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  1. @ yamit82:
    “pea·nut gal·ler·y
    nounNORTH AMERICANinformal
    the top gallery in a theater, where the cheaper seats are located.
    a group of people who criticize someone, often by focusing on insignificant details.
    “he might find that playing the sport he loves isn’t worth the aggravation from the peanut gallery’s probing of his privacy”
    Translations, word origin, and more definitions
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    Peanut gallery – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery
    A peanut gallery was, in the days of vaudeville, a nickname for the cheapest (and ostensibly rowdiest) seats in the theater, the occupants of which were often known to heckle.”

    OK, For those of you who will never watch it, (and have “only a little dust in your eyes”) it’s about a female super-spy who comes out of retirement part time to work for a mission impossible like agency named TSS (Totsuke Special Services) which helps women (damsels) in distress. Click on the “recommended” stripe to see the other episodes on youtube. I like the last two best but it works better if you watch the whole thing as it’s one story with episodes. Has Russian spies as well. Has the mission impossible theme song, too or something pretty close. Fun.

  2. “Wonder women Mossad seeks female agents in new ad campaign Israeli intelligence organization announces search for ‘strong women of exceptional character’ to join its ranks BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF January 3, 2017”

    Reminds me of another of my favorite Jdramas, or dramas period. (Remember to double click for full screen). This is the only TSS I approve of:

    Himitsu Chouhouin Erika [Erika the Secret Agent] Eng sub EP 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTBVpxRqoU

  3. @ bernard ross:
    But, if you do it that way, remember to tell people to double click so the right side isn’t cut off. There are always new viewers on Israpundit and they don’t all comment or even register. I tend to prefer doing it the other way — in fact, it was I who suggested it — precisely for that reason. I mean, people know how to click on a link, right? Do you think people will be more inclined to click on a video? Takes up more space, you know, as well. “Space, the final frontier.” Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Can’t take me anywhere!

    Merry Andrew (1958) Official Trailer – Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli Musical HD
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Osd82b9eY

  4. @ honeybee:
    Perhaps if you copy and paste the web address of the video from the address bar instead of copying the shared link. I will test it now with a so so trailer for a very amusing Japanese drama I have been watching with english subtitles from Dramania with a free third party android app at http://www.mobi24.net.

    We Married as Job

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSQVHv9zeoE

    Yup. it worked. If it cuts off the right side because of the line, then when you play it, double click on the video and it will make it full screen in youtube.

    The only problem with that is that if people don’t know to double click on the video when it is playing, the right side will be cut off.

    oh. Real Trailer:

    ? Hiramasa x Mikuri || h o p e l e s s – r o m a n t i c

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwUbjZIPsFc

  5. @ honeybee:
    honeybee, I find in the last few weeks that when i paste a youtube link it no longer shows the video like yours. I used to just post the link at the end of a comment and when it loaded on site it would show the video on the webpage…. now when I do that it just posts the link….. how do you do it

  6. bernard ross Said:

    Elor Azariya found guilty of manslaughter

    yaalon is a criminals who belongs in jail…. where is mandebilt?
    Yaalon used his office as DM top in chain of command to instruct, through public declaration, to his military subordinates that the soldier is guilty…. those military subordinates were the military investigators, the military prosecutors and the military judges….. he and eisenkot have made clear to them that the soldier is guilty. this is an abuse of his office, an abuse of authority, an abuse of power….. obstruction of justice and interference with the justice process..
    He has already admitted that he did it not for any fake principles but as a sacrifice to appease foreigners and arabs.
    jail is where yaalon and eisenkot belong
    It is odd that Mandebilt, who opens a new investigation every five minutes, has not opened one on this serial criminal behavior…. which began at Duma.

    The citizens of Israel should demand that Mandebilt open a criminal investigation of Yaalon and eisenkot for colluding to obstruct and interfere with justice and abuse of office

  7. Jimmy Carter to Obama: Grant Recognition to ‘State of Palestine’ at UN

    Former US Pres. Jimmy Carter is again working to destabilize the security of Israel in a ninth-hour appeal to outgoing Pres. Obama.
    By: Hana Levi Julian
    Published: November 30th, 2016
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    Former President of the United States of America Jimmy Carter evidently daydreaming about Israel’s demise
    Former President of the United States of America Jimmy Carter evidently daydreaming about Israel’s demise
    Photo Credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / Flash 90

    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is urging incumbent President Barack Obama to support an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would allow the Palestinian Authority to evade its obligation to negotiate a final status agreement and skip directly to independent statehood.

    The obligation to negotiate via direct talks with Israel was enshrined in the internationally-recognized Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the early 1990s. But the Ramallah government has spent the intervening years working to avoid its contractual obligations — the first of which mandate the abolition of incitement to violence and terror against Jews and Israelis and demand direct talks to negotiate a final status agreement.

    Instead, representatives for the Palestinian Authority made monumental and successful efforts to evade those responsibilities via proxies in the United Nations General Assembly who helped the entity to methodically upgrade its status unilaterally at the world body without having to negotiate at all.

    Now Jimmy Carter, known for years as an advocate on behalf of Gaza’s terrorist leadership and that of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, is once again intervening to use his influence in the region.

    This time, Carter wrote an op-ed in The New York Times to urge an outgoing president to use his final days to sell out America’s most loyal Middle Eastern ally at the UN.

    “It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two states, living side by side in peace,” Carter wrote. “That prospect is now in grave doubt. I am convinced that the United States can still shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short.

    “The simple but vital step this administration must take before its term expires on Jan. 20 is to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine, as 137 countries have already done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership.”

    Carter also wrote that security guarantees “for both Israel and Palestine are imperative,” as if that were actually possible. Further measures, he wrote, “should include the demilitarization of the Palestinian state” but did not suggest how that might take place.

    Hana Levi Julian”

    http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jimmy-carter-to-obama-grant-recognition-to-state-of-palestine-at-un/2016/11/30/

  8. @ bernard ross:
    We’re on the same page. I was just about to post something about that. To add injury to injury:

    “Family of Palestinian attacker vows to seek murder conviction in Hague
    Uncle says trial of Elor Azaria was ‘fair’ but manslaughter charge did not go far enough; PA says it will seek ICC investigations into hundreds of Palestinians killed over last year”
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/

    If Israel had the right kind of policies in place, Azaria would get a medal and a promotion and the terrorist’s family would be executed or at a minimum deported to Gaza, any land or properties they may own seized and expropriated without compensation and sold at auction to Jews.

    Thus killing three birds with one stone, saving Jewish lives in the future, furthering justice, and easing the housing shortage among Jews that leftists like to disingenuously whine about without really wanting to do anything about it.

    The best way to prevent anti-semitic violence is to kill all of the violent anti-semites. Preferably before they strike. Common sense, no? This guy was a terrorist stopped in the act. Is his family sorry? Ashamed? No. That means they are terrorists too.

  9. Elor Azariya found guilty of manslaughter
    Military court hands down guilty verdict in case of IDF soldier who shot and killed
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/222749 Arab terrorist last March.

    here is my opinion:
    leftist military kangaroo court influenced by top command of eisenkot and yaalon decided to sacrifice a jew killer for their “principles”
    My view is that it was a done deal, a political sacrifice of the “useful idiot” who was foolish enough to enter the IDF to be stabbed in the back, not by Obama, but by his own command and gov.
    corruption, corruption, corruption
    the brits did the same in the Boer War to “Breaker Morant”

    as for me there is no possible way I would allow my son to join an army that asks its children to die for jew killing terrorists…. you kill jew killing terrorists. I have no interest in their principles because any principle that incarcerates a jew for liquidating a jew killing terrorist is a fraud,… just like the GOI and the IDF command
    Commanders shooting their soldiers in the back… like obama.

  10. @ honeybee:

    Sebastien Zorn Said:

    “…Santa Anna’s entire force was killed or captured by Sam Houston’s heavily outnumbered army. Only nine Texans died.”

    If the war were held at any time from the 1960’s on, the Neo-Quisling Liberal Mainstream EneMedia would have been in there, and all Texans would have seen on the nightly news every night in their living rooms would have been loops endlessly repeating footage of lovingly depicted grisly closeups of the remains of the nine Texans or their body bags with shots and interviews from every angle of the devastated families of the fallen heros. After completely wiping out Mexico’s army against great odds, Texas would have sued for peace and surrendered.

    Hero Trailer 1992

    https://youtu.be/5Bu5hIyz6fs

  11. “EU Jewish students to Knesset: Stop saying no future for Jews in Europe
    Israel sees drop in aliya numbers ‘Never let us be defined by antisemitism’”

    http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/World-Jewish-students-to-Knesset-Stop-saying-no-future-for-Jews-in-Europe-477406

    Oh, yeah?

    “Mein Kampf’ becomes best-seller in Germany in 2016
    Annotated edition of Mein Kampf becomes best-seller in Germany after 70-year copyright on anti-Semitic Hitler work expires.” http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/222708

  12. Good. Finally. Brother. “…Ivanka Trump is Jewish after all says chief rabbinate…” http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Report-Concern-over-legitimacy-of-Ivanka-Trumps-conversion-was-conveyed-to-Israel-475454

    Reminds me of delightful poem, “The Democratic Judge” by Bertolt Brecht

    “An Italian barkeep
    came once before the judge who examines
    those who seek U.S. citizenship in Los Angeles. After earnest
    Preparation
    and handicapped by his inability
    with the new language
    he gave as answer to the question:
    What does the Eighth Amendment mean? hesitantly:
    1492. Because the law requires of the applicant
    Knowledge of the national tongue
    he was rejected. Appearing again
    three months later, and armed with further studies
    but unfortunately still handicapped by his inability with the
    New language
    he was this time given the question: Who
    was the victorious general in the Civil War? His answer
    Was:
    1492. (Given in a loud and friendly voice.) Sent away once again
    and appearing a third time, he answered
    a third question: For how long is a President
    Elected?
    again with: 1492. Now
    the judge, who liked the man, recognizing that he could not
    Learn
    the new language, asked him,
    how he made his living, and learned: through hard labor. And so
    when he appeared a fourth time, the judge asked him the
    Question:

    When
    was America discovered: And based on his correct
    Answer
    1492, he was made a U.S. citizen.”

    (https://abev.wordpress.com/2005/12/16/the-democratic-judge-a-new-translation/)

  13. Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico. It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs.
    http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/03/news/economy/ford-700-jobs-trump/index.html

    carrots and sticks?
    cutting deals or just simple common sense
    Perhaps trump said that if you build and create the jobs we can then reduce the taxes…. if you dont we will tariff your goods from mexico…duh?
    Trump shows them that they cant expect their sales in america without investing back here… he also shows them they can make more profits with lower taxes.
    Trump is smart because he is not just lowering taxes and waiting for results.

  14. Leaked Audio of Secretary Kerry Reveals President Obama Intentionally Allowed Rise of ISIS…

    This evidence within this single story would/should forever remove any credibility toward the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama. It also destroys the credibility of a large number of well known republicans.
    What the recording reveals is substantive:

    ? First, only regime change, the removal of Bashir Assad, in Syria was the goal for President Obama. This is admitted and outlined by Secretary John Kerry.

    ? Secondly, in order to accomplish this primary goal, the White House was willing to watch the rise of ISIS by placing their bet that ISIS’s success would force Syrian President Bashir Assad to acquiesce toward Obama’s terms and step down.

    ? Thirdly, in order to facilitate the two objectives, Obama and Kerry intentionally gave arms to ISIS and even, arguably, attacked a Syrian government military convoy to stop a strategic attack upon the Islamic extremists killing 80 Syrian soldiers.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/01/01/absolutely-stunning-leaked-audio-of-secretary-kerry-reveals-president-obama-intentionally-allowed-rise-of-isis/#more-126543

    I wonder how many laws were broken?
    been saying for years that the US, eu and the GCC created IS

  15. @ honeybee:
    “Negotiation | Definition of Negotiation by Merriam-Webster
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/negotiation
    Definition of negotiation for Students. : the act or process of having a discussion in order to reach an agreement.
    ?Open To Negotiation · ?Under Negotiation · ?In Negotiation”

    There was no discussion. No compromise. No give and take. That’s what’s meant by negotiation. Santa Anna signed what he was told to and got his freedom after his army was annhilated or captured. Japan and Germany got us to stop killing them when they signed what they were told to.

    The moment Israel sits down at the negotiating table, it’s a given that she will make concessions, as she always has. As we did in Vietnam. Big mistake.

    No, I don’t know about the Jewish Texan Hero of the War of Independence and I’d love to hear about him or her.

    I restrained myself earlier but did you know that Tony Curtis was a Hungarian-Jewish-American New Yorker? Born Bernie Schwartz in the Bronx.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000348/bio

    He most definitely had the Schwartz! [Also, a brilliant actor. Did you know that He and Marilyn Monroe were ex-lovers when they shot “Some Like it Hot?” They had lived together before either was married when they were both poor, unknown, struggling actors. Do you know how hard it is to convincingly fake a love scene with someone you are not currently in love with much less somebody with whom you have baggage?)

    “Spaceballs Schwartz scene” – from Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs” (1987)

    https://youtu.be/IjVatNQr-GM

    “MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!”


    Actually, this last reference is completely on track with regards to relevance, topic-wise. Classic quote from above-cited clip: “So, now you see, Lonestar, Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb!”

    “As above, so below”

  16. Sebastien Zorn Said:

    Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. There was a signing ceremony. No negotiation

    Successful negotiations, says I !!!

    So you know about the Jewish-Texan in the glorious Texas War for Independence,?

  17. @ honeybee:
    “…Santa Anna’s entire force was killed or captured by Sam Houston’s heavily outnumbered army. Only nine Texans died.

    ‘Santa Anna was captured the following day and held as a prisoner of war. Three weeks later, Santa Anna was released after signing a treaty in which, he agreed to discontinue war upon Texas, he was allowed to return to Mexico. These treaties did not specifically recognize Texas as a sovereign nation, but stipulated that Santa Anna was to lobby for such recognition in Mexico City. Afterwards the United States, France and England recognized the new republic as an independent nation, though Mexico never did…”

    http://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-revolution.html

    In other words, Mexico surrendered unconditionally.

    Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. There was a signing ceremony. No negotiation.

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-surrenders-unconditionally-to-the-allies-at-reims

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-accepts-potsdam-terms-agrees-to-unconditional-surrender

    Terrific Hollywood movie from 2012 (the exception to the rule):

    “Emperor” – Tommy Lee Jones plays McCarthur. Plot: “As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.”

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103264/

    No doubts where Abbas and Hamas are concerned. No movie there.

  18. @ honeybee:
    I guess that’s where Speedy got his name. “Andele, Andele, zooooom!” But, did they negotiate? Seems like they just fought and won. Negotiation in good faith (in other words, unless it’s a just a trick to get the enemy to lower his guard for a moment) leads to capitulation. Every time. Another great Kahane quote from the above quoted debate:
    (Paraphrasing from memory. Watch it, it’s great.)
    “There are no moderate Arabs. There are clever Arabs and stupid Arabs. The stupid Arabs say what they mean. Like Syria. They know they can not defeat Israel on the battlefield, so they set out to defeat Israel at the peace table. What nation loses a war five times and then demands land? What nation wins wars five times and then gives land up?”

    Actually, I think Mao was paraphrasing Von Clausewitz

    “Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is “War is the continuation of politics by other means.”
    Carl von Clausewitz – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz

    And then there was Marx**:

    “The Sanity Clause – A Night at the Opera”

    https://youtu.be/G_Sy6oiJbEk

    ** “(and) that’s all she wrote”

    “phrase of write
    1.
    NORTH AMERICAN informal
    used to convey that there is or was nothing more to be said about a matter.
    “we were arguing about who should pay the bill, but he pulled out a couple of hundreds and that’s all she wrote””

  19. @ honeybee:
    Wow, I didn’t know you were a Maoist*. Way to go HoneyBee!*

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun

    I’m continually reminded of the hilarious quip by Kahane during his friendly — believe it or not — debate with Dershowitz — who he grew up with — and which garnered much laughter from everybody including Dershowitz — (paraphrasing from Memory): “I understand the Arabs and the Arabs understand me. It’s neither of us who can understand you!”

    Alan Dershowitz vs. Meir Kahane (1985 Debate)
    https://youtu.be/2ykrwmaKrLg


    * Mio Mao (New Series) – The Clew
    https://youtu.be/SWhX8pL5S0c

  20. @ mar55:
    thankyou.. an a Happy New Year to you and your family too
    my best wishes to all the Israpundits here, and their families, for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2017

  21. Sebastien Zorn Said:

    Leftist, I became anti-Zionist in the late ’70s, believing all the lies.

    I have always been a Zionist!!!!! Was against Oslo from the outset. Jews unending attempt to me accepted in a World that will not accept them. I with yamit82, fight at the drop of a pin. Be crazy ass. If your going to hated at least be feared.

  22. @ Sebastien Zorn:
    “The gates (of heaven) are “opened” at the onset of Rosh Hashanah, opening the communication of man’s sins to God. The celebration of Yom Kippur ends with Neilah, which means “closing the gate.” The Ark remains open during this entire service, indicating that the gates of heaven are open to these final prayers.”
    “Services – How Yom Kippur Works | HowStuffWorks”
    people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/yom-kippur4.htm

    The Charlie Bernhaut Collection of Jewish and Cantorial Recordings

    Caplow, Aaron , “07_Excerpts from the Neilah Service,” The American Society for Jewish Music

    “Living Prayers”

    http://www.jewishmusiccollections.org/asjm/items/show/866

  23. Will President Trump free Jonathan Pollard at last?

    “The Truth About Jonathan Pollard”

    http://www.aish.com/ci/s/48900367.html

    “Trump victory could give new hope to Jonathan Pollard
    By GIL HOFFMAN \ 11/11/2016
    ‘Justice Department’s double standard toward Pollard Pollard: It will take a miracle to get me back to Israel…Lawyers appealing decision on ‘arbitrary’ parole conditions…A presidential commutation to time served could enable Pollard to fulfill his dream of living in the Jewish state. One is very unlikely to come from outgoing president Barack Obama, but it could come from Trump, who has never been asked publicly about Pollard.’

    “We have been in touch,” a source close to Pollard said.’

    “Now we wait and pray.”

    “Pollard’s lawyer Eliot Lauer will submit an appeal on Friday of US District Judge Katherine Forrest’s decision to keep in place the parole conditions currently in effect.”

    http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Trump-victory-could-give-new-hope-to-Jonathan-Pollard-472340

    “Go Down Moses – Sullivan’s Travels (1941)”

    https://youtu.be/u0CRAavN4EI