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Haveil Havalim, Tisha b’Av edition

Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 1:34 pm by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Jews, Linkfests, Religion

Our own Snoopy the Goon hosts this week’s Haveil Havalim. Go and read, I suspect more than one post will be about Tisha b’Av, one of the most mournful days in Jewish history.

For the uninitiated, among many other things, both Temples were destroyed on the ninth of Av.

Skunked

Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Israel, palestinian politics

Palestinian and “international” “leftist” protesters are being skunked.

The police developed this new method for scattering violent demonstrations and tested its effectivity in the last demonstration which took place in the West Bank village of Naalin.

Use of the “Skunk” is by means of an especially foul-smelling liquid spraying machine.

Over the past few years, security forces have been compelled to deal with a large number of demonstrations against construction of the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bilin and lately, in Naalin.

So, how did it go over?

The Border Guard reported that after the first usage of the “skunk” the Palestinians fled in order to shower and change clothes.

You know, I’d be happy to send them a few bags of Tig poop. But then, they wouldn’t need to import it. Israel is full of cats.

I await the cries of human rights violations for the use of nonlethal, but stinky, means of dispersing “protesters.” Funny how the AP almost never manages to mention the rock-throwing and other violent means of “protest” in use in these, ah, “protests.” (Okay, that’s my scare-quote quota for the week, and it’s only Sunday.)