On Sunday, 29th November, at 9:45 my father died in Jerusalem Hospital in Hamburg; one week after heart surgery where the doctors couldn’t do anything any more. He was 70 years old. My father, Gerhard Brehm, was born on May 14th 1939 in Berlin. He spent most of the first ten years of his life with the cold and hunger caused by the situation during and shortly after World War II. Rheumatic fever led to heart disease and heart disease finally caught up with him last month. He und...
Brilliant: Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World ... "I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass." ... Historians believe that, immediately following the biblical event, Sumerian witnesses ...
Progressives can relax now. Iran is not building nuclear power plants: An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007 — specifically, work on a neutron initiator. The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the mate...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3819442,00.html The Turkish-Kurdish conflict (actually the conflict between Turkey and the PKK terrorist group) has cost the lives oftens of thousands of people since 1984, far more than, say, the Israeli-Arab conflict in the same time (or possibly in total): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party_conflict 6500 Turkish soldiers killed. 32000 PKK members are killed. (I am assuming Turkey counts them all as ...
The upside: I believe the facts speak for themselves: For the past few years, I have been crafting, in my head, an incredible novel coupled with some plot lines as well; I believe this novel will position me alongside literary giants such as Dostoyevsky. This novel may deeply affect the enlightened world’s cultural perception. In my mind’s eye I see how youngsters eagerly and passionately reading it, while the elderly zealously debate it at local cultural centers. And th...
Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday. "Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth," said Reverend Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International (OFWI), who wil...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1260181033865 Entire article in bold with my comments in non-bold: A West Bank military tribunal has sentenced a member of the Palestinian security services to death for sharing information with Israel. Note that the Oslo peace treaty demands that "information" is shared with Israel about terror attacks. Apparently the Palestinian Authority has laws against upholding peace treaties. The head of t...
My friend Kejda Gjermani has written an excellent article about the change and less unilateralism Obama brought about when he unilaterally changed the terms of a treaty with allies Poland and the Czech Republic. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-missile-defense-betrayal-15293 “Catastrophic for Poland” is how a spokeswoman at the Polish Ministry of Defense described the suspension of the program. Mirek Topolanek, the former Czech prime minister who had g...
There is so much that is wrong with the United Nations in the practical sense. The corruption, the support and protection the organisation grants to dictators, the deflection of criticism of genocide are only a few of these problems. But there is a more fundemantal problem with the UN which is probably the cause for all the practical problems, and that problem is with how the UN completely ignore their own purpose. When the United Nations were founded during World War II by the later victo...
A description of life under Israeli oppression in a region that western liberals would condemn Jews to death to deliver food and water to: Wandering around downtown Nablus the shops and restaurants I saw were full. There were plenty of expensive cars on the streets. Indeed I counted considerably more BMWs and Mercedes than I've seen, for example, in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. And perhaps most importantly of all, we had driven from Jerusalem to Nablus without going through ...
In a short entry titled "Take That Ahmadinejad", Israellycool Dave shows a picture of Omri Casspi, the first Israeli in the NBA, with Hamed Haddadi, the first Iranian in the NBA http://www.israellycool.com/2009/11/24/take-that-ahmadinejad/ I find this most interesting. I have seen it before, pictures of Israelis and purported enemies, and (usually Jewish) fans of Israel always celebrate these events, while Israel's enemies decry them. Similarly it was Iran, not Israel, that objected t...
And what does he do? He makes demands. What right does he have to make demands? Perhaps the Israeli foreign minister, the known fascist because he is a Jew Lieberman, should go to Europe and demand that, say, Spain stop building Spanish settlements in the Basque country (or in whichever area of Spain any Basque terrorist group sees as their land)? Apparently, after 60 years of wars and terrorism against Israel and after 2000 years of violent Anti-Semitism, the world has finally found ou...
This is excellent: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_passionate_defender_of "Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top." "Men like Madis...
A position is only solid when it can be tested, when evidence against it can bring it down. So I will here publish my standard for testing my position. These are my requirements for accusations against Israel that I will believe. 1. The accusations must not be part of a series made every year but must appear after several years of quiet; the accusations must stand out. 2. The accusations must refer to international law that applies to Israel as well as to other countries and has alre...
The Jerusalem Municipality is plowing ahead with plans for construction of more than 5,000 housing units in Arab neighborhoods. These include the following: A master plan for the Tel Adasa neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, where 2,000 new housing units are planned. A master plan for the Arab a-Sawahara area for a new housing compound with 2,500 units that is currently being prepared for discussion at the local council and district council levels. A master plan for the Dir...