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al Bassaleh

All the news that isn’t (satire and humor)

What is an observer state, anyway? A quick lesson on the statehood bid

Mom breaks down the UN bid, in case you needed an analogy for this monumental, historic moment.

Video: Spoof of "Like the 'IDF' on Facebook!" brings dose of reality

An Israeli army video features smiling groups of Israeli soldiers saying “Like the IDF on Facebook.” But a spoof of the video makes it much more realistic, depicting the Israeli army as it really is.

Israeli wake-up call service

A quick thought on an excellent, free Israeli service.

Israel army releases photographic proof of Flotilla "Threat to Israel"

In a move intended to convince skeptics to finally accept Israel’s claims that the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 poses a real danger, the Israeli military spokesperson’s office has issued photographic evidence in a blog post titled “Flotilla II Seeks Provocation, Poses Threat to Israel.”

Israel collaborator recruiter punked

4 January 2009

In addition to bombs and missiles that have killed an ever increasing number of Palestinian civilians, Israel has dropped millions of flyers on the occupied, besieged Gaza Strip. The Electronic Intifada decided to call the number provided on one such flyer. What follows is a translation of the Arabic conversation between an EI editor and an Israeli officer who identifed himself using the Arabic name “Abu Ibrahim.”

Media Beat: BBC scientists announce Mariana Trench of Irony is filled with salty, reptillian, American, clusterbomber tears

22 November 2006

A team of scientists, working in the BBC’s Children’s Science Unit, who recently completed an exhaustive week-long undersea geological survey of the Mariana Trench of Irony, the deepest known submarine trench in the world, announced today that the water tested seemed to be primarily composed of salty, reptillian, American, clusterbomber tears. In related front page news…

Media Beat: New York Times' Startling Revelation Broadens World's Understanding Of Long-Running Conflict Over Land

22 November 2006

The New York Times, considered America’s “newspaper of record” and one of the most highly-respected newspapers in the world, yesterday published a previously-unknown and startling revelation about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the longest-running dispute over land in the modern world. With no less force than as if a giant asteroid had struck the earth, the Times’ unparalleled editorial team, in both print and web editions, offered its readers around the globe a commendably timely gift of knowledge, with the front page headline….

Your Thoughts: Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East

19 October 2006

BNN’s Your Thoughts is brought to you by the BNN Under Department of Tahta Maintenance, the department that exists to recycle graphics in a low maintenance kind of way, in order that we have to struggle less on our budget to come up with original content. Partially original content is what cable news is all about, so we’re definitely making big strides on the road to media professionalism here in our corner of the truth-telling universe, or as Stephen Colbert might have put it — if he’d thought of it first — the “Truthiverse”.

Photo of the Day: Only in Ramallah

19 October 2006

Photo of the Day is a BNN feature which offers a photograph on a day, and calls it “Photo of the Day”. This is not to imply that this is a regular feature, nor that this photo is truly the mother of all photos for the day in question. In this particular example, there is more than one photo, so a correct titling of the feature should really be “Photos of the Day”. However, this would become extremely confusing for branding reasons, kind of like the subject of these photos. Usual disclaimers apply.

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