Oh man. Having finished my exams makes me waste my time on all kinds of nonsense. I actually took a quiz called "What planet are you from?". I didn't need to do that. I know what planet I'm from. I even know what country I'm from. Or which countries, to be specific. For those of you who don't know, I have an Icelandic mother, a Norwegian father (whose ancestors came from Germany), but I was born in Sweden. Most of my relatives live in Romania, Norway or Sweden, while I myself, however, live here on the devil's island (aka Iceland), where I enjoy the company of noisy neighbors. In fact, they're being noisy right now. They're shuffling snow and ice outside the house in a really noisy way.
Okay so anyway. According to this quiz, I am from Saturn.
You Are From Saturn
You're steady, organizes, and determined to achieve your dreams.
You tend to play it conservative, going by the rules (at least the practical ones).
You'll likely reach the top. And when you do, you'll be honorable and responsible.
Focus on happiness. Don't let your goals distract you from fun!
Don't be too set in your ways, and you'll be more of a success than you ever dreamed of.
I have once again received a very interesting article from Adam (aka Selfindulgence) called "Who stole Israel". It gives an interesting perspective. Check that out!
The other claim by the anti-Zionists is that Jews have no rights to the lands of Israel (historic Palestine) because they moved there from some other places.Now never mind that there was actually always a Jewish minority living in the lands of Israel even when it was under the sovereignty of Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Crusaders, Turks or British.Does the fact that Jews moved to the land of Israel from other places disqualify them from exercising sovereignty there? The claim would be absurd enough even if we were to ignore that fact that most "Palestinian Arabs" also moved to Palestine from neighboring countries, starting in the late nineteenth century. But more generally, does the fact that a people moves from one locality to another deprive it of its claims to legitimate sovereignty in its new abode? Does this fact necessitate the conclusion that they need to pack up and leave, as the anti-Zionists insist?
If it does, then it goes without saying that the Americans and Canadians must lead the way and show the Israelis the light, by returning all lands that they seized from the Indians and the Mexicans to their original owners and going back to whence they came. For that matter, the Mexicans of Spanish ancestry also need to leave. The Anglo-Saxons, meaning the English, will be invited to turn the British isles over to their rightful original Celtic and Druid owners, while they return to their own ancestral Saxon homeland in northern Germany and Denmark. The Danes of course will be asked to move aside, in fact to move back to their Norwegian and Swedish homelands, to make room for the returning Anglo-Saxons.
We can all trust what we hear on the news (Yes, I'm being sarcastic again). This is why so many people follow BBC News, and wouldn't think twice about doubting its accuracy. But...
A leading Hamas preacher was caught on tape saying that a BBC correspondent slants his reports to favor Muslims. A story in the Israeli daily Haaretz reports Fathi Hamad, a preacher responsible for Hamas communications system in Gaza, said: Hamas man Faiz Abu Smala works for the BBC, and that way he writes the story in favor of the Islam [sic] and Muslims (Arnon Regular, Leading Hamas preacher warns of clash with Islamic Jihad, 12/15/04).
Hamad made the statement during a speech before the Hamas body responsible for promoting the organization in the international press. According to the report, Hamad believed that he was speaking in a private closed forum, but the session was filmed and then distributed a copy of which was obtained by Haaretz.
While there is no independent confirmation that anyone named Faiz Abu Smala works for the BBC, a longtime BBC Arabic Service reporter in Gaza is named Fayad Abu Shamala. Shamala made headlines in 2001 when, speaking at a Hamas gathering, he said journalists and media organizations are waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people (Jerusalem Post, 5/24/01).
CAMERA has contacted the BBC regarding Hamad's remarks about the BBC correspondent, but has yet to hear back from them.
CAMERA today ran a full page ad in the New York Times outlining the United Nations' long history of anti-Israel bias, and pointing out that the UN's oil-for-food scandal is only the latest example of the organization's corruption, which started decades ago and has included the buying of votes and influence by oil-rich Arab states to ensure an anti-Israel majority in all major UN bodies. Israel is the only UN member that is subjected to hostile scrutiny by a standing committee, the "Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Ocupied Territories." The United Nations Reliefs and Works Administration for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) allows its schools to use anti-Semitic textbooks that teach hatred for Jews and Israelis. UNRWA openly admits to employing members of the terrorist group Hamas, and has vigorously opposed any effort to build permanent homes for Palestinian refugees. Indeed, the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel for building such homes in Gaza for Palestinian refugees, and has demanded their return to squalid refugee camps.
The UN's Commission on Human Rights has even supported Palestinian terror attacks against Israel, passing resolutions backing Palestinian use against Israel of "all available means including armed struggle," code words for terrorist tactics. That such language could originate from a "human rights" commission, in clear violation of the UN Charter's call for the settlement of "international disputes by peaceful means," is a further sign of the UN's debasement.
The UN's bias and corruption act as a spur to violence, and render the organization absolutely incapable of living up to its stated goals of promoting peace and understanding among nations and peoples. Until there is real reform at the UN, including fair treatment for Israel, UN corruption will continue to fester, further betraying the hopes of its founders.
I'd like to welcome Smooth Stone back. Smooth recently suffered the tragic loss of a family member (father), but is now back in the business now telling the world the truth about Israel. So Smooth I think I speak for everybody when I say I'm glad you're back.
I'd like to point out some very informative material Smooth has been writing: Who really owns palestine?
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.
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 