Blogcritics Author: Ruvy

Israel: Vehicular Terror Attack Update, Backstory and Analysis

Ruvy — Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:29:17 EDT

Don't cancel your tours, it was just a couple of religious Jews who got killed - you're all safe here.
BackstoryAs reported on 2 July, an Arab "went postal" along the Jaffa Road, killing three and injuring at least 40 people. When I was riding towards Jerusalem's Central Bus Station Wednesday, planning to go to the phone company to clear up a bill, I heard the 12:00 news on the semi-official Voice of Israel hourly news roundup. While...

Arab from East Jerusalem "Goes Postal" on the Jaffa Road

Ruvy — Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:53:37 EDT

Anything to find another way to kill Jews.
Jerusalem, Israel 13:34, ISTAt the construction site of Jerusalem's light rail system near Bank Le'umi on the Jaffa Road, an Arab drove a construction vehicle, described by some as a tractor, left the site itself and entered into oncoming traffic, crashed into a bus stop with passengers, crashed into a bus, overturning it, and continued...

Barry Obama Loves the Jews - NOT! The View from the Mountains of Samaria

Ruvy — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:19:52 EDT

Whaddya do when the Agent of Change lies through his teeth to the Jewish lobby in America? If you're me, you vote for him!
When Barry (it's time to give him a nice American name, don't you think?) Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for the American presidency, he gave a speech before AIPAC, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee. And boy, was it a stem-winder, let me tell you. He said all the right things, hit all the right notes; he had the...

Changing Focus from the World of Lies to the World of Truth

Ruvy — Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:00:09 EDT

When you don't have money to pay the bills, and you are reminded that money is only an illusion, you refocus.
I belong to "Janglo", an English-language Internet board that normally advertises pets, washing machines, jobs and the like. I get e-mails daily from them with requests or ads of all types - requests for rides, offering of services, job opportunities. Last night, I got an ad that was extremely compelling in its nature for me:INFO4U: world war 3 -...

Killing America Softly With Their Songs - The Rise of the "Americanist" Culture

Ruvy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:26:37 EDT

When Americans began to sing dirges was when I sensed History's tragic hand upon her shoulder.
In 1970, I was a student at Lehman College in the Bronx, and got interested in studying student governance. I got very excited over the University Senate of students, faculty and administrators that had arisen at Columbia University out of student riots there. This was a new concept for governing a university. And this what was on my mind when I...

Saying Goodbye to Ruvy in Jerusalem

Ruvy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:16:45 EDT

When the mohel took his tip, I was called Reuven. But the Israel Navy ship's cook called me Ruvy - so Ruvy it is.
Don't worry folks. I ain't going anywhere. It's just too much fun irritating you by reporting what is actually going on in Israel and the Middle East - even if - and particularly because - the vast majority of you don't want to know.But when I discovered Al Barger's article on disorders in his home town in 2005, and realized that I could have...

A Coming Peace Agreement? Israel News Analysis

Ruvy — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:58:51 EDT

Peace! Peace! But there is no peace!
According to World Net Daily, an on-line newspaper, an Insider leaks plans for Palestinian state: Secretive U.S.-backed discussion focuses on West Bank, JerusalemIn reality, this isn't news at all. There have been secretive talks between the the American controlled flunkies on Jerusalem's Government Hill, a.k.a. the Israeli government...

Exercises in Futility: News Analysis From Israel

Ruvy — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:37:26 EDT

While they pretend to be concerned about our security, the power-holders in Jerusalem quietly draw the borders enclosing who they will "protect".
For the last two days there has been a nationwide drill going on here, one designed to test Israel's ability to cope in a coordinated missile attack of the kind Israeli intelligence expects in the near future. Today, this drill is supposed to culminate in the blowing of air-raid sirens throughout the country at 10:00. Just for those...

Eight Dead and Forty Wounded in Arab Terror Attack on Jerusalem Yeshiva

Ruvy — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:38:56 EST

The terror spigot has been opened; our mourners will weep as the Arabs celebrate in joy - for now.
At approximately 8:30 this evening (20:30) on 6 March, two terrorists entered Merkáz haRáv Yeshivá in the Kiryát Moshé neighborhood of Jerusalem and killed eight students and wounded approximately forty people, as they sprayed the yeshiva with several hundred rounds from Kalashnikov rifles they were carrying.One...

Thoughts on Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l, hy"d, and What I Owe Him

Ruvy — Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:26:59 EST

Rabbi Meir Kahane was so controversial that only hostile biographies can be found. When will we see his widow's biography of him?
In last Thursday's Jerusalem Post (21 February 2008), Elliot Jager, an editor at the Jerusalem Post, wrote a review of Libby Kahane's biography of her late husband, Rav Meir Kahane, may his memory be for a blessing and may G-d redeem his blood.One paragraph in Mr. Jager's review caught my eye and held it.I don't know if Meir Kahane...