Blog/January 2009/Jan 9th

January 9th (See this week's devar torah)
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This week we started with the news that Israel had commenced shelling the Gazan terrorists, in preparation for ground operations against them. This was both welcome and frightening news -- welcome, because without ground ops it would be difficult to extract Hamas from Gaza, and frightening because of the cost in lives of our soldiers, as we attempt to be the "fairest" army ever to exist.

It was a week where we gave a lot of thought to matters of war and peace; hoping for the latter while prosecuting the former. The necessity of war is made clear when one realizes what sort of people our enemies are. People who educate their children that Jews are apes and pigs; where cynical use of cartoon characters is used to instill virulent hatred. People who fire rockets from within UN schools, and then cry "foul!" when Israel finally responds. People who cynically and deliberately use their own people as "human shields". The world community only sees fit to condemn Israel - as if they can delay the day of reckoning with Islam by siding with the "religion of peace" in its unholy war - and they are not even embarrassed to lecture us about "moral behavior".

Despite the fact that most of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are not joining their "brothers" in Gaza, there are some too close to home, who think otherwise. May they be obliterated soon!

And now for something completely different. You Seattle-dwellers, who have suffered with heavy snow and a dingleberry mayor, might appreciate this ode to the snow, meant to be delivered to the rhythm of A Christmas Carol.

You who have known me for years, and know about my anti-Microsoft inclinations, have often chided me for it. Well, once again I am proven correct! Microsoft is not only evil, they are amazingly incompetent as well.