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1 dead, dozens wounded in Palestinian-Egyptian clash on Gaza border - Israel News, Ynetnews
Egyptian forces fired live bullets at the crowd, wounding several, witnesses said. Bullets landed close to an AP staffer on the Gaza side of the border. Later, Palestinian gunmen fired back. It was not immediately clear if the gunmen were from Hamas. Police from Hamas were next to the border at the time.

Back to sleep everyone, Palestinian killed by Egyptian , not an Israeli. Live fire into crowds of people doesn’t matter as long as it’s not the IDF.

It hasn’t turned up on PMW yet and when it does I’ll link to it but in advance of that, this is such important news I felt I had to bring it to you.

NEWSFLASH - NAHOUL THE BEE IS STARVING TO DEATH!

Nahoul is on his deathbed and receiving visits from all his (curiously) human family. He has been reduced to a state of (rotund) starvation by the cruel, monstrous, war criminal Zionist, evil Jew regime of the Israelis. His (surprisingly) well fed looking family can do nothing to alleviate his suffering.

It’s hard to believe. Animal abuse in Palestinian society but this time it is clearly Jews to blame so that is OK.

NEWSFLASH ENDS

Footage was shown on Israeli TV News, I didn’t have a translation I could understand but the pictures were clear enough for kids. Oh, and yes, our favourite young pioneer girl was back as anchor.

Aussie Dave says: But I just wrote he was happy. Faulty intelligence?

I’m a little late posting the plug for the latest Shire Network News. It was a long show but might provide a little humorous diversion from the nonsense that is the Winograd Report. And how on earth did they manage to release it on a day of snow in Jerusalem?

Podcasts asks if Liberals are Fascist?

Jonah Goldberg is the guest on Shire Network News this week. His new book, Liberal Fascism, is causing a bit of a stir among liberals who don’t understand. Just don’t understand is how that sentence was meant to end. There is a whole blog about the books reception set up at the National Review.

You can buy his book from Amazon.com via the following link: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.

This week’s guest writer on Blog News is Right Wing Duck. You can sometimes find him on IMAO. Let us know what you think.

Also this week we once again hear from Evan Sayet who’s got Bill and Hilary in his sights again.

Meryl Yourish is giving her liberal perspective on Fascism.

Doug Payton is considering what sort of culture bans ever reference to pigs. And Cowboy builders. You can find background here.

This week’s Winston Churchill quote is from The Gathering Storm:

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism… As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into even more hideous strife, which none can say has ended with their destruction.

We’ve just released another episode of Shire Network News. This week’s interview guest is California-based filmmaker, Chris Burgard, whose documentary about the situation on the US-Mexico border is winning awards and pissing off all the right people.

We also have a very strong piece about Sderot from Meryl Yourish. You might want to listen.

For more details and to find a player follow the link to our site:

Podcast is securing our borders.

Only in Israel would the prize for the winning team in a weekly Survivor challenge be a Shabbat Dinner with Challah, honey, wine and Shabbat Candles for the whole team.

And only in Israel would the winning team share that prize with the losers because Jews don’t stop other Jews from eating a Shabbat dinner.

Yup I’m still stranded in Israel but it isn’t so bad. Come visit some time.

As the “road to Annapolis” (as all the TV news broadcasts here in Israel have been subtitled for the last few weeks) marches to it’s sorry end, I bring you something that Winston Churchill wrote while furiously warning that letting a militaristic Germany re-arm was global suicide:

“Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folks into total war. The cheers of weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to echo, and their votes soon cease to count. Doom marches on.”

Do I need to labour the point?

And on a lighter note,

Giant Israeli flag breaks world record for largest in world

Filipino entrepreneur and evangelical Christian Grace Galindez-Gupana said she decided two years ago to produce a giant Israeli flag as a testament to her love for Israel and the Jewish people, and as a celebration of 50 years of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Israel.

“God spoke to me in thunder and lightening,” Galindez-Gupana said. “The Lord said, ‘Make the flag of Israel, the standard of my people.’”

This week my usual gig, Shire Network News, is hosted completely by Tom Paine, it’s original host. I’ve been too busy this week. I have to say that gives me the rare pleasure of listening to the show just for fun and I can safely say (because I’m not on it) that it sounds great this week.

If you’ve never listened, give it a go, you might find some of the things we talk about coincide with your interests as a reader of Israellycool.

Podcast joins the Army

Shire Network News, the Anglosphere’s premier anti-Jihadi podcast is back, and this week we take a uniquely personal look at how one person has decided to take action.

Reut Cohen, a previous guest on SNN, has decided she is joining the US Army, much to the shock of some of her friends. She speaks to us about the reasons for her decision, and the reactions she’s received - not all of them positive.

We’ll also hear from Meryl Yourish about a new theory of political discourse she’s come up with that seems to have something to do with Dennis Leary.

And Doug Payton shows us how to combat Global Warming by eating kangaroos. Or something. I wasn’t really paying attention, you know, being up on this roof scanning the horizon for the rescue choppers coming to carry me and the rest of the Secret Zionist Neo-Con agents of AmeriKKKan imperialist hegemony to safety in the wake of the Australian election result.

You DID remember to have Pacific Command send a carrier battle group to pick me up in case John Howard lost the election, didn’t you?

There’s also plenty of Blog News, featuring rioting Muslim extremists, Jihadi bombers, Chuck Norris guarding the US Mexican border and (shudder) Helen Thomas. Isn’t she dead yet?

Last week I experienced my first truly religious Shabbat meal. I went to the Breslov synagogue in Tsfat full to bursting, and saw and heard the most amazing group act of praying I’ve ever felt. Mostly it was a complete jumble of people saying the same Hebrew words in their own time but ever now and then it fell into unison and was unbelievable. There were also a couple of sessions of a conga-like joining of hands and walking in big snakes all round the room.

I was able to follow along a little (with an English translation thoughtfully given to me) and what struck me was that these people (my people) are praising God, talking about love and thinking good thoughts towards others. It was so non-threatening and I was welcomed even though I was (as you might imagine) dressed completely differently from the crowd (I had what I would call a “settler yamaka” but the rest was strictly Ralph Lauren Chinos (kahki) and a light wind breaker. Most certainly not a black hat and coat and not a hint of fur.

After the service we climbed the hill in near total darkness up the windy alleys of biblical Tsfat back to my friend’s little house where she lives with her husband and 7 kids, the oldest 14 and the youngest almost 2. Good grief, its a hell of a way to live but I know one thing for sure: these people are not a threat to anyone.

The secular proponents of the “all religions are equally bad” line are just plain and simple ignorant and malevolently so. If a scientist thinks he knows something about religion without extensively studying it, he would be just as wrong as a Rabbi who summed up modern astronomy with the phrase Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

If you don’t know me, I’m Brian of London, from the Shire Network News podcast. Our most recent show features an interview with LGF’s Charles Johnson.

This is from the following Ynet news story about the wife of the kidnapped soldier, Ehud Goldwasser, getting into a press conference with Ahmadinejad to ask him a simple question.

Goldwasser recounts confrontation with Ahmadinejad

Goldwasser said she was not afraid to present the president with her question, and asked him, “Hello, my name is Karnit, the wife of Ehud Goldwasser, the soldier who has been held captive for over a year. Since you are the man that is behind the kidnapping due to the aid you grant Hizbullah, why don’t you allow the Red Cross to visit the two soldiers?” she asked.

The president ignored the question.

I was in Israel for a long stay over the summer and I took a chance to excitedly do something I’d never done before. I took the tunnel tour that walks along the sub-terranian excavations at the base of what was the western wall of the temple mount. That little bit you see in pictures is just a fraction of the complete structure.

So the following story caught my eye: Quarry for Temple Mount’s Giant Rocks - Found.

One of the first things you see of the hidden wall is a massive (you just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is) stone. As ever it is beautifully finished and more amazingly it is not even at the base of the wall. Well they’ve found the quarry where that rock and its friends came from.

The following is the piece I recorded for Shire Network News at the time (episode 96):

Walking through the tunnels that have been exposed since 1967 is an amazing experience. All the more so because these tunnels give one a sense of the amazing scale of construction in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. This is fundamental as a solid, beautifully carved visual reminder of why Jerusalem is the city in which Jewishness is centred. Jews may have scattered, but our collective memories point to Jerusalem.

It is also essential to understanding the essence of the stories of Jesus. And I’m not talking about the Muslim Jesus, Isa, oh no.

That tunnel tour is one of the world’s greatest tourist experiences without any doubt. And the thought that it would be blocked off or closed by handing control of Jerusalem to the arch despoilers of history should be utterly unthinkable.

Already it is known that on the summit of the temple mount, Arab muslims are digging tunnels and destroying what they can. This is a hidden crime of the highest magnitude. Tearful archeologists know this is happening when they sift through the spoil the Arabs are dumping and find only shattered fragments of the treasures destroyed.

On the tour I took, the exit via the Muslim Quarter and the Via Delarosa, that was opened by Netanyahu, is too dangerous to use at night. And that is a part of soverign Israel today. Imagine if Jerusalem were under full Arab control.

The Jewish Virtual Library has more information.

*No infinitives were unintentionally split in the writing of this post.

So I was out enjoying what could be the last of the summer sunshine (in England that is) in a little town to the west of London called Marlow when I got an e-mail from Dave saying would I mind posting on his blog while he takes some time off. I’m sure he’ll explain all when he gets back: I’m not going to steel his thunder.

But what does Brian of London have to write about Israel I thought?

And then my wife hands a toy to my child and breaks our rule: noisy toys can only be used at other people’s homes. It’s a green and orange rattle with a bell inside. The equivalent of cocaine for a sub-one year old.

There can be no redeeming features about this and by the time I notice, my child is in love and could you take a toy out of the hands of your first born?

It is only later, when we’re feeding him, that we examine the toy more carefully and are delighted to find a big “Made in Israel” stamped on the top of the toy. What a shock: something not made in China. A warm glow filled us: we’re supporting Israel by accident now.

The toy is made by Halilit and you can find them on their Hebrew website too.

So rush out and buy some Israeli toys before the Chinese copy them and send them to Hezbollah via Iran.

[I'm Brian of London, more usually found hosting the Shire Network News podcast. We're due to have a new show out tomorrow featuring an interview with a rather interesting apostate Muslim cartoonist who's now drawing cartoons his family don't really approve of.]

Just a quick note to say Aussie Dave is still observing Shabbat, but technical trouble stopped him posting earlier today. Now that all is well with the site, I’m sure he’ll be back with more wit and wisdom just as soon as it’s chalacha-cly right to post.

Brian of London (of Shire Network News)