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9/22/2008

Anti-Iran Rall turns partisan

Filed under: Campaign 2008, Israel, Jewish Stuff/Judaism, Middle East — Jaws @ 9:56 pm

Can’t say I didn’t see this coming: Anti-Iran rally turns into anti-Obama rally.

First off, I wasn’t in attendance, not for political reasons, but rather because I had work. [Try getting from the Columbus Circle area over to the UN, on a weekday, mid-day].

Second, ever since the organizers were (politically) pressured/threatened by certain groups on the left to have Palin withdraw, there’s been an uproar.

Fact is, the most vocal, anti-Iran segments of the community are probably leaning towards McCain/Plain to begin with. Second, Palin’s still got that “rock star” vibe going on–and an Alaskan in NYC could definitely draw quite the crowd. However, since the disinvite, there were calls of disapproval from some segments plus other calls for boycott by others. Doesn’t help things.

It’s a shame the rally didn’t get more than the estimated ~2000 attendees.

8/9/2008

Water chicken

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Sports — Jaws @ 10:29 pm

Iran swimmer avoids Israeli pool showdown in Beijing

How does one say “chicken” in Farsi? Is it کلمات مرتبط ‘Cause that’s what the swimmer was.

As for the article itself, what was with this little comment by the author:

Israel, the Middle East region’s sole if undeclared nuclear power, considers Iran its main strategic threat because of its nuclear programme and repeated predictions of the Jewish state’s demise by senior Iranian leaders.

What if anything does that have to do with the Olympics and or swimming?

7/30/2008

Olmert to resign

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 9:05 pm

Good riddance!

What took the man so long?

7/20/2008

Zionist Rodents!

Filed under: Amusing, Israel, Wierd Side — Jaws @ 11:52 am

If only the late, family pet, Zionist Infidel Guinea Pig (a.k.a “Cappuccino”) was still around–he’d find this story to be amusing

Jerusalem Post: Palestinians: Israel uses rats against J’lem Arabs

This story is a better attempt than when they claimed that Jews were releasing pigs in the Old City. Granted, with Israel’s feral cat population, this story seems to be quite a tall tale, yet again.

6/28/2008

Bizaro Universe

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Wierd Side — Jaws @ 4:50 pm

A (Jewish) Israeli Transexual has the top musical hit in Lebanon

Uh…..

6/12/2008

Punked on Al-Jazeera

Filed under: Israel, Jewish Stuff/Judaism, Middle East — Jaws @ 9:01 pm

Great article about how an Al-Jazeera journalist gets -p0wned by an Israeli professor.

Of course, there’s a YouTube clip as well

If only all of Israel’s Hasbarah was this good.

6/1/2008

Israel Day Parade

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 12:29 pm

Today is the annual Salute to Israel parade up Fifth Avenue.

Unfortunately, due to a prior commitment (a wedding) I’m going to miss this year’s, but the Sister is going.

Even better–today is also Jersualem Day!

5/15/2008

Happy Naqba Day!

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 8:31 pm

To further mark Israel’s creation, today was apparently the marking of the naqba

As part of the celebration, Bin Laden is also supposed to be releasing another tape (yawn)

5/9/2008

Stick a fork in him

Filed under: Campaign 2008, Israel, Politics — Jaws @ 9:14 pm

The IHT wonders if Olmert’s Political Career is done In my opinion, it’s been a long, long ending. Sort of like Hillary’s primary campaign.

Alas, Olmert should’ve been shown the door long ago.

5/7/2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISRAEL!

Filed under: Israel — Jaws @ 6:48 pm
“If you will it, it is not a dream To live as free people in our land In the land of Zion and Jerusalem”–Theodore Herzl Altneuland

It is a dream come true, as the Modern State of Israel turns 60 today!

On this day 60 years ago, in Tel Aviv, David Ben Gurion read the Proclamation of Independence [English; audio also available].

The modern Jewish State was born–and there was much rejoicing!

On this day, we celebrate the State of Israel and all of its accomplishments over the past 60 years!

Happy Birthday Israel!

5/2/2008

A positive trend

Filed under: Israel, Middle East — Jaws @ 8:30 pm

Israeli tactics silence the West Bank, but collide with peace process

The military’s faith in its efforts comes across in charts showing a steep decline in suicide bombings - from a high of 59 in 2002 to only one in 2007, and one so far this year.

While even one is too many, this trend is a sign that the IDF is doing things right.

4/24/2008

Syria’s Osirak

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 8:31 pm

The raid the Israeli Airforce conducted back in September, appears to have taken out a Syrian nuclear facility:

North Koreans Taped at Syrian Reactor

Will the name Al-Kibar now be synonomous with Osirak (the Iraqi reactor also destroyed by the IAF).

4/17/2008

Reflecting on 60

Filed under: Academia, Israel — Jaws @ 9:36 pm

As the State of Israel is about to celebrate her 60th birthday, it is important, as always, to look back on the young state’s (modern) history.

Even in its young age, the narrative of the State’s history is still a subject of debate, with the “new historians” trying to rewrite the facts of the State’s history.

In the halls of academia, the war for Israel’s history is still ongoing as pointed out by Efraim Karsh.

Karsh also debunks the new historians much more throughly in his book: Fabricating Israeli History: The ‘New Historians’

(h/t: Solomonia)

4/15/2008

Denied

Filed under: Amusing, Israel, Middle East, Moonbats and Wingnuts — Jaws @ 8:33 pm

Carter gets denied entry into Gaza…

Guess that means that he won’t be building any houses there…

4/14/2008

Arnav HaMavet

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Moonbats and Wingnuts — Jaws @ 9:21 pm

Apparently Israel is free from any deadly Killer Rabbits (Arnavei HaMavet?) and as such, Israel did the right thing in declining to give Jimmy Carter any special security detail.

3/18/2008

Silly political stunts

Filed under: Israel, Middle East, Moonbats and Wingnuts, Wierd Side — Jaws @ 8:41 pm

Here’s one crazy idea of how the Palestinians may celebrate the day they term the naqba

PA urges Palestinians to ‘return’ The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air…. … The plan specifically refers to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, whose governments are asked to provide logistic support to allow the refugees to carry out their mission.

One can only imagine what the Jordanian government things of the idea of more Palestinians in their country–especailly on the border. The same goes for the Lebanese, who still remember the 1980s…

2/23/2008

Dagan’s Dragger

Filed under: Israel, Middle East — Jaws @ 1:16 pm

Meir Dagan, chief of the Mossad, looks to have brought some of the swagger back to Israel’s Intelegence Agency, which had been absent in recent years (second article)

2/15/2008

Israel to be blamed in 3, 2…

Filed under: Israel, Middle East — Jaws @ 8:15 pm

Magnitude 5 Earthquake Strikes Lebanon

1/10/2008

Bring back first term Bush

Filed under: Israel, Politics, Terrorism/War on Terror — Jaws @ 8:46 pm

Okay, in his second term, it looks like Bush has lost the swagger from his first term. In addition to his grasp on reality:

Bush said, but he predicted one could be reached within a year, putting himself more firmly on the line than ever for an achievement considered unlikely by many experts.

The experts are actually right on this one…

1/3/2008

Chicken Soup Conundrum

Filed under: Israel, Jewish Stuff/Judaism — Jaws @ 10:23 pm

So if the chickens have “bird flu”, how is the Jewish cure-all of chicken soup going to be made?

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