Eileen’s conception of the “New Seven Wonders of The World”

Wonderful World

The world recently chose THE seven most spectacular man-made wonders existing today. All things considered, that might not be such a great idea when you look at what happened to the monuments that comprised the first, ancient list of wonders.

Earthquakes, fires, inclement weather and pagan gods in really bad moods which made oppressive rulers put on skirts and sandals to declare war against other men wearing skirts and sandals, did a lot to destroy the ancient wonders

Out of seven, only one, The Great Pyramid, stands today.

That’s because pyramids are really Hebrew Slavery Memorials, predecessors of Holocaust Museums. It would be extremely politically- NOT correct - to erode them.

Recognizing the importance to remember not to forget… the Pyramids were granted special status and made “honorary” Eighth NEW Wonder of the World.

But finally, after about three thousand years, someone decided the world needed a new list of “must see” international attractions.


Internet facilitated the election for the “New Seven Wonders of the World”. Everyone in the whole world was able to vote! Having access to the Internet was helpful. Surprise! Surprise! So was having 700 trillion million citizens like China so that their “Great Wall” came in first place. Surprise! Surprise! India, a country with over 500 trillion million citizens also made it onto the list…with the Taj Mahal.

Surprise! Surprise! Israel, with 7 million citizens didn’t stand a chance.

Even if we started training fetuses to surf the Web – we wouldn’t have gotten enough votes for any of our temples, tombs or walls to make the international list.

So, being a resourceful nation of sore losers, we are making our own list.

The Seven Wonders of Israel. Nu?!

The candidates for the Israeli list are:
1 - The Kotel

2 - The area in Jerusalem around The Kotel,

3 - The people who make it past the kind purveyors of red strings and get close enough to pray at The Kotel, including agents who hold cellular phones close to the stones so their clients far away can get their message to G-d - believing that He has “call waiting”.

4 - The Bahai Temple in Haifa – so no one can accuse us of racism.

5 - Bibi Netanyahu - He lies, cheats (3 wives and still counting) , exaggerates, and reveals government secrets just to prove that he knew about them in the first place – in short he exhibits all the qualities of the perfect Israeli leader. AWESOME.

6 - The Separation Fence - Hey, the concept worked for China and even got them on the list. Maybe we should rename our structure The GREAT Fence.

7 – Haim Yavin

And of course…we also have to grant Honorary Mention for The Great Pyramid.

Just to make sure that everyone knows that we’ve been suffering a really long time.

What a WONDERFUL world