tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187112482009-10-11T11:38:12.151+02:00Ruvy's RoostThoughts on the world from Israel.Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-2169656825246533302009-09-04T16:55:00.006+03:002009-09-04T17:52:19.046+03:00Persia Delenda Est! Israel's Case for a Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike on Tehranבס''דThis article was originally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 11 May, 2009. Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009Author's note: This article was written before the elections in the Islamic Republic that exposed the fundamental instability of this régime. If régime change can be accomplished from within to remove the existential threat to the Jewish State, then thoughts of Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-767658252615186522009-09-04T15:34:00.009+03:002009-09-04T16:43:33.726+03:00Israeli Government Sinks into the Sewer - Welcomes "Nazi" Popeבס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 10 May, 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009In a couple of days, traffic will be jammed in Jerusalem and the life of the average Jerusalemite will be totally miserable. Why? The sitting Bishop of Rome will make his presence known in our land. Like other bishops of Rome, he will do all he can NOT to recognize Jewish sovereignty over this nation, Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-63715698602711677322009-07-14T21:03:00.003+03:002009-07-14T22:41:16.994+03:00New Kid on the Jewish Street - Z Street!בס''דכג' תמוז תשס''ט14 July, 2009Copyright 2009, R. KossoverEarlier today at Arutz Sheva, I saw an article introducing a brand new organization, which hopes to pump some new energy into the moribund Zionist movement. Since they were nice enough to list Ruvy's Roost on their blogroll, I thought I would write a few words of Welcome to Z Street! Z Street is an organization that believes in No more Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-85523869570777172992009-05-03T12:58:00.000+03:002009-05-03T13:13:30.720+03:00And This Little Piggy Flu All the Way Home: An Analysis of the Swine Fluנס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 30 April 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009This is a developing story, and from the standpoint of news, the who, what and where of what I write here will be outdated by the time it is published. I learned about the swine flu while sitting in the doctor's office on Monday, 27 April 2009, looking at a commuter paper called yisraél hayóm, Israel Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-7937785066371371922009-05-03T12:43:00.001+03:002009-05-03T13:15:55.648+03:00Reflections of Remembrance Day in Israel while Waiting in the Doctor's Officeבס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine, 27 April 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009 We still go to a doctor in Jerusalem, even though we live in the mountains to the north in Ma'ale Levona. It's a 2½ hour trip and a pain in the neck, but being the old codgers we are, we stick with folks we know and trust. In spite of having gone to the same family doctors for nearly Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-26696996851430713612009-05-03T12:26:00.007+03:002009-05-03T13:19:25.855+03:00We Do Not Forget - We Do Not Forgive: These are Luxuries No Jew Hasבס''דOriginally published on 23 April 2009 in Blogcritics Magazine.Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009In March 1933, Adolf Hitler took power in Germany after a rigged election where his thugs had burned down the German parliament building and had blamed the main opposition, the Communists, in order to gain more votes. He instituted a dictatorship in Germany and tried to bring his country out of the Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-87916649141491287442009-04-05T19:05:00.004+03:002009-04-05T19:11:40.340+03:00Flash Comes of Ageבס''דOriginally published at Desicritics.org on 2 April, 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009My youngest son was on the computer, working on the layout of a book I'm editing. His older brother was already asleep, hugging the wall as is his wont. I watched Avi as he manipulated boxes from one end of the page to the other, fitting the text I had edited in them. He was impatient, like his father is, Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-72206302478575641432009-04-05T18:54:00.004+03:002009-04-05T21:56:40.993+03:00A Pre-Passover Analysis on Events in Israel From the Samarian Mountainsבס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 5 April, 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009This writer has been relatively quiet on events occurring here in Israel. The new Netanyahu government installed here a few days ago did not seem very different from the old one that just left. Terms like "right-wing" or "hard-line" found in the mass media are just not accurate in describing the new Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-75474881480132089322009-03-25T09:21:00.002+02:002009-03-25T10:13:48.864+02:00The Failing Grades of a Man with Bad Intentions - B. Hussein Obamaבס''דThis was pulled up from AOL News and these are my "grades" for Mr. Obama. A few points here. There was no "F" option that I remember - so he got "D"'s in their stead. In essence this man needs to improve his performance from what is, in reality, a failing grade. He impressed me as good with the public appearances - I didn't count his stupid remarks on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno as a Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-4298851879108281522009-01-12T05:51:00.002+02:002009-01-12T06:00:47.965+02:00E-MAILED TO ME- THE BEHAVIOR OF A BUNCH OF MOSLEMS WHO SOUGHT TO ATTACK JEWSבס''דThis came to me as an e-mail. I'm copying it in its entirety so as to make clear how Moslem mobs act - not in Cairo or Sakhnin or Ramallah - in Manahttan. Read and understand. Jews in America need to do a whole lot more than go to pro-Israel parades or demonstrations.Jews need to come home. At least here there is the possibility of a Jewish soldier to protect us. A friend of mine, who Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-76389321514741862172008-12-29T15:59:00.003+02:002008-12-29T16:09:34.469+02:00The Fixerבס''דCopyright ©, R. Kossover, 2008Published originally as part of an article at Desicritics.org29 December, 2008Tzvi ben Gedalyahu writes at Arutz Sheva, Tanks Deployed at Gaza Barrier; Barak: War to the Death.In this article, Barak gets plenty of exposure as the tough grim-faced leader, the man who is serious at defeating his enemies. Since he is the Security Minister, and the IDF is sitting atRuvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-80632231521302775572008-12-27T23:41:00.002+02:002008-12-27T23:46:25.070+02:00Israel Air Corps Catches Terrorists with Their Pants Down - Kills 200 in Air Strikesבס''דOriginally published at Desicritics.org27 December 2008Copyright © R. Kossover, 2008On Saturday, striking Arab terrorists on the Jewish Sabbath, the Israel Air Corps attacked the Hamas compounds in Gaza City. According to Debkafiles the attacks began a half hour before noon, Israel Winter Time, and have continued throughout the day, with the latest attack occurring this evening (27 December)Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-47629687288301378812008-12-16T08:46:00.006+02:002008-12-24T11:11:19.325+02:00An Open Letter to the Officials of Minnesota Concerning Security at the Mall of America in Light of the Attack on Mumbaiבס''דI wrote this letter to the following individuals:The Governor of MinnesotaThe Sheriff of Hennepin County, MNThe office if the Adjutant General of MinnesotaThe Board Clerk of Hennepin County, MNState Senator Sandra PappasThe City Manager of Bloomington, MNThe Chief of Police of Bloomington, MNThe Fire Department of Bloomington, MNHere's hoping that in the light of the attack on Mumbai by Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-88061575883796195422008-12-06T23:44:00.003+02:002008-12-07T00:02:32.883+02:00Honoring Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rebbetzin Rivka Holtzberg, Martyrs of the Jewish People Who Died in Mumbaiבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverOriginally published in Desicritics.org,3 December 2008As Mumbaikars mourn their many dead and comfort their many injured, Rabbi Holtzberg and his pregnant wife were buried in Jerusalem today. It may not be clear what the Haba"d does or why. Let this tale from my own life be an illustration. When I was living on the streets of Saint Paul twenty-five years Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-45326524477176054562008-11-26T12:03:00.006+02:002008-11-26T13:06:44.025+02:00Signs of Redemption Aryeh Gallin, a friend of mine who is the head of Root & Branch in J-lem, had to travel back to the States to watch over his ailing father. He was there for quite a while, and his father experienced a complete recovery, thank G-d. He called me up a while ago when he got back to tell me of his experiences at the various airports he had been to, Kennedy, Heathrow and Ben-Gurion. This is Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-3214554124824005502008-11-20T11:09:00.004+02:002008-11-20T11:32:26.944+02:00The Israeli Government Plan to Expel the Owners of the House of Peace - Abraham's Descendants Trample on His Heritageבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine19 November 2008Background - Four Thousand Years Ago The tall man stood before the council of the city. The elders of the Children of Heth listened patiently as the man who had lived for decades among them stood, grief stricken but dignified, as he explained his request. The man standing before the Hittite council had grownRuvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-38399008317633960912008-10-08T10:49:00.006+02:002008-10-17T00:31:04.185+02:00Some Thoughts on Uri Avnery's "Manifest Destiny"בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Desicritics.org7 October, 2008I first read Uri Avnery's work, Israel Without Zionism: A Plan for Peace in the Middle East in 1971 or 1972, not long after it was published. At the time, Avnery was the publisher of the Hebrew newspaper העולם הזה ha'olám hazé - This World. The title of the publication was not without irony. Jews pray for Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-55482986136746544032008-10-07T14:57:00.004+02:002008-10-07T15:11:58.924+02:00Good News from the Holy Land - Jews for Jesus Ad Gets Kicked off the Air!בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine7 October, 2008 Amidst reports of the Israeli government handing over part of the Russian Compound in Jerusalem to the Russian government and "crime minister" Olmert talking about shrinking Israel to its pre-1967 size, some good news came out of the Holy Land recently. Several news source reported Sunday and Monday that aRuvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-15886437177523420992008-09-14T15:51:00.009+03:002008-09-14T23:11:32.977+03:00Israeli Government Planning to Split Jerusalem and Other Downers from the Middle Eastבס''דCopyright © R. Kossover, 2008Published 14 September in Blogcritics Magazine While Americans have been paying attention to their presidential race, things have been happening around them. Perhaps with the Palin wet t-shirt party raging in the press, nobody really wants to know. Sarah Palin brings everything a newsman wants in a story, controversy, sex and a pretty face. So, it falls to this Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-36018056292594215902008-08-10T16:12:00.005+03:002008-10-10T10:27:48.521+02:00Three Years After the Expulsion of Jews from Gush Qatif, Hope of Redemption Arises from Tragedyבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine8 August, 2008 - 7 Av, 5768It was three years ago this Tish'a b'Av that the units of the Israel Police and the IDF destroyed 21 Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip and four in northern Samaria in what the Israel government called hehitnatkút m'áza – the "disengagement" from Gaza. A total of 10,000 citizens were driven fromRuvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-30693546829292139662008-07-24T07:38:00.004+03:002008-07-24T08:17:07.387+03:00On Terrorism and Increasing Jewish-Arab Violence in Israelבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 23 July 2008When I was just a kid in Williamsburg, the Satmar Hassidim, long back-coated Jews with beaver hats and and long sidelocks, reacted en masse to threats to their community - particularly by the Puerto Ricans who shared the slum I grew up in. When there was some kind of danger, they would shout "goyimRuvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-32289421408079258952008-07-22T18:51:00.002+03:002008-07-22T19:07:50.764+03:00Israel: Vehicular Terror Attack Update, Backstory and Analysisבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 3 July, 2008Backstory As reported on 2 July, an Arab "went postal" along the Jaffa Road, killing three and injuring at least 40 people. When I was riding towards Jerusalem's Central Bus Station Wednesday, planning to go to the phone company to clear up a bill, I heard the 12:00 news on the semi-official Voice Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-3862209956316166272008-07-22T18:44:00.002+03:002008-07-22T18:49:28.799+03:00Arab from East Jerusalem "Goes Postal" on the Jaffa Roadבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineJerusalem, 2 July, 2008Jerusalem, Israel 13:34, IST At the construction site of Jerusalem's light rail system near Bank Le'umi on the Jaffa Road, an Arab drove a construction vehicle, described by some as a tractor, left the site itself and entered into oncoming traffic, crashed into a bus stop with passengers, crashed into Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-31175861039890875292008-07-22T18:20:00.002+03:002008-07-22T18:42:56.469+03:00Barry Obama Loves the Jews - NOT! The View from the Mountains of Samariaבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 8 June, 2008When Barry (it's time to give him a nice American name, don't you think?) Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for the American presidency, he gave a speech before AIPAC, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee. And boy, was it a stem-winder, let me tell you. He said all the right things,Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18711248.post-24241336610366342792008-07-22T17:54:00.002+03:002008-07-22T18:17:54.258+03:00Eight Dead and Forty Wounded in Arab Terror Attack on Jerusalem Yeshivaבס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 6 March 2008At approximately 8:30 this evening (20:30) on 6 March, two terrorists entered Merkáz haRáv Yeshivá in the Kiryát Moshé neighborhood of Jerusalem and killed eight students and wounded approximately forty people, as they sprayed the yeshiva with several hundred rounds from Kalashnikov rifles they Ruvyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801153092134053729rkossover@gmail.com0