The world's bravest little country gets its own QS event…
A little over thirty years ago, the ASP swung into Tel Aviv for the Israel Pro. It was a speciality event and, in surprisingly good waves (this is the moody Mediterranean, after all) Derek Ho beat Rabbit Bartholomew.
Anyway, the WSL just announced the “Pro Netanya, a QS1,500 men’s event in Netanya – Israel, as the first event of the 2016 Qualifying Series sanctioned by WSL Europe.”
It’s the first time the world tour has been in this lovely part of the world for three decades. And what timing! Hint: read news.
The contest will launch the 2016 European Qualifying Series, there’s gonna be 1,500 ranking points available, and 25-gees prize money.
Oowee, it’s going to be fun. Have you ever been to Israel? I do advise a holiday there, or if you can throw a few turns together, maybe the contest.
I would go for the food, the chubby army gals, the mostly flat but occasionally real good waves, hospitality that just don’t stop, dazzling architecture and, if you’re a worldly sort of cat who like to create his own opinions, to see, with those two holes in your head, that the Jews ain’t the devils you might’ve been led to believe.
I would go for the food, the chubby army gals, the mostly flat but occasionally real good waves, hospitality that just don’t stop, dazzling architecture and, if you’re a worldly sort of cat who likes to create his own opinions, to see, with those two holes in your head, that the Jews ain’t the devils you might’ve been led to believe.
Read my summation of the joint here.
The contest runs Jan 16 to 27, 2016.
I wonder what all the pro Palestinians are going to say about the Terror attack today 23.11.15 in Jerusalem were two very young Palestinian girls stabbed a 70 year old man with scissors and wounded him badly, BTW they got shot and one of them got Killed.
Apparently the 70-year-old man is a Palestinian him self and the young terrorists made an identification mistake between a 70 old Jew and a 70-year-old Palestinian.
The pro Palestinians will blame Israel for pushing the young girls to such behavior because Israel was attacked in 1967 by 4 armies and won the war.
Its a shame that pro Palestinians and anti Israel movements don’t criticise Putin for carpet bombing Syria and killing thousands a day. Instead it’s much easier boycotting Israel and the west bank settlers that are to blame for all the worlds’ issues.
To all of you who criticise Israel for defending it self from terror I say a great Fuckkkkk you hypocrites.
nick dee. you are a lost fucking soul.you dont know shit about the middle east
That’s great! Thank you!
I saw the comments here..You are all so affected from the media, and you don’t know what is really going on in Israel. First thing, there is no nation called “Palestin”, they came up with that name after Israel was founded in 1948. Second we were here from the bible time, and if you think they were here first see facts! They giving you lies and sounds like they miserable. But the truth is, they are like ISIS! doing terror attacks every single day! you saw what happened in France right? In Israel it happens every day! So we are Israel, we will be here forever! we will continue surfing and enjoying our life, you can accept it or go to hell.
Idiot. There was certainly no nation called ‘Palestine’ in 1948 since the region was controlled by the Ottoman Empire and then by the British Empire. However, there were people who lived in homes & villages. There were COMMUNITIES of Palestinian people who were murdered and removed from their homes & villages.
OK, do you ignore a troll? Sometimes not. Here goes….
At the time of the UN partition of the British Mandate for Palestine [1947] there was a clear Jewish majority in the area eventually partitioned into the Jewish State [538 000 Jews Vs 397 000 Arabs, by UN estimates].
Had this Jewish majority been established by the murder and removal of Arabs from their homes and villages? No, the land occupied by the settlers had been purchased legally from [largely absentee] Arab landlords in a piecemeal fashion over the preceding seventy years. Thus, by and large, the Arabs actually sold Palestine to the Jews,
And how many tenant Arabs were rendered landless because of Arab land sales to Zionists? The true figures may be as low as 3,300, once you exclude displaced Arabs who did find land or occupation elsewhere.
Jews chose to buy untenanted land as a preference, not wanting to displace the Arab fellahin [peasantry], for moral, economic and legal reasons. It was more often the Arab sellers who would drive their peasant tenants from the land in order to make sale of the land more attractive.
And what about the many Arab families that were attracted to the Zionist communities then established? Jobs became available, health care and infant mortality improved due the reduction in malaria, improvements in sanitation and the establishment of modern health care facilities. Between 1932 and 1936, Economic performance parameters for Arab-Palestinians topped the charts compared to Arabs in neighboring Transjordan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. They were the richest Arabs in the region.
And what about this land? Largely under-utilised, under-productive and vastly under-populated. Prior to the first arrival of Jewish refugee settlers from the Russian pogroms of the mid to late 1800’s, descriptions of Palestine are bleak. Why do you think the the Arab owners wanted to sell it off to the Jews? It was, to a large degree, swamp or desert.
And who were these Palestinians? The concept of a Palestinian Nation is a modern one. In the land of Palestine, there were, undoubtedly, a reasonable proportion of truly indigenous Arab peoples, as there were also remnant small communities of Jews. But these Arabs were interspersed with a polyglot mixture of relatively recently arrived Egyptian Immigrants, their descendants, Turks, Bedouins, Greeks and Algerians. It was not until the growth of the Jewish population in the British Mandate became ‘alarming’ that the political classes of Palestinian Arabs mobilised around a nationalist cause, as fears of a non- Arab dominated Palestine mounted. Basically, they wanted to regain control of the land that they or their fathers and grandfathers had sold. And they needed to be a nation to do this, so they became a nation.
So the notion that the Jews somehow and at some time, conquered the Palestinian nation, murdered and removed them from their ancestral home is so far from reality as to be laughable. Palestine was sold by the Arabs, not stolen by the Jews.
In reality, it was the Zionists that were like ISIS. The Zionists conducted terrorist acts, such as bombing the King David Hotel and such as massacring villages, such as Deir Yassin. ISIS are Wahhabi. Wahhabi is the same as the genocidal acts in the books of Moses. ISIS are the same as Zionists. Where as the Palestinian people welcomed Jews to Palestine prior to 1930, until they discovered the Zionists wanted to take over the land. The Palestinian people, for many decades, were good & kind to Jews who wanted to leave their persecuted lives in Europe.
Liar. The Bible states the tribe of Abraham came from Chaldea, which was east of Babylon, on the Persian Gulf. The tribe of Abraham invaded Canaan, then went to Egypt, then returned, then were exiled to Babylon, then returned, then were expelled by the Romans, who called the land Palestine. Then for 2000 years, most Jews lived in Europe, being expelled from country after country (such as expelled from Spain, Portugal, France and at one time England). Further, most Jews do not even appear to be Semitic (although your ugly face appears to be Semitic). The Jews have no home. They are a wandering religious cult. Yet most Israelis, such as Ben Gurion, are not even religious. They are atheists. Yet they refer to the Bible.
Israel according to the Bible is like Islam. Israelites must follow the Torah. You cannot have sex outside of marriage for example. Yet most Israelis do not follow the Torah. They are hypocrites.
Nick Dee, you are full of shit. Come to Israel and see the truth. What France did to ISIS? what Nigaria did to Boko Haram? what USA did to el kayda? nothing. Exactly here. Nation without past is nation without future. and that what is “Palestine” nation, if you like it or not. I don’t know where you are from, but I’m sure you didn’t see even the most little thing in the disagreement beetween Israel and the arab.
You just know to curse and to write some worng facts.
WE WILL ALWAYS BE HERE FOREVER 🙂
WE ARE ISRAEL.
Nick you appeared to miss this – http://stabmag.com/a-new-fr…
Not really a comments war , more like one guy on a delusional rant.
I think what Derek Reilly was getting at , is that it is a really good policy to be able to look at things objectively before making one’s mind up.
This might be the best rouse for a comments war ever seen in surf media history. Groundbreaking!!!
Guys, first of all I invite you all to Israel to see for your selves and not to be influenced by the Hippocratic media that feeds you with total twisted image.
Second, yes, we need to improve on many things, but one thing we will never abandon, is the right to protect our selves against terrorists who’s soul purpose is to destroy Israel and push us to sea.
You must have heard and seen what is going on in Europe in the past couple of weeks. This is the same in Israel. Terror=Terror. There is no “Good” nor “Just” terror.
In Israel there is a LARGE Arab community that does not speak out. those people hate the Palestinian authority and the Hamas because they made their life like Hell with the violence and terror. You don’t here them, because they know that 5 min. after their interview they will be killed.
You won’t here that in the news. You just here of another house in Gaza that was bombed by Israeli Air Force and people died. You don’t here that that house was a shelter for missiles that are aimed for civilian population, schools and kinder-gardens. and people were held there against their wills by Hamas militants.
Guys, open your eyes. What should France do now with the terror it encounters?
We in Israel just want to live in peace. we educate our children for peace from the age of 3. Palestinians, put guns in their hands. How can you achieve peace with such people who only know war and frustration.
Again, Israel also has a part in that frustration and we need to do whatever we can in order to achieve that peace. but until then we need to make sure Israel Lives FOREVER!!!!
This is our HOME, this is our LEGACY, this is our RIGHT!!!
I really hope European countries won’t need to defend themselves using those arguments few years from now. because from the looks of it, they will…
Peace to you all!!
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Have you forgotten the King David Hotel, the Lavon Affair, the massacres of the Irgun, etc. The original terrorists were Zionists. You should return to Poland, Russia, Ukraine, USA or where ever your parents came from. The various Muslim Empires always provided refuge to Jews (eg when they were expelled from Spain). Your forefathers chose to live in Europe for hundreds of years. Best you return there. The Middle-East is not your real home & certainly NOT YOUR RIGHT. It is land you stole backed by a corrupt US govt and Rothschild money.
Nick the Deek. Ignorance is your middle name… Go get fucked!
You seem to struggle with the truth. You need to examine deeply why many people of the world disagree with you. The disagreement of many good people in the world, including many Jews, with you, are not acts of random prejudice & hatred. Self-examination is required on your behalf. Many good Jews oppose Israel & regard Israel as a terrorist state. Israel was created by insane people.
You are posting propaganda. Let me set you straight. 1. It was the Europeans that persecuted Jews for thousands of years rather than Arabs. 2. It was Europeans, Americans & Australians that refused to accept Jewish immigration from Germany in 1938, even after Hitler offered to transport them in luxury ships; 3. It is Americans, Europeans & their members Turkey & Saudia Arabia that have been funding & supporting terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya & Syria. This is why it was required of Russia to make a serious attempt at ending ISIS. 4. Please do not believe most Europeans like Zionists. It is only the politicians who are bought by Zionist money that support Zionists. 5. Unlike you, many Westerners are confident ISIS was a covert US operation, supported by Israel, to end the Assad government in Syria & then Hezbollah in Lebanon.
If you want to live at peace, you should not have invaded Palestine and murdered and stolen the homes of the innocent Palestinians there. Do you really believe peace will come from murder & theft? When I lived in Asia, I met many psychiatrically ill ex-Israeli soldiers. So much for your peace. Israel keeps establishing settlements in the West Bank. Israel has no intention to create peace or a Palestine nation. Israel is bullshit. I bet the good food in Israel is actually Lebanese food.
Man!!! I just realized you are doing a better job defending Israel than me . Please keep it up!
We are here (finally) to stay!!! Suck it up!
You are not there to stay because you personally will be dead one day. Death comes to everyone & when you die all will disappear & be forgotten. If you have children, when they die, all will disappear & be forgotten. If there is a God (lucky for you there is not), you will be punished for your crimes against the innocent. Things change. Also, you are a typical Zionist liar & manipulator of words. Surfing won’t help you become a better human being.
Do play the ‘France’ card. These terrorists, like ISIS, have probably been sponsored by Mossad, just as ISIS were always sponsored by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the USA and indirectly Israel. Many are not so stupid to believe your propaganda. The Israelis are the masters of lies & deception. For example, The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954. As part of the false flagoperation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned civilian targets, cinemas, libraries and American educational centers. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, “unspecified malcontents” or “local nationalists” with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt’s Suez Canal zone.
Hang on, Fuckhead, did you just say ISIS is sponsored by the Mossad?
Funny when you said: “We in Israel just want to live in peace. we educate our children for peace from the age of 3.”. The truth is your children are placed in compulsory military service from the age of 18. Then when they leave the army, many of them wander around Asia, insane, as backbackers, repulsing everyone due to their ugly behaviour.
Hey Nick you obviously have very strong views and beliefs. But to be honest you are veering off into just ranting in your posts.
Please keep in mind passionate discussion is welcomed at BeachGrit, but personal insults are not.
come across a pack Israel surfers in Sri Lanka and in the Maldives. Probably the worst humans I have ever dealt with.
It’s a great country, and surprisingly, I’ve been lucky with good (shoulder high plus) waves multiple times there, along with a good vibe in the water.
F&$% all the haters who I can guarantee don’t know sh$%.
I generally don’t like contests anywhere, but I’m sensing support to this one!!
Arriba!!!!
Nothing quite like a bunch of ignoramuses putting in their 2 bobs worth on a very complex issue, Even ‘experts’ who devote their lives to the study of the middle east can’t seem to work the situation out.
But I’m sure you commenters have it sussed – nice one.
Robert Fisk doesn’t seem too confused about the situation…
If u are a White-American that believes it was right to genocide the Red-American or are a White-Australian that believes it was OK to uproot the Black-Australian then the Israel issue will be ‘complex’ to you. But if you have simple ethical beliefs that you should not harm other people then the Israel issue is very straightforward. The creation of Israel was simple old-fashioned colonialism.
I take it you won’t be attending Bells or the Hurley Pro then.
A quick history check of the region in question will show that your analogy is deeply flawed.
I applaud your stance on basic human rights , and even though I obviously place myself in the “ignoramus” category , I also advocate the same.
But if you think the situation there is not complex and actually “straightforward” , then you are next level.
Perhaps your previous posts on this topic , filled with the classic stereotypes, already prove that.
I refuse to tread much of the ground laid in your comments, but this is historical fact:
“The creation of Israel was simple old-fashioned colonialism.”
But then again, I think that there’s a compelling argument that Floridiots and ‘zonies in Central America are colonialists…
Boycott.
Hamas!!
Boycott all violence & oppression, which includes Zionism & Hamas. The original violence was Zionist & the responding violence was Hamas. Both are evil although the Zionist evil is greater. Zionism is bullshit.
I’m sure Israel is a beautiful place with lovely people, just wondering did you go to Gaza while you were on holiday in Israel Derek? Surely you must have gone to Gaza as there must be good surf spots there right? Was it nice in Gaza? I expect it might be a bit crowded though as it is the world’s biggest concentration camp!
Come for the contest, stay for the war
Certain (irreligious) Jews run the world pornography industry thus the writer of the article, as a self-confessed proud Stab pornographer, would like Israel. Israel is supposed to be a ‘Holy Land’ but that the writer focuses on the sexual promiscuity of Israeli girls demonstrates what a joke Israel is, a racial political state created by atheists. .
What has the worlds porn industry got to do with Israel? Weird point! The conduct of Israeli girls has nothing to do with their ‘foreign policy’ which is what most people object to!
History reports the Jews were a wandering tribe or religious cult; that is all. Originally, they were not a race but a tribe & cult. It follows the primary rationale for the establishment of Israel was the alleged promise of the alleged ‘God’ found in the Bible. The conduct of the Israel girls Derek lusts over is very relevant because it shows most Israelis, like Derek, do not even believe in ‘God’. If they don’t believe in ‘God’, what claims do they have to the land of Canaan? If Derek believed in ‘God’ he would visit Israel to pray rather than visit Israel to chase the kinds of girls found on the Gold Coast.
It should be called the “Pure Race Pro”. The winner gets to bomb Palestine….
Lol. While I agree with your sentiment, how can a ‘pure race’ be a rabble of people that have been mixed-bred, like mongrels, over thousands of years? I doubt most of the people who live in Israel are even Semitic. They are a mixture of European, Slavic, Tatar, Khazar, Turkic, Mongol & possibly Semitic genetics. “Pure race” is more Zionist propaganda about a nation that was bought with Rothschild money and established to create Rothschild control over the Middle-East. Its all bullshit; one of the biggest deceptions in history.
Wow!! You must have a copy of “The Elders of Zion” and maybe a pillow case with eye holes cut out…educate yo self
I myself genetically am Semite therefore I do not require you to tell me what a Semite looks like. I simply have to look in a mirror. There are certainly some Jews that look Semitic but most Jews looks like Huns (whatever).
The Elders of Zion, just looked it up. So with certain evil Jews that actually today control the American government & have always controlled the Bank of England and Federal Reserve (which lends money to the US govt that taxpayers repay), you do not believe certain evil Jews are in partnership with other Gentile criminals to dominate the world?
Did you ever learn History?
You are a liar. Did they train you in propaganda techniques when you did your military service? Or are you simply brainwashed with your own (false) version of history?
The guy is a dickhead, no use of arguing with such a brainwashed idiot
Free Gaza!
From Hamas!!
Free Gaza from the two evils of Zionism & Hamas.
Gaza Is Free since 2005 !!! Get your Facts right
Thanks for the warm words Derek!! Appreciated!!!
Keep surfing Zion, until your mind chills outs & sees how brutal Israel is. Are your forefathers Semitic? Or are they Khazars, Huns, Turks or Mongols?
Zion will continue surfing, spiritually positive, good vibes… I hope you get over your bitterness and enjoy life…
If Zion has spiritually positive good vibes then why did they need to destroy the lives of many Palestinians by murder, war & theft? You seem to believe murder, war & theft is the way to “enjoy life”.
@nick_dee:disqus get your facts rights, and maybe then you will stop talking with that dirty mouth of yours
My mouth is clean unlike the blood on Zionist hands.
What blood? Dude you are so brainwashed that you don’t even see the truth if it will stand in front of you.
Our hand was and always will be reached out for Peace !
I dare you too look at the past 70 years or so since Israel existence – look who started every war, every terrorist act, and then come back with some answers.
Fool. Deir Yassin, King David Hotel bombing, Lavon Affair, USS Liberty, Sabra and Shatila massacre, the list is long.
9.11?
paris?
We deal with the terror 24/7
Dude if you like them so much and believe them that much – why don’t you join ISIS or Hamas?
Most intelligent people suspect Zionists planned & conducted 9/11. You need to learn about how many Zionist Jews were controlling the US govt at the time and the WTC buildings. If Saudi Arabians really did 9/11, why did the USA attack Iraq and Afghanistan, where no terrorists were found? When & if it is proven Israel planned 9/11, it will be the end of Israel.
Get back on your med’s Nick.
It is Israel that supports ISIS. If ISIS were really Islamic terrorists, they would attack Israel first. If ISIS were a threat to Israel, Israel would attack them. But, instead, ISIS are attacking the enemies of Israel, such as Syria & Hezbollah. It is already proven Israel has provided medical care for ISIS mercenaries. ISIS are most likely mercenaries working for Israel. It is already known ISIS have been funded by American allies such as Saudi Arabia & Turkey, who are allies of Israel.
You deal with terror because you perform terror. I myself live in Australia and have no inclination to terrorise Israel because Zionists have done nothing to me. But since Zionists murdered Palestinians and threw them out of their homes, some Palestinians take revenge. From evil comes evil. You receive evil in return. You reap what you sow.
The King David Hotel bombing was an attack carried out on Monday July 22, 1946 by the militant Zionist underground organization Irgun on the British administrative headquarters for Palestine, which was housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. 91 people of various nationalities were killed and 46 were injured
The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian Arab village of roughly 600 people. 107 villagers were killed during and after the battle for the village, including women and children—some were shot, while others died when hand grenades were thrown into their homes
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the killing of between 762 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites, by a militia close to the Kataeb Party, also called Phalange, a predominantly Christian Lebanese right-wing party in the Sabra neighborhood and the adjacent Shatila refugee camp in Beirut,Lebanon. From approximately 6:00 pm 16 September to 8:00 am 18 September 1982, a widespread massacre was carried out by the militia virtually under the eyes of their Israeli allies. In 1983, the Israeli Kahan Commission, appointed to investigate the incident, found that Israeli military personnel, aware that a massacre was in progress, had failed to take serious steps to stop it. The commission deemed Israel indirectly responsible, and Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, bore personal responsibility “for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge”, forcing him to resign.
The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954. As part of the false flagoperation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned civilian targets, cinemas, libraries and American educational centers. The bombs were timed to detonate several hours after closing time. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, “unspecified malcontents” or “local nationalists” with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt’s Suez Canal zone
You are just so full of incorrect so called “facts” that I will just let you be.
But when the Muslim terror will knock on your doorstep like it’s in all over Europe now don’t come crying for help.
ISIS were funded & supported by the USA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Turkey (and Israel). This is a known fact. It serves the interests of Israel for the West to blame Syria for the terrorism. Many suspect Mossad planned these attacks. Personally, I have no fear of Islam. I have traveled for many months in Indonesia & Malaysia and friends have traveled in the very hospitable countries of Iran & Afghanistan. The evil comes from Saudi Arabia & Israel, which are US allies. This is what is to be feared. As for Palestinians, these are simply people Zionists started a war against. Palestinians are not ISIS. While I agree the Palestinians should lay down their weapons & remove Hamas, this will never change the history that the European Zionists, most of who are not even Semitic, took the land & villages from the local inhabitants.
For centuries, it was Europeans that persecuted Jews rather than Arabs. It was Europeans & American who refused to allow Jews to emigrate from Germany in 1938 and it was Germany that performed the alleged ‘holocaust’. You should stop your lies that demonise Palestinians, who originally were the friends of Jews. If you want to blame anyone for your self-inflicted problems, you should blame Europeans.
alleged ‘holocaust’ ???
as I said – go back to school and learn History. Then learn it again. and again and again.
How ignorant can you be?
@sh@shahafgavriel:disqus my man, don’t get angry by this ignorent brainwashed @ni@nick_dee:disqus , he obviously cannot see the the truth because he decided to live his life like that.
i dont know where he from and frankly i dont give a S*** about it, but i know with all my heart that one day, all of those hypocritical and blind people will come on their mistake, and will come cry for israel.
You just got owned… messed with the wrong guy.
Another Islamic ISIS troll
The Pro Netenyahu? Sounds sick haha