Thursday, July 18, 2002
David Pryce-Jones re "Mein Kampf" on National Review Online
As Charles of LGF points out, David Pryce-Jones offers some powerful insights (again) into the nature of Arab society - and not much hope for change.
israelinsider: Israeli consul denied seat on U.S. flight because he was a 'security risk'
This is the beginning of something bad.
Fusillades across anti-Semitic lines -- The Washington Times
This report of JPost's (justified) accusations of anti-Semitism and pro-Arabism against The Economist, and the latter's blustery denial of same, is worth a read. In my view, its most significant aspect is that it brings to center stage the fact that anti-Semitism is now openly and widely pursued in many "respected" (not by me) publications.
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Lamentations 2002
From Naomi Ragen:
Friends,
Tonight we will gather fasting in the synagogue, sit on the floor, tear our clothes, put ashes on our heads and read the scroll of Lamentations. We do this every year on the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction, on the most terrible day in the Jewish calendar: The ninth day of the Jewish month of Av.
We will sit on the floor and remember: The passenger bus coming back from B’ nai Brak full of the voices of children, the tiny voices of babies and the comforting noises of their mothers, and we will remember how it wound its way through Judah, nearing home. And then we will hear the sounds: grenades thrown through the roof by..men? Is that the name we shall give them? The bombs lobbed at this unarmed bus full of women holding babies, and young fathers, and grandmothers and teenagers.
And then we shall see them, one by one, as they tried to get off the bus. We will see Judith Weinberg, 22 years old, a teacher in Bait Yaakov, returning after successfully completing her final teacher’s exams, in her eighth month of pregnancy, as she lumbers down the steps, her body heavy and slow. And we shall see the men who turn their rifles towards her, piercing her stomach. Doctors performed a c-section, delivering her little boy. He lived one day.
“How does the city sit solitary that was full of people!
She weepeth sore in the night
And her tears are on her cheeks
She has none to comfort her among her lovers
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her,
They have become her enemies” (Lamentations 1,2)
Still in the bus was the Shilon family. Ayelet and her husband Gal had spent the weekend in Givatayim with her parents, Zilpah and Moshe. The grandparents enjoyed their grandchildren, the eight-month old twins, Galia Esther and Sarah, and two-year old Or Chayim (the light of life). The father, Gal, a former pilot , returned home to Emanuel on Sunday. His wife followed with the children on bus 189 on Tuesday. Grandmother Zilpah accompanied her daughter to help her with the babies on the trip home. When the bombs started, Ayelet called Gal on her cell phone. He didn’t have a car, so he ran all the way until the town’s gardener gave him a lift to the entrance of Emanuel. There he saw three men dressed as Israeli soldiers in uniform. When he approached them, they turned around and shot him in cold blood. On the bus, the same three men killed his eight month old Sara, and her grandmother Zilpah. His wife Ayelet is fighting for her life. Or Chayim has shrapnel in his head, and a bullet in his two-year old shoulder. Only Galia Esther was unharmed.
Jerusalem remembers
In the days of her affliction and of her anguish
All her treasures that she had
From the days of old
And now her people fall by the
Hand of the adversary
And none do help her
They have mocked at her desolations.
Ilana Sitton, a cosmetician, was returning after having registered her 14-year old daughter for high school. She was murdered. Her daughter is hospitalized. Yonatan Gamliel, a sixteen year old high school student returning home, was murdered. Keren Kashani, 30, a single mother with one son, was murdered on her way home..
Let it not come unto you, all you that pass by!
Behold and see!
If there be any pain like unto my pain, which
Is done unto me…
Friends,
Tonight we will gather fasting in the synagogue, sit on the floor, tear our clothes, put ashes on our heads and read the scroll of Lamentations. We do this every year on the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction, on the most terrible day in the Jewish calendar: The ninth day of the Jewish month of Av.
We will sit on the floor and remember: The passenger bus coming back from B’ nai Brak full of the voices of children, the tiny voices of babies and the comforting noises of their mothers, and we will remember how it wound its way through Judah, nearing home. And then we will hear the sounds: grenades thrown through the roof by..men? Is that the name we shall give them? The bombs lobbed at this unarmed bus full of women holding babies, and young fathers, and grandmothers and teenagers.
And then we shall see them, one by one, as they tried to get off the bus. We will see Judith Weinberg, 22 years old, a teacher in Bait Yaakov, returning after successfully completing her final teacher’s exams, in her eighth month of pregnancy, as she lumbers down the steps, her body heavy and slow. And we shall see the men who turn their rifles towards her, piercing her stomach. Doctors performed a c-section, delivering her little boy. He lived one day.
“How does the city sit solitary that was full of people!
She weepeth sore in the night
And her tears are on her cheeks
She has none to comfort her among her lovers
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her,
They have become her enemies” (Lamentations 1,2)
Still in the bus was the Shilon family. Ayelet and her husband Gal had spent the weekend in Givatayim with her parents, Zilpah and Moshe. The grandparents enjoyed their grandchildren, the eight-month old twins, Galia Esther and Sarah, and two-year old Or Chayim (the light of life). The father, Gal, a former pilot , returned home to Emanuel on Sunday. His wife followed with the children on bus 189 on Tuesday. Grandmother Zilpah accompanied her daughter to help her with the babies on the trip home. When the bombs started, Ayelet called Gal on her cell phone. He didn’t have a car, so he ran all the way until the town’s gardener gave him a lift to the entrance of Emanuel. There he saw three men dressed as Israeli soldiers in uniform. When he approached them, they turned around and shot him in cold blood. On the bus, the same three men killed his eight month old Sara, and her grandmother Zilpah. His wife Ayelet is fighting for her life. Or Chayim has shrapnel in his head, and a bullet in his two-year old shoulder. Only Galia Esther was unharmed.
Jerusalem remembers
In the days of her affliction and of her anguish
All her treasures that she had
From the days of old
And now her people fall by the
Hand of the adversary
And none do help her
They have mocked at her desolations.
Ilana Sitton, a cosmetician, was returning after having registered her 14-year old daughter for high school. She was murdered. Her daughter is hospitalized. Yonatan Gamliel, a sixteen year old high school student returning home, was murdered. Keren Kashani, 30, a single mother with one son, was murdered on her way home..
Let it not come unto you, all you that pass by!
Behold and see!
If there be any pain like unto my pain, which
Is done unto me…
3 killed, many injured near old Tel Aviv central bus station
Ha'aretz - article with report. (Earlier, the number of dead had been reported as six.)
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Slaughter of suspected collaborators by Arafat
TheAmericanProwler Article raises some issues nobody writes about.
Bus ambushed; at least seven dead
The incident is described here. Arafat's Hamas takes responsibility. I hope the government also takes its responsibility seriously, and removes the murderer Arafat and his henchmen.
Monday, July 15, 2002
Help buy bulletproof vests!
Aaron Singer is a personal hero of mine. This young family man from Brooklyn flies to Israel to do his reserve duty in the paratroops. And in his "spare time," he raises money for bulletproof vests for IDF soldiers and others. Please go to www.thesosfund.org and donate whatever your heart tells you to. And pass the url around!
Israelis continue to innovate
As this report from a marketing intern reveals, there is better news than gloom and doom in Israel's business life.
One man's response to terror: Kindness
Naomi Ragen shares from her heart about inappropriate and appropriate kindness.
Sunday, July 14, 2002
Former editor of Times on anti-Semitism
Harold Evans speaks out on anti-Semitism - and the Muslim component.
Voice of Judea: Muslim Justice
A Pakistani local jury sentenced an 18-year old girl to be publicly gang-raped because her brother had had a consensual affair with a woman from a higher tribe.
Voice of Judea commentary:
Theirs is a profoundly sick and sadistic society. Islamic civilization is obsessed with expansion and forcing its "morals" violently onto other nations. How it turns out is that our fight is not just for our own survival and Homeland: if we don't stop them here, they'll overrun the whole world. How it goes with Israel, so too with everyone else...
To Subscribe: Send mail to:VoiceOfJudea-Join@Judea.org from the address you want to use to receive the e-mail.
Voice of Judea commentary:
Theirs is a profoundly sick and sadistic society. Islamic civilization is obsessed with expansion and forcing its "morals" violently onto other nations. How it turns out is that our fight is not just for our own survival and Homeland: if we don't stop them here, they'll overrun the whole world. How it goes with Israel, so too with everyone else...
To Subscribe: Send mail to:VoiceOfJudea-Join@Judea.org from the address you want to use to receive the e-mail.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)