Reference :- Some stategies have universal application .

Reference :-   There was trouble at the Kooralya pub last night . 

 Dear Mr Netanyahu , 

                                    You have a lot on your plate at the moment , what with balancing your finger on the hair trigger of nuclear armageddon and all , so I thought you might appreciate hearing from the Sky Reply , as a useful distraction .  Young Gabbo often claims that we are a warlike species , and last night his opinion was validated once more .  

It went like this .  A strange bloke came to town on a Harley Davidson motorbike , parked it outside the pub , went up to the bar , and ordered a beer .  He sat on that beer for a long time , to keep his wits about him . As the other blokes in the bar drank on , he pretended to befriend them .   Once everybody had a skinful , he started a fight , and then quietly slipped out the side door to the bottle shop and informed  the bottle shop attendant that a fight had started in the bar .

"  A fight has started in the bar " , he said . 

Trevor , the bottle shop attendant , rushed to the bar .  The stranger took the opportunity to help himself to the contents of the cash register.  Unfortunately the fight had by then spilled out into the street . The Harley Davidson was knocked over , petrol leaked onto the exhaust , and the bike was consumed in a blazing inferno . 

The local cop , Graham , has slammed the bikie in the lockup , pending the arrival of the circuit judge . 

Graham , investigating the case ,  asked Trevor what the fight had been about in the first instance . 

 " What was the fight about in the first instance ?  " ,  Graham said 

" Somebody accused somebody of carrying a flick knife " , Trevor said . 

" And was there a flick knife ? " , Stanley said . 

" I dunno .  " , Trevor said . 

Anyway Mr Netanyahu , that's the latest from Kooralya .  

 How are you going with the war in Iran ?   I guess that it is a useful distraction from Gaza , where I see you have ramped up the ethnic cleansing while the world is not looking .  

I am sure you know what you are doing , but if I was you I would be careful about where I parked my motorbike .    

Are you with me ? 

Your comrade ,  

Ken .  

 

 

                                        

Reference:- Responding to the war between Israel and Iran , the Australian Government has advised against travel in the Middle East .

 Reference :-  Our cousin , Phineas , can't secure a flight home from Israel .  

Cousin Phineas is currently in Israel ,where he now spends much of his time hiding in an underground  shelter  .  Phineas has always nurtured a keen interest in the history of tax deductible bronze age superstitions , and recently crossed a great ambition off his bucket list by flying to Israel , which is the very heartland of bronze age superstitions . 

I more keenly follow current geopolitics , with a particular interest in avoiding the need to inhabit  bomb shelters during major kinetic conflicts.   It occurred to me that Phineas should avoid travel in the Middle East while the whole region looks like the Kooralya showgrounds on Guy Fawkes night .  I hinted at this  to Phineas . 

" It occurs to me that you should avoid travel in the Middle East while the whole region looks like the Kooralya  showgrounds on Guy Fawkes night . " , I said .  

Anyway , I could have saved my breath  . Wailing at Phineas about the risks of traveling to Jerusalem was like talking to a brick wall .   And now , Phineas tells us he is trapped in Israel because flights from Ben Gurion Airport  have been cancelled .    I told him it is because flights are unsafe , due to the rockets  arriving daily from Iran .   But Phineas has a proclivity for paranoia , and he reckons Mr Netanyahu is deliberately keeping  thousands of folk in Israel to serve as human shields . Phineas  reckons that Mr  Netanyahu  wants westerners to be killed by that Ayatollah chap running Iran so that western countries will be more inclined to help him liberate the Iranian people from their dictatorship . And unlike Iraq,  Libya , Afghanistan and Syria , on this occasion Mr Netanyahu expects regime change will succeed . 

We are all worried about Phineas'  awful plight .   I was going to ask him if he had seen many artifacts produced by bronze age superstitions , but told Ken junior that I felt it was not the right time  . 

"  I don't think we should ask cousin Phineas whether he has seen many bronze age artifacts . " , I said . 

"  He is living in one . " , Ken junior said . 

Whatever that means .....

 Your comrade , Ken .  

 

 

 

Reference :- The " Freedom Flotilla " sailing to Gaza with food for starving children faces grave threats .... from Israeli children .

 References :-   Israeli propaganda machine , the Hasbara , has made a video featuring young Israeli children threatening the " Freedom Flotilla ", especially crew member Greta Thunberg . 

Dear Mr Netanyahu , 

                                   The aid ship , " Madleen " has not turned it's stern on Gaza, despite threats of being attacked by the IDF . The IDF has a rich tradition of such attacks over the years , during which many humanitarians have been killed , so one must salute the courage of the crew members .  

On this occasion we note that you have decided to use children to threaten the flotilla , with the hope of gleaning support from the world community .  Sadly , that plan has backfired . It seems that folk are sickened by videos of brainwashed children threatening  humanitarian workers .  I know that might seem strange to you , but that is the world we live in these days . 

My son , Ken junior ,  found the video so creepy  that he said it reminded him of a book by John Wyndham called " The Midwich Cuckoos "  . Personally I have never read the tome , but apparently it features a great number of evil children .  Ken junior has a proclivity for resorting to hyperbole , so don't take that remark too seriously . In any case , Gabbo reckons Ken junior's analogy is off target completely .  Gabbo says that your Hasbara video reminds him more of a short story by Stephen King , called 

" Children of the Corn " .

" Those kids remind me of the kids in Stephen King's short story " Children of the Corn " , Gabbo said . 

" Never heard of it . " , I said . 

Anyway Mr Netanyahu , I think the point is that your use of children as human shields is not working , and it might be a good idea to remove the video from the interweb and try a different tactic . 

Here's a thought .  That little vessel can't carry much food . Probably barely enough tucker to feed a few dozen kids for a week .  Why not let it arrive safely in Gaza ?   Folk might read that as an indication of a legitimate concern for the well being of starving Palestinian children .  You could get the cameras out and shoot a few minutes of video footage showing the flotilla arriving safely before the IDF starts its usual shooting with snipers .   Naturally you would claim that you were trying to prevent looting by Hamas . 

I know it must be galling to see how much of the world supports the flotilla , but for now your best bet is to pretend to run with it . 

Your comrade , Ken . 

PS . How are you going with the pettifoggers who are trying to keep you out of jail for corruption .... and is it also treason for funding Hamas ?   I hear Israeli prisons are harshly administered , so don't hesitate to pay them well , even if they are thieving rogues .   

 

 

 

     

                                           

 

 

Reference - Sometimes Ken junior asks a strange question .

 References :-  Ken junior's thought processes confound me . 

 A cold winter is upon us in Kooralya .    These days firewood costs more than ducted air conditioning , but we will glean another winter's worth of wood when we demolish Gabbo's old homing pigeon coop .  Everybody becomes somewhat testy in the morning chill, even Dog is not the usual enthusiastic dawn riser who greets us with tail wagging . 

We were listening to the morning news on the wireless while warming our hands on our mugs of hot tea , and broadcasters were all excited about Mr Zelenskey's  mob  having blown up 40 Russian aircraft using drones .  That cunning attack has certainly raised a few eyebrows . Possibly somebody in Russia has flipped open the lid on the nuclear Armageddon button , although many folk in the West would be too busy cheering to notice . 

Anyway , Ken junior said a strange thing . 

" Why 40 planes ?  Why is everything always 40 ?  " , Ken junior said . 

" How's that ? " , I said  

" 40 planes , 40 beheaded babies , 40 days of Lent , 40 days of precipitation on Noah's Ark ..... and 40 nights , 40  lashes as maximum punishment in the bible  , 40 years that the Israelites spent in the desert  looking for the promised land back when they had dark complexions . Seems a bit coincidental . " , Ken junior said . 

" I guess that a thousand years from now it will seem more poetic when scholars talk about the 40 planes that triggered Armageddon . "  I said  . 

"  Good point , and at least all those sets of 40 have something in common . " ,  Gabbo said . 

" What's that ? " , I said . 

" They are all made up  . " , Gabbo said . 

Well that is too much for me to process on a cold morning .  I might slip back into bed ..... I  could do with another 40 winks . 

Your comrade , Ken  

 

  

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Reference:- International celebrity and self- anointed intellectual , Jordan Peterson , debated 20 atheists .

 Reference :-  Jordan Peterson's performance in a recent debate will certainly take the spotlight off Douglas Murray's recent annihilation on the Joe Rogan show . 

Dear Douglas , 

                          As a keen researcher and intellectual , I am sure you will have watched the recent Jordan Peterson debate .  I notice that the title of the debate was changed after the event  .  Originally it was promoted as " Christian vs 20 athiests "  , but after Mr Peterson took offense during the debate because a student had the temerity to assume he was a christian ,  the title was changed to " Jordan Peterson vs 20 atheists .   "   I guess that removed the need to define what is meant by " christian " .  Although , fundamentally it didn't address the chaos in the hierarchy of presuppositions people make when they claim to believe that such a person as Jordan Peterson actually exits .  Depending , of course , on what one means when one says '"actually exists " .

Anyway Douglas  , you must be thankful that you have been evicted from the corner of the media schoolroom , and your dunce cap passed to Mr Peterson .  Without wishing to say " I told you so " , I do feel obliged to say something .  

  Weeks ago , after your breathtaking humiliation by comedian Dave Smith on that Joe Rogan Show , I advised  that your best option was to lie low , say nothing , and wait for another conservative commentator to dig their own grave with their  mouth .   Instead , you panicked and arranged rushed interviews with your supporters .  These interviews served only to damage the reputations of gentleman like Sam Harris , Konstantin Kisin et al .  Sadly , your comrades' reputations sank along with yours. You seemed to be running your own media based " Hannibal Directive " .   

As it turns out , all that destructive flapping about was unnecessary .  Mr Peterson has just unwittingly sacrificed himself , which may not have totally saved your bacon , but sure has taken the heat off you for now .    He deserves your thanks .  Let's hope he is not taken to a lunatic asylum . 

Your comrade  , Ken 

PS   I told you so .  

 

  

Reference:- It's the annual poetry competition again here in Kooralya .

Reference:-   Sky Reply Assistant Editor , Gabbo , has entered  the Kooralya poetry competition . 

Gabbo is a talented musician who writes his own music and lyrics .  He has entered the annual poetry competition with the following poem . 

 

                                  "   Remember ,  We Were Warned " 

                                                                                                              by Gabbo . 

                                 Protests fill the world with noise ,  

                                 To warn of fascist bully boys .

 

                                 A caged canary in a mine , 

                                 Called genocide in Palestine ,

 

                                 Reveals to us the awful schism , 

                                 Forged by neoliberalism .  

 

                                 Remember as you watch the news , 

                                 Replete with facts it misconstrues , 

                                 When the flags of hate are all unfurled , 

                                 As goes Gaza , so goes the World .  

 

I was going to submit my own poem , titled  "  Why don't we drive a Monaro ? "  but after reading Gabbo's I might not bother . 

Anyway , Ken junior said that the judges would say it plagiarised the style of Pam Ayres  ..... whoever she is . 

         Your comrade , Ken .

                                 

                                 

                                 

                                

Reference:- Mr Netanyahu is losing the sympathy of key influencers in the mainstream media .

 Reference:-   Is it possible for Mr Netanyahu to restore his influence over the western mainstream media ?

Dear Mr Netanyahu , 

                                    Ken junior has been researching the decline in support for your regime now evident in the mainstream media . The fortunate coincidental murder of two young Jews in Washington has moved the media spotlight from the diplomatic mission in the West Bank that the IDF had fired upon the day before .  That awkward incident  , like many other awkward incidents in the past 75 years , has already vanished from the public arena like a weird dream . But although this might allow you a small sigh of relief , there remain many difficulties .

Ken junior offers , gratis , his research into the timeline of Israel's fall from favour . He offers no solution , but as a teenager he could not be expected to . Your decades of diplomatic experience will surely allow you to tease a solution from the data he provides .  

                         ...........................................................

"From Possessing the World's Most Moral Army to International Pariah in 600 days , Israel's Journey . "

                                                      Ken junior   ( copyright 24/5/2015)

Ten phases are identified as having occurred while the world moved towards labelling Israel a pariah state . 

Phase 1 . 

After the horrific Hamas attack of Oct 7 2023 ,  support for Israel was widespread  .   This phase is characterised by the statement.....

 " Israel has a right to defend itself . " 

Phase 2 

Unfortunately , as if the actual carnage of Oct 7 was not enough , exaggerated ( and false ) descriptions of 40 beheaded babies , mass rapes and the such , cast doubt on the integrity of the Israeli government . Laughably amateurish attempts to circulate fake videos justifying the destruction of a hospital by the IDF made matters worse . Simultaneously , credible reports by Israeli citizens and members of the IDF started to appear which revealed that the IDF had deliberately killed a number of it's own citizens on Oct 7 .     Many did not believe these reports .  This phase is characterised by the statement .....

 " Israel has the most moral army in the world . " . 

Phase 3 

Images started to appear on social media that showed IDF soldiers committing egregious war crimes and unthinkable atrocities .  Many folk were reluctant to acknowledge these , especially politicians who rely on Israel's support to stay in power .   This phase is characterised by the statement .....

 "  These claims, if true , are concerning , however Israeli authorities have promised a full investigation ."

Phase 4 .

International aid agencies started to report upon the huge number of innocents , mostly women and children who were being slaughtered by the IDF .   The general public was , by phase 4 , awake to the crimes of the IDF . Folk were being arrested , beaten , jailed , fired from their jobs and worse if they protested against IDF actions  .  Student protests in particular became widespread .  Despite the fact that Jewish students often helped stage these protests , this phase is characterised by the statement ....

"   Jewish students no longer feel safe on university campuses . "

Phase 5 

Demonstrations in support of Palestine continued to spread around the world , in spite of the arrests .  In many countries draconian laws were enacted that limited free speech and criminalised antisemetism . The definition of antisemetism became so broad  that the slightest objection to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank was tantamount to Holocaust denial . Protests by Jews who supported the Palestinian cause were given little media coverage , and the term " self -hating Jew "  began to regularly  appear . This phase is characterised by the statement ....

  "   There can be no tolerance for antisemitism ." 

 

Phase 6 

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Mr Netanyahu and former Israeli  Defense Minister , Mr Gallant .   The general public applauded this move , and demanded that the arrests be made without delay .  The mainstream media treated this as a side show , and western politicians largely ignored the warrants.  This phase is characterised by the statement ....

"  Israel has our complete support . " 

Phase 7 

Ambulance workers are filmed being murdered by the IDF , and attempts to conceal  the crime by burying the bodies along with the vehicles shock the mainstream media .  Subsequently much of the mainstream media withdraws unconditional support for Israel.  Nonetheless , politicians in the west continue to justify the actions of Mr Netanyahu's regime .  Mr Netanyahu makes empty promises of a full investigation .  The media are now unmoved by such empty promises .  The culmination of phase 7 occurred when a diplomatic mission to the West Bank was fired upon by the IDF and terrified diplomats were filmed running for their lives .  This phase is characterised by the statement ....

 " We demand a full explanation. " 

Phase 8 

The day after the appalling West Bank incident , cautiously described by western politicians as " unacceptable " , two young Jews were brutally murdered in Washington  by a lone gunman  who shouted " Free Palestine " This opened an opportunity to label the familiar chant of protestors as incitement to murder .  Attempts to apply such a label fell flat with the general public . Sickened by images of children starving to death in Gaza , the general public appeared to view the crime as inevitable under the circumstances .  This phase is characterised by the statement ...

" This tragedy did not occur in a vacuum . " 

Phase  9

Mr Netanyahu's  propaganda speech following the tragic murders in Washington enjoyed a lukewarm reception as reports and images of thousands of starving babies in Gaza continued to appear in the mainstream media .   In an attempt to quell public outrage , Mr Netanyahu allowed a ludicrously small trickle of humanitarian aid into Gaza , but this had the opposite effect ,  fueling the outrage further .    Politicians and media commentators around the world , realising that the public was turning away from them in disgust , and fearing that they could soon face a reckoning for complicity in war crimes , started winding back their support for Mr Netanyahu .  Noteworthy was the admission by popular  broadcaster Piers Morgan , once one of Israel's strongest supporters ,  who declared on air that he had been wrong all along , and that the destruction of Gaza must end .  Western leaders and media commentators started to build portfolios of evidence for use should they face indictment for abetting war crimes .  Many leaders announced that they were applying sanctions and cancelling trade deals with Israel .  Journalists who investigated these claims  found that the sanctions were of similar magnitude and efficacy to that of Mr Netanyahu's humanitarian aid effort .  This phase is characterised by the statement . 

"  Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid must end  " 

Phase 10 .    

 Western politicians continue to inform the public that after 600 days of carnage they are shocked to see images of children starving .   Nothing changes  . The world has only just entered phase 10 , and therefore it is not yet possible to choose a statement that characterises this phase .  

                                                    .........................................

I reckon Ken junior has done a pretty good job with all this .  The team at the Sky Reply  couldn't help wondering what statement might eventually characterise phase 10 .   A few predictions were made , and nobody could agree .    We did , however , agree that one statement will be impossible for anybody to make , especially under oath in court .

"  I did not know . " 

Good luck with everything Mr Netanyahu .  Forward our regards to Mr Smotrich and Mr Ben-Gvir. , if you guys haven't dusted each other yet .  As we all know , once the arrests start happening " every man for himself " is de rigueur .

Your comrade , Ken . 

PS  Ken junior wants to know why some folk don't mind children being blown to pieces with bombs , but consider that starving them to death is unacceptable .   

Any ideas ?