If I have accomplished nothing with my hundreds of Townhall articles, at least I taught some people a few words in Hebrew.

“Toda” in Hebrew means thank you. Jews are named after Judah, the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob and matriarch Leah. In naming him, Leah specifically says that she gives thanks to God for having four boys. Thus, the very name of the people “Jews” is based on the Hebrew word for thanks. The Jews are “Yehudim,” taken from the name “Yehuda,” one of the 12 sons/tribes of Israel. We have a grandson who is a bit over a year old. Whenever we give him something, he says, “Da.” Since he isn’t Russian and hasn’t watched any James Bond movies, I assume that he is giving his version of “Toda,” which completely amazes me. We have 90-year-old ingrates, yet a child can say thank you when given something by another.

I wish to use this article to express my sincere thanks to President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. For the second year running, they have denied Abu Mazen and his gang of thugs entry into the U.S. for the annual U.N. world leader confab. Last year, they instituted the policy, and I figured all things Washington, it would run its course and the brutes would be let in this year. But no. The U.S. politely told the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership to get some popcorn and watch the event from Ramallah. The U.N. immediately acted to allow for terrorist participation via Zoom. I wished that Israel had hacked the feed and put on some Israeli cooking show instead.

The Palestinian Authority has been around for 33 years. It was supposed to be a temporary outfit birthing the state of Palestine. But the PA proves the simple rule that if you don’t do things yourself, they’ll never get done right. The reason why Shimon Peres ran to Oslo to make a lousy deal with Yasser Arafat was that Israelis were tired of taking out Palestinian trash. And........

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