Well said indeed. Now that the gauntlet's been thrown, let's hope that at the very least those who do seek the truth can read it here (as opposed to finding your blog blacklisted..) One minor linguistic quibble: Unless you're employing tongue-in-cheek Israeli pronunciation (in which case, that went way over my little head), there's no "7" sound in "ahlan usahlan." It's pronounced just like an Anglo h or Hebrew ה, whereas the 7 represents the Mizrahi "het" (ח)/Arabic (ح). My apologies for the geeky linguistic rambling. And, minor quibble notwithstanding, kudos on snapping the Middle East out of its apathetic doldrums.