Israel & the Beatles in 65

Last night, Paul McCartney gave an incredible concert in Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv. 45, 000 Israelis attended the event dubbed as the Israeli Woodstock.  It was magical.  Living in a country where death is often a daily occurence, it was wonderful to see so many Israelis letting lose and enjoying themselves.

My hats off to Paul McCartney for performing even after receiving death threats.

I am laughing at the media reports that all four of the Beatles  were supposed to perform in Israel, but the show was cancelled when religious and political leaders decried its likely corrupting influence on Israeli youth.  The original leaders and the majority of citizens of Israel at that time were secular acolytes. Unlike our wimpy leaders now,  there is no way that they would have bowed to the pressure of the rabbis.  At that time, Israeli society was even more libertine that it is today.

In 1965, the young country was only 17 years old. They did not have the foreign currency reserves to pay the Beatles, but were too ashamed to admit it. So they made up the religious controversy.  I learned this from one of the senior lawyers in the country.

Would Hilter be able to speak at the UN?

The answer is apparently yes. After Mahmoud Ahmadinenjad gave a speech to the UN dripping in anti-Semitic rhetoric, the other heads of state stood up and clapped. How dare they?

When you read the speech, replace the word Zionist with the word black or women and imagine the response.  Jesse Jackson and Hilary’s 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling would be foaming at the mouth that all the world leaders did not walk out of the General Assembly en masse.

These are the highlights or rather lowlites of the speech.  (The entire speech is linked to above.)

The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of people called Zionists. Although they are a miniscule minority, they have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centers as well as the political decision-making centers of some European countries and the US in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner.

This means that the great people of America and various nations of Europe need to obey the demands and wishes of a small number of acquisitive and invasive people. These nations are spending their dignity and resources on the crimes and occupations and the threats of the Zionist network against their will.

Today, the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse, and there is no way for it to get out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters

Democracy in Israel: a joke

The ruling party, Kadima, held elections yesterday to replace scandal ridden Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.  Only 74, 000 people out of a population of 7 million were eligble to vote.  In order to vote this election, you need to join the party and pay a fee, sort of like a poll tax. America abolished the poll tax years ago because it was discriminatory.

The winner, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, received 16, 936 votes ( 43.1% of the total).  To put it in perspective, more people are going to the Paul McCartney concert.  She bested her opponent by only 431 votes.  

Tzipi Livni has 42 days to form a government or there will be elections.  I like Tzipi Livni.  For democracy’s sake I hope that she can not form a government. I do not want a prime minister that has only be voted into office by 16,000 people. Maybe it is the American in me, but I can get used to the British style of democracy.

By their inherent nature, democracies are messy. I do not mean to pick on Israel.  I am also not so proud of the United States’ record of democracy.  Our last President was crowned by the Supreme Court with some of the justices having been chosen by his father. This kind of interconnectiveness are traits most often shown by a monarchy. Basically, there is something wrong with a democracy where I have to learn the word chad.

Alvin Ailey Dancer Dissed by Israeli Security

All day long I have seeing everywhere on the net the article about Alvin Ailey dancer, Abdur Rahim Jackson, and I am mortified. When the dancer landed in Israel after a long, exhausting flight, the Israel security forces took him aside and asked him to dance to prove his identity.  I can understand how humiliating this appeared. Israel should have apologized for the inconvienence but explained the need.

 I defend the security forces in this case. We have the right to protect our borders. Unfortunately, Israel is a victim of many terrorist plots. Only with overzealous security do the security forces thwart many attacks.

Jackson was not targeted simply because he was a Muslim. My friend Todd, white, non Jewish and  one of the top 200 lawyers in the US, came to visit me twice in Israel last year. On his second trip with his wife and three daughters, he was separated questioned by the security forces for hours. They did not understand why he was coming to Israel twice in one year. They were also suspicious due to weird route to Israel due to frequent flyer miles.

I can not undo what has happened to Abdur. But I can invite him to dinner on me. I and my friends extend a warm invitation to Mr. Jackson. We will show you the best of Tel Aviv and hopefully erase the bad memories from the airport. 

For those that are always nattering about branding Israel, they missed a golden opportunity to show the hospitality of Israel.

Jerusalem Post Sucks

We need to get a real English paper in Israel not the right wing piece of crap that the Jerusalem Post is.  Please just say no. Stop buying the newspaper.

I drew the line at Daniel Pipes editorial that called Obama a Muslim because his absentee father was a Muslim. The Jerusalem Post has to stop printing these racist rumors. It is making Jews look bad.

Why should this historic American elections be about us? It is not always about us.