Author Archives: Meryl Yourish

Second Light

Second light.

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Ever the AP whitewash

Hamas had a big anniversary party the other day. They invited their exiled leader, Khaled Mashaal, to join them. Since Egypt is now ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslim Brotherhood is the parent of Hamas, he went to … Continue reading

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First light

I haven’t been in Montclair in over a decade. Time to move on! I’m changing out the old virtual menorah with pictures of my menorah as it looks today.

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The mysteries of life

I’ve been in a lousy mood all week. All week. Unhappy, worried, thinking about how hard things are. Last night, I fell down the last few stairs in my condo, giving myself a bunch of bumps and bruises, but no … Continue reading

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The importance of being Israel

Just out of curiosity, let’s take a look at Yahoo News Mideast headlines over the past 16 hours. Egyptian army orders protesters out of palace area AP – 2 hrs 32 mins ago Syria criticizes NATO move on Patriot missiles … Continue reading

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The day-to-day stuff

In case you’re wondering where the posts are, well, I’m going through another one of those rough phases. I just can’t stand looking at the news sometimes. It’s the same-old, same-old. It’s depressing. It’s anti-Israel, all the time, all the … Continue reading

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NPT for thee, but not for me

The UN General Assembly has voted to demand that Israel open its nuclear plants up to UN inspection and join the NPT, and then presumably disarm itself. The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to … Continue reading

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Monday briefs

Think Hillary or Kerry can just call up Assad and stop all this? Yeah, they were all about how Assad is a “reformer”. I think he’s reforming the Assad reputation for killing large amounts of its own citizens–upward. Syria is … Continue reading

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A bleg for my readers

Are you on social networking sites? I’d love it if you’d grab this image and link to send around to your friends on Facebook and other social networking areas. Just right-click to copy the image, and paste in the URL. … Continue reading

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The Caturday evening post

A rare twofer: Tig decided to see if he could get Gracie to play with him. Nope.

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The faux mini-statelet of East Palestine

The UN General Assembly cheered and roared as the faux mini-statelet of East Palestine–which is, let’s face it, what they really voted for yesterday–was voted a “Non-member observer state”. Like the Vatican. Can “Palestine” vote on UNGA resolutions? Nope. But … Continue reading

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About the UN on “Palestine” today

Seems to me that this is the right thing to post. They can call the West Bank whatever they want. Am Yisrael chai.

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This is why I never worry about the commercialization of Hannukkah

Well, besides the fact that there are about sixteen different ways to spell Chanukah. Wow. Could that commercial be any lamer?

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And now for something completely different

I watch the last remaining soap opera on ABC, General Hospital. I’ve seen my favorite soaps get canceled (or get terrible–I used to be a big Days of Our Lives fan), one by one, network by network. I love the … Continue reading

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The Arafat Blood Libel: Now, with extra media bias!

Who killed Arafat? Barry Rubin has the answer. Suddenly, I received all of these phone calls from journalists asking me to talk about who murdered the late Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. The news peg is that he’s being dug up … Continue reading

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