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• August 18, 2008
• 11:10

  The Night before Aliya

   » ‎ The Muqata
  This coming Monday morning, at 10:30 AM, another few hundred North American Jews will arrive at the JFK airport in preparation for their flight home.
  
  Its now slightly after 1 AM in NY, and I'm honestly very excited for the privilege to join this flight. I recall almost 18 years ago, the night before I moved to Israel. I couldn't sleep. Tossing and turning with anticipation, excitement, and a bit of trepidation, I could barely squash the jumble of thoughts which prevented me from sleeping.
  
  Songs danced around in my head. Homeward Bound, ושבו בנים, Take me home, אם אשכח ירושלים, and so many others.
  
  In the end, I didn't sleep. It was too much. I didn't sleep on the plane either...all the way home to Israel -- It was far too exhilarating.
  
  But that was almost 18 years ago.
  
  I spoke to one of the families tonight that I will be escorting home on tomorrow's flight. They had already put their kids to sleep, and were very excited about the flight...the culmination of their planning, hopes and dreams to return home.
  
  Please join me over the next few days as I blog about 2 families and their journey home.
  
  My thanks to Nefesh b'Nefesh and Webads for arranging this special trip.
  
  --Jameel
  
  PS; And special, special thanks to my wife and children, for their understanding -- while I "disappeared" for a few days to accompany this special flight.
  
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד
• July 21, 2008
• 17:38

  Muqata RoundTripping: Israel, NYC, Israel

   » ‎ The Muqata
  A few years back I had some cool ideas for livening up the JBlogosphere. I managed to implement a few; the Purim parody carnival or the Purim collaborative Purim Podcast, yet others never got off the drawing board (like the JBlogosphere Game Show idea, which I think is still a great idea, but don't have the time or advertising cash to make it happen yet).
  
  And then...this opportunity drops into my lap. Not only is it completely in tandem with my blog's goals and aspirations of promoting the good things about Israel, love for the land, and a general feeling of connection -- but the idea spans many blogs and bloggers.
  
  Nefesh b'Nefesh has offered to send me and other JBloggers to the US (and return back) on one of their aliya flights -- to accompany an oleh family and blog their experience before leaving, during the flight, and at the welcome-home reception at Ben-Gurion airport. In addition to helping share their personal aliya, there will be a JBlogger conference in Yerushalayim the next day.
  
  I'm not listed yet on any conference panels...because I haven't yet figured out how to keep the yellow smiley face on my head for so long...
  
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד
• July 04, 2008
• 16:41

  Duping the Mossad

   » ‎ The Muqata
  I have never seen the Borat movie, nor am I a huge fan of the Sacha Baron Cohen genre of humor.
  
  However, that he managed to dupe former Mossad spy and current political analyst Yossi Alpher is enough to make me smile.
  
  Sacha Baron Cohen's German rock star character interviewed Alper for his upcoming movie, and Alpher didn't quite realize he was being duped.
  
  The JPOST reports:
  

  Alpher - who served in the Israel Defense Forces as an intelligence officer, followed by 12 years' service in the Mossad and senior positions at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East office - realized something might not be quite kosher when the "rock star" interviewee brought up Hamas:
  
  "Vait, vait. Vat's zee connection between a political movement and food? Vy humous?" asked the interviewer in heavily accented English, echoing the obsession with the chickpea spread shared by Adam Sandler's Zohan. "Yesterday I had to throw away my pita bread because it vas dripping humous. Unt it's too high in carbohydrates."
  
  The absurd Hamas-humous confusion went on for several minutes, and Alpher began to smell a rat, but stuck with the interview nonetheless - thus joining the long list of prominent figures down the years who have sought to maintain their gravitas while being tricked by one of Cohen's ridiculous personas.
  
  It got worse, Alpher acknowledged: "Then the interviewer declared, 'Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.'"
  
  Alpher and his Palestinian partner exchanged puzzled glances at the comparison of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie fighting over Brad Pitt, but because they had both received a fee for their appearance, and still hadn't completely internalized that their interviewer was not exactly who he seemed, they soldiered on.
  
  "We played it straight and square... We smiled at the idiotic questions and answered them patiently... We knew something ludicrous was happening but couldn't quite figure it out," Alpher wrote. "Our rock-star host concluded with a mind-boggling song about the epic Middle East conflict between 'Jews and Hindus.' At the crescendo, he grabbed our hands and joined them with his."

  If former Mossad spies who hold senior positions at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East office can't realize that they are being fooled by a Humus joker like Sacha Baron Cohen, then it totally explains how the Olso process gained steam in the first place...and that we still believe agreement after agreement that we sign with the Palestinians.
  
  
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד