Tag Archives: Israel

Toritto in Israel

Posted on April 8, 2022 by toritto

Jerusalem So it’s the middle to late 1980s and Toritto with the eleven letter Italian surname ending in a vowel is appointed by the company to the Board of Directors of Israel’s largest leasing company.  It was a wholly owned … Continue reading →

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Former Israeli PM Says Country “Infected by the Seeds of Fascism”

Posted on May 23, 2016 by toritto

The quote below is from an article in Salon dated May 21 by writer Ben Norton “Israel’s ex-prime minister has warned that his country is “infected by the seeds of fascism.” Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister and defense … Continue reading →

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Toritto at the Western Wall

Posted on August 18, 2015 by toritto

So it’s the middle to late 1980s and Toritto with the eleven letter Italian surname ending in a vowel is appointed by the company to the Board of Directors of Israel’s largest leasing company.  It was a wholly owned subsidiary.  … Continue reading →

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How Israel Got The Bomb

Posted on April 16, 2015 by toritto

Everyone knows Israel has nuclear weapons notwithstanding that Israel has never admitted it has the bomb. Israel has never signed any nuclear non-proliferation treaties nor has it submitted to international inspections. So how exactly did Israel get the bomb? Yesterday … Continue reading →

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Bibi King

Posted on March 18, 2015 by toritto

Bibi King. That was the tabloid like headline on the front page of the New York Post this morning. Bibi won. He shamelessly played the “race” card in desperation. “The Arabs are voting in droves!”. Yup. Those citizens are voting. … Continue reading →

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America’s Guernica

Posted on July 30, 2014 by toritto

In a dream the guns came out drowning out the voice of reason unheard the cries of little children no one cared who fired first. One side killing all the godless the other killing all the priests both were hunting … Continue reading →

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St. Porphyrios Church in Gaza

Posted on July 26, 2014 by toritto

There’s a Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza. It has been a place of Christian worship for over 1,600 hundred years. The original building, constructed in 407 A. D. was converted to a mosque in the 7th century. The Christians built … Continue reading →

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The U.S. Is Now Morally Bankrupt

Posted on July 25, 2014 by toritto

Well I think it is now official. In the eye’s of the world the United States is morally bankrupt. Unfortunately it has been for some time. Today, more than 800 Palestinians are dead in Gaza and the attacks by one … Continue reading →

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Foreign Policy Tatters

Posted on July 18, 2014 by toritto

And so our foreign policy in the Middle East has crumbled into a total and abject failure; a disaster whose ultimate ramifications we are yet to see. Looks like Hillary Clinton got out of the vaunted State Department just in … Continue reading →

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Marzabotto

Posted on July 12, 2014 by toritto

They came to Marzabotto on a crisp September morn and killed them all men, women, children, babies, priests for, you see, there was resistance and this is war and we are entitled to defend ourselves against terrorists. They did it … Continue reading →

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