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Maccabee Haifa is actually one of the more multi-cultural soccer teams (much like Haifa itself). It had Muslim & Christian Arabs among its key players and fans as far back as I can remember (my hometown team :)). Also, people in Israel often root for non-local clubs, so this may well be graffitti by a local kid.

Er, not to get into the argument, but if you need to unshorten short URLs you might find this Web service useful: http://therealurl.appspot.com/ (supports JSON too. Enjoy :))

Thanks!

Sounds cool... Is there a way for non-facebookers (we exist :)) to RSVP?

29 comments and no one mentioned this is the theme song for "Saxondale"?? Do yourselves a favor and check it out - Steve Coogan is a genius.

Funny, I just built something that does exactly that :) You enter a list of RSS feeds into it (or import an OPML file) and it monitors them for links that appear occur on more than one feed. You can then browse this links on your page or consume them as an RSS feed. It's *very* early stage, but works ok. Feel free to open yourself an account here: http://nir.railsplayground.com/crowds

I built Web Apps with RoR, and this is not FUD. RoR scalability is harder because there isn't any established, production-grade (eg Apache) web server that Rails can work efficiently with.

RoR community basically gave up on Apache (FCGI/CGI/whatever), Lighttpd has its own issues and Mongrel is just not there yet (some sites set a cronjob to restart it every hour)

Rails is neat, Ruby is beautiful, but without a good web server its indeed hard to scale. As FUD goes, the hyposphere is definitely on RoR's side anyway.

Nick Cohen is a very astute, very leftist UK writer who at a certain point saw the absurdity of the far left's newfound sympathy to movements such as Hezbollah (or oldfound sympathy to Mao or Pol Pot) though their ideologies clearly contradict everything the left is supposed to stand for. IIRC, he also had some experience of strong antisemite response when he published some thoughts on the matter (though, in spite of his last name, he's actually not Jewish).

He wrote a book about this, "What's Left". Here's a chapter from it: http://www.newstatesman.com/200702050032

Well, it had to have some connection to the Jews I suppose. If anyone needed further proof the anti-Israel sentiment in the Far Left (and European mainstream) is based on something far deeper than the Israeli-Arab conflict, here you are. 

(Too bad WSJ closes the story to subscribers. This should have gotten a lot more visibility. Do you read Nick Cohen?)