For Peace Sake

Will any of today's events negate the Koranic admonition to kill Jews? Israel and Jews did not go hunting Gazans on October 7, 2023. Terrorists and civilians from Gaza entered Israel to slaughter in the worst ways possible, loot, and rape. Until Islam reforms away from conversion by the sword and slave taking in war, including sex slavery of infidels, peace with Muslims will remain illusory. It is a blessing that the captives of Israel have been redeemed, but the prospect of a conflict-free Middle East is NOT foreseeable. 

Really No Choice

My great grandmother talked about walking across the tundra as a Jew fleeing the Czar and his pogroms. She always said of this but really in all contexts, "you need to make the best of things". This becomes a philosophy in dealing with everything in life. 

Fighting Mister Murphy

Just about everything at my house decided to break just in time for my elementary school age daughter's first visit since this summer. Water heater down, dead bolt lock jammed in place blocking door from working, leak of undetermined origin, and all this happens right when my little girl is picked up. Maybe, we should just have checked into the Ritz before everything went on the fritz. 

A Venezuelan Won!

In a great up-yours to the Golden Ego, Mr. Peacemaker was NOT awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It went to someone from the nation I mentioned yesterday- Venezuela! Sure, one percent of the world had even heard of her before the Prize, and only a very small portion of the globe is affected by her activism, but at least Trump did not receive an accolade meant for folks that actually have souls. 

Your Own Conclusion

There are two ways to read Donald Trump. Either he loves all humanity and genuinely wants peace, or he is the ultimate self-aggrandizer and needs a Nobel Peace Prize to cross off his accomplishment list. When I see him gleefully blowing up boats with people on them off Venezuela, I do not see Trump as the ultimate humanitarian. 

Canada Needed America

If the United States did not exist, Canada would be part of Russia. It has only been America with the great buffer of Alaska that kept the former USSR from conquering our ungrateful neighbor to the North. 

The Tragic Anniversary

This is NOT a happy anniversary baby, as babies were callously butchered by Palestinian fanatics two years ago today. Nearly every Israeli casualty since then has been caused by the IDF trying to protect the so-called noncombatants of Gaza who all too often are willing human shield for Hamas. Israel should have reduced Gaza to rubble on October 8, 2023. Not a single Israeli soldier had to die there to rid the strip of terrorists forever, but the ethical doctrine of the Israeli military of "purity of arms" meant risking and losing primarily Jewish and Druze lives along with some Christian and Muslim IDF volunteers to protect folks that would gladly murder every non-Sunni baby they could find, just as hey did in the pogrom two years ago today. Israel should have carpet bombed Gaza. Yes, hostages would have been lost, but no nation or non-state actor would ever have messed with the Jews again and all the troops lost in Gaza would have come home alive to their families.