Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.
“How long did it take you to qualify as a sharpshooter in the IDF?”
“Not too long. I had natural way with rifle. I start out at 15 meters, then up to 30, 50, 100, 400 then all the way up to,” she hesitates, “classified meters.”
Israeli soldiers are famously and appropriately tight-lipped regarding training and operational details.
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Israel’s Deputy foreign minister, Tipi Hotovely, has written an important piece in today’s WSJ:
One often-cited key to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is economic development. To that end, there seems to be broad agreement about the importance of extending development aid to help the Palestinians build the physical and social infrastructure that will enable the emergence of a sustainable, prosperous society. But few have seriously questioned how much money is sent and how it is used.
Such assistance will only promote peace if it is spent to foster tolerance and coexistence. If it is used to strengthen intransigence it does more harm than good—and the more aid that comes in, the worse the outcome. This is exactly what has been transpiring over the past few decades. Large amounts of foreign aid to the Palestinians are spent to support terrorists and deepen hostility.
For years the most senior figures in the Palestinian Authority have supported, condoned and glorified terror. “Every drop of blood that has been spilled in Jerusalem,” President Mahmoud Abbas said last September on Palestinian television, “is holy blood as long as it was for Allah.” Countless Palestinian officials and state-run television have repeatedly hailed the murder of Jews.
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Russia, as Sarah Palin predicted they would in 2008, is invading Ukraine.
China hungrily eyes the Japanese Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Iran races toward the nuclear red line. In Syria, Bashar Assad, allied with Russia, slaughters thousands of own people — daily. The North Korean gulag starves millions and continues to build and test long-range missiles. Egypt is in a perpetual state of turmoil with each side accusing the other of being, get this, Jews. Iraq is ground zero for homicide bombers. Afghanistan is becoming a Taliban state… again. Lebanon slides closer to the abyss of sectarian civil war. And Fatah is on the verge of open civil war—when are they not?—as exiled terrorist leader Mohammed Dahlan, moves to depose terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas.
And, oh yes, for all you feminists out there who agitate for the right to murder babies in the womb—of whom 84% are black—how about those honor hysterectomies,the latest atrocity authored by the Palestinians.
Protests on campus?
Of course not. The left are busy demonizing the Jewish State.
With such bloody global turmoil, President Obama moves decisively, and comes down hard on — Israel.
Yes, the community agitator with a history of Jew-hating BFFs, has chosen, once again, to hammer the Jewish State. The pretext? Apartment buildings. In the world according to Obama, Jews must be confined to a manageable ghetto. It’s not enough that the Arab and Muslim world is functionally Judenrein, for Obama and the genocidal Jew-haters of the left, the Jewish State does not even have the right to live in the Jewish State, which includes the ancient Jewish land of Judea and Samaria.
As far as Seraphic Secret is concerned, Jews have the right to live anywhere.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The original mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini, was an admirer and ally of Hitler and Mussolini. He helped recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS. This practitioner of the religion of peace was a mafia-like thug who slaughtered his numerous Arab enemies even as he inspired and led bloody pogroms while calling for jihad and the genocide of the Jewish people.
The current mufti of Jerusalem is no different from his predecessor. But this mufti sends out his call for genocide over official, U.S. funded—our tax dollars art work—Palestinian TV.
The PA, you will be amused to know, has been labeled moderate by the chattering classes. Which makes about as much sense as a moderate Nazi.