Article

2006-07-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-14 06:42|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Israel's current problems result in part from an excess of restraint in responding to previous Hamas and Hezbollah provocations Time to tell the Euros to "Gay red tsu der vant."

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-14 07:28|| 2006-07-14 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Yiddish, John QC?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-14 07:41|| 2006-07-14 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 "Disproportionate" response strikes me as the best way to minimize the total (long-term) cost of a war - at least if it is clear which side should win militarily. It establishes that those who have the means to achieve victory also have the will to do so - at that point only the insane or suicidal would continue to fight (of course that makes this whole discussion moot in regards to the Islamist war.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-07-14 08:12|| 2006-07-14 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 TW. Have a mixed marriage--old testament and new testament. Wife has relatives in Tel Aviv. The wife's parents are holocaust survivors--despite that some don't believe it ever happened. Some Yiddish picked up through my wife and the in-laws--enough to appreciate some of the humor of Yiddish.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-14 08:19|| 2006-07-14 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Lots of that going around, JohnQC; I'm the Old Testamenter, and my grandmother's memoir is archived in the Holocaust Museum in DC, among other places. Only my parents never spoke in Yiddish, so I took a course at Hebrew School one quarter -- at the same time as I was studying Hebrew and German, so it didn't stick. "Go right through the wall"?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-14 11:54|| 2006-07-14 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Very good TW. "Go talk to the wall" as best as I can determine. Like so many phrases, they are often rich in meaning and have several similar meanings. Yiddish and Hebrew gives rise to some funny stories. An aunt on my wife's side was talking in Hebrew about a nephew "complaining too much." What came out was "Why does Charley play with himself so much?" Apparently the phrases are very similar.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-14 12:00|| 2006-07-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

00:01 twobyfour
23:56 twobyfour
23:49 Captain America
23:47 Angock Flavitch6234
23:35 Hupinetle Sninetle9012
23:35 Frank G
23:29 Kirk
23:28 2Ducks
23:27 ed
23:26 Captain America
23:21 DMFD
23:20 Angock Flavitch6234
23:20 ed
23:18 Thromort Glomoger4987
23:13 Captain America
23:12 Captain America
23:09 Zhang Fei
23:07 Penguin
23:05 Kirk
22:56 Ebbinetle Uninemp2325
22:50 Classical_Liberal
22:41 Frank G
22:39 Manolo
22:36 JerseyMike