You know I contracted for Disney for a short time, and the joke going around the company was Mikey Mouse’s divorce:

Judge: So Mr. Mouse, you say that you want to divorce your wife Minnie because she’s a bit strange?

Mikey: I didn’t say that Minnie was “a bit strange,” your honor. I said that she was fucking Goofy!

http://www.ariela.org/

also gets you to a number of good links with further information on silly little Gilad and his activities.

Josh, did Disney not enjoy bathing his pubescent daughter? Personally, I think the entire cooperation should be at The Hague for crimes against literature concerning Winnie the Pooh. Even Wodehouse wasn’t that cruel.

AMI ==> But now that Lappin has done such a good job,

Over at Engage? Cheers.

==> I no longer feel the need to act like her mini nemesis quite so often.

I bet you enjoy it.

I propose that TheIrie, JohnBno2, and any other cowards who’ve ducked the real issue in this thread – they should be banned from posting any other comment until they describe how watching this video makes them feel and why they think it’s acceptable for Palestinian children to be abused like this and the root cause of their racism.

The most disgusting thing is that TheIrie doesn’t realise what a vile racist he is.

Alec Macpherson- as Metta says, metaphorical Rose watch, which involved a confrontation in person with her at a public event about her lrb review, followed by a letter by me published in lrb exposing the falsity, a challenge to her during her talk at Limmud 2 years ago, which I commented on here- which comment was picked up by Melanie P and jewishrefugees blogspot, and which I expanded into a longer guest post there, and latterly, exposing her further in commments on her IJV post on CIF

But now that Lappin has done such a good job, I no longer feel the need to act like her mini nemesis quite so often.

She may need thorazine or something. Is there a service that delivers hypnotic medication, as a public service to those considered to be ‘close to the edge’?

Most of the women I met would have looked forward to an arranged early marriage anda fairly bleak life as low cast women in a situation of rural indebtedness. Joining a cadre, marching training, learning and teachin (even if propagandist ideology) carrying weapons even being feared and admired, seemed to them and me like a much more glamerous existence.

War gives glamour and meaning and a massive shift in sexual roles for women.

Even a less extreme militant organisation of women can empower in some ways

Even the British Land Girls going into the countryside revolutionised British sexual relatioships post war women were not going back to the old ways.

Obviously Jihadi means of exit seem a little more one way, but many more women can identify with the cause and in doing so make space to apply some leverage for a recognised shift in their social status.

Islamism that is militant but non-jihadi can provide real tangible benefits for some women.

Like the high powered gobby hijab wearing british Barrister in the ‘Retreat’ she is anythin but the traditional shy flower of Islam.

She appropriates and use the power of modesty and the hijab as a portable screen masking her very real participation in the formerly excluded public sphere of men (this is why the increase in hijab and niqab in Muslim countries is associated with increasing rates of women at university and in the professions)

She can get away with the gob because of the in your face holier than thou modesty of the veil.

A superior social position for some pious Islamist women can be acheived at the expense of
a declining general position for most (characterised as deviant or lax in religious observations) women.