This morning, Mondoweiss reader “James” sent us the screenshot below and added: “A quick look at the 3 top stories on the Haaretz homepage provide for a rather interesting narrative”:
This morning, Mondoweiss reader “James” sent us the screenshot below and added: “A quick look at the 3 top stories on the Haaretz homepage provide for a rather interesting narrative”:
“Israel orders demolition of 8 Palestinian villages, claims need for IDF training land.
IDF hands over former West Bank base to Israeli settlers.”
Only 8 villages?
Bibi: “Damn the BDS, full speed ahead!”
For all history Bibi will be known as the man who went to far…
He will be famous like Onan.
People will say: Don’t go to “bibi”…
(yo momma so zionist, she taught you about sex saying ‘pulling out will make you look weak’)
Onan went to far by pulling out and became famous.
Bibi went to far with raping and killing and not pulling out.
also in today’s Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/the-spaces-between-living-in-the-shadow-of-destruction-1.452612?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.208%2C2.317%2C
“In the Jewish calendar cycle we are in the midst of three weeks called “Bein Hametzarim,” “Between the Straits.” These three weeks are book-ended by the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz, which marks the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem, and Tisha B’Av, the fast day where we mark the destruction of the First and Second Temples. It is, according to tradition, a time to focus our attention on the loss of a national, cultural, and spiritual home for the Jewish people.
Facing this devastating loss , our sages did something remarkable: they re-envisioned Judaism. They created a new center, built a tradition with new hope, comforting the people with a renewed Judaism; a Judaism where, in the words of rabbinic compilation, “hesed (loving-kindness) and prayer” were the new center of Jewish life and community.
Though we may not be able to comprehend the utter devastation the community of the ancients felt, there are still meaningful lessons to be learned from this destruction. The rabbis teach us two crucial lessons about life and Judaism. First, each of us individually and collectively knows what it means to experience profound loss. In moment of deep failure it is often easier to remain in the depths of the darkness without hope, with a sense of purpose dwelling in the despair. Yet, the rabbis remind us not to dwell in the darkness but to move forth toward light. They teach us in these spaces between when nothing in life is certain, keep hope alive; even in our darkest hours, renewal can be on the horizon.
Second, within this renewed Judaism, Torah, not the Temple, becomes the center of Jewish life and our new spiritual home. We now, they teach us, dwell not in the Temple sacrifices but in the black letters and white spaces between of our teachings – we became a people of the book, learning and living Torah
”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87Q3igXYZY
Where is the Torah today south of Hebron?
The calculation is probably that so much is going on right now that Israel can get away with this. The bombing, Syria, the Iran show…and then too, with the election coming up, Obama is not about to put his foot down.
Look for more of the same.
Training? What is this training the IDF for?
This is the slow ethnic cleansing of Area A
Facts on the ground are double edged – when the IDF is eventually defeated and capitulates there will be a precedent that allows the victors to send the entire Zionist population of Israel elsewhere.