It’s not because they aren’t trying. Radical Islamic groups launch rockets at Israel every day. The interesting thing is that they do this even when the results are so poor. The dismal thing is that the world media spends so much time talking about Palestinian dead. There are few Israeli casualties because we value human … More Gaza War 1 Apr
Despite the declarations and posturing, the United States is NOT preventing Iran from making a nuclear weapon. The Mullahs have increased their level of making weapon quality Uranium (much more concentrated than what is needed for civilian applications) and current estimates are that Iran already has enough to manufacture at least 2 nuclear weapons. Having … More Bomb, Bomb, Who’s got the Bomb?
A major obstacle to reaching an accommodation between Israel and the Palestinians has always been Jerusalem. The Palestinians have claimed that all or part of the city is theirs and that it is their capital. The fact that they actually run their services from Ramallah doesn’t affect that claim. Even the UN partition resolution of … More Deal of the Century – part 3
Every so often part of Israel, usually in the South, gets bombarded with some rockets fired by one Arab terrorist organization or another. In recent times, the Israeli Air Defense Command has been intercepting these rockets with the IRON DOME AA system. It is an amazing bit of technology. The control radar is able to … More I live in a Tough Neighborhood
I spent most of the day watching television. It was a very practical decision, Israeli missiles killed a leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza. In response, or so they said, that group launched over 150 rockets into Israel. Many were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. As of right now, … More A Day Watching the War
UNIFIL (UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON) just had it’s annual mandate renewed on August 29th. The organization currently comprises some 10,500 personnel from over 40 countries. Participation ranges from over 1300 Indonesians to single individuals from several different countries. What they have in common is an assignment to try to keep the Lebanon-Israel border … More UNIFIL is still with us
The latest events in our neighborhood have an almost surrealistic aura about them. I mentioned previously that Nasrallah and Hizbullah in Lebanon were making threats. I also beleive taht when Nasrallah threatens something. he intends to make it happen. Well, maybe not this time. According to a report that surfaced in the London Times there … More …And Getting Burned
This past week has seen a sharp rise in the number of incidents on the borders of Israel. Some of them have been in the South, where there have been rockets, mortar fire, and attempts at infiltration by individuals armed with grenades, knives, and firearms. Others have been in the North, Iran continues to send … More Playing With Fire
When I was returning home about 30 minutes ago the entrance to our village was blocked. There were several security vehicles on the road and an a mass of personnel from the police, military, and rescue organizations (fire and ambulance) all over the area. A couple of hours earlier an off-duty policemen from the Hebron … More This Time It Was Closer to Home
Winston Churchill wrote a book about the Sudanese Campaign in which he participated over a century ago. The First edition of that book contains the following prescient passage. “How dreadful are the curses which Mohamedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy. which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in dog, there … More Islamic Fanaticism – Earlier Version
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