Read this post, if you want, as a belated tribute to the World Day of Prayer, observed last Thursday on the day better known as Patriot Day or simply 9/11. Or as a memorial to the late Philip Berg, head of the LA-based "Kabbalah Centre" where the celebs--most visibly, Madonna--learn their … [Read more...]
Sadat in Israel – Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
"We now show uncorrelated targets approaching from the north-northwest ..." --"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" In reality, it was more like the southwest from which the alien craft made its approach. But otherwise, the climactic scene in the Spielberg movie--the one where the UFOs make a … [Read more...]
A Gaza Story
Again there's news out of Gaza. I wish there weren't. Practically everything out of Gaza that's newsworthy is bad news. I don't have any wisdom to offer on the current situation. I can't say what the Israelis are doing wrong, what they might be doing better; given their situation, attacking … [Read more...]