among all the changes since last being here, this one wins...

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Taking turns to screw up

Three years ago I wrote this post , decrying the election by the Palestinians of Hamas as the governing party. I was sadly accurate about Hamas's endorsement of violence and about Israel's increased willingness to use military interventions...not that it was much forecasting to be done, it was the only possible scenario.

This time around, the clusterfuck comes from the Israeli side...For appetizers, Likud - with its Nutty Benny - are elected to lead the country; for mains - Armageddon Avigdor Lieberman is to be the foreign minister. By all means, let's not have deserts on this one.

Since I began travelling more around the world, I increasingly found the cliché that "every country has the government it deserves" to be quite true, with few notably exceptions of mad dictatorships.

It’s sad to think what these elections say about today’s Israel.

The amateur

I've meant to post the video for a while now; it's an excellent short film in which my brother, Erwin, has the lead role. Given that it recently won the prize for Best Short Film at L'Alternativa (Barcelona Independent Film Festival), I figured it's the right moment to put it up.

It takes 20 minutes and it's got English subtitles (not fully accurate, but you'll understand the story).

Enjoy.


Amatorul from amdraci on Vimeo.

Say that again???

I'm just watching a Romanian news channel, where mr A. Jaber - representative of the Palestinian community in Romania is a guest speaker.

While talking about the alleged ill-intent and about the impact on civilian population of the current Israeli offensive in Gaza, he points that - I quote: "If Israel really wanted to destroy Hamas, all they should do is turn off the water and gas supply for the Gaza population and Hamas would be gone in few weeks. "

????? Am I missing something? Wouldn't that be an actual crime against all the people in Gaza? Is this better than trying to destroy the terror infrastructure built by Hamas across the territory, under people's houses, under University, under Mosques?

Is this what a Palestinian suggests be done to its people - leave them all without gas and water?
The Likud party might want to recruit this fellow.

I'd almost forgotten I had a blog

exams....love'em, hate'em...now, actually just hate'em. the necessary evil of a wonderful learning experience.

As funky as a National Anthem can get

This is awesome. Check out especially the gospel-like choir towards the end.

Hatikva
by FranckyPerez

Do you want to learn the full truth about the Jews?

tatatata...look no further than www.jewwatch.com ....

Now, tell me this: how would you react if one of your best friends is reading this website and when you point out it's a lot of hateful garbage, he asks - albeit in different words - " how can you prove that? "

How do you begin? Do you begin at all? How do you deconstruct a monstrous library of lies put under the hideous tagline of 'scholarly research'? How, when I cannot even begin to understand what drives the people that created it to such levels of insanity?

It was probably the first time in my life when I just couldn't answer a question regarding Jewish identity and history. But I began to see more clearly how easy anti-Semitism can be spread, by simply carrying the message long and loud enough, through as many channels as possible, and, of more recent trend, also with an 'honest interest for scientific accuracy' makeup('oh, he's playing the anti-Semitism card, like they always do when asked uncomfortable questions'...raise your hand if you just thought that while reading the last sentence).

I sadly left the room.