 Who remembers the Dating Game?
The game play was simple. On one side you had 3 bachelors answering questions from a girl on the other side of the partition (each not being able to see the other). The girl was given a certain amount of time to ask as many questions as she could to the 3 bachelors.
The pay off was a date with what was always assumed to be a very desirable person. Not even Chuck Barris† thought of the gimmick to demand a huge price for the privilege of a date for some 3rd person. That essentially is what ‘proximity talk’ are all about.
Thanks Yoni for yet another cartoon. If you have graphic talent let’s begin fighting fire with fire and produce Israel Advocacy cartoons. Can draw but lack subject ideas? Get in touch with us and we will suggest some. Ideas but no drawing talent? Same deal!
† Chuck Barris created the Dating Game, the Gong Show and many others. He may also be just a few cents short of a dollar.
 It’s a poster. I haven’t seen the full size original. For some reason I had assumed the Advertising Standards Authority had banned a video.
 The Banned Poster  One picture, One complaint, One travesty
 Generally speaking unless I’m really, really, really bored I avoid those cutesy Facebook apps. As much as I love you (you know who I mean) you’re not going to get virtual no-oyster-harmed pearls or a guaranteed zero-trans-fat birthday cake when I wish you Happy Birthday!
But when it comes to Israel’s birthday, Yom Hatzmaut I think Nefesh B’Nefesh are truly on to something with their twibbons. Hey, what better advocacy can you do than using the social networks? Other than coming to live here, of course which they also strongly encourage. 
The Twibbon application will superimpose a Magen David ribbon on your Facebook profile picture. Our walks-like-a-duck icon picture, to your left, models it here.
- When you support this cause your avatar will be overlaid with the Twibbon and a support Tweet will posted on your behalf saying: Support #Aliyah to #Israel this Yom Haatzmaut! Add a #twibbon to your avatar now! – http://twibbon.com/join/Israel-Independence-Day-2010
- They’ll also have you follow @NefeshBNefesh. (You can always unfollow them if you want).
… and at no extra cost
- When you support this cause Nefesh B’Nefesh will create an album in Facebook called “Twibbons” and add the new image overlaid with the Twibbon above to it
- They’ll also update your status to show your support saying: In honor of Yom Haatzmaut I just supported Aliyah to Israel by adding a Twibbon to my profile picture. Show your support now at http://twibbon.com/cause/Israel-Independence-Day-2010/facebook
Click on the button below to access the Nefesh B’Nefesh twibbon.
I must admit I dosed through most of my semiotics classes or argued with my lecturer that it was all a Leftist plot but Yoni Kaplan’s latest cartoon reminded me that the same words have different meaning.
Codes:
- Any set of standards set forth and enforced by a local government agency for the protection of public safety, health, etc., as in the structural safety of buildings (building code), health requirements for plumbing, ventilation, etc. (sanitary or health code), and the specifications for fire escapes or exits (fire code).
- Relation betwee signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata (Semantics)
 Dry Bones’ classic redrawn
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Poet and philosopher George Santayana
Yaakov Kirschen writes, President Obama seems stuck with the dopey old idea that withdrawing from territory will placate those who lust for our destruction and that America can help by negotiating on behalf of the Islamic states that refuse to accept the idea of a Jewish State within their sea of Moslem dictatorships and theocracies.
I couldn’t agree more. Click here or on the icon for a larger version.
Some consider these images as Conflict Porn. I feel that so long as the Destroy Israel Lobby are producing them we should respond in kind.
- Keep things in perspective. The figure of $3.2 billion per year is an insignificant figure when compared with the US Defence spending of $782 billion or it’s general budget of $3,518 billion.
- Egypt gets around $1.8 billion per year, Jordan gets around $400 million per year, and the Palestinian Authority gets around $1 billion per year. Since 1975 Egypt has received about $60 billion and Jordan about $10 billion in the last decade. Not only is Israel’s economy larger than all three so cutting off aid would have a less devastating effect but none of the three Arab countries would get one cent if Israel was cut off. If anyone should be complaining it should be Jordan which is a much greater asset than the Palestinians and much less corrupt.
- The country costing the US most in recent years is not Israel but Iraq but it is hard to divide that into civilian aid, military aid to the Iraqi armed forces and police and the operational costs of the Iraqi operation.
- Every America President, Secretary of Defence and Commerce, and Congressional oversight committee, without exception, has said the same thing, that aid to Israel is in America’s interest, is supported by the great majority of Americans and essentially is repaid in kind.
- The dying baby was Shalhevet Pass z”l deliberately targetted by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron in 1971. While violence doesn’t excuse more violence, the hostility displayed by Jewish residents of Hebron to their Palestinian ‘neighbours’ should be considered in view of incidents like this.
- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds programs that help people living in the West Bank and Gaza lead healthier and more productive lives. Since 1994, Palestinians have received more than $2.9 billion in U.S. economic assistance via USAID projects – more than from any other donor country.
If you can’t take casualties don’t make war
Two of the constant features of this conflict are Palestinians expecting their violence to be celebrated or at the very least condoned and Palestinians showing their injuries to the world and expecting unconditional sympathy. They never seem to connect that the second is a consequence of the first.
Thank you Yoni K for this graphic making that connection.
 See the 5MFI blog for discussion.
My appropriations for the Dry Bones latest cartoon
  The Internet is buzzing with the latest Palestinian threat to start a new Intifada – the Third but I’ve yet to discover a suitable Action Item. Give it a few hours. Please be on the lookout for potential Action Items.
So rather than waste my time with productive endeavour I has prepared advance iconography.
It’s a bloodstained Palestinian flag with the number three superimposed. I would have preferred to adopt an Arabic three (٣) but the design didn’t work out as well. Why should the Palestinians have all the good gory graphics?
Clearly the design is over the top. This intifada will be, like jihad, bloodless – a struggle to improve one’s self and/or society. </SARC> And if I’m wrong? I’ll work on a ‘peaceful’ Intifada graphic. Please send your much-better-than-mine intifada graphics to Five Minutes for Israel and we’ll put them out on the Internet for everybody.
Needed improvements to The Independent propaganda
The Independent illustrates Johann Haris‘s collection of historical revisionism, false quotes and Holocaust equivalence. I improved on Chris Coady’s artwork.
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