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Friday, September 01, 2023

Best EoZ posts of the week

This week I hit - and surpassed - 55,555 Twitter followers. Here are my best posts of this week.Teaching Israel to children, "warts and all"? No! Teaching the truth? Yes!What does Israel gain from a Saudi normalization deal?Human Rights Watch report on Palestinian "children" killed proves it prioritizes anti-Israel propaganda over real human rightsHarvard...

Have an easy and meaningful fast

Jews' Place of Wailing, Jerusalem, 1842, William Henry BartlettFor those who mark Tisha B'Av, have an easy and meaningful fast.I will not be posting until Thursday afternoon. Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it&nbs...

Chag sameach!

Ruth and Naomi, Ary Scheffer 1856Chag sameach to all who celebrate Shavuot!See you after Shabbat! Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chag sameach! (part 2)

Wishing all who celebrate a chag sameach! I will be offline until Thursday night.Enjoy! Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Chag sameach!

Wishing my readers a chag kosher v'sameach! Have a wonderful Passover!I will not be back online until Saturday night/Sunday morning. (Which is as good a reason for aliyah as any!) Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it ...

Nominations open for 2014 Hasby Awards (updated)

It is that time of year again, where we will the celebrate the best Hasbara (Israel advocacy) with the 2014 Hasby Awards! Here is the latest list of nominees. As with last year, we have a number of categories. Here are the rules, such as they are: Fell free to nominate in any category as many examples as you want in the comments. Please include URLs! Self-nominations...

Weekend administrivia plus a poster idea

I have never been too good in using tags on my posts, and I don't have time to go through over 17,000 posts to categorize them, but lately I've been making an attempt to place tags on at least most newer posts. I have a new automatically generated page, called a Table of Contents, that organizes my posts from recent months by category. It isn't perfect (the lower-case tags...

Some EoZ site debugging and other administrivia

The EoZ website was getting worse and worse. Page-load times were horrendously slow and, most recently, Internet Explorer users could no longer comment using Disqus. A lot of junk scripts accumulated over the years on the page, and I was not able to successfully excise them to figure out what was causing the problems. Therefore, today, I started from scratch, keeping the...

Administrivia / Thank you!

It has been a very busy few days, here from the safety of the US. Two of my posts went viral and I have been getting tens of thousands of hits. I've been blogging far more than usual and not getting much sleep, as I try to find stories and angles that the many excellent pro-Israel bloggers and journalists might be missing. I just wanted to take a short time out to thank...

Shabbat Shalom/administrivia

I hope that my you have noticed that I added a Twitter widget to the right side of my webpage, showing tweets and retweets from Israeli officials and spokespeople. It is a good place to keep up with what is happening - even when I am not online. You should follow my Twitter feed as well, there is plenty there that I do not have a chance to post. Follow me on Twitter, too! In...

Monday administrivia/links

Finally, it looks like my house has Internet back. (And cable will come in handy as we watch the election results tomorrow night!) Still have a backlog of stuff to do at work so not sure when I'll be back to blogging as often as I used to, but things are getting better. Meanwhile, some links: from Ian: Sunni-Shia conflict: Major feature of ME politics By Barry Rubin The Region: Once upon a time, Arab nationalism ruled the Middle East. We...

Administrivia/Thursday links

Things remain the same at the Elder compound. No way for me to get to work physically so working from home with the same painfully slow Internet connection on my phone. While I have seen the AT&T commercials touting how their iPhones allow one to surf and talk at the same time, I really never listened to them. I found it hard to believe that anyone would not be able to do that on a smartphone nowadays. But Verizon's iPhone (provided by my job)...

Administrivia and Wednesday links

Power has returned to the Elder Manor, but not phone/internet/cable. As a result, I am surfing and blogging with a very, very slow connection through a cell phone, so blogging will remain lighter than usual - especially since I need to do my regular day job through that same slow connection. Here's one tree that fell nearby. There seem to be at least one or two trees toppled...

Monday links/Sandy administrivia

I continue to await the full force of Hurricane Sandy, headed pretty much directly at stately Elder Manor, and things will start to get really interesting this afternoon. I'm going on the assumption that my power will go out at one point between now and tomorrow morning. So I'm queuing up as many posts as I can for tomorrow as the winds increase. Oddly, my Google Nexus Galaxy phone has a built-in barometer. I don't understand why that would be...

Administrivia - I hit my 15,000th post

I wasn't keeping track, but this "Work accident!" post from Wednesday was my 15,000th post on this blog. Which is sort of...crazy. Cool, but crazy. My 10,000th post was in February 2011; my 5000th in November 2008. I have had dozens of other "work accident' posts documenting Arab terrorists blowing themselves up over the years. In 2007 and 2008 I even had...

Weekend administrivia

This ended up being the biggest week the blog ever had - even though I didn't post at all for the two days of Rosh Hashanah! It seems that my initial post of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons went viral, and that became my most-read post ever - 34,000 hits so far and counting. A popular Persian-language site linked to it, accounting for a large number of those hits. I banked on the media not publishing them, and there was a huge desire by people worldwide...

Administrivia? Nah, just trivia

Two and a half years ago I wrote a quick review of the Google Nexus One which I bought as soon as it was released without waiting for a review. In the end, the phone served me well; the updates fixed a lot of the early glitches and it was a fine phone except for its memory limitations. But the phone was not quite good enough for my new commute, where I am trying to blog on a netbook using the phone as a hotspot - the connection was intermittent....

Administrivia

I upgraded the Disqus comment system to Disqus 2012. I figure it can' t be any worse, can it? So far it looks better but I'm having problems viewing the admin screen from Chrome. Let me know if you like it. In other news, people keep complaining about how slow this site is. I don' t have time to revamp it, but you can see different dynamic views of the blog by choosing a magazine-type view, a sidebar-based view or what Google calls "classic" The...

Not so trivial administrivia

A couple of years ago, I started a new job. At the time, I wrote I recently started a new job, and it will not afford me the ability to post as often as I have been. However, it turns out that the opposite occurred: I could find lots of time during the day to throw in some posts, and in fact my output roughly doubled! Alas, the days where I can post 9 or 10 posts a day are history. Because I just started another new job - with a much longer commute...