Haveil Havalim #149 - The "Vengeance upon the Nations" Edition

Haveil Havalim 149.

George Bush visits Israel for the first time since becoming president, despite his being declared a "great friend of Israel".
George Bush (and Condoleeza Rice) have been pressuring Israel to make tremendous concessions to the Palestinians by way of releasing terrorists, providing guns, ammo, armored vehicles, dividing Jerusalem, freezing settlement construction even from natural growth, destroying settlements, etc. All this despite George Bush being the "greatest friend" Israel ever had in the White House. All this despite the political points we scored by disengaging from Gaza and getting the world on our side, supposedly.

Psalm 149 - "לַעֲשׂוֹת נְקָמָה, בַּגּוֹיִם; תּוֹכֵחוֹת, בַּלְאֻמִּים לֶאְסֹר מַלְכֵיהֶם בְּזִקִּים; וְנִכְבְּדֵיהֶם, בְּכַבְלֵי בַרְזֶל לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּהֶם,
"מִשְׁפָּט כָּתוּב and in English, "To execute vengeance upon the nations, and chastisements upon the peoples, To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron, To execute upon them the judgment written"

Kudos once again to Soccer Dad for founding Haveil Havalim. This is the 149th week running of this blog carnival, and I am pretty sure Soccer Dad has a surprise or two up his sleeve for the future.. It takes a lot of work managing and maintaining Haveil Havalim and the jblog world owes Soccer Dad a big "THANK YOU" for carrying it on his shoulders all this time..so here is a shout out to Soccer Dad!

And now on to the roundup....
Disclaimer: When going through this weeks submissions, I noticed that they are much more bent to the political this time than usual. I guess it makes sense due to the Bush visit and the flurry of diplomatic activity because of it...

Batya points out some Jewish heroines are being ignored...

Sholom, the Anarchist Rabbi, is stumping for Ron Paul. He writes in his typical crass style, but the post is good and well detailed..

The Anti-Racist blog is trying to make the Vilnius Jewish Library into a reality..

muse spent the day wandering around Shiloh and shares some pictures...

Yehuda from Jerusalem Games presents Four Lives and a Death

The Eye of the Storm blog points out that our problems do not begin with Bush...

Rabbi Sears wrote his guest post on A Simple Jews blog about the development of Breslov in America..

Schvach Yid points out who the odd man out is...

Sheyna is looking for a title for her book...

Heichal Hanegina points out the yahrtzeit of Reb Zusia, and brings a fascinating story...

Shira bat Sarah exposes the real Ghandi tradition..

Esser Agaroth talks about some posters welcoming Bush to Israel..

Daled Amos looks at who is funding the PA and what their goals are...

Elder of Ziyon points to all the elephants in the room. I wonder how much more space there can possibly be with so many elephants in one room!

Rubicon3 has a picture of what vandals did in a Jewish cemetery in new Jersey..

In Context is appalled by statements recently made by Condi Rice..

On the Fringe compiles some links on recent articles in her "On the Matzav" series...

Augean Stables gives a talk at the IDC about the Muhammed Dura situation and France2's part in it..

The Israel Satire Lab has this weeks best satirical posts relating to the Middle East...

Be'Er Mayim Chaim has some more stories for Reb Zusha's yahrtzeit...

Ha'azinah Tefillati is seeking a connection..

Yehudi condemns racism in the Orthodox world..

The Wolf was shocked to find out the truth about the ani maamins...

West Bank Mama writes a letter to President Bush..

The Jewish Worker continues his series of posts on the custom of "blei Gissen"...

The Big Felafel blog lets us know what the candidates, or at least some of them, were eating during the New Hampshire primaries...

The Shadchun blog has an old, but funny, joke...

On Her Own condemns racism in the Jewish world after finding out a friend of hers has a racist streak...

Sarah continues her Summer Series of images...

Batya has pictures of the Human Chain protest around Jerusalem..

IsraLuv is already thinking about Pesach and wishing her family did not eat gebrokdts..

RBS A News lets us know about the upcoming melave malka of an important tzedaka organization..

HalfNutCase wonders why women wear shabbos robes in public...

Oleh Musings says the price of patience is getting too high...

Modern Uberdox tries to explain why the yeshiva students of Novardok would humiliate themselves in public...

Akiva from Mystical Paths has recently made aliya. It has been even a greater pleasure to read his blog now than it was before, and it was always pleasurable.. Akiva has some pictures from around Yerushalayim in anticipation of Bush's arrival to the Holy City..

Little Frumhouse on the Prairie has some pictures of shul renovations of a couple of shuls in Chicago..

Miriam points out the similarity in the words used for two different things... hmmmm...

I discussed in Life in Israel a recent psak regarding seeing George Bush..

Lakewood Schmuck gives advice to George Bush...

Jacob DaJew remembers his grandfather upon reaching the 30th day since his passing...

JC from Israel Stories has got a cute story from a trip they took to the Kangaroo Park (Gangaroo) up near Beit She'an..

Getting Lippy suggests that Bush out to take a visit to Sderot for a bit and see their suffering and not be so worried about all the elegance and fanfare of the ceremonial stuff...

Conversations in Klal wonders how together husbands and wives really are...and counts the actual hours..

Circus Tent remembers Rav Shmuel Birenbaum upon his recent passing...

Hochmah and Mussar talks about the rap music he used to listen to...

flatbushgal calls out the people who are "frummer than thou"..

MizEllie has a funny story from a car show..

Bad for Shidduchim describes some of the various methods used in predicting engagements...

Leora describes the experience of going to meet her brother on an arriving Nefesh B'Nefesh flight to Israel...

Cosmic X has a message for President Bush..

Ben-Yehuda is looking for a job... and posts a lot of resources for others looking... you can get his resume from a link there and see if you know anything available for him...

Raizy tells it like it is...

Batya posted Caption Contest #2.. go see a weird picture and caption it... I am still wondering what the prize is for the winner...

JoeSettler sends a letter to Osama Bin Laden on behalf of Israeli diplomacy and peace...

If you were ever wondering who the first meshulah to be sent to the US knocking on doors was, you will want to see Lion of Zion's post with that information...

Am Kshe Oref comments on the USA installing terrorist governments around the world...

Jameel at The Muqata shows himself to be the warrior we all thought he was, as he gets into a confrontation with the enemy...

Lazer Beams has a short video excerpt of a shiur on kiruv with parents...

hubscubs has another sports metaphor for life...

Mr. Bagel's blog has been on vacation for about two months while the Bagel family moved to a new hole. Mr. Bagel is back now. Welcome back Mr. Bagel.

YidWithLid says Bush is back to his pre-9/11 style..

Shira roundsup the comments on Gil's post regarding R' Horowitz's recent article...

Jack's got a collection of the worst album covers ever...

The Jewish Current Issues blog brings Natan Sharansky's speech from under his daughter's huppa last week. Absolutely a must-read.

Israel Matzav has a photo-essay of the IDF raiding Nablus (Shchem) and finding hidden caches of weapons - all this after we were told how the PA Police has taken control and secured Nablus... hmmmmm

DafNotes offers a number of different explanations to the question about how Yaakov could have been intimate with Leah on their wedding night, and that the resulting child (Reuven) should have been born degenerate...

Yid With Lid claims Condi told the Jews to drop dead when she commented on the status of East Jerusalem...

It's Almost Supernatural comments on the phenomenon of black African soccer players going to play in Israel for Israeli teams...

A Simple Jew made some interesting discoveries while exploring Google...

Israel Matzav proves Olmert is a charlatan... in the literal sense of the word..

Snapped Shot brings Reuter's correction to the caption of a photograph with Olmert and Condoleeza Rice. The correction they were quick to publish was having originally captioned it with the location "Jerusalem, Israel", they corrected it by removing the "Israel".

Meryl Yourish talks about Ms. Magazine refusing to publish an ad about 3 powerful Israeli women..

Jack wrote this post to explain to his 94 year old grandfather what a blog is. We are hoping his grandfather actually does start blogging!!

Yisrael Medad caught a recent slip-up made by a CNN reporter when Bush was coming off the plane in Israel. CNN actually got it right for once!! I guess it would be called a Freudian slip!!

Dixie Yid met with the Sudilkover Rebbe and relates a story about being Jewish the Rebbe told over to him at their meeting ...

Yisrael wrote a letter to the NY Times complaining about some editing they did regarding a picture from when Bush came to Israel..

Lion of Zion actually submitted this post - I am not sure he has ever submitted to HH before, though he has been featured a number of times - about his sukkot experience in Teaneck.

Keili Ata talks about an example of Pro Palesitinian hatred...

Barbara says that now is the time for the Prime Minister to be blunt with Bush...

Life of Rubin reviews some of the history and the evolution of Jewish music..

Lemon Lime Moon talks about real love and being kind to other people..

Irina marks the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Jewry movement by going to a reception..

Soccer Dad roundsup the various comments and adds his own on the controversy caused by Arun Gandhi's comments about Israel...

A Mother in Israel has some housekeeping tips for us...

Shifra says (actually her dad said it) the vandalism at the cemetery happened because the dead don't fight back. Cowards!

AidelKnaidel has a shidduch problem because of her father, and she is at a loss what to do about it..

How to Measure the Years just went home for vacation..

Baila used to have a cleaning lady, now she is her own cleaning lady, and doesn't want you to drop in on Wednesdays, because it is not a pretty sight!...

A Soldier's Mother describes her sons week in the army and says she is doing the worrying for him...

The Rabbanut of Israel recently updated their policy about providing kashrus supervision when there are other, unreliable, kashrus organizations being used in the same restaurant...