Archive for 'Israel'
Banned in Iran
Ah, those crafty Mullahs, ever on the watch-out for the 12th Man, uh, Imam, have spied out the nefarious rabbi father of Krusty the Clown and banned the very dolls created from the Simpsons. But you know who they really fear? Maggie. The one with the gun. It’s the Second Amendment thing, you see, what gave [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2012 under Israel, Library, Scribbles.
Tags: banned in Iran, the 12th Imam, the 12th Man, The Simpsons
Comments: 2
Thirty pounds of cocaine found at the UN
Now we know their problem. They’re blinded by all the “snow”, obviously. UPDATE: Make that thirty-five pounds of cocaine, in hollowed-out text books, found in bags in the UN mail room.
Posted: January 27th, 2012 under Israel, Science/Engineering, Scribbles, The War.
Tags: nuclear Iran, thirty pounds of cocaine at UN, UN
Comments: 2
Snow in Judea
Our winter is all but officially over, about a month early, oddly enough. So we have to take snow where we can get it. No place better than the Judean Hills.
Posted: January 25th, 2012 under Blogosphere, Israel, Texana, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Israel the beautiful, Yehoshua Halevi
Comments: 2
No Xmas in Gaza
Since their Hamas rulers played Grinch and cancelled Christmas. “There hasn’t been a Christmas tree in Gaza City’s main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday…Of the 1.5 million Palestinians now living in the Gaza Strip, fewer than 1,400 are Christian and [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2011 under Israel, Scribbles.
Tags: Christians leaving Muslim city, No Christmas in Gaza
Comments: none
Merry Chanukkah
Got to be the world’s largest Chanukkah menorah–atop the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv.
Posted: December 24th, 2011 under Israel, Scribbles.
Tags: Azrieli Center, Merry Chanukkah, Tel Aviv
Comments: 2
Watchmen upon thy walls
“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,” (Isaiah 62:6)
Posted: December 8th, 2011 under Israel, Scribbles.
Tags: Jerusalem Walls
Comments: none
Why Iran won’t build nukes
Or so says Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, because, despite the war drums getting louder and louder…. “What can Iran do with a nuclear weapon?” he asked rhetorically. “For example, will they hit Israel? How many Palestinians will die? And you think if Iran hits [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2011 under Israel, Scribbles, The War.
Tags: Arutz Sheva, Iran, Israel, nuclear weapons, UAE
Comments: 4
How radical is Obamalot?
We’re about to find out just how far the vacationer-in-chief will take his Leftist, pro-Muslim politics, now that urban, supposedly-sophisticated Egyptians have voted in the radical Islamists. As Spengler puts it, Egypt is becoming a banana republic without the bananas. One that, indeed, cannot even feed itself. And it would be, as he adds here, [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 under Blogosphere, Israel, Obamalot, The War, Troops.
Tags: Islamist Egypt. Banana Republic Without The Bananas
Comments: 6
Titmouse at the feeder
Just a taste of the fauna at the rancho these days: our little buddy the Tufted Titmouse. I think my pal Snoopy-the-Goon took this one on his recent visit.
Posted: November 17th, 2011 under Blogosphere, Israel, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana.
Tags: Simply Jews, Tufted Titmouse
Comments: 2
Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust documentary
The Hollywood director was already famous for his movie Lifeboat when, in 1945, he joined a group of documentary filmmakers accompanying the American and British soldiers who liberated the more than 200 camps the Nazis devoted to murdering 11 million people—6 million of them Jews. The “carnage and desolation” has “to be seen to be [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2011 under Israel, Obituaries.
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Holocaust documentary
Comments: 3







