I freely confess that I plagiarized the above phrase from a comment at a Web log. I mean, how sleazy can you get? Actually, there is no point in trying to improve on perfection. The slogan, "Some things are beyond marketing," explains in five words much of what is wrong with many well meaning attempts to correct the problems faced by Israel and Zionism advocacy. A poor fool like me will require more than five words to elaborate. Continued...
Ami Isseroff on 03.07.08 @ 07:10 PM CST [link]
Some confusion still surrounds the events of last night, Thursday, March 6, 2008. As best anyone can determine, a lone terrorist, a Palestinian Arab resident of East Jerusalem, entered the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, in West Jerusalem, and opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle ("Kalatchnikov") massacring eight students. Their names: Yochai Lipschitz, 18, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzchak Eldar, 16, of Shiloh; Yonadav Chaim Hirschfeld, 19, of Kochav Hashahar; Neriah Cohen, 15, of Jerusalem; Roey Roth, 18, of Elkana; Segev Pniel Avihayil, 15, of Neveh Daniel; Avraham David Moses, 16, of Efrat; and Maharata Trunoch, 26, of Ashdod. A student at the Yeshiva, apparently Yitzhak Dadon, shot at the terrorist from the roof of an adjacent building, but the terrorist continued shooting in the air until an IDF officer who lives nearby arrived and shot him again. Police detectives arrived and may also have shot the Arab terrorist. Continued...
Ami Isseroff on 03.07.08 @ 02:23 PM CST [link]