George Santayana, Call Your Office.

“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”

Well, Dear Readers, meet the the doomed generation:



This is our future. And you wonder why Obama was elected and re-elected?

The Reason Benjamin Netanyahu And Barack Obama See The World So Differently.

One spent his youth defending his community.
The other spent his youth organizing his.


Image from Maggie's.

Next year in Jerusalem!

A very Happy Passover to our Hebrew friends.

Has All This Recent Protesting And Regime Change And Shooting At Leaders Led Some Arabs To Think Outside Of The Box?

And I mean, waaaaay outside the box? Maybe. But hindsight is always 20/20. Foresight is the tough one, especially if you may - literally - lose your head in the process.

Putting It Into Perspective.

Seen on Twitter, Facebook, and making the rounds via email, this was supposedly sent by an Israeli:

"Dear Egyptian Rioters: Please don't damage the pyramids. We will not rebuild. Thank you."

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

People Skills 101.

When you're the boss, the big cheese, the top dog, A Number One, sometimes you have to suffer through things you really, really don't want to do. When that happens, at least pretend you are even remotely interested. Don't do... this.

The local connection to that menorah is here.

Exterrrrrminate! Exterrrrrminate!

Separated at birth?


Ancient Jew-hater Helen Thomas.


Ancient Who-hater Davros.

UPDATE 5DEC2010: Welcome Theo Spark readers! Glad you stopped by - feel free to look round.

Twit For Tat.

John Kerry calls for Israel to give up the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. I think Israel should respond by calling for Kerry to give up his wife's (inherited) fortune and his $7 million sailboat first.

And 20 Years Ago...

...Al Qaeda’s first victim.

Wouldn't You Like To Be A Dhimmi, Too?

One Dr. Maher Hathout puts on his smiley face and explains "Islam in a Nutshell" to a group of eagerly pliable Episcopalians.

Here is Dr. Hathout a few years ago explaining 'Judaism in a Nutshell' to a group of eagerly understanding Muslims.

Someone should ask the good doctor if he would support the building of a Jewish community center in Medina to promote, y'know, interfaith understanding and healing. I mean, Medina was a Jewish city once...

UPDATE: Second link fixed. Sorry.

Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right, But...

...Where was all that international focus and outrage over this?

Today's Compare and Contrast.

Via Instapundit, The Boston Globe's token conservative, Jeff Jacoby, looks at another application of even-handedness by The Left/Mainstream Media, this time in reacting to blatantly anti-Semitic remarks by 1) A movie maker who is devoutly Roman Catholic, and 2) A movie maker who devoutly worships Hugo Chavez.

Spoiler Alert: One got pilloried (as he should -ed.); one got a pass.

Mitre: The Indispensable Tool.

Episcopal Church (tm) priorities:

The star of CMEP’s annual “advocacy” conference in Washington, D.C. starting June 13 will be Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. Comfortably liberal Episcopal refinement is exactly the sort of tone that CMEP often prefers to mask its more provocative agenda. Bishop Schori is enmeshed in the melt-down of her own denomination, including lawsuits against departing local congregations, and its schism with the more theologically orthodox global Anglican Communion. But denouncing Israel still merits her attention.

Read it all. Good grief, indeed.

Hattip: Maggie's Farm.

Under The Bus, Or Overboard... (UPDATED)

...It's apparently all the same to Obama when it comes to tossing the Israelis:

Bill Kristol reports that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set up an independent commission, under UN auspices, to investigate Israel's behavior in the Gaza flotilla incident.

The UN "investigating" Israel. Yeah, like that'll be unbiased.

UPDATE 12JUNE10: Team Hopenchange is denying the Obama administration is backing the UN investigation. It was just, y'know, being supported by their UN ambassador. No big deal. Nothing to see here. Hey, lets talk about Sarah Palin's tits!

Disingenuous CYA, Excellent Example Of.

Helen Thomas "apologizes" for this. I ain't buying it.

UPDATE: The Boss had a good point - if the apology was "heartfelt", then what was her initial outburst?
(Maybe she overdosed on Bengay. -ed.)

Helen Thomas Puts On A Black Shirt.

The Grand Dame of Wrinkled-Prune Lefties thinks Jews are "occupiers" in the Middle East, and should "go home" to Poland, Germany, and the Unites States. But what about those whose "home" is Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ethiopia or... have lived in the Holy Land for dozens of generations? Does she have a final solution for them?

Well That Didn't Take Long.

From an earlier RSR post, on Israel stopping the flotilla of "activists" bound for Gaza:

Side Note: How long it will take The Episcopal Church (tm) - who claimed it had to wait years for their "polity" to issue a statement regarding requests made to it by the Archbishop of Canterbury - to issue a statement denouncing Israel?

Answer: Less than three days. Not a direct denunciation, but it doesn't take binoculars to see which side our Presiding Bishop is on.

Does Victor Davis Hanson Have A Crystal Ball?

No, but he does have history, and he takes a look back at 1979 to see what 2011 holds. Read, learn, mark, and inwardly digest. It ain't pretty.

'We Con The World'.

Indeed.

Hattip: Instapundit and The Hayride.