BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Phyllis Chesler ROCKS! Excerpts: What Do These Two Awardees Have in Common? Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. …And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats wrote The Second Coming just after the first World War but it is an apt commentary on almost everything, including President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and Amira Hass’s upcoming Courage in Journalism Award. Unsurprisingly, one of four Courage in Journalism awards to be presented by Christiane Amanpour and Irshad Manjie, among others, will go to the Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, whose critique of Israel constitutes a veritable Blood Libel. Hass describes Israel as an “apartheid” state. Her columns in Ha’aretz, a left-leaning Israeli newspaper, are often stomach-turning. Hass is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and I have met a few such ...

If you search this blog for these words you will see them numerous times. They are words I tell to the abuse victims I coach, words I tell my children, my friends, and people I meet all the time: DO NOT BELIEVE SOMEONE'S WORDS -- WATCH THEIR ACTIONS!! And when it comes to Obambi -- his actions have undercut his lofty 'words' revealing the spinless coward beneath. The Audacity of Barack and the Duty of Super Delegates By Larry Johnson Let’s agree with Barack Obama on one thing–WORDS MATTER. Unfortunately, he does not believe in his own words. He cannot be trusted. He faced his version of “going to war” in Iraq and failed the test. Rather than stand tall on principle, Barack the coward, Barack the triangulator, Barack the panderer, said yes to immunity for telephone companies who cooperated with George Bush and shredded the Constitution. Barack no longer has the moral authority to say that Hillary Clinton lacked the judgment to be President because she voted to authorize Ge...