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Shared Values Watch: US honors Rosa Parks, Israel announces segregated buses

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The new statue of Rose Parks. (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

This week President Obama dedicated a statue of Rosa Parks in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC. From the New York Times:

More than half a century after Rosa Parks helped kindle the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama, she has become the first black woman to be honored with a life-size statue in the Capitol. . . .

The statue of Mrs. Parks will sit in Statuary Hall, where lawmakers frequently pass on their way to vote, and where, Speaker John A. Boehner noted, she sits in the gaze of Jefferson Davis, the Mississippi senator who was appointed president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said that Mrs. Parks’s decision to get arrested rather than to give up her seat helped unite the country.

“For some, Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to stand up against injustice,” he said. “For others, she was a spur to reflection and self-examination, and the reconciliation of cherished ideals of freedom, democracy and constitutional rights with the reality of life as others lived it.”

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(Image: Facebook/ Palestinian Freedom Rides)

This week the Israeli Transportation Ministry initiated plan to create segregated Palestinian-only buses in the occupied territories following a request from Israeli settlers. From Haaretz:

The Afikim bus company will begin operating Palestinian-only bus lines from the checkpoints to Gush Dan to prevent Palestinians from boarding buses with Jewish passengers. Palestinians are not allowed to enter settlements, and instead board buses from several bus stops on the Trans-Samaria highway.

Last November, Haaretz reported that the Transportation Ministry was looking into such a plan due to pressure from the late mayor of Ariel, Ron Nahman, and the head of the Karnei Shomron Local Council. They said residents had complained that Palestinians on their buses were a security risk.

The buses will begin operating Monday morning at the Eyal crossing to take the Palestinians to work in Israel. Transportation Ministry officials are not officially calling them segregated buses, but rather bus lines intended to relieve the distress of the Palestinian workers.
 

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“Transportation Ministry officials are not officially calling them segregated buses, but rather bus lines intended to relieve the distress of the Palestinian workers…”

Isn’t that mighty white of them.

tee hee..

shared values my a s s

israel was made for …jews and jews only

I think Israelis have a better hive-mind than our racist past ruling class.

Jewish victimhood is prized by Zionists. Religious ferver, victimhood, nationalism are a nasty mix (by any group). But factor in the enormity of the Holocaust and the history of antisemitism and blah blah – it’s very hard to see Zionist Jews overcoming their prejudices.

They are too in love with themselves.

In recent memory, I think of those Catholic nuns killed in the 80s by genocidal dictatorships in Latin America who we supported. And at the time our SecDef (I think), gave them a luke-warm to insulting eulogy. I’ll have to dig that up. I remember it from a Chomsky lecture and then looked into it myself by reading up on the history of the Christian Right.

In any case, Zionists are incapable (psychologically/socially) of having a collective Rosa Parks moment.

You would have to first overcome Jewish prized victimhood (in the sense that it entails all the mendacity and sophistry we see puked forth by the likes of the right-wing Zionists in this country and the gatekeepers on the ‘left’).

Not possible. Not in our lifetime. That kind of change is only caused by pain. It’s like the Max Blumenthal videos. He videotaped a bunch of drunk Birthright-type Jews at their most naked id. Without inhibition. Plus, probably drunk.

And the stuff that came out of their mouths was idiotic, racist, self-loving garbage.

In the aftermath, you had the usual sophists and liars paint it as a dishonest portrayal (HA, yea right, just look at the follow-up similar guerrilla style interviews like ‘Feeling The Hate in NYC’).

But also, one of the kids in the video supposedly had to go to rehab. His mom called Max and asked him to take the video down. It was causing the kid stress because he was clearly embarrassed. Perhaps he wasn’t embarrassed because of the views he puked up but rather the fact that they were exposed. Nevertheless, he had some shame. The whole thing could have been a lie too and the Mom instead was embarrassed.

But still. The point, and Max made this too in an interview about the son/mom/rehab, is that if you don’t HAVE to look at yourself in the mirror – you won’t.

And you don’t ever self-introspect when things are going sky-high and your way. It takes pain and a fall from grace.

Time Covers 1968-1970…..interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARgiPJobKnE

yasser the terrorist

I posted this on another thread and its still awaiting moderation, but it seems that it would be just as appropriate on this thread.

The settler media outlet Arutz Sheva reported (Hebrew) a highly “irregular” occurrence on Wednesday morning, in which a Palestinian stood next to Jewish Israelis at a hitchhiking stop near the West Bank settlement of Beit El. Avigdor Shatz, the Binyamin Regional Council’s chief security officer in the area, was quoted as saying:

‘Palestinians are not supposed to stand next to Jews at the same hitchhiking stop, certainly not in Beit El.’

Shatz admitted that the law does not actually bar Palestinians from standing at the Givat Asaf hitchhiking stop, named after the illegal outpost nearby. “It is not defined as Israeli territory since it is outside the settlement.” However, he said it was an “irregular” and “strange” incident, and warned Israelis to keep their distance and to call the police and report such incidents. “We will get forces there to examine the suspect. Usually it is nothing.”

I guess in apartheid Israel, it’s news when a Palestinian dares to stand next to Jews.

http://972mag.com/settler-security-official-palestinians-are-not-supposed-to-stand-next-to-jews/65980/

Notice it is the Binyamin Regional Council’s security chief who is promising to send forces to “examine the suspect”. This area is even outside their (illegal) jurisdiction, and yet they’re allowed to operate there to harass Palestinians who, by their own admission, are not violating any Israeli law .