tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51227522012-01-10T13:47:41.410+02:00The hard-hitting views of an Australian living in IsraelAussie Davenoreply@blogger.comBlogger4041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122752.post-1118921749262169622005-06-16T14:34:00.000+03:002005-06-16T14:36:28.816+03:00

If you have just stumbled on to this site, my new URL is:http://www.israellycool.com/

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BYE BYE BLOGGER Ok, that does it for me on here. I have moved to Moveable Type (finally). The new URL is: http://www.gravett.org/Israellycool/ Please bookmark my new site and let everyone know that I have moved.

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CONSUMED BY HATRED More insight into the minds of our enemies. A troll by the name of Osama has posted this response to my post on terrorist Kuntar:Of course not, who the f*ck are Einat, Yael and Danny Haran? And why should she care? They were only colateral damage. Unless they were nazi pigs like most of you. Eat sh*t. Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword.Can you imagine being so

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GO AUSSIE, GO! Now for some good news - at least to those Australians out there. Australia are through to the Rugby World Cup final. We defeated the fancied All-Blacks, adding even more misery to the people of New Zealand. They will always have Lord of the Rings at least. For my American readers, Rugby is kind of like American football, but without the padding. Want to know more? Read here.

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WE ARE ALL UNDER ATTACK On Sundays, I am always a little behind on the weekend news due to my observance of the Jewish Sabbath, which lasts from Friday night until Saturday night. For the Jews of Turkey, their Sabbath observance had more dire ramifications. I have so much anger, despair, sadness, frustration as a result of attacks like this, that it actually inhibits my ability to write about

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INSPECTOR GADGET? Here is a picture of Presidential Envoy to Iraq, Paul Bremer, taken from the Al-Crapeeza website. Is it just me, or does the position of the black microphone in the foreground make him look like Inspector Gadget?

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TOMMY HITS BACK AT GREEK COMPOSER Israeli Justice Minister Yosef "Tommy" Lapid has compared anti-Semitic Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (otherwise known as "Theo-dork") to Hitler. In response, Theo-dork compared Lapid to Archie Bunker. Ok, not really, but you have to admit it is quite a likeness.

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THOSE ZIONISTS SURE GET AROUND According to the Media Line, the Egyptian-based Middle East News Agency have reported that an office belonging to the Mossad was bombed in the Iraqi town Kirkouk on Monday night.The number of dead and wounded in Monday night's bombing is still not final, according to the Egyptian-based Middle East News Agency, but they included "Mossad people" and a number of local

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MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE PLO ARABS REVISTED (OR HOW TO RECOGNIZE A HOAX) Reader Harry explains why the Michael Jordan story I blogged about yesterday was never mentioned by the main media - it was a hoax!This story sounds like hogwash. This quote from the ADL is absurd: Myrna Shinbaum, public relations director for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, said that Jordan was "obviously anti-Semitic"

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THERE'S NOTHING ON THE TUBE The PLO Arab deputy minister for foreign affairs is apparently bored with television in the PLO Arab areas. They just aren't showing enough anti-Semitic propoganda these days.The Palestinian deputy minister for foreign affairs, 'Adli 'Sadiq, wrote an item for the Palestinian daily Al-Hayyat Al-Jadida on Monday criticizing the fact that all the Arab television shows

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HOW MUCH AL-CRAPEEZA DO WE HAVE TO SWALLOW? Al-Crapeeza continue their lying and incitement. In their report on the decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to lift the ban on the film Jenin Jenin, the Jihadist media outlet state as fact the occurrence of a massacre, despite the fact that Israel has long been exonerated of this false charge.For 54 minutes, viewers are gripped by the harrowing

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"ISRAELLYCOOL" FAMILY MEMBER HELPS NAIL TWO TERRORISTS This news alert from Debka: In southern Gaza Strip, Palestinians shot and injured member of crew working on Morag security fence. He was evacuated to hospital under fire. IDF patrol opened fire on grouped of armed Palestinians stealing into Israeli Nahal Besor village cluster opposite Gaza Strip. Two intruders hit.My wife informs me that my

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IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME Greek composer and cultural icon Mikis Theodorakis has jumped on the anti-Semitism bandwagon, unleashing the following vicious tirade against the Jews:"We, the Greeks, did not turn aggressive like them because we have more history. They only have Abraham and Jacob, who were shadows, while we have Pericles. Imagine what would happen in Greece if we were as aggressive as the

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MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE PLO ARABS I just read about this today, although it happened a year ago. I am shocked to say the least. Basketball superstar Michael Jordan, who recently announced that he will return for a second season with the Washington Wizards, has decided to display solidarity with a variety of causes by wearing a black armband during games. After discussing his new season with the

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THE ENEMY WITHIN Following the devastating Cafe Hillel suicide bombing back in early September, I blogged about my own personal experiences with terror, whether it be knowing someone who had been killed or injured, or my own brushes with terror. Then I read this article this morning:Three Jerusalem Arabs with ties to Hamas who planned to carry out a mass poisoning at a prominent Jerusalem cafe

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ANTI-SEMITISM FROM A NON-JEW'S PERSPECTIVE US Navy Retiree John Rudolph has a few things to say about the beast known as anti-Semitism from the perspective of a non-Jewish person. Being a non-Jew, or Gentile, I have been making some observations lately over the past few months, and have observed something terribly odd. I go into the news groups in Yahoo!, and all I see are Jews being blamed

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "You would have to note that it was only (lately) that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership could even find it in themselves to mention the word Palestinian. So I reject the notion that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, overwhelmingly important as it is, would stop the terrorism that has been directed against the United States, Western interests and the kingdom of

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FAINE-ING THE TRUTH Jon Faine, a Jewish journalist at The Age, gushes with praise for Al-Crapeeza after being fed the usual lies about "uncensored media", "freedom of expression" and "an exchange of ideas" by the curiously named Jihad Ballout. And how about this for a lie:"Any Jews working here?" I asked, and was told that if I wanted to apply, and spoke Arabic, and was interested in quality

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PRIZE AND PREJUDICE Padraic McGuinness has written an interesting op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald in which he blasts the Sydney Peace Prize, but claims that Jewish leaders should have just ignored the whole thing.Peace prizes are getting sillier every day. It used to be there was a fairly simple path to obtaining a Nobel Peace Prize, which involved murdering as many people as possible and

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DEMOCRACY AT WORK Israel is by no means a "perfect" democracy in the sense of equal rights for all citizens. There are a number of reasons for this situation, some stemming from the reality of the situation on the ground (e.g. it is unsafe to make military service mandatory for Israeli Arabs due to their divided loyalties) and some stemming from the fact that Israel is a Jewish state (e.g.

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MORE PLO ARAB INCITEMENT AGAINST JEWS Palestinian Media Watch draws our attention to this cartoon in official Palestinian daily, Al Hayat Al Jadida, which illustrates Jews as "strangling the world." The text on the scroll reads "The European Poll." I challenge the haters of Israel (who always accuse her of being racist) to find anything from an official Israeli publication which incites

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? The answer can be found here.

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KILLING THE INFIDELS I don't know about you, but it struck me as odd that al Qaeda would deliberately target Muslims in its terror campaign. But according to Debka, Muslims were indeed not targeted:Al Qaeda's targeting of Muhaya and its Arab population at first puzzled Saudi and foreign counter-terror authorities - until it was realized that many of the casualties were Lebanese Christians and

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REACTIONS TO SAUDI BOMBING It is interesting to see how Muslim nations and organizations have reacted to the suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia. Here are some examples: Arab League: Condemned "these criminal terrorist acts which aim only at shaking the stability, planning evil, scaring and killing innocent people with disregard to any religion or belief and without any respect to the holy month of

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "This US administration is unreliable and unrealistic and does not deal with the Arabs and their aspirations with the minimum level of respect..this requires a unified Arab position to mobilize all energies and capabilities to face the American aggression..The American Administration is a right-wing fascist administration, the Zionist right controls it and it's maneuvered by a

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ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE AGAINST IRAN'S NATIONAL INTERESTS Israeli blog An Unsealed Room has drawn my attention to this story from the aptly named IranMania news."Existence of Israel contrary to Iranian interests" The mere existence of Israel is contrary to Tehrans national interests, press reports said Monday, quoting former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, now a top advisor to Iran's

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MICHAEL J. FOX CHOOSES ISRAELI DOCTOR Israel21C reports that an Israeli neurologist has been chosen by Michael J. Fox to join ten leading Parkinson's scientists from around the world to be on the advisory board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. I am just waiting for groups like the International Solidarity Movement to urge Michael J. Fox to reconsider hiring a doctor of

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PORTRAIT OF A MONSTER Someone else who is very aptly named is Samir Kuntar. In order to keep this a PG-rated site, I will not elaborate on this except to allow Smadar Haran's words do the talking:Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there are

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TZOROS George Soros, the billionaire currency speculator, marked a rare appearance in front of a Jewish audience by blasting Israel, accusing its policies for anti-Semitism.When asked about anti-Semitism in Europe, Soros, who is Jewish, said European anti-Semitism is the result of the policies of Israel and the United States. "There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of

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AFATRAT LIVES IT UP As I have blogged about in the past, PLO Arab poverty can be attributed not only to their own terrorism but also to AFatRat's corruption. Now an investigative report by 60 Minutes confirms that AFatRat has diverted funds earmarked as aid for the PLO Arabs for his own use. I won't say "told you so"..but I guess I just did.

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THOSE DAMN ZIONISTS Those Pesky Jews are at it again. Not content with trying to taking over the real world, they have now set their sights on taking over the matrix world.The most apparent Zionist hint in the movie, according to the article, is the city of Zion - the city which Morpheus, a 'goodie,' strives to reach. "This is the last city for humanity…the one place left for us on Earth," says

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ARE TERRORISTS POISONING OUR BABIES? During synagogue services this morning, an alarming announcement was made - Remedia's soy-based baby formula was tampered with by terrorists, and six babies had already been affected, with some of them dying. I immediately ran home and was relieved to find that we do not use this brand nor soy-based formula for our eldest child. This followed a police car

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ASHRAWI LASHES OUT PLO Arab Hanan Ashrawi has reacted to criticism against her selection as the recipient of this year's Sydney Peace Prize by implying that she has faced more hatred in Australia than in Israel."I was amazed at the degree of, not just negative response, but a certain degree of hatred, which I don't find even with my discussion with Israelis," she said. "I felt that the

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HARD LUCK STORY OF THE DAY Talk about rotten luck...Gordon Young and his wife Bev were planning to spend their recent $800,000 Tattslotto jackpot win on a dream tour around Australia when they were struck and killed by a car during an afternoon walk on Tuesday. The death of the recently retired couple from near Leongatha, both in their early 60s, stunned Mr Young's older brother Eric.

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LUKE ON THE OFFENSIVE Mark Hamill, the actor who played "Luke Skywalker" in Star Wars, takes a subtle jab at Jewish Hollywood personalities."I don't mind the Hollywood caste system. I know the tenuous position I'm in on the entertainment food chain. I don't get invited to A-list affairs. Me? I'm listless," he says. "If anything, it hardens my resolve to say, 'Ah, you're wrong. I'm going to show

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LIKE FATHER LIKE SON Muammar Gaddafi's son also has problems with the truth.

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CONFUSING HEADLINE OF THE DAY Environment Ministry: Dead Sea is dying Hmm...... Of course, I blogged about this a while back, when Al-Crapeeza found it fit to blame Israel for the Dead Sea's predicament.

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SNOOPING There is nothing you can get past these two: Gil and Imshin have somehow stumbled upon my experimental Moveable Type site. Is my secret safe with you both?!

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MC HAMMER SPEAKS OF HIS LOVE FOR ISRAEL Check it out on the Tovia Singer Show (interview starts about 8 minutes into the show).

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MORE OF THE SAME Why do we even bother? The newly-approved Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Rafik al-Natsheh supports continued violence and said he was "encouraged" by the recent EU poll fingering Israel as the primary threat to the world. He also advocates PLO Arab non-compromise on the issues of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.

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EXCEEDING ALL RED LINES Arutz Sheva reports that Irineos (or as I like to call him, "Urineos"), the unrecognized leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and a candidate for the post of Greek Orthodox Patriarch, was caught lying to IDF soldiers and trying to smuggle in a gun to Yasser Arafat. Urineos has in the past claimed to remain impartial in the conflict."I am not pro-Palestinian,

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DAVID BAR-ILAN DEAD Former Jerusalem Post executive editor and pioneer in exposing and combating media bias toward Israel, David Bar-Illan, has died at the age of 73. Sincere condolences to his family. He will be sorely missed.

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LET'S JUST ALL KISSINGER AND MAKE UP Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger is optimistic about the chance of peace between Israel and the PLO Arabs."There are ways to get out of the deadlock, and I am actually quite optimistic," Kissinger said in an interview with Israel Radio. "Some positions will have to be changed, especially on the Arab side, about the survival of Israel, but I

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EXCITING NEWS Israellycool is about to move to Moveable Type. I am currently testing for bugs and trying to make the transition as painless as possible.

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SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE CONTROVERSY In case you had not heard, the Sydney Peace Foundation's decision to award Hanan Ashrawi this year's Sydney Peace Prize has generated a huge amount of controversy in Australia. Members of Australia's Jewish community have come out against the choice of Ashrawi, as have prominent politicians and members of the general community, including Prime Minister John Howard,

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MOIR OF THE SAME The Sydney Morning Herald's Alan Moir continues with his anti-Israel cartoons, this time depicting Ariel Sharon as a bull fighter, waving the red flag of "new settlements in occupied territories." This cartoon marks another in a long list of anti-Israel cartoons by Moir, including one I mentioned a few months ago, which compared the security fence to the warsaw ghetto wall (

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HAMASS CIRCULATION As Australia moves to ban Hamas, Totally Jewish reports that a Hamas magazine is being openly distributed in England.A hate-filled Hamas magazine glorifying suicide bombing is being openly peddled on the Edgware Road and being distributed worldwide from London, TJ can reveal. The publication, Filisteen Almuslima - Muslim Palestine - which can be obtained from an NW2 PO box,

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TRUE INTENTIONS This next news story says alot about the cause of the PLO Arabs.Palestinians on Sunday marked the 86th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration by demanding an apology from Britain for promising "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip marched in the streets and held rallies to condemn the role

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MESSAGE TO EUROPE In the wake of the news that almost 60% of Europeans see Israel as posing the biggest threat to world peace, I have a message for Europe. Just look up in the sky....

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WHY ISRAELI CHILREN LIVE IN POVERTY - THE ARAB SPIN Arab World News has run an editorial from the Lebanese paper The Daily Star which asks the question Child poverty in the Jewish state: How did it happen?, including a picture of a somber looking child. Israel's National Insurance Institute has just completed its annual study on poverty, and the results are startling. The report finds that

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QUOTE OF THE DAY Well, this quote is actually over a week old. "I came to offer solidarity with Syria in wake of the recent Israeli attack." - Israeli Arab MK Azmi Bashara, after meeting with Syrian President and terrorist sponsor Bashar Assad in Qatar on October 24. In most other countries, this is called treason.

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CONDEMNED! Yesterday, the PA condemned the US for offering a reward of up to $5 million for people providing information about the attack on American convoy in the Gaza Strip on October 15. And why did they condemn it?Col. Rashid Abu Shabak, commander of the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service in the Gaza Strip, lashed out at the US for making the offer, saying the PA was

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POLICY CHANGE After months of blogging, I have decided to change my policy of referring to the Arabs who claim to be "Palestinians" as "palestinians". Where possible, I shall now refer to them as "PLO Arabs." I strongly encourage all other right-wing bloggers to follow suit, since even the word "palestinian", with no capital letter, somehow aknowledges their claim that they were a distinct

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SYRIAN THREATS Syria is backing away from threats made against Israel by foreign minister Faruq al-Shara.The Sunday Telegraph quoted Al-Shara as saying Syria has "many cards that we have not played. Don't forget there are many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating, but I am describing things as they might happen." Now Information Minister al-Hassan has clarified that the Syrian

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DEMOLITIONS BY REMOTE USA Today reports how Israel stands to use remote controlled bulldozers to demolish the houses of terrorists. The giant Caterpillar bulldozer, used by the Israeli military to destroy Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, now comes with a controversial new feature: remote control. Israel says its remote-control technology will lower risks to soldiers.And proof

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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING NUMBER The IDF and the Israeli media (e.g. Jerusalem Post, Debka) today reported that 10,000 palestinian laborers were allowed into Israel. The Associated Press initially used this figure of 10,000, but then almost immediately retracted it and used a figure of 6,000. And how is the discrepancy explained?..about 10,000 permits were handed out. But only 6,200 people

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ISM SUING ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ISM member Mostafa Henaway is suing the Israeli government for false arrest, emotional distress, negligence, and violation of arrest procedure. According to left-wing paper Scoop (an allusion to the fact that they write utter sh*t?), he was interrogated and accused of being a terrorist and working with terrorists, but was never formally arrested or charged. I am

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GREAT EDITORIAL I just stumbled upon this editorial by Gilad Skolnick entitled Israel: cruel and racist.Israel is a cruel and wicked discriminating racist dictatorship. Such a disgusting fowl country exists nowhere else, and it's a shame that the international community does not take a stronger stance against this terrible excuse for a nation. There will always be ignorant people who support

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EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM? NAAA! Surely you have already heard about this - nearly 60 percent of 7,500 Europeans surveyed ranked Israel as the country posing the biggest threat to world peace today, ahead of countries like North Korea, Iran and Iraq. While Jewish figures and groups, including Natan Sharansky and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, have attributed the results to anti-Semitism in Europe,

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STOOPING TO THE LOWEST LEVELS OF HUMANITY It has been revealed that a Hamas fugitive arrested by the Shin Bet and IDF on Thursday, who planned to perpetrate a suicide bomb attack, hid his explosives belt under the bed of his baby daughter. This comes about two weeks after a palestinian woman was arrested after Border Police found a knife and gun hidden in a baby stroller she was traveling

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WHY I ENVY 'ISRAELI GUY' With Israeli blogger Gil Shterzer (aka Israeli Guy) back blogging after a brief hiatus, now seems like a good time to come clean with something. I am somewhat envious of him. And "why?" I hear you ask. Well, I have my reasons.... Israeli Guy Averages over 200 hits a day Israellycool Averages less than 100 hits a day Israeli Guy Blogs in broken English

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IT WAS THE JEWS Besides blaming the Jews for September 11, the Muslims are also now accusing Israel of being behind the wave of suicide bombings in Iraq."I am sure that the people who did this are enemies of Iraq, not the enemies of the Americans," Dunya Khalil Ismail, a 28-year-old college lecturer, said as she left work Wednesday. "Whether it was the Israelis or the Americans themselves, they

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MORE ARAB INCITEMENT The Arab incitement machine is working overtime. The despicable cartoon below was published in the Qatari daily Al-Watan, prompted by Israel's demolition of three buildings in Gaza (which were used to help plan terror attacks). Caption: "Now we know who perpetrated the September 11th attacks." (via The Media Line)

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THEY LIKE OUR FOOD AT LEAST In the Muslim world, hating Jews is the thing to do. But don't dare dis Jew food.The world's largest kosher food showcase might seem a strange place to make overtures to the Muslim palate, but Jewish food manufacturers say Muslims make up an increasing number of their customers. Participants in Kosherfest 2003 in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday said kosher food,

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MAKING FUN OF AL-CRAPEEZA How come whenever I see a story from or about Al-Crapeeza, I can sense a blog entry coming on? In this case, yahoo news ran this news item:DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera has appointed its Baghdad bureau chief as new station manager, a spokesman said Wednesday. Waddah Khanfar...No thanks. ..was named manager on Sunday and is

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SEPARATED AT BIRTH? Here is a picture showing how much abducted Israeli business man Elhanan Tannenbaum looks like Libyan leader tyrant Muammar Ghaddafi. That's Elhanan Tannenbaum on the top left by the way. The caption reads: Hizbollah capture Ghaddafi and we are releasing hundreds of prisoners? Although I was initially reticent to post this in case it was interpreted as making light of

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WHAT A LOAD OF BULL Here is an amazing close-up picture of a charging bull in Spain. I have been informed by reliable sources that no photographer was injured in the making of this photograph (courtesy of the NY Times) Which reminds me of an old joke (courtesy of jokecompany)A tourist is in Spain, and goes to a fancy restaurant for dinner. As he looks around, he notices a diner being served a

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I'M BACK FROM CALIFORNIA All good things must come to an end. We returned from our trip to California yesterday morning, but not before spotting another celebrity. This time it was Giovanni Ribisi at LA airport. But here I am at work today. Needless to say, I am wiped (Aussie slang for very, very tired!) Even though we loved our trip, it is great to be home.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "They call me whenever Arafat’s mobile battery runs low but not when whole Israeli families are wiped out."- Ariel Sharon speaking about European lawmakers

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THE CAUSE OF ANTI-SEMITISM David Kupelian of WorldNetDaily has written an interesting article on the reasons for anti-Semitism. However, like many WorldNetDaily commentators before him, he takes a fundamentalist Christian view, as is illustrated by his conclusion.The Jews are a divine paradox, one of many: For instance, it's a divine paradox that God knows what's going to happen to each of us

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DERSHOWITZ AT UCLA Yesterday, I had the great honor of hearing Alan Dershowitz speak at UCLA, on the topic of his new book The Case for Israel. As usual, he was eloquent and made alot of sense. Some of his most interesting points were as follows: - If you scratch an anti-Israel person, you will find beneath the surface an anti-American person - If you scratch an anti-Semitic person, you find

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MORE BULL SHEEP FROM AL-JAZEERA Al-Jazeera have officially lost the plot. Here is a headline on Israel's recent operation in Ramallah: Israeli troops storm Ram Allah So not only are they accusing Israel of attacking their god, but they think he is a sheep?

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MAHITLER AT IT AGAIN Malaysian Prime Minister Mahitler Mohamad has once again lashed out against Jews, a few days after President Bush criticized him for anti-Semitic remarks made at a summit of Islamic leaders.An unrepentant Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad repeated Tuesday his belief that Jews rule the world, denied President Bush had rebuked him for it and hit out at Australian

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A FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR L.A TRIP SO FAR Our trip has mainly consisted of catching up with family and friends, as well as some shopping and site seeing. On weekends, we have been spending time at my wife's relatives beach house in Malibu, which has not only provided us with hours of fun boogie boarding (the waves have been awesome!), but has enabled us to walk by the holiday homes of Hollywood

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WORDS FROM THE LEADER OF A SO-CALLED "MODERATE" MUSLIM COUNTRY At a summit of Islamic leaders, bigoted Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir ("Mahitler") Mohamad has some vile things to say about Jews. For a start, he seemed to regret the fact that Hitler did not finish the job:"The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to

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CAUGHT! The charade is over for the man pictured on the right.A fugitive arrested in Oregon in connection with the bust of a major drug operation 13 years ago was arrested Thursday by police in Israel. Sidney Marvin Lewis was listed as one of the US Marshalls 15 Most Wanted after eluding authorities prior to a detention hearing in 1990. "He was a pretty elusive individual. It was a difficult

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HAVING FUN WITH MR POTATO HEAD Here is a fun site I stumbled upon - Have fun with Mr Potato Head! After a few minutes of playing around on this site, I came up with this:

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MORE UN HYPOCRISY And there is nothing amazing about this next story: Israel's security fence is criticized by members of the UN Security Council.At an open debate on a Syrian-sponsored draft resolution that deems the fence "illegal under relevant provisions of international law," and demands that it be "ceased and reversed," ambassador after ambassador has stated that in erecting the fence,

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AMAZING STORIES This is truly amazing: a Jewish family stumble into a hostile palestinian refugee camp and are saved from an angry mob by - wait for this - a terrorist! "We were scared for our lives," said Hannah Dickman, whose family accidentally drove into the Kalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon. Angry Palestinians surrounded the vehicle and youths threw rocks at it.

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TOO MUCH FUN I apologize for the lack of blogging activity. Although I have access to a computer, we are having too much fun for me to waste too much time on here. But I will make it up to you by telling you all about it at a later point.

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OSLO II No surprises here..a group of Leftist Israeli has-beens think they know better than the Israeli public when it comes to our security. They circumvent the elected government of Israel and reach an agreement with a group of palestinians, who themselves deny the core of the agreement. And further proof that this is disastrous for Israel? The PA endorses it!

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PERES STRIKES BACK Greetings from California! I obviously do have internet access, although very little time to blog. But I could not resist this news item:In a meeting at the Knesset with the heads of opposition factions, Peres said Israel has a "Schwarzenegger government." Why? Because they actually won the election and are in power (unlike you, Mr Peres)?"The government is imitating

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BLOGGING HIATUS..MAYBE We are heading over to California for the Succot holiday, so no blogging until I return (i.e October 26th). Unless I have access to a computer and time on my hands. In the meantime, there are some really excellent blogs related to Israel and the middle east, located on the left frame of this site. Check them out!

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WALL OF PROPAGANDA The Arabs will truly do anything to get their propaganda message across. Take this picture found on the News Arab World web site, next to the headline "Syria accuses Israel of warmongering." Of course, this picture has very little to do with Israel's hit on Syria. For a start, the wall looks suspiciously like this one, displayed on the Palestinian Information Center web

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PROPAGANDA, FRENCH STYLE Here is a story from The Media Line that is sure to make you sick to your stomach. A French filmmaker has made a documentary on the first woman suicide bomber, Wafa Idris. The film is, of course, pro-palestinian.The first of the female bombers, 25-year-old Wafa Idris from Ramallah, was an attractive and intelligent girl, who volunteered for the Red Crescent - the Arab

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PRAY FOR HADAR The widow of Tzvi Bahat, one of the victims of the Haifa terrorist atrocity, has made this impassioned plea for her three-year-old son Hadar, who remains in critical condition: "He is simply fighting for his life. Therefore, the first thing that I ask from everyone who hears me, is to send a prayer, everyone in his own way, that he should have the strength to overcome. He is a

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ANOTHER ANTI-ISRAEL ANTI-SEMITIC CARTOON Courtesy of The Age. But of course the Jews and their Israel lobby are dictating US foreign policy (!)

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FROM THE STRANGE BUT TRUE DEPARTMENT Israel's claim that the target of its Sunday bombing operation was a terror base has received some unexpected validation - from Iran!The Israeli suggestion that Ein Saheb was a terror base was backed on Monday by Iran. Tehran's state television showed pictures from the base, including a variety of terror groups undergoing training and a massive arms and

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MISLEADING MEDIA How is this for a misleading headline and introduction from The Age:Lebanese boy, Israeli soldier killed A Lebanese boy was killed early today in an explosion in a village near the border with Israel, hours after an Israeli soldier was killed in a cross-border shooting. The implication is clear: Israel killed the Lebanese boy. The truth is, however, buried in the article.In

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YOM KIPPUR On the eve of the Jewish day of Atonement, I wish my Jewish readers a g'mar chatima tova and an easy fast. For my non-Jewish readers, you can learn more about Yom Kippur here. Of course, you also have Google at your disposal! Let us all hope that the palestinians will not inflict more terror on us on this holiest of days.

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STILL ON THE TOPIC OF LYING Israel has retaliated for the suicide murder-bombing by attacking a palestinian terrorist training camp on the Syria-Lebanon border. Syria have of course repeatedly denied that any terrorists operate in Syrian territory. They had this to add after the Israeli action:According to the Syrians, the camp was populated by civilians unconnected to any terror group.This is

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LIE LIKE AN EGYPTIAN In an alternative universe, Egypt to be exact, the Egyptians won the 1973 Yom Kippur war. And here I was thinking that we were close to annihiliating them.

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LESSONS TO BE LEARNED It has become almost ritual - immediately after the Jewish Sabbath or a Jewish holiday, turn on the radio and hear news of yet another terrorist attack. The victims include three generations of one family and four members of another family. A 14-month old baby, a four-year old and a nine-year old were among the murdered. This is plastered all over the news, not to mention

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RACHEL CORRIE JEWISH? Al-Crapeeza reports that a house dedicated to the memory of Rachel Corrie is to be demolished. What really interests me, however, is this statement by the arab news outlet:Rachel Corrie was the heroic Jewish volunteer who was crushed to death in Rafah, Gaza, in March 2003 as she tried to prevent a bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home.I cannot find any sources

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BOTEACHING THEM A THING OR TWO The self-proclaimed "Moses of Oxford" and kosher sex expert, Shmuley Boteach, has come out swinging at some rather famous pop stars. In a Jerusalem post op-ed, Boteach has this to say about Madonna:Madonna has been studying Kabbala now for a good many years. The same woman who helped debase the dignity of women everywhere with her mainstreaming of sado-masochism,

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WHY I HATE POLLS Less than a month after a poll result indicated that 83% of adult Israelis are satisfied with their lives, comes this contradictory result:Israelis are in a state of open despair about their country's future, according to a deeply pessimistic opinion poll released yesterday. Two thirds of those questioned predicted the intifada would continue or worsen in the coming year.

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MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS Israel is currently in negotiations with Hizballah for the release of abducted Israeli business man Elhanan Tannenbaum and three IDF soldiers captured and presumed dead. In return, Israel may release 15 Lebanese and some 400 Palestinian and other Arab detainees in Israel. In other words, 1 alive and 3 dead Israelis for over 400 terrorists. In fact, it may be 4 dead

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THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION: REDUX Palestinian writer Ahmad Samih Khalidi proposes his solution to the middle east conflict: A one-state solution. By positing one homeland for both sides, the one-state solution not only does away with the conflict over history and mutual legitimisation, but has practical political implications as well. Both sides can maintain their "right of return" without this

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GOREFUL The Age reports that Al Gore is close to buying a cable tv channel, in his attempt to counteract the conservative influence of stations like Fox News. Not bad for someone who invented the internet. And now for a gratuitous Al Gore lookalike picture:

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SHUT UP ALREADY Al-Crapeeza have found something else to blame on Israel.The Dead Sea has been quietly shrinking for 50 years, raising concern for the future of a unique natural wonder of the world. The world's saltiest body of water has fallen from 390 metres to 417 metres below sea level. The drop has accelerated to a metre a year recently, erasing a third of its ancient 950 square km size

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