Last night as I walked down Keren Heyesod I was shouted at belligerently by the cowardly occupants of a car which sped away. They shouted in a nasty manner "Yehudi". With the surrounding circumstantial evidence to me it is beyond reasonable doubt that the offending word came from unfriendly Arabs.
I have heard worse in my time but still I was startled in Jerusalem in 2007 to hear and see this sort of behaviour. When I was growing up in Scotland it was relatively common to hear this type of comment in Edinburgh from anti-semites but was very rare (if at all) in Glasgow.
This was the sort of comment and its accompanying belligerence which was common in Europe around the time of the Second World War.
It is time for the Arabs to give up all claims to our Holy Land and to stop threatening the chosen people. They must cease their occupation of our land now!
It must be zman l'moshiach!

This government is frightened of the people

All is in Hashem's hands but we have to do our part.

On Tuesday night after Tish B'av I was outside the PM's residence and saw and heard an impromptu demonstration against the Olmert government. The police were unprepared and I smelled their fear. They rushed to close the metal gates at the top of Rechov Balfour where it meets Rechov Gaza. They were very frightened of (you and me).

It is clear that the government is frightened of the people (that is you and me).

It must be zman l'moshiach!