MUSIC FOR LAG B'OMER: Jewish Blogmeister has a post about 3 new releases in advance of Lag B'Omer.

Technorati Tag: Lag B'Omer.

JEWS PAY TAXES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS--ALSO FOR TERRORIST PROPAGANDA AND HOLOCAUST DENIAL: Of course, Jews are not the only ones who end up funding Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. Joel Mowbray wrote about the network in March in The Wall Street Journal. Now he details the lack of oversight of the network--particularly in how it presents the Holocaust.

Read the whole thing.

Technorati Tag: Al-Hurra and Joel Mowbray.

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WINOGRAD--AND THEN THERE WAS ONE: John Podhoretz writes in The New York Post about the goal of the Winograd Commission and who they are focusing on:

The commissioners specifically say that they chose to release some of their findings early because they were being used by Olmert as a way of avoiding necessary changes in the wake of the war. "Initially," they write, "we hoped that the appointment of the Commission [would] serve as an incentive to accelerate [change] . . . In some ways an opposite, and worrying, process emerged - a process of 'waiting' for the Commission's Report."

Therefore, they conclude, "we decided to publish . . . in the hope that the relevant bodies will act urgently to change and correct all that it implies."

The "relevant bodies" here are the Israeli parliament and the voting public. The report's authors have set their laser-guided sights at Olmert's reputation and political career.

Consider: The report has three named targets. One of them is Dan Halutz, the army's chief of staff during the war. He resigned months ago. The second is Defense Minister Amir Peretz. He will be losing his job in the next few weeks anyway - because he is going to be removed as the leader of the Labor Party and will no longer be a minister in this government.

Only Olmert is left standing.

Not for long. Unless, that is, the Israeli political system has grown so weak and unresponsive that he can continue to hang on by his fingernails because his partners in the governing coalition fear being ruined along with him in a new election.

Well yes, there is that.

Technorati Tag: Israel and Winograd Report and Olmert and John Podhoretz.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN NAZI AND ARAB ANTI-SEMITISM: Daniel Pipes summarizes some of the main points in Joel Fishman's The Big Lie and The Media War Against Israel, such as:

o In Mein Kampf, Hitler admires Great Britain's disinformation campaign against Germany in WWI, 10 years before his own use of the Big Lie.

o Johann von Leers, a protégé of Goebbels, associate of Himmler, and advocate of genocidal policies against Jews escaped to Egypt where he sponsored the publication of an Arabic edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and actively cultivated Anti-Semitism.

Pipes concludes:

Today's political madness, in other words, is directly linked to yesterday's. Might some of today's anti-Zionists be ashamed to realize that their thinking is, however repackaged, but an elaboration of the genocidal deceptions espoused by Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler? Might they then abandon these views?

Gee, do you really think?
Nah...

Technorati Tag: Israel and Daniel Pipes and Joel Fishman and Johann von Leers and Nazis and Arabs and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Hitler.

DIETING FOR PEACE: On the Face has the story about how

In the ongoing - and often ham fisted - attempts to humanize the faces behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary director Yael Luttwak has come up with a rather unique idea: take a cross-section of Israeli and Palestinian women, put them on a diet program together, and watch what happens. The film is called A Slim Peace.

There is a trailer as well.

Technorati Tag: Slim Peace and Dieting.

AS THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTS WINDING DOWN: Orthonomics has returned to discussing the topic of tuition, taking a look at the January/February 2007 issue of the Jewish Observer which addresses "The Tuition Dilemma."--and asks why it's only a dilemma and not a crisis.

Technorati Tag: Yeshiva Day School and Tuition.

THE BENEFITS OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL EDUCATION in a courtroom become apparent in a post by Prospectives of a Nomad

Technorati Tag: Psalms.

THE GREAT ESCAPE: Starting with his post on The Russian Compound and continuing with The Great Escape from the British Prison, Part 1, Planet Israel has started to tell the story of the escape from the Russian Compound by Lehi prisoners in 1947.

Technorati Tag: The Russian Compound and Lehi.

'WHAT MAKES PEOPLE FRUM?' is the question SerandEz asked last week. Check out the responses to that post and Ezzie's own followup.

Technorati Tag: Jews and Judaism.

A QUESTION ABOUT THE WINOGRAD REPORT: Shiloh Musings has some thoughts on why the Winograd Commission did not concentrate its criticism on the army and ended up surprising a lot of people with the sharpness of its criticism of the government.

Technorati Tag: Israel and Winograd Report.