscionable that he enjoys immunity from attack, that he receives foodstuffs, water, electricity, that he is able to be interviewed on CNN and that he receives courtesy calls from leftist groups.”
The head of the ultra-secularist Shinui party, MK Yosef Lapid, said that “it appears that Sharon’s speech was cut off in the middle and that after the technical difficulties are resolved, he will continue and explain to the nation what are his plans, what are the objectives of entering into the Palestinian towns and where all this is supposed to lead.”
Chairman of the Knesset, Labor MK Avraham Burg, echoed Lapid saying, “The Prime Minister’s speech proves that we do not know where we are going… When there is no choice, one must act with a heavy hand, but it must not be a war for the sake of war. Rather, a war that would give hope for a normal future life in Israel. The government must understand this and act accordingly.”
MK Michael Kleiner, of the one-man Herut faction, stated that the Prime Minister seems ridiculous when he calls Yasser Arafat an enemy of the nation and of the entire free world, while at the same time seeing to it that he received pita bread over the Passover holiday. “It’s a good thing he didn’t give him matzot,” Kleiner said, “If Arafat is the enemy of the nation and of the free world, then it is unconscionable that he enjoys immunity from attack, that he receives foodstuffs, water, electricity, that he is able to be interviewed on CNN and that he receives courtesy calls from leftist groups.”
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