Three cheers for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Lets see now how the UN and our other "friends" like France and Russia dance their way out of this one....

From Reuters today ...

Washington won a vote at the U.N.'s 35-member International Atomic Energy Agency threatening Iran with referral to the Council -- but Russia abstained. No deadline was set.
Russia, like Iran, has long maintained that Tehran's nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, and defended Tehran's right to develop non-military atomic projects.

From CNN today ...

The U.N. Security Council has condemned recent comments by Iran's president that Israel should be "wiped off the map" but did not say if the world body planned any action against Iran.

Israel is the second most advance hi-tech country in the world, but ...

Just before Yom Kippur, I wanted to do some research into the Kol Nidre prayer, so I did a Google search on the phrase. I am appalled at the number of viciously anti-Semitic websites that come up within the first two pages of the Google result. Go and see for yourself. And the prominence of these results means that they are frequently visited (that's what brings them up in the Google sequence). Many of them are old - a typical example is an editorial in the Dearborn Independant (home of Henry Ford) from 1922 - and they're still being being read today! Someone, somewhere is taking the time, trouble and expense to keep this excrement prominent in the public domain.

Now, it's not Google's fault. But surely, somewhere in the myriad of high-tech junkies here in Israel, there must be people who know how to hack into public websites and either kill them, swamp them, or block them. If you're out there, and you know how to do it, then you have a duty to clean this filth from the public airways.

Whereabounts of Nushyman - part II

I hope I'm not telling secrets out of school when I say that the lack of postings to this blog has been due to the unfortunate state of Nushyman's health. She spent all of Rosh Hashana in hospital with a serious infection, and is now awaiting surgery in a few days time. Join me in praying for a Refuah Shleima for her complete and speedy recovery.

On the same subject, I can also reveal that this problem is not isolated to her, but runs in her family (like the nose). That's been the trouble with this lineage ... too much heredity, not enough inheritance.