A nice hypothetical analogy from my imaginative mind
It's all over the news here. Bobby Fischer is coming to Iceland. Icelanders appear to be ecstatic. There have been debates about breaking peace agreements with USA, but the prime minister said the decision was made for humanitarian reasons, and because "it's almost christmas time". Give me a break.
I am so ashamed I could die. I want to leave forever and get a new identity. You guys may think I'm overreacting, but this is just a cherry on top of so many other things that make me feel ashamed.
In fact I began thinking, how could Iceland's unlimited anti-American and pro-palestinian tendencies end? My brain got started... Clearly this is all hypothetical, and I'm not being "serious", but there is still something to it, isn't there?
Just think.. If things would go further and further. The way they are headed now. Nobody knows what they are talking about. People are simply enjoying swimming in their large pools of ignorance and anti-semitism (aka anti-zionism). Who is to say Iceland would not decide to start accepting palestinian refugees? And you know what would be "funny"?
If... the amount of refugees would just grow bigger and bigger, and after a few decades they would demanding their own land. At first Icelanders would refuse. Then the palestinians would start murdering innocent Icelanders through terrorism. This would cause the Icelandic people to found an army. However, the angry palestinian people would turn out to be difficult to deal with, so there would be much conflict and death.
At first the world would sympathise with the Icelanders. But after a generation or two had passed when nobody would remember who the land originally belonged to anymore, and with the help of biased media, everybody would be blaming Icelanders for their horrifying treatment of the poor "indigenous" palestinians. Before you know it, people would stop referring to Iceland as "Iceland", and instead everybody would say "Iceland and the Palestinian territories", until eventually, everybody would just say "Palestine".
Nah I just started thinking. Cause Nutjob-Fischer is coming :p
The 4th annual awards of the most skewed and biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Take a look at some of the awards:
COMMUNIQUE: 16 December 2004
THE 'CAMERA SEES ALL' AWARD
Winner: While photojournalists were recording a seemingly candid expression of Palestinian suffering alongside the security fence, AP's Enric Marti shot the scene from another angle, including the pack of photographers in his frame:
This image speaks volumes about media coverage of Palestinian life. The photographers are not merely 'capturing the scene,' but rather creating it \ either actively (by asking the woman to pose) or passively (allowing themselves to be manipulated by her posing for their cameras).
The 'Award' winners in this category are the five unidentified photographers who sent to their newsrooms the version depicted here (at right).
SYMPATHY FOR TERRORISTS AWARD
Winner: Barbara Plett, BBC. When Yassir Arafat's health failed in November, BBC's West Bank reporter Plett openly wept for the Godfather of Modern Terror. Plett's weeping revealed an unprofessional (and, some would say, bizarre) identification with one side of the conflict that she is employed to cover in an objective fashion.
Runners-up:
The Guardian for hailing Arafat's 'undisputed courage as a guerrilla leader,' exceeded only 'by his extraordinary courage' as a peace negotiator.
Syndicated columnist Gwynne Dyer, for proclaiming that what Arafat 'did right' in his life were 'successful acts of terror' that drew attention to the Palestinian cause.
And Jonathan Cook, writing in the International Herald Tribune for expressing his understanding and appreciation of Palestinian terrorism as the 'surest way to get their struggle noticed.' (The IHT was also caught altering New York Times articles to make Israel look worse, and Palestinian terrorists look better.)
SLIP-OF-THE-TONGUE AWARD
Winner: David A. Schlesinger, Reuters. In a remarkable moment of candor, Schlesinger, Reuters' global managing editor, admitted that one reason his agency refuses to use the term 'terrorist' has nothing to do with editorial pursuit of objectivity, but is rather 'to protect our reporters.' Schlesinger described the 'serious consequences' if certain 'people in the Mideast' were to believe Reuters called those who detonate civilian buses and open fire on pregnant women 'terrorists.'
Runner-up: Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler, for rationalizing the Post's ongoing refusal to use the 'T-word' in reporting on Palestinian terror. The term 'terrorism' is 'not helpful,' Getler explained, since using it would 'adopt the language of one side.' Moreover, said Getler, 'Palestinians view many Israeli actions... as terrorism.'
ISRAEL CONSPIRACY AWARD
Winner: Neil MacDonald, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In May, while delivering CBC television's lead story on the political fallout from the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses, Macdonald shifted attention away from Iraq and toward Israel, proposing to viewers that
the occupation of Iraq and George Bush's unprecedented alliance with the right wing government of Israel has placed Americans overseas in danger.
Macdonald then brought on camera a retired US diplomat who made the outlandish claim that the Israeli Mossad was behind the Abu Ghraib tortures.
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA AWARD
In 2004, anti-Israel invective made its way off the newspaper page and became propagated via 'alternative' media:
Winner: Dror Feiler. A Stockholm art show (accompanying an international conference on preventing genocide) included a large exhibit by Feiler glorifying the Palestinian terrorist who murdered 21 Israelis at Haifa's Maxim restaurant. Dubbed 'Snow White and the Madness of Truth,' the exhibit showed a tiny sailboat floating on a pool of red water, and the accompanying text cast the mass murderer as a 'Snow White' victim.
Bit by bit I have been realising that Clarity and Resolve's Patrick, is a walking encyclopedia. Finally I got curious, and googled him. And what do you know. Page after page after page. Apparently, Patrick knows even more than I thought. I read some of his stuff, and I daresay I'm impressed.
Here's a link to something I saw in Arutz Sheva, containing several of his articles (which also appear on his page, if I'm not mistaken).
Wow, I just had such a deja v. (Just thought I'd mention that).
Okay so anyway. Patrick you're a clever man and I like you. Here is a photo of halva in your honor. I realise that looking at a photo won't give you much pleasure. However, I'm eating halva right now, and I promise to think fondly of you. Haha oh I'm bad.
On my way to work right now, but I decided to give you a glimpse of what it looks like around here. I took some photos outside school the other day. These photos were taken at around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, but notice how the sky is still just a tiny little bit dark. By next month it will be dark almost all the time. Anyway, check it out.
I am disappointed and disgusted by the fact that this beautiful island is filled with assholes.
Speaking of assholes.. Bobby Fischer! Don't we all know it. The former chess master is also a highly anti semitic jew, who rejoiced in the news of 9/11:
His rages from the fringe culminated in a notorious interview on Philippine radio on Sept. 11, 2001, in which he exulted in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. He praised the horrific events as ''wonderful news," declaring that America got what it deserved for supporting Israel.
And why am I having a cow?
Because he might soon be my neighbor! Somebody in this filthy little island decided there wasn't enough anti-semitism here, and he has been granted asylum, right here. I mean like, here in Iceland.
And sure it's a small community and real windy, but he'll be surrounded by fellow Bush & Israelhaters, along with several of the greatest minds in the world of chess (Icelanders kick butt at chess), so he'll probably even like it!
There is never any limit. Things just keep going further and further. Today I was at a bookstore and I started going through the tourist section. Back in the old days there would always be several books about Israel. I now noticed that Israel was missing from every section except one, and there was no book about Israel there anymore. Instead there was a book called "Israel - And the Palestinian territories". It is as if "Israel", the land, by itself, isn't recognised anymore.
I just had to post this. This is a conversation Lisa from On the Face observed the other day while waiting for her sandwhich on Sheinkin Street. It's made me laugh so hard. Would this happen anywhere else than in Israel?
Conversation
Customer: I came to return this jar of jam my wife bought on Friday.
Counter girl: Why? Was it spoiled?
Customer: No, it's just not tasty. It's beet jam. Whoever heard of beet jam?
Counter girl: That's why you're returning it? Because you didn't like the way it tastes?
Customer: Well, yes. I mean, it's expensive! So I want to exchange it for one of the normal jams - like strawberry, or something.
WARNING: This post includes bragging. So if that's something you can't handle, don't read it. Well, or don't read my blog, period, since I'll say what's on my mind whether it's good or bad.
I got the first results back, from one of the 2 biggest essays I wrote this semester. I had been devasted about how lousy I had done. I knew I was able to do much better. This was an essay in a course called "The ethnography of Oceania". I have no interest in Oceania, but the course is mandatory. I attended every other lecture this semester, and I wrote the essay rather quickly, basing it on a personal theory. I was certain that I would get a bad grade. The essay was far too short, and I had taken quite a risk basing the entire thing on a theory I had, with only 2 resources to back it up(very risky in anthropology). As far as I knew the teacher would not care much for my theory. BA students aren't even supposed to have an opinion. I became extremely worried. Lately I have been somewhat obsessed with my grades. I must get good grades, must get into the right university for my MA, must get my average up, must strive for perfection, etc.
But this time I was disappointed with myself and scared. As I walked the long, narrow path leading to the university I began to panic. I spoke to G-d and asked Him to make the grade at least an acceptable one. I thought to myself that things have a purpose, and that my purpose in life, is not to fail.
I picked up my essay, and to my surprise I received the highest grade, what we call "the first grade with distinction". A grade rarely given in social science, at least here.
I felt happy and relieved, obviously. As I broke through the storm on my way back, I somehow felt far more optimistic about the future.
Man the Japanese are nuts. Check out what they've now invented. It's a pillow in the shape of a woman's lap!
I'd get bored. Wouldn't you?
It's worth noting that a skirt that can be pulled as far up as one desires (...) goes with it!
They say it's very convenient for single men, or for married men whose wives are tired of letting them rest their heads in their laps when they come home from work tired. The latter is how the designer got his inspiration for it.
Oh boy.. I think I'm addicted to Amazon. They just make it so easy for you! "Hello Maria, check out our recommendations for you, you just have to click here"...
I always see more and more and more books I feel like I simply can't live without. Take a look what what I just ordered:
Myths and Facts - A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Mitchell G. Bard
This image speaks volumes about media coverage of Palestinian life. The photographers are not merely 'capturing the scene,' but rather creating it \ either actively (by asking the woman to pose) or passively (allowing themselves to be manipulated by her posing for their cameras). 
Winner: Barbara Plett, BBC. When Yassir Arafat's health failed in November, BBC's West Bank reporter Plett 
Winner: David A. Schlesinger, Reuters. In a remarkable 
Winner: Neil MacDonald, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In May, while delivering CBC television's lead story on the political fallout from the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses, 
Winner: Dror Feiler. A 
