Soccer Dad: If ... you must 03/01/2007

March 1, 2007

If ... you must 03/01/2007

If you haven't read the Great Asian game is heating up at Deja Vu ; you must.
Also worth reading on Pakistan and war on terror are this, this and this.

If you haven't read Judeopundit's Iran and Zimbabwe two countries with independent stances; you must.
They're independent the same way the non-aligned movement is non-aligned.

If you haven't read Israel and Pakistan at Simply Jews; you must.
There are differences between the two also. For one thing it isn't particularly unsafe to fly a kite in Israel.

If you haven't read Unidentified Vandals at Boker Tov Boulder; you must.
Zhitomir isn't far from the town where my father's family came from.

If you haven't read In Context's A Grim Reminder ; you must.
The Temple Mount is less an issue of outrage than of political opportunism. I wrote about more recent example in the temple dodge.

If you haven't read A proud Israeli Bedouin questions American-Jewish apathy
at Solomonia; you must.

If you haven't read Peretz threatens coalition crisis over Friedmann's court limitation bill at Israel Matzav; you must.
In government inertia often results because change entails risk. In this case Peretz would seem to be a bit myopic - and not because he's still got the lens caps on - as the only reason he remains in power is because no one the coalition - outside of himself - seems to have a political death wish. Most of those in power are practical enough to know that they won't be in power following the next election, so they're not interested in rocking the fragile but unpopular boat. In fact most members of the Labour Party seem to feel that way too. I guess you have to give Peretz credit for putting principles ahead of power then.

If you haven't read Letters from home and Iraq at PowerLine; you must.
h/t Instapundit

If you haven't read Why Hillary can't apologize at Jewish Current Issues; you must.
I found Hillary's "I made the wrong decision because I was duped" argument to be less than convincing. This shows that her support for the war continued until well after the reasons for claiming ignorance were apparent.

If you haven't read Historic and scientific revisionism at CrabLaw; you must.
The human capacity to deny what one sees is amazing isn't it?

If you haven't read Becoming an extrovert at Carter's Adventures; you must.
I'm probably never going to be much of an extrovert. However I did learn to think on my feet a bit by calling into sports talk shows. (I guess that was an early form of blogging.)

If you haven't read the guest who talked to food at Seraphic Secret ; you must.

If you haven't read Lemony Snicket's Judaism at Yourish; you must.
I haven't read the books, but this interview almost makes me want to.

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