Jim Crow is alive and well in the U.S.A.
Here’s a map/explanation of the clashes in East Jerusalem, posted by the New York Times after the shooting a few days ago:
The Area That Was Closed by Israel in the Old City
Israel blocked access on Thursday to an area sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims. The Aksa compound was closed to head off unrest after Israeli forces killed a Palestinian suspected of shooting Yehuda Glick, a leader in the movement for more Jewish access to the site. Under heavy pressure and the threat of new Israeli-Palestinian strife, Israel later announced that it would reopen the site Friday. Oct. 30,
Glick is the leader of a movement for Jewish access? The Forward tells us:
Glick is head of the Temple Mount Faithful organization, which advocates building a Third Temple on the holy site.
According to the Temple Mount Faithful site, the group is dedicated to “removing the Muslim shrines placed” on the Temple Mount when it is able to build the third Jewish temple there.
The Times caption is like saying the Ku Klux Klan is an organization dedicated to the well-being of white people.
And speaking of racism in U.S. political culture, from the Anti-Defamation League:
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called Sweden’s recognition of a state of Palestine a reward for intransigence, which will only encourage Palestinian refusal to engage with Israel and intensify current tensions.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
“We are appalled by Sweden’s reckless and woefully misguided recognition of a state of Palestine, which was unwise, untimely, unhelpful and unserious. It will do nothing to promote Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, nor bring about a real Palestinian state. The only effect will be negative, encouraging the Palestinian strategy of circumventing direct negotiations with Israel….”
Our discourse is broken on these issues. We need a conversation that sees Palestinians for what they are, a persecuted people who seek their freedom. It happened here in the South. And yes, more and more young people are making that connection.
Zio-supremacist intransigence: Good.
Palestinian intransigence: Bad.
Decades of oppression, theft, occupation, colonization and Jewish supremacism undertaken by Zio-supremacists: Good.
Palestinian resistance to decades of oppression, theft, occupation, colonization and Jewish supremacism: Bad.
When it comes to Zio-supremacism and the supremacist “Jewish State” of Israel, the ADL’s “moral compass” never points to justice, accountability and equality.
I have read others spreading the lie that all Glick et al want is to ‘share’, that there’s ‘room for everybody’…I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised that the NYT is also spreading the great lie.
Glick and his ilk are violent supremacists, aided and abetted by the IOF and GoI.
As for the ADL and Avigdor Lieberman and Sweden, I would suggest they listen to Foreign Minister Wallström:
“”I will be happy to send him a flat pack of IKEA furniture and he will also see that what you need to put that together is, first of all, a partner,””
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=736637
Israel has never been a partner for peace. The US has never been an honest broker. We need a new conversation for sure. One that involves at least a soupçon of honesty, and some serious sanctions slapped on the Apartheid state.
Agree that the entire process and language of the “peace process” is dysfunctional. broken, worn-out and useless. Actually, strike that last one. It is very useful for both Israel and the US to keep making the same dialogue-like noises while continuing to gobble up more Palestinian land and kill more Palestinian civilians. In that, it is still very useful.
Foxman’s screed couldn’t be more disingenuous: “. . . unwise, untimely, unhelpful and unserious.”
What reality-denying world is he living in? Like Gaza didn’t just happen. Like what’s happening in Jerusalem isn’t happening right now. Like this talking with Israel hasn’t been going on for 20 years already.
The first step is giving the Palestinians some long-overdue recognition. Sweden is helping in that department. The next step is finding a new vocabulary and start calling what Israel is doing in Palestine by its proper name.
Well, it seems France is also poised to recognize a Palestinian state. Tel Aviv must be irate.
Hope it comes through, even though symbolic.
“French Socialist lawmakers are preparing a parliamentary motion calling on the government to recognize Palestine as a state, according to sources quoted by AFP.
British MPs passed a similar vote last month and Sweden officially recognized Palestine last week.
“The [National] Assembly asks the French government to use recognition of the state of Palestine as an instrument to obtain a final settlement of the conflict,” reads the provisional motion seen by AFP.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.624805
Today , RTV 1 (Ireland,s premiere TV network) reported the latest car attack (allegedly) by a Palestinian , and then went on to bring up the glick attack , describing him as a “Jewish Rights activist”. I have to wonder who is feeding our national TV network their ME news.The Israeli embassy in Dublin I suspect.I have had a few discussions with the foreign affairs section there,(RTV 1) , but it seems as if it is like water off a duck,s back.
What to do???.