Sunday 26 July 2009

Learning War as You Go

Learning War as You Go

I'm too busy these days to do much blogging. If business takes off, as it may, I'll not be back for quite a while. If it slows down, as it may well, perhaps I will. Since much of what I'm working at these days is in the US, well, yet another reason to hope Obama gets his act together, I suppose.

Anyway, the NYT carried a story today about the evolving war in Afghanistan. Apparently, both sides (Taliban and Marines) are carefully watching each other, learning, and adapting. This is one of the fundamental things about warfare: just when you think you've figured out how to do it right, the other side changes their rules and you've got to start all over again, including lots of mistakes on the way. Ah, and mistakes at war cost human lives.

I sort of wish, since the war's aleady happening anyway, the broader public which has forgotten what war is all about might educate itself a bit, and become a mite less foolish. But I don't think that's happening.
taken from :Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

The Torah Revolution: Kasztner is back

The Torah Revolution: Kasztner is back

The Torah Revolution: Hassanat Ibrahim's article is racist, not the "march" of Jews by Ariel Ben Yochanan

The Torah Revolution: Hassanat Ibrahim's article is racist, not the "march" of Jews by Ariel Ben Yochanan

Esser Agaroth: "Home Game" (Film Recommendation)

"Home Game" (Film Recommendation)

5 of the Fifth Month 5769

This 12Tribe Films presentation about the expulsion of Jews from Netzer-Hazani was compiled mostly from video footage shot by the town's youth. It focuses on the basketball game played in Azza (Gaza) before the expulsion of Jews from their homes, and the handing over of their lands to the Yishma'eli (Arab) enemies.

(12TribeFilms.org) “Home Game” is a captivating new film that encapsulates the surreal story of normal teenagers trying to continue an annual basketball tournament during a very abnormal summer in Israel -- the summer of 2005 during the disengagement from Gaza. This powerful film emphasizes the journey of these teenagers and their determination to win against all odds, both on and off the court. "Home Game" tells part of the untold human story to a piece of Jewish history that was overshadowed by politics.

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Esser Agaroth: "Home Game" (Film Recommendation)

HE HATH SPOKEN - DRY BONES


Israel Matzav: Trying to make 'Palestinian' kids spend their summers like other kids

Trying to make 'Palestinian' kids spend their summers like other kids

I've posted several times about how the 'Palestinians' have their kids spend the summer. Here's one example. This year, the Jerusalem Municipality is spending NIS 500,000 (about $128,000) trying to get 'Palestinian' kids to spend their summer in a camp run by the Municipality instead of in Islamist camps. Is it working? Well, they have 8,000 kids in Municipal-run summer camps this year.

That Israel sees [Islamist] camps as a threat is not in his imagination. In recent years there has been alarm in the Israeli media over Palestinian summer camps run by Fatah and Hamas, some offering paramilitary training for teenagers. Now, even camps for younger children have come into question, and officials in the Jerusalem municipality say they're in a strugle to make municipal-run (read: Israeli) camps more affordable for the children of Arab East Jerusalemites.

"The Islamic movement is running summer camps with a very clear agenda: to indoctrinate young kids to a very strict religious viewpoint and what we know are very extreme messages, which of course we think is not the right thing," says Yakir Segev, a Jerusalem city council member who is in charge of the East Jerusalem portfolio.

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Israel Matzav: Trying to make 'Palestinian' kids spend their summers like other kids
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