Fri, 28 July 2006 Hangin' In There Charley tells Israeli army stories from Arielle. Israel Little League in the European League Championship. Saeb Erekat...would you buy a car from this man? Oh yeah....and there's still a war going on. We tell about Israel refugees and the way we handle that situation. Kofi Annan makes another bone-headed accusation. Oh yeah.....and THANK YOU, FOX NEWS. Important website to visit: Crisis In Israel If you haven't already, listen to our visit with Bill Grady on You Are The Guest. Our final song is from Mollie Levi called "Bye Bye". |
Fri, 21 July 2006  The Armchair Quarterback Show The answer to the crisis and war in Israel is revealed. But why would you expect less? Where are those missiles kept, anyway? The idiots at the United Nations deserve mentioning. Arielle comes home for the weekend. Responses to oh so many comments, and invitations for more. Special thanks go to the maxi-talented Scott Fletcher for his contribution. If you need some Golden Vocals, visit Caraworks and listen to Podcheck Review Important: Go to Israel At Heart and contribute your comments and time to the Take Three Minutes Swat Team Correspondence from our listener Esther (who now has her own blog, up north: Shalom
Carol and Charley
Again
your correspondent from the noisy northern border who was woken earlier by
a loud boom (so what's new).
It is
Friday, the end of another week and I am looking forward to your
podcast.
Life has slipped into a routine of internet, phones and TV. My
husband is back to work though half his shift aren't there - either at home
looking after children or 'down south'.
Earlier in the week our congregation coordinator did a fine job
organizing, among other things, buses to relocate any members of the
community who wish to go somewhere more peaceful. Those who can't go to family
or friends are with host families.The bus on Tuesday had a luckily
escape as a kutuysha landed 100m away from where people were waiting to be
picked up. Fortunately no one was hurt.
I
understand Tzur Hadassah has taken a serious part in this effort both organizing
and hosting.Did you know about that?
I am
in charge of the 'Anglos', posting messages to an electronic notice board and
phoning those who don't have email. Most of them are veteran Naharians and have
no intention of leaving but were glad to have chat.
The
Reform Movement also donated some activity kits to Shlomi and Naharia so the
children will have something to do in the shelters on
Shabbat.
Unfortunately it is not all good news. The lady killed in the first
attack on Naharia was an occasional visitor to our congregation and her nephew
is an active youth member. She was an Argentinean and her death has sent shock
waves through the Naharia's Spanish speaking community.
And
yesterday I discovered the one of our members is now living in a shelter because
her building has been destroyed. Today I hope to organize some
transport to get her to Jerusalem and a host family. I would like to check
how she is and we really need to do some shopping so I think a detour is in
order.
We
have also had enough of being stuck inside and are planning a Shabbat trip to
Tel Aviv - sea, sand ,sunlight.
I have
stopped watching the international news and reports about 'Israeli Aggression's
leaving me shout at the TV.
However this report left me breathless
Whether it's anti-Semitism or anti-Israeli, it is
anti-me. ( And will
someone tell me why it is so ok to be anti-Israel. What have we done that is so
horrible the world feels it can hate us with impunity?) According to
human rights organizations other countries can fight a war with civilians
causalities and it is a shame, when Israel does so it is a war crime. Is my
life, any Israeli life, so worthless to them that Israel is not allow to
defend itself? Final music is by Machina! |
Fri, 14 July 2006 And The Rocket's Red Glare.... Really not too much to talk about today. Sorry. But I suppose we dug up a couple subjects. Just to keep things interesting, Samantha joins us in the studio. We talk about the World Cup and Anthony Parker leaving. Oh yeah, and I guess we might have mentioned the war that we're in, also. The idiots at the United Nations and the equally mentally challenged folks in the European Union get some time. And we would be remiss if we didn't at least throw a passing comment towards our favorite terrorists, Hizbullah and Hamas. Repeat after me, class......"Disproportionate Response" We received an email from our listener Esther, who lives up North near the Lebanese border. She agreed to let us share it with you, and we'd like to thank her for that. Here it is: Of
course our present situation isn't quite so wonderful.
We are
used to the occasional boom so at first it was no big deal. Then we started
to see the news and realized it was serious. At 11am the Matnas phoned to ask us
to take the children home from summer camp. We kept to our plan of
visiting my parents for lunch but they live only about 1 km from the
border. You can see the the border, that green ridge that was behind Alon
Ben-David on channel 10's news last night, from my parent's sitting-room. We
spent most of the afternoon in their security room in the company of several
terrified pet dogs, eyes glued to the TV news with the constant boom and rattle
of gun and artillery fire in our ears. Whenever there was a particularly loud
explosion my daughter would leap into my arms. When my husband came to pick
us up after work we could see the brown smoke of battle billowing up from
behind the ridge and there was strong smell of gunfire in
the air.
Our
house is about 2 km from the border on the other side of Shlomi and it was a lot
quieter than at my parents as we could only hear the loudest booms and of course
all the air traffic.Even so our children slept in the safety
room.
Then
this morning I was woken by the boom of the katuyshas as they passed over us on
the way to Naharia. After checking the internet and TV news there
were phone calls: some to friends in Naharia and many from friends
elsewhere in Israel offering us help and a place to escape. Even our friends at
the Reform 'HQ' in Jerusalem phoned to show their support and to ask
if they could help in anyway. Our friends abroad also sent emails
to check we are ok.
One
pleasant surprise at 9am: my husband arrived back home. He works in Tefen and
the factory had closed so an impromptu holiday.
Later
Sorry
just finished the above when there was a loud bang and the electricity cut-off.
At this we decided to take a trip the Kirion (The Kanion of the North) . We
also needed to stock up on food as feeding 4 people at least 3 times a day uses
up a lot of supplies and we need plenty of snacks to munch our way through the
boredom of being stuck in the house.
Naturally as we wandered round we met most of my
husband's family and about a dozen of his work colleagues so it took a lot
longer than expected and that explains why I'm finishing this in the middle of
the night.
Since
we've been home there seem to be less katuyshas but a lot of air traffic and on
our travels we saw several tanks being transported into position.
The fact that one missile managed to reach Haifa was a
bit of a shock.
Maybe
you want take a trip north with the IRiver? Now that would be a special podcast,
plenty of background sound effects!
Anyway must go sleep and all
that....
take
care
Esther Here's a great blog worth mentioning...it's called The Captain's Quarters And we invite you to choose us as your favorite at Podcast Pickle Oh...and leave a comment on the iTunes page for Israelisms. We'd appreciate it. |
Fri, 7 July 2006 Back In The Studio We're back in the studio and it's just Carol and Charley. We had a couple birthday wishes for Arielle, and we're rooting for Italy in the World Cup. The Palestinians continue to attack us...and so does the United Nations. Idiotic rabbis and politicians are gay bashing, but they don't notice what's happening in Sderot or Ashkelon. Oh well. Just another week in Israel. Please nominate/vote for us at the PodCast Awards (button is over on the right hand column).... And PLEASE don't forget to pick us as your favorite at Podcast Pickle And if you're into MySpace, please check out Trypod Network And don't forget to join the Trypod Network Podguide (while you're over in that right hand column) |
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