And There Was Joy

Deutschland Uber Alles

The Durban Conference

AIPAC called on the Obama administration to "firmly, fully and publicly repudiate her views on Israel and her long public record of hostility and one-sided bias against the Jewish state."

Curse or Blessing?

On May 14, 1948, the United States, in the person of President Harry S. Truman, was the first to recognize “the provisional government as de facto authority of the new state of Israel.” Since that time America has experienced unparalleled blessing, but will blessing continue?

“SINCE IT came into office a month ago, every single Middle East policy the Obama administration has announced has been antithetical to Israel's national security interests. From President Barack Obama's intense desire to appease Iran's mullahs in open discussions; to his stated commitment to establish a Palestinian state as quickly as possible despite the Palestinians' open rejection of Israel's right to exist and support for terrorism; to his expressed support for the so-called Saudi peace plan, which would require Israel to commit national suicide by contracting to within indefensible borders and accepting millions of hostile, foreign-born Arabs as citizens and residents of the rump Jewish state; to his decision to end US sanctions against Syria and return the US ambassador to Damascus; to his plan to withdraw US forces from Iraq and so give Iran an arc of uninterrupted control extending from Iran to Lebanon, every single concrete policy Obama has enunciated harms Israel“ (Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor, The Jerusalem Post, Feb 19, 2009).

“How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel. … Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee” (Numbers 24:5-9).

Casting Truth to the Ground

A Cup of Trembling

Gaza: 7th of Tevet, 5769

Psalms 83: 14-19: “O my G-d, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind. As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze; So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O L-RD. Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish; That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the L-RD, the Most High over all the earth.”

Yet, “saith the L-rd G-D, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live” (cf. Ezekiel 33:11).