And flies to Israel to compete in first-ever WSL contest there…
What kind of dull individual would turn down a free surf trip to Israel, that brave middle eastern democracy with Syria, right there, on its eastern flank?
Not Ozzie Wright, the Australian surfer-and-artist who may have thrown away the pro contest dream twenty years ago, but who recently agreed to compete in Israel’s first WSL contest (along with the equally dazzling Australian Otis Carey) in return for airfares and a room in a beachfront hotel.
Tel Aviv to Damascus? Two hundred clicks. Think LA to San Diego. The armies of ISIS are a day’s gallop away.
What a sight it is to see Oscar bent over a telephone trying to navigate the complexities of the WSL’s entry system. First, the surfer must register with the WSL and pay $US50. Then he must find the contest he wishes to enter and complete an entry form and pay the required fee.
But the $US150 entry fee won’t be accepted until an insurance premium of $US320 is paid. Total, $US520. A round one win will net $US200.
The process takes three hours and a drive to the WSL’s temporary base on Netanya beach, just north of Tel Aviv.
“This is why I gave up surfing in contests,” he says.
This little cloud of gloom soon lifts, however, for Oz’s five-foot-five, almost three-inch thick Joel Fitzgerald twin fin eats up the windswell while those on two-and-a-quarter-inch thick thrusters get bogged down in a glutinous style.
And if you thought Oz’s contest skills might’ve vanished forever you would’ve seen the almost forty-year-old scooping a wave on the hooter, squeezing its teat dry, run up the beach, do the same, grab one more, again with vigorous lines and bombastic hits, and come in victorious with five minutes left.
(Otis will also win, two heats later.)
Meanwhile, in the country that has produced six Nobel Prize-winning scientists since 2002, with its world-leading solar energy and space programs, cutting-edge stem-cell research, three of the most prestigious universities in the world, a country for whom equal rights between men and women is a no-brainer, where homosexuals don’t live in fear of murder or imprisonment, the intifada of knives reigns and the ideology of ISIS spreads like cancer.
On the day we arrive, a woman is stabbed to death in her home and in front of her six kids by a Palestinian terrorist. Shortly afterwards, a pregnant woman is stabbed, her life spared by a civilian with a gun.
Since September, there have been 120 stabbings, 46 shootings, 30 car attacks and 78 fire-bombs. Twenty eight dead, nearly 300 wounded.
The Jews, so brave, so misunderstood.
But there are more important things to consider right now.
For example.
Ozzie, is this the start of a qualifier campaign?
“If I win, I might probably go in the next one…”
Really?
“No, and it’ll be a miracle if I get through one more heat.”
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Can’t take Derek Rielly serious. All his work is shit.
Kelly Slater likes the following video: “Mike Ruppert – The Truth And Lies Of 9/11” .
Kelly said: “The net effect of what is happening in the Middle East is nothing short of a human tragedy that’s been ongoing since the first Gulf War in 1990, when I was eighteen years old. Bombing has not ceased since that day. The infrastructure of the country is beyond repair and children are dying in record numbers of cancers, starvation, and malnutrition as water, food, land, and air is polluted as the result of the war we’ve waged in retaliation to 9/11. I don’t know about you, but I have yet to see the evidence that says we should’ve gone there and done what we’ve done. I still don’t see the connection that these countries had to attacking us, as it was supposedly nineteen guys from mostly Saudi Arabia, our big ally in that part of the world.”
Blood feud? King Kelly vs The House of Saud?
so much spittle i’m drenched head to toe
In 2008, the Iraqi government blocked the Biden-Brownback Legislation (which was passed in the US Senate) to divide Iraq into three zones. After this, the Sunni ISIS was born from lunatics held in US prisons in Iraq. The USA obviously started ISIS to serve the Israeli goal of Balkanizing Iraq & Syria, according to the Israeli Oded Yinon plan. It is quite obvious the Israelis probably planned 9/11 since the Israeli’s have a history of such false flags, such as the Lavon Affair. Most surfers are too stoned to question 9/11 (except the King Kelly, the Mighty Syrian).
This is the truth about ISIS:
April 25, 2006
Is the US Waging Israel’s Wars?
An article published in 1982 by the World Zionist Organisation’s publication Kivunim and penned by Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist with links to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Yinon’s strategy was based on this premise. In order to survive Israel must become an imperial regional power and must also ensure the break-up of all Arab countries so that the region may be carved up into small ineffectual states unequipped to stand up to Israeli military might. Here’s what he had to say on Iraq:
“The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern frontIraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.
“An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and Lebanon.
“In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul and Shiite areas in the South will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.”
good on the boys supporting the Israeli persecution, hope it payed well cunts
I have to say, I never thought I would see Ozzie Wright, and a reference to skill in a sentence again
The Israeli Pepole are thanking you for your support.
We are hoping for peace in our region but as you can see, we cannot see that comming.
for all of you who ask who is the israeli pepole than i can say jewish, moslims, christans, armens, droze, and many many more. all of us lives in peace together.
I’m thanking you in advance for your support in not being a cunt in the water. Because Israeli surfers have got some bad habits going there.
whoa, think I’ve run foul of Neg here.
You don’t all live in peace together, but hopefully someday you will!
Did you visit israel or just know all this from al jazira?
“Since September, there have been 120 stabbings, 46 shootings, 30 car attacks and 78 fire-bombs. Twenty eight dead, nearly 300 wounded.” (Rielly, D. Beach Grit 2016)
All that supports you is a journalistic pornographer who seems to be hoping for a favour from the Zionist owned mass media & Jewish owned porn industry.
In Israel, a Jew & non-Jew are forbidden to marry. Why don’t you cut the bullshit? If your people wanted peace, they would have remained in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Iran, Ethiopia and the USA, where they all came from. Most of you have been interbreeding in other lands for 2000 years. Most of you are not even Semitic. If I decided to become a Buddhist, do you believe I have the right to claim territory in India as my homeland (even though Buddhism became extinct in India about 500 years ago)? You Zionists wandered around the world to where ever there was a business opportunity. You have no home; no nation; are just a parasitic cult that have not evolved beyond primitive survival instinct.
I heard Tel Aviv is now a key hub for white sex slavery and prostitution. Even more ironic, Tel Aviv is now the #1 gay city on earth. While I am not against gay people, it is ironic the Zionist make claim to Israel from the Jewish Bible yet the Jewish Bible instructs to stone homosexuals to death. Its all bullshit, just like your fantasy about peace is bullshit.
Listen you an antisemitic discusting person, i have nothing to say accept you are wrong in all aspect.
keep listen to anti israeli media…. right.
Ha..ha…you brainwashed indoctrinated monkey. I am genetically Semitic (like Kelly Slater). So how can I be anti-Semitic? The mostly non-Semitic European Zionists brutally invaded the Semitic homeland of my Semitic ancestors. It was the Nazi Zionists who were anti-Semitic since they murdered & evicted the Semitic Palestinian people. The Zionists are no different than the Nazis.
See Got You..
Monkeys are you parents that was jealous how the jewish pepole sucsided and they with ignorance
No. It is you that has shown how you celebrate & delight in the murder & theft from Palestinians and how you lied on this website about wanting peace. Did they indoctrinate you in the army about how to lie to people? We are not jealous at all. We feel sorry for your inability to love other people. Jewish is not a race. Jewish is a culture. Modern Jewish are mostly not Semitic. Therefore, you allegations of antisemitism is another lie.
When the Jewish people were persecuted in Europe, the Semitic people of the Levant always offered the Jews a place of settlement for the Jews. But in the 1920s, the Jews betrayed the Semitic people of the Levant. Like you, the Zionists are an ungrateful & unthankful people. Our grandmothers used to look after the young Jewish children and, in reward, the Zionists, 20 years later, cut their throats. Unthankful & ungrateful parasites are the Jews, in every land on this earth they have been either expelled from or unwanted.
You should be honest & ask the question: “How many countries in the world in history were the Jews expelled from or not wanted by?” Even in 1938, Adolf Hilter asked the whole world to take Germany’s 750,000 Jews but the whole world (apart from the Dominican Republic) refused. Why? Jews did the murderous Bolshevik Revolution in Russia killing 30 million people. When the Zionists 1st went to Palestine, they practiced communism in the kibbitz because they were communists.
Cummunists in the kibutz? clearly you dont know anything about it but listen.
you can not say i am not Anti-Semitic and then quate hitler like he is the most loving jewish in the world.
do you see how blind you are?
are you aware that there was not palestine until we established a country here?
are you aware of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
you should read and alot of…
Stop lying. Although there was no official country of Palestine because of the Ottoman and British Empires, there were millions of people called Palestinians who lived in homes & villages with their families & children. The Zionists terrorised them & evicted them. Are you so HEARTLESS to not see this was evil, cruel & brutal?
When the Jews lived in Germany & Poland they had no country. Are you so blind to believe just because people have no official country they can be murdered and removed from their homes? When you justify your murder & theft of Palestinians by saying they had no country, this is the same reasoning used by Hitler to kill Jews in the Holocaust. You are so blind you cannot see your Zionist belief of racial supremacy is the same as Hitler.
In Australia, the British said the native Aboriginal people had no country and used this false belief to kill & steal from the native people. Hitler was the same. You are the same. You believe in genocide since you believe there is no Palestinian people.
You know, I can help heal your brainwashed mind. If you simply repeat 1,000 times: “Jews are not the chosen people; all people are the same; true happiness comes from caring for all people; it was wrong & cowardly for the Zionists to punish the Palestinians for the European Holocaust, which World Jewry brought upon itself”.
Whoa Nick, you have jumped the shark here on that one. Six Million dead, most of them not from Germany, many of them children and you think they brought it upon themselves? That really is a shameful comment! You probably want to stay away from Germany, you’d get six months in prison for voicing an opinion like that!
Are you aware World Jewry declared war on Germany in 1933 because World Jewry believed Jews should be allowed to live in & control Germany? Although World Jewry wanted Palestine as a Homeland, they also wanted other lands (like Germany) as a homeland. Why are there so many dual Israeli-USA citizens? Isn’t one land enough for these Zionists?
Do you know Ben Gurion, the father of Israel, preferred that Jews be sacrificed in Germany rather than emigrate to England because this would advance the Zionist cause? Look up Wiki.
Israel is a land built on dirty Rothschild money, murder, theft, lies & brutality. No media is required to know the truth of how a million innocent Palestinians were made homeless refugees by murderous Zionists from Poland, Russia & the Ukraine and the truth of how Israel has & will never agree on a two-state solution.
Ozzie in a jersey: tis quite the mindfuck.
what’s ozzie look like sans jersey, shirt, etc?
We can surely theorize, if you like.
I imagine the adjective “Cooper’s green label” would apply.
With a cursory look at Syria’s coastline, it appears to be holding. Multiple reef set ups. Probable slabs. I think a well funded examination by Chas Smith is in order.
I’ve been and surfed fun-ish waves!
been watching Ozzie kill it at the Point on that twinny.
Arabs/Jews? Cue Nick Dee in 5…..4…..3…….2….
Almost 40? Isn’t the guy 34 years old?
An amusing story that no doubt will turn into a who has killed who over the years shit fight in the comments. I hope Negatron has had some caffeine because it could be a long night.
I’m more of a Jennifer Aniston guy myself, Angelina seems nice but Brad could do better.
and Blake Shelton is finally granting Gwen Stefani’s wish of having a daughter
I bet Angelina gets down and Jennifer has “morals”
Maybe in the interests of journalistic integrity you should outline in detail the thousands of Palestinian women and children killed over the past couple of years by those oh so brave jews. But that wouldn’t suit your agenda, would it?
Mate, is this your first time here? This website has a column call Blood Feud, who’s primary source of information is Instagram. Which features, amongst other things, a non-existent feud between one pro surfer’s dog and another’s cat. Worried about journalistic integrity, this website is NOT. The purpose of this website is light-hearted fun, not social and political commentary. If you want to debate the Arab-Israeli/US conflict, you have come to the wrong place. Try Stab 🙂
but that is exactly what derek does each time with these posts – this sort of shit IS political commentary. when has he ever flipped the rhetoric? never. ever.
“but its just humour”.
cool. no problem.
why not run with the counter-discourse just for the laughs too then?
I totally agree with you. Saying racist, prejudiced and generally offensive things are not excused because the may have been intended as a joke. They’re NOT! All I’m saying is you shouldn’t expect Beachgrit writers to “run counter discourse” or “flip the rhetoric” of anything. This site doesn’t pretend to be anything it is not, a tabloid for guys that surf essentially. If you get worked up about the integrity of a site like this, then please let me instead direct your attention to The Daily Telegraph or Fox News.
So in effect you are saying it IS ok because, well, look at the context. They’re excused.
no they’re not. they’re going to be called out – regardless of excuse.
No, it’s definitely not okay, I never took issue with people saying that this wasn’t okay. But it is pretty silly to get worked up about “journalistic integrity” becasue, at the end of the day, what the fuck does it Derek Rielly know about culture and geopolitics in the Middle East? As demonstrated above… probably nothing. Therefore, why would you even want to hear his version of “counter discourse”? But yeah, we are essentially arguing about nothing now, so feel free to reply, I’ll read it, but I’m out.
take your point. well said.
So beachgrot wants to be surfings Fox News or daily mirror or daily telegraph?
such aspiration.
beachgrot & the inertia, both surfing, if prejudiced, websites.
hand in hand! Oh the irony.
it’s just a lobby that I picked up in the lobby
Disgraceful article attempting to dishonestly create an association between ISIS and Damascus. The USA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Turkey, for the aims of Israel, have been supporting & funding ISIS for the last 5 years. Then they attempted to use ISIS as an excuse to start military action in Syria. When Russia came along with real force against ISIS, the NATO-Turks started shooting down the Russian planes. ISIS is obviously a Mossad-Israeli front.
Nick. Breath deep and try to get your point across in a manner that doesn’t involve you spamming the comment board with literally 7 in a row posts. 19 posts overall! But congratulations! you only deleted one of your posts today!
I think old “Mr Predictable” Nick Dee is just cut and pasting from some of his previous comments on older Beachgrit articles that mentioned Israel.
Nick , do you post your comments on actual political forums?
Where you might get an educated and informed debate?
Or is it only us poor Beachgrit readers that are subjected to your subjectivity?
Just going to say exactly same thing – another forum thanks Nick. We just want to bag out surfers, the WSL primarily, each other and not get entwined in politics of the middle east mate
True, but we did get the unforgettable phrase “Cummunists in the kibutz” out of this skirmish.
yes ha ha liked that one – I liked the cue Nick countdown too pre-empted the tirade that’s for sure!!!