Here's a summary of this 132-page book, which I guarantee you will read in one sitting:
This book is the fruit of many years of research, during which thousands
of sources have been meticulously reviewed in libraries and archives
worldwide. It is no doubt the most comprehensive and extensive review of
some 3,000 years of Palestinian history, with emphasis on the
Palestinian people’s unique contribution to the world and to humanity.
So what's so special about this book? JPost's Joy Bernard explains:
The catch? This lauded historical account that is also available in
Arabic and in Hebrew and was penned by the Israeli writer offers no real
insight, let alone content. Yes, that's right- "History of the
Palestinian People" is a book whose every single page (and there are 120
of them) is a blank.
Unfortunately, if you go to Amazon today and search "History of the Palestinian People + Voll" or "History of the Palestinian People + Assaf Voll" you find something different (and if you search "History of the Palestinian People + Assaf," you find nothing). But at least it's (seemingly) on the right side. This is from the author's summary.
The secret is that there will never be peace between the Palestinians
and the State of Israel because the Palestinians were formed for a very
specific purpose which is to lead to the destruction of the State of
Israel. This is their sole objective…..at least that of the leaders.
Let's hope Amazon doesn't discover this one.
By the way, if you click on the link in my original post, you get a message from Amazon that they 'can't find that page.' A likely story.....
Amazon's new best seller: "A History of the Palestinian People from Ancient Times to the Modern Era"
It's only been out ten days, but this book has become the number 1 best seller on Amazon in its Israel and Palestine History category. Its price has dropped to $6.21 from $7.79 yesterday when I first saw it. It's already garnered 245 reviews. Here's a summary of this 132-page book, which I guarantee you will read in one sitting:
This book is the fruit of many years of research, during which thousands of sources have been meticulously reviewed in libraries and archives worldwide. It is no doubt the most comprehensive and extensive review of some 3,000 years of Palestinian history, with emphasis on the Palestinian people’s unique contribution to the world and to humanity.
So what's so special about this book? JPost's Joy Bernard explains:
The catch? This lauded historical account that is also available in Arabic and in Hebrew and was penned by the Israeli writer offers no real insight, let alone content. Yes, that's right- "History of the Palestinian People" is a book whose every single page (and there are 120 of them) is a blank.
In other words, we finally have a book that tells the truth about the 'history' of the 'Palestinian people.' It's about time.
Pizza Hut mocks 'hunger strike leader' Marwan Barghouti
Earlier this week, the leader of the 'Palestinian' terrorist 'hunger strike' for better cable TV, Marwan Barghouti, was caught on camera eating a candy bar in the bathroom of his cell.
On Tuesday, Pizza Hut Israel released the ad below in which Barghouti is asked, 'if you're already going to break the [hunger] strike, why not at least have pizza?'
The ad was on Pizza Hut Israel's Facebook page, where it was quickly removed.
'Palestinians' to sue God over covenant with Abraham
Last week, I reported on the 'Palestinian Authority's plans to sue the United Kingdom for issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
And as many of you know, the Bible says that God promised the land of Israel to the Jewish people.
So what's a 'Palestinian' to do? It's easy. They're going to sue God over His Making that covenant with Abraham.
“The God of Abraham had no right to promise this land to the Jews. Being
all-knowing, He had to have foreseen that some 4,000 years later, we
would suddenly decide that we have a national identity tied to this
land”, said a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority. The
Palestinians claim that God should have known that they would seek to
retroactively deny the rich and well-documented history of Jews in the
land of Israel and therefore should not have promised it to Abraham and
his descendants. “Although we were living in Arabia for thousands of
years after the covenant, God really should have taken us into
consideration when making such promises” said the P.A. spokesperson. We
reached out to God for comment via a note in the Wailing Wall. The
Almighty issued a statement through his spokesperson, the angel Gabriel,
“Are you serious with this sh*t??? I have much more important things
to worry about. There’s a war in Syria killing hundreds of thousands of
people in my name, the ice caps are melting, and I’m trying to figure
out how to stop the bees from dying off so you guys don’t starve to
death. I don’t have time for this nonsense.”
The Palestinians assert that time is a construct invented by God, and he
is simply avoiding having to address the issue. An archangel, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said that God is indeed worried about the
lawsuit since there are no good lawyers in heaven. “All of the most
cutthroat and lawyers are either in the U.S. Government or in Hell, so
God is really at a loss here. He won’t say it publicly, but he’s
scared.”
French immigrant to Israel explains why he returned to France
In a Facebook post in French, Alexandre Kassel, a young French Jew who immigrated to Israel from Paris' swanky 19th arrandissemente explains why he returned to France.
I'll be honest, the first few weeks [in Israel] and even the
first few months were a dream. Discovering a new country, especially a
special country like Israel and its new culture is a real opportunity.
But soon I realized that I didn’t come just to sightsee and had to start
building my life [in Israel] as well. That's when the wine turned sour,
the apple revealed its worm, the carriage became a Cinderella pumpkin,
and Israel, as Melissandre (a character in “Game of Thrones”), withdrew
her magic necklace and revealed herself in her ugliest nakedness.
Let's
begin with the weather…10 months out of 12, you can beg it to give us a
bit of the good old Parisian gloom, so we can feel a little of the
melancholy of the poets from our rich French literature, a little gray
depression that blends perfectly with our Ashkenazi genes. Oh no! Day
after day, week after week, the sun insisted to bring our morale up…It's
like living in the world of the Teletubbies and Care Bears. Every
morning when leaving, the black coat purchased from a Paris boutique
gave me an unbearably taunting look.
Outside, as in
Paris, I proudly wore the skullcap on my head. It took me a moment to
realize that something was wrong. I realized that…Oh misery...no one was
giving me acidic looks. I walked in the street, anonymous, as a member
of the whole population, [and] the yarmulke was no longer an object of
attention but naturally blended into the landscape. Do you have an idea
how hard it is to become a Mr-all-the-world once you’ve been used to
being the target of all the bitterness within one kilometer?
But
the Israelis do not stop at that! Not only did they not hate me, but
they all told me that I was their friend, or worse—their brother. You
know that in Israel, no one uses the family name or "Sir." Either they
call you by your first name, or you are jovially called "brother" as if
you did not even have a first name.
Under the blazing
daily sun, how do you not pine for the refreshing coolness of French
politeness? How do you not pine for the natural distance that all
citizens put between them, giving everyone the privilege, perhaps
illusory, of being a stranger in their own country? (I understood that
it's worthwhile to be a stranger in France.)
Those were
the first difficulties, but I did not give up and went forward by
beginning my studies in a secondary school deemed the toughest in
Israel: The Technion in Haifa. Having had a relatively easy schooling, I
needed tougher challenges.
To my amazement, when I saw
how my friends stayed in France to face the walls of intolerance, with
crucial exams falling on a Saturday (Shabbat) or a [Jewish] holiday
without alternatives, the Technion proposed a program that made it
ridiculously easy to avoid taking examinations on those days. The only
difficulty allowed to be imposed on us is the high level of education.
And
besides, it's crazy there at the Technion and in industry. Instead of
respecting the principle of inertia by resting on their laurels and
wallowing in existential immobility, as France knows to do so well, they
(Israelis) have only one word in their mouths:
Innovate….[and] "innovate more" and then continue…
Here
in Israel, we don’t know the beautiful and pleasant feeling of going for
a coffee or to the theater while the country crumbles around us. They
(Israelis) understand nothing of life.
And worse, you
know, when we talk about Israel on television, it’s like living in an
open, actual-size Call of Duty. The truth is that walking down the
street in Israel is rather like child’s play. Certainly there are
attacks, but otherwise it feels even too safe. No one has to spy out of
the corner of one’s eye to find bands of scum and figure out how to pass
by with the least damage. No, we just walk straight like idiots
directly towards our goal.
Heck! There was a school just
next to my home, where the kids are Jews and there's not a single damn
soldier. What kind of life is it where Jewish kids do not need an army
to be left to live?? You tell me.
But you know what? When
a bloody attack does happen, there are headlines in the local
newspapers the next day such as “A TERRORIST committed an attack and
killed lots of Israelis." Yes do not worry, there are also some
journalists justifying the act, but this does not prevent them from
daring to call these poor people terrorists. I felt myself compelled to
take out my wallet and buy the French press, which arrived two days late
but at least stated the facts correctly by writing "a Palestinian
killed in an attack in Jerusalem."
In short, as you have understood, with all this it seemed natural that I needed to return to France.
And yes, it's a satire - satiring French discomfort with the number of French Jews making aliya.
In May, the French newspaper Le Mondedecided
to invert the discussion on French Jews making aliyah by asking
French-Jewish readers who had made aliyah, but later decided to return
to their native country, about their reasons for deciding to move back
to France.
Seeing a kind of “malice” in the request by Le Monde, a writer for the French-Jewish news website rootsisrael.com
asked readers to instead inundate the newspaper with responses by
people who have made aliyah and stayed in Israel. The news website later
published one such letter by Alexandre Kassel, which he originally
posted on Facebook. The letter then went viral and was shared more than
2,000 times. The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has also featured the letter, which it translated into Hebrew.
“Wait, so he made a really awful choice with far-reaching negative
consequences and now he’s just stepping down to let someone else take
over? What?” said Colorado Springs, CO resident Evan Austin, echoing the
sentiments of citizens across the United States who were left
struggling to understand why a democratically elected head of government
would relinquish control simply because they had been shown to have
made a spectacularly bad judgment call. “So he jeopardized the future of
his country, and instead of spending the next several years remaining
in power while trying to paper over his mistakes, he’s just gone?
Where’s the part where he denies any wrongdoing or tries to blame
somebody else? This is absolutely crazy.”
Yes, of course that was The Onion, and you can read the whole thing here.
The title of this post is a new hashtag I've introduced to Twitter. I also tried to get my photoshopper to put niqabs and Abayas on the roller coaster riders, but alas, she no longer has Photoshop on her computer. So just imagine all that black hanging down, because yes Virginia, Six Flags Over Riyadh is opening soon.
The world's largest amusement park corporation Six Flags is set to
open up investments in Saudi Arabia following a meeting between its CEO
and Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In
a statement to Al Arabiya News Channel, Chief Executive Officer and
President at Six Flags Entertainment Corporation John M. Duffey said the
company was proud to enter this agreement to provide entertainment
facilities” for the kingdom.
In his
statement, Duffey also emphasized the importance of bringing
entertainment facilities to citizens as part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030.
“We
share Saudi Arabia’s vision to bringing entertainment to the country.
We share the same vision with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman and are prepared to providing multiple options in a bid to
translate that vision into reality,” he added.
Providing a space for entertainment and promoting culture is featured prominently in Saudi Arabia’s vision for the future that was announced in April.
Under
the vision, Saudi Arabia has said it is planning to provide “land
suitable for cultural and entertainment projects. Talented writers,
authors and directors will be supported.”
What could ever go wrong?
Here are some of my proposals for Saudi-themed entertainment for Six Flags.
Guess whose speeches are spliced into this video....
Let's go to the videotape.
Donald Trump, Your Drunk Neighbor
This is hilarious. The voice is really Donald Trump from his campaign speeches!He really does sound like a drunk guy rambling on about himself. Too funny!This was created by "Friend Dog Studios" and I thank them for allowing me to post it here.Please visit the URL listed in the video and give them your surport.
Posted by The Conservative Minuteman on Thursday, March 3, 2016
On Monday, I reported that President Hussein Obama wants to be Secretary General of the United Nations. I can now post this image of his job interview (Hat Tip: Jack W).
Hazan says that he condemns the electrical short circuit and says that it's forbidden to issue blanket condemnations of all the electricity in the country.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
