On the Eve of Miracles

Etrog Olmert has gotten over-confident, thinking that the world will be as coddling as the Israeli media and agenda-ed judicial. Yahoo news changed its original headline for this updated article, which still (at the time of writing this at least) uses the following:

"...Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was not bound by the December 2008 target for the peace agreement set at last week's U.S.-hosted Mideast summit in Annapolis, Md."

A few years ago, when I was in a group that learned Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, I remember that we were told that every word has power according to Judaism. We must be careful to say "bli neder" before, rather than after our statements. When at Annapolis, Olmert agreed to many things. Some have been revealed, and other things he has kept secret. Secret to the Israeli public, but not secret to G-d and certainly not secret to those he promised, Bush, Rice and the Arabs who want to destroy us.

It's the Eve of Chanukah, the Holiday of Miracles in the "material, obvious, sense." It's not yet Purim, when the Hand of G-d is more hidden.

Olmert mustn't forget that once said, words can't be erased, at least in the real world. Etrog Olmert is in quicksand and he may be in over his head by now.


Living here in Shiloh puts me in a different perspective in terms of Jewish history and our future. For many years, there was annual, pre-Chanukah school trip for the Second Graders to a mountain, the same mountain where the Maccabees and the Greeks battled. It's just a couple of minutes drive from here, between Eli and Maale Levona. The year that I accompanied the kids, as one of the teachers, the boys were left at the foot of the mountain and the girls were driven to the top. They met in the middle for a mock battle.



Today, we're battling for real, for the future of our country. In Shiloh, I can see the lights of Jordan through my dining room window, and if I walk a few steps past my backyard and climb the water tower, I can see the entire country, Tel Aviv, the Golan, the vapors of the Dead Sea. I don't have telescope vision, nor zoom lenses for eyes. It's just that our country, our precious Land is minute in this enormous earth. Even with all of Judea and Samaria, we have the square miles (or kilometers) like one of the smallest of states in the USA.



It's very hard for even the most sympathetic American to comprehend this.



I have no doubt, that no matter how difficult it looks today, just like the Maccabees of old, we will defeat our Greeks and the Jews of today who are like the mityavnim, those who assimilated themselves into Greek culture.

Nes Gadol Hayah Poh!

A Great Miracle Happened Here!

US Bush Encouraging Anti-Democratic Actions

I'm home tonight, not at the demonstration. I had to work, and by the time I finished I was finished, finished for the day.

I didn't want to watch the news, afraid it would be bad for my health. I've put down books, like some of the John Grisham ones, in which from the opening you could see that the great deal was really going to be hell or worse. I can't stand reading/watching how people's stupidity get them into situations they should have seen so clearly would happen.

We've just been through it here in Israel with Disengagement and the increase in Kassams, missiles shot by Arab terrorists on southern Israel.

Now Olmert, his extreme Left-wing wife and Tsippi Livne and the rest of the crew are off in Annapolis. They're not there to check out boating.

The US President Bush, his Secretary of State and their crew have put together a pressure cooker or compactor which would make the mammography machine on a male -- feel like a night in a jacuzzi.

The guest list includes Israel and all the countries which have vowed to destroy her. The US and Envoy Blair have made it clear that "they have a dream," and that dream isn't a strong independent Israel. Those cameras are flashing so, that Olmert, Livne and their advisers are already blinded by the fame.

Here in Israel, back at the ranch, tens of thousands of Israeli citizens are demonstrating against the Annapolis pow-wow. The media asked Danny Dayan, head of Moetzet YESHA, if the demonstration won't help Olmert. Olmert could tell the US President Bush that the people are against him and the "conference."

Isn't that something? Even the left-leaning Israeli media knows that the people are against the agreement Bush is forcing on Israel. That sounds pretty totalitarian anti-democratic to me. If Bush really believes in democracy, then he should respect the wishes of the Israeli public and lay off. Let him "make peace" with Cuba! He can start off by offering them Puerto Rico, the Florida Everglades and Miami, of course.

Does Olmert Have Any Red Lines?

Not even the red blood of innocent Jews affects Prime Minister Olmert!

• Olmert just continues freeing Arab terrorists.
• Olmert just continutes to endanger Israeli Jews.
• Olmert is more interested in pleasing American Bush and Rice than in protecting and preserving the state of Israel.
• Olmert wants to go to Annapolis, regardless of the price.


• Has Olmert been listening to what the Arabs are saying?

The Arabs consider Ramat Eshkol, Ramot, Gilo and all of the other post-1967 neighborhoods the same as Shiloh, Beit El, Hebron etc.

Or to put it very simply, the Arabs want this wall moved and have hundreds of thousands of Jews exiled and homeless.