Weather It Is (Nice Weather But Not Much Else)

Good Morning:

After a bout of hot weather, it now looks like the temperatures will remain relatively cool for the next two weeks.

True, we do see a continued build up of heat at 500 mb (as the Indian Monsoon strengthens), but troughiness over central Europe is suppressing the high heat of summer eastward.  The hot air is there (over the desert region of Saudia Arabia), but it won't affect our weather.

The high heat of summer is making for short tempers.  Yet, I find it strange that the Arabs of east Jerusalem take a break for dinner and then go back to rioting. When a Jewish person is murdered, we have a funeral and mourn.  When an Arab person is murdered, they riot. In fact, they seem to prefer rioting over productive work or creativity.

Haneen Zoabi said: ""They're people who don't see any way to change their reality and they are forced to use these means until Israel will wake up a little, until Israeli citizens and society will wake up and feel the suffering of the other (JPOST)."  In other words, they are not terrorists.  The problem with this line of thinking is that kidnapping often has unintended consequences.  Besides, the tape of the phone call conversation actually shows that the kidnappers are murderers and that they enjoyed it.

On the other hand, we too have failed to reign in our own "terrorists."  Pricetag acts are not just vandalism.  True, they are relatively mild acts of terror.  The problem is that (like kidnapping), evil begets evil, and eventually one also slides down the slope to actual murder (which is what appears to have happened).  We don't want to be like them!

Barry Lynn