"Snarky humor, funny photo comparisons, and frustrations with the geopolitical neighborhood all clash for a lovely symphony of madness." - Laurence Simon
"He can turn a very serious and possibly depressing piece of news and make it entertainment. That is talent, and that is why I love to read his blog." - Culture For All
"..the notorious Israellycool.com, which gently skips between right-wing rants against Islam, posts about science fiction and - what else? - blogs about the Eurovision song contest." - Tim Jonze, The Guardian
"..the liar & moral pygmy who writes Israellycool & makes feeble attempts to ridicule my views" - Dick Silverstein
When I first heard about Houston-based PLO Arab rapper Bassam Khalaf (fired from his job as a baggage screener for rapping about “flying planes into buildings” and descriptions of himself as a “crazy, suicidal Arabic … equipped with bombs”), I thought it was really Sascha Baron Cohen in disguise.
Now I see that he even looks a lot like Sascha’s most famous character, Ali G.