In this morning's (j)blog roundup we posted a bullet-point about the Jewlicious link to Lital "Tasha" Mizel and Adi "Dishka" Frimmerman's famous YouTube video. It deserves its own post. If you haven't seen this video (a) you know someone who has and (b) you have to see this video. In the YouTube "people" category, it's the single most viewed video ever. It's totally SFW - just these two Israeli girls flouncing around their room and lip-syncing to the Pixie's song Hey. The entire thing is just pure, infectious happiness - carelessness and exuberance and silliness. Compare that to the sexual degradation and near slavery that defines the cradle to grave existence of young girls in the Arab and Muslim world. Theirs is a life that is joyless in every way that the lives of these Israeli girls are joyous. And the difference has nothing to do with colonialism or Orientalism or any other apologia: it's about a society under the constant threat of genocide but determined to enjoy life versus a society swimming in resources but so pathologically sick that half of its population lives in the most deadening conditions imaginable. It's about a culture where girls play with audio-visual equipment in between going to clubs and beaches versus a culture where girls can't go to school but are imprisoned behind doors and burkas. It's about a country of carefree festivals and concerts and celebrations versus a society of brutal honor killings. This video can stand in for everything that's right with Israeli society and everything that's wrong with the Arab and Muslim world. It's also something that should cause you to ask why Western feminist activists march arm in arm with Islamic radicals who call for the destruction of Israel - and for it to be replaced by a theocracy where these two girls would be murdered for having one-onehundredth of the silly fun that they're so obviously having.