Quote of The Day - Four Things Do Not Come Back...

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

-- Arabian Proverb

A Father's Account - How a Family of Six was Nearly Murdered by a Terrorist Attack as "Proximity Talks" Begin

The Palestinians' culture of jihad, blood and death sucks its strength from our feebleness. The statistics clearly show that whenever 'peace' talks began, the curve of Jewish death and bereavement rose steeply. Identification, understanding and empathy – perceived as manifestations of enlightenment in Western culture – are seen by Muslim culture as proof of weakness and flaccidity, and invite another violent outburst. And thus did Oslo beget the Intifada, and so did the retreat from Lebanon and the Disengagement lead to the Second Lebanon War and to the flareup in Gaza, and so, tragically, is the government of Israel now preparing the next explosion. -- by Yehudah Yifrach, Amona; Arutz Sheva News

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Quote of The Day - Summing Up Obama (So Far) by David Soloway

...It may not be out of place to suggest that we are now afflicted with the worst possible president at the worst possible time, with Iran darting toward the nuclear finish line, the Palestinians as intransigent as ever, the Russians moving back into the Caucasus region, negotiating with Venezuela and solidifying ties with Iran, Syria and Turkey, terrorism (oops—“man-made disasters”) on the rise and U.S. citizens increasingly at the mercy of the jihadists, China holding massive quantities of American Treasury notes, Obama considering ruinous cap-and-trade legislation at a time when the AGW consensus is collapsing, the American debt estimated to hit 100% of GDP in 2011 and its unfunded entitlement liabilities totaling over $US 100 trillion, leading to the prospect of monetary collapse. 

--by David Soloway, Frontpagemag.com

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Quote of the Day - Said of Avigdor Arikha Upon his Death

  

His art, in its apparent simplicity, embodies that highest ideal of painting – celebrating life by framing mundane corners of existence in the singular painter’s gaze and forcing the observer to appreciate that magnificence may exist in things we often hardly seem to notice.   -- Jonathan Beck, Jerusalem Post

 Some of Arikha's works.

Quote of the Day - Daniel Pipes, the Obama Silver Lining

...First the 'peace process' is in actuality a 'war process'... Painful Israeli concessions, we now know, stimulate not reciprocal Palestinian goodwill but rather irredentism, ambition, fury and violence... Strong US-Israel ties induce irreversible Israeli mistakes. Poor US-Israel ties abort this process. Obama may expect that picking a fight with Israel will produce negotiations, but it will have the opposite effect... Those who fear more 'war process' can thus take some solace in the [Obama] administration's blunders.    

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=173051

Quote of The Day - Exodus 1:8

And there arose a new king over Egypt who knew not Joseph.  -- Exodus 1:8

And he said to his people, Behold the people of the sons of Israel are mighty against their enemies. Let us deal wisely with them, lest they cause war and cost the lives of our soldiers.

"What happened to our forefathers is a sign to their children."

Former Mayor of New York Ed Koch comments:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/29/never_again_will_we_be_silent_104961.html

Obama denies visas to Israeli nuclear scientists:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136924

Obama strips references to "Islamic terrorism" from national security documents:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/11/lieberman-omitting-references-islamic-terrorism-dishonest-offensive/

Why do Israel's friends stand silently by while Obama throws it under a bus?
http://www.algemeiner.com/generic.asp?ID=6372

Daniel Pipes points out the "silver lining" in Obama's hostile policies
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=173051

Obama Speech Signals a U.S. Shift on Middle East

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html?ref=world

"...He [Obama] would not be too upset if Israel would be mortally hurt by Iranian atomic weapons.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137038


Give them a gun to shoot us: "Israel can and should do more to support the Palestinian Authority's efforts to build credible institutions and deliver results," [Hillary] Clinton said."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041505800.html


"At 62, thriving, modern Israel is still resented and rejected by most of the Arab world, not because of this or that policy, or this or that territorial presence, but because of the very fact of our existence here."
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=173461

"The real problem is the Palestinian desire to destroy Israel, not home construction."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3881770,00.html

Obama is a "sociopath".
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137515

 
 
  

Quote of The Day - Exodus 14:13

13 But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. 14 “The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent."

Quote of the Day - The Hagaddah

    

Next Year in Jerusalem.

  

 
  

Quote of the Day - Ruth Wisse, WSJ - "How About an Arab 'Settlement' Freeze"

   

Of the children of Abraham, the descendants of Ishmael currently occupy at least 800 times more land than descendants of Isaac...Since 1948 upward of 800,000 Jews abandoned their homes and forfeited their goods in Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and Yemen. In addition to assets valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, the property deeds of Jews from Arab lands is estimated at a total area of 100,000 square miles, which is five times the size of the state of Israel, and more than Israel would include even if it were to stretch over all the disputed territories of the West Bank. -- Ruth Wisse, Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2010, "How About an Arab 'Settlement' Freeze"

Quote of the Day - Yossi Klein Halevi

  

Israel's insistence on survival remains the obstacle to peace. - Yossi Klein Halevi, New Republic, March 16, 2010

Quote of the Day - Welcoming the Sabbath Queen

 
Whoever has not welcomed the Sabbath Queen from the Machtesh, has never welcomed the Queen.  -Anonymous
 

Quote of the Day - Schubert's Serenade

  
Schubert had a horse named Sara,

He rode her to a big parade,

And all the time the band was playing,

Schubert's Sara neighed.

- Courtesy of Jeff Spurgeon, WQXR New York
 

Quote of the Day - Ezekiel

For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you from all countries, and will bring you into your own Land...You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your G-d. -- Ezekiel 36:24,28

Quote of the Day - Esther and Mordechai

  
“For the Jews there was light and happiness, joy and glory."
Megillat Esther, 8:16

 

Mitzpe Ramon Megillah reading

   

Quote of the Day - Tzipi Livni, Jerusalem Post 2/24/2010

“Every terrorist must know that no one will support him when a soldier, and it doesn’t matter what soldier, tries to kill him, whether it is in the Gaza Strip, Afghanistan or Dubai...I don’t expect the world to welcome the killing of terrorists, but I do expect the world to not criticize it.”  Tzipi Livni, Jerusalem Post, 2/24/2010

Quote of the Day - Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 2/19/2010

“As in yesteryear, so in the 21st century, it's axiomatic that Arabs have the right to inflict incalculable harm on Jews, but Jews' attempts to deflect such blows are evil, outrageous and deserving of merciless punishment...Failure to admit how selective Arab rules of warfare are, precludes making sense of anything in our region and dooms to failure any so-called peace drives and mediation efforts."; Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, 2/19/2010

Quote of the Day - James Cameron, Director of Avatar and Titanic

“To suppress a gathering of artists, from afar, through boycott or any other means of exerting pressure, is wrong ... It is ridiculous to punish artists for the actions of governments, under any circumstances, and to ask other artists to exert political pressure on a government, no matter what one’s opinion of that government or its policies, by punishing artists, is obscene on its face.” - Avatar and Titanic director James Cameron on attempts to boycott Israeli movies at film festivals; Jerusalem Post, 2/12/2010

Quote of the Day - Jonathan Rosenblum, Jerusalem Post, 2/05/2010

"As Europeans have become ever less inclined to defend themselves against mortal threat, they tend to resent those countries - predominantly Israel - which insist on doing so. Accusations of bellicosity are a salve for European loss of will."

Jonathan Rosenblum, Jerusalem Post, 2/05/2010