Archive for the 'War' Category
It’s Not About the Land
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010One of the biggest problems that I have with many good but naive people is that they are willing to accept bad ideas without much thought.
Take, for example, the idea that if Israel was to withdraw from the territories and give the land up to the PA or to some other Arab authority that there would [...]
The Mosque at Ground Zero
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010In my last blog I mentioned the justification of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With that in mind I would like to point out that as much as I support the decision to use these weapons I would oppose a US cultural center to be built a few hundred feet [...]
Learning From History
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Near the end of World War II President Roosevelt asked Prime Minister Churchill what they should call the war. Churchill replied “The Unneccessay War”. What Churchill meant was that there had never been a war that was so easily prevenatable as WWII was.
When we look at what lead up to the war we can not [...]
About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
As you can see from the picture he is also a rather handsome fellow. If he can ever get his picture on the blog!
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then