Last week in Tel Aviv, I spotted this election sign for Oren Shachor. Shachor was a very pro-Oslo person, formerly a former IDF general who was forced to resign for having leaked details of secret Hevron negotiations to then-opposition leader Shimon Peres a decade ago.

He's running for mayor of Tel Aviv.

Now, what caught my attention is the word מתעלל in the ad. And I'll explain.

The ad translates as: "52% Assert That Huldai Is Abusing Them. Huldai Is Abusing You. 200 million NIS in Parking Fines"

[Ron Huldai is the current Mayor]

In Hebrew, מתעלל conveys not only a sense of abuse in the psychological realm but of real physical pain.

For example:
וּלְמַעַן תְּסַפֵּר בְּאָזְנֵי בִנְךָ וּבֶן-בִּנְךָ אֵת אֲשֶׁר הִתְעַלַּלְתִּי בְּמִצְרַיִם
Exodus 10:2 - "And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt" or,
וַיַּחֲזֵק הָאִישׁ בְּפִילַגְשׁוֹ וַיֹּצֵא אֲלֵיהֶם הַחוּץ וַיֵּדְעוּ אוֹתָהּ וַיִּתְעַלְּלוּ-בָהּ כָּל-הַלַּיְלָה עַד-הַבֹּקֶר
Judges 19:25 - "So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night"

Now, why would a leftist politician use such a harsh word?  Just to get votes he would stoop so low?

Moreover, if rightwing demonstrators would have accused this government of "abusing" them, the media and the officials in the Justice Ministry would immediately be crying "danger! assassination" or "danger! Jewish extremists are threatening".

In fact, even without that word they are doing that already.  The annual "Rabin Festival" is winding up as even Dalia, the-daughter-of, appeared on Channel One TV to protest the irresponsible language used by some residents of Yesha as well as the very unfortunate throwing of stones at the Border Police, although she did not criticise the Anarchists at Nialin doing the same and worse.

Once again, the double standard of the "elites" here in Israel is apparent but the media makes sure it goes unmentioned by not drumming up 'firestorms' on talk shows, commentary programs and the news.

The blogosphere is publishing that what Obama had said at the Khalidi toast was that "Israel has no G-d-given right to occupy Palestine" and that there's been "genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis".

Source

Some of the pictures the paper posted:

I've commented here about the NYT and its inability to comprehend the Jewishness quotient of the area we know as the Land of Israel.  But the photographs of Rina Castelnuovo - and there are more - are quite good.

Bad news.  The elitist subversion of Israel continues unabated.  The weapon this time: theater. Leftist culture will be off to the UK:

Israeli play to be performed in British National Theater

Israel's national theater Habima makes an unprecedented achievement: In May 2010, an Israeli Hebrew-language play will be performed at the British National Theater for the first time in history.

In meetings with Habima Theater’s artistic director, Ilan Ronen, it was agreed to stage two plays in London and in Tel Aviv in 2010, which would deal with the British Mandate era and its implications on the complex political reality between Israel and the Palestinians.

According to Haaretz's Tzipi Shochat in her report of Oct. 16, the meeting at which the decision was taken was also attended by David Grossman and Zev Sternhel.  Grossman is a firm Peace Now person, author of the "Yellow Time" and Sternhel we all know is an anticolonialist.

Three left-wingers do not a fair presentation make of the Mandate period and the issue of the "Palestinians", which Haaretz termed "the political conflict between Jews and Palestinians", not Arabs please note!

And so, while our unruly youngsters fool around with Arab olive pickers and their supporters from intenrational volunteer brigades, the Left will be making ideological inroads abroad, undercutting Israel's ability to defend itself.

You've read this story here at this site:

Report: Pope Won't Visit Israel Until Caption Removed

(IsraelNN.com) Italian media quoted a spokesperson for Pope Benedict XVI as saying that he would not visit Israel until a caption below a photo of Pope Pius XII, who reigned during the Holocaust era, was removed. The caption, attached to a photo of the pope hanging in Yad Vashem, states that Pius "abstained from signing the Allied declaration condemning the extermination of the Jews" and "maintained his neutral position throughout the war." According to the Church, Pius worked "secretly and silently" during World War Two to "avoid the worst and save the greatest number of Jews possible."

Well, it seems there's a very strong wind blowing about on this issue:

Don't fool around with God.