By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 08:54 PM  | 

All headlines indicate Israel is under pressure from the Western world, as well as the Muslim world, to lift the seige of Gaza. The WSJ’s headline summarizes it:  Israel’s Isolation Deepens.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704515704575282670417642484.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories President Benjamin Netanyahu’s message to other, Western nations pressing for Israel to fold the boycott:  be careful what you wish for.  To do so will mean opening the spigot of weaponry to the | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  April 29th at 07:02 PM  | 

News Flash:  Eleanor Holmes Norton professes to be a Congresswoman. Her website, which is at http://www.norton.house.gov/ is entitled:  Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Her protestations remind us of the story about a reasonably successful man who invited his mother for a trip on his boat.  “I’ll pick you up Sunday morning,” he tells her.  “It’s in the harbor.  I’m a captain.” The mother’s reply was this:  “Ok, | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  April 13th at 01:36 PM  | 

Where was the President from 9:20 to 10:17 am on Saturday, April 10? It is a mystery with no obvious answer.  According to Politico, the President told reporters he had snuck out to see one of his daughters play in a soccer game. This is from the Politico:: President Obama Sunday seemed to shrug off the brouhaha after he broke with White House tradition and ditched his | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  March 16th at 01:39 PM  | 

Monica Conyers, that is. Here is the story: Judge declares Monica Conyers indigent Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News Detroit — Monica Conyers is indigent, according to a federal judge who has appointed a tax-funded public defender to help her appeal the three-year sentence she received last week for bribery conspiracy. The former Detroit City Council president and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  February 10th at 10:33 PM  | 

My eldest son wanted in the worst way to attend Harvard.  His grandfather, with a ubiquitous last name, had beaten the then-active Jewish quotas, and graduated both from the college and its medical school.  Despite near perfect standardized test scores and high school grades, it wasn’t to be.   Recently, I have come to the conclusion that Harvard’s decision was my son’s gain.  I draw this conclusion | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  February 8th at 11:29 AM  | 

Comforting to think that this can’t be blamed on George W. Bush, America, or Israel. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=168037 By BENJAMIN JOFFE-WALT / THE MEDIA LINE 07/02/2010 17:37 Arab states reject Pakistani diplomat whose name refers to large male genitals in Arabic.   Up until just over a month ago, His Excellency Miangul Akbar Zeb had lived an esteemed life as one of Pakistan’s most senior diplomats.   | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  February 4th at 10:11 PM  | 

A foreign national arrives at the nation’s premier airport.  Security personnel, glancing through the hard drive on her laptop, find materials they deem disturbing.  Show us your recent emails, they ask.  The traveler refuses. Held for two days, she is returned home:  to America. The nation where she had landed:  Israel. From The Harvard Crimson: Hebah M. Ismail ’06 had planned to work with Law | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  January 7th at 11:03 AM  | 

Let’s see if anyone can connect the dots: Four passengers were taken off Northwest Airlines Flight 2485 by police, after the man, identified by police as Mansour Mohammad Asad, reportedly stood up and uttered a racist remark as the plane was about to takeoff. “I’m a Palestinian and want to kill all the Jews,” Asad said, according to a police report. The plane immediately returned | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  December 31st at 05:08 PM  | 

H/T Atlas Shrugged A full sized rocket launcher and Jihadist writings were found at a Houston apartment, Click2Houston.com reported on New Years Eve. A dispute between the launcher’s alleged owner and the apartment tennant, Nabilaye I. Yansane, led to the police seizure, the web site reported. From the story: Yansane was charged with criminal trespassing and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to three days in jail, | Read More »

By: ashland_avenue (Diary)  |  December 27th at 09:33 PM  | 

Canadian Jews are moving from Liberal to Conservative,  Haaretz newspaper reports. “The Jewish community is not a large demographic, but it tends to be concentrated in a small number of seats… It looks like an ethnic group that could be separated from the Liberals.” At stake are five or six closely contested seats in a parliament the Conservatives are just 10 votes short of controlling | Read More »