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Archive for March, 2008

Lewinsky Park shelter evacuated

Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Tel-Aviv Municipality officials on Sunday evacuated and sealed off the Lewinsky Park bomb shelter in South Tel-Aviv that has served as refuge for dozens of African refugees. I wrote about this shelter a few weeks ago, and took pictures of the absolutely unacceptable and unsanitary conditions the African refugees living in the area had to [...]

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Haviv’s bachelor party on Channel 2

Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Channel 2 TV filmed us at Haviv Rettig’s bachelor party last week as part of its segment on alternative bachelor parties. Haviv’s friends took him to Beit Berl in Kfar Saba for a paintballing game, most of which he spent taking hits. I’m in the background in some parts of the video, mostly shooting [...]

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We caught Nasrallah!

Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a little Purimspiel:
Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah was captured by Israeli security guards at the Purim party in south Tel-Aviv’s Florentine neighborhood on Thursday night. The arrest drew tremendous cheers from the thousands of young people who were celebrating the Jewish holiday that symbolizes their ancestors’ miraculous delivery from a genocidal warlord.

Nasrallah thought [...]

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Meretz on a walking stick

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Justin Kliger is Meretz’s dream voter. He’s 26, very liberal, loves Israel and yearns for peace with our neighbors.

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Club Barzilai made me sick

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on March 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Here’s another post I would have never dreamed of writing while I was still a smoker. But I’m really pissed off.
Its Monday night and I’m sick. I’ve been coughing for two days straight and its getting worse. My throat and lungs feel totally wrecked, thanks to the many smokers who visited the Barzilai Club on [...]

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A hard place and two fast-moving rocks

Posted in America, Annapolis, Ehud Olmert, Israel, tagged , , on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that his government considers the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa as an inseparable part of Israel and will continue to build there. This comes just a few days before US Vice President Dick Cheney’s arrival. America sees continued building in the settlements and East Jerusalem as an obstacle [...]

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Stay in the ring with Al-Jazeera

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This morning the Foreign Ministry announced it was going to launch a boycott of Al-Jazeera for biased reporting. Herb Keinon of the Jerusalem Post broke this story last week already, but the Ministry announced today that it was going to take steps. In any case, by this afternoon, it seems as if the ministry has [...]

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Attack will be seen in messianic terms

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I published this post Friday morning, and its now Sunday night – strange the tone and style of the responses I’ve been getting to this piece [all the comments were emailed to my Jpost account as the piece was posted on the Jpost website]. Religious people say I’m totally off the mark and that the [...]

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Ghetto rising in Tel-Aviv

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on March 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The area between the old and new bus stations in south Tel-Aviv is on its way to becoming a ghetto made up of African refugees living in the most squalid of conditions and turning the already run-down area into a time bomb the municipality can no longer ignore.

The few blocks adjacent to the new [...]

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Head or Gut?

Posted in Annapolis, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Sderot, tagged on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Israel wants to topple Hamas, but doing so would leave it in charge of Gaza again
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s assertion Tuesday that Israel would reoccupy the Gaza Strip should it be necessary to do so sounds like another unrealistic threat voiced by a government which woke up one morning and realized that Hamas [...]

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