Bay Area public El Al airline advertisements

This freeway billboard might as well just say BDS Fail.

San Francisco International

San Francisco International

San Leandro

El Al is flying in the Bay Area skies, ZIM is trucking through Bay Area roads and BDS just keeps on failing. All is well : )

El Cerrito

March 25th Update: Went to a Burgerim for the first time today. Awesome sliders you can customize and I loved their potato chip style fries. The one I went to today was in El Cerrito but there's already a few others in The Bay Area with even more coming later this year thank you Tel Aviv.

From San Francisco to Tel Aviv in style meet the new Haifa dreamliner

Despite my love/hate relationship with San Francisco I still think this is pretty cool. Even a small "BDS fail" tag line some where on that fuselage art might have been a nice touch though.... to https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/El-Al-plane-decorated-for-new-flight-to-San-Francisco-Las-Vegas-588057

On a side note, Avengers fans in Israel came up with a great way to entertain the audience waiting for the movie start time. The movie was nothing less then epic by the way go see it now!

Meanwhile, ZIM keeps on truckin as BDS keeps on failing.

With locations in Palo Alto and San Francisco, Oren's Hummus is a great Israeli owned restaurant for both take out and dining. 

East Bay Express March 20 to 26 issue 2019 Eric Swalwell on Israel

And as always, ZIM keeps on truckin while BDS keeps on failing around The Bay Area.

Meanwhile in Southern California, bravo to all the people who came out to protest against the anti-semitic she-wolf ilan omar who gave a speech for some stupid event hosted by the muslim brotherhood front commonly known as cair. . .
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Heavy-protests-against-Ilhan-Omar-speech-at-Los-Angeles-CAIR-event-584403

Amen to that!

Update April 9th: Well look what just showed up in the mail today. I'd be more happy about this if the democratic field wasn't so damn crowded already but that won't stop me from going to Dublin this Sunday afternoon.

Guess who's from Castro Valley?

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Gonna steer away from politics for this posting over something rather interesting that I discovered yesterday. As it so happens I was at the Unites States Men's National Team match against Costa Rica at Avaya Stadium this past weekend. I also typically go to at least a couple of San Jose Earthquakes games a year so I was pleased when I noticed that Earthquake's defender Nick Lima was on the field for the US men's team against Costa Rica. It turns out he's also from the town I grew up, way cool.

February 15th Update: Meanwhile, BDS keeps failing while ZIM keeps on trucking. In other words, business as usual around here.

ZIM today

I got some great shots today of a ZIM cargo container passing Oracle Arena on 880 and leaving BDS in the dust.

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The immortal dragon, Bruce Lee

Gonna off topic for a moment here. While I was in Oakland yesterday I also got a shot of this fantastic mural. Its a pity that many people still don't know that Oakland is host to the most amazing variety of murals in The San Francisco Bay Area.

January 27 Update: Saw this Captain America kippah today in downtown Oakland during Kamala Harris's presidential campaign kick off rally. Chris Evans who plays Captain America is going to be starring in a movie later this year in which he plays a Mossad agent so unlike his idiot costar mark ruffalo I like to believe Evans has a more favorable and rational opinion of the state of Israel.

The Castro Valley Forum newspaper and Congressman Eric Swalwell

Castro Valley Forum December 5 issue 49

Castro Valley Forum December 12 issue 50

In a totally unrelated matter I happened to come across this awesome Back to The Future themed chalk board art on this sandwich sign in front of the 80s video game arcade High Scores in downtown Hayward (just a few minutes from Castro Valley). $6 to go back in time for an hour, that's a lot cheaper then trying to turn a DeLorean into a time machine.

December 22 Update: Happy Holidays for commerce between Israel and California. I've seen ZIM cargo containers several times this week in The East Bay. This one was on highway 238 going through Castro Valley just yesterday.

Congressmen Eric Swalwell in Castro Valley for the first night of Chanukah

Sunday December 2 at 5PM in Castro Valley Creek (CV blvd. near Fremont Bank)
Thursday December 6 at 5PM in San Leandro 901 E. 14st St.
(City Hall)
Thursday December 9 at 4:30 PM in Castro Valley at the Palomares Hills Club House 6811 Villareal Dr.

CA Congressman Eric Swalwell in Castro Valley for first night of Chanukah

December 2nd Update: Decided to attend the first Chanukah event in Castro Valley as listed on the flyer at the top of the posting and was quite surprised to see Eric Swalwell there. Although a democrat, Swalwell has been to Israel and thus far has been a strong advocate for Israel and in general seems to have more moderate (but still left of center) leanings on a number of social issues. I got to talk to him for a couple of minutes and expressed my concerns about left wing anti-Semitism and that I really hope he stays the course if he were to make a 2020 presidential run.

There is an unfortunate perception that for one to be a supporter of Israel one must be a conservative. That's just plain false. There's nothing inconsistent with being socially liberal while supporting the single democracy in the Middle East that has a free press, free elections, free speech and comparable standards to any western democracy when it comes to the freedoms and rights of women and members of the LGBT community. Not to mention Israel is a global leader in green tech. The radical left of today are not liberals in any true sense of the word, they are a hate group plain and simple. To say that the radical left of today are liberals is like saying that most of today's republicans belong to the party of Lincoln. Please don't let us down congressman Swalwell...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAYTjU5-jCo

Meanwhile I'm happy to see commerce between California and Israel is still moving along quite nicely. Happy Chanukah all you pathetic Jew hating BDSholes out there.