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Illinois has many home grown problems to solve (how many jobs does the state need to create this year for example and where will they come from? ) but obviously taking one in the *** for the lobby is far more important.
The irony is that YESHA is slowly destroying the ultimate security of Israel- the continuance of the conditions by which the international community supports the right of 50% of the people in Erez Israel to self determination while persecuting the other 50%.
"Who would suffer the most?"
The innocent people of Iran followed by US grunts followed most likely by innocent Americans abroad and innocent Jews everywhere .
It would be wonderful to see freedom for the American people. Imagine if they had a choice in a presidential eelction between Wall St and an alternative.
I think it's a bridge too far for Zionism and that Israel will just have to suck up whatever Iran does.
link to youtube.com
The immensity of the Iraq failure continues to be ignored by the MSM in the US.
sometimes I wonder if Zionism will have run itself into the sand before it gets around to attacking Iran. The Israelis seriously overrate their capabilities in any case. Why are they still fighting the Palestinians 64 years on?
attacking Iran is on the same level of insanity as forcing Greece out of the Euro.
Joe
You must find the whole situation absurd . there was a video last year of a viva Palestina convoy arriving in Gaza and it was so striking to see how the failure of politics can betray a whole people. They don't celebrate the arrival of trucks of food in Rafah in Sinai but across the border in Gaza they do. All because of Zionism. The Zionist space has 6 castes
Ashkenazi Jews
Mizrahi Jews
1948 Palestinians
East Jerusalem Palestinians
West Bank Palestinians
Gazans
And the Gazans are right at the bottom.
so many decent people forced to live in a senseless system.
That looks like standard settler hasbara .I wonder how many US synagogues have seen it , presumably after a hour or so being reminded of how moral the Jewish people are.
Falastin is the name of the land anyway
I don't think anyone in a leadership role in the Diaspora wants to acknowledge how badly things have deteriorated in Israel in recent years. The trend is all in the wrong direction. 50% is not far off, I'd say.
The pogrom was preceded by firebombing as well.
Have you got more stuff like that Harry? It's fascinating.
STA is the dumping ground for the immigrants. They could have been sent to Beit El or Rehavia . But it's far easier to load the poor.
Adl (عدل ) is an Arabic word meaning 'justice. But ADL means something different in Judaism.
The ADL should just give up. It could be called multiple ADL failure.
Israel is beyond saving. June 4 1967 was the day that doomed it.
The ADL is truly repugnant. They should change the name to the Anti Decency Louts.
"we are disturbed by inflammatory public statements made by certain Israeli officials, some of which has veered into racism"
the use of "veered' implies that Israel is a car that made a wrong turn into a bad neighbourhood instead of the reality which is that the car is permanently stationed in the neighbourhood and goes around it in circles
Haaretz
Report quotes statistics provided by the UNHCR, showing that during the year out of 4,603 new asylum applications in Israel 3,692 were rejected. Only one was approved.
"Israel is judged by a double-standard (triple-standard, actually), but this is not what should be happening in a country that calls itself a Jewish state."
link to salon.com
"But who tells the truth to the man who is driving straight into the setting sun and thinks he's heading due east? His wife murmurs that, uh, maybe we should look at a map, and he accuses her of being a defeatist who tries to tear him down any way she can in order to conceal her own lack of ideas. The man is heading the wrong way and speeding and the idiot light is flashing —low oil pressure —and the idiot is trying to be manly and authoritative but everyone can see he's faking it, hoping for G-d to rearrange the landscape for his convenience.
link to richardsilverstein.com
"What adds to my sense of depression is the awareness that demographic processes are turning our society more and more religious, more and more racist and venomous, more and more withdrawn and violent.
For a man of my age who wasted serious parts of his life writing in newspapers about these issues, to see that I did all this out of great hope that has come to naught and was based on illusions and naiveté; what happens now is a particular type of bitterness and disillusion. To see Israeli society change its nature so quickly, becoming something you never thought you’d see outside of nightmares, it breaks your heart. To begin to feel ashamed at being Israeli, and to know with not a small amount of confidence that such a feeling will grow, it depresses you utterly."
link to thirdworldtraveler.com
“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘1943- Jewish swine/2012- The infiltrators are a national plague ,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. “Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing).
You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”
"the crime rate among the general population in Israel stood at 4.99 percent in 2010...."
Settlers are obviously not included in those numbers since settler crimes are never recorded.
Fred
The UN was founded after WW2 to protect the rights of groups like the Jews. The UNDHR would have prevented the madness of the 1930s that led to ww2. Jews are no better or worse, no deserving or less deserving than any other group of people and it is a pity that this fact has been forgotten.
The Zionists never paid for anything. The land isn't theirs.
YESHA is slowly strangling Israel.
Force is not going to deliver Moshiach.
# To force the countries the Palestine refugee camps are located in to absorb them as citizens or as non citizen residents making them no longer “Palestines’.
And the Lebanese are just dying for this to happen. This kind of delusion is what led the US to Iraq. And what happened ?
# To destroy any kind of identification with Palestine or movement aligned with Palestine among the refugees so they will not be a’ unified group’ and will have to seek out other ways of survival in other countries.
And this is really going to work . After 6 months they will reinvent themselves, start speaking English and launch tech companies with the goal of listing on Nasdaq.
I can't believe the Jews behind this have so little understanding of their own tortured history and how identity and belonging make sense for people who have nothing.
Woody
If you and the rest of the Hittites had the luck to organise and get the ear of Congress or China or whoever and had the money to set up in anatolia there would be just the one problem.
You would have to get the Turks off the land. There is always a level of enough violence that can do any job. But the problem is that sets the tone for the rest of the project. So you'd have to have a Hittite Defence Force. And you'd have to spend a lot of money on them. And divert resources. and build the education system around it. And family life in Hittitia would suffer. You'd have more domestic violence. And you'd have enemies because an army can't function without enemies.
You would need an ideology. It's very hard to get one that works for more than 2 generations. The enemies would be a big part of the ideology .
You would probably end up with a mess.
I find it profoundly depressing when Zionist Jews diss international law as if Jews do not have and will never have any need of it. It is wonderful to have an IDF( that can firebomb Gaza) and the ear of the US Congress, the most powerful political force in the world.
But this is not typical of the Jewish experience. Look at the Jewish holidays and read the struggle of a people marginalised by power over the centuries . Even just look at Erez Israel and count how many years it has been independent over the last 3 millennia.
Days that match the historical mean will come back again sometime and Jews will need law that protects the minorities. There won't always be the IDF and Eric Cantor.
Talknic
Poland took Silesia, Pomerania and parts of East Prussia after ww2.
The Soviet union took the rest of East Prussia.
The modern Polish city of Wroclaw was called Breslau before WW2 when it was part of Germany.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Koenigsberg was the capital of East Prussia. Now it is called Kaliningrad. It is part of Russia
link to en.wikipedia.org
17 million Germans were dispossessed and expelled from their homes. 800000 were murdered after the war in what the Germans call die Vertreibung. Many of the women expelled were raped.
But there is no Vertreibung industry
Ultimately the republicans want to defund UNRWA.
The decision could be the end of Israel.
“History is a record of effects, the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.” Joseph Schumpeter
The Ashkenazis never had any connection to Palestine.
Sure I can get my kids to sing about Lima and ensure the next 20 generations continue the song but that will never turn me into a Peruvian.
It's a sign of change. Maybe the Turks will back down this time but Israel is only going to get worse and the US will only get weaker. 10 years ago turkey wouldn't have dared something like this.
Hatikva means "the hope" (of the return to Zion)
link to stateofisrael.com
The Hatikva neighborhood now stands for hopelessness
Maybe the Sudanese in Israel have been diagnosed by Danon with Drapetomania
link to en.wikipedia.org
If any one or more of them, at any time, are inclined to raise their heads to a level with their master or overseer, humanity and their own good requires that they should be punished until they fall into that submissive state which was intended for them to occupy. They have only to be kept in that state, and treated like children to prevent and cure them from running away." [7] In Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race, Cartwright writes that the Bible calls for a slave to be submissive to his master, and by doing so, the slave will have no desire to run away.[8] In addition to identifying drapetomania, Cartwright prescribed a remedy. His feeling was that with "proper medical advice, strictly followed, this troublesome practice that many Negroes have of running away can be almost entirely prevented."[4] In the case of slaves "sulky and dissatisfied without cause" —a warning sign of imminent flight —Cartwright prescribed "whipping the devil out of them" as a "preventative measure"
Silverstein says the palestinians and the migrants are israel's niggers.
And niggers have no rights.
link to haaretz.com
The details coalesce into one dismal picture: A dangerous campaign of incitement is now underway in Israel. Our elected officials are trying to profit politically out of people's misery and at the expense of a poor and helpless group. Human rights activists have also become a target. The history of the Jewish people - rife with instances of incitement, persecution and pogroms - does not resonate with the inciters.
The problem of migrants, which impacts many people who live in poor areas and who bear the burden of the government's failure to deal with the matter, deserves a serious and comprehensive solution. Meanwhile, it is becoming a badge of shame on an entire society.
I think the ADL was sold to a private equity firm
Or at least its soul was
Dutch
I think you missed the tone of Krauss' post.
link to haaretz.com
"Interior Minister: We will fine mayors who employ African migrants
Eli Yishai tells Israel's Channel 2 news: Fines will make city mayors hire Israelis"
As a thought experiment, call Africans semites.
What would that make Yishai?
yes.
The Sudanese need an organisation to defend them against defamation, some kind of anti defamation league. ..
Let's see a senior Israeli politician act against this thuggery.
When is Bibi going to make his speech ?
When is Danon going to be expelled from the Likud party?
Bukra fi mishmish
I wouldn't be surprised if decent Jews started leaving Israel after this. Things are only going to get much worse. The Danon angle is very disturbing.
Long knives next
Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87Q3igXYZY
Broken glass and mobs and Jews
Where did that happen? Was it in hopelessly antisemitic goyland ?
"attacked by a mob in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighbourhood"
and
WHAT DOES HATIKVA MEAN ?
jesus, zionism is beyond parody
I wonder how long the NYT can hold out before giving in to the inevitable. I'm sure there are many journalists who will be happy to stick the knife in when the time comes.
"There will be a hasbara response"
nice phrase
The Israelis talk about "the appropriate Zionist response" which appears to involve taking a gun and shooting it at one's foot
Munayyer is right of course. Israel has become similtaneously a mockery of democracy and a mockery of Judaism . The idea that it is a Jewish democracy is laughable.
Israel's efforts to cultivate a european democracy have also fallen short as has the effort to build a polity that reflects the basic values of Judaism. So it's more than just the trees.
Dim- when at the earliest can you see George Osborne going to Bradford in England do a stump speech where he will refer to Muslims as vermin who must be deported immediately?
That is what Danon did yesterday.
I thought their homeland was always Israel, dim
Hever puts the cost of YESHA since 1968 at 100bn USD
That would have built a lot of affordable housing in Greater Tel Aviv.
That Tel Aviv tolerance spin seems to be incomplete
link to mondoweiss.net
"I was active at the encampment at Levinsky Park. This park, in South Tel Aviv, is the epicenter of the refugee crisis in Israel, mostly because the state and city authorities do everything to concentrate the tens of thousands of refugees from Eritrea and Sudan pouring into Israel in the neighborhood around it."
"xenophobia, scapegoating and the incitement to racism by leaders and politicians must be condemned."
Especially when it happens in a nation that drops everything for 2 minutes to remember the Holocaust.
How did it start in Germany ?
Danon has zero self awareness.
Howaboutery is the sign of a lost argument.
Poor Israelis are the backbone of the Likud. They have been shafted for so long in favour of the settlers and the military industrial complex . Their standard of living is slowly being whittled away by inflation. They are angry but they don't understand the system that deprives them. And they don't have the eloquence to make their case effectively so you end up with this.
"Today the number of job seekers in Tel-Aviv is around 60,000. The options for affordable housing for the poor Israeli have now been dramatically reduced as many of the job seekers share the same apartments."
Couldn't the poor be moved to a refugee camp and bombed regularly?
Or is that just for non-Jews?
Touché!
another one for Avi
the coarse and white colored skin
it blends with the state you're in
and the wetness of your eyes
against a sun that clouds blind
you ain't saying nothing that i don't already know
when you say love's dimming light won't shine on tomorrow
you ain't doing nothing that i don't already know
when you hide your sorry head in pillows
you fake a strained, sort of grin
that matches the shape you're in
and accept any lies are truth
after the long year that we've been through
you ain't doing nothing that i don't already know
when you say life takes turns like fiery shadows
It is such a beautiful song. I love the whole album.
I think she had to give up a baby for adoption . So sad and the "little green" song captures it.
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best political support
That I ever had
I wish I had a river I could skate away on
Oh, I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my people say goodbye
"he expects Jewish communities around the world to support whatever Israeli government is in power, regardless of its views."
This is from the my mother, drunk or sober school of diplomacy.
I suppose what would you expect a thug from the ex Soviet Union to say.
Presumably by the same token all that moaning about the Pharoah has to go and Pesach has to be reconfigured for 2013 with more emphasis placed on why the Egyptians were right.
Nobody gets to the heart of the dysfunction of the system like the Marxists.
"But if and when the Israeli bubble does explode, I think we will have a rapid change and escalation of the social situation. The problem will no longer be "just" the cost of living but the tenability of the entire structure. And this will bring people to question the colonial situation as well."
the whole system is unsustainable
top class interview but realistically when is anyone who reads Ma'ariv going to be exposed to the ideas?
"Israeli left (which perhaps does not exist, eh?)"
There is Hever and I have 10 fingers...
Does the Israeli left move the country away from the cliff ?
I would be delighted to see some evidence.
What standing do Israeli leftwingers have anyway ?
Here are three Israelis who comment
link to 972mag.com
Stinking leftists instead of saying thank you to the soldier who did e-x-a-c-t-l-y what he was supposed to do, you’re trying to change the story?! It’s simply a disgrace that willfully ignorant people live in our country… You should appreciate a soldier like that who acts bravely in the face of the cruelest enemy we have, may the names of all Arabs be wiped out!! And respect to the dedicated soldier..!
Yehuda Daniel, an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student, writes (with a few spelling mistakes in the holy tongue):
In my opinion at every event there should be a group of people who break cameras. If you see a camera, break it at some point so that the leftists will stop bringing expensive cameras – and then they’ll photograph more general shots (because of the lack of technology) – every camera costs tens of thousands of shekels – I doubt that journalists will be happy if someone breaks their camera every time. (Daniel’s idea received two thumbs up – LG).
Asaf Cohen, a 27 year-old who is studying to be a car mechanic, writes:
They should’ve broken his legs so he couldn’t walk anymore, and then they should’ve broken the legs of the leftists with cameras
"I think this is partly an effect of capital fleeing from other parts of the world building up a bubble in the housing sector in Israel".
there was a "look at us Jews see how economically smart were are" type powerpoint at the Herzliya conf where someone showed a graph of housing busts in Spain and Ireland and how well Israeli prices were holding up and it spoke hubris .
Half of the ads on Ha'aretz appear to be for real estate.
One day soon someone is going to pull out of a transaction because the prices are nuts and that will start the crash. All housing bubbles are the same. And 70% of gains are lost in the crash that follows.
The deputy leader of Likud, no less
link to jpost.com
Speaking at the rally in south Tel Aviv late Wednesday, MK Danny Danon (Likud), chairman of the “Deportation Now” movement, called for the immediate expulsion of African migrants from Israel.
Danon said: “The infiltrators are a national plague and we must deport them immediately before it’s too late – the Sudanese can go back to Sudan and the rest should be deported to other countries in Africa and Eastern Europe.”
Danon added that “the State of Israel is engaged in a war against an enemy state composed of infiltrators and located within Israel. Its capital is south Tel Aviv. ‘Deportation Now’ is the only solution.”
Can anyone imagine the uproar if a right wing demagogue in Scotland said in public - "Jewish people are a plague and must be deported immediately. "
Thanks Blake
Brand Israel will have a hard time spinning this
It sounds just like a pogrom from old Russia
link to ynetnews.com
Clashes erupt during south TA protest; migrants attacked
Residents says streets 'no longer safe for children, women' due to influx of African infiltrators. Demonstrators attack migrants' car, leftist. MK Regev: They are a cancer in our society
Neri Brenner Latest Update: 05.24.12, 00:35 / Israel News
About 1,000 people gathered in south Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood Wednesday evening to protest against the government's handling of the flow of African migrants into Israel.
Some of the demonstrators shattered the windshield of a vehicle in which three African migrants were riding. The migrants were not injured.
Police arrested two people suspected of attacking a foreign worker during the protest.
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The demonstrators also chased two foreigners but were blocked by police. They also threw two firecrackers at police forces.
Earlier, about 100 demonstrators chased after a leftist who took part in a counter rally. Police officers blocked the protesters path. The rioters hurled glass bottles and sticks at the officers.
According to Israel Police, 17 people were arrested. Fifteen of them were arrested for rioting and assault, while two others were detained for looting a store owned by migrants.
"We stole everything," one of the youngsters who looted the store said with a smile on his face. "People took whatever they could carry."
Demonstrator arrested (Photo: Yaron Brener)
"If the wife of a Knesset member would have been raped, this whole mess would have been sorted out, but no one cares about us" one of the demonstrators who were arrested told Ynet.
The protesters waved signs reading "South Tel Aviv a refugee camp" and "Infiltrators, leave our home."
One of the demonstrators who spoke during the rally urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "decide whether we live in Israel or Sudan."
Smaller protests against the illegal immigration phenomenon were held in Bnei Brak, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Eilat.
Residents of the south Tel Aviv neighborhoods Shapira and Kiryat Shalom held another rally on Chahmei Yisrael Street. They waved signs reading, "Our streets are no longer safe for our children," "The craziness of our life: Neglect, crime, rape and violence," "Yesterday it was my daughter, tomorrow it will be your daughter," and "Yishai was right."
Many Israelis, including ministers, attribute the growing violence in the country to the illegal immigration of Africans.
"We are afraid to walk the streets," said Ayala Silwani, who has lived in Shapira for the past 30 years. "The elderly are forced to remain indoors, women are afraid to walk around alone – this is an impossible situation."
The protest organizers urged participants not to take the law into their own hands and refrain from carrying out acts of violence in the neighborhood.
"The infiltrators are taking over our neighborhood," another resident said. "Netanyahu must find an immediate solution. The prime minister must see to it that (the infiltrators) are provided with food, but first he must guarantee our security."
A number of Knesset members from the ruling Likud party were also on hand. MK Danny Danon, chairman of the Knesset lobby dealing with the problem of infiltrators, called on the government to deport the foreign migrants. "We should not be ashamed of the word 'expulsion'. We can send them back (to their home countries)," he said.
"I spoke with the president of Sudan, and he said to me 'no problem, send them back to us.'"
MK Miri Regev referred to the infiltrators as a "cancer" and attacked the human rights groups that are aiding the foreign migrants.
"The infiltrators are a cancer in our society. All the leftists who filed High Court appeals (against the deportation of African migrants) should be ashamed of themselves," she said.
"We will not let them thwart our attempt to protect ourselves, our children, our women and our work places. We will continue to protest every day until the last of the Sudanese infiltrators returns to his country."
Earlier Wednesday, Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the construction of a fence along the border with Egypt would not stop the influx of foreigners into Israel. "The fence has been breached in the past and it will be breached many more times in the future," he said during a Knesset session.
The minister said that if given the mandate, there will not be a single infiltrator left in Israel in one year's time. "I would change the law so that every infiltrator is put in jail. Then he can decide whether he wants to remain imprisoned or go back to his home country," he said.
The tensions between Israelis and foreign migrants peaked in late April when a Molotov cocktail was lobbed into Sudanese kindergarten in south Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv District Police Commander Aharon Aksol said Monday that the past few months have seen a surge in violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants, but added that the phenomenon should not be attributed only to the infiltrators who reside in the city's southern area, but to "Israeli society as a whole."
During a Knesset debate on the wave of violence, Aksol said the growing tension between the residents of south Tel Aviv and the infiltrators was dangerous. He claimed that something must be done to curb the violence "or else the situation may deteriorate."
"It is hard to know what Shalom Eisner -- an Israeli army officer -- was thinking when he brutalized a Danish bike protester several weeks ago"
Some garbage like this
link to youtube.com
www.youtube.com/embed/Z2MWNwfGNno
"Talking tough and bringing in the Israelis is not going to encourage Tehran to trust the U.S. "
I bet the Iranians see the Israelis as full of sh*t and incapable of backing up their rhetoric with actions.
Otherwise I imagine they have figured out where to hit Israel where it hurts most, post bombing.
Israel should not attempt this destruction of Iranian society. It is not going to end well.
I think the title should be Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity AFTER Zionism
The ideology has nothing to offer judaism and is, rather, dragging it to a very dark place.
This is very striking, from Richard Silverstein
link to richardsilverstein.com
"I regret to say that there was a time when such a heartfelt cry moved me to tears, made me proud in a depressing sort of way that there were still Israelis who felt this way, who had a conscience, even if they were a beleaguered minority. Now, I’m a bit more jaded. Dankner is, no doubt an important voice, perhaps even an Israeli bellwether. But there’s been too much “shooting and crying” among Israeli liberals. This may be more of the same."
Israel has gone beyond the point where it can be repaired internally and the idea that the wider Diaspora can save it is deluded.
A Mr Wolf type figure is required to restore order.
Israel you have 40 minutes to get the f*ck out of Dodge. Which if you do what I say when i say should be plenty
link to youtube.com
Giladg
"Normal, healthy thinking says hang on, you perpetrated acts of terror and war and people have died as a result, then a price needs to paid and those responsible need to be held accountable"
You are a nihilist.
The Germans blamed the defeat of WW1 on the Jews and normal, healthy German thinking said hang on, you perpetrated acts of terror and war and people have died as a result, then a price needs to paid and those responsible need to be held accountable.
and you know what happened.
Israel needs to get out of the victim system because soon there won't be a Jewish state the way things are going.
Israel is like a city district that is slowly degentrifying
The drug dealers will be in soon.
"I think Israel is the major Jewish issue of the day"
It has become bigger than a Jewish issue at this stage.
Ultimately the international community will have to take over.
Israel is a dysfunctional family which is destroying itself slowly.
I would add a touch of Cairo to it and say
l’shanah haba’ah birushalayim fil mish mish khaalis ya'ni
Next year in jerusalem BFMM..utterly
That is hilarious, tree.
I love the worldliness of bukra fi mishmish.
YESHA is like all of Judaism's dirty laundry in open view.
gosh, does she wear those knickers?
Next year in Jerusalem is a bit like Bukra fi mishmish .
Pigs will fly.
I think for a long time Jew meant decent.
Decent people believe in fairness and justice.
And now ?
link to nybooks.com
As Ali Abu Awwad, one of the leaders of the new generation of Palestinian nonviolent resisters, often says: “The Jews are not my enemy; their fear is my enemy. We must help them to stop being so afraid—their whole history has terrified them—but I refuse to be a victim of Jewish fear anymore.”
i thought this was pathetic
The new North American Reform siddur, “Mishkan Tefillah,” has a special service for Yom Ha’atzmaut, which uses the Israeli Declaration of Independence as a sacred text.”
dimadok
I think לשנה הבאה בירושלים הבנויה has to go back to the realm of the mind .
Next year in Jerusalem there will just be more racial tension, torture at the Russian compound and ethnic cleansing . Is this what 80 generations prayed for ?
Is this what all those mitzvot amounted to ? I refuse to believe it.
For me this video is why Israel is lost
Channel 2 interviewing Dr Abu el Aish after the IDF liquidated his family
link to youtube.com
Powerful stuff. It must have been a painful and lonely journey . It is far easier to turn the head and ignore what Israel has become. And that's the apathy that feeds the settlers.
"As a Jew I believe in the inherent dignity of every human being. "
As a non-Jew I believe Judaism has to get back to this or there is simply no point in wearing those kippot.
interestingly in this video
link to normanfinkelstein.com
the guy defending Israel (drunk or sober) doesn't debate the morality of the occupation.- He just says 90% of Jews approve. So there is already a massive problem when he frames the argument thus.
Israel Land Administration charged with race and gender discrimination
Pope "seen at confession"
Bear "may have defecated in forest"
People like Fred are emotional zombies. Zionism is about fear now and no other emotion .
Thanks
altogether now:
"Mavet la ‘aravim"
with the r in a German accent
and that is what became of the return to Zion for which the people had prayed for 2 millennia.
Shmuel
do you know anywhere one could see a list of all the Beitar chants and what they mean in English ?
From the fink link
link to 972mag.com
Meanwhile, there are some violent reactions on Facebook to the image of the enraged Border Police officer chasing the frightened Palestinian boy. Some of the comments are a bit funny, in a sad way – like the comment from Geffen Cnaani, a woman in her 20s who works for a medical care provider, who writes (my translation from the Hebrew):
Stinking leftists instead of saying thank you to the soldier who did e-x-a-c-t-l-y what he was supposed to do, you’re trying to change the story?! It’s simply a disgrace that willfully ignorant people live in our country… You should appreciate a soldier like that who acts bravely in the face of the cruelest enemy we have, may the names of all Arabs be wiped out!! And respect to the dedicated soldier..!
Yehuda Daniel, an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student, writes (with a few spelling mistakes in the holy tongue):
In my opinion at every event there should be a group of people who break cameras. If you see a camera, break it at some point so that the leftists will stop bringing expensive cameras – and then they’ll photograph more general shots (because of the lack of technology) – every camera costs tens of thousands of shekels – I doubt that journalists will be happy if someone breaks their camera every time. (Daniel’s idea received two thumbs up – LG).Asaf Cohen, a 27 year-old who is studying to be a car mechanic, writes:
They should’ve broken his legs so he couldn’t walk anymore, and then they should’ve broken the legs of the leftists with cameras.
Pointing a gun at a child . Is that tikkun olam?
He looks like all the Mileikowskys do!
Change we can believe in.
All they have is Beitar Jerusalem. It isn't much.
Zionism is already dead from the neck up
Ma sha allah
Wendell Berry
"And we should not neglect to notice that whereas the monocultural landscape is totalitarian in tendency, the landscape of harmony is democratic and free"
link to isle.oxfordjournals.org
Fred
After 1941-45 and what the Germans did it is clear there was never anyone in the sky who chose any people.
The face of the kid is pure Palestinian. They don't need a flag to say they belong in
Erez Israel. You can see it from the bone structure and the eyes that they are of the land.
Now what do Israelis look like ?
Sure Fred. Where was He between CE 70 and 1948 ?
Nice getaway by the kid.
"This is not only a day to show our sovereignty and rights on the whole of Jerusalem, but also on Hebron, and Nablus, and Jerico, and Jenin2
I believe the technical term is "pyrrhic victory"
Half of the people in Erez Israel are Palestinian, FFS. The flags are meaningless. Zionism is at its most fundamental a refusal to engage with reality. Well done to the boy for bringing reality back to the picture.
At one point the borg says Israel and the US have common enemies.
I never hear Norway talking about enemies.
"Israel is now a dirty word"
Delivered so coolly.
Rabbani is from al Shabaka and they are very impressive.
I think it's stretching credulity to believe the plutocrats engineered the collapse of Lehman Bros..
The financial system is too volatile .
Even Goldman nearly went to the wall
I just got a copy of "Juarez- a laboratory of the future"
It was written about 10 years ago and it goes into NAFTA and plutocrat capitalism- things were already bad then - but that was before the nihilism of the drug gangs .
Mexico seems to be on the way to a countrywide version of inner city Detroit
MAJO appear to be losing their mojo
link to normanfinkelstein.com
The video is very interesting. Norm from Coney Island really grinds the borg into the dust.