Monthly Archives: September 2010

Isaiah 45: 10-13—“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘To what are you giving birth?’” Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: ‘Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, and you shall commit to Me the work of My hands. It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands and I ordained all their host. I have aroused him in righteousness and I will make all his ways smooth; he will build My city and will let My exiles go free, without any payment or reward,’ says Yahweh Sabaoth.”

Shalu shalom Yerushalayim: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122: 6)

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“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Scripture of the day:

Isaiah 45: 10-13—“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘To what are you giving birth?’”  Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: ‘Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, and you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.  It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it.  I stretched out the heavens with My hands and I ordained all their host.  I have aroused him in righteousness and I will make all his ways smooth; he will build My city and will let My exiles go free, without any payment or reward,’ says Yahweh Sabaoth.”

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4: 6)

News Items of Interest:

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Israeli Uncensored News

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“I’m not a conspiracy buff, never have been, but I haven’t buried my head in the sand either.  The old adage says, ‘Where there is smoke, there is fire.’  Well, there’s plenty of smoke so pretending there’s no fire defies logic and common sense.”  Neil Snyder

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Ephesians 6: 12—“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” (Anonymous)

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“The sky is not falling. Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations were suspended on Sunday, perhaps briefly and perhaps for months, after Israel’s 10-month moratorium on settlement construction expired. Palestinian officials said they would refuse to talk if construction restarted, and so they did. Yet war hasn’t broken out, nor will it.”

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“In the four weeks since direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resumed, settlement construction has been identified widely as the most immediate obstacle to the survival of negotiations.”

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“Right after the War of Independence, prime minister David Ben-Gurion faced inexorably difficult pressures over the future of Jerusalem.  The UN planned to press its case for internationalization. Its grounds were General Assembly Resolution 181, adopted in 1947 and known as the partition plan, which not only advocated the establishment of Jewish and Arab states in former British Mandatory Palestine, but also recommended putting Jerusalem under UN control as a corpus separatum, or separate entity.”

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“Is not the Torah the text par excellence? Is not the Torah rich and subtle and rewarding in some places, and obscure in others? The answer is yes, but the Torah is still not a text.”

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“The Western media can talk all it wants to about the regime in Turkey as reformist and democratic. Didn’t it just sponsor a referendum that increased freedoms? But this is for show. Here’s an example of the reality.”

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“After acceding to U.S. requests for nine months by freezing construction on existing Jewish settlements in the West Bank and also not building over the pre-1967 frontier in Jerusalem, Israel got nothing.”

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“Tens or even hundreds of thousands of Americans are having coronary artery angioplasty and stenting every year when they should be having bypass grafts, and the result is an extra 5,000 or more deaths annually.”

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“Social scientists use the parable of the “floating babies” to remind us that we can’t solve a problem until we know its source.”

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“Stephen Colbert’s ‘testimony’ before Congress last week was a clear sign that ironic rot (if you’ve got a better term, let me know) is sinking into the foundation of our political system.”

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“For the first time in years, Army troops are training for “full-spectrum operations” — mounting large strikes against all types of enemies, not just insurgents.”

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“Progressives want to raise taxes on individuals who make more than $200,000 a year because they say it’s wrong for the rich to be ‘given’ more money. Sunday’s New York Times carries a cartoon showing Uncle Sam handing money to a fat cat. They just don’t get it.”

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“For years, there has been an insistent demand for ‘diversity’ – equal access by race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc. – in education, employment, health care and other lifelong definitions of being an American. These battles for equal opportunity continue in the courts and legislatures. However, in the accelerating, contentious emphasis on education reform, there is a growing discovery of another crucial meaning of ‘diversity.’”

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“’But I guess I started to believe, on some small level, that he had a magic wand,’ she (Velma Hart) said.”

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“The modern record is a loss of 74 seats set in 1922, by the Democrats, at the height of the Harding/Teapot Dome scandals. This year, the Democrats will lose at least 80 House seats and perhaps as many as 100, and will also lose control of the Senate.”

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“The Service Employees International Union plans to send 25,000 rank-and-file workers on 500 buses to Washington this weekend to protest the tea party movement, Republicans and Fox News. If SEIU members had any sense, they’d be demonstrating at their own bosses’ D.C. headquarters. It’s the Big Labor Left, not the Tea Party Right, that is flushing rank-and-file union workers’ hard-earned dues down the collective toilet in these hard times.”

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“The feds are probing former labor leader Andy Stern – one of the most frequent visitors to the Obama White House last year – in a corruption investigation of the Service Employees International Union, according to sources who have been interviewed and media reports….The White House had no response.”

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“I would vote against anyone who plays the race card. Race and politics have been an explosive mixture in countries around the world.”

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“The map of the Senate races shows Republicans leading over almost all the landmass of America. Democrats are ahead in the three West Coast states and Hawaii (though not by much in California and Washington) and by 1 point in Nevada. They’re also ahead in four states along the Atlantic Coast – Maryland, Delaware, New York, Connecticut – plus Vermont.”

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“NBC Universal is getting ridiculous with its shameless courting of President Obama. On the morning of Sept. 27, NBC’s Matt Lauer interviewed Obama for a half-hour with no commercials. But it wasn’t just on NBC. Their devotion to El Jefe is so transparent they aired it live on most of their other cable properties, including MSNBC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, Chiller, Sleuth, Universal HD and Universal Sports.”

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“Chinese ‘workers are becoming harder to find and to keep,’ The Economist magazine recently reported. ‘Strikes have been unusual in their frequency…their longevity and their targets….’ The Economist argued this is ultimately good news for planet Earth.”

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“President Obama’s old sloganeering has worn thin. It’s time for a new motto for the most powerful man in the world. And he’s up to the challenge. Obama’s new slogan: ‘It’s not me, it’s you.’”

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“A nation of 300 million souls – richest and most powerful in the world, for all its messes and perturbations – needs a turning radius wide as the future. But you know what – realization precedes intellectual assent, which precedes needed action. There’s much to be hopeful about as the nation goes in for its electoral physical.”

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“Rush Limbaugh made a rare TV appearance on the Fox News Channel with Greta Van Susteren last night, who asked him the following question: Which politician currently do you admire most or impresses you the most?”

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“In 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that it lacked authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions as the cause of global warming.”

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“In May of last year, after several visits to the White House by the trial bar’s top lobbyists, Obama signed an obscure memorandum ordering federal regulators to re-examine rules that make it harder for trial lawyers to sue federally regulated businesses in state courts.”

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“Christopher Hitchens, one of the most important journalists in the English-speaking world (a columnist for Vanity Fair, a contributing editor to The Atlantic), is of two minds about the Islamic Arab world. Or, rather, for him it is divided in two – the Palestinians and all the rest.”

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Inking a deal that creates an international trusteeship to govern the “Holy Basin” may be difficult, but quelling the violence it will spawn will be impossible.

In an op-ed for the Jerusalem Post, Ehud Olmert, former Prime Minister of Israel and former Jerusalem mayor, suggested turning over governance of the “Holy Basin” to an international trusteeship.  (See The terms for an accord.)

What is the “Holy Basin”?  The answer to that question will be controversial no matter who tries to define the boundary, but generally it refers to an area that includes the Old City of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, the Western Wall (i.e., the Kotel), the Kidron Valley (also known as the Valley of Jehoshaphat), and the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

Inking a deal may be difficult, but quelling the violence it will spawn will be impossible.  There are people on both sides who revere the “Holy Basin”.  In their minds, turning it over to anyone is totally unacceptable.

It’s interesting to watch men attempt to settle a dispute about this particular piece of real estate because it’s the epicenter of the land Yahweh promised to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob, and He talked about it specifically.  This is what Yahweh told the prophet Joel:

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.  Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land.”  (Joel 3: 1-2)

Yes indeed, we are living in some exciting times.

The Holy Basin from Atop the Hill of Evil Counsel—Current Home of the UN in Jerusalem

In the Kidron Valley Looking Up at the Temple Mount

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