Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

‘Avatars’ of Awagne 1944, Belgium

The hard decision of Mr Willy Kelner in 1944.  General Patton’s tanks where not far from the Commognes.   Willy and Marie Antoinette Kelner persuaded the Wehrmacht soldiers to laid down their arms and reassembled them near the church to give them food and tea. In the evening the Waffen SS Soldiers evacuated the Wehrmacht and take their place, After a [...]

April 26, 2008

Nazi Propaganda in Misleading Paris Occupation Photos

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Via my Internet subscription to the french newspaper “Le Figaro” I found an article named “Cette exposition est tout à fait légitime”. Seeking an English written article on the same subject I found one on “FRANCE24″ named “German occupation photo exhibit causes scandal” . The opening lines describes in a few words what it’s all about [...]

April 23, 2008

Jonathan Pollard’s Sequel: “Ben-Ami Kadish the Forgotten Spy”

An Opinion.
Is there any way to answer why people act the way they act?  Yes, there are as many answers as there are people. 
Yesterday a story old 20 years surfaced about Ben-Ami Kadish, a former US Army engineer I quote, ..”Kadish was accused of taking home classified documents several times and letting the Israeli government worker [...]

April 22, 2008

Amr Waked: Artists in Arab cultures

This a short video clip showing Amr Waked, the Egyptian film actor, talking about artist in Arab culture.

Artists, actors, poets, musicians - very rarely are they taken seriously or appreciated in society, and it takes very much for your average Arab to actually make a profession out of what is commonly referred to as “just useless [...]

April 14, 2008

Citizen journalism in Lebanon and Bread in Egypt

Some Middle East Arab countries, despite being in a most censored region of the world, try to join by all means, the cohorts of bloggers, social nets and now,  Citizen Journalism, I quote,..
..”Citizen journalism initiative launched in Lebanon.” (10.04.2008) 
The first alternative online publication in the Arab world has been launched in Lebanon, according to the [...]

April 11, 2008

Is Switzerland’s Money a Weapon to Foment Terror?

One of the latest Iranian statement, I quote, ..”Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday,”…(see here), did not dissuade neutral Switzerland to make a natural gas deal  worth $28 billion to $42 billion, funding in a direct way the military nuclear ambitions of [...]

April 8, 2008

Visual Lies in Tibet the Gaza Strip and Salvador Dali

Fake photos are the holy grail for reshaping the world. If we use them in their naive ordinary context we are inclined to think that they represent real events. But today it is harder to believe that a photo is an authentic document reporting an event witnessed by an impartial photographer. A photo has lost his property of evidence, because in some [...]

April 2, 2008

Earth, a Black Hole’s ‘Meal of the Day’

 ”Doomsday: Mankind Has An Expiration Day”,  the name of a new movie and ”How unlikely is a doomsday catastrophe? ”, a physics paper, are two  good headers  affirming and refuting Doomsday, see here and here respectively. Now let’s see the actual story of the controversy..
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  I live in a kibbutz (Israel), in the Jordan Valley, a part of the rift [...]