Expat in Israel.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Protest time

I wondered why every junction had a police car waiting by it when driving home last night. Reuters calls them 'ultranationalists' which I think is a tad unfair.

On a different subject, I was amazed to see that Israel is in the news for a reason other than the pullout and/or terrorism. Judy Nir Moses Shalom is alleged to have been miffed that she didn't get a photo op with Madonna when she came to Israel last and had some unfortunate soul booted out of his job as retaliation. I find it hard to believe anyone could be so petty. Tell me it's not so.

I've updated the list of Israeli blogs and I apologize to Treppenwitz for missing a quote on the hyperlink. Now it works I suggest you head over to his blog to learn what train sets and breasts have in common.

6 comments:

Ke'evei Beten said...

why is ultranationalists unfair?
they are clearly nationalists - i.e. believe in the nation-state, one land for one people. they are clearly not in the centre, -i.e. the vote for far-right parties and adopt a stance that the centre-right has rejcted. the likud are nationalists. so are mafdal.
these protestors are ultra-nationalists.

if they are not, who is?

Adrian said...

Nationalists sure. Ultra not really. The Kahanists are the real ultranationalists akin to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

Anonymous said...

What happened to the < > that used to appear on your blog list when a site was updated?

Adrian said...

We used to use blogrolling. That service checks with weblogs.com which keeps a list of recently updated blogs hence the marks that indicate recently updated blogs. Now we don't. What we wanted to do was to seperate our blogrolls into categories but we didn't feel paying for it justified.

I hope to include this service in the near future but more directly.

Ke'evei Beten said...

well, at what point do you become ultra?
it's not only the most extreme element that are the ultras.

once you pass a line, that's it.

Was Rehavam Zeevi and ultra? yes.
Is Uzi Landau? probably not.
I think, anyone who puts the connection of people to land before future of country is an ultra..
that's not a fact, it's my suggestion.
where would u draw the line?

Adrian said...

Is there a significant difference between the early zionists who built in Palestine and the settlers in Gaza and the West bank? The ideology may be different but that's about all.