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Saturday, March 27, 2004

Speaking truth to power Dept. Statement by Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman, to the UN.
"There cannot be peace and terror. There cannot be peace and Hamas"

Mr. President,

In three and a half years of Palestinian terrorist attacks that have murdered hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians and wounded thousands more, this Council has not met even once to express condemnation of a single attack. Not one resolution, not one presidential statement has been adopted by this Council to specifically denounce the deliberate massacre of our innocent civilians. Not two months ago when 11 Israeli citizens were murdered in a horrific homicide bomb attack on a bus in central Jerusalem on 29 January. In the wake of our anguish, our efforts to elicit some response from the Council were not met with even a presidential statement.

And yet today, following a sad and familiar pattern, the Council convenes. Why? Not to condemn the terrorism, not to honor the memory of the hundreds murdered by it, but to come to the defense of one of its prime perpetrators, a godfather of terrorism. This is not a message of which the Council can be proud. Frankly, it is an outrage. . . .
Need I say RTWT?

UPDATE: Tom notes a disquieting resemblance.

Thursday, March 25, 2004

The Jewish way in marriage: "What every man wants": Rabbi Yisroel Miller in his book, In Search of the Jewish Woman, writes about "three immensely practical secrets, secrets known to all men and almost no women":
  1. Compliments a wife gives her husband hit home deeply.
  2. A wife's opinion of her husband is vitally important to him.
  3. A husband desires desperately that his wife should be happy.

According to Emuna Braverman, all men reallt want from their wives is appreciation, respect and love. If only it were that simple...

Monday, March 22, 2004

How to pass the time while stuck in traffic. Only in Israel. Or Brooklyn maybe. A couple of Jews decide, as long as they are stuck in traffic anyway, to pull over and daven mincha. Read the rest. (Hey, it's more productive than pounding on the steering wheel and screaming epithets at the reporters on "All Things Considered")

(via Protocols)