Maybe it’s time to leave Mel Gibson alone.
Jim Caviezel (aka Jesus in Gibson’s new movie) has been struck by lightening while shooting The Passion of Christ.
All politics are local
Next week there are municipality elections throughout the country, including in my town of Modi’in. My wife and I have been following this election very closely. It’s the first time I’ll be voting where the “situation” isn’t an issue. It’s quite refreshing actually weighing candidates on issues such schools, city expansion, economic growth etc.
We already know what party we are voting for (its an independent one) but we still aren’t sure who we are voting for Mayor. We are definitely not voting for Moshe Schecter, the current mayor. The job has gotten way too big for him. The other candidates are nothing to write home about either. They are all mediocre and their platforms are pretty much identical. This election is the first one in Modi’in where the municipalities of the affluent towns of Maccabean and Reut now fall under the same umbrella as Modi’in.
It’s seems that there are a record number of Anglos running for city council seats this year throughout the country. Here in Modi’in, American born Alex Weinreb was initially running for Mayor but is not number 2 on Moshe Spector’s list (Not to be confused to Schecter!). Spector has been head of the Maccabean-Reut council for a number of years and is extremely popular. His party is expected to garner at least three seats on the council. There is a party called Shachar (not to be confused with Beilin’ “movement”), which is a mixed secular-religious party whose main focus is education. There is apparently an American woman on their list.
According to this Ha’aretz article five anglo candidates are pretty much sure things in their local elections.
Anglos here in Israel are always complaining about how they have no representation in the government. Even though these candidates represent a hodgepodge of religious and political views, it’s a real pleasure seeing them step up to the plate.
This Jpost article talks about members of the Masorti (Conservative) movement who are running as well.
“The last few years of conflict mean that yet another generation of Israelis and Palestinians will grow up in hatred. We cannot allow that to happen.”
- Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt (source)
Don’t get me wrong, I think that Jennifer Aniston is totally hot and thought Brad Pitt was kick ass in Fight Club and Twelve Monkeys but can they help bring peace to the middle east? Come on, who are they kidding? What chance do they think they have to bring peace to the region? Haaretz report here.
I mean, Brad was supposed be here three years ago to film Spy Game but the production team pulled out last minute. This deeply saddened me because the last big hollywood movie to be filmed here was Rambo 3.
I can see it now…Brad and Jennifer speak directly to the Palestinian and Israeli people, calling upon them to take to the streets and demand peace from their leaders. I know they say celebrities can be delusional but this is getting out of hand.
I mean, if Richard Gere couldn’t do it, what makes Jen and Brad think they can?
Terrorism hasn’t subsided, our ecomony is on the verge of collapse, our “relationship” with Syria is about to heat up but a Jerusalem city councilman has a more serious pressing issue to take up.
He wants to change the name of Gaza Road in Jerusalem because he finds it offensive. What a shmendrick. I’m glad he is concerning himself with important issues such as this and completely ignoring the fact that over 67,000 people have left Jerusalem over the past ten years.
Our favorite Likud MK Inbal Gavrieli is also back in the news. She oddly sent a memo to all MKs with the subject “No More” on the subject of her families alleged ties to organized crime.
She heroically and defiantly stated:
“You do not have the courage or wisdom to come to terms with a young,
female Knesset member, talented and energetic, who represents and is supported
by a large constituency, so you deceive, lie and slander. Simply put, you have no courage.”
According to the Ha’aretz article:
Gavrieli challenged anyone with a shred of
evidence of illegal activity by her father or
uncle to come forward and hand it to the
relevant authorities. She called on her
opponents in the Knesset, to “confront me in
the real parliamentary and political arena, and
not on the basis on fabrications, imagination,
evil gossip, headline hunting at the expense of
the truth, and crude lies.”
The truth will out.
As regular readers of my blog know I am disgusted with the political corruption that is prevalent in the Israeli government. Buried in the sports section of Ha’aretz today is a story about a report that a government committee commissioned a private investigator to conduct a report on illegal gambling. Inbal Gavriel, the young “well-connected” Likud MK who comes from a “well-connected” family attempted to get her hands on this report where rumor has it, her family is mentioned. Big surprise there.
The report was handed to the Attorney General. Hopefully there will be tough times ahead for Ms. Gavrieli.
Inbal, since you are probably going to return to your old profession perhaps I can help you get back into things.
Now, repeat after me… “Do you want fries with that?”
While reading the fellows at Protocols this morning I came across an item that a young orthodox soldier serving the US military in Iraq was injured in Bagdad.
From Protocols:
Joe Kashnow, a former NCSYer from Baltimore and now a soldier with the US forces in Iraq, was hurt last week in an ambush on the road to Baghdad.
There was wide coverage about Jewish soldiers in Iraq in several Jewish newspapers as well as mainstream publications. Joe was quoted in an MSNBC article about Jewish soldiers around Pesach time.
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