http://www.tzomet.net The Crossroads of Jewish and Israeli Life Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:18:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Yaakov Teitel"][/caption] Not sure if you have been reading, but it took the Shin Bet and the police 12 years to catch this lunatic. Since 1997, Yaakov Teitel murdered 2 Arabs and then turned his anger towards anyone he felt denigrated Israel and anyone who even sounded ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/11/its-a-guy-like-this-that-gives-jews-a-bad-name/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="136" caption="Katyusha"][/caption] Another rocket over the border from Lebanon exploded right near Kiryat Shoma.  Just a fire, and thank goodness no one was hurt.  I'm getting sick and tired of all these cross border incidents that go unpunished.  Well, not completely unpunished...the IDF at least retaliated and is ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/round-3-another-rocket-from-lebanon/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="198" caption="Meshal and his standup routine"][/caption] Alas!  Hamas has declared they will hand over an investigative analysis of their own role based on the Goldstone report findings.  According to Khaled Meshal, Hamas' relentless 8 year rocket campaign against civilians in southern Israel was due to a technical glitch.  ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/hamas-has-a-sense-of-humor/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="No Water in the West Bank?"][/caption] Not content to let the UN's Golstone report upstage their claims vs. Israel, now we find Amnesty International piling on with the claim that Israel steals 'Palestinian water', leaving them with little or nothing.  This was of course based on their ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/amnesty-international-sucks/ I know this isn't 'news' per se, but a great blog posting today from Treppenwitz in response to a woman from the UK who ranted to him about Israeli 'Colonialism', culminating in calling him a Nazi.  Guess some people really need to learn what true colonialism was/is and the depraved ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/israeli-colonialism/ I came across this article on Ynet about the IDF needed better PR.  Heck, Israel needs much better PR as they've had circles run around them by the Arabs for as long as anyone can remember.  I just wanted to quote one of the comments, as its humorous and 100% ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/better-pr-for-the-idf/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Operation Cast Lead"][/caption] Looks like the rest of the world is finally waking up to the realities of what Israel had to do.  That, or they realized the implications that sending the Goldstone report to the UNSC for debate may later have against their own ability to ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/will-israel-catch-a-break/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="248" caption="Low water level in the Kinneret"][/caption] Though Israel has desalination plants scheduled to go online next year and more by 2013, this evidently wont help the current situation due to overuse and the lack of rainfall in the past few years.  The Kinneret is already way below ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/kinneret-in-danger/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Kissing (an) Iranian ass"][/caption] Wishing for Israel's destruction.  Embracing Ahmadinejad.  Here's another reason not to like the Neturi Karta, as if you needed one.  They'd rather leave Shalit to rot with Hamas since he is not religious or at least not are 'religious' as them.  What a ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/neturei-karta-to-shalit-go-rot/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Spy equipment?"][/caption] Most of us read about or heard about the explosion last week of another arms cache in Tyre, Lebanon.  Israel had footage from ones of it's drones showing weapons bring brought out and loaded onto trucks.   That was explained away as a minor accident, ... http://www.tzomet.net/2009/10/another-hezbollah-smokescreen/