Wish my parent’s would win…
A mother in upstate NY won $1 million dollars in the lottery and handed it over to her son. Read about it here.
Nice mother.
Covert Israeli activity in Iraq?
According to a report in Ha’aretz , everyone’s favorite miltitary intelligence supplier Jane’s Foreign Report is claiming that Israeli special forces are currently operating in western Iraq.
The report said: “The elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit was ordered into Iraq “to find and identify places used by, or likely to be used by, Iraqi Scud missile launchers.”
“Our information is that neither Israel nor the United States have a clue about what, if anything, Saddam Hussein is hiding,” the newsletter said.
“It was this ignorance that persuaded the (Israeli) prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to assign the Sayeret Matkal to a job that is sensitive and dangerous,” it said. “
Anyone who knows anything about the IDF knows that a job like this is not done by Sayeret Matkal, but rather Sayeret Sheldag. This report doesn’t surprise me and this isn’t the first time I have heard these rumors. In 1998, while I was in the army and the situation with Iraq was heating up again I knew a guy in Sheldag who was dating a woman in my apartment building. She hadn’t heard from him once for a full two months — that is unheard of in the army. This was in January of 1998 I believe.
If you want more information about Israel’s alleged covert role in the gulf war click here.
Do I believe these rumours? Let me put it this way…I want to believe.
The Lost Children
The Mrs. and I were in the Jerusalem Mall last night. We had just finished eating in the food court when I saw a baby on the floor reaching for a bucket of mop water. I scooped up the young lass. She couldn’t be more than 7 months. She was filthy. I looked around to see if anyone was looking for her. After about 30 seconds a young boy - six years old tops - comes over to me and says that she is with them. “Them” being a motley crew of about six very young children sitting at a table in the food court.
I ask where is their mother…he motions his hand, not specifying anywhere imparticular.
My wife is looking all over the place for the mother.
The boy grabs the baby from me and proceeds to place her (it was more like dropping) into a niche between two plants and then closes off the niche with the stroller. I picked up the baby again and asked in a somewhat harsher tone, “Where is your mother?”. He motions again to the same direction.
Here I am, standing in the mall with a baby in my hands in absolute shock that a mother would leave her children alone unsupervised in a food court in a mall.
Finally, a teenage girl joins her brothers and sisters and grabs the baby from me.
Smiling she says, “He is ours”. The mother still nowhere to be found. I give her the look of the devil and tell her to keep a eye on her sister and this is no laughing matter.
We read all too often about the Israeli family who leaves their child in the car while shopping, or at the beach even.
One doesn’t have to hit their children to abuse them.
Anyway, at least this organization is doing something about it.
George Lies!
Georgie wont play nice. Georgie still wont recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital!
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is reporting that the White House is planning on ignoring a law expected to pass in Congress calling for the State Department to take steps (whatever that means) to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Read it yourself right here:
“The White House may ignore a law expected to pass Congress that calls on the State Department to take steps recognizing Jerusalem as Israel�s capital. The State Department Authorization Act, which passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, includes language requiring the State Department to bring the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and to recognize residents of Jerusalem as Israelis. The bill is expected to pass the Senate and be signed by the president, but sources tell JTA that the White House may ignore the Jerusalem provisions, claiming that they violate the separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch. “It is going to be challenged under the idea that the legislative branch has exceeded its authority to advise and consent on foreign policy and has crossed into policy formulation,” one source said.”
Didn’t President Bush promise to move the US embassy as one of his first steps as president? The move will be in essence a recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“But something will happen when I’m president: as soon as I take office I will begin the process of moving the U.S. ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital” (remarks before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, May 22, 2000).
Come on George! You promised!
Rainbow over the Knesset
History is to be made when the Knesset (Israeli parliament) reconvenes next month as the first openly gay member of Parliament will be sworn in reports The Jerusalem Post.
Uzi Even, a professor of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University promises to fight for gay rights. Surprisingly for a pseudo-theocracy, Israel, in the right geographical locations (i.e. Tel Aviv) is somewhat accepting of Gays.
This is another great step forward for homosexuals in Israel. This past year, a gay pride parade was held in Jerusalem despite vicious protests by members of the ultra-orthodox community.
I can’t wait to hear the inevitable insults that the ultra-orthodox will throw at Professor Even. They are always incredibly entertaining, creative and should be recorded into a book for future members of the Knesset to use.
Thus far United Torah Judaism MK Avraham Ravitz had a couple of things to say.
According to The Jerusalem Post:
“These people have a very big problem,” Ravitz said.”People display various kinds of deviant behavior, but I don’t see cities organizing parades for people to take pride in kleptomania.” Asked whether he can work with Even, Ravitz said, “I work in the Knesset, which has people with even more dangerous deviations, such as hatred of Judaism.”
Talk about calling the kettle black. There are parades of kleptomaniacs in Israel and they are most certainly supported by the cities and the government. MK Ravitz’s constituency lives off of government stipends taken from working people taxes, doesn’t serve in the military and doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of the Israel state (Israel is a state of mind they say, not a state).
Tell me MK Ravitz, who is the real kleptomaniac?
From Doc to Blog
The original intention of this weblog was to chronicle the production and filming of my documentary, The View From Here. The purpose of the movie is to provide a satirical and somewhat cynical view of life in Israel.
Since the movie is going absolutely nowhere I have decided to use this website as a weblog
I never realized it was possible to both love and hate something so intensely at the same time. They say Israel is the only place in the world where a person experiencing road rage will run you off the road into the ditch and then get out of their car and give you a blood transfusion.
That really sums of life here. So does this Elvis statue at a rest stop outside of Jerusalem.
A bit about myself.
I was born in NY and grew up in a town called Port Jefferson Station and have been living in Israel for the past six years. My life here has been quite adventurous. I did a year and a half stint in the Israeli Defense Forces as part of a Tank crew. Being a soldier gave me an incredibly unique perspective on the conflict here. Try reading war literature like All Quiet On The Western Front and The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War while in a military setting. It’s a real eye opener.
After my military service I was fortunate enough to ride the internet wave into oblivian. I worked for a company that developed a comparative shopping agent, a palm software development company, and a company that had the brilliant idea of creating virtual communities for ethnic groups.
I’m currently an employee of a certain daily newspaper that shall remain nameless for now.
Hopefully, I’ll provide an extremely unique viewpoint that thousands of people will enjoy reading everyday.
I have lots to share.
Join me.
It begins.
The View From Here will be incredible. This is my first post ever.
Life can be very strange here.
This blog has been looming for quite some time. Thanks to an old friend the madness shall finally begin.
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