http://geraldahonigman.com/blog.php Gerald A. Honigman en-us Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:01:03 GMT Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:01:03 GMT pMachine 2.4 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://geraldahonigman.com/blog.php Gerald A. Honigman http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=252_0_1_0_C Of Horses And Jews (Dead Versus Live)… by Gerald A. Honigman I'm upset. My wife, Elisabeth, was a 4-H owner of horses; my daughter-in-law, Isabelle, still loves to ride; and I have always admired them as one of G_d's magnificently noble creatures. I really wanted to see Steven Spielberg's movie, War Horse. Unfortunately, after what I've recently learned, I won't. No doubt, Steven won't miss the cost of my and my wife's theatre tickets--as he didn't when I... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=252_0_1_0_C Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:51:03 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=251_0_1_0_C The Irony Lady: Israel And The Arabs…On The Balance Sheet by Gerald A. Honigman John Campbell's biography of Great Britain's former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (1979 to 1990), has just hit the big screen. Meryl Streep is already being talked about for another academy award for her portrayal of the Iron Lady. Like her nation's overwhelming and centuries' old imperial past, there are multiple ways of viewing Prime Minister Thatcher's own actions. Ask people which empire... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=251_0_1_0_C Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:57:18 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=250_0_1_0_C Why Myanmar...But Not Judea? by Gerald A. Honigman Why Sri Lanka, but not Samaria? Why not Rhodesia, but the "West Bank?" It's admirable (don't you think?) when a people throws off the legacy of imperial oppression to embrace their new freedom. The very renaming of nations themselves has often been a reflection of this wonderful development. Admirable, indeed--unless those people happen to be Jews. Among the examples of this which have occurred over... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=250_0_1_0_C Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:07:18 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=249_0_1_0_C Pinochle…Iraqi Style by Gerald A. Honigman It’s been decades since I played the game. I remember watching older college friends mastering the Pinochle deck, and then later becoming pretty good myself. Four-handed Pinochle, pitting opposing pairs of players against each other, was the most popular version, but I soon learned the far more personal three-handed variety as well. The latter involved each player working just for himself; inevitably, this led to... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=249_0_1_0_C Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:06:45 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=248_0_1_0_C Long Live Arabistan! by Gerald A. Honigman The latest news coming out of Syria told of at least a hundred protestors being mowed down in the streets by Assad's military. Conservative estimates claim that over 5,000 such folks have already lost their lives this way since the Arab Spring sprung in that country. Pouring salt onto the wound, the history of such Syrian Arab barbarism, towards both Arabs and non-Arabs alike, has long been known--at least to those... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=248_0_1_0_C Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:28:01 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=247_0_1_0_C Newt, “Palestine,” and Chanukah Corroborations (Take 2) by Gerald A. Honigman By now, Republican presidential hopeful, Newt Gingrich’s, remarks about the non-existence of “Palestinians” and “Palestine” (apart from the greater Arab identity) are well known. Realizing that Arabs already had almost two dozen states (conquered and carved out of mostly other, non-Arab peoples’ lands– including one on almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine which today is known... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=247_0_1_0_C Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:40:08 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=246_0_1_0_C Leon Vs. Don: A Tale Of Two Secretaries… by Gerald A. Honigman Such blatherings out of the Obama Administration have by now become commonplace. Even before the 2008 election, Senator Obama was on record saying that Israel would be crazy if it did not accept the Saudi Peace Plan. The two key provisions of this plan require Israel to return to the '49 armistice lines (not political borders)--which made it 9 to 15-miles wide in its strategic waist, where most of... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=246_0_1_0_C Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:13:22 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=245_0_1_0_C Prince William, the Falklands, and Those Expansionist Jews... by Gerald A. Honigman The AP article on November 14th spoke of Great Britain's Prince William, second in line to the throne, being deployed to Las Malvinas. The latter largely became known as the Falkland Islands the same way that Judea and Samaria became renamed the "West Bank"...as a result... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=245_0_1_0_C Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:44:17 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=244_0_1_0_C Slick Willy, Bibi, and ($$$) Grateful Arab Petro-Potentates… by Gerald A. Honigman Hey, I voted for the guy…twice. I had high hopes for the Man from Hope. But, then again, I voted for Mr. Peanut--Apartheid Israel--Jimmy Carter too. Can't say I haven't given Democrats a chance… So, what I have to say next is not coming from the mouth of some right-wing extremist, and it's not for nothing that William Jefferson Clinton has come to be known as... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=244_0_1_0_C Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:51:08 GMT http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=243_0_1_0_C Secretary Rice…Whom Are You Kidding? by Gerald A. Honigman Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took the Obama Administration to task on November 1st, claiming that his policies have set back peacemaking between Arabs and Jews in the region. Rice particularly took aim at Obama's handling of Jews living beyond the "Green Line"--the armistice lines (not final... http://geraldahonigman.com/comments.php?id=243_0_1_0_C Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:42:10 GMT