Sweetness and Light?

I'm sorry that all you loyal readers and "commentors" think I'm too negative.  I don't mean to be, but I can't tell lies.  Sorry.  Things just aren't all that hunky dory in the Holy Land.

Did you want me to say that it's good that the NRP made a deal with Bibi?  How could I say that, when I don't think so, especially when Ehud Barak will continue as Defense Minister, and he's celebrating that by destroying Jewish Homes and a synagogue.  Yes, technically, Olmert's still Prime Minister.  Ole Olmert has given the term "lame duck" new meaning.  Sorry, but I can't find anything good to say about it.

And that Nazi-like picture by Oliphant, what nice Pollanna words can I say about it?

Recently I posted on Shiloh Musings some pictures I took of Jerusalem.  Unfortunately, they're of the construction site.  Olmert's lightrail system.

But, I do have some gorgeous pictures.  I took them this week up north.  I recommend that you take a look and you'll see what a great artist G-d is.  I'll just leave you with that thought.

Chodesh Tov and Shabbat Shalom!

Home For Pesach (Passover)

Yes, we'll be home for Pesach, Baruch Hashem, Thank G-d!
Some families have been doing it for so long that the parents have never prepared the food for a seder and don't know what to buy nor how to cook it.

We're not joining the exodus from our homes. We don't pack up our belongings, like Bnai Yisrael. We don't spend the most family-oriented Holiday of the Jewish Calendar in a hotel.

Preparing for the Passover Holiday isn't always easy and pleasant, but it's a spiritual and kinesthetic process. The air swarms with dust, rather than the Biblical plague of locusts. And after breathing in too many cleaning chemicals, bleach and detergent, there's the delicious smell of food cooking. Every family has its traditional favorites, for which we eagerly await.

Going away to a hotel just doesn't compare. Jewish and Israeli publications are full of ads from all sorts of hotels, all over the world, tempting families to pay for someone else to do the cooking and cleaning. Yes, even if the family home is cleaned and checked for chametz before leaving, it's not the same as cleaning to be there for the Holiday. Jewish organizations invite, for a price, its members to spend the Holiday together.

Some families have been doing it for so long that the parents have never prepared the food for a seder and don't know what to buy nor how to cook it.

I admit to never have enjoyed the required pre-Pesach cleaning, but it all becomes worth it when we sit together and eat our home-made food, all Kosher For Passover.

Gilad Shalit, Jiminy Cricket and Executing Terrorists

Gilad Shalit and Jiminy Cricket are what I've been blogging about recently on Shiloh Musings.  I generally post there at least a couple of times a day, and there are also some interesting comments, though not always as wild as here.

Ehud Olmert has passed the Gilad Shalit "hot potato" to Bibi Netanyahu.  So when, and if*, Bibi gets his coalition together, the crowds will welcome him to his new home by shouting: "Bring Gilad Home!"  At least Noam Shalit mentioned in his statement yesterday that Olmert had been in power at the time of Gilad's capture.
Let's legislate a law to execute Arab terrorists!

Now, about Jiminy Cricket...  In the original Carlo Collodi novel,  Pinocchio, the cricket acting as conscience was nameless, but Disney gave it the name, a euphemism for the Christian Jesus (Hat tip, Hadassa.) 

I used Jiminy as an example of what I think is the responsibility of the Ichud Le'umi, the National Union Party.  I voted for them. I don't want them haggling over government perks and trying to be "diplomatic" and compromising.  We need MK's who are willing to say the truth without fear.

And I suggest that among their very first bills to be proposed as law, should be one demanding the immediate execution of any Arab terrorist who murders Israelis.  Swift punishment is the best way.  That will prevent the situation we're in now, when convicted, murderous Arab terrorists are living comfortably in Israeli jails as bargaining chips, awaiting their release in exchange for captured Israelis.

If you listen carefully to what the Arab leaders and terrorists are saying, there's no difference between their ultimate aim concerning Jews and that of the Nazis.  Let's legislate a law to execute Arab terrorists!

*And if he somehow fails, then Tsippi will get a chance, and if she fails, Lieberman will get his chance, and if they all fail, we're back to elections, while during this entire time, Olmert remains Prime Minister.