Entries from February 2008

February 29, 2008

‘Please censor the Internet to protect my children from Evil’?

  
   (Gluyas Williams “The Censor”)
AN OPINION.
  There are  people, convinced that they know, on the ground of their own morality and beliefs, what is nefaste for me when I visit sex, porno, violence sado-maso sites on the Internet. And if so, why should I not benefit from their gratuitous intervention by passing for me a censorship bill , to [...]

February 25, 2008

An Israeli Egyptian Movie Encounter

 
The 80th Annual Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008 (today 3.00 AM Israel time 2/25/2008). Among the five films nominated to the Best Foreign Film is the Israeli film ”Beaufort’.see here.
  But as with the Middle East imbroglio, another Israeli film, “The Band’s Visit“ [By Writer-director Kolirin] who actually  triumphed at the Israel film academy’s 2007 [...]

February 21, 2008

WW2 and looted art in Jerusalem exhibition

 
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  Seventy years after the second World War, there are still attempts to restitution of looted art to their legitimate Owners. In the  words of French Minister of Culture and Communication Christine Albanel…””What we expect from this exhibit is that a miracle will occur and someone will come here and say ‘that belongs to me,’”.
She speaks [...]

February 17, 2008

Israeli Syrian Hezbollah’s ‘James Bond’ stories of Mugniyah’s death

 
The violent death of Imad Mugniyah, arose the question of his killers identity.

  Here is one James Bond Story (Israeli Mossad) telling us in details the last moments of Imad Mugniyah.
 The Sunday Times state on his headline ”Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb” I Quote, ..”At 10.35pm he decided to go home. Having exchanged customary kisses with his host, Hojatoleslam [...]

February 13, 2008

Hizbullah’s chief of staff Imad Mugniyah Killed

 
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 Imad Mugniyah has been killed in a mysterious explosion in Damascus.
He is considered as the chief of staff of the Hizbullah.
Two Quotes:
1-”Explosion hits Damascus residential area
 An explosion tore through a residential area in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday, but it was not immediately clear if it caused any casualties.
Security officials at the scene refused [...]

February 10, 2008

German New Comics

Germany launches comic book on Holocaust.
  I quote..”New book part of effort to combat anti-semitism in Germany, which has a rapidly growing Jewish community”..”Created by the Dutch cartoonist Eric Heuvel”…”The book, based on fact, describes how Jews in Germany and the Nazi-occupied Netherlands experienced the genocidal Nazi persecution that took the lives of 6 million [...]

February 6, 2008

Seeking Bread… 1943

 THE DAILYCOMICS DREAM. (1933-1945, Belgium)
World War 2, 1943. The rations of bread, meat etc are reduced to a minimum. Near Awagne, where I was hiding from the Nazis, there was an old farm.  I and other two children (my friends), when being very hungry, visited the old farm  and begged the farmers  to give us  bread and butter. If the Nazis where [...]

February 2, 2008

Hip Hop Palestine

  
  This is about the Palestine and Israeli Arabic Hip Hop music. It is also  , in a time of semi-war and the Vinograd commission report on the second Lebanese war, how hip hop music express the beat of feelings, anger and frustrations of Arabic youths in the West Bank, Israel and the Gaza Strip.

  There [...]