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As happened last year at Limmud Oz in Sydney, advocates of the destruction of the State of Israel have had their application to host a session rejected. And just as happened last year, …
The following is an abridged version of an interview recently screened on the ABC’s Q&A program.
Tony Jones: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a very special Purim edition of “Q&A”. I’m your …
I wanted to call the number on the screen to donate some passports of family members that I don’t think will be using them too soon, but unfortunately, I don’t have one of those fancy phones with the letters on it.
A little help, anyone?
Before people start donating their passports, they ought to read the fine print; namely, they are only the holders and the passports belong to the government. But that aside, go on, I dare you, donate your passport.
did he say “the bitches are stunning this time of year” in malaysia?
How about a South African passport?
Galus, once again: congratulations!
Someone asked me yesterday about the informational vacuum in the Jewish community (referring to our media) and about the need for possible alternatives.
I responded that the alternatives are already here, in the blogosphere, where there is a florescence of news and opinion from diverse viewpoints.
The last two posts on this site are clear examples of this. This post current post, in particular, presents a contentious issue in a new way. Satire is often more powerful than straight commentary, which is my stock in trade.
Until recently, there were only two modes of opinion in our community: official and unofficial. The latter was relegated to the private sphere, and there was no real outlet for many Jews to express themselves. This is changing now, and your site is providing a challenge to the official/unofficial dichotomy.
Such a challenge is invaluable, not only for Jews, but also as a demonstration to wider Australia that Australian Jews are not monolithic, but diverse, considered, and able to laugh at themselves.
For this reason, I have edited my most recent post (on Australian extreme reactions to Zionism) to point to the two most recent posts here as examples of this diversity.
ariel, by your comment, I am beginning to think that you are somewhat of a racist. But let me tell you something; those who are racist towards us are much better at the job than you will ever be, and it cuts both ways, if you get my drift.
Reality Check, as usual I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I can only say that – whilst it is a childish observation, it is nonetheless true on a very deep psychological level – it takes one to know one.
Now, for once, I offer you the opportunity to disect my extremely humourous comment and to prove that I am somehow a racist, rather than just use that as an epithet against anyone with whom you disagree or whose highly intelligent humour you can’t understand.
fellas, a bit of shush, please. it’s bad for the jews.
you can have mine anytime! anywhere!, I would never go to Islamic country that’s will support terrorist murderers with my money.
foreign correspondent are screening a special report on the passports affair tonight at 8pm. the title of their investigative efforts is “Middle East – The Hit Parade”
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/
I just watched the Foreign Correspondent report – it looked like it was directed and edited by the same team that does Chaser’s War on Everything.
How ‘meh’ was Foreign Correspondent tonight? Yawn. Nothing incisive or illuminating whatsoever.
And did you all catch that bit at the beginning where Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was described as a “freedom fighter”?
For realz.
Well, you know what they say: One man’s acclaimed television journalism is another man’s first year history tutorial.
Agreed Hasid.
Typical ABC, they love to interview Robert Baer on intelligence matters. For those unaware, Baer is your typical CIA anti-Semite. He is widely quoted online suggesting Zionists (read Jews) control the newspapers and American foreign policy etc.
E.g. “In American politics, you can’t do anything in the Middle East without the approval of Tel Aviv”
Clearly Baer, like many so called experts, is not even aware that the Israeli government is housed in Jerusalem. Perhaps he also thinks the Australian federal government is housed in Sydney.
Ironically, on the program Baer tries to convey the message that the Israelis are incompetent. I fail to see how the Israelis can be both all-controlling and also incompetent.
It has just been announced that an Israeli diplomat has been expelled from Australia.
I sure hope it wasn’t Herzyl Barak!
i heard that the australian governemnt now wants to expel the guy with the tennis racket in this video. they say he looks dodgy, and that his accent is really bad.
That’s a great shame. I know he’d been hoping to use his time in Australia to travel a bit and see the region, such as the stunning beaches of Malaysia, and of course Bali.
Today’s haaretz editorial on this issue concludes by saying:
One can only hope that the highest levels of both the government and the defense establishment are taking the expulsion of the Mossad representatives from Britain and Australia seriously and drawing all the necessary conclusions from the aftermath of the assassination in Dubai. Instead of “regretting” these friendly governments’ perfectly understandable response, it would be better to apologize to them and refrain from violating their sovereignty in the future. Israel should not be gambling with so valuable a strategic asset as its foreign relations.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/australian-lesson-1.292268
Does that mean we have to call the appeal off?
Can anyone tell me the name of the song & singer at the end of the clip?