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Stating endlessly that I am a dinosaur will not transform me into one.
This letter must be put together with those videos from Kadhafi saying all is going well, or with those statements from Mubarak equally disoriented.
No offense, but what is racist about Zizek? This is the one accusation I've NEVER heard about him.
Fantastic guy, got a chance to lunch with him in Rio last year.
We are not Vegas, nor the its kosher version, Birthright.
But seriously, jewish community here is very conservative. GOP style.
Mooser, I've seen things you wouldn't believe among the Diaspora in Brazil.
But what makes this piece of filth on Ynet special is its attempt to PRAISE what zionists usually try to conceal. You know, hasbara is built basicaly on a) we are not racists; b) this is not racism; c)we are a democracy; d)look thos evil arabs, they are worse human rights violators.
But this? This would be the equivalent of a racist proud exactly of BEING openly racist, because racism is a good thing afterall.
If colonialism may trump self determination when all parties share common prosperity, even if in different levels, then why the hell is this idiot defending zionism?
I mean, I always thought that zionism was a 19th century jewish proto-nationalism, and jewish self determination was its core value.
It's freaking impressive, the length people go defending this nonsense.
One has to admire NF's assertiveness.
The question is, in the end, all about possibility. The settlement of today is the basis of future demands. This is History.
He died still feeling this way. I feel that the emergence of his post 9/11 discourse on Islamism of him holds no contradiction with the video.
I have seen people here saying that he was a zionist, or an Israeli lover. Not by a mile.
As a goy myself, married to a brazilian-israeli, I have to agree with marc in this one. Often I've seen the jewish community speak of goyim when talking about jewish identity and the impossibility for non-jews to understand some aspects of their lives (an idea that seems kind of preposterous to me, but whatever).
Not trying to push and overly political correctness agenda, but since there is a word to describe non-jews (non-jews or gentiles, they both work) that is traditionaly isent of a derrogatory meaning, the persistent use of goy and goyim strikes to me as, in the best scenario, latent discrimination.
That is way I have always made clear to my friends and not friends in the jewish community not to use this term in my presence for I find it offensive.
With due respect, but there are major incoherences in your post. Paraguai was not invaded by Brazil and Argentina, unless you also consider that Germany was invaded by the Allies. Factually, it is true, but the whole war was caused AND iniciated by the very same country that happened to be "invaded", since it ultimately lost the war.
And there is nothing "undignified" in the necessity for keeping one at peace with its neighbours. I mean, that IS the intent of international law, right?
Consider a pitty is not the same as to interfere on someone's faith. But I think is a social fact that religious thought is deeply conservative towards the rights of women and explicitly sectarian. And to see a former secular society heading into one where religion presents itself as a fundamental fact in life is a sad event for me.
And I am talking about Palestine, because Zionism has first to be proved as a non religious-driven movement.
didn´t you see the new state-sponsored video, like the old one about the west bank, but now regarding the "peace process" ], where danny ayalon says the most ridiculous stuff... ?
Nobody will comment on the absurds Ayalon edited in another awful video?
Recognizing a State is not something you can "pull off". What is done, is done.
Correct me, if needed, but ICJ is open only to UN members or to states with permission from the UNSC.
And the UN membership also depends of UNSC approval.
For those interested in sheer comedy.
I mean, this is just outrageous.
link to youtube.com
Just change sides and let's see what happens.
“Palestine won’t be constituted as long as Israel keeps its power, and therefore we need to come to a decision that we will break the will of Israel to keep fighting,”
when he said just like the respond United States did with the Japanese he means to take action so devastating it ‘breaks the will ‘
Ebook too?
As a brazilian student, finishing his masters' degree in philosophy, unemployed and in his way to become a diplomat, I can't garantee anything, but I'll try to "chip in".
One of my favorite sites online.
Remember, the white population in South Africa was terrified with the possibility that the black people would eventualy "get even" for all opression they suffered during the Apartheid.
In fact, the last years of the regime were, in my belief, based pretty much on that.
We all know the outcome.
More like Israeli Dehumanizer Force.
Well, so much for the "most noble army in the world".
This is IDF; simply as that.
One of the most appealing stories I've read in a while about biopower in Israel/Occupied territories.
In a very masochistic way, I've wanted to be in your shoes. Funny how solidarity works sometimes.
To all of you,
Where can I get access to physical maps and resource maps of Israel/WB ? I've been trying for quite some time this morning and I always end up hitting water.
Aquifers, farmable land, etc.
You are the one who's failing to see simple logic here, not the rest of us.
Abbas is saying this in the following context: being the leader of a people who has been sistematically stripped from basic rights for the last 60 years, and with most of this agression coming from Israel; a people who has been experiencing political cynism at its highest from the Israeli-American establishment over all these years, living in an OCCUPIED territory with ever expanding land theft.
Would you expect him to say: "Oh, yes. As soon as Israelis leave this land, retreat to their rightfully borders - oh, by the way, we are forever thankful to you, Bibi - and we get to constitute our country, we are more than happy to grant permission for you all to stay within the best fields of the valley as you have been over the last years; and maybe you would like to walk among our holy sites, even though we weren't before?
If Netanyahu says something like: "As long as Iran keeps with its nuclear program, no iranians will be allowed to set foot in Israel", I think the vast majority of "the Left" would actually not critic the decision.
But to say that of palestinians, he should FIRST get the fuck out of all occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, remove all the settlers and end the shameful blocade over Gaza.
Then, he could say something like that.
*people who FALL under...
aban,
But would that be possible? I mean, this is not a trip to Uganda, to Mongolia, to Sri Lanka or Siberia, where there's a high possibility of a traveler to have never forged a single political statement about his destination, or at least, a rather shallow one.
But how could one do in the case of Israel? I mean, if there's a region in the world where people nowadays almost "need" to have a opinion, is ME, but especially I/P.
For liberals and conservatives, because of the implications of basic political rationalism. In the case of jews, well, it's a big chunk of the formation of ethnic identity.
No way anyone, at least the people I deal with, could ever experience a visit to Israel, inside Taglit or not, and at the same time, not falling in one of the following 3 categories.
1. has a pro-Israel orientation and therefore, is prepared to like what is presented;
2. has a critical POV towards Israel and therefore is inclined to see all that as a big brainwash sponsored by official government or big jewish funds around the world.
3. is apolitical, at least, when it comes to this; but then again, people who follow under this category is not seen in the political blogosphere.
Sir, yes Sir.
While it would be unreasonable to retaliate with violence, even if by pragmatism, but especially because it would be highly disproportionate of Lebanon, these atitudes nevertheless show some sort of continued conflict oriented mind from Israel towards the northern neighbor.
Honestly, I just hope for some cool blood, because Lebanon doesn't deserve another series of bombing from the south without collapsing to the 80s all over again.
I wonder how will Hitchens react if that infamous bill regarding orthodox jews as the only ones on legal basis.
I mean, this is a guy who once got heated up with a rabbi over the brit; I guess we'll be seeing Israel/Saudi Arabia comparisions soon.
Hitchens is one prepotent talker; a very smart and savy, but still a prepotent talker.
Are you kidding me? He knows too much about ME to stay quiet? Although I actually believe in this, why statements like this are so recurrent in his texts?
Buuuuut, Avi got it all right. I subscribe everything.
Outstanding piece.
More amazing than the news itself, it is to know that for some, this is just another "overstated allegation", as if everyone roots for the fall of Israel, the end of jewish people, and the rise of Islam!
Wow, one could easily fall for this kind of rhetoric. Nevetheless, I admire the tenacity of Moshe Arens, because what she's advocating for is something a lot of academics were afraid of.
The shift in global opinion regarding what Israel considers "self defense" over the last 20 years, even with some exceptions (clearly, the 2nd Intifada suicide bombings) may be credited to the significant change on the grounds of Israeli conflicts.
Every conflict up to 1973 were easily described as defensive conflicts, even the ones iniciated by Israel; and they were against beligerant countries. This is something much more appealing to the consensus building of war; especialy in a Cold War bipolarity with the Arabs representing "the East" against Western "democracies".
After that, it went downhill against civil movements, palestinian nationalist ones or not. Hizbullah, Hamas, OLP. After almost 40 years, the myth eventually looses power, Israel is hardly contested as an hegemonic force is ME and its existence is far from beeing at peril. That means the State has much less legitimacy to engage untraditional warfares with these movements without transforming it into a bloodbath and PR disasters.
What is the solution for the tradicional politics to overcome this crisis?
Well, look at the Russians, period: a decade ago, they went with full power on the "War on Terror" bandwagon, because that allowed them to continue with its tradicional politics by engaging separatist movements with violence on terrorism allegations. There, it's URSS x satelites, part 2.
Likud is not naive, nor well intended. If it proposes this one state solution, it is because it will give them police control in exchange of militar control. The former is much more well seen abroad then the later.
The reality would come to this: Israel would annexate the whole territory (Likud scores), in exchange of a promise of citzenship for all palestinians over time, GRADUALLY (wow, Likud scores again); of course, the government would play on this graduality arguing that the process would depend on the colaboration of the palestinians, and would use every "resistance" as an excuse to further restrictions on civil rights (Likud knockout).
Land would still be available only for Jews, Knesset representation would still be "Jew friends" only, and economic power would be devastating unbalance, in great part by government interference.
I've been stressing this phenomenon for quite some time now; it's necessary for world jewry to point at Likudniks, or any cabinet that moves further away from a comprehensive peace process, if not for solidarity towards those who suffer, for their own safety.
This animosity spill is undeserved at all - if one does not endorse the government -, or little deserved in case of endorsement because in the end, support something IS NOT the same as DOING something, let alone tacit support (not explicit disaproval), but it will grow stronger with the shift of public opinion in general and the disuse of suicide attacks or "rocket" launching.