tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53218842009-07-10T12:19:42.041+03:00Presenting the thoughts of an 20 y/o IDF soldier, with no free time at allOnlyInIsraelnoreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321884.post-1149533277213423702006-06-05T21:31:00.000+03:002006-06-05T21:48:47.573+03:00

Wow, that was quick. Hrothgar of Undernet's #politics chat channel noticed it and referred me to it, I had to see it to believe it.Remember "Islamic Relief Worldwide" about which I wrote here only last week, and whom I caught creating imaginary orphans (or listing the world's first 13 years long pregnancy, take your pick)? Well, the orphans in question have been erased from their website. Smells

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All the news are filled with stories about the "moderate" Fateh's new security force. For the people who haven't kept up with the news let me explain.The Hamas, a murderous terror gang which won the Palestinian elections is in control of the government and the parliament. The Fateh, a murderous terrorist gang which lost the Palestinian election, controls the presidency. Anyhow, a few weeks ago,

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It all started when I stumbled on this story on Ynet.Iyaz Ali, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, arrested by the Shin Bet three weeks ago, admitted to having aided Hamas through his work for a British Islamic aid organization in Ramallah and Gaza. Ali, 36, is a humanitarian aid worker for the Islamic Relief Worldwide organization (IRW)Ali, who was appointed as project manager in Gaza last

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If there's a ritual no military service is complete without it's being court-martialed.In an archaic ceremony which often seems as it was copied word by word from "Catch-22", people a few years older than you can easily take away your freedom, and land you in detention, or worse, jail. It all starts with a "complaint form", this is filled by an NCO or an officer, who then shoves you into the

OnlyInIsraelnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321884.post-1149010979927275912006-05-30T20:38:00.000+03:002006-05-30T20:42:59.963+03:00

About a month ago, I heard a lecture by Neil Lazarus, an Israeli speaker on the issues of Israeli advocacy, international media and politics.I don't meet a lot of people who work in Israeli advocacy in RL. Most of the people I know in that area I know via the Internet, so it was quite an experience to hear him phrase and summarize the stuff I usualy do into "howto"'s. Anyway the guy runs a site,

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Every independence day (and even beforehand, on memorial day) the press always goes to the ultra orthodox neighbourhoods to shoot some pictures of Israeli ultra orthodox Jews spitting in the face of the country. They either don't stand during the siren (which sounds every memorial day to mark the memory of the soldiers who died defending this country), or they just burn Israeli flags, and

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I can't really explain what it is that kept me from updating the blog. Everytime I returned home from the army, I felt that everything I wanted to say was already discussed.One another thing I have experienced for the first time in quite a few years is complete dissatisfaction with my government. Olmert (and I do love this guy), completely gave in to the Ultra Orthodox Shas party, which basically

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The Israeli elections are in a few days, and I wanted to share with my readers an experience most Israelis face every elections.According to the Israeli election propaganda law, every party running for the Knesset gets a TV spot in the three main channels. Each party gets an equal time frame, with time editions for every serving parliament member. I'll post (with subtitles) a few of the election

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Warning, Human Speebumps ahead!I occasionaly check my Site-meter referrals page, and noticed something weird. It seems like I'm getting visits from the ISM website admin page (which is password protected). Which means ISM monitors this blog, and sends out its watchdogs (or in this case watch-morlocks) to flood this blog with ISM propaganda, and attempt to decieve my readers by posting lies in the

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That's what the common name for the 1967 borders is. Most media outlets use that name, and its common in every political discussion about Israel.Have you ever wondered why it's called the Green Line? Here's why:See the forest? That's Israel. See where it ends and desert begins? That's the West Bank.And that's what they mean when they say "Jews made the desert bloom".Not many people are aware of

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Bil'in is dead, hail the new attack point, Beit Sira. The anti-terrorist barrier near Bil'in is almost complete, so the human waste that tried to stop the fence there, now moved to nearby Beit-Sira, to continue their favorite hobby of assaulting soldiers and destroying construction equipment. Such protests are now a matter of everyday event in Beit Sira, and I wish to show you photographs from

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Mem Tzadik is a Hebrew acronym for "Mishtara Tzvait"- The military police. It's a loathed combination of letters, too often used as a cry for warning, to warn the other soldiers not to get hit by them. Their presence is often accompanied with white hats (who look like dunce caps to me) and white and orange armbands. They usually hunt in the morning, and their favorite hunting ground is a bus

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Any regular Internet user, has probably encountered a Wikipedia article atleast once in his life. Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia, to which anyone can contribute, thus creating a global source of knowledge, which is constantly growing and developing. The rules are simple: anyone can contribute and write in an article, when the guiding concept is, that if something is wrong, there will

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A few years ago, when the fence construction was just beginning, it began in the place where it was most needed. The garbage dump of the Arab-Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm. Unbelievably, before the fence was constructed, anyone, and I do mean anyone could cross over from Jenin's town center directly into Israel within less than an hour.The fence then cut to the west, separating settlements like

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I don't know if anyone actually noticed but "Palestine Indymedia" (placed provocatively under the jerusalem.indymedia.org URL) is officially dead. Anyone trying to access it reaches the main Indymedia site.Unfortunately Israel Indymedia is still around.No word, on the entire blogosphere regarding the disappearence of "Palestine Indymedia", and obviously noone cares much either. Which is great.

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Last week, the parents of Pancake Corrie had to endure an attempted hijacking in Gaza. That's what the news told us.GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen briefly seized the parents of slain U.S. activist Rachel Corrie as they visited the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, but relented after being confronted by a member of the security forces, witnesses said.They said Craig and Cindy Corrie, whose daughter

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Norway's federal government has threatened to boycott Israel, following one of its districts deciding to do so. That held for about 3 minutes, till the US intervened.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods.The reaction

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You know, I've just discovered something.Apparently, I hate brown people. That's according to Jesus' General, ofcourse. He wrote a whole piece about the nominees in the JIB 2005 awards and I'm mentioned there (woo-woo, thanks for the traffic) as an example to someone who hates brown people.Only in Israel's caption for a photo showing soldiers beating a brown person:That kinda gives a new

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Turns out that while I was away someone nominated me for Israellycool's JIB2005 awards. This is a great source of pride for me. This blog has been running for quite some time (over 2 and a half years), despite that, I never participated in any blog competition, or hoped of winning one.Anyway, I'm nominated in the "best Israeli advocacy blog" and in the "Best Series" section for my posts regarding

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This charming short story was published in Maariv two weeks ago, I remember really wanting to translate it and post it on this blog, but then I found out ofek5 of "Eye in the sky" has already done it.So I'll just point you the right direction.

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For the last week there was some sort of drama around the hijacking of a British "peace activist" and her family by crazy jihadists in Gaza. Eventually Kate Burton and her family were released, and she quickly fled to the Israeli side of the Gaza border, not before wrapping herself in a "Pizza Hutt" tablecloth, a-la "General Arafat".The media described her as a "peace activist" that belonged to a

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Israeli politics is rocking. Sharon left the Likud for Kadima. Peres left Labour for Kadima. For the first time in over a decade a unique situation occured in Israeli politics: we're having ideological elections.For the last few years it has been confusing. The left was center-left. The right was center-right. There was no actual center party, and is you wanted to vote ideologically, you had to

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As usual with propaganda, it takes a simple look at it to spot the lie and deception. Take BBC for instance. Last week they published a series of photos of supposedly poor, innocent, scared Palesitnian schoolgirls who are threatened by Israeli soldiers in a checkpoint in Hebron. Really, a heartbreaking scenes when soldiers are seen pointing guns at the poor girls. But wait, what's that right

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My webhosting company (which hosts all the images, sounds and movies for this blog) informed me that I have to renew my subscription in a few months. Now, that costs money, and generally, as a soldier, I don't have a lot of it (my monthly salary is 705 NIS which is roughly 150$). Now, I have two options: one is to use AdSense to add commercials to this blog, and another is to establish a PayPal

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Well, I wanted to post it only after the whole thing was perfect but, alas, no luck.About a month ago the "Jerusalem Post" published a story about this blog. As my readers know, I spend most of my time in the army, and come home roughly twice a month (or less). I came home to find an Email in my Inbox from a Jpost reporter asking me for comments and questions, sadly by the time I got to

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