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Ethan Bronners Fair and Balanced Coverage
February 24, 2010Pro-Palestinian extremists have sought the head of Ethan Bronner, the New York Times’ man in Jerusalem, since it was learned that Bronner’s son has joined the IDF. Now comes a thoughtful analysis from James Rainey in The Los Angeles Times, who discovers — wait for it — that it is possible to cover the Middle [...]
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Whats Wrong With the Israeli Internet Today? An Update
February 23, 2010Two years ago, while watching the film Rendition I was quite taken with Moroccan actress Zineb Oukach which I mistook for Israeli actress Hadar Ratzon. This led to my making a point about the Israeli Internet being stuck in the 1990′s, a point I seem to keep on making. Later on I used the Israeli [...]
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Israeli Extremists Shout Hitler Was Right
February 7, 2010Anyone who knows much about Israeli politics knows the kind of white-hot far-right anger displayed in this astonishing video. But it’s good to have one’s sense of outrage refreshed every so often to see such Israeli fascism in full eruption. A word of context: make no mistake, this is not the view of the majority [...]
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The Nominee From Israel
February 2, 2010lthough figure skaters may be left at home in Israel when The Winter Olympics’ torch is kindled in February, some Israeli filmmakers will get to travel to LA for the Academy Awards telecast in March AJAMI, an Israeli film, has been conferred a nomination by the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this morning, [...]
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Hagee Funds Israeli Nationalist Group Attacking NIF and Hazan
February 1, 2010Didi Remez brings word today that the Israeli far-right nationalist group Im Tirtzu, which began a scurrilous campaign against Israeli NGO support for the Goldstone Report, receives major funding ($100,000) from Chrisitian Zionist John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. Didi translates an article by Danit Gottfried (Hebrew) from Walla, the popular Israeli internet news portal, [...]
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Dershowitz Calls Goldstone Evil, Traitor to Jews; Shin Bet Urges NIF Investigation
February 1, 2010I’ve never felt this more than tonight. There is deep evil afoot among elements of the IDF, Shin Bet, and in the halls of hasbara represented by Alan Dershowitz and the like. Much of it revolves around the hysterical reaction by the Israeli military and political elite to the Goldstone Report. We knew all this [...]
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Eretz Nehederet on Haiti: Israel, Good Job!
January 28, 2010Eretz Nehederet is an Israeli sketch comedy show that I never, ever watch. I think it airs on Friday night when I am usually in the company of my Sabbath posse. Also, I don’t own a television. In any case, they poke fun at pretty much all elements of Israeli society in a way that [...]
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How the Settlement Freeze Managed to Undermine Palestinian Interests
January 28, 2010When Binyamin Netanyahu declared the 10-month freeze on building settlements in the West Bank, he was following Barack Obama’s direction aiming at benefiting the Palestinian cause. However, at the Jalazon Refugee Camp, no one is thanking the Israeli Prime Minister or the American President. They just want their work back. Before the freeze, roughly half [...]
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Whatever will they do?
January 23, 2010In case this doesn’t make your local paper, something happened today that forced the mainstream media to file a positive story about Israel. I saw it on the wire in my office, so I know it’s true, and I copied and pasted it here, so you can see it, too, just in case it evaporates [...]
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Levels of Jewish in Israel Explained to “Strange Workers”
January 15, 2010Yair Nitzani explains to foreign workers in Israel (Strange Workers) about the different levels of Jewish in Israeli society. Related posts WHY NOW??? (1) Tefillin Anime (1)
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The worst company in the world
May 26, 2009I won’t have time to write a substantial post for another day or two – and no, for those of you who are wondering, I haven’t forgotten about the photos of Houses from Within – so meanwhile I’m bringing you the trailer for a hilarious Israeli documentary film called The Worst Company in the World. [...]