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NOT. ONE. INCH. NOT. ONE. INCH. At TZP

France has helpfully drafted a proposal to the U.N. to internationalize the Temple Mount, Har ha-Beyit. They feel that seizing control of a section of Israel’s sovereign and most holy ground will somehow calm the violence. I never accused the U.N. of being clever, but I never thought them that stupid either.—-

Israel and gunowners are both under attack. And we are both under attack by the same kind of people. Liberals who see no difference between the life of a arab with a knife killing and a Jew killing in defense of his and/or his families life. The same with gunonwers, or police now. Don’t believe me? Don’t remember obama’s son Trayvon Martin? The black panthers openly, publicly putting a bounty of Zimmerman’s head? You don’t find horror in how Governor Jay Nixon reacted by allowing part of a city to be burn and rather than standing behind police officer Wilson would have burned him as well. Yes, by the same kind of people.

Anyway, you can read the rest of the column here.

Nightmare on HaKotel Street -From TZP

My latest column over at TZP is Nightmare on HaKotel Street.

I really, really, really do think there is a connection between what happens in Israel and what happens in America. I read an interesting column the other day called “Does Disaster Strike America when it pressures Israel“. They make a pretty good case it does, by relating things America has pressured Israel into that were not in it’s best interests and what happened in America within days, sometimes within hours. It’s pretty interesting reading and not that long.

In this case, I think we will see in America what they are seeing in Israel with the terror stabbing attacks. I mean why wouldn’t we? Barry is importing them like crazy and we have no idea what countries they are from. In Europe they have found out about 80% of the “refugees” are not Syrian.  Muslims consider America the Great satan and Israel the little satan.

It seems the collective reaction from the world to the terror attacks, the ones they know about, which certainly are not all of them, is “meh”. Then there is the media, MSLSD has been caught lying on camera about some of the attacks, and CNN is as reliable as it always is, which is to say, not.

This column on TZP should give you a better idea of what Israelis are facing, and I think we need to be standing with them a lot more. Secretary of State Kerry is dumb as a pile of rocks, or just taking orders from barry. Come to think of it, I think barry’s requirement for selecting a Secretary of State is #1 They must  hate America. After that I think he’s pretty “flexible”.

This violence is NOT going both ways folks, the “peaceful palestinians” are attacking Jews, and the Jews are dying. This is not a cycle of violence, I don’t care where you hear that crap.

I have a pretty good idea this is how the rest of the world and the UN will respond when we are under attack in this country too from the muslims. Or when they start going after political dissidents.

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Am I a Calzone? Over at TZP

Ahh, the days of Missouri politics. But since there are forces afoot to try to stifle free speech from mere citizens from disturbing the elected officials, seems prudent to shine the light on the roaches.

Over at The Zelman Partisans I’ve laid out what is going on with Missouri First and Ron Calzone. Am I a Calzone?

Day 3, The Ghetto Fighters House

Today was a big day! The Ghetto fighters museum! It’s in Acco, in the northern part of Israel. But having learned my lesson at the Ha’Hagana museum I knew I needed a proper Steno pad. The day we visited the Ha’Hagana museum I had to borrow Deb’s little pocket notebook. Not good. But in my defense last year I was only writing for myself, not anyone else. This year I need more. So before we set off I dashed next door to the Shuk Ha’Carmel. Think something along the lines of Wild Woody’s, except bigger. WAY bigger and more diverse. I had scoped it out the day before and I kind of knew where the stalls were that would have what I needed. I was able to get what I needed in short order. A good steno pad, a green pen and a green pen that writes with green ink. Believe it or not, it’s handy to be able to look at notes and in a glance have things color coded. Oh, and some hot pink nail polish and clear base coat. Because there are times a girl just NEEDS hot pink nail polish. I was able to do my shopping in Hebrew (admittedly, I didn’t need to know a lot for this) and was back in probably 10-15 minutes. I think Deb was a little surprised. But prior scouting helps.

So the trip to Acco was pretty long from Tel Aviv but I made good use of the time by coming up with interview questions for Moshe Feiglin. Yes indeed, prior planning! Optimistic prior planning.

The Ghetto Fighters House is amazing. The provided link will allow you to do a virtual tour, and I will post a more in depth story on it for TZP.

 

But for now I will just share some pictures I took. Look at this ancient aqueduct. Tried to obliterate the Jewish people, but hey, they CAN build a heck of a aqueduct! The area is beautiful. The museum is top drawer.

Aquaduct

Aquaduct

Roman Engineering

Roman Engineering

After the Ghetto Fighters House we caught the bus back to Acco. Once in Acco the fun began of trying to find the bus station. Walking around Acco was beautiful, until the last neighborhood we walked through. For some reason that made me froggy, very froggy. But Deb had a great app on her phone and we finally found it. But Acco was beautiful.

Deb is a transportation maven. She is a whiz at finding bus routes, train routes and how to mix match and find the best way to get to where we need to go. This was wonderful though because we ended up taking the bus from the North down to Beer Sheva . Now the most fabulous part of the trip, we ended up going by the apartment where we lived last year and I got to see MY Etz Tamar!! I waved at it. I think it misses me too.

Etz Tamar, MY Etz Tamar

Etz Tamar, MY Etz Tamar

Yom HaShoah + More at TZP

A couple of things you might want to check out at The Zelman Partisans.

From Claire:

Banish it, vanish it, boot it!

The BATFE, that is.

This weekend, the crack reporting team of Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea (the bloggers who broke the Fast & Furious scandal) revealed another scandal-to-be. Or perhaps we should say “scandal that should be” since chances are this one will get swept under the rug, its significance ignored.

They’re reporting that the NRA made a deal to save the ATF’s bacon.

Still think the NRA is the gun owners friend?

The column on Yom Hashoah,

Yom HaShoah orיום השואה

The Watchmen (and women) on the wall–on TZP

G-d appoints some people to be Watchmen (and women) and they have a serious responsibility. Especially when you consider some of the other types of people. The Watchmen (and women) on the Wall.

 

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John Hancock is Pond Scum

Well, I don’t mean it negatively of course, it just came up in casual conversion. Practically mentioned as an aside. It’s not like I mentioned he’s a bottom feeder that secretly meets with Claire McCaskill.

And believe me, I am reining it in. If I weren’t I would say something like John Hancock is

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and yes, it is about that transparent.

Tom Schweich was Missouri’s Auditor, and by all accounts, even those of liberal Tony Messenger a good one and a decent man. Tom was driven to kill himself by two things that never should have been.

A vicious political hit ad, if you are a candidate and the best ad you can come up with is to attack someone’s physical appearance you obviously don’t have a damn thing to offer now do you? You talk about squashing your opponent like a bug and you think people will flock to your platform? WHAT THE HECK is in your head because it obviously isn’t a brain! You are not laying out a vision for Missouri, you are not telling us how you will overcome Jay Nixon’s disastrous decisions and policies. You are not telling us how you will decrease unemployment, fix the broken DOR or undo any of Nixonian corruption. I wouldn’t vote for Catherine Hanaway if you paid me.

You can listen for yourself.

 

But that’s politics, right? I’ve seen the game played a time or two. It’s not like I’m a total stranger to it. If you can’t tell by what I’ve written so far, I’m livid, absolutely FLIPPING LIVID.

 

The second thing is that Hancock began a whisper campaign against Schweich based on his Judaism. Except Schweich wasn’t Jewish, his Grandfather was. This is wrong on so many levels. First, his religion and ethnicity shouldn’t even be an issue, this is a political campaign, it should be about ideas, platforms and policies. Liberals and Democrats run campaigns based on color and ethnicity, these were suppose to be Republicans. John Hancock is the Chair of the Republican party, he sets the tone for the party, right? Second, being Jewish should never be a impediment to office, obviously Hancock thinks it should be or he wouldn’t be trying to do a whisper campaign, right? I agree with John Danforth on this one.

Hancock has said that he may have mentioned his mistaken belief that Schweich was Jewish, but that it was innocent conversation. He has vehemently denied it was meant as a smear. He has said it was merely a description, similar to saying, “I’m Presbyterian and somebody else is Catholic.”Without naming Hancock, Danforth dismissed that denial.“Tom called this anti-Semitism, and of course it was. The only reason for going around saying that someone is Jewish is to make political profit from religious bigotry,” Danforth said.“Someone said this was no different than saying a person is a Presbyterian. Here’s how to test the credibility of that remark: When was the last time anyone sidled up to you and whispered into your ear that such and such a person is a Presbyterian?”

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The fact that Republicans haven’t ditched this jacka$$ tells me about all I need to know about the Republican party. This shouldn’t even been a hard choice. It’s not like do I have chocolate cherry ice cream or chocolate peanut butter. THAT’ is a hard choice. This should be easy. Dead easy.

You know, Ed Martin was chairman of the Republican party for a year. Ed is a decent man, principled and moral. Had he remained chairman of the party for longer than a year perhaps he could have turned the behemoth known as the Republican party shi, er ship in a better direction. He perhaps could have made it into a party people would be excited to become involved in. But here is what I do KNOW, he managed to be party chair for a year, and no one died. Hancock is party chair for 5 minutes and a good man lies dead.

 

Let’s talk a little about the concept of “Jewish Justice”. This notion of sticking your hands in your pocket, digging your toe in the dirt and simpering “well, I didn’t mean anything by it. It was just a casual conversation” doesn’t fly. You own up to what you did, and then you find out what it will take for you to make the situation right. There needs to be restoration for the harm caused. So, Mr. Hancock, how do you propose to make restoration?

 

Lloyd Thomas Sloan has a list of fascinating questions that Duane Lester posted over at the Missouri Torch. To my knowledge Hancock has answered not a one. And he should. I don’t see how Republicans can expect people to support an openly antisemitic party, and the fact that Hancock is still there just says SO much. They have pretty much left it too late. They needed to get rid of him when this first came out.

 

With a huge batch of Democrats boycotting Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech which involves American interests, not just Israel’s you would have thought Republicans would have realized this might be a chance to show a group that unfortunately tends to vote Dem that there is a better alternative. Two thoughts spring to mind. 1) Tone deaf 2) dumber than a box of rocks. Because believe me, I have had more people ask me about this, and ask me how antisemitic is the Missouri Republican Party. Initially I said they weren’t. This has gone on too long, Hancock is still there.

 

I have a radio interview coming up I believe, the topic is “Why Jews Need Guns”. It’s because politicians like Hancock help get politicians elected. And elected politicians brought us this. ֡ I guess I should be thanking the MO Republican party and Hancock for giving me material shouldn’t I?

Auschwitz

Auschwitz

 

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The Holocaust: Through Their Eyes

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”~~John Donne

I attended a showing of The Holocaust: Through their eyes at the Jewish Community Center. It is the accounts of local holocaust survivors. Not people who heard about it from their distant cousin or parents, but lived it, survived it. Posted over at The Zelman Partisans

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is the the date designated in 2005 by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Holocaust

Holocaust

 

And how many are still asleep at the wheel? They don’t realize the noose draws tighter. The nazi’s simply used the gun laws already on the books. Like the ones we have more than enough of already.

 

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No Calls for Knife Control? –Over at TZP

On 21 January a man armed with a 8 inch knife managed to perpetrate a horrific attack. Twelve people were wounded in the attack, of which three who were in serious condition, four in moderate condition and five who sustained light injuries. Another seven people were treated for shock.

I take a look at the security measures in place that failed. And what the result of that failure was. There is one politician that is calling for citizens to be armed. Some good videos too. No Calls For Knife Control–over at The Zelman Partisans

 

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