The Telegraph of London has a list of 50 top culinary Christmas gifts lists SodaStream seltzer maker, which is produced in the occupied territories. Code Pink will tell you all about SodaStream. But the Telegraph has only this to say:
When we were growing up, only the cool kids had a soda stream, generally the same ones who were allowed to watch ITV. Now Sodastream has redesigned the fizzy drinks maker so it’s even more desirable with its chic red metal case and easy to use push-in bottle.
The Telegraph also has this piece by columnist Peter Oborne, slamming “The cowardice at the heart of our relationship with Israel” and urging the Tory government to criticize Israel before it is too late:
To be fair to the Government, Tony Blair was worse [than the Conservatives], appearing at times to regard the interests of Britain and Israel as identical, and refusing even to call for a ceasefire for some time after the start of the appalling Lebanon war. William Hague and David Cameron have tried to be more robust. Unfortunately, they have largely failed. It is hard to be certain to what extent this reluctance to criticise Tel Aviv is due to the influence of the Israeli lobby in Britain, or fear of offending Israel’s international patron, the United States.
The formal position of the Government is excellent. Britain supports the two-state solution, which has been the basis of all serious peace discussions since the Oslo Accords 20 years ago. The trouble is that ministers refuse to take any concrete steps to bring it about. For example, they condemn the settlements, but only in a half-hearted way (the Prime Minister devoted 64 words to the issue on Tuesday, and almost 300 to the Iranian threat).
This is cowardice. There are times in personal as well as political life when friendship involves a great deal more than the kind of genial back-slapping with which the Prime Minister treated the Israel lobby on Tuesday. The brutal truth is that Benjamin Netanyahu is leading his country down the path to self-destruction. If he is allowed to go ahead with the latest plans for settlement construction, all hopes of Middle East peace will vanish and die.
Philip, let me tell you about Tony Blair. UN resolutions 242 and 338 talk about security for Israel, with borders that can be defended. Tony Blair came to the understanding that the 1967 lines would not offer Israel the type of security that would be understood would be needed to end the the conflict. Tony Blair understands that Israel would need to remain on certain key points on the physical high ground and this means that the Palestinians would need to agree to land swaps. And so he has juggled the Palestinian call for the future borders to be 1967 and the limitations such borders would produce. And so far he has not produced a formula that will keep the Arabs happy. In the end he will stab Israel in the back, which follows the line of how most other English politicians have approached Jews and Israel. He seems too afraid of an Arab backlash to come out in the open and call on the Palestinians directly to make land swaps and to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. Ever heard of Arab oil power?
what’ll do it for us?
her return
this time brought to life by way of peace on earth & goodwill to all living beings
opening scene?
jerusalem, 2013, at a meeting between representatives of the opposing sides in the palestine/israel conflict, lo & behold, somehow, justice & peace carry the day
that did it?
one victory
all it’ll take!
Is it made here? http://www.haaretz.com/news/sewage-from-west-bank-settlement-pollutes-palestinian-fields-1.485147
In Europe, it seems, SodaStream is everywhere.
I had a connecting flight through Brussels airport recently and saw a big rotating display case with a SodaStream machine in it, right there by the gate.
The Sandy Hook CT shooter, Adam Lanza, was well known by a Jewish leader honored by the local synagogue, Beth Israel. The synagogue website main page is down but a local newsletter features her prominently. She knows Adam Lanza quite well including his itnenret habits:
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By contrast, Adam Lanza had few friends and, as a child, went to great trouble not to mix with his fellow students at his state school. A Newtown resident also suggested he was home-schooled for some time.
“I always saw him walking alone, sitting on his own at a table or on the bus. Most of the time I saw him he was alone,” said Alex Israel, who was at school with him as a young girl.
“He was really quiet. A little fidgety, uneasy. I think socially he was just going out (into the world) and not making friends with everyone.”
Her mother Beth Israel, who lived nearby, said: “I know he had issues. He was a really troubled kid … a very quiet kid, a shy kid, maybe socially awkward.” He was not on Facebook, unusually for any Westerner of his generation, and did not appear in his 2010 High School Yearbook. Instead were written the words: “Camera shy”.
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