I don'y see much divide but plenty of genocide by the Israeli zionist against the Palestinian people. If by division you mean the alignment of Israeli Zionism with the Arab Saudi and Egyptian distrust of the Persian Iran then that division within the Muslin world already exists. Taking advatage of these divisions, whether within the Palestinian camp or other divisions may be a better way of expressing the point.
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is not known as a classical scholar, but even so he has adopted the Roman maxim Divide et Impera, divide and rule.
The main (and perhaps only) goal of his policy is to extend the rule of Israel, as the "Nation-State of the Jewish People", over all of Eretz Israel, the historical land of Palestine. This means ruling all of the West Bank and covering it with Jewish settlements, while denying any civil rights to its 2.5 million plus Arab inhabitants.
East Jerusalem, with its 300,000 Arab inhabitants, has already been formally annexed to Israel, without granting them Israeli citizenship or the right to take part in Knesset elections.
All hail the peacemakers 19
Thu, 2015-08-20 12:00
#152
Sun, 2015-08-23 11:40
#153
ONE HAS to choose: Binyamin Netanyahu is either incredibly shrewd or incredibly foolish.
Take his Iran policy. Actually, there is little to choose from. Netanyahu has no other policy to speak off.
According to him, Iran constitutes a mortal danger to Israel. If it obtains a nuclear weapon, God forbid, it will use it to annihilate Israel. It must be stopped by any means, preferably by American armed intervention.
Mon, 2015-08-24 18:50
#154
Wed, 2015-08-26 13:02
#155
Sun, 2015-08-30 16:53
#156
I MUST admit that Moshe “”Bogie" Ya'alon did not top the list of my favorite politicians. The former army Chief of Staff and present Minister of Defense looked to me like a mere lackey of Netanyahu and a one-dimensional militarist. Many people call him a "bock", a non-complimentary German-Yiddish term for billy goat.
Yuval Steinitz, the present minister for I-don't-know-what, was also not at the top of the list of politicians I admire. He, too, seemed to me one of the servants of Netanyahu, without a recognizable personality of his own.
Even the former army Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, was not one of my ultimate heroes. When he was appointed, some malicious people claimed that he owed his advancement to his Oriental origin, since the Minister of Defense, at the time, was also of Oriental origin. Ashkenazi's father was from Bulgaria, his mother from Syria. The Minister of Defense at the time, Shaul Mofaz, was from Iran. Ashkenazi was in charge of one of the serial wars against Gaza. He was and remains popular.
Sat, 2015-09-05 12:03
#157
Sat, 2015-09-05 12:06
#158
Sat, 2015-09-05 12:16
#159
THE MISDEEDS of Napoleon's occupation army in Spain were not photographed. Photography had not yet been invented. The valiant fighters against the occupation had to rely on Francisco Goya for the immortal painting of the resistance.
The partisans and underground fighters against the German occupation of their countries in World War II had no time to take pictures. Even the heroic uprising of the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw was not filmed by the participants. The Germans themselves filmed their atrocities, and, being Germans, they catalogued and filed them in an orderly way.
In the meantime, photography has become common commonplace. The Israeli occupation in the Palestinian occupied territories is being filmed all the time. Everybody now has cellular phones that take pictures. Also, Israeli peace organizations have distributed cameras to many Arab inhabitants.
Sat, 2015-09-05 21:17
#160
Sat, 2015-09-05 21:21
#161
Sun, 2015-09-06 17:11
#162
Mon, 2015-09-07 16:45
#163
Tue, 2015-09-08 13:43
#164
Wed, 2015-09-09 14:47
#165
Sat, 2015-09-12 17:20
#166
I AM AFRAID.
I am not ashamed to admit it. I am afraid.
I am afraid of the Islamic State movement, alias ISIS, alias Daesh.
It is the only real danger that threatens Israel, that threatens the world, that threatens me.
Those who treat it today with equanimity, with indifference, will come to regret it.
IN THE year I was born – 1923 – a ridiculous little demagogue with a funny mustache, Adolf Hitler, staged an attempted putsch in Munich. It was put down by a handful of policemen and soon forgotten.
Wed, 2015-09-16 16:12
#167
Wed, 2015-09-16 16:17
#168
Wed, 2015-09-16 16:21
#169
Sat, 2015-09-19 20:28
#170
Mon, 2015-09-21 20:49
#171
IN THE early 1950s, I published a story by my friend, Miko Almaz. At the time, the new State of Israel was in dire straits, its leaders did not know how to pay for next month's food.
Someone remembered that in a remote part of Africa there was a small community of Jews, who owned all the diamond mines and were immensely rich. The government chose their most effective money-raiser and sent him there.
The man realized that the fate of the state was resting on his shoulders. He assembled the local Jews and gave them The Speech. About the pioneers who left everything behind to go to Palestine and make the desert bloom, about their back-breaking labor, about their lofty socialist ideals.
Sat, 2015-09-26 14:09
#172
Sat, 2015-09-26 14:12
#173
Sat, 2015-09-26 14:20
#174
"WE HAVE nothing to fear but fear itself," said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was wrong.
Fear is a necessary condition for human survival. Most animals in nature possess it. It helps them to respond to dangers and evade or fight them. Human beings survive because they are fearful.
Fear is both individual and collective. Since its earliest days, the human race has lived in collectives. This is both a necessary and a desired condition. Early humans lived in tribes. The tribe defended their territory against all “strangers" – neighboring tribes – in order to safeguard their food supply and security. Fear was one of the uniting factors.
Belonging to one's tribe (which after many evolutions became a modern nation) is also a profound psychological need. It, too, is connected with fear – fear of other tribes, fear of other nations.
Sat, 2015-09-26 14:38
#175
Mon, 2015-09-28 11:40
#176
Mon, 2015-09-28 13:24
#177
Sat, 2015-10-03 12:26
#178
Sat, 2015-10-03 13:08
#179
Sat, 2015-10-03 14:50
#180
FORTY-FIVE YEARS ago Gamal Abd-al-Nasser died at the early age of 52. It is not an event of the past. It continues to have a huge influence on the present, and probably will on the future.
My meetings with him go back to 1948. I used to joke that "we were very close to each other, but we were never properly introduced!"
It happened like this: in July we were desperately trying to stop the advance of the Egyptian army towards Tel Aviv. The cornerstone of our front was a village called Negba. One evening we were told that an Egyptian unit had cut the only road to this kibbutz and dug in across it.
Sun, 2015-10-04 16:22
#181
Wed, 2015-10-07 17:58
#182
Wed, 2015-10-07 18:04
#183
Fri, 2015-10-09 01:07
#184
Fri, 2015-10-09 01:10
#185
Mon, 2015-10-12 01:32
#186
I FIRST met Mahmoud Abbas in Tunis at the beginning of 1983.
I knew that he was responsible for the Israel desk in the PLO leadership. Said Hamami and Issam Sartawi, the PLO delegates with whom I had been in permanent contact since 1974, told me that he was in charge. But he was not present at my first meeting with Yasser Arafat in Beirut during the siege.
I came to Tunis with General Matti Peled and Yaakov Arnon, in an official delegation of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, which we had founded in 1975. Before meeting with Arafat himself, we were asked to meet with Abu Mazen (as Abbas is called) and discuss our ideas, so as to present the leader with an agreed, detailed proposal. That was also the procedure in all the many meetings that followed.
Mon, 2015-10-12 01:37
#187
Mon, 2015-10-12 01:38
#188
Mon, 2015-10-12 18:06
#189
Wed, 2015-10-14 13:18
#190
Thu, 2015-10-15 14:56
#191
Thu, 2015-10-15 14:59
#192
Thu, 2015-10-15 15:03
#193
Thu, 2015-10-15 19:01
#194
Fri, 2015-10-16 19:25
#195
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Fri, 2015-10-16 19:31
#196
Fri, 2015-10-16 19:57
#197
Fri, 2015-10-16 20:50
#198
Fri, 2015-10-16 21:00
#199
Sat, 2015-10-17 18:07
#200
Sat, 2015-10-17 18:54
#201