Dave Bender: Compelling Photography: Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Tuesday, October 31

Israel: Group therapy from Hell (Video)

...And you think you have problems?

Lebanon: Gunners fired at Israeli overflights

UPDATE:
Lebanese army anti-aircraft gunners reportedly fired at Israel Air Force warplanes during foray over south Lebanon

Ynet News:
Lebanese eyewitnesses: Israeli jets perform mock raids over Hizbullah stronghold of Dahiya in southern Beirut for first time since fighting ended in August; Israeli army says jets sent on recon-intel mission

Haaretz:
United Nations peacekeepers, Lebanon: IAF overflights violate Security Council Resolution 1701

The Jerusalem Post:
Overflights come hours after UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen tells Security Council that Lebanese government reported arms smuggling from Syria

The IAF sorties, which Israel says will continue, may well have been in response to an earlier, semi-satirical report:

HizbullahCo revamping biz model,
rejigs core industry

Obligatory Borat post about Jews (Video? Sheesh. Of course there's video)

(Sigh) Must it come to this? To have become a mere flack for the masses, an unpaid viral promoter of the newest media shark-pool feeding frenzy?

Jewlicious has an outtake from the upcoming Borat flic, where Baron tries to adopts a dog, but first checks out it's "Jew hunting" potential.

The animal shelter employee's slapdown response to Cohen's request is great, as a change from others he "interviews" who come off looking like utter imbeciles - even if the are. But then again, I never liked "Candid Camera," or Israel's "Fisfoosim," either, for surreptitiously humiliating strangers for the vacuous, voyeuristic "entertainment" of the masses.

I'm funny like that.