And they say it's Israel that doesn't want peace? How on earth can one define stabbing a mother of four to death in the neck as "freedom fighting"? I'm horrified that there are those who would actually attempt to find "logic" to support it.
Police: Murder of woman near Green Line was act of terror
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Police have determined that the murder of an Israeli woman in Moshav Nehousha near the border with the West Bank on Tuesday was in fact a terrorist attack, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.
The body of Ariela Fahima was found at the entrance to her home by her 10-year-old daughter. The 39-year-old mother of four had been stabbed in the neck.
Police sources said Tuesday that they did not know if the attack was carried out by one or multiple attackers.
A few days ago a woman at work was telling me how much time she spends on the internet browsing websites and chatting. I told her that so do I, and that the internet is such a bloodsucking parasite! To that she said: "Oh yes, I am actually spending up to 2 hours a day on the internet".
So I thought hmm, 2 hours, eh? For me 2 hours would barely be enough for "internet survival". I start each day by spending about an hour online reading Ha'aretz, blog comments, my favorite blogs, etc, while drinking my coffee. It's just how I start the day, unless I have to get up very early. However, while I don't usually spend a very long time online, I am very often online. I am constantly checking my mails, my blog, along with being the world's worst news addict. I could never leave the house without making sure nothing disastrous has happened in Israel. And well, sometimes, I find out that it has.
But anyway, I bumped into this hilarious website with a section called "You know you're addicted when...". It's funny, but it still makes an awful lot of sense. We all know the internet is useful, but lets face it, it has become an essential for the daily lives of most of us. So there are people sitting in front of their computers in USA, Israel, Australia, Iceland and elsewhere, who have purchased internet access to connect to the world wide web, which they now feel like they cannot do without out, regardless of their background, nationality, ethnicity, etc. It is indeed a powerful tool, and it appears to be consuming us all. At least to an extent. Oh and... I don't mean to sound dramatic. I just think it's funny to think of Dave in Israel, Alice in USA and myself over here, brought together by our common interest in modern technology, enabling people worlds apart to communicate with only, a click.
You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to Google.
You turn up the volume read loud when leaving the room so you can hear if anyone IM's you.
Your dog has its own webpage.
You code your homework in HTML and give your intsructor the URL.
You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest MP3's off Kazaa Lite.
You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back.
You have withdrawals if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.
You double click your TV remote.
You go into withdrawals during dinner.
You rank your friends by the amount of bandwith they have.
You have "Googled" all your friends to try to find out anything interesteing that they are not telling you and you can use against them later.
You message someone via IM when they are less than 20 feet away.
You purchase a vanity car license plate with your screen name on it.
You order pizza online - because you can't be bothered to call.
You're on the phone and say BRB.
Okay this one is the WORST. The words "Live Journal" can be replaced with any personal blog.
If you can't access the site, you have a minor freak out - and a major case of hitting reload.
You found yourself composing journal entries during dates, movies, even sex!
When you're out, you suddenly think of a witty reply to a comment somebody made to you... several days ago.
The first thing you do every day when you go online is check your friends journals - even before checking your email.
When your friends ask what's new, you get mad at them because you already wrote it in your LJ and they didn't check it yet.
You have put more time into LJ than all your assignments for the semester.
You have more friends on LJ than in real life.
You can't seem to call your friends by their real names - only LJ names will do.
You've fallen in love with someone you met on LJ.
You have posted about a party or get together on your LJ... and random strangers showed up.
You are guilty of traveling more than an hour to meet someone with LiveJournal. (Extra points for traveling five hours or more)
You have written posts to notify people you're going to sleep.
You talk about your LJ friends to your real life friends all the time... like they're a part of your group.
You've created a LJ community, and people actually post in it.
You've been recognized in real live by a fellow LJ'er.
Instead of doing research, you post difficult questions on your LiveJournal.
You know, right now, how many people have friended you (without peeking).
You're guilty of posting sexy or nude pictures to get more people to friend you.
You have consoled yourself after a horrible day thinking "At least this will make a great LJ post"
You're jealous of people who have more friends and / or comments than you.
You have written a really great, solid post - only to be disappointed by the lack of good comments.
You're guilty of commenting excessively to get more traffic to your journal.
You give shout outs to all your LJ friends on their birthdays.
You have an additional, secret journal that hardly anyone knows about.
You have gotten mean anonymous comments (bonus points for figuring out who it was via their IP) Like, who hasn't??
You no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences...
You begin to say hehehe instead of laughing
You don't break for the bathroom - even though you've got to go real bad - until you think of a witty away message.
You have a few people on your buddy list just to spy on them.
You've had a meaningful conversation with a bot.
You learned Photoshop to make a super cool buddy icon
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to AIM.
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, right, and Irish 1977 Nobel peace prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire shake hands during a meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday Dec. 19, 2004. Corrigan came to Israel to support Vanunu and to advance worldwide efforts to free him from the restrictions after his imprisonment. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Visiting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire on Sunday compared Israel's reported nuclear arsenal to Hitler's gas chambers while calling on Israel to lift travel restrictions on nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu. (Could I possibly hate that guy any more?).
Maguire, awarded the 1976 prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after serving an 18-year sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets.
"When I think about nuclear weapons, I've been to Auschwitz concentration camp," Maguire said. "Nuclear weapons are only gas chambers perfected, ... and for a people who know what gas chambers are, how can you even think of building perfect gas chambers?"
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Well lets face it. You don't have to be a genius, nor do you have to, by any means, be worthy, to receive a nobel peace prize. In fact, I propose that they drop the prize all together and stick actual achievements.
Oh and hey look. I found an entirely unrelated photo of two dead serial killers. Now that just gives me a pleasant feeling....
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
