I recently wrote the following three posts. I thought they might interest you.
Sarah Palin is just beginning to fight… and win
By Ted Belman
On August 7th, Sarah Paling wrote in her facebook page
- The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
That reference to death panels caused a storm of protest from Obama’s supporters and Palin haters. But it only took seven days for them to capitulate.
Wall Street Journal covered the story under the title Palin Wins . Everybody ran for cover. The sub-title for the article was If she’s dim and Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her?CONTINUE
Haaretz: “An America that will not pressure Israel is an America that will not bring peace.”
By Ted Belman
The National just published If they won’t make peace we may have to make it for them
After making the case for why the Arabs and Israel can not reach agreement it therefore concludes
- In the absence of domestic pressure on either side to force a compromise, restarting talks would be either a repeat of the Annapolis failure or a demonstration that the gap between the two sides cannot be bridged by mutual consent. Either way, the parameters of a two-state solution will have to be prescribed by the international community, just as they were in 1947 – except this time with enough international clout and domestic support to prevent a repeat of the tragedy that followed the last UN partition of Palestine.
This article was preceded by an article in Hararetz namely Israel must prepare for U.S. peace initiative
Belman confronts Women in Black
By Ted Belman
Friday, in Jerusalem, is like Saturday in America only ten times better. In America, Saturday is a day unto itself. In Jerusalem, Friday is a prelude to the Shabbat. And most people here honour the Shabbat. The Shabbat is not just a day of worship like Sunday used to be in America, it is a day that is much anticipated and much prepared for. Food must be bought and cooked prior to Shabbat, a bottle of wine must be bought for saying Kiddish, flowers must be bought to grace the home and the children and their clothes must be scrubbed in preparation. All this so that the families can welcome in the Shabbat, considered a bride, at sundown.
On Friday, I usually travel to the Jewish Market, also known as the Shuk to buy everything I need for Shabbat. Wow, what an experience that is. The place is jam-packed with thousands getting ready for Shabbat. Nobody is casual, Everyone is rushing to get everything done on time. The vendors are capitalizing on this business by working as fast as they can to take your money and give your change. They are also hocking their wares with the loudest voices I have ever heard. I guess there is an art to it.CONTINUE
Ted Belman
Jerusalem
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