THOUGHTS, MUSES AND RANTS OF JAH

  This situation is becoming repetitive. Every time Israel is attacked and manages to defend itself, it receives the same lectures as if it were the aggressor, rather than just trying to exist peacefully as it always has. Perhaps if the world had not interfered and allowed Israel to complete its defensive actions, the successive attacks might have stopped, and their enemies might have been willing to negotiate peace terms. This time, the events of October 7 and the threat of more attacks have pushed them too far. They are now determined to disregard international opinion and resolve the situation definitively. Consider what you would have done differently on October 8 if it had been your daughter who was gang-raped, brutally murdered, and paraded around Gaza in disgrace. Be honest. History has shown that if Israel does not complete its defense and shows mercy, the world still fails to support and protect them. The underlying issue is their identity as Jews. It is the same world who...

  There are 13 crucial questions that need to be considered when deciding anything to do with child welfare. When it comes to abortion, there are committees, groups, studies, and court cases that go all the way up to the Supreme Court. But what about child welfare itself? It is time that Congress create a committee to investigate what is happening to our children paid for by our tax dollars. Other countries are already doing this.  Children’s social care is the system of support that children, young people and their families receive from their local authorities when they need extra help. The purpose of the system is to support these groups by addressing any problems early, intervening decisively when there is likelihood of harm, and to provide care for those who need it. However, there are a number of factors that impact the operational effectiveness of the overall social care system. Hence, there should be an inquiry in order to consider this topic in more detail.  The i...

  “Heroes don’t always wear capes.” He walked into a crumbling classroom and saw children who had stopped believing anyone would stay. Boston, 1965. Christopher Gibson Elementary in Roxbury. A fourth-grade classroom that had gone through NINE substitute teachers in a single year. The heat didn't work. The books were literally falling apart. These kids had learned not to hope. Then a 28-year-old walked in with a Harvard degree and a Rhodes Scholarship. He could have gone ANYWHERE. He chose this room. Jonathan Kozol decided these kids deserved the truth. Not the approved textbooks. Not sanitized lessons. THE TRUTH. So he handed them a Langston Hughes poem called ""The Ballad of the Landlord""-about someone standing up against injustice. It wasn't on any approved list. It wasn't "'allowed."" But something changed in that room. For the first time all year, these kids were LOCKED IN. One boy who'd been withdrawn for months actually reac...

  The woman with “steel cojones.” I love this woman. Journalist Caroline Glick accused Britain, France and Canada of hypocrisy. Israeli-American journalist and commentator Caroline Glick published an address to the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Canada. Here is her statement in full: “You sanctimonious, hypocritical cowards. How dare you threaten the one Jewish state on earth — after everything your nations did to us! You dare speak of ‘humanitarian values’ while standing on piles of Jewish bones your ancestors buried beneath cobblestones, cathedrals and the charters of ‘civilized’ nations?! Britain. Oh, Britain. The empire that carved up the Middle East with a pencil and a gin-and-tonic. You issued the Balfour Declaration and then slammed the door on Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. You handed chunks of Jewish land to Arab monarchs and let Jews die in the Holocaust rather than let them enter your precious Mandate. You interned Holocaust survivors in Cyprus as if t...