Friday 6 March 2009

FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE - FRANK SINATRA

FOR YOU PAULA
WITH LOVE




The Lyrics :

FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE

Writer(s): murden/miller

For once in my life Ive got someone who needs me

Someone Ive needed so long

For once unafraid I can go where life leads me

And somehow I know Ill be strong

For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of

Long before I knew

Someone warm like you

Could make my dreams come true

For once in my life I wont let sorrow hurt me

Not like its hurt me before

For once Ive got someone I know wont desert me

And Im not alone anymore

For once I can say: this is mine you cant take it

As long as Ive got love I know I can make it

For once in my life Ive got someone who needs me

13 th ELITE COMMANDO TRAINING EXERCISE


13th Elite Commando Unit Training Exercise



The 13th Commando Unit is one of the most elite and daring units in the whole of the IDF. Service in the unit includes infantry training and comprehensive training in naval warfare. The soldiers of the 13th Commando Unit complete intensive infantry training, courses in counter-terror and counter-guerrilla warfare, the parachuting course, training in attacking and raiding from the air and the sea, training in operating naval vessels and advanced classified weapon. In the photo: Fighters of the 13th Commando Unit during a training exercise that took place Wednesday (Feb. 25).
IN: Israel Defense Forces site : http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/

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Parshat Tetzaveh and Purim: A Time to Shine

Parshat Tetzaveh and Purim: A Time to Shine

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THE WITCH ATTACKS ISRAEL - SO WHAT ELSE DID YOU EXPECT ?




Blogmaster: How easy it has always been for Clinton to criticize Israel while embracing whatever palestinian leader comes along. It is perfectly desirable in Clinton's view, to demolish Jewish homes and destroy Jewish towns who she says are "Illegal". When it comes to "Illegal" arab homes, well...that is a completely separate issue. What hypocritical drivel. We should not be surprised by any anti-Israel comment or action taken by Clinton or the U.S. State Department - just remember who is pulling her strings "Osama Hussein Obama":




Clinton Criticizes Israel's Eviction, Demolition Plans





By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 5, 2009;

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized the Israeli government on Wednesday for its plans to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, calling the actions "unhelpful" and a violation of international obligations.

Clinton made the rare public complaint about Israeli actions in response to a question at a news conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel's plans to destroy homes in Arab East Jerusalem, which Palestinians consider the capital of a future Palestinian state, have angered Palestinians.

The Jerusalem municipal government in recent weeks began planning to evict 1,500 residents and raze 88 homes in an area Israel has designated as a national park, on top of other demolition plans for the Silwan neighborhood. Israel says the houses were built without permits, but Palestinians say that permits are impossible to obtain and that many of the homes were built before Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967. Israel's subsequent annexation of East Jerusalem has not been internationally recognized.

"It is a matter of deep concern to those who are directly affected, but the ramifications go far beyond the individuals and families that have received the notices," Clinton said. "It will be taken up with the Israeli government.'

A visibly angry Abbas denounced the demolition plans, saying, "It is a clear message to us that whoever is undertaking these measures does not want peace."

During her three-day swing through the Middle East, Clinton generally had stepped gingerly in public when addressing sources of friction with Israel, such as the continued expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. When queried about settlement activity by reporters, she tended to avoid answering and sometimes appeared to abstain from using the word "settlements," in favor of "that issue."

Palestinian officials said they view settlement activity as a key measure of whether the Obama administration will be able to influence the incoming Israeli government and push peace negotiations forward. Although upbeat about Clinton's comments, they were skeptical that -- in the end -- the planned demolitions in Silwan would be stopped, or other planned developments slowed or scaled back.

"We are happy, of course. . . . East Jerusalem has been ignored during Bush's time. We hope that will change," said Jawad Siyam, head of a Palestinian group opposed to the Silwan demolitions.
After Clinton's meetings with top Israeli politicians Tuesday, State Department officials refused to discuss whether she had privately raised concerns that Israel's tight control over border crossings in Gaza was thwarting humanitarian relief to the coastal strip devastated by a recent 22-day Israeli assault against the militant group Hamas. Only after the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Wednesday that Clinton had pressed the point, saying Israeli policy may be doing more harm than good, did she say she had discussed it.

Clinton's willingness to criticize Israel over the East Jerusalem plans -- on her first trip as secretary of state -- "is significant, but it is not enough," said Mustafa Barghouti, an independent Palestinian politician. "It has to be a strong stand. . . . They still support a two-state solution, but the window's closing."

Indeed, for much of her visit, Clinton appeared to echo the former U.S. administration's approach, denouncing Hamas, which Israel and the United States consider a terrorist organization, and hailing the Palestinian Authority "as the only legitimate government of the Palestinian people." Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006.The Palestinian newspaper al-Quds dubbed Clinton "Condoleezza Clinton," a biting reference to her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice.

Speaking to reporters as she flew to Brussels for talks with European and NATO officials, Clinton stressed that she is deeply committed to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as Israel's remaining disputes with its neighbors. She said that at first the Obama administration, much like the Bush administration, would play "a coordinating and facilitating role" in an effort to restart talks. But she suggested that the U.S. role could become much greater if talks progress.
"As it goes forward, many of us will be expressing those opinions and presenting positions for the parties to consider," she said.

Throughout Wednesday, Clinton heaped praise on Abbas, a U.S. favorite whose approval rating appears to be sagging as elections approach next year.

Clinton, meeting with high school students in Ramallah, said that she was impressed by a presentation by Abbas and his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, at an international donors conference for Gaza held this week. "It was one of the best I've ever seen," she said.

Correspondent Howard Schneider in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
taken from : B'NAI ELIM (http://bnaielim.blogspot.com/)

REBBEGELD



Rebbegeld is what one pays the rebbe for teaching the kids; figuratively it means the costs we bear to learn life's lessons.


Herb Kenion thinks he's sees a pattern of the Obama administration learning curve in matters of foreign affairs. First, assume Bush had it all wrong, and we'll do it better. Second, send some representatives to listen to the putative Bad Guys, to find a way of engaging them. Third, recognize that they really are problamatic, and revert to a stance that's quite similar to the previous one. (Fourth, he doesn't say, never ever admit that the previous gang more or less knew what it was doing).


So it was with Durban 2, with Iraq, now with Syria, soon to be with Iran... I can live with it. If it makes more Americans happy for having tried to play nice, while enough of their adminsitration are capable of admitting failure, I have no problem with the rebbegeld.
taken from : Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations (http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/)

ARABS IN ISRAEL



Yesterday I received a letter from the local court in a minor matter that has essentially no impact on my life except as a very minor distraction. Anyway, the letter announced a change of date of some session. Since I don't normally get such letters I had to peer at it closely for about 18 seconds to figure out what they wanted, during which time I noted that it was a bilingual document, Hebrew and Arabic. Now this isn't all that surprising, given that Israel has two official languages, but it occurred to me to glance at other documents regularly sent by the authorities, which I normally don't even see, tho I do look at them. The water bill, for example: bilingual. A recent letter from the National Insurance (Bituach Leumi): Hebrew, with some Arabic at the bottom which includes various contact data. And that's as far as I investigated the matter; the other old bills are at the accountant's.


The Jerusalem Post this morning has an interview with Haneen Zoubi, the first Arab woman ever to have been elected to Knesset by Israel's Arabs. There have been other Arab women elected to the Knesset, but as representatives of Zionist parties such as Labor and Meretz. In 60 years no Israeli Arab party has ever sent a woman to the Knesset, until Ms. Zoubi, now. (The Jewish Orthodox parties often send women to the Knesset; the Haredi including Shas, never).


Ms. Zoubi doesn't much like us, as you'd expect with a representative of the Balad party of Arab nationalists. The founder of her party, Azmi Bishara, exiled himself a year or two ago when the police began investigating charges of treason against him. The allegations were that he had assisted Hezbullah in its war against Israel, the country in which he was a member of parliament; during the war Hezbullah's indiscriminate shelling of northern Israel had killed 10-15 Israeli Arabs, I don't remember the exact number. Rather than prove his innocence Bishara removed himself from Israeli jurisdiction, though apparently he still draws an Israeli pension.


It seems to me some of Ms. Zoubi's declarations are contradicted by her own story:


"In Israel, Arabs - men and women - are virtually excluded from government positions. They don't go to the army so entire areas of post-military jobs, such as the field of high-tech, are closed to them. There are numerous examples."


Born and raised in predominantly Arab Nazareth, the northern city which serves as the unofficial capital for Israel's Arab citizens, Zoubi, a Muslim, grew up amid a large, well-known family. Some members of her extended family have been part of Israel's establishment, including cousin Abd-El-Aziz E-Zoubi, a one-time mayor of Nazareth who, as a representative of the Labor Party, was the Knesset's first minority minister (deputy minister of Health from 1971-1974 ), and Nazareth District Court judge Abd El- Rahman Zuabi, who served as a temporary Chief Justice for nine months, but was not appointed permanently to the bench.


Just for the clarification: being temporarily on the Supreme Court is standard for the worthiest of district court judges as the customary prerequisite for a permanent appointment; many temporary appointments, however, don't turn into permanent ones; there have, of course, been Arabs with permanent appointments to the top bench.


Ms. Zoubi's statement about hi-tech being closed to Israeli Arabs is of course wrong. Hi-tech in Israel is mostly private sector, not public, and entrepreneurs can do whatever they manage to raise money for. Here, for example, is the website of an entire hi-tech enterprise predicated on Arab technicians in the Galilee being cheaper than the ones near Tel Aviv. They're a business, not a charity or NGO; I myself have had a bit to do with them and they seem quite good.


The bottom line, however, is that Ms Zoubi and her rather distasteful party ran in the elections, in spite of a pathetic attempt by some politicians to thwart them, they didn't do very well because not that many voters like them, and now she's in; she's a member of Israel's Knesset.
taken from : Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations (http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/)
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