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JoeSettler: Sign of the times For the third time in a row, soldiers in the Kfir Brigade (first Shimshon, then Nachshon) hung up a sign saying "Kfir doesn't expel Jews".The army and the government are terrified. Bibi has gone as far as calling this "insubordination is a threat to all I...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:30pm PT (335 words)
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JoeSettler: Obama off the teleprompter again. Obama is criticizing the Israeli government for building 900 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo stating that construction in Gilo doesn't make Israel safer.I wonder if Obama realizes how much of an idiot he sounds like to everyone liv...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 1:15pm PT (117 words)
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JoeSettler: Obama (Non)Interference Strange how the Obama administration chooses to interfere (or not) with foreign government and their policies.Knesset speaker Ruby Rivlin received "recommendations" from the George Mitchel's people, not to memorialize Kahane in the Knesset and wouldn't le...
Dateline: 2009-11-14 10:00am PT (73 words)
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JoeSettler: A Basic Human Right I've heard the anti-Semites make this argument, but Derfner gives the anti-Semites a run for the money with his full-blown repetition.Derfner seems to be saying that the acquisition of weapons and even nuclear weapons is a fundamental human right that sho...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 2:15am PT (122 words)
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JoeSettler: Radio Yo"Sh What could once have been Radio Yesh(a), is now Radio Yosh - Radio Yehuda v'Shomron.After winning the government tender for the rights, for the next 3 months, Radio Yosh will be running on 98.2 FM. After which presumably it will be assessed and decided if...
Dateline: 2009-11-10 12:30am PT (150 words)
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JoeSettler: Shlomi's Angels Drug deals are rampant in the Sharon region. Dealer have a free hand, and the police need a new method to catch these criminals that are staining the reputation of these innocent citizens of the Sharon region, as people all over the country believe that e...
Dateline: 2009-11-07 10:45pm PT (149 words)
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JoeSettler: Givat HaEitam Revisited A few weeks ago ago I wrote about Nadia Matar and Givat HaEitam.This weekend's Makor Rishon had an interesting and related story that explains how Nadia and friends were eventually able to go up to the Eitam hill and how it became officially a part of Efr...
Dateline: 2009-11-07 1:15pm PT (325 words)
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JoeSettler: Taking back the power The lack of a balanced set of checks and balances is something that hurts Israel a tremendous amount. The Supreme Court simply has too much power, and particularly the power to override laws created by duly elected lawmakers that they disagree with for id...
Dateline: 2009-11-05 12:00am PT (215 words)
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JoeSettler: Full coverage Israel pulls out of Lebanon, missiles are introduced that reach all of Northern Israel.Israel pulls out of Gaza, missiles are now introduced that reach all of Southern and Central Israel (including Tel Aviv).Now the world demands Israel pull out of (Jerus...
Dateline: 2009-11-03 4:15am PT (56 words)
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JoeSettler: Har Hebron and Homesteads If you haven't had a chance to drive south on 60 you're missing an interesting learning experience.After you pass Kiryat Arba/Hebron you drive between what are now 2 large Arab villages (where interestingly enough some/many residents actually claim Jewish...
Dateline: 2009-11-01 2:15pm PT (339 words)
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JoeSettler: Life and Death in Ur Kasdim NYTimes has an interesting article about an ancient graveyard uncovered in Ur.I thought one part of the article was strange.Ritual killing associated with a royal death was practiced by other ancient cultures, archaeologists say, and raises a question: Wh...
Dateline: 2009-10-31 10:30am PT (119 words)
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JoeSettler: And the rain rain rain came down down down Shabbat ShalomWritten and posted by JoeSettler.
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Dateline: 2009-10-30 6:30am PT (9 words)
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JoeSettler: Israel passes "Bathroom Break" Law Israel passes "Bathroom Break" Law.And just in time too. It's tough to hold it in between blog posts.Written and posted by JoeSettler.
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Dateline: 2009-10-27 12:00pm PT (25 words)
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JoeSettler: RabinFest starting early this year Usually we have to suffer through just the month of November when the media gets on their high horse and starts to deride, castigate and attack everyone who rightfully opposed/opposes the views of Rabin and the disaster that Oslo brought on us.But RabinFe...
Dateline: 2009-10-26 12:00am PT (123 words)
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JoeSettler: Ariel Sharon waking up? Is Ariel Sharon awaking from his coma?Mixed reports are coming from his doctors, friends, and family.But if he were (and wasn't an awake vegetable), what would he see? How would he see the changes he wrought, and the disasters he brought down us?Would he ...
Dateline: 2009-10-23 4:00am PT (104 words)
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