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“Fatah activists belonging to the "Brigades of Return" and to "Black September" claimed responsibility for carrying out the shooting attack in Shoafat Thursday evening. The attack left one Israeli dead and another one seriously wounded.A spokesman on behalf of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing, told Ynet that the attackers ‘returned to their base safely.’” -- from this news article
And meanwhile, the Olmert Government has refused to mount an operation to seize the killers -- known to the Israelis -- of those two young men, Israeli soldiers on leave, on the West Bank. It knows exactly where they are, knows what they did, but will do nothing to "offend" the Slow Jihadists of Fatah.
And in that same meanwhile, the unbearable Tzipi Livni speaks again and again about the necessity, as she idiotically sees it, of "dividing the land." By this she means that Israel, tiny Israel, which now exists on less than one-one thousandth of the total land area possessed by the Arabs, must relinquish part of the one-one thousandth to those Arabs. After all, the Arabs everywhere behave as if all of the Middle East, all of North Africa, belongs to Islam and to Arabs. The Copts, the Maronites, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Berbers, and of course, above all, the Jews, are entitled to nothing: not to a state, not to autonomy, not to equal treatment with Muslim Arabs. No, it all belongs to them, by Divine Right -- as does, in the texts and tenets and attitudes of Islam, the Middle East, North Africa, and indeed the entire world.
Livni's Great Idea, and that of Olmert, is that Israel must "maintain its Jewish character." And the only way that these people can think of doing this is to slice off successive bits of Israel where the Arabs now have a majority. No doubt they will have to keep on slicing bit after bit, as the salami-slicing demands will never let up, and the Muslim Arabs will never -- ever -- acquiesce in the permanent existence of an Infidel nation-state on land once part, as they see it, of Dar al-Islam. The livnis and olmerts of this world do not understand this. They do not want to think about it. They put it out of their minds in a bit of promised-land podsnappery. And certainly they haven't thought deeply about the Arabs who remain, overbreeding, inside whatever part of Israel is left once the olmert-livni "solution" has taken place.
The Bush Administration has been unable to understand Islam. It has been willfully incapable of understanding Islam. Failing to understand it, wanting not to delve too deeply into the matter or listen to those who have done so, and preferring to fashion a policy based on the children's game of "let's pretend," this incoherent and confused administration seeks the explanation elsewhere for the relentless hostility of Muslim states and peoples. This hostility has never, not one whit, been mitigated by the receipt of vast sums, tens or hundreds of billions, in "aid" from Western countries (really a disguised Jizyah), while the American government, while Bush, while Rice, look for the explanations -- "poverty" and "lack of freedom" and anything else that can be offered up -- for that hostility, that meretriciousness, those smiles-with-murder-in-our-hearts behavior of, for example, our "staunch allies" in Egypt, and Saudi Arabia (those Al-Saud, a primitive but exceedingly rich tribe, all daggers-and-dishdashas, with sneers of cold command on their seemingly cloned faces). They look, that is, for everything but the texts and tenets of Islam, that any "defector" from Islam -- Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina -- could tell them about, and which the writings of any legitimate Western scholar of Islam (Schacht, Lammens, Snouck Hurgronje, Jeffrey, and dozens of others) would confirm.
Yes, everything but Islam is thought to explain the behavior and views of Muslims -- in Iraq, in Iran, in Saudi Arabia, in the Sudan, in Egypt and Jordan and the "Palestinian" occupied territories, and in Muslim communities in Thailand, the Philippines, and everywhere else that the meaning and menace of Islam is becoming, through the behavior of Muslims themselves, clear to many people. But even if many dimly or clearly realize that there is something about Islam that needs to be examined, held up for inspection, discussed openly, and policies fashioned that are based not on what one would wish to be the truth but what is the truth, the political and media elites are far behind them -- the very people those elites presume to instruct and to protect.
In Israel, the olmerts and livnis have allowed themselves to complacently believe that refusing to make Israel's legal, moral, and historic case is the best way to peace. Or perhaps they simply do not possess the facts of that case themselves, or are unable to articulate it properly, so used are they to having accepted the language, the phrases, of the enemy, including the parroting of that phrase "the Palestinian people." They think that identifying thoroughly with your enemy, seeing "his side," is the key to peace -- while being careful, again, to view the conflict exactly as it is presented by Muslims and Arabs for Western consumption, as a matter of "legitimate rights" and "nationalist struggle." In fact, it is entirely a war to weaken, and then eliminate, the Jewish state of Israel, and the Jewish commonwealth which took almost 2000 years to astonishingly rebuild. And if it is lost again, there will be no second chance, with all that that implies for the history, and moral and mental stability, of the civilization of the West.
They, those olmerts and those livnis (suitably egged on by the assorted landaus who control so much of the Israeli press) do not at this point want to learn about Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb. They want to negotiate with, "make deals" with the Dar al-Islam by giving away Israeli rights and lands to Muslims, but always, without ever thinking through the nature of Islam. They hope, they wish, they dream -- but they will not spend a month, a week, a day, an hour, considering carefully the nature of Islam, of taking its texts and tenets seriously. Long ago, when the Mandate for Palestine was young, the Jews saw all of Eastern Palestine (east of the Jordan River) lopped off by the British in 1921. This was done, in a fit of temporary and misguided Realpolitik, to curry favor with the local Arab rulers. The British unilaterally removed the application of the provisions of the Mandate for Palestine to all of its intended territory east of the river Jordan -- that is, all of Eastern Palestine, as it had always been defined, and instead incorporated Eastern Palestine into a hastily concocted Emirate of Transjordan (in 1946 promoted to the status of Arab Kingdom). This they gave to Abdullah, the oldest Hashemite son -- a move made necessary, the British felt, because his younger brother Faisal had been "given" the kingdom of Iraq, and a kingdom-less Abdullah might, miffed, have tried to claim Syria as his kingdom, thereby causing trouble with France, the possessor of the League of Nations' Mandate for Syria.
And having lost all of Eastern Palestine, the Jews of Israel, fighting for their lives when attacked in May 1948 by the regular armies of five Arab states, managed to survive. But Ben-Gurion stopped the fighting before that part of Judea and Samaria (toponyms in constant and wide use for 200 years, not least by, inter alios, Jesus) that was later renamed by Jordan as "the West Bank" could be wrested from the Arabs. And the same hesitation left Gaza, also part of Mandatory Palestine, a mandate set up for the express and sole purpose of the establishment of the Jewish National Home, in Arab, in this case Egyptian, hands.
Later, after Israel's astounding victory in June 1967, those assorted Peace Plans -- Rogers, Kissinger, you name it -- became, after Saint Sadat went through his premeditated crowd-pleasing performance, a vague but apparently endless "Peace Process." It meant, in reality, only one thing: acceptance by, parroting by, promotion by, Israel's representatives, of the very terms that the Arabs and Muslims had wished to be used, in refashioning for Western consumption what had always been, and remained, and remains, a Lesser Jihad against Israel. Thus it was that the Israelis expressed their deep belief in, and even sympathy for, the "Palestinians" (even if, in Israel itself, the word "aravim" -- "the Arabs" --was still used). The Israelis adopted this neologism without any seeming understanding of how important it was to resist this refashioning of the language used to describe the actual conflict. This went along with a kind of amnesia about Israel's legal, moral, and historic claims, or in some cases a reluctance, a calamitous diffidence, about asserting, intelligently and repeatedly, the broad outlines, and then the details, of such an overwhelming claim -- as if Israel had lost the ability to recognize that it was in the right, and it was Israel, always and everywhere, that was under permanent assault.
All that peace-processing consisted of was, on the Israeli side, giving up that most precious and tangible of assets, land, for the most intangible and worthless of assets: Muslim Arab "promises" in a treaty made with an Infidel enemy, when as every educated Muslim knows, the model for all such treaties is that made by Muhammad with the Meccans in 628 A.D., at Al-Hudaibiyya, a model that stands for the immutable proposition not, as in the West, of "Pacta Sunt Servanda" (treaties are to be obeyed) but for a temporary truce only. So for this Israel surrendered the Sinai, not once but twice: in 1956, and again under those miserably-negotiated "Camp David Accords" -- with Sadat not only supported by, but egged on to ever-greater demands by the sweetly-vicious Jimmy Carter. They surrendered it for promises promptly dishonored, as they did when they destroyed and abandoned Jewish villages in Gaza, some of which long pre-dated the establishment of the state of Israel, handed over valuable greenhouses in working order, and much else, and then left Gaza -- with the results, for Israeli security, we all see.
Again and again, over the past forty years, since the Six-Day War, we have witnessed those negotiations, those phony handshakes and smiles, those photo ops, that shuttle diplomacy, those hideous dennis-rosses-aaron-millers-martin-indyks -- each more sure of himself than the last, as a tireless, and professional "Arab-Israeli" peace-processor who never, ever, bothered to find out about Islam, and never, ever, managed to grasp the true Arab position, not what its smiling representatives pretended. Yet each of them had notions, bullyingly expressed, in the usual state-department-of-mediocrity fashion (exemplified by that Baker Institute apparatchik, Edward Djerijian) along the lines of the complacent and dead wrong "everyone knew what the outlines of a final settlement would have to look like." Yes, "everyone knew" what "the outlines of a final settlement would look like" (see the sinister Robert Malley -- he'll tell you all about that "final settlement," though he's unlikely to tell you all about his behind-the-scenes malevolent work in the last Clinton Administration as one of its supposedly disinterested "experts" on "Arab-Israeli" affairs. They all know that, just as long as they knew nothing about Islam, nothing about the unassuagable nature of the Lesser Jihad against Israel, nothing about the practical military matters and life-giving aquifers and invasion routes, and all the rest, and nothing, of course, about the one thing that can prevent, not a state of war, between the Muslim Arabs and Israel (that "state of war" will continue as long as Islam exists, as long as Muslims take their Islam seriously), but rather a state of open warfare, which can be permanently prevented if Israel does not surrender further tangible assets, if the Western world begins to wake up from its deep dream of a (false) peace, if the "two-state solution" is held up for inspection, analysis, and mockery, and if, finally, as it recognizes its own Muslim menace within Western Europe, the countries of the West begin to rethink their willful misreporting about, and misunderstanding and cruel abandonment of Israel.
That will happen. The logic of events, the inevitability of Muslim aggressive demands and Muslim violence within the countries of Western Europe, and nothing else, will make that reassessment happen. All Israel has to do is to hold on, not give in, do nothing to whet, by further surrenders to the sly Slow Jihadists of Fatah.
But Olmert and Livni and Haim Ramon are not only willfully unaware of Islam. They are also, in their narrowness, willfully unaware of how attitudes, in the larger Western world, are changing toward Islam because of the behavior of Muslims themselves. And failing to recognize that, and to factor it into their policies, they are in danger of plucking, yet again, a defeat from a conceivable victory, of wounding Israel, yet again, and giving up in peace-processing and political clumsiness and mental paralysis what the people of Israel won by feat of arms, feat of national resolve. And this time, so terrible are they, and so willing to surrender, that the self-inflicted wound will be akin in one way to that wound suffered by Philoctetes that made it impossible for him to fulfill his religious rites. For no doubt the shallow, implacable animus of Israeli leftists, eager to see further surrenders, quick to be outraged by religious Jews, are far less outraged, apparently, by the denial of Jewish historic and legal rights to the state of Israel, and far more exercised by this or that rabbi than by the “moderate” Abbas, that Holocaust-denier, who along with his corrupt cronies in the Jizyah-supported Fatah of Slow Jihadists, contemplates an Israel reduced in size and power by degrees, becoming a dhimmi state that will exist not by right but by Muslim sufferance. And then, by further degrees, it will be reduced until it ultimately disappears, and the Dar al-Islam is cleansed of that intolerable mental affront, the existence of an Infidel nation-state (and still worse, one run by Jews, always regarded as weak and helpless, a people, especially among Arab Muslims, to be despised) smack in the middle of a now-uninterruptible Muslim land mass. Then all will again be right, as Islam continues to expand, in western Europe and elsewhere, the lands within its domain, the ever-expanding -- with a little help from those whom Muslims would wish to reduce to dhimmitude or destroy -- Dar al-Islam.
Posted by Hugh at January 25, 2008 11:44 AM
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Hugh says:
"...becoming a dhimmi state that will exist not by right but by Muslim sufferance."
I read that and I got so ANGRY. It's true for all of us.
The whole West is beginning to 'be allowed to exist by right of Muslim sufferance' - or not. It would be laughable if it were not so horrifying.
Olmert and Livni are The Auschwitz Orchestra of Holocaust Two.
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at January 25, 2008 11:56 AM
"They hope, they wish, they dream -- but they will not spend a month, a week, a day, an hour, considering carefully the nature of Islam, of taking its texts and tenets seriously."
...and when they find someone in the office who does know a little about Islam...they fire him at the demands of the in house Muslims...no need to break the chain of stupidity...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 25, 2008 12:59 PM
My cousin, who flew fighters in the Second World War, got it. Regarding oil, land, etc. or anything else the enemy uses against us, and in regard to Arabs and Muslims, he said (based on a successfully prosecuted war effort), "Just go in there and take it." Name one war, any war, hot or cold, anywhere, at any time, that has not, in the final analysis, been won by anything other than brute force. Churchill must be turning in his grave. "Don't you people 'get it'? Your enemy doesn't care what you do or don't do. He's your enemy, stupid. Break him."
Posted by: hasvfidra at January 25, 2008 1:40 PM
Despite all of Israel's concessions, here is how Israel is described by the odious Yvonne Ridley (who should know better after having endured Islam's tender mercies as a kidnap victim):
"That disgusting little watchdog of America's which is festering in in the Middle East".
"Festering"--this despite it being the only democracy in the region, having the only decent educational system, the only country with a first-world standard of living (despite having to maintain a large military for defence against their murderous neighbors, suffering frequent missile and suicide attacks, being unable to trade with most of her neighboring nations, and having to absorb large numbers of impoversihed refugees, most of which do not speak modern Hebrew), the only country with equality and freedom of opportunity for their citizens, including their Arab citizens.
The greatest reason for Muslim hatred of Israel is--of course--its existance as a non-Muslim state in the very heart of Dar-al-Islam. But I think it is also a burr in the mind of Arabs that even though the country is so beleagured, that Israel does not just survive--she *thrives*. Israel, with its lush "green line", should serve as a model for their neighbors, something they would want to emulate, rather than destroy.
I just hope that Israel is not entirely betrayed by her well-meaning but clueless current crop of "leaders".
Posted by: gravenimage at January 25, 2008 1:48 PM
Yvonne Ridley was, long before she was a "kidnap victim," a well-known spouter of antisemitic nonsense, and a devout admirer and promoter of the PLO. I think she married one of its members, and her post-kidnapping support for the lesser Jihad against Israel was not, as some think, Stockholm Syndrome at work.
It is fascinating to compare her sweetness-and-light presentation, a week or two ago, in Nashville, sponsored by some sweetly sinister "Peace and Justice" group (you know the kind, the kind that is out to help misinform unwary Americans about Israel and of course, in a different way, about Islam -- in other words, the left-wing equivalent of the right-wing Western hirelings of the Saudis who have carried such influence in Washington). By now we all know that when you see the words "Peace" and "Justice" together it is a most peculiar "peace" and a most diseased notion of "justice" that will promoted, pushed, by those smiling but evil men who run these groups, and smilingly mislead the unwary and the ignorant.
Ridley is cracked and evil, but so too are those who, like that "Peace and Justice" group in unlikely Nashville, self-righteously make possible her viciously sweet, or sweetly vicious, propagandistic presentations.
They shouldn't be allowed to fly "peace-and-justicely" under the radar, and 'scape a moral whipping, and they won't.
Posted by: Hugh at January 25, 2008 2:08 PM
I am more and more aghast at the anti-semitism which is now taking hold not just in the media but in the minds of ordinary people.
It is always Israel who is the culprit, the agressor, and never any of the 'freedom'-fighters.
This goes hand-in-hand with an attitude towards said 'freedom'-fighters which is based on a totally sentimental attitude towards them, an 'understanding' of their plight which excludes any understanding for that of their Israeli victims.
I can see a direct line from the prevaiing PC, via a feminisation of life generally and politics in particular, based on a vague 'feeling' for the poor peoples, which makes those who express these concerns feel good themselves - but which has nothing to do with hard facts.
How else can one explain that some seem to think it doesn't matter that Israeli children have to live under constant thread of Hamas rockets, but any Israeli retaliation is the most heinous crime?
That this attitude now also holds sway in the Israeli political leadership is very troubling indeed.
It looks to me as if, like some population of Neros, we'd rather debate leftist and PC views amongts ourselves, than actually look to who and where the real enemy is - not just in the Isreali leadership but here in our countries as well.
Soon it'll be too late.
Posted by: Calon Lan at January 25, 2008 2:16 PM
"Never Again!" - WTF?
Posted by: MP at January 25, 2008 2:36 PM
posanappery? I'm heading for my OED!
Posted by: MP at January 25, 2008 2:47 PM
err that's podsnappery
Posted by: MP at January 25, 2008 2:48 PM
Podsnappery.
Google that word and "Jihad Watch" and something will turn up.
Posted by: Hugh at January 25, 2008 2:49 PM
The dickens you say!
Posted by: MP at January 25, 2008 2:50 PM
An Open Letter to Jessie Sheidlower:
Dear Mr. Sheidlower,
The comment above at 2:47 is not unique. There have been others at this webiste who tell me they are consulting the O.E.D. more frequently because of this or that word I used. Well, how about it? You and I both know that the 2nd edition is now for sale at under $1000. 20 fat volumes, nice blue covers. They are languishing in the warehouse. It is the last hardbound edition. So -- why not send those 20-vols. my way, to replace the 13-volume one. Check with the boys at Walton Crescent, and then at the business end of the OUP, and let's see if my unwitting promotion of the lexicographer's craft, and this blatant example of Product Placement, has the desired effect, not to melt possibly hard hearts, but to appeal to the clever marketing minds, at corporate headquarters, who know perfectly well that once I have that in hand there will be no stopping me.
I'll be waiting, day and night, by the e-mail for your reply.
Posted by: Hugh at January 25, 2008 2:56 PM
I think Israel should make a snappy response to every violation of deals, territory, persons belonging to them. Always vigilant.
Just limited, sharp reactions should do. Tirelessly.
Posted by: Henrik at January 25, 2008 3:23 PM
Once again, the Jews are proving that if you act like a doormat, your enemies will be happy to treat you accordingly. When that Israeli missle blew son-of-satan yassin out of his wheelchair, it brought respect. Yeah, Isreal's enemies still hated her, but that act was respected. If the the yvonne-ridley vomitus of the world had to start looking over their shoulders, or have someone else taste their food or start their car, I suspect some of their vile anti-semitic rhetoric would soften a bit.
Posted by: Infidel33 at January 25, 2008 3:54 PM
Mr. Fitzgerald - Pleae let us know if the "product placement" strategy works. Coming here is always an education.Do you have shelf-space for 20 vols.?
Posted by: MP at January 25, 2008 4:30 PM
I'll make room.
Posted by: Hugh at January 25, 2008 5:07 PM
"When that Israeli missle blew son-of-satan yassin out of his wheelchair, it brought respect"
...yep...it was real quiet for a long time....it was a while before the replacement jumped up and said: "pick me, pick me!"
at January 25, 2008 5:07 PM
"let us know if the "product placement" strategy works."
-- from an inquiring poster above
So far, I am batting .oo. I think I might do better were I able to exhibit johnny-depp well-defined cheekbones, and a display of washboard abs -- not "I've-Got-Those-Washboard-Blues" abs --would increase the potential appeal of my Product Placement ads-in-the-making. The next time I'm on the Lago di Como ferry that passes by George Clooney's lakeside villa, I'm going to get off and ask him for advice. Like so many Hollywood actors, he keeps his image in this country above-board by not stooping to ads in this same country, but does them only abroad. On Italian television you can see him repeating, over and over, four little words: "No Martini [i.e., Martini & Rossi], no party." I'm sure he'll explain how to succeed at Product Placement.
For those who wish to travel with me down Memory Lane, the one where can view the wrecks of past efforts by the side of the road, I offer this florilegium (the metaphor has just been abruptly switched, and I can’t do a thing about it) on this topic, here's a florilegium of my previous, come-hithers to hard-eyed marketing men. None succeeded. And I am chagrinned to report that all similar efforts to eke out more than a subsistence level of existence have yet to succeed. That surprises you? Imagine how I feel.
Here's that half-crazed chrestomathy:
“In 2004, Abdel-Rahman [the blind sheik Abdel-Rahman, now in a New Jersey jail] tried to sabotage his health, consuming M&Ms to exacerbate his diabetes." [News Item]
"M&M's have iconic status as the favorite candy of American schoolchildren, who would, before eating them, carefully arrange them into piles according to color -- with oranges and reds being the rarest, and hence the most tasty, to be eaten last, while the brown ones were the commonest, and therefore were the least desirable, to be gobbled first.
Pudeur prevents one from alluding to the well-known advertisement for M&Ms in the innocent days of one's youth; but if one felt like it, no doubt some sleight of word might be performed with the double-entendre. However, the temptation should be resisted for many reasons, not least to show a strength of character superior to that of Sheikh Abdel Rahman, who apparently finds those M&Ms irresistible. We Infidels must not let down the side.
[Posted by: Hugh at July 3, 2004 12:04 AM]
The mention of Berkut vodka, and of nuits-st.-georges, and of cloudberry liqueur (to be bought in Helsinki, or at the Canadian border shops), makes me think it is time to renew my appeal to all those who make or produce anything at all.
Product Placement is the shameless name of the shameless game. I'm not talking about a cameo role for a Mercedes or for that matter a villa in Todi that appears in a Hollywood production, where apparently the glimpse of such things causes a certain deep-pocketed percentage of the movie-going, and impressionable public to rush right out and buy that Mercedes, and rent or buy that villa in Todi (300 olive trees on the grounds, and a view of Assisi and Torgiano from every window) d, and a view of the Tiber too, and if you buy that Mercedes, and rent before buying, at the end of a stay next July, that villa in Todi, it will Change Your Life.
No, I'm talking about more modest things. I started here with a modest package of M&Ms. I went on to other items, and even devoted an entire posting to the matter. So far not a single manufacturer or producer of anything, mentioned by me here or at another website, has decided to send me, in grateful tribute, the kind of thing that any cheesy magazine gets samples of all the time -- cosmetics, wine, books that will never be reviewed but my, at the end of every month you take them down to a bookstore and what a pretty penny you can receive to supplement your absurdly small salary.
Let me simply repost here [after a story about Pakistani Muslims smashing television sets] a previous one devoted to Product Placement:
I know the feeling. Television -- can't live with it, can't kill it.
But still, one wishes that those Pakistanis, so pure of heart, had not been so maddened, and so maddeningly wasteful. Couldn't they have given the sets away, to others less fortunate -- because more Infidelish -- than themselves?
One thriftily hopes that the sets in question were bottom-of-the-line black-and-white, with fuzzy pictures. And how good can the reception be, anyway, in the northwest frontier regions of Pakistan? Why not send them across the Durand Line to Afghanis who have even less, in those places such as Kafiristan ("Land of the Infidels" for Islam did not arrive until 1896 in lucky, lucky Kafiristan) and Waziristan, and Nuristan and Puristan and Foosistan and aptly-named Woosistan, where villages are reluctant to surrender their homemade hootch.
Think of how horrible it must have been, in the first months after the Iranian Revolution, when the wine cellars of the Infidels and the infidelesque "Muslim-for-identification-purposes-only" Muslims were opened, and their contents brought out, and smashed against walls, and the Pauillac '45 and the Romanée-Conti '29 and the Chambolle-Musigny and the Gaja Barbaresco ran red in the streets of Teheran, and no one dared to bend down to hand-cup into his mouth a few precious draughts out of respect to those who had toiled in the vineyards of the Lord (for the earth is His, and the fruits thereof). What a horrible waste it was, because, because, because, because -- because of the terrible waste it was (sung to the tune written by the newly-numismatized Yip Harburg -- "We're Off to See the Wizard").
What if the television sets those maddened Muslim villagers destroyed were not miserable old-fashioned cathode-ray tube things that even you and I, gentle reader, won't pick up from curbside on trash day, but were televisions of the very most up-to-date kind, the kind that promise Paradise, and deliver the goods.
This kind:
** NEW ** SONY - KDE61XBR950 61-IN HDTV XBR® Plasma WEGA™ Television
Change the way you experience television with Sony’s XBR® Plasma WEGA™ High Definition TV. Its floating glass panel design will seduce your senses as you enjoy stunning picture enhancement.
Our Price $12,299.99
Availability Usually ships in 24 to 48 hours
SKU No. 61xbr950
Mfg. Part No. KDE-61XBR950
Yes, Product Placement is here again at JihadWatch. Little luck so far. No M&Ms from the Mars Company. Not a single package. No Underwood Typewriter. No Lexus. Yet hope springs eternal.
Yes, the New Sony KDE61XBR950 61-IN HDTV XBR Plasma WEGA Television would have been a terrible thing to have destroyed up there in Waziristan, don't you agee? Especially as it is a "High Definition TV" with "its floating glass panel design" which, I am sure you will continue to agree, might readily "seudce your senses as you enjoy stunning picture enhancement."
Okay, SONY. If you really want to pull away from Panasonic, or those dangerous South Korean underpricers, you know what to do. There's more Product Placement where that came from. Mr. Marketing Manager - you will promptly ship one television -- smaller size please, a 42-incher will do, more or less like the one described to me, c/o Robert, if you know what's good for you. Hell hath no fury like a self-appointed Product Placer scorned.
Oh, I almost forgot the other bits of product placement slyly inserted above. I refer to that incomplete list of vintage wines destroyed by the Muslim fanatics in Iran when the Shah fell, and his courtiers fled, and their cellars were discovered, and the wines taken out and punished for being very naughty wines indeed.
You who make wine, market wine, distribute wine here and abroad, and who keep sending stuff (does he accept it?) to Mr. Parker, or his epigones or imitators or rivals, winemakers and distributors who send all that free stuff to Mr. Parker and all the wannabe parkerettes out there, those cases sent to assorted wine magazines where they gladden the hearts of the otherwise poorly-paid reviewers, all that stuff sent to him just so he can, like an oenological schoolmarm, give out his grades -- a 93 or a 96 or, dare one hope, possibly even a 98, to this or that wine, and thus send its stock sky-high forever, should take a look at my posting, to see how I have managed to enroll our deep disquiet about Islam into a celebration not of Western literature or art (books can be easily bought, paintings and sculpture seen in museums), but of wine.
So if you are in the business of promoting the products of the best years in the vineyard lives of Pauillac, Chambolle-Musigny, Romanée-Conti, and that Gaja Barbaresco I slipped in as a personal favorite, then let's keep in touch, shall we? And if you didn't see the wine you distribute mentioned In This Space, drop me a line. Let's talk.
[Posted by: Hugh at July 31, 2005 06:39 PM]
I have never carried such items [in a comment on Muslim cabdrivers in Minneapolis refusing to pick up at the airport incoming passengers carrying duty-free liquor] before, but will make a point to do so for those and other relevant airports, to have with me ostentatiously on display a bottle of something. Let's make it unusual: Berkut vodka (from heretofore tolerant, half-Infidel Kazakhstan), or something, perhaps, in nuits-st.-georges, or acloudberry liqueur, Canadian or Finnish, which if I cannot find in a shop, will retrieve for this airport-taxi-queue occasion even if it means I have to mush-and--slush it myself, sled-dogs in the lead, all the way to the arctic circle, with its rapidly melting ice cap.
[Posted by: Hugh at May 11, 2007 11:25 AM]
Operators are standing by. And the postman rings twice. Send that wine, send that wheel of parmigiano (I’ll break all the spokes and fellies from that particular wheel in no time flat), send that copy of the catalogue to the latest show at the Metropolitan, to me c/o Robert.
Play up, you corporate marketers, and play the game!
[Posted by: Hugh at May 11, 2007 11:37 AM]
at January 25, 2008 6:20 PM
The reason why Isreal is in the Middle East and why the Muslims cannot stand for it to be there is because it proves once and for all that the Holy Bible is not only correct, but is why it is the greatest best selling book of all time.
Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at January 26, 2008 2:23 AM
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