RUTHFULLY YOURS

“Let’s roll.”

Todd Beamer, Passenger United Flight 93

Lest we forget, the first Americans who fought the war on terror were passengers on a commercial airliner. They gathered together, likely led by Todd Beamer, as the first US warriors on a hijacked flight high in the sky over Pennsylvania, and though they died, their sacrifice made it possible for our congressional leaders, our government leaders, our fellow citizens to live out the day on 9-11, unaware that Flight 93 was heading for Washington, DC.

2015

As of September 2015 Freedom Tower is built. The Memorial is open. The Twin Tower Lights will once again illuminate the New York skyline. Many will take a moment of remembrance, and think back…..

2001

The morning of September 11th, 2001 was not unlike most weekdays in America – people going to work, others enjoying their morning coffee, some admiring sky scrapers dotting the NY skyline, while tourists photographed historic buildings in the nation’s capital or along the lower part of Manhattan or on the river boat docks near the Pentagon.

“There will be bloodshed but Israel is strong.”

“Israel has been, and should be, operating under the assumption that Iran is going for and will probably acquire nuclear weaponry; there’s no doubt in my mind that this is what is happening,” former Israeli defense minister Moshe Arens told The Algemeiner on Wednesday, following the Obama administration’s securing of the support it needed to prevent a veto override in Congress over the nuclear deal.

“Whether the Iranians actually use this weaponry — or when — is a different question,” said Arens, who served several years as a Knesset member, three terms as defense minister, once as foreign minister and a stint as Israel’s ambassador to the United States. “The probability is small, but not zero.”

What is certain, he said, is that the Islamic Republic’s proxies in the region, such as Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist groups, have been empowered.

As we approach Rosh Hashana, the people of Israel need to recognize how lucky we are. True, today, we find ourselves largely alone, set apart from our traditional partners in the Western world. But standing alone isn’t always the worst option. Today it is certainly not the worst option. Over the past several years, we have witnessed the growing radicalization and fragmentation of the societies of neighboring lands. Sunnis fight Shi’ites and one another. Minority populations are slaughtered, enslaved and oppressed. Regimes fall, rise and fall again. Today, every Arab society is either in danger or at war. And in almost every case, it isn’t good fighting evil but varying degrees of evil and barbarism fighting one another. From the PLO to Islamic State, through Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Assad regime in Syria, the ayatollahs of Iran, Hezbollah, the Erdogan regime in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and every single actor in the region resorts to some degree of torture and oppression.

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s national lead over her rivals for the Democratic nomination has shrunk, and she is in a statistical tie with leading Republicans in head-to-head surveys, a new CNN/ORC poll released Thursday evening showed.

Mrs. Clinton is getting support from 37 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters, with Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is running in the Democratic contest, getting 27 percent, the survey found. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is considering a run of his own and who has been included in several recent public surveys, received 20 percent support.

Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, is at 3 percent, while Jim Webb, the former Virginia senator, received 2 percent, and Lincoln Chafee, the former governor of Rhode Island, is at less than 1 percent.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/09/ny-times-launches-its-jew-tracker.php

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/09/us/politics/lawmakers-against-iran-nuclear-deal.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

The New York Times today offers up a table examining the Democratic (but not Republican) Senators and House members opposed to Obama’s Iran agreement, noting whether they are Jewish and the proportion of Jewish constituents in their state or district. Like this:

Senators Schumer and Cardin are underline in yellow.