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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Festival of Hate
Today (tomorrow?) is supposed to be the memorial day for Yitzhak Rabin. Instead, it's the culmination of a month-long festival of hatred towards Israel's political right-wing and religious camps.
If Israel was really interested in building bridges in Israel's society, Rabin's legacy of hate should be acknowledged, instead of sweeping it under the rug and going on an offensive attack on the right wing. The mantra, "words kill" has become synonymous with "protecting democracy" -- and the demonization of the right wing continues daily.
I believe that Rabin was a terrible, cold hearted person who had no problem ordering the killing of Jews for political gain (the sinking of the Altalena) and his arrogance towards the personal security of Jews in Israel as Palestinian terror rose to an all time high during his "Oslo Peace Accords" -- was despicable.
What Israel fails to understand is that there's a huge gap between writing the above and supporting the killing of Jews by Jews (which I do not support.)
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael
47 comments:
- Soccer Dad said...
Norman Podhoretz describing his grandson't reaction to a Rabin Memorial event in 1998.
Foolishly (will I never learn?), the minute Alon returns from the special ceremony, I try to grill him on what went on. Inevitably, he just shrugs and says, "Nothing." Pressed, he elaborates a little: "There were speeches and stuff." But in spite of all my pleading, he keeps refusing to give me even a single example of something one of his classmates said: "I can't remember." I nag on, and finally, in a last-ditch stab at being left alone, he glances at me with a look that combines disgust and disdain in equal measure and says, "It was all just a lot of lefty bulls-."
- 6:18 PM, October 23, 2007
Yasher Koach to you Jameel - I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to write something similar but have stopped myself!
- 6:29 PM, October 23, 2007
- Cosmic X said...
Don't forget to pay your respects at the Church of Rabin And Peace.
- 7:41 PM, October 23, 2007
You might also be interested in this post about Saint Rabin at :
I linked to this post at the end too.
- 10:56 PM, October 23, 2007
- tnspr569 said...
Right-on, as usual, Jameel.
- 12:33 AM, October 24, 2007
Hey good job! ive been having this fight with ynet talkbackers.. I dont suppert amir.. but you see rabin's grandson ben artzi raving to shut up anyone supporting amir's release.. all in the name of democracy..
I am disgusted by the left's BS double standard hypocricy...
Funny how fast they rush to crush ariel zilber once one of israel's most prominent musicians..
- 2:09 AM, October 24, 2007
The twelfth anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is approaching, and some Israeli legislators are using the anniversary as an opportunity to pander and stand on their soapboxes while a nation mourns. Consider Knesset Member Eitan Cabel (Labor), who submitted a bill today that would prevent Israel's president from granting clemency to someone who murdered a prime minister for political or ideological purposes.
The law contains within it a provision that would require 80 Knesset members (two-thirds) to repeal it.
In other words, convicted terrorists like Samir Kuntar (Hezbollah) and Marwan Barghouti (Fatah) would have a better chance of getting out of prison than Yigal Amir (Rabin's assassin) Amir killed only one person, unlike Kuntar and Barghouti.
Not only that, but Cabel's bill would intrude on the power of the president to grant pardons. Unlike the US, Israel does not have a strict separation of powers, and the Knesset can decide how much power the President may have.
You can rest in peace, Rabin, as legislators continue to undermine democracy in your name.
- 4:36 AM, October 24, 2007
Opposite of Logic
The more THEY praise Rabin, for the wrong reasons, in the lower world, the more he suffers in Kaf Hakela!!!!!
In a seance, they called him and he said that he's suffering tremendeously and has no rest. He also said Leah (his wife) is suffering even more...
- 3:02 PM, October 24, 2007
- nava said...
The government of Israel is a perfect example of what Chazal teach us:
כל המרחם על האכזרים, סופו שמתאכזר על הרחמנים
- 3:04 PM, October 24, 2007
Yitzchak Rabin was a great man who gave his life for peace.
Your post indicates that you are nothing more than an extremist who would stop at nothing to prevent us from achieving a peaceful and just resolution with our neighbors while hiding behind the canard that you "don't support" the very actions you hope someone else will take on your behalf.
If you feel "hate" is being addressed to you, then it is probably because you feel your part of the collective guilt you extremist right-wingers all have for your current and former words and actions.
Words and actions that slowed down, but will never stop the process that Yitzchak Rabin began.
- 4:22 PM, October 24, 2007
- mevaseretzion said...
Rabin's legacy is thousands dead and tens of thousands wounded from Arab terror.
I will remind you and all the other leftists out there what Rabin promised at Oslo:
"So what if we give them guns? If they use them against us, we will take them away!"
So why don't you fulfill Rabin's words already?!
- 6:02 PM, October 24, 2007
FYI: http://www.israelity.com/?p=3893
- 6:45 PM, October 24, 2007
- yingerman said...
The whole notion that a Jew would kill....
Hey I support self defence, but this, well,
I suppose its a natural evolutionary stage.
We slowly drift from the ways of our ancestors.
- 7:40 PM, October 24, 2007
Can I ask a question or two, Jameel, and maybe receive an answer?
I see that Y. Rabin is regarded as some sort of evil figure by you and your readers. I see a few commenters advocating for his killer's release. Is that how you feel? You may have disagreed with his policies, but is the present state of affairs in Israel such that one Jew can hate another Jew that much?
I may not have agreed with Rabin completely, but I do believe that Yigal Amir felt encouraged to do what he did by people who vilified Rabin as much as you all seem to do. Do you feel his murder was justified? Was it a good thing? To many mainstream Jews, both in Israel and out, Rabin's murder was an all time lowpoint in Israeli history. I mean, an Israeli citizen killed the Prime Minister. How do you all feel? I'm really interested. I'm not left wing. But your vilification of a murdered Israeli leader sounds pretty scary to someone not politically affiliated.
I looked at the Rabin Church site one of your readers quoted. It refers to a web site that praises and lauds Baruch Goldstein. Is that how you feel, Jameel? Is that how your readers feel? Because in the real world, if a media outlet sited a website that supported a multiple murderer, the publisher would disavow affiliation with that remark, or at least distance themselves. Are you a supporter of Baruch Goldstein? It is not a facetious question. I'm new to all this, and I really want to know.
So let me sum up my questions for you, Jameel, from a main stream Jew in the diaspora who is trying to understand the point of view of a popular blogger who seems to have Likud affiliations and is originally from a modern orthodox community in the U.S, and is probably representative of his peers:
Do you hate Y. Rabin?
In a representative democracy, do you feel he was wrong to pursue peace if that is the platform he ran on?
Do you support the release of Y. Amir?
Do you feel Y. Amir was wrong to kill him?
Was his murder a good or bad event?
Was Baruch Goldstein a murderer or a hero?
Do you support the killing of Israelis who oppose your point of view or who want to give back the West Bank? What if that killing (like Rabin's) guarantees that Israel keeps this territory. Is it then O.K.?
Please answer these questions yourself and don't leave them to your commentors. I already see what they have to say.
Just let me know. It would be much appreciated. If you have any questions for me, I would be more than happy to answer them. Maybe your readers who don't live where you do or share all your views need to better understand what this blog stands for.
With much appreciation, Jonathan
P.S. If you don't agree with your commentors views as they creep further and further to the right, maybe you need to tell them. Or maybe you agree. Still, where I come from a blogger's community is reflective of their own views. maybe that's just me.
- 11:53 PM, October 24, 2007
Oh, and can you explain how the Altalena was Rabin killing Jewish innocents? From my understanding, it was a ship full of arms that parties involved refused to relinquish to the then nascent Israeli Defense forces. Rabin was ordered by military superiors to fire on the ship, which was refusing to reliquish its cargo, in opposition to the then legitimate Israeli army.
One more question, and I mean this seriously. If the Altalena event was a massacre, how do you, Jameel, regard Deir Yaseen. Is that also a tragedy. I'm just trying to understand who you are. Again, thank you for your attention.
I'm not being sarcastic. I'm very interested in your answers, just to understand who you are.
- 12:02 AM, October 25, 2007
jonathan, you are a fraud, a fake, a phony.
you sound like you already made up your mind for someone "new to all this", and "really wants to know"
i'll leave it for other people to answer, but perhaps you can explain how shooting unarmed people in the water trying to swim to safety at shore is not murder or a war crime?
or perhaps you can explain to me how openly buying votes after completely lacking simple majority support for the "oslo platform" in the knesset by bribing opposition members alex goldfarb and gonen segev to quit their party and vote against the explicit party positions they were voted in for, in exchange for cabinet positions and a volvo is a legitimate act within the representational democratic process?
gonen segev was eventually arrested for drug smuggling and other illegal activities, and alex goldfarb has returned to obscurity
without having bought those votes, there would have been no majority in the knesset for rabin and peres's wild adventures with our lives
the suicide bombings began after rabin and peres brought arafat the terrorist to israel. they are responsible for giving him his base of operations. they provided him with weapons that were turned on us. they continued to negotiate with him after each worse and worse terrorist attack calling the victims of their sick adventurism "sacrifices for peace"
and it was rabin who had his security forces run the now exposed avishai raviv, their agent provacateur and his fake right wing group "eyal", whose mission it was to place onus on and discredit the right-wing for actions and activites they had no part in
you're not being sarcastic, we see what you are
- 1:18 AM, October 25, 2007
- Daniel said...
what was legit about the then Israeli government? There had been no elections.
There was more than one army fighting against the arabs.
When Rabin fired on the ship, Begin would not let his soldiers fight back because he would not allow Jew killing Jew.
Even if the story is what you pretend it be, what justification was there for Rabin to murder the survivors that swam to shore?
As to Deir yassin, even if the story were true I'll take Jews over Arabs any day.
If I could go back in time and trade 6 million Arabs for the Jews in shoah, I would without guilt. Even 12 million Germans.
- 1:18 AM, October 25, 2007
- Daniel said...
what was legit about the then Israeli government? There had been no elections.
There was more than one army fighting against the arabs.
When Rabin fired on the ship, Begin would not let his soldiers fight back because he would not allow Jew killing Jew.
Even if the story is what you pretend it be, what justification was there for Rabin to murder the survivors that swam to shore?
As to Deir yassin, even if the story were true I'll take Jews over Arabs any day.
If I could go back in time and trade 6 million Arabs for the Jews in shoah, I would without guilt. Even 12 million Germans.
- 1:19 AM, October 25, 2007
US wants extradition of prominent Ger hassid accused of sodomy
Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 23, 2007
The Brooklyn District Attorney's office has requested the extradition of Avrohom Mondrowitz, a resident of Jerusalem and a prominent member of the Ger Hassidic sect, on child molestation charges dating back over two decades involving four boys aged 11 to 16.
The extradition request was made in January, according to Brooklyn District Attorney's Office spokesman Jerry Schmetterer. "We know that the US Department of Justice and the State Department have begun the extradition process," said Schmetterer. "It is also our understanding that the Israeli Justice Ministry has been contacted as well."
The Justice Ministry declined to comment.
Mondrowitz, who was contacted by telephone by The Jerusalem Post, hung up as soon as the reporter identified himself.
However, a prominent member of the Ger community in Jerusalem defended Mondrowitz.
"There are people who are trying to disparage Mondrowitz's name," said the source.
"Mondrowitz is a very intelligent, talented man and so are all of his children. His father is highly respected in the community. I can't believe these stories are true.
The source said Mondrowitz was in the computer business.
Mondrowitz worked for a short period at the Jerusalem College of Technology as a fund-raiser and at the Jerusalem College of Engineering as a lecturer.
The Post has also learned that Dep.-Cmdr. Avi Aviv of the National Fraud Squad's Cyber Crimes Division is conducting an investigation against Mondrowitz.
Mondrowitz, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 and later moved with his family to Chicago, arrived in Brooklyn in the late 1970s and presented himself to Orthodox educational institutions as a rabbi and clinical psychologist.
He provided psychological treatment to children from the mixed Jewish-Italian Borough Park neighborhood where he lived. He also opened a yeshiva for children with behavioral problems.
Four children, all from Italian families and all neighbors of Mondrowitz, complained of sexual abuse perpetrated by Mondrowitz. Jewish victims also eventually testified against him, but only after the statute of limitations had expired.
In 1985, a New York State court charged Mondrowitz with eight counts of child abuse in the first degree, endangering the welfare of a child and five counts of sodomy in the first degree.
Mondrowitz and his family fled to Jerusalem after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
At the time of the indictment, sodomy of boys was not an extraditable crime, since it was not defined as rape under Israeli law. In 1988, the Knesset changed that law, apparently opening the way for Mondrowitz's extradition.
The Brooklyn DA's office said Mondrowitz could not be extradited until this year, when the Knesset approved a law removing the impediments to retroactively applying the 1988 law.
But Michael Lesher, an attorney representing six men who say they were molested by Mondrowitz in the early 1980s but who were not included in the original indictment, said the extradition was delayed due to officials, especially Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, dragging their feet.
Lesher claims that Hynes balked due to heavy pressure to drop the case from the Orthodox community in Brooklyn, which supported Mondrowitz despite the fact that Israel's Edah Haredit Rabbinic Court issued a ruling in 1988 in which unnamed "insidious acts" committed by Mondrowitz were mentioned, and warning him to stay away from children.
"Hynes was elected in 1989 with strong Orthodox support," Lesher said in an e-mailed message. "He appointed a virtually all-Orthodox Jewish Advisory Council after being elected, and he reversed the policy of his predecessor, Elizabeth Holtzman, and did not press for Mondrowitz's return to face trial.
In September 1993, Hynes instructed the federal government to close its file on Mondrowitz and said he would not pursue the case while Mondrowitz remained in Israel.
Lesher said he was "elated" to see the district attorney finally moving to extradite Mondrowitz. "All my clients hope that Mondrowitz will at last be brought to justice."
In response to Lesher's claims, Schmetterer said extradition was impossible until the Knesset acted this year.
But in past news reports on delays, Hynes's office was quoted as providing a different explanation. Sources were cited saying that despite the changes in Israeli law, the extradition request could not be made retroactively.
- 2:49 AM, October 25, 2007
You logic is flawd and your debating on the wrong site, you wont find many amir supporters here.
Each person makes his or her choices in life, its called "bechira chofshit" to say that our protests / anger / opposition to rabin fueled amir is purely ludacris... do you suggest stiffling all oppostion speech on such grounds ?
In the US its termed "clear and present danger" and this is termed " democratic opposition"
Care to hear what the left spews hourly against us reliugious / settlers ? that in itself is definatly incitment to violence.. like yaron london suggesting people beat settlers that were blocking roads, with chains.
And we wont even go near the arab sector...
Every year at this time we hear the chest thumping of the leftist totalitarian dictators "rightist extremists! 5th column! lock them up! this should be outlawd!"
The only hate I see spews from the mouth of the leftist politicians...
Daniel is correct in the fact that no one elected ben gurion.. there was no popular vote as in the US indapendince.
Take of your tin foil hat and read Efraim karsh "the new historians" and ezra yakhin's eye whitness acount "yehoyakam"
Dir yassin was a massacre like jenin was a massacre...
As for baruch goldstein.. you brought that up on the wrong blog.. ask jameel how he felt being shot at on sukot.. I live here and we get attacked almost daily.. if goldstein prevented a massacre than he perpetrated no massacre did he ?
- 5:34 AM, October 25, 2007
It wasn't a Volvo. It was a Mitsubishi. You can't get more pathetic than that.
- 6:50 AM, October 25, 2007
But Elchonon, Jenin wasn't a massacre, the Arabs only claimed it was.
Oh, I get it.
- 8:25 AM, October 25, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: If the Altalena event was a massacre, how do you, Jameel, regard Deir Yaseen. Is that also a tragedy...
I'm not being sarcastic. I'm very interested in your answers...
You can find an excellent, thorough analysis of what happened at Deir Yassin here.
- 10:53 AM, October 25, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: Oh, and can you explain how the Altalena was Rabin killing Jewish innocents? From my understanding, it was a ship full of arms that parties involved refused to relinquish to the then nascent Israeli Defense forces.
You should be aware, then, that your "understanding" is based on lies and gross distortions. The Irgun had already agreed to turn over the weapons to forces under Ben-Gurion's command, and they also agreed to integrate their own forces into the joint command structure that B-G had called for. They were in the middle of negotiations over the details when B-G ordered the sinking of the ship and the liquidation of all those on board. According to memoirs written by B-G's own aides who were present in his office, B-G had held off on giving this order for at least two days -- he first wanted to know whether Menahem Begin was personally on board the ship. When the message finally came that Begin was indeed aboard, B-G immediately picked up the phone and gave the order the sink the ship without delay.
Also, can you explain how Rabin was not guilty of murdering Jewish innocents, seeing as he continued firing on the ship even after those on board raised a white flag of surrender? And if you are prepared to justify even that, can you explain how Rabin was not guilty of murder even after he fired upon the unarmed survivors in the water, who were desperately trying to swim to shore?!
- 12:22 PM, October 25, 2007
- Lurker said...
For all those who feel that the Altalena massacre should be ignored when discussing Yitzhak Rabin's legacy, it should be borne in mind that Rabin himself saw his role in the execution of this atrocity as the crowning achievement of his career, and he used to brag about it:
When Rabin was Israel's ambassador in Washington, the embassy held an Israel Independence Day celebration. Each of the guests was asked to recall a memorable event that he had experienced. Of all his experiences, Yitzchak Rabin chose the story of how he had personally shot the Jews -- some of them Holocaust refugees -- who had jumped overboard the burning Altalena. "We shot them on the ship and we shot them while they swam in the water," Rabin bragged to the embarrassed guests.
[From a 2001 essay by Moshe Feiglin]
- 12:25 PM, October 25, 2007
I specifically requested that Jameel answer. I really had no interest in hearing from the rest of you. Your answers are predictable.
Orange and Black. you give me too much credit. I honestly don't know the details of these things. I really am new to all this. In the typical history of Israel (I read Paul Johnson's History of the Jews and another history of Zionism whose author I can't recall) there is no mention of shooting people in the water. Just that the Irgun would not surrender the arms. I never heard that before. Still, why is it justified that they wanted their own armaments at all?
Orange and Black, your accusation that I'm a phony is kind of sad. My questions are legit, and I'm really not particularly left or right. I guess in the Hillel and Shamai debate about teach me the Torah on one foot, you would have been the Shamai character who throws the man out of the room.
Daniel, your statements on Deir Yassin and that killing Arabs over Jews is somehow better is quite frankly just scary. Were you always this radical? It's remarks like that which alienate people like me and make you suspect. I think it's kind of funny in the same stream as people claiming the Right had nothing to do with baruch Goldstein.
Daniel, Ben Gurion wasn't elected. That's funny. In 1948, was there time for a legitimate election? Clearly,Begin and his supporters were the minority, as was evidenced by the electios which were held thereafter. That's very amusing.
Lurker, thank you for trying to give me the facts. I'll sit down tonight and read them when I have a little bit more time. As for your claim that rabin bragged about shooting them in the water, I'll have to read that myself.
Elchonon, this is a real question. No sarcasm. I just want to understand. How did Baruch Goldstein prevent a massacre? Were the people he specifically shot terrorists? How does his specific act of killing people relate to Jameel being shot at in 2007?
Jameel, I really wanted to hear from you and not your readers. They kind of scare me. I'd like to think you could give me more thoughtful answer to my questions.
Free advice: If you write about killing Arabs or how Jewish lives are worth more than others, you just come out sounding crazy and radical. The world values Jewish values. Maybe you should exhibit some.
I'm sorry that mainstream questions and statements seem so radical to this audience. Most people in the Jewish community might asked them if allowed.
All the best, Jonathan
- 7:13 PM, October 25, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: I specifically requested that Jameel answer. I really had no interest in hearing from the rest of you. Your answers are predictable...
Jameel, I really wanted to hear from you and not your readers. They kind of scare me.
I hope that you will forgive me for responding to your comments once again. You made numerous statements that are based upon erroneous assumptions, and I feel that it is appropriate to respond to them. This is an open forum, after all. I will try not to scare you too much...
Jonathan: In the typical history of Israel (I read Paul Johnson's History of the Jews and another history of Zionism whose author I can't recall) there is no mention of shooting people in the water. Just that the Irgun would not surrender the arms. I never heard that before.
The shooting of unarmed people in the water is mentioned in countless primary and secondary accounts of the Altalena massacre. For a typical example, see the Wikipedia entry:
There was danger that the fire would spread to the holds which contained explosives, and Captain Monroe Fein ordered all aboard to abandon ship. People jumped into the water, whilst their comrades on shore set out to meet them on rafts. Although Captain Fein flew the white flag of surrender, automatic fire continued to be directed at the unarmed survivors swimming in the water.
The following is the written testimony of Captain Monroe Fein:
"The first thought all of us had was to remove the wounded men. There was no panic. Everyone behaved in an extremely calm and heroic manner. As the men began jumping off the ship and swimming towards the shore, those of us still on board saw that they were being shot at continuously from rifles and machine-guns on the beach. I rushed to the bridge and began waving a white flag and shouting to stop the fire on the men who were swimming for their lives. At the same time another man hoisted a large piece of white canvas on the halyard, but these efforts were of little avail, as the firing continued."
[Days of Fire by Shmuel Katz, W.H. Allen, London, 1968]
Feel free to consult with just about any other serious detailed account of the Altalena massacre, and you will find the same thing. The shooting of the men swimming in the water is a very well-established fact. Btw, I once met the daughter of one of the men who was murdered by Rabin while trying to swim to shore.
So, perhaps you can answer my earlier question: Knowing this, do you maintain that Rabin was not a murderer?
- 8:37 PM, October 25, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: I'm sorry that mainstream questions and statements seem so radical to this audience.
Jonathan, your comments are not "radical". They are, however, steeped in ignorance borne of exposure to one-sided propaganda.
- 8:38 PM, October 25, 2007
Maybe the world values jewish values but they dont value jewish lives! How did the allied bombing of deserden or the atomic bomb on hiroshima stop the nazi's and japaneese ?
Care to define terrorists ? Yes I believe most of those in the machpela were guilty of planing to murder jews... I care not for moral defintions of collective self defense...
What it has to do with jameel is, that golstein acted on a clear and present danger as pointed out be a circumstance jameel found himself in.. one of hundreds that occur each month.
You paint the dislike and perhaps hate for rabin here as setting a platform for violence, based on sheer fantasy...
Yet goldstein acted on pure facts...perhaps all those at the machpela were not card carrying terrorists... neither was shalhevet pass, nati ozeri etc.. etc..
I have never attacked a arab, never vandalized a arab's proerty.. yet day in day out they attack me and vandalize everything we hold holy.
- 8:47 PM, October 25, 2007
Once again, thank you for your response, though not solicited. During my lunch hour I coincidentally looked up the Wikipedia entry for Deir yassin. Does your quoting Wiki for the Altalena mean you would also quote it for D.Y.? Again, although you seem suspicious of my motives, this is not meant to be antagonostic.
- 8:47 PM, October 25, 2007
- tafka PP said...
(From a very clever piece written about Rabin's Yahrzheit)
Simplistic debates fill the papers and the screens, with polemicists on the left claiming immunity (for one night only!) and taking the opportunity to bash the religious/right and appear holier than thou, (all the while simultaneously opportunistically plugging their latest political/peace/whatever proposals by cynically sticking Rabin's name on it and defining it as a central pillar of his 'legacy'). Which is then typically followed, or pre-empted, by defensive polemicists from the right banging on about the Altelena and leftist hypocrisy.
Indeed. What a shame that the blogosphere- this blog in particular- has to get stuck in this rut too...
Finally, some free (and friendly) Advice to Jonathan:
1. Take no notice of Orange&Black: He's about as genuine as he's accusing you of not being.
2. If you honestly want to hear from Jameel, you should probably email him instead of throwing more meat on the BBQ of the hungry phantom sharks.
- 8:47 PM, October 25, 2007
My question why you bring up dir yassin and blatantly ignore the chevron massacre..
Dir yassin was a hostile village harboring, aiding and abbeting terrorists..
What happend is widely disputed at all fronts.. how many were killed ? the number used these days is at 107 but is probably at 60 in reality..
How many were fighters ? men wearing women's clothing? killed accidently? women attacking those fighting?
Yes a few were gunned down in retaliation for their commanders death but hardly comparable with a all out massacre and butchery of Hebron's jewish residents in 1929.
- 9:00 PM, October 25, 2007
I'm sorry. I missed something. Who were the people B Goldstein killed? I'm sorry to sound ignorant, but weren't they just people at a mosque? I never heard anyone claim they were conspiring or an imminent threat. Weren't they just Arabs at the wrong place at the wrong time? Were they armed?
I don't mean to sound antagonistic, I'm just trying to ascertain the facts.
Thanks, Jonathan
- 9:48 PM, October 25, 2007
The Chevron massacre was terrible. No debate. What does it have to do with what we're talking about? They're not even in the same time frame. And I know someone who observes Jewish law would never suggest an eye for an eye applies under these circumstances.
I like the idea that Deir Yassin was harboring terrorists. It's using a George W Bush term for an era where I'm not even sure the term terrorist had been created yet.
Killing innocents is abhorrent. Period. If y. rabin did it, he is culpable as well. But let's call a spade a spade.
- 9:54 PM, October 25, 2007
have you ever visited israel? (no offense or sarcasm, just wondering how much exposure you've had to the reality of israel - which is very, very different to the way it's reported)
just curious
- 10:30 PM, October 25, 2007
Yes. I've been there numerous times. I have friends in Tel Aviv, Ranana, Modiin, and Efrat.
I've been to Chevron and I've been to Eilat. I just don't take political sides.
- 11:59 PM, October 25, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: During my lunch hour I coincidentally looked up the Wikipedia entry for Deir yassin. Does your quoting Wiki for the Altalena mean you would also quote it for D.Y.?
Yes, certainly I would (and have). The Wikipedia article quotes sources on both sides of the issue. Some of the quotes in the article are quite edifying, such as the following:
Meir Pa'il's eyewitness account is one of the most detailed single eye witness accounts of the massacre, as he claims to have been at the scene while it happened...
Historian Uri Milstein says: "On a massacre following the battle there is only the account of Me'ir Pa'il, who claims that he was in the village during and after the battle," and subsequently brings evidence that Pa'il was not at Deir-Yassin at all. All other members of the Irgun denied seeing Pa'il there.
Yunes Ahmed Assad testified in Al Urdun, a daily Jordanian newspaper:
"The Jews never intended to hurt the population of the village, but were forced to do so after they met enemy fire from the population, which killed the Irgun commander."
In an article dated April 2, 1998, The Jerusalem Post describes a BBC program in which Abu Mahmud resident of Dir Yassin in 1948 stated: "... the villagers protested against the atrocity claims: We said, "There was no rape." [Khalidi] said, "We have to say this, so the Arab armies will come to liberate Palestine from the Jews..."
Khalidi was a prominent Palestinian Arab leader who pushed the editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service's Arabic news in 1948, Hazem Nusseibeh, to make the most use of alleged atrocities in Dir Yassin.
Mohammed Radwan who fought in the battle:-
"I know when I speak that God is up there and God knows the truth and God will not forgive the liars," said Radwan, who puts the number of villagers killed at 93, listed in his own handwriting. "There were no rapes. It's all lies. There were no pregnant women who were slit open. It was propaganda that... Arabs put out so Arab armies would invade," he said. "They ended up expelling people from all of Palestine on the rumor of Deir Yassin." This was reported by Paul Holmes, Middle East Times, 20-April-1998
Ayish Zeidan, a teenager, known as Haj Ayish:-
"We heard shooting. My mother did not want us to look out of the window. I fled with my sister, but my mother and my other sisters could not make it. They hid in the cellar for four days and then ran away". He said he never believed that more than 110 people had died at Deir Yassin and that Arab leaders exaggerated the atrocities. "There had been no rape. The Arab radio at the time talked of women being killed and raped, but this is not true. I believe that most of those who were killed were among the fighters and the women and children who helped the fighters."
Menachem Begin, who did not partecipate in the battle, wrote that:-
'Apart from the military aspect, there is a moral aspect to the story of Dir Yassin. At that village, whose name was publicized throughout the world, both sides suffered heavy casualties. We had four killed and nearly forty wounded. The number of casualties was nearly forty percent of the total number of the attackers. The Arab troops suffered casualties nearly three times as heavy. The fighting was thus very severe. Yet the hostile propaganda, disseminated throughout the world, deliberately ignored the fact that the civilian population of Dir Yassin was actually given a warning by us before the battle began. One of our tenders carrying a loud speaker was stationed at the entrance to the village and it exhorted in Arabic all women, children and aged to leave their houses and to take shelter on the slopes of the hill. By giving this humane warning our fighters threw away the element of complete surprise, and thus increased their own risk in the ensuing battle. A substantial number of the inhabitants obeyed the warning and they were unhurt. A few did not leave their stone houses — perhaps because of the confusion. The fire of the enemy was murderous - to which the number of our casualties bears eloquent testimony. Our men were compelled to fight for every house; to overcome the enemy they used large numbers of hand grenades. And the civilians who had disregarded our warnings suffered inevitable casualties.
The education which we gave our soldiers throughout the years of revolt was based on the observance of the traditional laws of war. We never broke them unless the enemy first did so and thus forced us, in accordance with the accepted custom of war, to apply reprisals. I am convinced, too, that our officers and men wished to avoid a single unnecessary casualty in the Dir Yassin battle. But those who throw stones of denunciation at the conquerors of Dir Yassin would do well not to don the cloak of hypocrisy.
In connection with the capture of Dir Yassin the Jewish Agency found it necessary to send a letter of apology to Abdullah, whom Mr. Ben Gurion, at a moment of great political emotion, called 'the wise ruler who seeks the good of his people and this country.' The 'wise ruler,' whose mercenary forces demolished Gush Etzion and flung the bodies of its heroic defenders to birds of prey, replied with feudal superciliousness. He rejected the apology and replied that the Jews were all to blame and that he did not believe in the existence of 'dissidents.' Throughout the Arab world and the world at large a wave of lying propaganda was let loose about 'Jewish atrocities.'
- 12:36 AM, October 26, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: Again, although you seem suspicious of my motives, this is not meant to be antagonostic.
I am not suspicious of your motives. You just don't seem to know very much (as you yourself have indicated), and you make all sorts of assumptions that are based upon propaganda rather than facts. I don't intend to be antagonostic either.
- 12:41 AM, October 26, 2007
- Lurker said...
Jonathan: Killing innocents is abhorrent. Period. If y. rabin did it, he is culpable as well.
If he did it? Are you trying to suggest that perhaps he didn't? On what basis?
- 12:44 AM, October 26, 2007
Jameel is not ignoring you.
Jameel is currently under the weather, and will be back to blogging next week. He has been made aware that you have asked him questions. He hasn't gone online to actually read them yet. I believe he will answer your questions next week. (Let's all wish him a refuah shleimah).
In the meantime, I think the vehemence you feel towards you and the questions you've asked is from the unfortunate manner in which your questions have been phrased.
It is not that you simply come across as ignorant of very basic facts and history.
But rather, that you asked your questions in a way that shows that you've been presented and have accepted a rather one-sided, propagandized version of events.
Versions that come from
(a) Arab propaganda (the completely discredited Deir Yassin pseudo-history),
(b) standard left-wing nonsense (that the democratic process was respected and not completely trampled on to advance the Oslo agenda),
(c) left-wing incitement (those who protested against the Oslo agenda are collectively guilty of killing Rabin) and
(d) attempts to silence, disparage and discredit any verbal opposition (any response by the Right is defensive polemics, and you must first publicly state your regret for Rabin's murder if you wish to express any opinion on the matter, which also goes back to (c)).
Still, if you look underneath the strong responses you received from (most of) the commenters you will learn of a more complete version of the actual facts of what happened, and perhaps understand why your questions come across as so incredibly offensive.
You are also asking the questions during the month long period in which the Left in Israel use to collectively (and continuously) bash the Right on all media and political fronts while ignoring the results of their own actions. It is a time that will generally draw a stronger response to questions phrased by someone using left-wing propaganda as a baseline for their questions.
- 2:05 AM, October 26, 2007
I wonder if Lurker can provide a reliable link to information supposedly part of the Shamgar Commission report about the alleged weapons cache found in the Ma'arat Hamachpela, as well as to the alleged army reports that they were expecting an imminent massace by the Arabs that Purim?
- 2:42 AM, October 26, 2007
"What Israel fails to understand is that there's a huge gap between writing the above and supporting the killing of Jews by Jews (which I do not support.)"
And finally, as you can see from the quote in the original article, I think Jameel already stated his position on some of the questions you asked.
- 2:47 AM, October 26, 2007
Ive never read the shmagar report in its original, and I will not use wiki for facts..
"A study of the Minutes of the proceedings of the Shamgar Commission (over 2,200 pages in open sessions alone) reveals that intelligence sources had reported on an impending attack by Arabs against Jews in Hebron in the period around Purim. This was not just a stray statement given by one witness, but the clear and unambiguous testimony of no fewer than nine officers in the defense establishment! "
He does not however directly quote the shamgar commision regarding weapons inside, instead he quotes various people..
- 3:27 AM, October 26, 2007
The reason Irgun and Lechi went after dir yassin was because of the fact that they were a hostile village harboring terrorists... they were terrorizing and murdering jews passing along the road..
I dont see why you bring Bush in as a joke.. I am telling you based on historic studies and ezra yakhin's book.
You brought up goldstein.. which had no connection to Rabin's assasination... you brought up dir yassin as some sort of comparision to altalena...
I figured I'd throw the Chevron massacre in for good messure?
Why focus on 3 casses of jewish in the past 60 years when goldstein and dir yassin can't be proven as outright butchery yet ignoring the thousands of arab killings ?
Its not that I am going to argue about jewish values ...
Yet you seem to hold "jewish values" higher than jewish lives..
- 3:44 AM, October 26, 2007
hi jonathan
just curious again: you say that you are neither 'right' nor 'left', but neutral.
how are you definining 'right' and 'left'? ie, what does someone have to say, do or believe to be 'right' or 'left'?
shabbat shalom
- 2:23 PM, October 26, 2007
- Jameel @ The Muqata said...
Hi Jonathan,
Jameel here. Sorry I wasn't around to answer your questions directly last week, but I was a bit under the weather. (And I didn't even read my blog, which is very rare)
First of all, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to comment here. Also, please be advised that while there are all sorts of people that comment here -- and there representation of the "right wing" is not always the same as mine.
I will get back to this comment thread a bit later today with more of my own insights, and hope to satisfactorily answer your questions.
Regards (and thanks for your comments),
- 11:30 AM, October 28, 2007
- Saul Mashbaum said...
Kol hakavod Jameel.
I emailed the picture to plenty of people. I hope others do as well.
I am convinced that "The Festival of Hate" is indeed the correct term for the media circus surrounding this memorial day, and that a very large part of the population realizes it, a percentage which is growing. I don't think that we have to apologize for pointing this out as much as possible.
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Mawhonic - Wow, like some have said, this figure is even weirder in person. It's so tiny... and looks so damn strange! I'd expect that a Gran that is a child (guess he's a child?) would have a larger head... but the sculpt is downright amazing... as is the articulation. This seems like a shrunked down figure... the sculptor did an amazing job. They even got the hole in his left ear added in.
That's the first I've heard of an endcap now... Hmmm. Was it at a bigger or smaller WM?I know one I frequent is a smaller store and they often got endcaps and never got the aisle displays. Was the endcap on a main aisle or was it facing towards the back?
I went to Walmart yesterday and they had the 3D movie wave. There were 3D glasses all over the place! Some kids had a field day removing them from the cards and scatering them throughout the asile. There were only a couple of cards that still had the glasses intack. Weird since we were just talking about this happening.
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In an unexpected press conference ahead of their game against Cleveland, the Yankees announced they will release Alex Rodriguez following their game on Friday.
"This is a tough day. I love this game and I love this team," he said. "And today I'm saying goodbye."
Rodriguez, 41, will become a special adviser and instructor with the team next year. The Yankees will pay him the remainder of the approximately $27 million he's still owed as part of his $275 million, 10-year contract.
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Used primarily as a designated hitter this year, Rodriguez is batting .205 with nine homers and 29 RBI. Last year, he belted 33 home runs.
"We all want to keep playing forever," Rodriguez said. "But it doesn't work that way."
A-Rod's immediate future has been a hot topic in baseball circles of late.
He has had just one start and seven at-bats in 14 games since July 22 as New York traded veterans Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Carlos Beltran and Ivan Nova, turning toward a youth movement. He is in a 4-for-36 (.111) slump and has struck out in five of his last six at-bats.
The announcement comes on the heels of a news conference on Friday during which Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeria revealed that this season will be his last. Teixeria joined the Yankees in 2009 and helped the team win the World Series that year.
Rodriguez has just two home runs since June 3, leaving his career total at 696. He trails only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the career list.
He helped the Yankees win the 2009 World Series, but had been a controversial figure since he arrived ahead of the 2004 season in a trade with Texas.
He won his second and third AL MVP awards with the Yankees but has been a pariah for some since his 2009 admission he used performance-enhancing drugs while with Texas earlier in his career.
Major League Baseball suspended him on Aug. 5, 2013, for the remainder of that season and all of 2014 for what was described as overwhelming evidence that he not only obtained illegal performance-enhancing substances from a South Florida clinic, but also tried to hinder the investigation into the allegations.
Rodriguez returned from hip surgery and played while appealing the suspension, and the following January an arbitrator cut the penalty to all of the 2014 season.
A-Rod made a successful return last year, when the Yankees made him a full-time DH, but his offense slid late in the season and hit .224 from Sept. 1 on. That left him with a .250 average for the year with 33 homers and 86 RBIs.
Rodriguez started his big league career with Seattle in 1994 and signed a $252 million, 10-year contract with Texas before the 2001 season, the largest agreement in baseball history. When the Rangers decided to trade him, a proposed deal to Boston fell through before the trade to New York. He agreed to shift from shortstop to third base as part of the trade to the Yankees, who already had Derek Jeter at shortstop.
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My great grandmother Ellen Hurtley (nee Paley) died on this day in 1934 at the age of 75.
Ellen is one of my ancestors with missing information because I can't find a registered birth for her. I know from census returns and from her death certificate that she was born about 1859. I have searched the GRO records both online and on microfiche at Leeds Library. I am fairly confident that there is no birth registered [UPDATED]. Well what do I know!! One of my regular readers, Richard Thornton, has emailed me with details of a birth registered in Skipton Q3 1858 for Ellen Saley – I'll be ordering the certificate today.
Ellen's parents were James Paley and Mary Anne Spink. They had at least six other children and I have been able to find registered births for five of those children. The other missing birth is for Mary Paley.
Thankfully I made a breakthrough recently!!!
I discovered a baptism record for Ellen Paley and Mary Paley on 3 December 1858 at Conistone in the Yorkshire Dales. Ellen and Mary were twins.
I have been able to find Ellen on all the census returns from 1861 to 1911. She was at home with her parents in 1861 and 1871. Then in 1881 she was working as a "domestic servant" at 4 Water Street, Skipton for Margaret Cooper (widow).
Ellen married James Hurtley on 5 February 1885 in the parish church at Rilstone, near Skipton. They were living in Flasby at the time of the 1891 census then in Silsden (1901) and finally Cononley in 1911.
James and Ellen had at least seven children:-
Rhoda – Abt December 1885
Jim – Abt March 1887
Jessie – Abt June 1889
Maggie – Abt March 1892
Nellie – 9 September 1894
Tom – Abt September 1897
Alice – 29 October 1900 (my grandmother)
It also seems that Ellen had a daughter before she married James Hurtley – Annie Paley (birth registered September1881). I haven't yet obtained a birth certificate for Annie so haven't been able to confirm whether or not a father is shown.
Ellen's death certificate shows that she died at home – 58 Main Street, Cononley and that her daughter Jessie Brown was present at death.
Below is a photograph of Ellen Hurtley (nee Paley) and my grandmother Alice Dawson (nee Hurtley).


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Cotton leaders urged to agree on technology "A CHRONIC absence of profitability and a heavy dependence on government assistance" make it necessary that the cotton industry focus more of its efforts on technology to improve yield and quality, National Cotton Council President Robert McLendon says.
"We have to find some solutions and we have to do it quickly," he said at the kickoff session of the 2001 Beltwide Cotton Conferences at Anaheim, Calif.
"Never has it been more important for us to bring together the industry's collective intellectual and financial resources."
This must also include, McLendon says, an intensive effort to develop specific policy recommendations as the new presidential administration and Congress move toward developing a new farm bill to replace the Freedom to Farm act.
The Leary, Ga. producer met recently with President-elect George Bush, Vice President-elect Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Agriculture-designate Ann Veneman for a wide-ranging discussion of agricultural issues."I came away with the impression that they will be supportive of policy adjustments aimed at shoring up producer income."
Technology, McLendon says, has been the salvation for many growers, particularly in the Southeast region where he farms. "It put us back in the cotton business after the boll weevil ran us out."
Pyrethroid insecticides were the first wave of chemistry advances, he notes, but only a partial answer. "It was hard to make any money when 18 to 20 sprayings per season were required."
The boll weevil eradication program, advances in equipment technology, genetically engineered varieties, and other developments, and more sophisticated chemistries have given growers excellent new tools, he says, but "a combination of yield and quality losses has wrung most of the profits out of cotton production," costing growers as much as 10-12 cents per pound.
Concerns about staple length and micronaire, combined with yield declines, have delivered a triple whammy to growers, McLendon says. "There's no shortage of theories about possible causes, but there's very little information that can be called conclusive."
The National Cotton Council's Quality Task Force is working to advance quality and yield, he says. "We are becoming more involved in cotton seed breeding programs by state researchers to encourage more participation in localized breeding programs and to insure the maintenance of publicly-developed strains as public property"
But, he says, there is concern that the basic genetic components of today's dominant varieties may not be stress-tolerant. "A major concern is that cotton seed breeding programs that have focused on genetic modifications or obtaining other specific fiber properties may have lost seed vigor in the process."
Changes in farm policy will be extensively debated, McLendon says, but the new administration and Congress are looking for specific policy recommendations. Industry segments will need to reach consensus in several key areas to present in February hearings on commodity titles scheduled by House Agriculture Chairman Larry Combest
Among the principles the cotton industry supports, McLendon says, are (1) a better income safety net than the fixed payment scheme under the current Freedom to Farm act; (2) retaining as much planting flexibility as possible; (3) a high priority on retaining a marketing loan keyed to the world market price and operated in concert with a three-step competitiveness plan; and (4) minimal impact of payment limitations on program participants.


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With the start of the Sarasota County school year last week, the crowds finally are thinning at Siesta Public Beach.
Sgt. Scott Osborne, who leads the community policing station in the Village, said last week a person could drive to the public beach parking lot at 2 or 3 p.m. and find it only half full.
"It hasn't been like that in a long time," he said, referring to the crowds drawn to the No. 1 beach in the country.
Just as the human visitor count is declining, the number of avian visitors is growing, Dr. Allan Worms, a retired wildlife biologist, told me last week.
A retired University of Kentucky professor who lives just off the Key, Worms has been watching out for the migrant birds drawn to the abundance of waterways in the area, as they head south for the winter. Now through October is the best time to spot them.
"We've had a few pass through already," he said.
Worms is on the lookout for snow and blue geese, numerous species of duck and sandpipers. One of his favorites, he said, is the Red Knot, a medium-size shorebird.
"They're long-distance migrants," he said.
Red Knots nest in the Arctic in the summer then return to Tierra del Fuego, in the southern part of South America, a trip of 9,300 miles, according to www.allaboutbirds.org
"There's an awful lot to be seen out there and learned," Worms said of the Siesta Public Beach. Anyone interested in bird watching is welcome to join him, he said. "Just look for an old geezer with an ugly hat."
Not just the birds
Worms said birds aren't the only creatures leaving tracks on the beach. Last week, the Pelican Press published photos of a mother bobcat and her kittens taken by Siesta resident Tatiana Staats.
"I've seen cat tracks on the north end of the beach only one time (about 18 months ago)," he said.
And speaking of the cats, Staats told me last week she spied her first bobcat July 26, 2005, on the south end of the Key. To this day, she said, a number of Siesta residents continue to think of the felines as mythical creatures.
Whenever she encounters one of those folks, she said, she is quick to talk about her photographic evidence that the cats are fact, not fancy.
A closing and an expansion
Because of one owner's health problems, I am told, Café Continental Patisserie, 5221 Ocean Blvd., closed a few weeks ago. Although this was sad news for that restaurant's patrons, it portends good news for fans of Bella Roma Italian Restaurant, located in the same shopping center: Bella Roma will be expanding into the café's space.
Stay tuned for details.
SDA fundraiser set
On Oct. 6, The Daiquiri Deck in the Village will host the 11th annual Onto-Paw-Fest for Sarasota in Defense of Animals. The organization's president, Elise Matthes, is mother of Daiquiri Deck partner Russell Matthes.
SDA's mission is to save animals from homelessness, suffering and death. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Funds are needed to defray the organization's expenses for medicine, veterinary medical services, food and daily workers to clean and feed the more than 300 animals who receive lifetime care at the SDA sanctuary.
Elise Matthes is seeking sponsorships for the fundraiser as well as donations of items suitable for auction. Sponsorships are available for $350, $500, $650, $1,000 and $1,500. Anyone interested in helping out may contact Russell Matthes, 915-0302. Supporters will receive written receipts for their contributions.
Stop that littering!
Residents on the Key may have noticed the two signs on the north end to prevent littering.
During the August Siesta Key Association meeting, board member Michael Shay said that SKA and SKVA members who participated in the early-July Adopt-A-Road Program cleanup had noticed "a number of locations very heavily filled with garbage." As soon as some drivers pass Treasure Boat Way, as they head out of the Village, he said, "They throw (litter) in the trench."
Shay reported during a previous meeting he was wary of adding to the sign pollution in the community, but if new warnings would cut down on the roadside garbage, he felt they would be worthwhile.
One sign is posted just north of the Treasure Boat Way/Ocean Boulevard intersection; the other is in the vicinity of the Ocean Boulevard/Higel Avenue intersection. Shay said he appreciated county officials being so cooperative with the effort.


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The Basics:
1 p.m., Earthquakes U-18s vs. Irvine Strikers U-18s
3:30 p.m., Earthquakes U-16s vs. Irvine Strikers U-16s
1 p.m., Earthquakes U-18s vs. Pateadores U-18s
3:30 p.m., Earthquakes U-16s vs. Pateadores U-16s
All matches at Diablo Vista Park in Danville.
Quakes' Last Matches
The U-18 team is coming off one win and one loss last weekend, beating Arsenal FC 4-0 and falling 2-0 to Real Salt Lake AZ. Irving Rafaela-Ventura chipped in with two goals to take down Arsenal. The U-16s won both their matches over the weekend, with Denis Alvarado, TJ Sylvia, and Jose Navarro all getting on the scoresheet.
Irvine Strikers
The Southern California-based club had mixed success over four matches in February. The U-18 team went 1-1-2 over that span, with two goals from Tyler Simkins helping the side to a 2-2 draw with the California Development Academy. The Strikers U-18s two losses came via a 1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake AZ and a 2-1 defeat to Crossfire Premier, with Korean forward Kevin Joen getting the lone goal. Mater Dei High School's Kyle MacLeod got the winner in a 1-0 win over Seattle Sounders FC. MacLeod is a bright prospect who recently committed to USF.
The Strikers U-16 team went 2-0-2 in February, with losses coming 2-0 to Real SoCal and 3-1 to Seattle Sounders FC (goal from Christian Thierjung). The two victories came in convincing fashion, winning 3-1 against Crossfire Premier and 4-1 against the California Development Academy. Mohammad Harb stood out, scoring a goal in both matches.
Pateadores' U-16 and U-18 teams each have only lost once in their last four. The U-18 team went 2-1-1 in February, with the lone loss coming to Seattle Sounders FC 2-1 (goal by Fredy Vences). Maxxwell Bauman played an integral role in the two Pateadores wins, scoring a goal in both matches. Bauman has committed to play at Sacramento State next fall. Along with a Bauman goal, Jose Villareal registered a brace to take down Real So Cal 3-2.
Draws were on the cards for the Pateadores U-16 team, as they had three ties to go along with one loss, a defeat was a 2-0 result to Real SoCal. The team opened the month with a pair of 1-1 draws against Crossfire and California Development Academy, goals coming from Eduardo Calzada and Roberto Escudero. Nahum Paz and Oscar Sorto scored in a 2-2 draw with Seattle Sounders FC, with Sorto also picking up a yellow card in that match.
U16 Boys Roster for:
Saturday 3/12 — Roberto Alvarez, Jorge Alvarez, Oscar Armenta, Anthony Calvo, Claudio Celis, Bryce Clark, Christian De Luna, Sajaad Delane, Rodrigo Gonzalez, Angel Heredia, Jose Lopez, Gerard Mendoza, Cesar Mendoza, Jose Navarro, Elisama Padilaa, Gianni Spatola, Nedin Tucakovic, Checo
Sunday 3/13 — Denis Alvarado, Jorge Alvarez, Roberto Alvarez, Anthony Calvo, Claudio Celis, Sajaad Delane, Angel Heredia, Eriberto Herrera, Jose Lopez, Gerard Mendoza, Jessie Morales, Jose Navarro, Elisama Padilla, Gianni Spatola, TJ Sylvia, Nedin Tucakovic, William Velasco, Checo
U18 Boys Roster for:
Saturday 3/12 — Israel Ayala-Lopez, Jimmy Callinan, Alfred Edmonds, Evan Filipczyk, Christian Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez, Jesus Guzman, Hunter Leblanc, Nick Lima, Travis Pillon, Manuel Sandoval, Gustavo Silva, Jorge Soto, Carson Swafford, Jorge Valdovinos, Irving Ventura, Jeremy Williams, Rafael Zamora
Sunday 3/13 — Israel Ayala-Lopez, Jimmy Callinan, Alfred Edmonds, Sam Engs, Evan Filipczyk, Christian Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez, Jesus Guzman, Hunter, Leblanc, Nick Lima, Travis Pillon, Manuel Sandoval, Jorge Soto, Carson Swafford, Jorge Valdovinos, Irving Ventura, Jeremy Williams, Rafael Zamora


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Archetype Design Studio, LLC.
A full-service interior design firm specializing in high-end residential projects.
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A Los Angeles jury has convicted a man of misdemeanor trespassing at the home of Miley Cyrus.
The panel on Thursday also found Jason Luis Rivera guilty of resisting arrest after he was caught at the actress and singer's home. The 40-year-old's sentencing is scheduled for Friday.
Rivera has been jailed since his arrest Sept. 8, when authorities say he was caught at Cyrus' home carrying a pair of scissors.
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Police say Rivera told them he was a friend of the singer-actress and repeatedly threw himself against an outside wall as if trying to break in.
Cyrus wasn't home during the incident.
A phone message left for Rivera's court-appointed attorney was not immediately returned.
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1. Which is your favorite Ender book? Who is your favorite protagonist, Ender or Bean? Is that two questions?
My all time favorite Ender book is the original trilogy - which actually turned out to be four books, unless you buy a combined edition the way I did so I could get around this favorite book question. For those not in the know, the Ender series of books, and related Shadow series, were written by science-fiction author Orson Scott Card, who has an official website. Having now visited his website, I see he has a new book out, which I will forthwith have to order. So excuse me while I do some online business...
Seriously, my favorite book is probably Speaker for the Dead, with Ender's Game being a close second. My favorite character, as you might be able to tell by my choice of books, would be hands-down Ender (Andrew Wiggin), who is the Speaker for the Dead. Bean's okay, too!
If you like these books, you should read all of his others! Also read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, which is in the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I also recommend many C.J. Cherryh books, including the Chanur series and the Cyteen series, the latter of which was originally issued as three books - and now there's a new book in that series, also. I have some reading to do!
2) How did you get into geology?
There are a couple different answers to this question, the first and easiest of which is that my dad is a geologist. Because of his choice of fields, I spent a lot of time stopping at road cuts while young, I knew which way north was at a very early age, and I had started a rock and mineral collection before I was five, which I maintained for a very long time (I may still have some of those original rocks and minerals somewhere, or maybe my parents still have some of them.)
I didn't, however, plan on being a geologist, although I did take Earth Science in high school, and already knew a number of things including the geologic time chart. I went to college, having known for a long time that I would go to college, and started out with a major in history, of all things. During my first quarter, I took one history class - a very boring one, it turned out - and Intro to Geology, which was for majors and non-majors. By the end of the quarter, by December, I had switched my major to Geology. I didn't start in geology partly out of fear of Chemistry. I was good in math, had no qualms about Physics, but had an inordinate fear of Chemistry! I did fail one quarter, but that was a bad quarter all around. Those things pass.
I didn't know where I was going with my Geology degree while I was getting it; I just knew that I loved geology. It took a kind of bad personal moment (or series of moments, months) to crystallize my future as being one of going on to get an M.S., with a focus on Economic Geology. I have occasionally thought about getting a Ph.D. in geology, and have had a couple opportunities, but ultimately I haven't wanted to spend that much time back in classes or on a university campus. A Ph.D wouldn't in and of itself benefit my career, though what I could learn - probably structural geology in more detail - could benefit me greatly. I once knew who I would do a dissertation with if I took the time, but no longer know of any particular professors with whom I'd want to work. I guess if I was going to do that, I'd have to do a bit of research!
3) Do you think it would be feasible to colonize Mars in the next 2 centuries or so?
I think that we could probably colonize either the moon or Mars anytime we decide we want to, and I firmly believe that if we haven't colonized Mars in two whole centuries, that it would mean we just didn't want to or didn't try. I also think it would be a mistake not to explore and colonize planets in our near future. I think we are behind schedule on these things. I had planned on being a space explorer when I was growing up, and instead, I explore the earth.
4) What's your perfect Sunday like?
What is a Sunday? Oh, sorry, it's like I said in the comments earlier. When I'm working a ten-and-four schedule, a Sunday off is a just a day during which I can't go to town and get any business done (banks, doctors... ). It's also not necessarily a day that MOH and I have off together, especially with his current schedule. When I'm working a longer schedule, like twenty-and-ten or 28-and-14, Sunday is often a day that will either be a partial day, so people can do laundry, or it will be a shorter day so people can sleep in a little. At one place I worked in the field, everyone would meet at a cafe for breakfast, sometimes at the same time that work usually started, and sometimes at a later time so people could sleep in. Those sorts of thing - like breakfast get-togethers - foster camaraderie.
Sunday is nice, nonetheless, because I don't feel pressured by things-to-do when on days off, at least not as much as on weekdays. When we had a TV connected, I enjoyed getting up and watching CBS Sunday Morning. When I'm working, Sunday's are often a bit slower or calmer - I think because people are just generally in a more relaxed mood, and also because sometimes contract or technical work will slow down or stop on weekends.
5) What is your best comfort food?
My favorite comfort food has long been ice cream. The flavor will vary some from time to time, but has mostly centered around coffee, mint or peppermint (like B&J's mint chocolate cookie), lime sherbet, and chocolate-chip-cookie-dough when it came out a while back. Any flavor with caramel or chocolate will also do! Almost any other ice cream flavor will do in a pinch. My all-time favorite flavor was a Baskin-Robbins flavor called Mandarin Chocolate, which hasn't been around for a decade or two. It can be approximated by putting rich chocolate syrup on orange sherbet.
Now for the meme part! Do you want to be interviewed?Here are the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" AND leave your email address (or blog link) in the comment!
2. I will respond by emailing you (or commenting on your blog) with five questions. I get to pick the questions. [It has recently become standard in this meme to limit the number of interviews I will have to do to the first three respondents.]
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions. (If you don't have a blog, I can post your answers here.)
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. [Again, the limit will be three interviewees according to new memish practice.]


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Favorite Books for 2012 – Library Inspired Selections
On November 15, 2012 David Faulkner firstname.lastname@example.com via listserv.oclc.org announced on Publib :
What is the best book you read this year? The book could have been published any year as what matters is that you read it in 2012.
Let me know either through Publib or via my email firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll compile the results and make them available early in the new year – you are free to nominate as many books as you want..
All genres and forms of books are open so nominate your favorite:
- graphic novel
- children's book
- romance novel
- audiobook, etc.
This will be the 10th year I've compiled this list so if you'd like to see previous lists you can find them all on Best of Publib ~
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Flanked by leaders of the world's most powerful nations, President Obama accused Iran of building a secret nuclear plant that he said is inconsistent with Tehran's denials of pursuing nuclear weapons.
"We are here to announce that yesterday in Vienna, the U.S., the United Kingdom and France presented detailed evidence ... demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom," said Obama, who is in Pittsburgh meeting with the leaders of the world's top 20 economies. "The existence of this facility underscores Iran's continuing unwillingness to meet its obligations."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his nation's nuclear program is designed to produce energy, not weapons. But critics, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have scoffed at those claims. From Pittsburgh, Obama said there can be little doubt now that Ahmadinejad's claims are false.
U.S. & World
"The size and configuration of this facility is not consistent with a peaceful program," Obama said of the underground plant.
Other foreign leaders, including Britain's Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancelor Angela Merkel joined Obama in condemning Iran's treachery in pursuing nukes in secret.
"The level of deception by the Iranian government ... will shock and anger the whole international community and it will harden our resolve," said Brown.
Western intelligence services have known about the secret facility for years but kept quiet about it, even as the controversy built over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the New York Times reported. On Monday, Iran sent a letter disclosing a new "pilot plant" to the IAEA, a disclosure experts believe was prompted by Iran learning that Western governments knew about the plant.
In New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Ahmadinejad denied that the plant was secret or aimed at developing weapons. He said Obama will "be sorry" for his accusations.
"This is a mistake," Ahmadinejad said. "This is not how you enter negotiations. This is not nice."
"If I were President Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain from making this statement, because it is definitely a mistake," he added.
The development came during the same week that longtime Iranian ally Russia signaled that it may be willing to go along with sanctions against Iran if it continues to deny international teams access to inspect its nuclear facilities. China, which can veto sanctions through its post on the UN Security Council, has not indicated that it would change its longstanding opposition to sanctions.
Separately, two unnamed government officials in Europe told The Associated Press that Iran revealed the existence of a second plant for enriching uranium in a letter sent Monday to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
Iran is currently under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for its active uranium enrichment program and Ahmadinejad did not mention the facility in a speech this week before the global body. Iran will join nuke talks with the U.S. and other world powers on Oct. 1.
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Campus Calendar
Katayoun Amjadi: A Bunch of Chickens and a Toilet Brush
From site: Gould Library
In conjunction with her exhibit in Boliou Hall, a selection of recent work by Visiting Professor of Art Katayoun Amjadi.
This event takes place each day from September 27th, 2019 to November 27th, 2019.
This event occurs on:
- Friday, September 27th, 2019
- Saturday, September 28th, 2019
- Sunday, September 29th, 2019
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Nightingale & Rose Souvenir, the Nightingale and the Rose series, 2017, cast porcelain with gold luster
Artist's Statement:
In the spirit of cabinets of curiosity or Wunderkammer, the vitrines in Boliou Hall and Gould library showcase a collection of relics and artifacts from the past five years of an artist's practice in the field of contemporary art.
The Things that make The Things cabinet in Boliou acts as an art historical timeline, tracing fragments of thoughts behind four major series of Katayoun Amjadi's work. The objects on display are like archeological excavations from her studio and apartment. Some are personal treasures and some are found objects that sparked her curiosity, while others are the tools and materials that were used to make various works within a series. Each carries its own history, its own web of associations, yet most remain hidden from view in the work they make or inspire. They reside just below what is readily apparent in the space of suggestive possibility. On the opposite wall from the cabinet, is an image of the work; on one hand epitomizing and representing the time spent on each series, on the other a step removed from the object itself, as if seeing the artifact from a spatial and temporal distance. Between the vitrine and the wall you stand in the realm of the archeological discovery of an artist's work: the nexus of manifold histories, connections and networks, twisting like the strange fibers of narrative threads, waiting for the creative response and interface of what both the artist and the viewer bring to the work.
A Bunch of Chickens and a Toilet Brush in the vitrines of Gould library are just that: a collection of displaced art objects detached from the origin and context that brought them into being. This work explores the voice of the common object, the everyday artifact, which quite often, by virtue of its generality and pervasiveness, has fallen into a kind of muted silence. Chicken and toilet brush: one we see almost daily, while the other we tend to hide from view, yet here, through a series of reconfiguring and material translations new meanings begin to unfold. This work examines the potential for objects to speak beyond themselves; that through careful appropriation and transformation, the muted silence of the everyday object could be developed into a grammar of meaning that recognizes its history of utility and cultural consignment, yet suggests evocative possibilities of new narratives, of stories whose arcs embody new disclosure and promise.
-Katayoun Amjadi
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The Bengals got down to the 75-man roster limit, making six moves including putting one of their draft picks on injured reserve.
Fourth-round linebacker Sean Porter will miss the season with a shoulder injury. They also waived-injured linebacker Brandon Joiner, and released offensive linemen Jason Weaver and Otis Hudson.
They made two of the spots by putting quarterback Zac Robinson and fullback Chris Pressley on the reserve/PUP list, which will keep them out at least the first six weeks.


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Friday, February 23, 2007
A follow-up on the LaVena Johnson Investigation…
Shakespeare's Sister has reported a follow-up on how the Johnson family is challenging the report that Pvt. Johnson committed suicide.
Pvt. Johnson's father, Dr. Johnson, is requesting an investigation. He has been adamant from the beginning that he believes his daughter was murdered. As reported on KMOV, the evidence points to Pvt. Johnson having been the victim of foul play.
LaVena Johnson was the first woman soldier from Missouri to die while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
She died at 19 years old near Balad, Iraq, on July 19, 2005.
Please take a moment to read the post at Shakespeare's Sister and to contact your Senator if they are listed as being on the Armed Services Committee.
5 comments:
- Brian said...
My God!!!
Glad to see that someone else is on top of this. I also was posting all over the internet about this right after it happened...but I was afraid to push too far. I'm glad to see that you were on it as well. This was before I even discovered your site....so this is a pleasant surprise.
At the time, it seemed as though the family didn't want to push too hard and they accepted the results of that shady investigation. Good to see that they decided to search for more answers.
This is one of the cases that haunts me about this war. I think about it all the time.
The circumstances around this death were very strange. I saw red flags immediately!!!
From what the family stated regarding the report... I don't believe that the suicide was possible.... Both from the standpoint of the young lady's personality (she did not appear to be a suicide candidate) and from the standpoint of the actual shooting.... it would have been scientifically/physically difficult for her to have killed herself....based on the information available.
I still suspect some sort of rape/sex assault and they killed her to cover it up...and they made it look like a suicide...and the bastards got away with it. OR she was a witness to some sort of crime...and they were not comfortable with her knowing what she knew, so someone in the military killed her.
I now feel sorry that I didn't follow up more aggressively on this... However, I did write some newspapers about it...to try to get someone to cover it.
Please stay on this case!
- Deoridhe said...
I wish my representative was on the list! I hope her death gets investigated; I worry about all the people we don't know to investigate who died.
This is another clearcut case o "who are you going to believe me, or you lying eyes?" We are again asked to believe something that all the evidence and our common sense says can't be so. The questions are who killed her?, and WHY?
There must be pressure brought to get justice for Laveda and her family.
I'm the writer of the ShakesSis post on LaVena Johnson; thank you very much for writing about it here.
I have started a web-based petition to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and the House, asking them to compel the Army to reinvestigate LaVena's death. There is an accompanying website where other action items and info are available.
Also, I'll be interviewed on The Sloan Ranger Show tomorrow night (March 9) at 6:15 p.m. regarding LaVena. That's WGNU 920 AM in St. Louis, but the show can be heard over the Internet as well. Call-ins are welcome.
Thanks again for your writing on LaVena!
- jurassicpork said...
I'm all over this, too.


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UH Medical School dean search committee begins its workUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The search advisory committee for the dean's position at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) held its first meeting this week.
Dew-Anne Langcaon, COO at PacifiCap Management — Hawaiʻi's largest locally-based venture capital firm that invests in high technology companies — co-chairs the committee with UH Manoa Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Gary Ostrander.
In her charge to committee members, Manoa Chancellor Denise Konan encouraged them to look for candidates who can best articulate a vision and possess the skills and leadership qualities to move the medical school forward.
"Our committee includes university personnel as well as appropriate members of the community," said co-chair Ostrander. "I expect wide interest in the dean's position given the new state-of-the-art campus facilities and our highly-regarded education and research programs at the school. We look forward to beginning our review of applicants."
Co-chair Langcaon noted, "The dean of the medical school holds a critically important leadership role in the development and growth of a biosciences industry in the State of Hawaiʻi. We in the industry appreciate the opportunity to participate in the search process," she added. "JABSOM's next dean will need to forge very complex collaborative relationships throughout the community, and I'm pleased that the university has assembled a committee that is representative of the many stakeholders."
The committee plans to retain the services of a search consultant firm, and has already received proposals for services from a number of high-profile companies that specialize in this area.
Besides co-chairs Ostrander and Langcaon, committee members are:
Thomas Au, Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine — JABSOM;
Mary Boland, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene;
Linda Chang, Professor, Medicine — JABSOM;
Beadie Dawson, President, Friends of JABSOM;
David Easa, Program Director for Clinical Research — JABSOM;
Cyril Goshima, President of Hawaiʻi Independent Physicians Association;
Duane Gubler, Professor and Chair, Tropical Medicine — JABSOM;
Robert Hiam, President and CEO — Hawaiʻi Medical Service Association (HMSA);
Tom Humphreys, Professor, Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC);
Larry Kolonel, Deputy Director, Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi;
Chuck Sted, President and CEO, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health;
Danny Takanishi, Associate Professor and Chair, Surgery — JABSOM;
Art Ushijima, CEO and President, Queen's Medical Center;
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Recipe from Faith Hacker of Lexington, Ky.
Total Time: 35 minutes
1 lb. turkey smoked sausage
3/4 cup apple butter
Slice sausage into thin slices.
Place in a small, lightly greased baking dish.
Toss with apple butter.
Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, stirring about half way through cooking time.
Remove from cooking liquid and serve immediately.
NOTE: You will want to use a good quality apple butter, such as one fresh from the farmer's market or orchard.
Servings: 6
Comments: The perfect fall appetizer!!
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OpenTok Mobile SDKs, Revision 2: The Video Driver
In the latest versions of the OpenTok SDKs for iOS and Android, everything is new. We found an opportunity to learn from the lessons of the past two years, and seized it to conduct an overhaul of the architecture of the client. The 2.2.0 release of the iOS and Android SDKs marks the second major revision of the implementation of the OpenTok Mobile SDKs. This post highlights one of the many new features of the 2.2.0 SDKs, about which we are feeling particularly excited: the "Video Driver". Although the feature exists with parity in both platforms, today we'll focus on the iOS-variant of the new API.
As you may know, every mobile platform has a unique interface for allowing application developers access to device hardware, specifically the camera. Similarly, each platform offers unique and powerful APIs for managing the view hierarchy that the end user sees. The "Video Driver" refers simply to a set of simple interfaces in the OpenTok SDK that allow for complete customization of both input and output of video to the client SDK, and therefore the whole OpenTok ecosystem.
The inspiration for this change came largely as a result of what we have been seeing our talented partners working on and asking for. There have been requests for HD streaming over a local network, to briefly pause the video and snap a photo, to add filter effects implemented on the GPU, and many others. We decided that attempting to simultaneously support all of these features in one closed-source SDK would not be as easy as giving the necessary tools to the developers asking for them, in order to implement their use case without waiting for us.
The Details
Diving into the details with an iOS-specific point of view, we introduce two new properties on the newly refactored OTPublisherKit and OTSubscriberKit, videoCapture and videoRender. These properties are instance references to any Objective-C class that implements the OTVideoCapture and/or OTVideoRender protocols. By setting these fields to classes that you implement, the code for capturing, pre- and post-processing, and rendering video is now available for you to modify.
Under the hood, the OpenTok iOS and Android SDKs are built on top of the WebRTC reference implementation, generously provided by our friends at Google. We use a virtualization of the video capture and rendering interfaces used by the WebRTC engine, and proxy all of the relevant function calls in and out of the Objective-C
OTVideoCapture and
OTVideoRender instances. From here, you can define your own video sources, manipulate received video prior to rendering, or implement any other customization idea you might have.
An Example
The Video Drivers make a lofty promise that you can put nearly any video source into the SDK and be ready to consume it on all other platforms supported by OpenTok. To support this claim, I have written a sample app that uses the latest version of the OpenTok iOS SDK to publish video from a quicktime .mov file, encoded in H.264. Using the iOS AVFoundation API, the video capturer is able to decode the movie at a reasonable frame rate, and push that decoded video into the OpenTok SDK, for publishing. You will notice that any of the other demo apps for OpenTok are able to subscribe to this stream without modification. For the single cost of implementing a custom video source in iOS, we are able to consume this new video source in all other platforms supported by OpenTok.
Next Steps
Although this feature is currently only focused on the video interface, we are investigating the feasibility of a similar set of APIs to support customization of the audio input/output system as well. We hope to have something to share later this summer.
In addition to the application described above, we have also released some examples under the Apache 2.0 License that should be enough to easily get you started. Clone and tinker! If you are able, consider sharing the results of your hacking with us; we are very curious to see what our partners will do next with this new feature.


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Top-seeded SUNY Sullivan used 17 offensive rebounds to outscore Suffolk Community College, 22-3, on second-chance opportunities and win the Region XV Div. III semifinal in New Rochelle.
No. 2-ranked Sullivan (29-3) plays No. 6 Bronx CC for the regional title and berth to nationals at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Monroe College.
Gerald McClease and Darien Croft each scored 13 points and Antoine Gatling added 10 for Sullivan. Willie Williams had nine points and 10 rebounds. Newburgh's Marcus Henderson had nine points and nine assists.
No. 3 SUNY Sullivan bowed to No. 2 SUNY Rockland in the Region XV Div. III semifinals in New Rochelle.
Regina Steele posted 23 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks for Sullivan (23-8). Briana Rhett had 13 points, Jasmine Mejia had 11, Grace Geist had 10 and Tashalee Lawrence posted 11 rebounds and six points for the Generals.
Erica Richards scored 23 points and Tuxedo's Katie Sovak added 13 for Rockland, which hit 20-of-28 foul shots.


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