1. Suitcase of hand-me-downs for Yamin
2. Suitcase of Trips regular clothes
3. Duffel of Trips regular clothes
4. Suitcase of unknown crap at Safta’s house
6 to go!!!
Posted by: amy | 11-05-2008 | 09:11 PM
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There is so much laundry and packing to do! B”H it seems that most of the shopping is done…
Posted by: amy | 10-26-2008 | 09:10 AM
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Posted by: marc | 07-20-2008 | 01:07 AM
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There are a lot of emotions on this that I can’t really begin to explain.
“Leave no man behind” is an immutable principle of the IDF. It was a hard price to pay, but the entire country has closure, left, right, religious, secular. It is our Achilles heel. It is very exploitable. And there’s no way around it. We mourn our losses, we pray for our missing.
They got back someone whose been rotting in jail for the last 20-something years. Great terrorist leader? Nonsense. He’s a generation disconnected. He’s a poster hero, to be paraded out to al-Jazeera and al-Reuters, offerings of book deals and young boys, until he drinks himself into oblivion. He was a 16 year-old kid who got locked up after his first mission; it’s not as if he’s had years of experience planning dozens of terrorist operations. Yes, he killed a father and daughter. He’s the Devil’s spawn. But he got caught and he got sent to prison for most of his life. He’s functionally irrelevant. And he’ll get what’s coming to him. Of this I have perfect faith. He’ll die early, probably within five years. Things like this “happen.” It wouldn’t shock me if he has a tracking device implanted somewhere, either.
We, on the other hand, got back two reasons to do better next time, and the next time, and the next time. The shock of the image of those two soldiers’ coffins will motivate whole battalions of IDF troops. No, that doesn’t bring them back to life, but it has been shown that the death of a comrade in arms is a powerful motivator for the survivors. These two soldiers were, for all intents and purposes, members of every single platoon in the IDF.
Yes, the price for Gilad Shalit will be high as well, perhaps as high as Barghouti. Which one of us is going to tell his parents that Israel can’t afford to, or won’t, pay the price? Remember, the IDF is mostly a conscript service, not volunteer. They didn’t ask to be there. And bear in mind that it works in reverse too. With the likelihood (or resignation) that Shalit is dead too, the Palis lose a valuable bargaining tool. And they have so much more to lose than Israel does. Notice how the “humanitarian crisis” of the Gaza closure is out of news cycles. Gaza’s suffocating, and they know it. And no one gives a crap anymore, ’cause oooh! It’s the Tour de France and oooh! it’s the Olympics and oooh! it’s Brangelina’s new twins and ooooh! it’s some naked drunk celebrity!
Why did Hizbullah do the deal? What did it have to gain? They already have veto power in Lebanon, it’s not like they needed any more bargaining leverage. They have the whole country! And Israel has MIAs going back a long time. A couple more wasn’t going to change things in the long term. My opinion? Hizbullah knows that Israel is ready to roll into Lebanon. Again. And there isn’t going to be any “losing” this one, not when the IDF has to regain deterrence against Syria and Iran. This bought them some more time. That’s all.
Israel didn’t pay a price for peace. They paid a price for closure.
For anyone who hoped that these soldiers would have been returned alive, you show a naivete when it comes to dealing with these bastards. They have no capacity for compassion, no desire for life and absolutely no regard for civilization. Even considering that they might acknowledge what is called the Judeo-Christian ethic shows an inconceivable amount of hubris. They don’t think like humans do. They don’t consider the consequences of their actions, because for them, there are none. If they live, they’re heroes, if they die they’re heroes. It’s completely ludicrous to someone who was raised with winsome notions like, “Thou shall not kill.” Arabs are nothing more than simulacra that infest this planet. They need to be extincted, like the parasites they are. The quicker we get into it, the better.
For what it’s worth, I hoped for it too.
Posted by: marc | 07-16-2008 | 06:07 PM
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Posted by: marc | 07-14-2008 | 03:07 PM
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The site was down (and I was at a meeting), so couldn’t post earlier. But there is still plenty of the day left here.
Love and Kisses from everyone in US!!
Posted by: amy | 06-25-2008 | 03:06 PM
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91.3FM radio
You don’t have to leave your classic music behind, and you don’t have to deal with this nonsense.
Posted by: marc | 06-18-2008 | 01:06 AM
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Click to enlarge. Mom, grab yer tissues.
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Posted by: marc | 06-11-2008 | 10:06 AM
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Memorial Day is specifically the day before Independence Day, so you’re obligated to remember the reason for Memorial Day in the first place.
Posted by: marc | 05-07-2008 | 03:05 PM
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Flat tires suck here too, but at least you’re here.
Posted by: marc | 05-07-2008 | 03:05 PM
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