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In Alan Dershowitz’s book, Defending Israel, he discusses the Rabin assassination and the time period around which it occurred. Members of Yigal Amir’s family personally went to Dershowitz residence a week after the assassination and asked him to represent Amir in his trial for killing Rabin. Dershowitz listened to the members of Amir’s family but decided against taking the case based on the defense the family wanted to pursue. Dershowitz was an acquaintance of Rabin and a mutual friend. Good book for anyone interested.

You’’re correct. It was 1995. Thank you for calling that out. November 4th, 1995.

Rabin was assassinated 40 years ago today.

MLB.com has a story on ERod and the negotiations. The article says Saturday is the deadline.

Without question, yes.

Have there been any buyers of long bonds here recently? Corporates are above 6-7%. I debated putting some $ into a VG index fund of long dated funds.

Tiger killer Nelson Cruz announced his retirement.

Payroll conversation aside, I firmly believe the Rangers won this series because Bruce Bochy was in the dugout this year. Bochy wins the WS the same year the Giants fire his replacement. I’m sure this will be the conversation in the Bay Area this morning.

An incident almost identical to the video above occurred at UNC. I can’t find the video now but the mob, consisting of students and who knows who else, surrounded a Jewish professor and refused to let him enter a building on campus. I cannot believe these actions are tolerated.They’re not just tolerated, they’re accepted by the faculty through their silence.

If Texas pulls this off and wins the series, the last three winning managers would be…”old school” guys. Bochy, Baker and Snitker.

Amid rising pressure on Egypt to admit Palestinian refugees, the country's prime minister, Mostafa Madbouly, said it remained committed to protecting its land and sovereignty regardless of the cost. "We are prepared to sacrifice millions of lives to ensure that no one encroaches upon our territory,” Madbouly told a gathering in Sinai of military leaders, local tribal leaders, members of parliament and other politicians. The prime minister said Egypt would never allow any imposed situation or the settlement of regional issues at its expense. -WSJ

Yes if you’re referring to Gorosh.

I believe chas said that he was unaware of “liberals” necessarily being anti Jewish. Using the definition I have accepted to describe liberals, I agree. I often hear negative comments about what this liberal said or what that liberal did. The word liberal for a lot of people is a substitute for the word Democrat. For years that was, imho, acceptable and, weighed against conservative principles, often true. However, the extreme left/radical left/progressive left are still, incorrectly so, labeled liberals. I believe that’s where the confusion arises in some of the conversations. My two cents worth….

The US response in support of Israel in its war against Hamas caught the Gaza-based Palestinian terrorist group off guard, a Hamas official told The Financial Times. Speaking from his office in Beirut, senior Hamas political leadership member Ali Barakeh told the UK news outlet that they "didn't expect this much of a response" from the US. "An Israeli response? Yes, we expected that. But what we're seeing now is the entrance of the US into the battle, and this we didn't count on," he said, according to the Times. These statements come after Washington diverted many of its forces to the area amid Israel's launching of Operation Swords of Iron, the latest war with Hamas. -Jerusalem Post

BREAKING! Canary Mission can confirm that @RepRashida has extensive fundraising ties to Hamas insiders, incl working w/Hamas activist Salah Sarsour who co-hosted a 2018 election campaign event. Tlaib’s Canary Mission profile: https://canarymission.org/ individual/Rashida_Tlaib…

Very. Had he not quit on himself and his team, he could possibly be facing Bochy in the World Series. I imagine everyone saw that he texted Bochy before game seven of the Houston series informing Bochy he was ready to pitch if he needed him. Of course, that was a play on the 2014 World Series.

TEL AVIV—In the weeks leading up to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, hundreds of the Palestinian Islamist militant group’s fighters received specialized combat training in Iran, according to people familiar with intelligence related to the assault. Roughly 500 militants from Hamas and an allied group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, participated in the exercises in September, which were led by officers of the Quds Force, the foreign-operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the people said. WSJ

He and Preller didn’t get along, at all. They weren’t on the same page about anything and it just came to a head. Good for Melvin. He’s a Bay Area native.

Bob Melvin is officially named new Giants manager.

Dan said on the Petzold podcast that he believes the Tigers will look for a veteran bat, or two. He also expects the team to compete for the division title. I’ve gotten to the point where I’ll have to see it to believe it.

This entire playoff season has been a “not what I expected.” I’m happy Arizona got in. The organization earned this one.

Yes.

Petzold and Gorosh have Dan Dickerson on this weeks podcast, Days of Roar. That’s on my to-do list.

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Thank you for posting this. Very informative.