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| NEW PRESENTATION |
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| New Presentations |
We are now preparing a new presentation about what it is actually like to live in Israel today - everything that goes to make up Israel's vibrant and very special way of life. This presentation will feature different aspects of modern life in Israel - the major cities, cultural life, antiquities and historical sites, unique locations, like the Dead Sea, Eilat and the magical city of Jerusalem.
Due to the scope of this presentation, we would like to be able to send you a monthly e-bulletin once it is ready, telling you about the subject of the month. If you wish to receive our notifications regarding this presentation and our other material, please make sure you whitelist us
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| Enough is Enough! |
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BREAKING NEWS |
Israel is a sovereign nation. Like every other sovereign nation, Israel has an inalienable right to defend its citizens and its terroritory.
For too long, terrorist gangs have traumatized, maimed and murdered Israeli citizens, destroying their lives and property. For too long, these terrorist gangs have rained rockets indiscriminately down on Israeli towns and citizens. For far too long, Israeli governments have restrained their reactions, and barely responded to these deadly provocations - for fear of injuring innocent Palestinians.
Enough is enough! Israelis love life, and Israel’s government holds human life (all human life) in high regard, seeking peace with all its neighbors. But - how to deal with an enemy that hides, like a coward, under the skirts of an innocent civilian population? How to deal with an enemy that has no regard for human life - not even that of its own brothers, the Palestinians? How to deal with an enemy that does not seek to help its own people and develop its own infrastructure, but only to destroy another?
Finally, Israel has responded - with a fraction of its might - surgically targeting military installations and locations, thus minimizing citizen casualties.
Enough is enough! But what will happen now? The world will condemn Israel’s actions. Blaring red newspaper headlines will tell of “the strong Israeli army attacking the helpless civilian population of Gaza”. Nobody will mention the civilian population of southern Israel, which has spent much of the past eight years in bomb shelters, trying to avoid the showers of rockets and bombs being fired on them from inside the Gaza Strip.
We hope that the Israeli people will stand firm, and that the Israeli government will be strong enough to withstand the world’s pressure – and complete the job that has to be done.
Udi & Mal
60 YEARS: SO - WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
For whatever reason - be it xenophobia or the need for a scapegoat - the Jews have long been a hated and persecuted minority: a thorn in the side of humanity. From the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Romans, through medieval Europe, the Inquisition, Soviet anti-Semitism, the Third Reich - to Achmedinajad and his cronies: that’s a thorn of colossal, millennial proportions when compared to the mere 60 years’ existence of the State of Israel. According to the Bible, the Jews are God’s chosen people. Maybe that’s the reason why so many people hate the Jews. Nobody likes the teacher’s pet, though he may be admired or feared from afar. Israel’s supporters ask where the world would be without the scientific, medical, literary and hi-tech contributions of the Jews - but perhaps that’s the source of the problem. Nobody likes a wise guy.
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| SUPPORT THIS WEB SITE |
Please donate to help us keep this web site going
We are not financially supported by the Israeli government or by any other organization.We do this voluntarily.
Every donation will be much appreciated.
ARCHIVE
January 2008 the Sderot - Ashkelon - Israel problem
So what exactly is the problem - despite fifty rockets today and forty yesterday - not enough Israelis are getting killed?
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Sderot - In Between Rockets
Sderot has 20,000 men, women, children and lots of babies, and it has been turned into firing range by the Palestinian.
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Israel - October 2006 - Aftermath
Israel is a land of extremes. Its population is deeply polarized. This is not new.
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A Bloody Game of Poker
The latest events in Kfar Qana prove once again that the Hizbollah knows how to play its cards well.
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Thoughts on “Hamatzav” (the Situation)
So I don’t really know how to combat the increasingly critical press, in the UK, and world wide.
These comments on the current situation in Israel were written by a close friend – currently on Shlichut.
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Targeting Civilians
The latest events in the Middle East present a new set of tactics in the conduct of warfare.
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I miss David
This week, Jews all over the world will gather with their families to retell the ancient story of the exodus from Egypt.
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| Who We Are |
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The Goal |
Conceptwizard is not an anonymous organization. Udi and I are a married couple, living in central Israel, with two grown-up children. We spend many hours creating our presentations and info page, and answering as many of your letters as possible. We do this voluntarily, after our regular bread-and-butter jobs. Udi runs a design studio,which specializes in web site and commercial presentations design, and I work at the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled.
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We created this web site because we care deeply about the future of our region, and we feel that we have something to contribute. Our goal is to provide quickly viewed educational tools to help people better understand and explain the roots of the Mid-East conflict.
CONTACT US
udi@conceptwizard.com
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| About This Web Site |
This web site and our presentations are freely accessible to all. We are not financially supported by the Israeli government or by any of the big Jewish organizations.
By buying our CD-ROMs you are participating in our effort to keep this web site going, to design new presentations, and to keep you informed of the latest happenings in Israel.
With your help and donations we can also re-create our presentations in languages other than English, so that the message can be delivered to an even greater number of people.
Our CD-ROMs are available for US$25 each.
You can order CDs or make donations through
PayPal or by sending a check.
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| MEDIA MANIPULATION |
Who can forget the heartrending video clip of young Hadil Ghalia running over the Gaza sands, looking for her family? There are many parallels between this and the photos of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durah, caught between Israeli and Palestinian gunfire. Yet, there are so many inconsistencies in both scenarios that we should at least stop to question the genuineness of what we are being shown.
Whether or not Hadil lost her family as the result of a stray Israeli shell, or the explosion of a Palestinian device or mine, is of little consequence. She lost her family, as young al-Durah lost his life, because she is living in a war zone.
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| THE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
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HAMAS WINS THE ELECTIONS |
Disengagement - interim conclusions -
or what I learned up until now about the disengagement
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Hamas wins the elections in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Are the Palestinians fed up with the corruption of the Palestinian Authority? Or did they vote for Hamas because they support their agenda?
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| AN IMAGINARY - OR NOT SO IMAGINARY - SCENARIO |
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HUMAN RIGHTS? |
An imaginary individual decides to visit his imaginary relatives. He collects his wife and imaginary children, prepares a suitcase, and sets out. In order to get to his relatives, he has to pass through a barrier...
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Why shouldn't we REALLY treat the Palestinians in a more humane way?
This is a question that we are often asked in the letters people write to us after seeing our presentations
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| THE JERUSALEM REPORT |
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Conversation on the Beach |
Propaganda on a Shoestring
With unexpected success, a Kfar Saba couple takes on Israel's information battle
Hanan Sher
"Imagine" is one of four remarkably simple, hard-hitting and effective Internet presentations created by Udi and Mal Ohana to help Israel in the information war.
A husband-and-wife team from Kfar Saba, northeast of Tel Aviv, she's an English-language editor-translator, he's a graphic artist. Huge numbers of surfers have clicked onto their presentations over the last year; and they have won praise - but no financial support - from bodies responsible for official "information" efforts.
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By Solly Ganor
About half a mile from where I live in Herzliya, on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean, stands an old mosque. It was built during the Middle Ages and a Moslem holy man is buried on that site. The holy man's name was Sidney Ally and that is how the mosque is known to this day.
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| TERROR IN EUROPE |
200 human beings lost their lives in Spain yesterday - 200 innocent civilians on their way to work, to school, or just to catch the morning train. It really isn't important who carried out this atrocity, whether it was Al-Qaida, the ETA, or some other unknown organization.
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| TAKE A BREAK |
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THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS... |
Welcome to our coffee corner.
We will try to provide you here with short anecdotes about life in Israel today - things you won't usually be seeing on your TV screens.
visit the coffee corner >
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Following Naomi Shemer last year, Israel loses two more of its best-loved composers - Uzi Hitman and Ehud Manor
Yad Vashem presents a new face to the world
Israelis on vacation in Sinai and Turkey become targets of terrorism
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