Well, they think they've found the body of Eliyahu Asheri, with a bullet hole in his head, buried outside of Ramallah. In the meantime, Israeli forces are arresting the Hamas-led Palestinian authority heads -- about 1/3 have been picked up it looks like. I'm not sure where this is all going, but evidently Israeli forces also are flying over Syria to say "STOP IT! JUST STOP IT" ... hrm.
I happ'd upon this video on YouTube, and while the quality sucks and it isn't their best version of the song, I do love this song so very much, and Tegan and Sara are a personal favorite of mine.
I can't say it enough, just can't.
Oseh shalom bimromav, hu yaaseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol yisreal. V'imru, Amen.
Well. The truth is often a hard pill to swallow, and this has been one of the hardest. Nay, most frustrating. Nay, most infuriating. This bl...
On Jews
He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.
The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?