The Little Zionist

admin — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:19:49 +0000

Almond seaweed.

Egg Fried Rice.

Shredded smoked chicken.

Shredded Szechuan beef.

‘Family Style’ Beancurd.

Green tea throughout.

(Excluding the Little Zionist) various puddings, sweeties, cream slices and grapes, in controlled quantities and after the requisite 45 minutes.

Miscegenation

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:25:08 +0000

This Yom Kippur I was offered an argument in favour of ‘miscegenation’ ie marrying out, by a nice boy who had already done so. Now for some unfortunate reason he’d been reading the chabad website, which advises that he who marries out is doing Hitler’s work. This could not possibly be the case he told me because Hitler would’ve hated miscegenation more than anything else. According to Hitler’s rules although one tainted by the blood of a Jewish grandparent is considered Jewish enough to be gassed, the effect of a single Jewish great-grandparent is negligible.

Fairly perceptive a system of classification in a way: someone who has a Jewish grandparent will often specify this when asked “Are you Jewish?”; someone with a great-grandparent probably wouldn’t even know. By the fourth generation any Jewish influence (negligible even in the bacon-guzzling, beer-swilling and safely baptised third generation) is well and truly wiped out. To deny that in begetting an ‘ambiguously Jewish’ child (one classed as Jewish by the Reform movement only), and to bring him up without any real sense of being Jewish, ends in a fourth generation of banal bacon-guzzers is deluded in the extreme.

One needs only the brainpower to stretch the imagination beyond the second or third generation to apprehend that the ‘miscengeation’ being lauded here is in fact deadly for the chain of tradition - masorah - which it obliaterates. The term ‘miscegenation’ is cleverly chosen, because those who have opposed true miscegenation have often done so in flatly racist terms expressing fear that ‘pure’ genes will be polluted. The real problem reasonable people express when they oppose marrying out is not one of genotype, but of the cutting off of the chain of masorah, and the death of a religious tradition far superior to the wet anglicanism of our little island. So, nice try applying the term ‘miscegenation’, but anyone with any sense will realise this (mis)use to be an unsophisticated attempt to appeal to our instinctive dislike of racism, and to a currenty hegemonic left-wing orthodoxy that also renders supporting ‘palestine’ the default position.

admin — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:17:04 +0000

http://www.jonathanfreedland.com/articles/archives/000329.html

Banal senseless fluff from Jonathan Freedland. My favourite bits:

“their desire to have what we Jews yearned for so long, a homeland of our own where we might govern ourselves — is nothing more than a collective plot to deny Jewish suffering. So those Palestinians living under curfew and hemmed in by checkpoints aren’t angry about this hardship or desperate to throw off a 40-year occupation.” This ancient people is indeed desperate to throw off the shackles of the Zionist oppression and return to its natural state as a self-governing, politically distinct entity.

“They snap up copies of her book Londonistan, in which Britain — a rotting, decayed island awash with amorality — is on the brink of an Islamist takeover.” ‘Look at crazy old Mel’, says Freedland incisively.

“London is not the Warsaw ghetto, that Europe is not an inferno and that there is no need for the big US bodies to come to Anglo-Jewry’s rescue.” This country is indeed a fantastic place to be Jewish, just as tolerant as America.

“They have also had to explain that the US method of doing business — offering heavy financial help to pro-Israel MPs, for example — would not play well here.” The Jews are rich people who use their money to garner political support. This is bad.

I really struggle to believe that Freedland could happily publish this banal article under his own name. How can he not find it humiliating that people are reading his dull dull dull rubbish?

Yerushaloyim - Zichron Ya’kov

admin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:23:06 +0000

I was in a taxi in Jerusalem speaking to Blade on my Israeli telephone at a cost of three hundred pounds an hour. I put down my Israeli telephone and chatted to the taxi driver, which was free. The nice driver offered me a simple Hebrew newspaper, which I glanced at, pretending to read it in order that he would not read it whilst driving one-handed. We talked about some new flats that had been built on a big ridge that reared up beside the road. I finally established that they were nice flats for rich people. The conversation was somewhat stilted. We then began talking about the situation in Gaza, which was mentioned in the newpaper he had given me. I suggested that perhaps all the Arabs would kill each other. He expressed the desire that they would do so. We then drove on to the railway station, from where I caught the train to visit my friend binyaminah, with whom I had an excellent time.

Yisroel

admin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:10:27 +0000

Blade and I were in a taxi to Cambridge station very early in the morning as I was on my way to Israel. The taxi driver was hideous, and not at all like my righteous Liverpudlians mentioned below. He attempted to make smalltalk as Cambridge taxi drivers sometimes do. He asked where we were going. Blade foolishly told him I was flying to the holy land - to palestine. It then transpired that he too had been to the holy land - to palestine. Blade and I thought this somewhat odd, something Blade expressed by subtly poking me in the side and squeezing my hand. As if I had not noticed this oddness of this man’s visit. We asked for further details and learned that the hideous man had run out of money when travelling ‘around europe’ and ended up in the holy land - in palestine. He said he had an awful time there, and was kind enough to dispense some advice about how best to make my visit bearable. I will list the advice in easily-degistible bullet-points below*:

1. Arabs offer the best hospitality in the world - especially coffee.
2. Israelis are arrogant people.
3. Israelis will not look after you, they will only look after their own.
4. Israelis are oppressing the palestinian [sic] people.
5. Stick to the Arab areas and you will be fine.

*This advice can be made more generally applicable by inserting the word ‘Jew’ where ‘Israeli’ appears.

Blade expressed his incredulity, and mild excitement at meeting a real-life antisemite, in the same way as described above. I did not tip the man.

Bilbao

admin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:24:40 +0000

Blade and I had just docked in Bilbao, having come to the end of a hideous 36-hour ordeal on board a large, lower-class ferry. I was hanging around the reception desk of the vessel wearing Blade’s Israeli Airforce hoody, and trying to look offensive, when I noticed a man whom I assumed to be northerner, wearing some nylon shorts. We disembarked without showing anyone our passports, and with the Liverpudlian following us. The northerner then offered us a lift with him and his brother, whose parents have moved to Spain, and to whom they were driving. They dropped us outside our five-star hotel. I left Blade’s 2003 rowing jacket in the car. I was more upset about this than he. So in the car we conversed on various matters. Blade told the nice men that he wanted to be a teacher in order not to make them feel bad about their relative stupidity. I told them that I did French, and English, thinking this to be a rather inoffensive combination as would be studied by asinine girls from the north. Blade later told me I was wrong on this point. The younger of the brothers said that he was in the army fighting in Afghanistan, and this pleased me very much. I said that my cousin was also there shooting the savage Taleban, and we bonded. He spotted my hoody, and asked me if I was in the Israeli airforce (this was before I had told him about my studying French and English). I said that no I was not, and that I had the hoody because I had bought it as a souvenir, and because the Israeli Airforce is the best in the world. His only point of contention was the superiority of the British in this area. This, again, pleased me very much. We made a few small jokes about F16s and mohemmedans, and, again, bonded. This was a very heartening conversation. These people have not been perverted by the scourge of moral relativism, because they do not know what it is. They prefer to talk about aeroplanes and guns than Edward Said. They are excluded from the post-al-aqsa tide of anti-semitism, that I shall very originally observe, has swept along islamo-facsists as well as ‘intellectuals’. This is very good, and I entered my Bilbao hotel happy.

Entertaining

admin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:39:27 +0000

Blade and I have entertained. I will relate the menu before he does.

Halal milk bottle sweets.

American ‘natural’ Cheetos (only for thelittlezionist).

Lychee puddings (only for Ru).

Jelly Beans.

Yeo’s chrysantheme juice with vodka.

White wine left over from Cambridge Limmud 2006.

Publix root beer with rum.

Tamarind chink drink with rum.

Marks and Spencer’s Alpho mango cocktail mixer with water and vodka.

Cambridge Limmud 2006

admin — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:48:08 +0000

Sizzling Venison in Hong Kong sauce, Blackbean chicken, seaweed, egg-fried rice, and kosher spring rolls, at the Ugly Duckling Chinese Restaurant on Christmas Day. Yes: Venison in a chinese restaurant!

Chicken, spicy fries, coleslaw, corn, and Nandos House Salad, at Nandos.

Chinese breadfruit, melon, and mango seaweed jellies, bought from the Ghetto on Mill Road.

Pizza with spinach, fried onions, olives, and fried egg on top, at Ask Pizza, on boxing day.

11 packets of Wotsits#, and one packet of Brannigans roast beef and mustard crisps.

Sainsburies Sweet Pancakes with custard and banana from M&S.

Kinder surprises, and various chocolates.

McDonalds strawberry milkshake and large fries.

Mozzarella, avocado, onion, tomato, balsamic vinegar, and buttered Cholla bread.

A brown cow.

***

Cambridge Limmud 2006 Timetable

Saturday December 23rd

Early evening

Supervision

Marks & Spencer shopping for essentials, including Sprite

Dinner and washing

10.10pm

Down With Love, BBC2
Comedy set in the Big Apple *

11:50pm

Neighbors, cruise videos, and slumber *

Chocolates

Sunday December 24th

Morning

Hymns and Carols

Shopping for delicacies

Queuing for King’s Carols*

Afternoon

Quiet reading and chapter writing, with score from Hamlet:The Movie

5:45pm

Carols from Kings, either on BBC2, or Live

7:15pm

Ergo work in the gymnasium of the College of St. John the Evangelist*

8:00pm

Dinner

9:30pm

Scrabble*

Keeping The Faith
A film on DVD starring Edward Norton and a Jew*

Neighbors* and Olympic Games Bid city videos

Edgar-Allen-Po Oral Reading of The Raven

Monday December 25th

Late morning

Ergo in the gymnasium of the College of St. John the Evangelist

Afternoon

Lunch in town, preferably Chinese

3.30pm

Quiet reading and chapter writing

4.55pm

Duma the Cheetah, BBC 2
Documentary taking an intimate look into the life of the big cat *

5:30pm

Quiet reading and chapter writing

7:30pm

Dinner

9:30pm

The Vicar of Dibley Xmas Special, BBC 1
Alice thinks she is the last living descendant of Christ*

12:50am

Two Girls and a Guy, BBC 2
Two women and a guy stand outside a New York apartment building*

Tuesday December 26th

Late morning

Ergo in the gymnasium of the College of St. John the Evangelist

Afternoon

Lunch on Mill Road*

3:30pm

Quiet reading and chapter writing

6:00pm

Neighbors and the like

7:20pm

Dinner

9:00pm

After Thomas, ITV 1
An uplifting true story about a dog and an autistic little boy

11:15pm

Match of the Day, BBC1

Wednesday December 27th

Music and lying down

* Denotes that this activity may have been partially done, or not done at all, when push came to shove.

# Incorrectly noted as 10 packets on blade.cream.org.

admin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:36:20 +0000

אני יכולה לכתוב בעברית עכשיו

admin — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:06:53 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZEo6d-ypc&mode=related&search=

http://downloads.gamezone.com/demosfiles/t1848.htm

http://www.mobygames.com/game/janes-combat-simulations-israeli-air-force

I am downloading the demo now. Very exciting.