Featured Games:
00:15 8bit killer
00:18 10800 Zombies
00:20 A Game With A Kitty 2
00:23 a7x
00:25 Absolute Blue
00:28 Action Fist
00:30 Ainevoltas 2
00:33 Akuji The Demon
00:35 Alien Abduction
00:38 Alien Assault
00:40 Alien Breed Obliteration
00:43 Alien Deathmatch 2
00:45 An Untitled Story
00:48 Anamaton
00:50 Ancient Ants Adventure
00:53 Arc Aether Anomalies
00:55 Armed Generator Doom Machine
00:58 Attack of the Paper Zombies
01:00 Banana Nababa
01:03 Bernard & Hank 2
01:05 Big Building boom Blues
01:08 Blasterman vs Yellowskull
01:10 Blasting Agent
01:13 Block
01:15 Block Towers
01:18 Blockman Gets
01:20 Blocks n Bricks
01:23 Blocksum
01:25 Bombie Zombie
01:28 Bonesaw
01:30 Canabalt
01:33 Carnage street
01:35 Castle Of Elite
01:38 Castlevania The Bloodletting
01:40 Cave Story
01:43 Centipong
01:45 Chalk
01:48 Cho Ren Sha 68k
01:50 Clean Asia
01:53 Click Copter
01:55 Coal
01:58 Cobex
02:00 Cottage Of Doom
02:03 Cowboykilla
02:05 Crayon Physics
02:08 Crazy Over Goo
02:10 Crystal Cubes
02:13 Das Uberleben
02:15 Death Worm
02:18 Debrysis
02:20 Demolition Gunner
02:23 Destruction Carnival 2.0
02:25 Destructivator
02:28 Dino Run
02:30 drone
02:33 Dungeon Chaos
02:35 DUO
02:38 DUOtris
02:40 Echoes
02:43 Enough Plumbers
02:45 Enviro-Bear 2000
02:48 Eternal Daughter
02:50 Fig. 8
02:53 Fish Face
02:55 Flyout
02:58 Flywrench
03:00 Focus
03:03 Forward Always Forward
03:05 Fraxy
03:08 Frets on Fire
03:10 Frozzd
03:13 Gamma Bros
03:15 Gang Garrison 2
03:18 Garden Gnome Carnage
03:20 GearToyGear
03:23 GENERIC
03:25 Generic Arena Shmup
03:28 Genetos
03:30 Gianas Return
03:33 Globot Wars
03:35 Gloomy Nights And Living Dead
03:38 Gravitron
03:40 Gravity Bone
03:43 Gravortex
03:45 Grid Assault
03:48 Grid Defender 2
03:50 Gridwars
03:53 Guardian Of Paradise
03:55 Gunroar
03:58 Hakaiman
04:00 Hane 2 Paradise
04:03 Hellycopter
04:05 Hero Core
04:08 Horizontal Shooter Redux
04:10 Hurrican
04:13 Icy Tower
04:15 Igneous
04:18 Iji
04:20 Island Hoping
04:23 Jardinains
04:25 JNKPlat 2010
04:28 Jumper 3
04:30 Jumpman
04:33 Karnn Age
04:35 King
04:38 Knight of the Living Dead
04:40 Knytt
04:43 Knytt Stories
04:45 Kobo Deluxe
04:48 La Mulana
04:50 Lbreakout 2
04:53 Legend Of Princess
04:55 Legend Of Shadow
04:58 Lethal Application
05:00 lockon
05:03 Love+
05:05 Lunaria
05:08 Lyle in Cube Sector
05:10 Madness Reloaded
05:13 Meatboy
05:15 Mechatron: 2154
05:18 Mega Man 7-FC
05:20 Merry Gear Solid 2
05:23 Microbes
05:25 Millenipede
05:28 Mission Extreme
05:30 Mogura 2
05:33 Mono
05:35 Mr. Kittys Quest
05:38 Mubbly Tower
05:40 muon
05:43 Mystical Ninji DX
05:45 N
05:48 NAAC
05:50 Nanosmiles
05:53 Neonplat
05:55 Neva
05:58 Nezumiman
06:00 Nikujin
06:03 Ninja Rush
06:05 Ninjah
06:08 Noitu Love
06:10 Obake
06:13 Open LieroX
06:15 Pacman Ex 3
06:18 Pacz! - Pacmanworlds 2
06:20 Paroxysm
06:23 Path Of Time
06:25 Phun
06:28 Plasma Warrior
06:30 Poing
06:33 Polarity
06:35 Project F-60
06:38 Prototype 1
06:40 Prototype 2
06:43 Protozoa
06:45 Pteroglider
06:48 Purple
06:50 Push Push Penguin
06:53 Q-Lat 3
06:55 Railroad Rampage
06:58 Rainbow Wars
07:00 Rayhound
07:03 Remaddening
07:05 Rescue The Beagles
07:08 Retrobattle
07:10 Return to Sector 9
07:13 Robbie Swifthand
07:15 Runman Race Around The World
07:18 Saintrooper
07:20 Seiklus
07:23 Self Destruct
07:25 Shotgun Fun Fun
07:28 Shotgun Ninja
07:30 Sim War 5
07:33 Skullpogo
07:35 Soldat
07:38 Space Barnacle
07:40 Special Agent
07:43 Spelunky
07:45 Squid And Let Die
07:48 Squish
07:50 Star Guard
07:53 Strange Attractors
07:55 Streambolt
07:58 Streambolt Desero
08:00 Streets Of Rage Remake
08:03 SUAVE
08:05 Super Mario Bros Crossover
08:08 Super Mario Bros X
08:10 Super Mario War
08:13 Super Obliteration
08:15 Super Stun n Run
08:18 super vampire ninja zero
08:20 Survival Crisis Z
08:23 Swarm Racer
08:25 Synaesthete
08:28 Synchro
08:30 SYNSO 2
08:33 SYNSO championship edition
08:35 T2002
08:38 Tank Domination
08:40 Tasty Static
08:43 Teeworlds
08:45 Tekkyuuman
08:48 Tetrablocks
08:50 Tetraform
08:53 Tetripong
08:55 The Cleaner
08:58 The Hordes
09:00 The Power
09:03 Theseus
09:05 Thrust Extreme
09:08 Thrustburst
09:10 Toribash
09:13 Torque
09:15 Torus Trooper
09:18 Tower Bombarde
09:20 Treasure Tower
09:23 Trilby
09:25 troid
09:28 Tumiki Figthers
09:30 Turbopac
09:33 Typhoon 2001
09:35 Uchuusen
09:38 Umbrella Adventure
09:40 Varia
09:43 VECK
09:45 Voltorometer Recharged
09:48 Warning Forever
09:50 Western Shootout
09:53 Wire Robo
09:55 Within A Deep Forest
09:58 Wootman

I love how she seems genuinely complimented that he feels she could be a successful prostitute at her age.

Bu ya ka sha.

Alright. Let's start with a few facts:

- Israel doesn't have the separation of church and state the US has. We study bible since elementary school, we learn a lot about Jewish history and so on.
- There have always been Rabbi in the IDF. Just like there are priests in the US army, the UK army and so on.
- Some Jews pray every morning (Sha'harit, or prayer of dawn) and every evening (Ar'vit, or prayer of evening). Some will put on a Ta'lit and T'filin during that prayer. Those prayers can be performed alone, but when possible, they would prefer to pray in groups of 10 or more, to have what's called a Min'yan.

Now that the scary Jews wrapped in weird shawls rocking back and forth look less intimidating with the cannons in the background, I'll concede a few points:

- Israel is a racist society. There are many ways this is expressed, but it's usually vs Israeli Arabs and Palestinians, which many Israelis regard as the same group.
- There are many "factions" in Judaism, not unlike the differences between Catholics, Protestants, Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons and any other faith that can still call itself Christian. Some of these factions in Judaism will take the bible very literally.
- The population in the settlements is extremely Jewish. They sort of have to be, to want to move to a place you have to hold by force, with the constant threat of being removed from your home by a government treaty. For those who already forgot, read a bit about the Disengagement plan of 2005, where the Israeli Army forcibly removed residents of Jewish settlements in Gaza.

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Now that that's all out of the way, let's move on to the video at hand.

The video says the army is (or, was) "proudly secular". That's quite simply false. Every soldier who wants to can go to prayer every morning, even if it disrupts the normal schedule. Every base has a Rabbi and a synagogue. It's been that way since the IDF came to existence.

The video then goes on to show Rabbi going through a lecture during an officer training course. The video goes as far as calling them an "elite unit" within the IDF. By that logic, since I went through basic training and fired a rifle on about 5 separate occasions, I'm now a part of an elite commando team trained to fix computers behind enemy lines.
There are many courses at the officer training school (called Bahad 1). These men are going through a standard non-combatant officer training. It is required to get any form of officer rank.

The video loves showing you clips where the guys are either handling their rifle, or where the rifle is very visible. That doesn't mean anything regarding the training they receive. I had a rifle for the entire duration of my army training. I took it home every weekend, had to think of where it was all the time, and my greatest worry was "what if someone steals it". If I ever had to shoot it in a real situation, I'd probably drop the clip, get it jammed and throw it at someone before I actually managed to use it to shoot at them. Even if I had, I wouldn't hit anything.

The story of Masada isn't very proud, as far as I'm concerned. Read about it yourself, and make sure you notice the part where they commit mass suicide at the end. Masada in an army context is usually a site where a training course comes near the end of the training. The climb up from one of the sides is physically challenging, and there's a story of a small bunch of Jews standing up to the Roman army at the top. The ending is usually glossed over.

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Now, Cast Lead. The one-year-old atrocity.
I wasn't in the Army at the time, and I don't know anyone who was called for reserve duty for it, so I can't speak from experience on that one. It is surprising to me that the army Rabbi actually went with the combat units into action, and I find it very hard to believe that it was the case with every combat unit. It would simply disrupt their combat operation too greatly to have someone with that little training there. It seems more likely that they went together during the initial entry to Gaza, which was mostly logistical, with very little resistance, and then stayed behind at the actual fighting. Again, though, this is pure speculation on my part.

As for more and more religious Jews joining the army, that's actually a stated goal, not "something the army is ashamed of and is making headlines in Israel". There's a law in place (known as the Tal law) that gave religious Jews an exemption from the three year mandatory army service. This created a great deal of resentment among the secular population, since they're now "carrying the load" for the religious ones.

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That's basically it. The video gets lots of facts right, but some of the contexts wrong. It starts out with the premise that the army wasn't Jewish before, and is becoming Jewish now, and mixes irrelevant pieces of data to "prove" that. I'm just left wondering where the "Shocking news: Hamas is becoming more Islamic, if that was even possible" video.

Disclaimer: I'm an Atheist Jew living in Israel. I served for 3 years in the IDF as a non-combatant.

>> ^demon_ix:
>> ^shimfish:
Which Israel is this exactly? It must be a different Israel from the one where the "ultra-orthodox" parties have only 16 out of 120 seats in the parliament.

Oh, the Ultra-Orthodox parties (Shas and Yahadut Ha'tora) "only" have 16 seats, but they're still the fifth and sixth largest parties. Add Mafdal (Habayit Hayehudi they're called now) and parties that define themselves by their religion first and their political agenda second have 19 seats, which make up %16 of the Knesset.
Other interesting stats: Of the last 10 governments (as listed in the official Knesset website), Shas has been a member of 8, Mafdal (National Religious Party) has been a member of 6, and the only government that had no religious parties at all was the 26th, which was only that way because Shas left. It lasted for 8 long months.
This is the Israel I'm talking about.


So "huge portion" == 16% and the *fifth* largest party. And that includes a non-chareidi party.

And a country that, at least according to this massively accurate documentary, has 56% "religious" (which to clarify, means everyone who isn't a die-hard athiest) population almost always has a religious party making up its proportional representation government?

Where's this cool, calculated, secular level-headedness that I've heard so much about?

I guess there's only one way to fight fear and hatred. And that's with fear and hatred.

>> ^shimfish:
Which Israel is this exactly? It must be a different Israel from the one where the "ultra-orthodox" parties have only 16 out of 120 seats in the parliament.

Oh, the Ultra-Orthodox parties (Shas and Yahadut Ha'tora) "only" have 16 seats, but they're still the fifth and sixth largest parties. Add Mafdal (Habayit Hayehudi they're called now) and parties that define themselves by their religion first and their political agenda second have 19 seats, which make up %16 of the Knesset.

Other interesting stats: Of the last 10 governments (as listed in the official Knesset website), Shas has been a member of 8, Mafdal (National Religious Party) has been a member of 6, and the only government that had no religious parties at all was the 26th, which was only that way because Shas left. It lasted for 8 long months.

This is the Israel I'm talking about.

i have to preface this by saying i had to skip one song that was "unknown artist," and called a default "track 5". that being said, nearly all of these worked out amazingly well. except caribou. that part is definitely false...

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY," YOU SAY WHAT?
Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Start Me Up – Rolling Stones

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
For All the Pretty People – Ben Folds

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Collide the Tide – Chin Up, Chin Up

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Plunk – Tegan and Sara

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Waffle – Sunny Day Real Estate

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Kyle Took a Bullet for Me – Tenacious D

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
I’d Do Anything – Simple Plan

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
In A Submarine – Home Video

WHAT IS 2+2?
Everything I Want – Mohair

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Ave Maria – The Apples in Stereo

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart – Billy Eckstine

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Trains’ Leavin’ – French Toast

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Pirates – Bullets and Octane

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Eyes – Apollo Sunshine

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Suddenly Everything Has Changed – The Flaming Lips

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Seven Days a Week – The Sounds

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Deep in your Wake – Caroline’s Spine

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Those Magic Changes – Sha-Na-Na

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
One of These Things First – Nick Drake

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Murder on the Dance Floor – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
You Set the Scene - Love

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Rum is for Drinking, Not for Burning – Senses Fail

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
The Men in Blue – Prince Paul

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Dead Man’s Will – Iron and Wine

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
I’ll Do Anything – Jason Mraz

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Caribou – The Pixies

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
You Get Me – Michelle Branch

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Wildest Dreams – Moody Blues

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Blueside - Rooney

"sharing the laughter and love.. sha na na na."

Yes, and it is a very expensive hobby indeed. Most Dream of Dolls are usually up around $1000 or more. You can get Dollfies for cheaper, but they're not as pretty...

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Pretty cool! I think I remember seeing uber-high-quality dolls like those before, and I remember being in love with them then. Unfortunately I already have enough expensive hobbies as it is

In reply to this comment by Rakuenless:
I do too ^__^ It's the Dream of Doll; Sha. I want to buy one so much~

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I love that icon!

Pretty cool! I think I remember seeing uber-high-quality dolls like those before, and I remember being in love with them then. Unfortunately I already have enough expensive hobbies as it is

In reply to this comment by Rakuenless:
I do too ^__^ It's the Dream of Doll; Sha. I want to buy one so much~

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I love that icon!

I do too ^__^ It's the Dream of Doll; Sha. I want to buy one so much~

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
I love that icon!

Te Russki nev zhanish? Noo te sha-lasi...

In the words of the great philosopher Ali G, Boo ya ka sha!

The sha la la la part was totally awesome.

sha-la-la-la! I canNOT get through that part without cracking up.

Sha la la la!