Several years ago, good friends of mine talked me into riding a rollercoaster. I’m not much of a rollercoaster fan, so was very resistant to the idea. Therefore, before “the big one,” they insisted that I ride "the small one" that only dropped me about 100 feet at somewhere around 50 mph. After surviving that …
Tag: Iran
How Far Away has America Walked?
Shalom friends! This week has been filled with unfavorable news out of Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, North Africa and elsewhere. Indeed, Israel’s neighbors are not exactly playing nicely in the sandbox. On top of that, America continues to more and more blatantly turn its back on Israel and our allies in the Middle East. Here is …
A New Alliance (Minus Obama) Forming to Combat ISIS
Just over a year ago, in an interview with The New Yorker, President Obama likened ISIS to a “JV team,” lacking “the capacity and reach of a bin Laden.” Seven months later (late-August, 2014), ISIS had rolled through Syria and Iraq, yet President Obama admitted to having no strategy for ISIS. In a September 10 …
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Epic Storms Hit the Middle East
Hello friends...and welcome back! This past week, the Middle East has been pounded by what many news sources are calling "epic" storms. A gigantic dust storm covered places such as Cairo Egypt, Ankara Turkey, Amman Jordan, and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Israel as a result of a cyclone that blew out of the African Atlas …