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seafoid
I wonder where the struggle between universal human rights and - “A Jew is by the nature of his creation a purer being. Similarly with the holiness of the land: The soil of Israel is essentially holier, the stones are holier because the land was destined by God to serve as the place of the Children of Israel” is headed "Either we are all sacred or none of us is" Paul Fourhorns Tenoso
Peres is such a lying slimeball. I'd honestly prefer Bennett- at least he's honest.
He is what passes for a statesman in Spartastan.
Here is Peres on Dutch television, explaining why so many Palestinian children were killed during Cast Lead (takes him just one minute):
link to youtube.com
link to nybooks.com
“Shimon Peres, the wheeler-dealer who served as David Ben-Gurion’s right hand on arms procurement before stepping into the political limelight himself, takes a bigger beating than P.W. Botha for his “customary sanctimony.” In private, he could laud South Africa’s white leaders, telling them that they shared “a common hatred of injustice.” In public, he called apartheid “the ultimate abomination” and “the cruelest inhumanity.” Having ascended to the post of prime minister, he assured the president of Cameroon that “a Jew who accepts apartheid ceases to be a Jew. A Jew and racism do not go together.”
link to guardian.co.uk
"Israeli President Peres saying “Basically, our purpose is peace. Their purpose is to destroy Israel”
link to haaretz.com
"Peres opened his greeting in Farsi, wishing Iranians wherever they may be a happy Nowruz. "I wish the Iranian people a real, true holiday, in which they may taste freedom, dignity and human honor," he said. "It is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values, not of bombs and missiles.
"At times I ask myself how such a civilized nation, with such a rich history, has allowed such a radical, blind and hate-filled group to dishonor its historic legacy. How does a people permit a regime to sow fear, rob people of their freedom and horrify the younger generation, which is looking for a way out of dictatorial Iran?" Peres asked."
I can only imagine what it is to be a Palestinian political prisoner in an Israeli jail. The petty rules, the long hours of boredom, the food. The warders are probably mostly abusive and speak only Hebrew to them.
And then on Fridays recently they watch this TV program and at some stage they can read on screen "Mohammed Assaf, Palestine" . There must be a surge of pride through the room to see their half strangled country up there with Oman, Algeria, Kuwait etc. and they must think about their jailors differently at that moment. Because you can have your own opinions but you can't have your own facts. And Palestine is a country.
And then when he sings it must be the best. Because he is a star. And the judges know that. And instead of abuse in Hebrew there is praise in Arabic.
As long as there are Palestinians in Palestine everything is possible.
Shukran jazeelan ya Enass.
It is such a good piece. And it says so much about the hatred that drives Zionism.
" we single out the wonderful jury characterized by professionalism and fairness"
Zionism can never be fair.
This is another great performance by young Mr Assaf
link to youtube.com
That is a class piece of writing. Mabrouk to Hussam.
"how every progressive act helps in highlighting the civilized face of the Arab nation. "
Quite. The barbarians are the prison guards and the torturers.
"the full bloom of the mountains of Carmel and Galilee"
Never mind the hasbara. Palestine is still there.
When a well organized but numerically small group exerts such control over policy it requires continuous leverage over the public . It isn't enough to buy the legislature. If the public drift away there is no fear and the whole thing falls apart eventually.
The bots should study the case of the News of the World.
While israeli businessmen tell Netanyahu the current policy is very bad for the Israeli economy. BDS is winning.
I miss "Get your war on"
link to mnftiu.cc
If that happens they won't have an economy. Expecting the goys to suck it all up on the Shoah credit card is deluded.
I think the nukes are oversold. They don't protect against rating agency downgrades, for example .
And Israel desperately needs people to love it. The nukes are also useless in that regard.
Netanyahu killed Oslo. He convinced Israel he had the answers. He richly deserves the Golem he created,
They can be quite sensitive to slurs, behind the sunglasses
link to motnews.blogspot.ch
"Timmermans told the Washington Post that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni pleaded with Arab representatives at the summit to stop "treating her like a leper," and questioned why they refused to shake her hand."
As Clinton once said, its the economy, stupid
And Bennett is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
link to haaretz.com
"Some of the country’s top businessmen met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month to express concern that the stalled peace process with the Palestinians would ultimately harm and even endanger the Israeli economy.
The businessmen told Netanyahu they are worried by the signals they are getting from the international business community.
“We come from the field, and we’re feeling the pressure,” one said. “If we don’t make progress toward a two-state solution, there will be negative developments for the Israeli economy. We’re already noticing initial signs of this. The future of the Israeli economy will be in danger.”
One businessman who attended the meeting told Haaretz that the lack of progress toward a two-state solution could send Israel down a slippery slope toward a binational state that would be either not Jewish or not democratic.
“The world will not accept this,” he said. “Foreign investments will not come to such a state. No one will buy goods from such a state.”"
Suck on that, Zionists.
I came across this the other day
link to pacbi.org
"Prof. Haim Bresheeth, of the British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP): He emphasized the need for a profound analysis not only of Zionist Israel's strengths, but also of the failures of Israel's regime, as a system that can cause massive destruction but is unable to provide solutions to Jews, to the Palestinian people, or to the people in the region."
WTF
link to haaretz.com
"Netanyahu also said that even if calling price tag activists part of a terror organization was correct from a domestic standpoint, it would be a diplomatic mistake that would damage Israel’s international standing, increase its delegitimization and encourage international groups to compare price tag attacks to rocket fire or Hamas suicide attacks. "
At one point she says "we are not focused on consequences at the moment".
The system works until the day it collapses.
" There is no change in our policy. " Sah wa nuss.
"But other than Edward Snowden, few ask why the untold thousands of people employed in the intelligence industry throw their lot in with these kinds enterprise so willingly. "
link to informationclearinghouse.info
"When Dante enters the “city of woes” in the Inferno he hears the cries of “those whose lives earned neither honor nor bad fame,” those rejected by Heaven and Hell, those who dedicated their lives solely to the pursuit of happiness. These are all the “good” people, the ones who never made a fuss, who filled their lives with vain and empty pursuits, harmless perhaps, to amuse themselves, who never took a stand for anything, never risked anything, who went along."
Of the 2 candidates for US president last November, neither was a moderate.
Job announcement
Due to an unexpected election result a vacancy has arisen for the role of Hitler in our Weltanschauung.
The ideal candidate will be Muslim and have a beard and look very shifty. Holocaust deniers will be given extra points. Those mentioning the instability of the Israeli system are particularly welcome.
The job brings a range of benefits including 24/7 publicity on the hasbara network and a special eternal damnation from the Sephardic and Ashkenazi chief rabbinates.
Sanctions mean Iran has more oil today than it would have had otherwise had it been able to sell it.
Israeli intelligence is a total joke.
They were sure a fundi would win. They back al Qaeda in Syria. And they think YESHA is forever.
"This attitude may be understandable at a gut level, but is really self-defeating if we aspire to be a humane, compassionate and modern society "
I wouldn't bother. You'll just be called self hating . And a humane society wouldn't have the IDF running the show.
Israel is more like a medieval theocracy crossed with Sparta.
Livni is quoted in the Palestine papers. "I do not believe in law, especially international law" . A great choice for justice minister.
It is so corrupt. Nothing to do with the American people. Just money.
And one day it will all fall apart.
It will be like the transition from this
link to youtube.com
to this
link to youtube.com
They are not going to get the kids.
How did Arab Spring morph into Isr/Saudi/West+ Sunni vs Russia/Iran/Hezb + Shia
Greenwald in the Guardian says one of the main results of Obama's election has been the Dem buy in to the security state set up by the GOP post 911.
link to guardian.co.uk
link to youtube.com!
This is from 2011 but still very much on the money
link to truthdig.com
"Those who chase the glittering rainbows of the consumer society, who buy into the perverted ideology of consumer culture, become, as Dante knew, moral cowards. They are indoctrinated by our corporate systems of information and remain passive as our legislative, executive and judicial branches of government—tools of the corporate state—strip us of the capacity to resist. Democrat or Republican. Liberal or conservative. It makes no difference. Barack Obama serves corporate interests as assiduously as did George W. Bush. And to place our faith in any party or established institution as a mechanism for reform is to be entranced by the celluloid shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave."
The Nazis were evil and Zionism is pure goodness. That must be it.
"American exceptionalism" in practice gives Americans the right to override any international law they want.
The notion of an Israeli judge waving through war crimes is absurd. No doubt he honors Yom HaShoah.
What is constant through all of this is it is always the same people who get shafted, raped and murdered - Poor Polish Jews, Working class Yugoslavs and poor Palestinians.
War is a curse. It wasn't right to send the patients of Apeldoorn Mental hospital to Auschwitz. It wasn't right to "solve" Europe's Jewish problem by shafting the Palestinians.
The refugees have suffered enough .
Apartheid was characterised by the separation of people based on their racial status in order to determine economic entitlements.
And that is what Israel does in the West Bank. It's a very elaborate economic caste system.
The settlers are not negotiating pawns. They are jews who live lives in the West Bank. You can't leave them there for 40 years and then send in the IDF. They know that. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters. Israel set the compensation bar real high for the Gaza evacuees and there are 800000 in the west bank. Plus israel is broke.
"No. People do not accept your apartheid analogy, and most find it offensive"
Why? I'm sure white South Africans who brought up Sun city were also offended.
what is it? Waiting for negotiations?
It's gone way beyond the Jewish community's capacity to fix.
Many of the settlers are armed and most Israeli ultra Orthodox are essentially not educated.
and they are?
Did Israel become something to avoid mentioning over a long period or were there specific events that drove the change? How do thinking US Jews feel about Netanyahu and his lieutenants?
Do jews agree on the borders of the 2 states, habibi?
The bots require intellectual obedience. The bots have money. The universities need money but they educate people to think .
It's fascinating.
Abir is of course right. But Israel is shooting itself in the foot
Here's Ari Shavit writing in 2004
link to haaretz.com
By Ari Shavit 22 April 2004
"By the time this article goes to print, there may have been another terror attack. By the time it reaches the homes of the readers, Hamas could have carried out a sensational act of revenge. And in spite of this, in April 2004, we can already say out loud what we have been observing since the beginning of the year: There is a reasonable chance that after 1,300 days of war, a new strategic reality is beginning to take shape around us - a reality of an Israeli victory.
We must be cautious; the outcome has yet to be determined; peace and quiet are still far off; Palestinian terror has not been eradicated; it will continue to stalk Israel for a long time. Moreover, Palestinian society has yet to undergo the revolution in awareness that is the only thing that will make it possible to put an end to the conflict. However, after three and a half years of a cruel existential struggle, we can now state that the attempt by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to destroy the Jewish homeland by force has failed. "
And here is Ari Shavit writing today
link to haaretz.com
"Few people paid attention to the news that during the first quarter of 2013, there were 865 housing starts in the settlements. That was a 176 percent increase over the parallel quarter last year and a 355 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2012. Although settlers are only four out of every 100 Israelis, of every 100 housing starts this year, 8.5 were in the settlements. While in sovereign Israel the scope of new construction is slowing, new construction in Judea and Samaria is now proceeding at the highest pace in seven years. The trend is clear: Within a short time the number of settlers will increase dramatically, as will their ability to block any attempt to divide the land. If it continues this way, the Netanyahu-Lapid-Bennett government will put an end to the two-state solution, the Jewish democratic entity, and the Zionist dream."
In the immortal words of Musashi Miyamoto
"There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. "
link to en.wikiquote.org
"and that Falk is guilty of propagating an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory:"
What the lobby is doing is really dangerous. Because it walks and it talks like the Protocols. And there is no 2 SS figleaf to cover it up.
That seems to have been in 1941
By 1942 the dehumanisation was well underway
link to holocaust-lestweforget.com
Libra
You can't run a genocide without collaborators.
Of all the countries in Western Europe the Netherlands seems to have lost the highest percentage of its Jews to the Shoah.
"Your country has a neo-Nazi problem. Why are you still there? You people are the worst."
Did you ever read about the Shoah in Holland? I think the Germans get all the flak but the Dutch were dreadful as well.
Apeldoorn Jewish Mental Hospital- all the patients were sent to Auschwitz and gassed. 50 staff who went with them to care for them on the journey were also murdered.
link to holocaustresearchproject.org
I think the spirit of the people who killed the nurses lives on in the IDF.
link to magnumphotos.com
“We remember Roman occupation.”
link to irishtimes.com
“I don’t know of any time in history where a culture came in and completely wiped out another,” says Pinhasi. “You don’t see total wipeouts, unless there is reason for a population to become extinct, like massive climate change"
They are more likely to remember Roman holidays.
Tikkun olam and human rights together with ALL of Israel.
Abusing the Palestinians because that is the only way they can get their rights. Give them a right good Tikkun Olam and hopefully they'll all leave.
The first video was pulled by someone quite senior at Hasbara Central , I bet, because it was embarrassing and was exposed here and elsewhere but lower down the food chain someone thinks it's great to get the word out.. hasbara is not the discipline it used to be
Zionism reminds me of that line from the movie Field of Dreams :
"If you build it he will come"
link to youtube.com
So they built it on stolen land and nobody wants to go any more.
The kids are the American remnants of the believers.
Bradley Burston would class the kids as 200+ pointers
link to haaretz.com
Something like 1800 approved out of 1800. There is no oversight.
There is no court oversight. And it is a PR disaster for American tech capitalism.
Settling the West Bank is not reversible.
Israel can't change its policy without a civil war.
Elite media presumably is code for lossmaking. It sounds like a classic antisemitic term to go with 'cosmopolitan'. The bots can turn everything around. They know that if they lose control of the narrative in the US then Israel is toast. Maybe they should be let have as much leeway with the new antisemitism - the use of the term to buttress human rights abuses in Palestine is a total fraud and the more people see it, the better.
And some schmuckbot accuses Yale of antisemitism when attention is
drawn to what Israel with the blessing of official Judaism is doing in Gaza. Like any of the systematic abuse is Jewish.
When did fundamentalism become such a force in modern Judaism? Is it all linked to the growth of the Orthodox population or is there something else behind it ?
"Activities of terrorists are a threat to individual citizens, but the risk is miniscule compared to drunk drivers, smoking, drug abuse, type II diabetes, air pollution, handguns, street crime, mass killers, iatrogenic illness, … etc. "
so true.
Staying in a hospital is more dangerous than terrorism. Americans are more likely to be killed by a member of the NRA than by a terrorist. The pollution produced by the Koch Bros every year kills more Yanks than terrorism does. The Kochs and their friends run DC ..
Good post, Phil. Manning is a great American. Imagine if Hagel or Power had his courage. This NSA stuff is very bad news for the US tech industry as well. The FT is not impressed.
Finkelstein reminds me of Amira Hass. Both Jews from very politically conscious European backgrounds, parents survived the Shoah, didn't indoctrinate them, gave them a burning awareness of injustice.
Deeply intellectual, driven to record facts and share them, impervious to hasbara, shunned by their own people, the subject of waves and waves of hatred both online and in real life.
Now around 60. Both recorded as saying they feel they have achieved nothing in their careers. Couldn't be more wrong.
Magnificent people. They deserve our support.
"In the preface to his book Image and Reality, German Edition, Norm said that he, ‘rejoiced in the death of occupiers, including Americans’"
Back that up. That sounds like more BS.
They'll be even more relevant in the future when the great Jewish schism happens between Erez Amrika and Erez Israel and people are wondering why.
I found the music from the "Never again for anyone" video
link to vimeo.com
finally.
The wonderful Lisa Gerrard singing "now we are free" from the Gladiator movie
This one is for Norman.
link to youtube.com
He's an academic FFS. He conducts research. If you want.to understand Lebanon and the IDF war machine you talk to the Hezb . Fink has no respect for hasbara. That is why the Dersh took him out. But revenge will be the laughter of Palestinian children living in their homeland in freedom.
link to haaretz.com
(Member of Knesset Adi) Kol, who has helped advance bills in the fields of children's rights, violence against children, health and education: "I am scared. I am scared that we will continue living like this. And that fear scares me."
Fink is right. Always has been.