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If not now, when?

Ari Shavit at Haaretz, quoted by Jewish Current Issues in August 2005:

 

... if the entire public does not know how to mourn

the death of Gush Katif, its death will poison our lives.

 

 

See also Bret Stephens in today's Wall Street Journal: "I was wrong to support Israel's 'disengagement' from the [Gaza] Strip in 2005."

 

 

 

  "Gush Katif Closed."        "Uprooting Jews will break our heart."

 

 

 

Sirens Heard in Israel's Capital City

 

2:47 PM (Israel time, EST +7):

 

The rocket fired toward Jerusalem missed the city

but hit an open area in a Palestinian village.

 

 

Am Yisrael Chai ... cont'd

 

“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children

more than they hate us.”

(Golda Meir to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 1957)

 

Israel is a light unto the nations. Watch this:

 

Fighting for peace

Carl in Jerusalem writes that this is "spot-on."  I agree.

From A Moment of Truth in Israel by Daniel Greenfield:

 

.... The only way to end the threat of Hamas in Gaza is by retaking Gaza, but no such policy is on the table. Like America, Israel responds to terrorism not with the aim of achieving decisive victories, but with a policy of intimidating the terrorists into scaling down their attacks. This is a political policy of political generals and leads to terror becoming a permanent institution. 

Israel has tried negotiating its way out of the terrorist trap. It has not tried fighting its way out. Israel has tried to escape the occupation, but in a region where you are either the occupier or the occupied, it may have no choice.

...

But what is Israel fighting for? Like so many modern countries it is fighting so as not to fight. It is fighting for peace. It is fighting to escape from fighting. And so like many modern countries it cannot bring itself to fight hard enough to break the cycle. Instead it fights just hard enough to defer the fight by another few years and the cycle continues.

 

 

 

 

See also  Sitting Shiva for Gush Katif

at Jewish Current Issues, August 19, 2005.

 

 

"You just be careful"

 

This might "give it away," so to speak, but it's the best excerpt on chance that you may not read it all... which you absolutely should do. 

 

Dealing with the real by Zahava Englard

.... I contact my daughter in the States.

“Did you hear from him?”

“Just a short text, a minute ago.”

“What did he say?”

“Hi.”

I go out to my terrace to have a cigarette, my too-manyeth of the day, and decide to drive out to Jerusalem. I promised my nephew to see his art show in the town’s center. On the drive there, I get a call confirming what I already knew.

“Travelling anywhere?”

“Yeah, they’re taking us to the beach. Too bad I left my bathing suit at home. I’ll have to wing it.”

“Funny Rom. You just be careful. Be smart. Don’t be a hero…You still have to clean your room.”

“Don’t worry Mom. I’m in a safe place. You can sleep well tonight.”

Right.

I put off speaking to my parents back in the States for as long as possible. I was never good at the lying thing....

 

 

On the Information Front: Israel under PRESSure

While it is painful to watch the Media's War on Israel, IDF Spokesperson Col. Avital Leibovitch performs magnificently... under PRESSure. Kol hakavod!

(If you're a YouTube subscriber, please give her a 'like.')

 

 

via The Muqata

 

And for us all, Encouragement from Bibi!

I would like to thank all the citizens of Israel and all over the world who are taking part in the national information effort. You are performing a very important job, and I am following your activities

We are engaged on four fronts: The military front, the home front, the diplomatic front and the information front. What you are doing provides us with serious reinforcement on the information front, we have to battle for the truth, the facts and your help is tremendous.

The fact that you are focusing on rebutting the entire falsehood industry, and reaching the audiences that you are getting to is a significant bonus for the State of Israel. Keep up your important work and I can tell you that in the next few days we are going to have major tasks and efforts to perform. All the best and thanks a lot."

 

Good advice for TEA PARTY and other conservative activists

Asked what conservatives can do "tomorrow or in the very near future, to have a better outcome in 2014 and 2016," Jim Geraghty answered:

 

REST.

 

He explains in the Morning Jolt newsletter:

....The tea-party movement was born in the immediate aftermath of Obama's initial actions in office, the stimulus and the beginnings of the Obamacare debate (along with a lingering anger over TARP). I dismiss most of the talk about the Tea Party being "over" or fading away, but I do worry about burnout.

Most Americans don't pay attention to politics, and a lot of tea-party members are folks who wish they didn't have to pay attention to politics. They have other things they would like to spend time and energy and money on: their families, their businesses or professional lives, their other passions. But they were spurred by the events of 2008 and 2009 to get active, because they felt their livelihoods, their chance for a better future, and their country's future were endangered by reckless policies in Washington, and they proved an immensely powerful political force. But you can't expect every tea-party activist to operate at 110 percent passion and dedication in perpetuity.

Online and elsewhere I hear some activists respond to this month's defeat with comments in the vein of, "We just have to fight harder! We have to double our efforts! The fate of the nation is at stake, and we need to be twice as committed, twice as active, twice as passionate, twice as . . ."

As a dear friend said shortly after the election, "It is heartbreaking when you give your all and you learn it wasn't enough." The problem in this campaign was not that grassroots conservatives didn't try hard enough, or put in enough effort, or that any of us didn't want it bad enough. There will be more fights down the road (probably soon with the fiscal cliff, etc.), and they will surely ignite our passions and furies naturally, but the Right will sputter if there isn't some recognition of the activists' need to rest and recharge their batteries -- particularly after such a Herculean effort that still resulted in such a disappointing result.

 

Rest. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

 

Quote of the Day

Mannie Sherberg:

 The magisterial pontificating we hear

incessantly from the so-called intellectual Left

 is what you get when

Secular Humanism takes over the job

left vacant by the 'Death of God.' "

 

 

 

Hot Spit! (and Kol hakavod, Tzahal!)

The Muqata

• ‎5:14 PM Confirmed - 4 Senior Islamic Jihad Terrorists Eliminated.

 

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

• According to various Arab and Israeli news sources, the commander of Islamic Jihad's Artillery unit was killed in an IDF airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

• Isr. Ch. 2 News: Hezbollah tried to fire Katyusha rockets from Lebanon. Rockets were neutralized before launch.

• ‎4 SENIOR ISLAMIC JIHAD-IS ELIMINATED!!