I Remember

1. This is clearly a crock of shit.

2. Here is the antidote.

3. Still working on a USS Liberty post for June 8th. On this Memorial Day, let’s remember the crew of the USS Liberty. Here’s a link to a number of my posts which mention the Liberty.

Here’s the list of the crew members.

USS Liberty Personnel Roster(as of 8 June 1967)
(list updated as of 2/15/2009)

* Wounded in action.
+ Killed in action

THE SHIP’S OFFICERS

+ Lieutenant Commander Philip McCutcheon Armstrong, Jr., USN
* Lieutenant Maurice Hogue Bennett, USN
* Lieutenant James Marquis Ennes, Jr., USNR
* Lieutenant George Huston Golden, USN
* Lieutenant Richard Francis Kiepfer, Medical Corps, USNR
* Lieutenant Commander David Edwin Lewis, USN
* Ensign David Geprge Lucas, USNR
* Commander William Loren McGonagle, USN – (since deceased)
* Lieutenant James George O’Connor, USNR – (since deceased)
Ensign Malcom Patrick O’Malley, USNR
* Lieutenant (junior grade) Lloyd Clyde Painter, USNR
+ Lieutenant James Cecil Pierce, USN
Ensign John Deadrick Scott, USNR
* Ensign Richard Patten Taylor, Jr., USNR
+ Lieutenant Stephen Spencer Toth, USN
* Lieutenant (junior grade) Malcom McEachin Watson, USNR

THE CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS

Chief Petty Officer Joseph A. Benkert
* Chief Petty Officer Richard J. Brooks
* Chief Petty Officer Carlyle F. Lamkin
+ Chief Petty Officer Raymond E. Linn
* Chief petty Officer James A. Matthews
+ Chief Petty Officer Melvin D. Smith
Chief Petty Officer Wayne L. Smith — (since deceased)
* Chief Petty Officer Harold J. Thompson
Senior Chief Petty Officer Stanley W. White

THE PETTY OFFICERS

* Reginald N. Addington
Americo Aimetti
+ William B. Allenbaugh
* Timothy P. Ameen (since deceased)
James M. Anderson Jr
* Joe D. Anderson
Alvis L Armstrong
Rogelio M. Bagan
* Richard K. Baker
Gary L. Barton
* Lowell T. Bingham — (since deceased)
* Glenn L. Bloxham — (since deceased)
* Salvatore Boccella
* John E. Booth
* Larry L. Bowen
Thomas E. Bradley
* John Victor Brong
+ Francis Brown
* Frank J. Brown
* Virgil L. Brownfield (since deceased)
* Gary Wayne Brummett
* Ronald D. Buck
Charles E. Byrd
John J. Calligan
+ Ronnie J. Campbell
* Richard C. Carlson
* David N. Carnahan
* Jeffery R. Carpenter
Joseph P. Carpenter
* Calvin L. Chadsey
* Fred M. Cleveland — (since deceased)
Charles J. Cocnavitch
+ Jerry L. Converse
James E. Cotten
Juan A. Craig
* Russell O. David, Jr.
* James Ray Davidson
Duilio Demori
* Marvin F. Dodd
* Henry E Durzewski, Jr.
* Robert M. Dye
* Lewis D. Eckhart
* Dennis M. Eikleberry
+ Robert B. Eisenberg
Eddie G. Elder
John W. Fisher
Everrett L. Freese
Ernest A. Gallo
* Kenneth R. Gauthier
* Ronald D. Gilson
Larry Goins
+ Jerry L. Goss
+ Curtis A. Graves
Troy L. Green
* Stephen C. Gurchik
James T. Halbardier
James V. Halman
Charles K. Hauck
* David W. Hawkins
* David C. Hazen — (since deceased)
* Charles R. Hendricks
* Donald Herold (since deceased)
+ Warren E Hersey
+ Alan Higgins
Wayne L. Hildebrand, Jr.
Jerry G. Hobson
* John S. Horne, Jr.
* Fredrick K. Johns
* Melvin P. Johnson
Charles F. Jones
+ Richard W. Keene
* James F. Kelly (since deceased)
Robert C. Kidd (since deceased)
Kenneth R. Kimble
William M. Kram
* Loren W. Kreun
* Ronald G. Kukal
* Calvin L. Landis
* William M. Lemay
* Joseph C. Lentini
Claude L. Lewis, Jr.
* Anthony J. Liefeld
* Philip L. Long
Donald J. Lundin
+ James M. Lupton
+ Duane R. Marggraf
Charles M. Martin — (since deceased)
* John L. Massengale — (since deceased)
Edward H. McClister
Terry L. McFarland
* David l. McFeggen
Garvin L. D. McMakin
+ Anthony P. Mendle
James H. Merritt
* Stephen E. Meyer
Thomas R. Moulin
David V. Myers
James L. Needham
* Richard D. Neese
* John P. Newell
Richard L. Newton
Francis J. O’classen
Glenn R. Oliphant
* Eugene Owens
* David W. Page
* Dennis A. Patten
* Garland W. Payne
* Edward G. Perkins
David T. Plasterer
* Carl L. Pleasants
* Floyd H. Pollard
* John G. Popielski — (since deceased)
Martin D. Powledge
Eugene Prigmore
* Albert E. Rammelsburg
* John R. Randall
Richard J. Reger
Paddy “E” Rhodes
* Douglas C. Ritenburg
* Charles L. Rowley (since deceased)
* Kenneth M. Schaley
* Robert J. Schnell
* Samuel L. Schulman
* Maurice B. Shafer
* Harold E. Six
* James C. Smith
+ John C. Smith, Jr.
* Thomas B. Smith
* Dennis C. Snader
+ John C. Spicher
* Joseph D. Stoudt
Richard S. Sturman
John R. Sutter
* Ralph B. Sweet (since deceased)
* Charles J. Thome
+ Alexander N. Thompson
* Larry B. Thorn
+ Thomas R. Thornton
+ Phillipe C. Tiedtke
* Barry R. Timmerman
* Phillip F. Tourney
Ronald R. Trader
* Sammy M. Uber
* Donaciano Valdez, Jr.
* Thomas Lee VanCleave
George R. Vanderpool
+ Fredrick J. Walton
* Jerry W. Ward
Joseph P. Ward — (since deceased)
Daniel J. Warwas
Clyde W. Way
Gorden J. Wedig
* Gregory Welch

THE SEAMAN

Gary L. Aftoora
Benjamin G. Aishe
* Richard E. Anderson — (since deceased)
Theodore L. Arfsten
* Joeseph W Ashworth
Thomas G. Bacskay
John W. Beattie
* Edward H. Bechtel
* Nathan D. Benedict, Jr.
* Lee R. Bennett
* Gerald R. Bisher
+ Gary R. Blanchard
* Calvin. Bostic II
* Don R Botcher
David W. Bundy
* Danny R. Byrd
* William E. Casper
* “J””C” Colston, Jr. (since deceased)
* Rodney C. Concepcion
* Eddie Lamar Cook
* George R. Cornish
* Rodney E. Dally
* Dale E. Daniels
Rodolfo A. Diana
* James P. DiGeronimo
Edward J. Duea — (since deceased)
* Kenneth B. Eakins
Alan W. Easton
* Kenneth P. Ecker
* Donald F. Follin, Jr.
* Ronald F. Grantski
Edward D. Handy
+ Lawrence P. Hayden
* Warren D. Heaney
+ Carl Hoar
Glen J. Holden
* John M. Hrankowski
Ronald A. Hurst
* Thomas F. Jackson
Duane D. Johnson
Perry W. Johnson
* James P. Kavanaugh
* Glenn D. Kelly — (since deceased)
Frederick W. Kerner
* Eugene H. Kirk
* David J. Kisiel
* Stephen J. Krasnasky
* Alan F. Kriner
* John D. Lamar
Dale D. Larkins
* Steven J. Latorre
* Joel W Lehman
* Terry W. Lehman
* Thomas W. Lemond
+ James L. Lenau
Ronald L. Lipply
Benjamian L. Lomasang
Robert W. Long
* Gerrald F. Lasasso
Randy W. Lucas
* James A Maraio
* Sofronio P. Marfil
+ David W. Marlborough
* Jamie L. Mathews
* Robert L. McAllister
* Patrick H. McAndrews
* Frank McInturff III
* Joseph L. Meadors
Remegio N. Mercado
* David B. Miller
Richard G. Mumford
+ Carl C. Nygren
* Donald W. Pageler
* Stamatie Pahides
* Herbert J. Parker
* Salvador Payan
* Herbert C. Peetoom
* Gerald H. Pierson
* Harvey L. Purcell
Anthony A Quintero
* Thomas A. Quintero
David Ramey
* Robert B. Reilly
* Thomas J. Reilly — (since deceased)
Stephen J. Richard
* Victor J. Rossi, Jr.
William R. Russell
Reynald S. Sarno
* Robert A. Scarborough
* Ronald W. Schneider
* David A. Shaw
* Michael R. Simpson
+ David Skolak
* Larry J. Slavens
Jerry D. Smith
* Larry L. Soper — (since deceased)
Michael J. Tobin
Stephen B. Tracy
* Jeffery L. Triplett
* Thomas E. Vanderschuur
* Robert B. Vandeventer
* Carl J. Vickers
Richard W. Wainwright
* Robert M. Waltz
Pedro P. Watan
* Richard L. Weaver
Tommy W. Wheeler
* George W. Wilson, Jr.
* Daniel B. Wood
* Robert R. Zager

THE MARINES

* Staff Sergeant Bryce F. Lockwood
+ Sergeant Jack L. Raper
+ Corporal Edward E. Rehmeyer

CIVILIANS
* Donald L. Blalock (since deceased)
+ Allen M. Blue
Robert L. Wilson

4. Here’s a real national anthem, unofficial though it may be.  I love how Wendy Mathews can belt out a verse.

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5. “Baltmore’s citizens watched in panic through the night. . .”

Yes, it’s almost 10 minutes long and the first minute is a bit corny.  But those of you with an attention span higher than that of your average Shas Party member may just find the last 8 minutes of the video to be inspiring.

How to Hurt People and Make Money

The Skulz leads us down the road.

Item 2 is the title piece of this post.

1. Hi folks, I’ve been on the road for a while now with no time whatsoever to post and it looks like that status is going to continue until July. So I won’t be posting regularly again until about mid July because my schedule is so busy you’d think I had been tasked with summarizing all of the documents stolen by Jonathan Pollard in order to present that summary to a court of inquiry being held by USS Liberty Survivors on the 45th anniversary of Israel’s deliberate attack on that ship which took place on June 8th 1967 and then as if I had to immediately read and memorize all of Last Word to then recite it for a Secret Service party being held at the whore house of their choice in Tel Aviv.

So I’m not going to post much again until sometime in July, although I do plan to have something up on the site this coming June 8th if I can get my first assignment done by then. For whore house recommendations in Tel Aviv, please send them to the “US” (hahahahahahahahaha) ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, so he can make sure that none of the prostitutes at your recommended whore house will bitch and moan if they get stiffed (pun intended) by one of the SS agents.

Anyway, I’ve been taking advantage of this interregnum to reflect on the site and to read the messages I’m getting both positive and negative and I may be making some major changes when I get back to posting on a regular basis later this summer. After much reflection and self doubt I’ve decided that some of you who have been criticizing me have been right. I’m am way out of line on some things and I will do my best to rectify this. If I have offended anyone because of of what I have written,  I apologize. So when I get back into this blogging stuff full time I will see to it that I am much harder and much more critical and satirical of the assholes who are destroying our country. I’m so sorry for having gone so easy on these  criminals, be they major ones or minor ones.

2. A frequent reader of Mantiq al-Tayr, and no it wasn’t a Shas Party member, though that would have been cool, read my last post which linked to what appears to me to be a scam going on that seems to be aimed at people who are grieving and in pain and sent me a link to a video by a woman who is standing up to this.  It’s a good video and well worth looking at.  Readers of this site could be victims of this effort now or in the future if they lose a loved one.

(Note to Shas Party members: It is only about 4 minutes long. I think was very nice of the lady of the video to keep your short attention spans in mind. Oh, and didn’t Bibi fuck you over with his deal with Mofaz?  But I digress.)

The effort the video is exposing seems to work mainly on people of Christian background, though I think it could be used against anyone and maybe it has.  I hope that a professional news organization will do some investigative reporting on this and see what is really going on. But I am not holding my breath.

Anyway, below is a video done by a victim of this predator.

(Note to Shas party members, red highlights below are mine.)

Now if you are an evil son of a bitch you can also use what you learn from this video to set up your own money making scheme at the expense of decent people.  I mean, why not, our economy is based on this kind of immorality.

Then you can go vote for Ron Paul and feel better.

The Summer of Sucking Up (to Israel)

(Skulz’s correction of the original.)

1. Do you all enjoy sitting back and watching Americans kiss Israeli ass as much as I do? What amazes me is that after all these years they find new ways to do it. Of course the tried and true way to show that one has joined the caravan, so to speak, is to make a pilgrimage to Israel and openly support Israeli destruction of Palestinian society, Israeli ethnic cleansing and just about anything else that is immoral that Israel does. It’s a long list. Just ask Chris Christie.

And now the serious Israeli ass-kissing is going to go into high gear to see who gets to be Romney’s partner at the big dance. We are in for a long, hot, Zionist-Bullshit-filled summer. Have fun.

2. Helicopter Chris Christie flirts like a high-school girl with Mitt Romney.

3. Ron Paul on Israel:

“In October, 1981, most of the world and most of the congress voiced outrage over Israel’s attack on Iraq and their nuclear development. I was one of the few who defended her right to make her own decisions on foreign policy and to act in her own self interest.”

“We should be their friend and their trading partner. They are a democracy and we share many values with them. But we should not be their master. We should not dictate where their borders will be nor should we have veto power over their foreign policy.”

“And Israel should stop sacrificing their sovereignty as an independent state to us or anybody else, no matter how well intentioned.”

From Jeffrey Goldberg’s article on Paul entitled “Ron Paul, Zionist“

“There are good reason (sic) to include Ron Paul. He is, in one sense, a true Zionist, a believer in two core values of the Jewish liberation movement: Jewish independence and Jewish self-reliance.”

Goldberg quotes Paul:

“(W)hy does Israel need our help? We need to get out of their way. I mean, we interfere with them. We interfere with them when they deal with their borders. When they want to have peace treaties, we tell them what they can do because we buy their allegiance and they sacrifice their sovereignty to us.”

More from Doug Wead, ardent pro-Israeli, lover of George H.W. Bush, Christian Zionist and Ron Paul advisor:

“Ron Paul refused to vote to condemn Israel during the 2006 war with Lebanon.”

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“As the former vice president of Christian and Jews United for Israel, I would strongly argue that Ron’s position of friendship, free trade, ending support for Israel’s enemies, and a cessation of meddling in Israel’s internal affairs would provide for a stronger U.S.-Israeli relationship and a net advantage for the Israelis.”

4. In the meantime:

“The fact that Pollard’s still in jail is of the biggest scandals in Diaspora Jewry,” Liebler said. “I expect US Jews to shout more and more about this.”

5. Poor evangelical Christians. Most are so Zionist-duped they have no clue. They are human mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed Zionist Bullshit.

They can also easily be scammed by anybody.  Here’s a lady who is actually fighting back against a scam that’s been going on for a long time that seems to have a tendency to target Christians who are grieving. It’s an interesting read and it is also meant as a warning to potential future victims.

6. From 42 years ago. It was quite a different time. We’ve only gotten worse. All of our efforts failed and failed miserably. Somehow I find the video soothing. Not sure why.

Chris Christie Middle East Expert

[Art work courtesy of Skulz's duggery]

1. The race is on to see who Mitt Romney will select to be his number 2 man. (Meaning Netanyahu’s number 3 man.) Going to Israel and disgracing himself seems to have paid off for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie according to this article. Christie has used that trip as a springboard to jump onto the anti-Palestinian bandwagon. He even took the helicopter trip in Israel, which you stupid Americans subsidize since the outfit that usually does the flights is a 501(c)(3) charity, and now he’s an expert on why genocide against Palestinians is an American as well as Israeli national priority. From this article on his trip:

“Everyone who thinks they have an opinion that’s worth something on the Palestinian issue should take that tour,” Christie said. The helicopter ride took “three minutes from West Bank settlements to the Mediterranean. A missle goes much faster than a helicopter.”

Yeah, so this sounds to me, though I can’t verify for sure, like Christie was on an “Intellicopter” tour which is run by a “charity” whose job is all hasbara all the time.

” Christie billed the trip, called “Jersey to Jerusalem,” as an “economic growth, diplomacy [and] observance” mission. Christie met with leaders of several Israeli companies, including Teva Pharmaceuticals and Project Better Place — the electric car startup — but the trip also focused on Israeli defense and policy.”

Christie, of course, couldn’t be fucking bothered to meet with one single Palestinian.

“The N.J. governor did not meet with any leaders of the Palestinian Authority during the trip. After Israel, the Christie family spent a weekend with King Abdullah of Jordan. Christie also met Abdullah at a conference in Iowa in 2010.”

Christie seems to have a thing for helicopters, he finds taking them at public expense to see his kids ball games to be a wise use of public money. But I digress.

2. It’s nice to see that Electronic Intifada has discovered “Nefesh B’Nefesh” which I’ve written about here more than once including a feature on the “Go North” program. Maybe enough people will start to hear about these phony 501(c)(3) charities and start doing something about them.

3. Let’s get back to the helicopter thing just for second. The helicopter that Christie rode on may have been provided courtesy of “The Israel Project” a thoroughly evil “charity” that we’ve covered here in the past at Mantiq al-Tayr. If you have not read the post I made on the Israeli project back in August you should. It shows, among other things, that it is not quite correct to say that Congress is bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby, Congress is actually a part of the Israeli lobby.

4. Even Shas Party members know that you ain’t gonna get on the Romney ticket unless you espouse insane positions on Israel. Christie beat Ron Paul to the punch, but Paul began sucking up in public last week. Turns out that his staff has been infiltrated by the infamous Israel-Firster Bruce Fein who seems about as shady a character as one can be. Sibel Edmonds has written quite lot about Fein and his wife and their suspicious activities and their staunch support for Israel. She has apparently gotten quite a lot shit for doing this. Not surprised, any Zionist-infiltrated outfit knows all about treacherous PR techniques. Her website page with the Fein articles is here. She’s got lots of stuff on Fein. Also, go here to a more easily-read repost of a key article of hers on the Feins and their Zionist connections.

By the way, Ms. Edmonds’ advisors and writers are listed here. I’d sure as hell take those folks over this bunch of Israel-Firsters here. But I digress.

She posits two theories as to why Fein is working with Paul. Both are plausible, but I think the first one is closer to the truth. She also believes strongly that the source of the rumors about Paul trying to cut a deal with Romney is Fein himself. Looks like we are in for an interesting summer.

5. Okay it’s video time. Today’s video is dedicated to the House of Sa’ud, a bunch of assholes allied closely with Israel. Basically they are Islam’s version of the Shas Party but even more stupid.

Yesterday, the Jerusalem Washington New York Times Post ran a piece by a soon-to-be-jailed Saudi named Waleed Abu Alkhair who mentioned jailed Saudi writer Hamzah Kashgari – a guy in jail for tweeting. You know, with all the horrible Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinians, Arab regimes with the Sa’udis at the forefront, manage to look even worse. What a bunch of worthless scum, but I digress.

Anyway, Kashgari’s tweets made Nasser Al Omar cry. Poor baby.

Let me get this straight. Religious fanatics in Saudi Arabia destroy precious Islamic sites, like the house of Khadija that Islam’s Prophet Muhammad lived in for decades, but they cry over three tweets by a 23-year old? That ladies and gentlemen is pure 100% unadulterated Wahhabi Bullshit.

Cry me a river.

[English subtitles are included. Watch this. I really ought to put a laugh track on it.]

A Tale of Two Houses

1. I love history and I love visiting historical sites and reflecting on the lives and times of the people who made them historical.  I especially love visiting homes of great historical figures and also their burial sites. Long-time readers of Mantiq al-Tayr may recall my posting a little bit about the American Civil War and one or two of its heroes, like Turner Ashby.

Here’s a short story about a house.

Abu Ja’far Muhammad Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 923) was one of the great intellectual figures in the early centuries of Islam. A master historian, Quran commentator and jurist. He is also said to have been a very gifted Quran reciter.

In his Tarikh al-Rusul wal-Muluk al-Tabari makes mention of a great historical home in Mecca. The home of Khadija, the first wife of Muhammad. He apparently had seen the house, probably during a pilgrimage, and he writes about it as if he had visited it:

“The house of Khadija in those days [during the life of Muhammad] is the house that is known by that name today for it is called ‘the house of Khadija’.  Mu’awiya bought it, so they say, and made it into a mosque where people pray.  He built it the way it is today and it has not changed.  As for the stone by the door of the house, to the left of those entering the house, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to sit underneath it using it as protection from things thrown at him from the house of Abu Lahab . . .”

No doubt many Muslims who go to Mecca love to visit sites such as the house of Khadija and try to recall those times when Islam was just a small persecuted community and to relive those moments in their mind’s eye. . .

But they cannot and will never be able to do so anymore.  A while back it seems the House of Saud destroyed the House of Khadija and turned it into a public bathroom. They have destroyed many other historical sites in Mecca as well.

I wonder if even the Israelis would do such things to Khadija’s house.

They don’t need to though. They have the Wahhabis doing their dirty work.

من تشبه بقوم فهو منهم

يا آل سعود الله يخرب بيتكم

2. Khadija’s house was rediscovered, so they say, in 1989 during excavations. Here’s a short video about what was found.  The music is nice too.

Go to Hell Ron Paul

1. Ron Paul you can go straight to hell you rotten Israel-supporting dirt bag. You are an infidel in the most literal meaning of the word and I hope that everyone in the alternative blogosphere turns on you. And if/when you or another total turn-coat Israeli suck up like Chris Christie is chosen as the VP candidate to run under the umbrella of lying Israel-Firster-infested Mitt Romney everyone will see you for what you really are. I’m surprised you weren’t one of the whores those arrogant bastards in the SS (the Secret Service) were banging in Cartagena.

2. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. But the executive branch can do whatever the fuck it wants while leaving rich Israeli-massacre-supporting movie stars alone.

3. Have a nice day.

Jonathan Pollard Hospitalized

I guess Skulz wasn’t in the mood to be funny. I’m not either.

And check out the new “Featured Link” at the top of the page.

1. Here we go. Poor little old traitor Jonathan Pollard has been put in a civilian hospital. Expect a full-court press for this traitor’s release. Israeli terrorist Gilad Shalit is also in on the act.  So is Peres, again.

2. US (hahahahaha) ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, gives a very revealing interview to the Jerusalem Post. Please repost this everywhere. It really needs to appear on the front page of the Jerusalem Washington New York Times Post (JEWNYTP) for everyone to see.

Here are some excerpts. As usual, red highlights are done by Hillary Clinton.

When you grew up, did you ever think of making aliya? Did it ever roll around in your head? 

For people who came and spent time here as young people on the types of programs we did, certainly that’s a conversation that you have. Our paths took us in a different direction.

We have a very wonderful Jewish community in Washington that we feel very close to.

But sure, that was certainly something that we thought about and talked about at different stages in our lives.

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Did that experience [being in Israel during the October war as a child] impact on how you look at things now?

I’d say that having lived through a real crisis in Israel with my family, even though I was very little, forged a bond between my family and Israel. It created a very early appreciation of the dilemmas, difficulties, risks and dangers that Israelis face.

Obviously I didn’t understand them as a child in a meaningful way, but I understood the importance of that issue – that there are people who want to do harm to Israel, and that Israel is in a struggle for its survival. That probably has something to do with my decision to work on those issues and be connected with them as an adult.

And here’s a bit more:

Do the policy makers in Washington – in the State Department – get our sense of insecurity? 

Yes… And that animates so much of our policy. We would not have made the commitments we have made to Israel’s security, including [defense against] the kinds of threats Israel is facing now, including missiles from Gaza, if we didn’t understand that, if we didn’t appreciate that.

 

But here’s my favorite quote from Mrs. Shapiro:

The couple has three girls – Liat, 11, Meirav, 7, and Shiran, 5 – all without normative American names.

“We wanted names that would be the same in English and Hebrew,” Fisher explains. “That way they didn’t have to have an English American name, and then go to day school and shul [synagogue] and have a Hebrew name. It would be great to have one name.”

And get a load of this.

Is God going to have to save us from the Iranians, or will Obama do it? 

[Laughs.] It never hurts to have faith in God, but it doesn’t absolve us from the responsibility to solve our own dilemmas here on earth.

[And the interviewer then himself writes the following:]

WHAT IS interesting in these answers is that they are coming not from Israel’s ambassador to the United States, but from the United States’ ambassador to Israel. Shapiro and his wife are unabashedly, unapologetically, proudly Jewish with obvious emotional connections to Israel

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In the meantime, the dude running the drone campaigns killing tons of innocent civilians is a Muslim. Could you imagine any Jew leading a drone campaign against Jewish terrorists? Can you imagine any Jew running a drone campaign against Jewish terrorists that kills far more Jewish civilians than Jewish terrorists?

Just asking.

3. Okay, okay, okay. Please stop sending in requests for Haifa already. Good grief. I get the message. What do you think I am, a Shas Party member? But I digress.

My understanding is that she also sings.