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G.noreply@blogger.comBlogger5871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1062791428122257092003-09-05T22:50:00.000+03:002003-09-05T22:50:28.150+03:00This blog has moved
Back from Bulgaria and got a new url: www.shterzer.com
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1062160450414933222003-08-29T15:34:00.000+03:002003-08-29T15:34:10.343+03:00Hello from Bulgaria
Just wanted to write I'm alive and having fun post. I'll be back in less than a week.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061753305447418272003-08-24T22:28:00.000+03:002003-08-24T22:36:44.956+03:00Blog’s going on a 10 days hiatus
I’m flying to Bulgaria tonight for a “root trip” (is that the way to say it?) with my family. Grandmother is taking all of us to see the country she and my late grandfather were born, raised and managed to escape WW2 horrors until they made Aliyah to British Mandate Palestine.
Maybe I’ll update during the next 10 days from Bulgaria. Take care and I’ll be back G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061572199513999852003-08-22T20:09:00.000+03:002003-08-22T20:17:41.260+03:00Weekend joke
Freely translated (hope I didn't kill it) from Ma’ariv satirical section. (It’s an old one but still funny)
Yossi Beilin: “It’s just unacceptable that in every suicide bombing there is an Arab fatality”
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061466242293693382003-08-21T14:44:00.000+03:002003-08-21T14:47:16.516+03:00Well done! Next please
Senior Hamas terrorist Ismail Abu Shanab was killed by Israel Air Force helicopters in Gaza in a pinpointed strike. Excellent target, brilliant excution – Looks like except Abu Shanab and his two bodygourds no else was hurt.
We need more strikes like this as fast as possible.
Hamas response by the way was: “The Hudna is over” – No shit! They thought they could butcher G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061407283285325972003-08-20T22:21:00.000+03:002003-08-20T22:31:59.686+03:00It's a madhouse
Looks like some sort of military response is on the way but earlier an Israeli woman decided to take the first step.
A Jewish Israeli woman was arrested by the Palestinians near Arafat`s Muqata in Ramallah and than handed over to the IDF. The woman, apparently a fruitcake, said she was going to the Muqata to have Yasser Arafat circumcised !?#
It’s likely though that Arafat as G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061373603293240082003-08-20T13:00:00.000+03:002003-08-20T13:00:03.130+03:00So what’s now?
Amos Harel writes in Ha’aretz:
”From the defense establishment's perspective, last night's suicide bombing in Jerusalem was deadly proof of how the Palestinians perceive the hudna. From their perspective, not only is the Palestinian Authority free of responsibility from any tangible action against the terror organizations, which are being allowed to continue building up their G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061331344663655092003-08-20T01:15:00.000+03:002003-08-20T01:17:07.743+03:00At least 20 dead
Well that was expected. The beasts just couldn’t hold on anymore.
Looks like there are many children and babies in this hideous attack against innocent people. This Reuters video isn’t easy to watch. Filmed minutes after the attack it shows screaming children and dead people. If you don’t think you can handle it don’t watch. More photos over here.
It’s awfully depressing. It G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1061122987853859612003-08-17T15:23:00.000+03:002003-08-17T15:24:11.010+03:00Music 7
Staying with “Mizrahit music” here is a breezy song for the hot summer days. It’s Shlomi Shabbat's latest single: “BaHof Shel Trapattoni” (At Trapattoni’s Beach). I suspect that this song is also a translated from Greek.
Shlomi Shabbat’s albums can be purchased here.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060711429696225502003-08-12T21:03:00.000+03:002003-08-12T21:05:24.973+03:00A couple of notes on today’s suicide bombings
Two Israelis were killed and more than a dozen injured in 2 suicide bombings, one in Rosh Ha’ayin and another one in Ariel.
These bombings will not break the Hudna, both Israel and the Hamas rushed to say it today. Each side has its own interests to keep this cease-fire with occasional attacks. Hamas leadership know that when fighting returns to G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060552103184409342003-08-11T00:48:00.000+03:002003-08-11T01:51:33.086+03:00I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry
Translated from Ma’ariv’s fine weekend satirical section.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060547646876431432003-08-10T23:34:00.000+03:002003-08-11T00:44:57.943+03:00Hizballah is pushing it
A 16-year-old Israeli boy was killed today from anti-aircraft shells the Hizballah fired on the border town Shlomi.
The anti-aircraft shell exploded on the ground, how come? The answer is very simple – it was set to detonate on the ground.
This one of Hizballah’s dirty tricks. The Israeli Air Force resumed reconnaissance flights over Lebanon shortly after Hizballah G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060509736002496952003-08-10T13:02:00.000+03:002003-08-10T13:02:16.006+03:00Didn’t travel north
A friend’s Jeep broke down so the trip was cancelled. Spend the weekend working on my tan. Friday in a posh pool party on the roof of one of Tel Aviv’s beachfront hotels. Saturday in Hertzlia’s beach playing volleyball.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060293240037626822003-08-08T00:54:00.000+03:002003-08-08T00:58:30.190+03:00Back on sunday
I’m off for the weekend. Going up north with friends, I’m taking my Camera: Canon EOS 500 with me and hopefully I’ll put a few on the blog next week.
For the meanwhile a Lebanese reader in the US sent me a link for the exact same song I liked to a couple of days ago: Halom Matok, but this time in Arabic. We’re not sure which one is the original but we’re guessing the original G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060271404291196232003-08-07T18:50:00.000+03:002003-08-07T20:50:29.543+03:00Speedy Justice (?) – the Palestinian version
Ha’aretz: ”Three masked gunmen shot and killed a Palestinianman they accused of collaborating with Israel in the center of Ramallah on Thursday, witnesses and doctors said.
Palestinian intelligence sources said the man was one of 334 prisoners released by Israel Wednesday, but this could not be immediately confirmed. Doctors identified him as SamerG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060248758159251982003-08-07T12:32:00.000+03:002003-08-07T18:55:19.826+03:00Instalanch!
So it took almost a year and a half but this “suburban” blog got its first ever Instalanch yesterday. A nice farewell from Blogger I guess.
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G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060189941241569132003-08-06T20:12:00.000+03:002003-08-06T20:21:44.533+03:00The IDF - Howard Dean linkage explained
Aziz Poonawalla over at Howard Dean 2004 blog says he takes full responsibility for using (scroll down one post) the IDF spokesperson gif.
Poonawalla says: “I think the IDF has a noble purpose - to defend it's countrymen against threats. I may disagree with the implementation of that purpose from time to time (ok, often) but the fundamental ethos of the G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060122969210951442003-08-06T01:36:00.000+03:002003-08-06T02:30:03.120+03:00The IDF - Howard Dean linkage!
I have to admit I don’t know much about Howard Dean, it’s too early for me to show any interest in US elections there is still plenty of time.
I browsed my way through The Truth Laid Bear traffic rank Ecosystem and stumbled into this widely popular blog (2362 visits/day) called “Howard Dean 2004”.
Okay it’s not an official site I know that. The sites describes G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060105926296949802003-08-05T20:52:00.000+03:002003-08-08T00:59:52.983+03:00Music 6
Who ever said Israelis don’t blend in the Middle East obviously never listened to Israeli Mizrahit music (“Eastern music” as in Middle Eastern) also referred to as Yam Tichonit Music (Mediterranean music).
Widely popular this music is the heritage of Sepharadic/Mizrahi Jews but it is becoming more and more mainstream.
Previous summer one of the biggest hits in Israeli Music was MoshikG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1060027570185187742003-08-04T23:06:00.000+03:002003-08-04T23:06:46.486+03:00Links
Read Dave’s post about how the death statistics in the 3-year conflict need to be interpreted.
Tal examines poor coverage by AP and Reuters in comparison to Ha’aretz on the prisoners’ release.
Meryl checks double standard for Israel on Google News.
Stefan Sharkansky found a disgusting anti-Semitic political cartoon inspired by mid 1930s Nazi propaganda on the Seattle Times.
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Imshin: "As an Israeli I am not angry with the Palestinians. I am far too busy trying to defend myself and make sure I survive. I am angry with the Europeans and left-wing Americans who refuse to accept that Israel is in real danger of annihilation in this region and has a right to defend its citizens and itself from those who would destroy it, by whatever means. I am even G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059928969824077002003-08-03T19:42:00.000+03:002003-08-03T19:45:20.080+03:00Links
New addition to the blogroll: Mutated Monkeys.
I know are struggling with Hebrew, at My Hebrew Picture Dictionary you can find translation of some useful words from English to Hebrew including phonetic translation.
IsraAid is “a coordinating body of Israeli and Jewish organizations and other interested parties based in Israel who are active in development and relief work and are G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059838471893116522003-08-02T18:34:00.000+03:002003-08-02T18:34:52.060+03:00My poor knowledge of Arabic
This last few days in which I tried to figure out texts in Arabic reminded me that my knowledge of this language is very poor. I did learn Arabic for 4 years in junior high and in high school but I don’t remember much of what I’ve learned. And to tell the truth at the end of those 4 years though I had good scores in Arabic I wasn’t able to say only a few basic G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059837082130352962003-08-02T18:11:00.000+03:002003-08-02T18:11:58.740+03:00Mifkad – last update
I did a bit digging and finally found the full text in through the Palestinian site which is listed down one of the ads that were published in an Arabic newspaper.
In that site there is a referral to another site called Hasad which seem to be the complete Palestinian side for the initiative. In that site I found the full list of principals exactly like the one in the G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059763347809728802003-08-01T21:42:00.000+03:002003-08-01T21:42:48.750+03:00HaMifkad HaLeumi – update
It’s been more than 48 hours since I’ve emailed my question but I’ve yet to recive an answer.
I thought about it more and I’m guessing that it could be that they sign Palestinians on the same principals as the Israelis are being signed but the Palestinian site (which its address appeared at the bottom of the campaign publications in Palestinian papers) is just not G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059588387063319452003-07-30T21:06:00.000+03:002003-07-31T21:04:30.383+03:00HaMifkad HaLeumi (The National Trust) - update
I've wrote here before about Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh campaign HaMifkad HaLeumi to gather signatures of Israelis and Palestinians on the plan they declared. According to their Israeli site 30,000 Israelis and 20,000 Palestinians already signed it since they’ve officially launched the initiative about a month ago. You probably also remember thatG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059509144858240672003-07-29T23:05:00.000+03:002003-07-31T21:03:40.720+03:00It’s the one-month Hudna anniversary “celebrations”
Okay no one is celebrating but Israeli media focused on this issue today being 1 month after the Hudan was declared and Israel reached local security agreements with the PA in the Gaza Strip and Bethlehem.
So what did we have in this month. No doubt it was relatively quiet, very odd to us after almost 3 years of violence. But let’s not forgetG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059500232490420002003-07-29T20:37:00.000+03:002003-07-31T21:04:06.960+03:00Help upgrade this blog
Hello dear readers this post is directed to your good will. I am going to upgrade this blog, meaning move out of Blogspot into my own domain and leave Blogger for Movable Type.
Following the great heritage of Jewish people it’s time to be a schnorrer (in the good meaning that is) and collect donations. Some of you are long time regular visitors, some of you even if G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059423406421762812003-07-28T23:16:00.000+03:002003-07-28T23:16:46.436+03:00You should have seen it
Tal wonders who is still under the wrong impression that ISM loonies aren’t promoting violence. If you could have watched tonight’s channel 1 news …
Today some of those nice ISM people among with local Palestinians tried to tear down part of the security fence, which is there to stop Palestinian terror attacks.
Never mind this, you couldn’t have expected something G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059409658594068552003-07-28T19:27:00.000+03:002003-07-28T19:27:38.590+03:00Music 5
Since Rinat has asked: “Monica Sex – Maka Afora” (Grey Hit (as in blow)). Quite an oldie from the band’s first album 1995 Kisses and Wounds. It was a great hit when first released and still being appreciated as one of the finest songs of the nineties.
The group’s website; Here you can buy their albums; Some one has asked before for guitar tabs so here goes.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059407687363194912003-07-28T18:54:00.000+03:002003-07-28T18:56:09.816+03:00The Separation Fence
So Abu Mazen cried to bush about the fence and was so successful that Bush called the fence a “wall” even though only tiny parts of it are actually a wall and no t a fence. The wall parts are right on the “Green Line” (1967 borders) so what’s the problem there? The wall in those segments was built to prevent direct gunfire from Palestinian towns to Israeli villages (inside G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059395183271287562003-07-28T15:26:00.000+03:002003-07-28T15:27:25.376+03:00Christopher Reeve visits Israel
Israel21c: ” Calling Israel the "world center" for research on paralysis treatment, Christopher Reeve set off for his first visit to the country this week.
Over the course of his visit, Reeve will learn about Israeli advancements in the field of stem cell research related to paralysis and spinal cord injuries.
Read on.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059242372259036902003-07-26T20:59:00.000+03:002003-07-26T20:59:32.136+03:00Donate to Magen David Adom
I know many of my readers care about Israel and want to help save life here but don’t know how to do it. Well you can do that by donating to Magen David Adom (Israel's emergency, medical, health, blood and disaster services)
Do it today as part of the blogathon. Go to Meryl or Laurence and help by an ambulance for Magen Daviv Adom. Thank you.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059230823257626102003-07-26T17:47:00.000+03:002003-07-26T17:48:11.713+03:00Music 4
The biggest thing in Israeli music this summer is the comeback of the most popular band in Israel ever – Mashina. Those guys went on a break 8 years ago after producing many fine albums for years and now they are back. They had a first concert in Caesarea’s Roman amphitheater on Thursday and it looks like it’s more then a one-time series of shows, rather a true comeback. I plan to go to G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059068847190744482003-07-24T20:47:00.000+03:002003-07-24T20:51:52.073+03:00Donate an ambulance to Israel
Most of you probably already know about this but I’ll remind you once again. Blogathon 2003 happens this Saturday, begins 06:00 US Pacific Time and ends 24 hors later. (Exact explenation over here).
Meryl Yourish, Laurence Simon and Michele Catalano are all blogging in the Blogathon to raise enough money to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom.
Help save life in G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1059067133567548282003-07-24T20:18:00.000+03:002003-07-24T20:22:45.726+03:00Panoramic photos
These two photos were taken from the observation deck on top of the round tower of the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv. I have no idea who took them, I found it at Ran Leonard’s livejurnal.
The first one is a view towards north east to the downtown area that is actually in the city of Ramat Gan (which I’ve shown you photo of before). The second one is a view towards north – G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058984390317633332003-07-23T21:19:00.000+03:002003-07-23T21:33:37.646+03:00A few links
I’ve rearranged my favorites and found a few links I saved in order to link in the blog but never did. So here they are:
Microsoft fails all over the world – There are giant t.v. screens scattered in Tel Aviv’s major junctions mainly showing commercials. Someone was lucky enough to catch Microsoft software fails on one of those big screens, this one in “Rakevet Tzafon”.
Did you G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058905239613166882003-07-22T23:20:00.000+03:002003-07-22T23:20:39.653+03:00Good riddance
So Saddam's sons Qusay and Uday are dead – well done! The Americans must release photos of their buddies, doesn’t matter how mutilated they are. If they won’t show photos rumors and conspiracy theories will flood the Arab world were these theories are very wide spread.
All we need now is to catch their father. I had a tip on Saddam's whereabouts 2 month ago. And thanks for G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058864048988033032003-07-22T11:54:00.000+03:002003-07-22T15:26:16.260+03:00Eurobasket2003 – update 2
Well finally they’ve added Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But the mountain is still mount Meron and not mount Hermon. So you can still email them about that: info@eurobasket2003.com
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058862124104432482003-07-22T11:22:00.000+03:002003-07-22T11:23:28.896+03:00Eurobasket2003 – update
The Swedes changed a bit Israel’s page again, making it worse. So now they’ve added the highest mountain category but again they are mistaken. They named mount Meron the highest mountain though it 1000 meters shorter than mount Hermon.
Ma’ariv reports today about the removal of the capital data from the page. A source in the Israeli Foreign Ministry told Ma’ariv that theG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058825273232338272003-07-22T01:07:00.000+03:002003-07-22T01:07:53.256+03:00An encouraging message from Iran
I’ve had my first Iranian reader sign my guestmap.
Leily wrote: “Hey I am Iranian, you know what, the kurdish thing was darn good.. Though I don't agree with everything that you say, but I enjoy your work.
Your english ain't that broken though. And I wish people didn't hate each other this much, didn't blow each other up..
I am tired of it all, when is it G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058783893891414812003-07-21T13:38:00.000+03:002003-07-21T13:38:13.830+03:00Sweden lacks geography knowledge
Sweden will host the Basketball European Championship this year. They already have a website for the competition. Since our nice friendly Arab neighbors don’t want to play with us we play in Europe (and doing fine in basketball).
Anyway the site runs a page for each participating country. In that page there is data on the country’s area, population, currency, G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058779132224913372003-07-21T12:18:00.000+03:002003-07-21T12:18:52.256+03:00Links
Tal G is back after a long undeclared hiatus.
Israellycool is a blog written by an Australian living in Israel.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058731128469673062003-07-20T22:58:00.000+03:002003-07-20T22:58:48.360+03:00The Jewish refugees
Intresting article by Dr. Avi Becker, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, today in Ha’aretz. He tries to answer why the fact that the number of Jews that were expeled and forced out by Arab countries is greater than the number of Arabs who were either forced or chose to follow their leadership and leave Israel was hushed.
I was invited recently to participate in G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058692533313955392003-07-20T12:15:00.000+03:002003-07-20T12:15:58.303+03:00Israelis in the US
It is estimated that almost half a million Israelis are living in the US, most of them with no intention of coming back to Israel. Another 150 thousand live in other countries apart from the US. (Ynet)
The major “Israeli cities” are: 130-169 thousand Israelis live in New York City, 100-130 thousand in Los Angeles, 45 thousand in Miami, 40 thousand in San Francisco. 208 G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058649407013942162003-07-20T00:16:00.000+03:002003-07-20T17:53:31.123+03:00Lake Kinneret looking good
You might remember that last winter was extremely rainy in Israel (by local standards). During the winter the whole country followed centimeter by centimeter how the water level rose. It’s mid summer and the Kinneret is still in pretty good shape. Check out how it looked a year ago and how it looks this summer (click here to view the large photo). The photos are of G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058637724200239272003-07-19T21:02:00.000+03:002003-07-20T01:20:55.446+03:00A Kurdish blog - sort off
I found this bilingual (French & English) blog by a French woman kurdologist. There interesting stuff over there. This blog reminded me how hypocrite Syria, the late Hussein’s Iraq, Iran and Israel’s friend Turkey are. All those countries support the Palestinian plea to their own state while they all suppress the Kurdish minority in their own country, denying them the G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058561950411617222003-07-18T23:59:00.000+03:002003-07-18T23:59:10.323+03:00An old story
A company commander in the brigade that on July 1948 conquered the city of Ramle (do not mistake with west bank city of Ramalla) told the following story on Israeli radio during last Independence Day.
Right after Ramle was conquered the commander chose a building in the city and put the flag of Israel on the top of it. “The soldiers told me that the city’s Arab elders and notables G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058541606704602302003-07-18T18:20:00.000+03:002003-07-18T18:23:31.136+03:00This is a couple of days late
The next song is for Rinat’s birthday. Mazal Tov Rinat.
The song is called Yom Huledet (Birthday) played by veteran Israeli rock singer Berry Sakharof and world famous (I’m not joking) Israeli trance group Infected Mushroom. It’s sort of a semi-trance version to an old song of Sakharof. Anyway It’s brilliant.
You can buy this track (and 4 others tracks on this cdG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058532380051171702003-07-18T15:46:00.000+03:002003-07-18T15:48:48.220+03:00Jewish singles bash in TA
Hey if you’ve been wanting to visit Israel for a long time plus you’re looking for love how about coming to “Summer Love”. This is a joint venture of Tel Aviv city council, Israeli Tourism Ministry, Jdate.com and Cupid.co.il.
You need to be a Jewish single between 21 and 37 years of age to participate. It’s basically 8 days of fun in Israel (August 25-31) with a lot ofG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058512985834336772003-07-18T10:23:00.000+03:002003-07-18T10:24:46.046+03:00Some good news
Palestinians Demonstrate Against Violence
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in Nablus against violence by armed men after gunmen shot and killed a young mother and a teenager died in an explosion.
Demonstrations against fellow Palestinians are rare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, though marches and rallies protesting Israeli occupation take place G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058444910220444922003-07-17T15:28:00.000+03:002003-07-17T15:28:30.230+03:00Israel - Malaysia
Since this blog is having a gush of visitors from Malaysia I thought it would be nice to write about Israeli-Malaysian relationships.
Due to Malaysian objection there are no official diplomatic relations between the two states. However there are business relations. The following data is from the a document (in Hebrew) of the Israeli embassy in Singapore:
Officially Malaysian G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058442401706586562003-07-17T14:46:00.000+03:002003-07-17T20:44:40.630+03:00Views and opinions from Malaysia
I am pleased to read fine comments, posts and letters in several Malaysian sites that object “Offended” reader view that a link to my blog can be classified as an “offensive link”.
Read Jeff Ooi’s post about the whole thing, and don’t forget to read the comments as well. I especially liked this one by Goh:
Quote from Offended: "it would have been wise to G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058370013196185302003-07-16T18:40:00.000+03:002003-07-16T18:48:38.126+03:00Looks like I’m making someone upset
Via my counter I found out that people are visiting my blog through a Malaysian news site called Malaysia Kini. Turns out that the site published a letter from an “offended” person in Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia).
Malaysian Blogger Jeff Ooi is has been kindly linking to my blog from his blog Screenshots. Now I have to admit that when I found G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058368078228460982003-07-16T18:07:00.000+03:002003-07-16T18:07:58.250+03:00Back from the army
As usual, in this kind of drills such as the one I participated in, the drill ended before the original schedule. I’ll see if any of the Israeli news sources will mention it, if so I’ll link/translate it for you.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1058043715123893902003-07-13T00:01:00.000+03:002003-07-13T00:02:35.373+03:00Short hiatus
I’m heading up north in the morning for a couple of days of reserve service. I’ll be back by the end of the week.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057872902068714402003-07-11T00:35:00.000+03:002003-07-11T00:35:02.033+03:00What took her so long?
Diane revives Letter From Gotham
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057860662560590602003-07-10T21:11:00.000+03:002003-07-10T21:11:02.606+03:00Music 2
As promised here is another Israeli song I like. This one is very different from the last song I recommended. The song is called “Im Telech” (If you’ll go) and is part of the “Idan Raichel Project” which one of the best selling Hebrew albums of this year. This song was number one in the Hebrew chart for many weeks.
Unfortunately I don’t know the name of the singer in this song and it’sG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057856500279843292003-07-10T20:01:00.000+03:002003-07-10T20:01:40.310+03:00IMAO
Frank’s blog IMAO is a year old now and is widely popular. I never took the time to read it, till now. The man is funny. He was added to my links list.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057854579118861392003-07-10T19:29:00.000+03:002003-07-10T19:29:39.140+03:00More on the USS Liberty
Haggai adds:
Regarding the point you made about US friendly fire in Iraq, there was also an incident in Afghanistan last year where a US plane mistakenly bombed some Canadians and killed a few of their soldiers. Maybe you remember the weirdest US bombing mistake of recent years, the attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo campaign, which happened G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057838913178645122003-07-10T15:08:00.000+03:002003-07-10T15:08:33.283+03:00Go and say hello
Rinat is celebrating 1 year in Israel today.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057783948449184762003-07-09T23:52:00.000+03:002003-07-10T00:03:15.120+03:00Lets give it a go
Okay I’ve been avoiding from writing about more serious stuff since I came back and I know some of you would like to know what I think. Or as Meryl puts it: Gil—hello—can you say "hudna"? I knew you could. Now, can you say "shudna"? Yeah, that's what I'm calling it.
I’ll start by saying I’m not as pessimistic as Meryl. I don’t know if I’m optimistic but, well I don’t know.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057780763573021142003-07-09T22:59:00.000+03:002003-07-09T23:00:08.350+03:00Islamic Jihad Chosen as 'World's Most Responsible' Group
At least according to Scott over at ScrappleFace.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057777735150957222003-07-09T22:08:00.000+03:002003-07-09T22:15:06.106+03:00USS Liberty
Hopefully these new findings can put an end to all those wacky theories that Israel deliberately attacked the ship during the six days war.
Ha’aretz: ” On Monday, the NSA gave him a transcript of conversations held by two Israeli Air Force helicopter pilots who were hovering over the Liberty after it was hit, and these tapes confirm Israel's claim that the attack on the ship, G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-105777715620805982003-07-09T21:59:00.000+03:002003-07-09T22:00:13.096+03:00Another fotoblog
This one contains a lot of photos taken by a reserve soldier during last year’s Defensive Shield operation. A lot of photos from Arafat’s “castle” in Bethlehem.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057580789170397242003-07-07T15:26:00.000+03:002003-07-08T00:05:08.863+03:00Take a look at these
You probably know what Photologs (Photoblogs/ Fotologs/ Fotoblog) are. Here is a list of Israeli sites (via Ynet).
They enable you to take a different look on Israel. Photos that are different than those you see in the news abroad but are actually more representing everyday life here.
I like taking photos myself but I must admit that I pretty much neglected this hobby. G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057577855736896882003-07-07T14:37:00.000+03:002003-07-07T14:37:35.783+03:00Links
Looks like I’m having some sort of writers’ block. So in the meanwhile here are a few links:
Remember the Assi & Guri short satiric video about how Israelis interview foreign film stars. Well apparently Assi, who plays the interviewer “Prosper”, did actually interview Rowan Atkinson and Natalie Imbruglia staring in the movie Johnny English. Quite funny.
For the Israeli readers: Check G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057404538879377912003-07-05T14:28:00.000+03:002003-07-05T14:30:16.146+03:00Warming up
While I was agonizing with an overdose of studies in the last month or so I had many things in mind that I wanted to blog about. Now that I resumed blogging all those ideas seem to have vanished into thin air. I’m feeling a bit rusty actually. I’ll just start typing and hopefully something worth reading will come out it.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1057403654498609332003-07-05T14:14:00.000+03:002003-07-05T17:58:41.333+03:00I’m Back
That’s it I finished all my tests and once again I’m a free human being! Let’s cheer in Arabic!
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1056458325924317162003-06-24T15:38:00.000+03:002003-06-24T15:38:45.936+03:00Finally the archives are accessible
The blog’s archives were inaccessible for quite some time. You can now reach them all through Israeli Guy’s annex: The Basic Idea. The links are on the left side. Blogging will resume soon.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-1055514657728614622003-06-13T17:30:00.000+03:002003-06-13T17:31:59.373+03:00Close
An aunt of a good friend of mine died in the suicide bombing in Jerusalem. I attended the funeral today.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-955665092003-06-12T01:23:00.000+03:002003-06-12T23:30:26.086+03:0017 murdered in Jerusalem
This is what a suicide bombing really looks like. Warning, uncensored gruesome hard to watch photos.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-949548742003-05-27T23:14:00.000+03:002003-06-01T19:49:24.000+03:00Breaking my break, but still on a break
Could it be that Saddam Hussein is hiding in Brooklyn possibly in Crown Heights?
Well that was funny and now I’m resuming my break, boy it’s hard to stay silent
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-949044502003-05-26T21:01:00.000+03:002003-05-26T21:20:34.000+03:00I’m taking a blogging break
Unfortunately this time of the year has arrived, it’s the end of yet another semester. I’ve got a lot of exams to pass (well) and sadly that requires a lot of study time and that means no time to blog. You may have noticed that the volume of blogging has reduced lately and I don’t like it that way. I’m sure you enjoy the fun parts of the blog but it has been a while G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-948665472003-05-25T21:14:00.000+03:002003-05-25T22:44:10.000+03:00Israel: It's still safe to come - Update
Looks like it wasn’t a joke after all. This Condom is real was distributed in the campus of U.C. San Diego as part of a pro-Israeli campaign.
Baltimore Jewish Times (via Allison): As the highlight of an on-campus campaign entitled "Got Israel?" pro-Israel students at UCSD recently handed out condoms and T-shirts emblazoned with an anthropomorphic G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-948657792003-05-25T20:48:00.000+03:002003-05-25T20:48:14.656+03:00Matrix Reloaded in IL
Just for you to know that Israel is part of the western world, the Matrix Reloaded premiered here last Thursday and created a minor fuss. Anyway I saw it yesterday and was disappointed. I think the first one was brilliant, this one was just plain. Lot’s of unnecessary parts such as that rave in Zion. We do like raves here in Zion but … .
When Morpheus carries his speech G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-947772742003-05-23T11:31:00.000+03:002003-05-23T11:40:58.000+03:00Another taste of Israel
Now that I have found out that TA University allocates server space for each student I’ll use it and bring you songs I like or songs that are hitting the local charts. Music is one of the many sides of Israel, so I’m guessing you’ll like it.
First song is called Tikva (Hope) by Subliminal and the Shadow – 2 popular Israeli rappers that sing great hip hop. This song is G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-947007222003-05-21T22:51:00.000+03:002003-05-21T23:46:23.000+03:00Now this is interesting
I know I’m 24 hours late on that but this is important:
AP: “ BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated Tuesday after a five-day Israeli invasion damaged farms and buildings, but in a rare twist, their wrath was directed at Palestinian militants for inviting the attack by firing rockets from their property.
Two hours after Israeli troops left, G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946443462003-05-20T21:17:00.000+03:002003-05-21T22:00:47.000+03:00No more IndyMedia lies in Google News
I got a reply from Google saying they stopped including IndyMedia stories on their News site.
Thank you for your email about Google News. We appreciate your concerns
about the results you have seen and want you to know that Indymedia
stories are no longer included in Google News. If you retry your search,
you should receive a different set of news resultsG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946424562003-05-20T20:31:00.000+03:002003-05-20T20:31:30.070+03:00In the midst of recent days horrors
Israeli judoka Arik Ze’evi won the gold medal in the European judo championship held in Germany this week.
Ha’aretz: “ There is no lack of cynicism in Israel sport, but to hear Hatikva played on German soil and to see the honor bestowed by the crowd on Arik Ze'evi was impressive. After his convincing victory over Elco van der Geest, dozens of children sprangG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946412592003-05-20T20:04:00.000+03:002003-05-20T20:23:41.000+03:00Is this serious?
Sometimes I wonder if items on the news didn’t just slip in from the comic section. Ha’aretz: “Shalom: Israel considering applying for EU membership”.
Hey sure why not, lots of financial benefits in that. But lets face it – they’ll never take us in, maybe when the messiah comes and even then I’m not sure. Sometimes it’s better to keep quiet than make a fool out of your self. IG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946305702003-05-20T15:58:00.000+03:002003-05-20T15:58:47.003+03:00Regarding the photo I posted
I’m guess some of you found the photo I posted of the Jerusalem suicide bombing to gruesome. Maybe some of you think I shouldn’t have posted it. I’m not sorry I did that. Sadly this blog’s history is full of posts about terror attacks and those who follow this blog know I sometimes post photos of the attack. Those photos, in my opinion, should not be censored. I donG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946299692003-05-20T15:43:00.000+03:002003-05-20T15:43:06.256+03:00Israeli blogosphere
The site I took the quote below is part of a new Israeli site called Notes (Reshimot) which contains a few personal blogs of all kinds of could be interesting writers selected by the site operators. The Funny thing is that they insist not to call those personal sites “blogs” even though they are. Doesn’t matter how they call it, it is still a major development in the Israeli G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946287682003-05-20T15:04:00.000+03:002003-05-20T15:04:58.106+03:00Why the comments are off
I found a good argument why to keep the comments disabled in an Israeli blog.
“The Internet is like a public square, and like any square it takes only one that litters to make it dirty. I want to keep this corner of the web as clean as possible”
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946284652003-05-20T14:53:00.000+03:002003-05-20T14:53:36.633+03:00What will they do?
Among the 3 Israelis killed yesterday in the suicide bombing in Afula is an Arab citizen. Hassan Ben Ismail Tawatha, 41, from the village of Jisr a Zarqa, an observing Muslim was slaughtered in Allah’s name.
I wonder if this poor man’s family will receive money from the Israeli-Arab foundation that finance families of Palestinian bombers? Or will the money the family of thisG.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-946256822003-05-20T13:02:00.000+03:002003-05-20T13:02:52.200+03:00Liquidate them
It's really beyond me why Sharon doesn’t order to waste Ahmed Yassin or at least high rank Hamas filths such as Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Mahmoud Al-Zahaar who gloat on tv every time a suicide bomber blows himself up.
Not that it will halt those attacks but it won’t worsen things up. The Palestinians attack whenever they can so at least make them pay. And what about Arafat? Not G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-945440952003-05-18T21:37:00.000+03:002003-05-18T21:37:00.070+03:00Interesting insight
Geoff writes something to think about: “How anti-Semitism differs from pretty much all other forms of bigotry and racism. Typically, the targets of racism are denigrated: blacks are stupid, Mexicans are lazy, Arabs are backwards murderers, etc. Conversely, anti-Semites tend to portray Jews as being all powerful: Jews control the American government, Jews control the British G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-945435992003-05-18T21:20:00.000+03:002003-05-18T21:22:30.000+03:00Bits
The Shabak apprehended 8 Israeli Arabs, members of a Hamas cell, that planned to kidnap Israeli bus into the PA in order to blackmail the release of Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel.
Toady’s suicide bomber succeeded in killing one Palestinian, Tawil Ralab, 42, from Shoafat, along with the 6 Israelis.
ISM best buddies, Arafat’s Al Aqsa Brigades, murdered in Nablus a 21 years old G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-945302162003-05-18T12:27:00.000+03:002003-05-20T21:22:42.000+03:00No words needed
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-944386172003-05-16T11:34:00.000+03:002003-05-29T22:16:18.000+03:00Another comic relief
I found a short video taken from a popular Israeli tv comedy show called “Shidurei Hama’apecha” (Revolution broadcasting) hosted by Assi and Guri that was aired last year.
It’s very funny, at least that’s what I think. Most of it is in English so you should be able to understand and maybe laugh. Some of the punch lines are in Hebrew though.
It’s a parody on an Israeli G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-944096162003-05-15T23:36:00.000+03:002003-05-15T23:44:18.000+03:00IndyMedia back on Google News - Time for an e-mail campaign
Looks like Google News spiders are still crawling IndyMedia sites, helping spread their anti-Semitic blood libels and calling Israelis “Zionazis”. After the initial report that Google News has removed IndyMedia those guys flooded Google with e-mails and phone calls to get IndyMedia listed again as a news source.
Just follow Meryl: “G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-942791872003-05-13T21:25:00.000+03:002003-05-13T22:40:25.000+03:00I told you
Ma’ariv runs an interesting story today (here is the link to the story in English). Last night a failure in the Israeli air Force southern air control unit almost caused an American planes to be shot down by Israeli jets.
Around 6 pm the air control unit failed to recognize a few American Hercules transport planes and thought they were enemy airplanes. IAF F-15 were launched to G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-942783212003-05-13T21:09:00.000+03:002003-05-13T21:09:29.323+03:00The latest effort to persuade tourists to visit Israel
Who ever said it's dangerous to come here
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-942231642003-05-12T23:30:00.000+03:002003-05-12T23:35:33.000+03:00Middle East Blogger discussion
John Hawkins of Right Wing News organized a bloggers chat about Israel and the Palestinians. Participants: Charles Johnson from "Little Green Footballs", John Little from "Blogs of War", Damian Penny from "Daimnation!", Ben Shapiro from "Ben Shapiro Online" and our Israeli representative Allison Kaplan Sommer.
I must say I side with Allison and Damian on most of G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-941556252003-05-11T20:19:00.000+03:002003-05-12T23:05:58.000+03:00Looks like yet again someone is plagiarizing my posts
From a one of my posts:
"Most of the settlements will be dismantled. The big ones near the green line with total of around 80% of the settler’s population will be annexed and fenced out. In return the Palestinian should be given equal amount of land from Israel, my suggestions are to give the areas densely populated with Israeli Arabs near G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-941028542003-05-10T16:38:00.000+03:002003-05-10T16:41:02.000+03:00An overlooked fact
Currently there are more Palestinians (not Israeli Arabs) that live inside Israel illegally or legally (by marriage to Israeli Arabs) than Israeli settlers living in the West Bank and the Gaza strip legally or in illegal outposts.
The numbers are around 200,000 - 250,000 people in each group, again, with more Palestinians than Israeli settlers.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-940705702003-05-09T23:07:00.000+03:002003-05-09T23:10:13.000+03:00A fight inside the Israeli radical left
Last Saturday Israeli radical leftie groups accompanied with Internationals “activists” came to show support for the people of the Palestinian village of Mas’ha. The Security Fence is going to cut them out from some of their land, though a planned passage for them to their land is planned. Anyway that’s not what I want to focus on.
I was browsing in G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-940676152003-05-09T22:06:00.000+03:002003-05-09T22:08:29.000+03:00IndyMedia removed from Google News
Through a new blog called “Only In Israel” we learn that Google News has removed IndyMedia from the list of resources they scan (link via LGF). Scroll down a bit (Blogger archives aren’t working) to the post with the print screen to see why kind of bullshit IndyMedia was feeding to Google News.
For obvious reasons they’re not too happy about it. See here G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-940667152003-05-09T21:47:00.000+03:002003-05-09T23:30:10.000+03:00Look what I found at IndyMedia Israel
IS THERE A "RIGHT OF RETURN"?
1) Voluntary flight: As documented by Professor Efraim Karsh, the vast majority of refugees from the 1948 war were exhorted to do so by their Arab brethren, who urged them to make way for oncoming Arab armies intent on driving the Jews into the sea. Karsh estimates that only 5 to 10 percent were actively expelled by Israelis.
G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449513.post-940115652003-05-08T23:52:00.000+03:002003-05-09T00:02:03.000+03:00Who will save the Avodah?
After the Mitzna horror show the Avodah is in very poor condition. Today they were squabbling whether to appoint 80 year-old Shimon Peres as interim party chairman or to hold the election for that position as soon as possible.
The list of candidates is pathetic. A bunch of losers. There is only one man that can save this party from itself and get it up on its feet – G.noreply@blogger.com