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It’s been a while since our amiable hosts have been in the same bowl with each other, so we took this opportunity to do a special three guest show from across the world and around the country. First up, our old friend Judith Levy gives us a chilling report from her home in Israel. Then, newly returned contributor Claire Berlinski checks in from Paris with a first hand look at the reaction in Europe to Gaza and the crisis in the Ukraine. Finally, our pal David Limbaugh (aka El Rush Bro) pulls no punches on why he thinks we ought to make the argument that the President has committed high crimes (but not impeach!) and close the borders. Also, which Ricochet Podcaster is in favor of the coming tax on soda? You get one guess….
Music from this week’s’ episode:
Burning by The War On Drugs
The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.
Ripe for the picking, EJHill.
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Rob as John Travolta.
Having seen everything, I can die happy.
One of your finest, Mr. Hill. Kudos.
i was more amused by you.
The stress in Judith’s voice brought immediate tears.
Shame, shame, shame on us and the wicked Postmodernia we’ve become.
Every American supporter of Israel who voted for Barack Obama should consider the consequences of what they’ve done. Initially my thought was of American Jews, but I know a number of Evangelicals who claim to be supporters of Israel who voted for Obama.
Peter is Epstein. Is that James as Horshack?
http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_5nm25qd9/
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Peter is Epstein. Is that James as Horshack?
It sure ain’t Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington or Rosalie “Hotsy” Totsy.
FWIW, I know many American Jews who are regretting their votes. I’ve been considering writing a post on whether this might be a “mugged by reality” moment, but — somewhat like Judith — I’ve been too paralyzed by emotion to write a coherent post with supporting evidence (anecdotal or otherwise).
That’s Vol. 5 Number XXIX.
What really has changed since 2012 when the opportunity to change course was available? Will anything change this November or will the thinking be “This Democrat is different, besides SSM, war on women or something. ”
I listened to the first 45 minutes on the way in. Upon arriving at work, I checked the headlines and learned that Judith’s prediction regarding the inevitability of a kidnapping had come true earlier today.
There is no sense trying to negotiate with Hamas- they don’t speak diplomat. They only speak violence. Unless Israel’s leaders do whatever is necessary to keep their people safe- including driving Hamas entirely out of Gaza- this situation will be repeated.
As a conservative Jew, this has been one of my greatest frustrations. Tikkun Olam is often used as the justification… the Talmudic lesson of “repair the world”. It has been passed down generations and Jews feel the Left is more apt to ‘provide’ for the underdogs. Of course as a Conservative I would argue with such, and would prefer to teach a man to fish.
Be that as it may, this needs to be explained and dissected, along with a healthy debate with right/left leaning Jewish scholars.
Things are, ironically, somewhat calmer in Jerusalem than in the center of the country. Where I live, we have had very few sirens. On the other hand, while my younger son is just starting basic training, most of his classmates are well into their service, and a lot are actually in Gaza. Almost all my colleagues at work have somebody–a son, a brother, a husband–serving down South, only occasionally permitted telephone contact.
A good friend of his was “moderately wounded” last week, and is in the hospital with a horrible fracture of his left arm, which will require about a year of rehab. Having been given nerve block anesthesia, he is generally not in any pain, and receives guests in his hospital room like an oriental potentate. People are incredibly grateful for what the soldiers are doing for us.
Personally, I gasped when I saw where some of the tunnels came out. My daughter is in school on Kibbutz Sa’ad, near the border, and I know the exact view from the projected exit points of the two (!) tunnels right near Sa’ad.
I want to grab every soldier who serves down there and kiss them in gratitude.
Just a historical note before my brief candle gets snuffed: Canned orange juice is undrinkable. The fact that Donald Duck was plastered on the cans I remember is irrefutable evidence of the existence of evil and that Walt, for all his genius, was its agent. Theoretically it was something with which you would wash down a meal of capers, canned okra, canned shoestring potatoes, and canned corned beef in the nuclear twilight of a sadly failed Eisenhower administration. (dangit now I’ve got mild, probably untreatable, Lileks’ syndrome, which probably happens anytime you try to discuss regrettable food)
I do fear that some other justification may return. But I know people for whom Obama’s Iran capitulation in 2013 and his recent approach to Gaza have made a real difference. In the meantime, my very liberal family have sent video of Marco Rubio speeches and followed up with phone calls to say, “You must watch this! Somebody gets it!”
It’s easier for Catholics to get into France than for cats? You say that as though it’s a bad thing.
I guess, having gone through nursing school during the Gulf War (we were trained to put in IVs for nerve gas antidotes, and shower heads were installed in the parking lots), and having treated child victims of suicide bombers during the second intifada, either my threshold is higher, or I’ve gotten better at compartmentalizing. It was painful to hear Judith so upset.
For what it’s worth, Judith, I have always tried to tell my children the truth, but to remain as calm and matter-of-fact as possible. No, I don’t think it’s a good idea to wait until they ask; that just makes them think that the subject is too terrible to broach. Which at this point, it isn’t, really.