Artificial Intelligence and Love

January 30, 2007
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For the longest time I’ve had a collection of thoughts associated with Spielberg’s movie A.I. rolling around in the back of my mind. I thought I’d take a moment to try and sort them out in print and see if they make sense. There are certain producers, like Spielberg, for whom motion picture creation is not just a way of making a living, earning a fortune or acquiring fame. It is my personal belief...

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Breaking Point – Olmart’s Duplicity

January 23, 2007
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Secret talks handing West Bank to AbbasBy Aaron Klein © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – Israel and the Palestinians have been conducting behind-the-scene negotiations regarding handing over most of the West Bank to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to top Egyptian and European diplomatic sources who told WND they were directly involved with the talks. If there is any validity to this, and it is not just some journalist looking for sensational headlines, the...

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Wiki Eretz Israel Neeeds YOU!

January 18, 2007
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Wiki Eretz Israel Neeeds YOU!

Not a day goes by without the world media reporting some ‘incident’ that occurs here in Israel. Just what do those Hebrew or Arabic place names mean to the average reader in France, Australia or Canada? Providing that ‘background’ information is also ‘hasbara’! Describing how those places are connected to the history of the Jewish people makes it all that much clearer why we are here, why this land is worth living and struggling...

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Know Your (Muslim) Neighbour

January 17, 2007
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A powerful collection of video clips providing a clear understanding what Muslims in the UK’s “moderate” mosques are being taught day after day after day.

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Lessons from the Barbary Pirates (1784-1815)

January 16, 2007
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This is part of a much longer analysis by David Yerushalmi as to why Appeasement (clothed as “Convergence”) doesn’t work when either of the parties in the conflict are (irrationally) unreasonable. What makes the argument powerful is the consistent historical proofs that he brings to support it. The eye opener for me was the realization that the episode of the Barbary Pirates of 1784 to 1815 was really a Jihadist initiative! Read on! The...

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Israel: Apartheid State

January 4, 2007
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A second fantasy is that Israel is an apartheid state and that peace would be at hand if only Israel ended its apartheid ways. This fantasy is exemplified by the just released scurrilous tract Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. Now, basic to apartheid, the legal regime in South Africa until 1994, was the denationalization of blacks because they were black and forced removal to state-created homelands. Israel has...

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The Danger of Reform Conversions

December 15, 2006
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Dearest Chaviva, I normally shun these public Internet discussions as more often than not someone ends up being offend or hurt by the opinions expressed, to witness your comment: “To say, in sum, that I am part of a religion that is in no way Judaism.That I am living in a religion that is, in essence, one big fat sin.” Out of respect for your willingness to exchange understandings I ‘ll respond to your...

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Peversions of Nationalism

December 12, 2006
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“Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered,” George Orwell wrote in his landmark 1945 essay Notes on Nationalism. “He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should. It is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified...

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From the mouth of babes

November 30, 2006
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See this short video interview by Arutz 7 TV, of Hanan, Yaakov’s younger son. Hanan died in a qasam attack earlier this week. http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/156651 The interview is in Hebrew but even those who do not speak the language should view it. For a short summary of the interview: Hanan (who seems to be around 11 years old), says he did not imagine such a thing would happen. “Without Abba (my father) I have no...

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NaNoWriMo Winner

November 27, 2006
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NaNoWriMo Winner

I’ve got to admit, it was one of the craziest ideas I’ve been involved with in a long time. My one comfort is that I was not insane alone. At least 70,000 other people signed up to participate, of them, like myself, approximately 2,400 reached the finish line. The Jerusalem Marathon?The Cross-the-Kinneret Swimathon? Nope. What I did was make a promise to myself that this year during the month of November I would sit...

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