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I've always liked Norman.
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"violent culture" is beyond the pale, but do you disagree that the middle east is a violent place? and if you think it's all Israel, get educated.
what do you mean by "he agrees with me entirely about the money question", that BO's only concern re:Israel is Jewish money and votes?
"when Israel looks at Obama, they don't see a friend" M. Bachman
you do know that America put mandela on the terrorist lisr, right? and that it only "helped bring that regime down" after the USSR went under which i think a similar thing could happen when oil runs out and then America can remember it has values and distance itself from Israel, and Saudia.
so Massad wants everyone to get a nuke? none? racism PC BS. the people who are afraid from nukes are those that have enemies with them, race notwithstanding.
"this resoulotion is a piece of paper, and i will treat it as such" best UN quote ever, much better then Yasser's crocodile tears in Geneva.
i swore a sacred oath on the bible to protect israel. noam sheizaf and simone daud and phil weiss and brian klug can wax poetic about israel changing its colors all day every day, me and about 5 milion israeli jews will never give up on our homeland, you will have to take our corpses out of the adama like a darwish poem.
and of course before the treaty egypt was a beacon of democracy.
Merav Michaeli thinks god is a women
they gave Yeshayahu (not Yehoshuah) Leibowitz the Israel prize, and Rabin said he wont shake his hand, and Leibowitz passed on the award.
it wasn't his call, bibi had (and has) the majority in the knesset.
Blume = Poland, materialistic young woman = Israel, The family intervenes = anti-Semitism, the majesty of the Jewish achievement as a minority in the west will forever be tarnished by the gas chambers, my grandfather was born in the city of Lemberg (Levov!), he gave me my surname but i am from Israel.
between 1948 and 1967 the area infront of the western wall was a dumpster, and they have the nerve to talk about religious tolerance.
you mean except the indians, right?
i guess that makes you kif
a parliamentry system
never
diaspora jews need israel, much more than israelis need them, if they want to remain jews that is, "im eshkakheh yerushalaim", new-new-anti-semitism and so forth but keep dreaming about ending zionism.
as france turns into north africa french jews are coming more and more to israel, londonistan will be next, then we'll take manhattan, then we'll take the world.
Linkin Park: When They Come For Me
I am not / a pattern to be followed
The pill that I'm on is a tough one to swallow
I'm not a criminal / not a role model
Not a born leader I'm a tough act to follow
I am not / the fortune and the fame
Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game
I came in the ring like a dog on a chain
And I found out the underbelly's sicker than it seems
And it seems ugly / but it can get worse
'Cause even a blueprint is a gift and a curse
'Cause once you got a theory of how the thing works
Everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first
And I'm not a robot
I'm not a monkey
I will not dance even if the beat's funky
Opposite of lazy / far from a punk
Ya'll ought to stop talking start trying to catch up motherfucker
And all the people say
Lauryn said money change a situation
Big said it increase the complication
Kane said don't step / I ain't the one
Chuck said miuzi weigh a motherfucking ton
And I'm just a student of the game that they taught me
Rockin' every stage in every place that it brought me
I'm awfully underrated / but came here to correct it
And so it ain't mistaken I'ma state it for the record /
I am / the opposite of wack / opposite of weak
Opposite of slack / synonym of heat
Synonym of crack / closest to a peak
Far from a punk
Ya'll ought to stop talking / start trying to catch up motherfucker
And all the people say
Oh / When they come for me
Come for me
I'll be gone
[ From: link to metrolyrics.com
]
"I think Iran and Hezbollah should help Bahrainis, Yemenis and Palestinians". they do more than enough in those fronts, but Syria, what about them khoranim?
Linkin Park
Burning In the Skies
I used the deadwood to make the fire rise
The blood of innocence burning in the skies
I filled my cup with the rising of the sea
And poured it out in an ocean of debris
Oh
I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
We held our breath when the clouds began to form
But you were lost in the beating of the storm
But in the end we were meant to be apart
Like separate chambers of the human heart
No
I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
It's in the blackened bones
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
The blame is mine alone
For bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
I used the deadwood to make the fire rise
The blood of innocence burning in the skies
[ From: link to metrolyrics.com
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she didn't enlist to the idf, fake married instead.
supporting a boycott on israeli academia while being part of it is really the definition of hypocrisy.
"end Israel's occupation, racial discrimination and decades-old denial of the UN-sanctioned right of Palestinian refugees to return"
with you on the first two, but the third is asking israel to commit suicide, all the bds in the world won't get you there, only military defeat/ussr style self combustion.
the dictator's gone, the generals remain.
ayrabs are not anti semites but they are anti israel, even of the amira hass brand.
how can israel wage war on gaza and keep a border open with it? shameless indeed, israel needs to cut all ties with gaza, let them get what they need from egypt and the see.
"Israel won’t allow the humanitarian aid Gazans need"- "On Sunday, Israel allowed 217 truckloads of goods and 207,530 of domestic-use gas"
you can count on anti-israelis to lie, how typical.
maybe amira's egypt debacle woke her up, not likely. the fact that kerem shalom is still open is worse than a blunder, it's stupidity.
was the barb wire taken from the camps?
This territorial split began when jordan annexed the west bank and egypt decided to create a strip in the area they conquered in the 48 war. both territories united after 67 and in the oslo accord it is stated that both Israel and the PLO recognize the WB and GS as one political unit, but hass is right that oslo began the modern political divide as one of the first steps israel did post oslo is to build a fence from phildelfi to erez, around the strip.
the chances of a fatah-hamas peace are slim to none.
camus was born a settler, would you pick "justice" before your mother?.
after "majority rule and self-determination for Algerian Muslims" arrived about a million settlers were cleansed to france, the helen thomas solution.
many in Israel point to the algeria war, seeking a de gaul that will say to the settlers "me and my army are leaving, you can stay", but the big diffrence is that the arabs there didn't want paris too.
when i was in high school a classmate went to one of this "peace summer camps" in america, she lectured us about it and then was asked how much did it cost, it was very expensive.
interesting, the call to add the "48 territories, refugee camps, and in the Diaspora" to the mix is very "one state" oriented.
haaretz has a story today on the army fearing "tunisia style protests" but assures that in all likelyhood they will become violent and so, containable.
shamefull, disgusting. yesha ze pesha.
"I don't believe there was ever a need for a Jewish state" even during 1939-1945? huh, i forget, you don't like alternative history.
the maximum-justice-one-state you "envision" bear the seeds of its own potentially-disastrous disintegration, one men one vote one time.
the problem is not with 67 lines, or Jerusalem.
it's with the right of return/one state, aka Israel cast to the winds.
"they will support us today and we will support them after armageddon." M Begin on the christian zionists.
what's area D?....the west bank is much more prosperous than gaza... in gaza there is only one idf soldier...the presence of the idf in central cities in the WB is diminished but to claim there is no occupation there is real ignorance.
Ravid doesn't need to ask Bibi, it wasn't mention in the article because it's clear in Israel, a Bi state means apartheid like the settlers want and currently have or a "post national" state with Israel cast to the winds, we don't want to be a "protected" minority, sorry.
these profound emotional forces come from mileniums of antisemitism, and the strongest military in the world trying half successfully to exterminate the jews, i think. and if you can escape them you delude yourself, will galiano be depicted here like nir rosen? will charlee sheen?
when you say zionists own 7% of the land in 1947 you imply that arabs own 93%, but the thing is that back then a large part of the land wasn't "owned", it was karkaot medina, public property, arabs owned about 45% and they were 66% of the populace, jews owned 7% and were 33% of the people. btw, most of the 55% of the partition was and still today a desert.
see here: Sami Hadawi, Village statistics 1945, Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine, Beirut,Palestine liberation organization research center, 1970
about Egypt, Begin says today in Hayom that we don't know if democracy will prevail and either way Israel could be in a bind, the interviewer asks if he prefers a "good" tyrant than a "bad" democrat and he says that he is a man of science and this are just the facts.
BDS America, all the way.
when my grandmother was twelve, the germans came, one day she and her older sister walked in the street and a lancer started following them, they were afraid, very afraid, turns out, he was a good german, anti nazi, came to my grandmother's house a couple of times with groceries.
then the familiy fled to white russia to relatives, one night the nkvd guys came and ethnic cleansed my grandmother to a gulag in ciberia, she was very upset about leaving her relatives but it saved her life because none of them survived barbarosa.
during cast lead my grandmother told me she wants us to nuke gaza, i protested but she said the world hate us anyway, she's pretty nihilstic.
my other grandmother was in the warsaw ghetto, fled through the sewage tunnels, she gave birth to my father on a refugee camp in cyprus, she died when i was very young.
the original name of the jewish national fund, founded by early zionists, is the jewish colonial fund, calling Israel a colonial-settler state is not someting that should be problematic, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are also CS states, the stripes in your flag symbol colonialism, after all.
"most liberal (as opposed to true leftists) Israeli Jews are more concerned about mixing and diluting their Jewishness, their politico-cultural life and superiority, with the “Arabs,” their whiteness repelled by the natives’ brownness. Race is in the back of the mind."
i say it's still more surviving than diluting.
calling the 1ss as the most democratic solution is a joke. the entire jewish demos reject it. calling the two populations "intimately, demographically, economically, and geographically intertwined" is delusional, after 100 years of war, you want to force a union here? no way.
any move toward peace will instantly break his government.