Saturday, July 21, 2012

This is Unexpected and Welcome



A Tip 'O the Kippa to Zach of Matt and Zach fame.

5 comments:

  1. Holed up in his Idaho compound, Jimmeh
    "Apartheid" Carter is clawing at his eyes in horror and denial. As The World's Greatest Humanitarian, he knows it's all a monstrous lie.

    And he is The World's Greatest Humanitarian, you know. Just ask him, he'll tell you. Of course his only humanitarian cause is "Stop the Semitism!!!!"

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  2. A tender melancholy modern pop ballad by Israeli Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish singer Dudu Tasa:

    דודו טסה איזה יום- מתוך רעש מקליטים
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qWJ1PNw_8

    A music video by Israeli Jewish rock band HaDorbanim (The Porcupines):

    הדורבנים - לא פוגע - הקליפ הרשמי
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-BYnyBsQ6w

    A retro-style synth-pop dance song by Israeli Jewish rock and pop band HaCartel:

    הקרטל - יתפוצץ העולם
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze140G-Oga8

    A Mizrahi-style pop song by Israeli Kavkazi (Mountain Jewish / Juhuro) Jewish pop singer Sarit Hadad:

    שרית חדד - מאחלת לך - Sarit Hadad - I'm wishing you - Clip
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QkhkMRWb28

    An Israeli Jewish version of a Kurdish song, by Israeli Kurdish Mizrahi Jewish singer Itzik Kalla:

    (BTW: the following links to the song are links to videos uploaded onto YouTube by Arab Israeli YouTube users)

    איציק קלה-אישה יפה/מאמי מאמי
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynz8fu94Duc
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCoC7F-VwM

    A performance of Moroccan Arabic songs, by Israeli Moroccan Mizrahi Jewish singer Eti Levy:

    אתי לוי - מחרוזת מרוקאית
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIB-WkviuF4

    A performance of a Yemeni Mizrahi Jewish (Yemenite) Arabic-language song, by Israeli Yemeni Mizrahi Jewish (Yemenite) Jewish singer Zion Golan

    ציון גולן בקיסריה - יא אומא
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcKrKKK23g

    A surprise flash-performance in the Dizengoff Centre shopping mall in Tel Aviv by singers of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra:

    אופרה בהפתעה בדיזינגוף סנטר - Opera at the heart of Tel Aviv
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqosHRbWog

    A theatre for the deaf and blind in Jaffa, Israel:

    A Night of Theatre - Ep11 Derric's Travel Video Diary
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WU0F5-Qxw

    Paraplegic athletes in Israel:

    כתבו עלינו ב"עיתון" - קוואד רוגבי (נכים) ישראל
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coSVZg3_vGU

    A walk-through tour of various places in Jerusalem:

    The colors of Jerusalem
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DwOEVlHdg

    A flash-mob dance performance in Jerusalem:

    flash mob - hora jerusalem פלאש מוב הורה ירושלים
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzhQuQGyulA

    Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade 2011:

    Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVh85vh2JI

    Artwork on escalators in the Tel Aviv city hall building:

    DoverD - Tel-Aviv city-hall
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq4dhbjKObk

    A bicycle-mounted-video-camera-recorded tour of the outdoor campus of the Technion university in Haifa:

    טכניון - סיור בלב הקמפוס Technion Campus Outdoors Tour
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc4bBSiCt1w

    A playlist, by me, of videos of, and from, Israel:

    Israel
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE440A6985B51B0DF

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  3. Good stuff. I'd like to see the follow-up filmed in reverse, like Drop. I have no idea why I just thought of a random Pharcyde video from the mid-90's, btw, but I did...

    ;)

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  4. BTW:

    This video is touching to me and heartwarming to me. And I like this song a lot.

    I apologize for previously not mentioning the fact that this video is touching to me and heartwarming to me. And I apologize for not mentioning the fact that I like this song a lot. And I apologize for, therein, maybe giving the wrong impression that I didn't appreciate this video. And I apologize for, also therein, maybe giving the wrong impression that I didn't appreciate the posting of this video.

    I really like this video. Thank you for posting it, Mike.

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    1. Although, again, I reiterate: I'm not an adherent of the ancestral religion of the Jewish people. And I'm not a theist. I'm stating these facts in an attempt to clarify, and to, I hope, illuminate.

      Israel is a liberal democratic, culturally diverse, culturally rich, developing-of-globally-beneficical-technoligical-advances, country where anyone can believe in any religious ideology that that they want to believe in, and is a country where anyone can believe in no religious ideology if they want to, and is a country where anyone can express belief in no religious ideology if they want to, and is the very small sole country of the Jewish people.

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      BTW:

      Anyone who is deemed to be Jewish -- by ethnicity, or by religion -- by the government of Israel can be automatically granted citizenship of Israel. This automatic granting of citizenship, by Israel, to people who are Jewish is similar to the automatic granting of citizenship, by other democratic countries, such as Japan, and some European countries, to people whose ethnicities, or whose parents' nationalities, are those of the nationalities of those democratic countries. Furthermore, Jewish people, unlike the peoples of such other democratic national states, are a very small group of people who have been homeless and persecuted for the past two thousand years. And, the country of the Jewish people, Israel, is a very small country, and has been under intendedly genocidal siege since it was re-founded approximately 60 years ago.

      Anyone, whether or not they are Jewish, can apply for, and be granted, citizenship of Israel, in the same way that anyone can apply for, and be granted, citizenship of other democratic countries.

      Israel is the nation of the Jewish people. Just like Ireland is the nation of the Irish people. And just like Japan is the nation of the Japanese people. And just like Italy is the nation of the Italian people. And just like Thailand is the nation of the Thai people. Israel is, therein, the Jewish state. Just like Ireland is the Irish state. And just like Japan is the Japanese state. And just like Italy is the Italian state. And just like Thailand is the Thai state.

      The land area of Israel is approximately two percent of the total land area of the Middle East.

      There are over twenty Arab states in the world. There are fifty-six Muslim states in the world. There are several officially Christian states in the world. There are many national states in the world: Thailand, Japan, over 20 Arab states, several European states, etc.

      There is only one Jewish state in the world: Israel.

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