She's black, she's South Africans, and she's beautiful.
Lalela Mswane is Miss South Africa, and has arrived in Israel to compete for the Miss Universe title. On appearance and charisma alone, I'd say she has a really good chance.
But more than that, she has courage: she stood up to the anti-Israel "boycott, divestment, and sanctions" (BDS) movement and continued to Israel despite incredible nationwide pressure to back out of the contest. She even persevered when her own government withdrew its (largely symbolic) support for her candidacy.
For that, she has been vilified -- in racial terms, too -- by the perpetually stupid Israel-haters. She has been told that she is "owned" by Miss South Africa, as part of some publicist's scam -- as if a black woman cannot be free to make her own decisions and pursue her own dreams. It's really disgusting how she has been treated -- and quite inspiring how she has come through it all, regardless.
Read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/11/29/miss-south-africa-lalela-mswane-defies-haters-lands-in-israel-for-miss-universe/
The story of Noah is familiar; the details, less so.
Noah is often seen as an ambivalent figure. He was righteous -- but only for his generation. What was his deficiency?
One answer suggests itself: knowing that the world was about to be flooded, he built an Ark for the animals and for his own family -- but did not try to save anyone else or to convince them to repent and change their ways (the prophet Jonah, later, would share that reluctance).
Abraham, later, would set himself apart by arguing with God -- with the Lord Himself! -- against the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that they should be saved if there were enough righteous people to be found (there were not).
Still, Noah was good enough -- and sometimes, that really is sufficient to save the world. We don't need heroes every time -- just ordinary decency.
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An interesting weekend -- one of the last of Daylight Savings Time -- in which there is much to celebrate, much to contemplate, and a bit to worry about.
The Gaza peace deal is shaky, but holding, after the living hostages returned; the shutdown is still going on, with no end in sight; the China trade war is heating up; and the confrontation with Venezuela continues to escalate.
The "No Kings" protest was a dud, despite the media's attempt to inflate it. What I find fascinating is that the Democrats have basically stolen the rhetoric and the imagery of the Tea Party protests, circa 2009. They claim they are defending the Constitution -- just like the Tea Party did.
On the one hand, this is good. How wonderful to have a political system in which both sides, bitterly opposed though they are, articulate differences through the Constitution -- and not, as in so many other countries, outside it.
On the other, this is sheer hypocrisy for the Democrats. Not only did they malign the Tea Party as ...
