Why I adore Sabra men

January 25th, 2012 K. Shoshana No comments

The Red no Sabra Man knows‘Cause no Sabra man would be caught dead in this – unless he was on active duty in the IDF and part of special commando mission in Lebanon.

There should be a dating rule or hazard warning for any female dating a man who would wear these clothes.

Child Abuse on the West Bank 2

January 25th, 2012 K. Shoshana No comments

I am going to quote the entire Arutz Sheva article which appeared to given the relevance to a recent blog posting.

Security and military officials revealed Monday Tuesday that they have arrested two teenage Palestinian Authority terrorists who carried out a number of shooting, firebomb and rock-throwing attacks on Jewish civilians and soldiers.

The youth, ages 16 and 17, were indicted in a military court in Samaria (Shomron).

They admitted to shooting at a driver last month on the road leading to the community of Maaleh Shomron, adjacent to Ginot and Karnei Shomron. No one was injured in the attack. More than 1,000 families live in the three communities and their main highway connects to Kfar Saba, on the northern edge of metropolitan Tel Aviv.

The terrorists are from the nearby Arab village of Azoon, where soldiers arrested 17 suspected terrorists during the arrest of the two teenagers. The village, located on the main highway, has been the source of hundreds of attacks on Jewish drivers and soldiers.Indictments were filed against the two teenagers for intentionally trying to cause deaths and throwing incendiary and foreign objects at vehicles, including a bus, private cars and army jeeps.

There are so many international organizations set-up to protect the rights of children and youth, rescue and rehabilitate ‘child soldiers’, and yet, not one of these organization appears to be operating on any appreciable level to stop the Palestinians from militarizing their children and youth.

Update: Ynet News is carrying the video surveillance tape of these two Palestinian ‘children’ going on a shooting rampage against Israeli civilians…

And B’Tselem wants us all to worry more about these children being interrogated without their parents being present rather than worry about the lives these children appear committed to murder.

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The myth of Arab Jerusalem

January 25th, 2012 K. Shoshana 4 comments

h/tip Daled Amos

The original UN vote for partition of the British Mandate for Palestine called for the ‘internationalizing of Jerusalem, although there was a tiny significant point, which hardly any one wants to acknowledge or even discuss; the ‘internationalizing’ of Jerusalem had a best before date.

Ten years after partition, the citizens of Jerusalem would determine, in a majority vote which nation – Israel or Arab Palestine – they would want to join. If that vote was held in 1948 or even ten years later in 1958; the majority of citizens of a united Jerusalem would have been Jews, and I suspect the vast majority of Jerusalemites would have voted to join Israel. Even today, if all the citizens of both West and East Jerusalem, Arab or Israeli, the vast majority of Jerusalemites would still vote to remain as part of the Israeli nation. This ‘clause’ was on the prime reasons it was imperative for the invading Arab armies to ethnically cleanse – at all costs or at any price – ‘East Jerusalem’ of all its’ Jews.

The history of Jerusalem did not start in 1967. Thousands of years of Jewish history took place in what is now called “Arab East Jerusalem. Only when the Jewish residents were driven from their homes in 1948 was the city divided between East and West. This video shows the reality of Jerusalem today and includes interviews from survivors of the fall of Jerusalem.”

Child Abuse on the West Bank

January 24th, 2012 K. Shoshana No comments

Dr. Dawg has his gotchies all in a twist over this Guardian article alleging mistreatment of Palestinian teenagers by Israeli prison authorities. Oh my bad, The Guardian makes a point of calling all teenagers in the article ‘children’.
Now I will say this, if Israeli authorities are routinely abusing Palestinians who have been incarcerated in Israeli prisons…it is wrong, and those responsible should face the full penalty for breaking the law – Israeli law. The Guardian ends with this dire warning:

Following detention many children exhibit symptoms of trauma: nightmares, mistrust of others, fear of the future, feelings of helplessness and worthlessness, obsessive compulsive behaviour, bedwetting, aggression, withdrawal and lack of motivation.

The Israeli authorities should consider the long-term effects, said Abu Amsha. “They don’t give attention to how this might continue the vicious cycle of violence, of how this might increase hatred. These children come out of this process with a lot of anger. Some of them feel the need for revenge. “You see children who are totally broken. It’s painful to see the pain of these children, to see how much they are squeezed by the Israeli system.”


On the other hand, it is truly hard for me to feel a great deal of empathy for those Palestinian ‘children’ who deliberately choose to throw Molotov cocktails…

and/or stones at people’s children just because they are Jewish. 16 month old attack in rock attack by Palestinians (2)

In the universe of Dawg’s Guardian, these little moral monsters are the result of the ‘alleged abuse’ which they have suffered at the hands of Israelis authorities – long after they have been arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Jews.

As a mother of many, I have actively discouraged any of my children from throwing anything at anybody – without exception.

So my question becomes, at what point does the Palestinian family unit/culture take responsibility for the fact that throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Jews is a true coming of age ritual for Palestinian teenagers?

Dawg ends his two bits by asking how many violent settlers are jailed and tortured by the Israeli Defense Forces. Now I could quibble with Dawg because he refuses to note the difference between Israeli prison authorities, the Shin Bet and the IDF – three separate organizations, but I am not going to.

Instead, I will just point out that he needs a long talk with Noam Federman, and refresh his memory over who arrested the Jewish Bomb Plot terrorists…or we could just start the discussion at ‘Amona’. Of course, that might not be filled with as much bloggie goodness for Dawg as writing the ‘bad, bad Jew’ narratives which we all know the good Dawg loves to do.

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Officer Bubbles has Maritime Relatives or have all the grown-ups left New Brunswick?

January 24th, 2012 K. Shoshana No comments

I’m filing this one under Officer Bubbles has relatives in NB.
The CBC is reporting that Fredericton New Brunswick police officers raided a local Fredericton man’s home to execute a search warrant and charge him with ‘criminal libel’ under probably one of the more obscure sections of the Criminal Code of Canada. In fact, I’ll wolf down a bag of artificial bacon bits; if more than 20 people have been charged with criminal libel in the last 50 years – anywhere in Canada.

The police seizure of the computer equipment of a controversial Fredericton blogger came under criticism by Fredericton city councillor on Monday. Coun. Jordan Graham said he’s heard a mix of opinions on the arrest of Charles LeBlanc and the decision to confiscate his computer equipment.

The city councillor raised concerns over the tactics of the Fredericton police on a post on his own blog again on Monday. “Some people are sick and tired of Charles LeBlanc and they are happy to see something come down on him,” Graham said. “And other people are concerned about the statement of the police force going after somebody who has clearly been on their hit list for quite some time now.”

It has been reported that eight officers exercised a search warrant at LeBlanc’s home and seized his computer equipment. Fredericton Police Chief Barry MacKnight said search and seizure operations usually include at least a dozen officers. MacKnight won’t comment on specific cases, but he said the police force sends investigators, security people and individuals with technical expertise on these types of operations.
“Even in a case where the risk is relatively low, you’re probably looking at a couple of people to maintain security, they have people that come to do the search if there are people with technical expertise,” he said.
LeBlanc was arrested for allegedly libeling a Fredericton Police officer. The blogger signed a promise to appear in court on April 20.


In my opinion, the very fact that a Canadian police chief attempts to justify this type of police bullying against an obnoxious loud-mouth blogger; speaks more to his general unfitness for duty and a rather marked leadership deficit on the Fredericton police force. Let’s just strike New Brunswick off the list of civilized places to visit – oh, wait – does anyone actually vacation there?

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Arab Spring becomes Bedouin Summer; Bedouin trying their hand at occupation for cash.

January 24th, 2012 K. Shoshana No comments

There is this really looney tunes quality to this Ha’aretz report. Apparently, a group of Bedouin have taken over an almost empty resort and demanded a pay-offout to leave or their will trash the place and steal equipment.

A squad of Egyptian Bedouin on Sunday took control of a resort complex in Sinai, for which they are demanding a ransom of four million Egyptian pounds (approximately $662,000). According to reports by Egyptian media, the squad, armed with automatic weapons, took hold of “Aqua Sun”, situated about 30 kilometers south of Taba, Egypt.

There were no tourists at the site when the squad took it hostage, however, there were Egyptian staff members present. An Israeli source well aware of the situation and with ties to the Egyptian owners of the resort told Haaretz that there were only a handful of security guards present at the time, and that their lives are not in danger.

According to the reports, dozens of gunmen are threatening to destroy the site and steal the equipment if their demands are not met. Egyptian security forces have not prevented the action, claiming that they cannot act in the region without Israeli permission. The resort’s owner, who is currently hospitalized in Cairo, has called upon the Egyptian authorities to intercept, free the hostages, and bring an end to the episode.

The Egyptian army could certainly act, and there are several thousand Egyptian troops currently in the Sinai. I suspect this is a special joint mission between Egyptian troops and the Bedouin to shakedown a pay-offout from the hotel owner and who better to blame than the Joos.

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Am I back to full-time blogging again?

January 24th, 2012 K. Shoshana No comments

I don’t know. I wrote two books in the past 12 months and started a specialty line of women’s wear. My Israeli partner took the samples back to Israel. Not only will the website be built in Israel, but Israel will be the corporate home to my dress company. After 17 years of excuses for avoiding the shtetl, and cracking jokes about never going north of Bloor Street in Toronto; I am moving back into its heart. My children are all late teenagers and my inner Jewish mother wants to assert a measure of control over their social life/pool. Go figure.

So yes, I might blog or not.

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massaging history

November 21st, 2011 K. Shoshana 3 comments

I have three pet peeves about the Israeli-Arab conflicts. The first, is this notion that the Jewish nation is not an indigenous people to the Middle East, but rather some kind of European hybrid plant exported and planted in alien or foreign soil.

The second, is the notion that the United Nations created the state of Israel. The state of Israel was created by the blood and sweat of the nascent Israeli nation willing to fight to establish their right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. The UN never rushed in to defend the state after David Ben-Gurion publicly declared the re-establishment of the Israeli state.

This Toronto Star article on Ariel Sharon touches on third peeve.

“The only way to respond (to attack) was by establishing new ground rules,” Gilad writes. “Jewish lives were not just for the taking; the harming of Jews was a crime that would be paid for.”Starting with the 1948 War of Independence, Sharon carved a wide swath through the Middle East, winning a starring role in its violent drama. At the height of his early popularity Sharon was Israel’s Spartacus, breaking the chains of oppression that had afflicted the Jews for centuries. Later he became “Arik, King of Israel.” But he also infuriated his superiors by following his own military doctrine of striking hard and fast, whatever the orders from above. His philosophy helped reshape the fledgling Israel Defense Forces from an inexperienced band to a crack commando army.


Do not misunderstand me, the Haganah were significantly under manned and under-armed given the far superior numbers of men and weaponry arrayed against them, but this idea, that the Haganah forces were an inexperienced band…is laughable and butt-ignorant.

At the time of War of Independence, Haganah forces numbered 20,000 – among the 20,000 troops were 4,000 Polish Jews; who were battle hardened and experienced in the finer arts of modern military warfare. Men who were forged in Rommel’s gardens are exactly who you want in your army when the military numbers/armaments game is stacked against you. Those Jews were made up with men like Jaques Bar, who received advanced military training at the Academy of Science in Moscow, and who later went on to learn the finer points of fighting and operating behind enemy lines where access to supplies and weapons was practically non-existent.

SCAN0019It was a wealth of experience which these 4000 Jews from the British Polish Corps II brought to the Haganah and the Palmach. I realize that the Labor Zionist myth has helped perpetrate the notion that the Haganah did not know how to ‘fight’, but given the reality, that the state of Israel fought its first official war as a state against armies of superior numbers and weapons but still prevailed…well, isn’t it time to give this myth a rest?

Of course, I would be remiss if I did not point out, that Sharon was far too young and far too low on the military ladder in the 40’s and early fifties to have had ‘his philosophy helped reshape the fledgling Israel Defense Forces. In fact, the ‘philosophy’ of the IDF was directly shaped by men like General Yitzhak Sadeh, and the men Sadeh hand picked to join the Palmach and lead its operations. Other than that, carry on.

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The Canadian hosptial care – not dead yet.

November 13th, 2011 K. Shoshana 3 comments

ankle-lateral-view-x-ray_ (2) We hear so many horror stories about Canadian hospital health care that getting ill or needing emergency assistance is enough to induce an off the wall anxiety attack. I know because I had one last Friday night. I had a small Shabbat dinner and as I was walking my friend to his car my knee locked and I suddenly went crashing down on my right ankle. I didn’t hear the ‘crunch’ but when I could get up immediately I knew I was facing, at least, a very bad sprain.

Being a former ballet dancer means that I am not a stranger to either to pain or sprained ankles. Gabriel carried me to chair and packed my foot with ice. He wanted to take me to the hospital and being an Israeli, he has yet to feel or understand the dread the very idea of visiting a hospital induces in Canadians. I insisted I would be fine. I showed him I could wiggle my toes which goes to prove that old adage of it not being a fracture bone if one can still wiggle one’s extremities is false. The truth is, I have extremely strong toes, toes stronger enough – even to this day – that I can pick up all kinds of unnatural things with my toes, if I so choose. Very reluctantly he left me.

By 2:00p.m. Saturday afternoon, I knew I would have to go to the hospital and face the inevitable. I was still hoping for a very bad sprain but the pain was very different from any sprain I had experienced in my career. My son carried me out the door and into a cab. I live in the midst of at least 4 major hospitals and raising three children means I have had experiences at all of the them. I chose Mount Sinai, only because, I was so impressed with the treatment both my son and daughter have received there in the past. Need a CAT scan or an MRI? Mount Sinai has it arranged in hours or within in three days at the most.

We arrived at in the emergency room at 3:00p.m., and seen right away. After the initial nurse triage examine and paper work filled out, I was sent to the waiting room. A brief stay in the waiting room and then I was wheeled into an examining room. Maybe it took 10 minutes – tops. Five minutes after I in the examining room, I was being wheeled into the x-rays room – and attended to immediately. By the time I was wheeled back into the examining room, my x-rays were up on the examining room screens. Ten minutes later I was examined by a resident. Ten minutes later, the resident was conferring with the attending doctor. A fiber-glass air cast was fitted ten minutes later. I was fully discharged and loaded with instructions. The longest single wait I experienced was waiting for a cab to arrive at the emergency entrance to take me home. I was back home and fully kitted out with crutches, cast and drugs by 4:30pm.

Now, maybe I was lucky, and it would be foolish not to see an element of luck in the timing working for me, but this is my 4th experience at Mount Sinai. And each time, I am amazed at the speed and quality of care. I suspect that a great deal of those Canadian hospital horror stories happen due to dysfunctional management policies of individual hospital administrations rather than signs of a ‘broken’ health care system. If this is indeed the case, maybe it’s time to take a long hard look at how and who is running our hospitals.

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Mind the gaffe but only fools rush in

November 8th, 2011 K. Shoshana 1 comment

Everyone is all a twitter about the alleged open mic moment between US President Obama and France’s Prime Minister Sarkozy. Sarkozy accused Israeli Prime Minister of being a liar and ‘being fed up with him’ reminds me of what passes for appropriate small dinner time chat among France’s diplomatic corps.

While I have no reason to doubt Sarkozy’s animus towards an Israeli Prime Minister, after all there is a French tradition for that kind of thing- what is far more striking is just just what Sarkozy has against the US President. If anything, Sarkozy’s ‘gaffe’ really smells far more like ‘set-up’ to me. Sarkozy actually leads Obama into making ‘personal’ admissions about the Israeli Prime Minister.

The open mic ‘gaffe’ will hurt the Obama Administration far more with Democratic and Republican voters than it will hurt Sarkozy among his natural constituency in France. But this kind of ‘gaffe’ by Obama, when relations among the White House and the US Jewish community are at an all-time low – and in a lead-up to a major US election cycle for the Presidency…well, Sarkozy just handed Obama a shovel to keep digging his political grave..

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