Video: 'Jerusalem Blues' guitarist: Just Riff It

Natan Zohar is about the best electric street busker, riffing over hip backup, through Hendrixy blues changes and freeform jazz on a blonde Strat, on a windy, freezing afternoon in Jerusalem, well, that I've ever come across... And the tiny dancer at 2:24 - pure delight. Enjoy! (Shot on my Omnia cameraphone - apologies for the audio)

You Must Read This Post. Now. (Really)

From the keyboard of a ridiculously talented screenwriter wife of friend of mine:

"Today I scanned all the faces on the bus and I felt relatively safe.

"You know why? Because we got them. The bombmakers and the masterminds and the organizers and all the eighteen year olds who couldn't wait to get recruited. We got them all, pretty well. We took them on, and we dismantled their networks and we rocketed their bomb factories and we listened to their phone calls and blocked their bank accounts, and when any of their top brass forgot to be vigilant, we assassinated the hell out of them.

"As well as doing all of this, there was the small and simple matter of involving our children in this fight. That's right, all our little boys, the ones who had been playing with meccano and lego and playmobile on the living room floor. The ones who loved reading Tintin and Asterix or the Israeli equivalent, and who gobbled their Frosties for breakfast every morning before getting the bus to school. All our beautiful boys - the ones who were on Ritalin and the ones who weren't, the ones who loved football and the ones who were too nerdy for sports.

"The ones who wore kipppot and tzitzit and the ones who didn't. We waited till they turned eighteen and then we put them in uniform and trained them to use weapons and taught them to speak Arabic, and they went into every one of those viper's nest towns like Jenin and Ramallah and Nablus, usually during the night, and they arrested every single person hiding a weapon or in possession of explosives. When your children were at university doing law or medicine or engineering, our children were in those towns. Every night."

Read the rest.

Irrefutable Proof the Mossad Was Behind Dubai!

They've started selling the t-shirt:

"SALES OF Mossad-themed T-shirts, available by mail order, have risen tenfold since the Israeli spy agency was linked to last month’s assassination in Dubai.

"Despite the fact that Israeli leaders are refusing to confirm or deny Mossad involvement, orders for the garments have flooded in over the past few weeks – from Israelis and particularly from diaspora Jews."

Also: ¡¡pooɯ ɯıɹnd ǝɥʇ uı ʇǝƃ oʇ ƃuıʇɹɐʇs Heh.

(H-T: EoZ)

(Audio Exclusive) Israelis, Palestinians 'Lawyer Up' For Battle

Nitzana Darshan-Leitner making a point to the audience during her address at the recent Jerusalem Conference. (Photo: Dave Bender, All Rights Reserved)

Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli right-wing activist attorney, runs the Shurat Hadin Law Center. She told the recent Jerusalem Conference, and Dave Bender about what is increasingly being used as a courtroom cudgel against the Jewish State: "Lawfare," and how she's turning the legal battle against Israel on it's foes.

The interview, and her surprising comments are here: http://www.davebrianbender.com

(Video) Tracking Jews Back to 'Abraham's DNA'

JLTV's Brad Pomerance reports on Author Jon Entine's Book "Abraham's DNA: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People."

(Cartoon) Purim & Programming: Unsafe At Any [processor] Speed

'Debacle or success? Experts doubt Mossad's role in Dubai assassination'

My first published article for China's Xinhua News Agency, datelined Jerusalem (yes, you read that right):

News Analysis: Debacle or success? experts doubt Mossad's role in Dubai assassination

By Dave Bender, Gur Salomon, David Harris

JERUSALEM, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Israeli analysts on the Mossad cast doubt on international reports assuming the legendary spook shop is behind the killing of top Hamas commander, Mahmoud al- Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room on January 19, and whether the operation was even a success.

Read more.

(The article is a compilation of three stories that I edited together, Gur's, David's, and mine, which was part of a video interview I held this week with Yediot Aharonot intel, and investigative report, Ronen Bergman, on the liquidation and it's aftermath).

No Joke: 'Purim Gift Baskets Middle East'

No Joke: Purim Gift Baskets Middle East - Egypt, EG Iran, IR Israel, IL Jordan, JO Kuwait, KW Lebanon, LB Oman, OM Qatar, QA Saudi Arabia, SA Syria, SY Turkey, TR United Arab Emirates, AE Yemen, YE

(Head-smacking moment annnnnnysecondnow...)

(Photo) Netanyahu: 'Sanctions With Teeth' Against Iran (UPDATED)

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu striding towards the podium at the seventh annual Jerusalem Conference, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (Photo: Dave Bender - All Rights Reserved).

By Dave Bender

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for “sanctions with teeth,” against the government of Iran, including imports of gas, and energy exports, in an address to a packed seventh annual Jerusalem Conference.

"'The argument is over,' Netanyahu said of the possibility that Iran was trying to make a nuclear weapon, and added that Iran was a threat to world peace, and to Israel...."

Meanwhile, in a related item, The Jerusalem Post's Sarah Honig, commenting on the Dubai Hamas hit (that, just to keep in mind, was aimed at stopping a Hamas/Iranian attempt to get even more, longer-range weaponry to use against Israel), says pretty much what I've been telling many over the years - often, unfortunately, to little avail:

"'dam butlab dam' (blood begets blood– but only for some)'

"As in yesteryear, so in the 21st century, it’s axiomatic that Arabs have the right to inflict incalculable harm on Jews, but the Jews’ attempts to deflect such blows are evil, outrageous and deserving of merciless punishment."

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Other conference updates, audio and photos will be posted here: http://www.davebrianbender.com

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