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All hail the peacemakers 19
Thu, 2015-01-29 09:43
#1
All hail the peacemakers 19
Thu, 2015-01-29 11:56
#2
Fri, 2015-01-30 23:12
#3
MANY TIMES people ask me: "Are you a Zionist?"
My stock answer is: "Depends on what you mean by Zionism."
This is quite sincere. The term Zionism can mean many different things. Like the term socialism, for example. Francois Hollande is a socialist. So was Joe Stalin. Any resemblance?
Fri, 2015-02-06 15:58
#4
Mon, 2015-02-09 00:27
#5
EVERYBODY KNOWS what the Israeli elections are about.
The choice is stark: on the one side, the dream of a Greater Israel "from the sea to the river", which would in practice be an apartheid state; on the other side, an end to the occupation and peace.
Some would add a social choice: on the one side, the existing neoliberal state with the widest inequality in the industrialized world; on the other side, a social-democratic state of social solidarity.
Mon, 2015-02-09 23:30
#6
Sun, 2015-02-15 11:25
#7
Sun, 2015-02-15 11:33
#8
WHO IS the ruler of Israel?
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course.
WRONG.
The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world's tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who is counting?
Besides his casinos in Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Macao and Singapore, he owns the US Republican party and, lately, both Houses of the US Congress.
He also owns Binyamin Netanyahu
Sat, 2015-02-21 13:10
#9
Sat, 2015-02-21 13:12
#10
Sat, 2015-02-21 13:17
#11
ANTI-SEMITISM is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late.
True? Untrue?
Nonsense.
PRACTICALLY ALL the alarming incidents which have taken place in Europe recently – especially in Paris and Copenhagen – in which Jews were killed or attacked – had nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
All these outrages were conducted by young Muslims, mostly of Arab descent. They were part of the ongoing war between Israelis and Arabs that has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. They are not descended from the pogrom in Kishinev and not related to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Sat, 2015-02-28 19:38
#12
WINSTON CHURCHILL famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Anyone involved with political life knows that that is British understatement.
Churchill also said that the best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with an average voter. How true.
I have witnessed 20 election campaigns for the Knesset. In five of them I was a candidate, in three of them I was elected.
As a child I also witnessed three election campaigns in the dying days of the Weimar republic, and one (the last more or less democratic one) after the Nazi ascent to power
Tue, 2015-03-03 00:40
#13
Tue, 2015-03-03 00:43
#14
Sat, 2015-03-07 11:25
#15
Sat, 2015-03-07 11:29
#16
SUDDENLY IT reminded me of something.
I was watching The Speech by Binyamin Netanyahu before the Congress of the United States. Row upon row of men in suits (and the occasional woman), jumping up and down, up and down, applauding wildly, shouting approval.
It was the shouting that did it. Where had I heard that before?
And then it came back to me. It was another parliament in the mid-1930s. The Leader was speaking. Rows upon rows of Reichstag members were listening raptly. Every few minutes they jumped up and shouted their approval.
Sun, 2015-03-08 19:37
#17
Mon, 2015-03-09 14:21
#18
Mon, 2015-03-09 22:42
#19
Mon, 2015-03-09 22:43
#20
Mon, 2015-03-09 23:33
#21
Tue, 2015-03-10 13:57
#22
Tue, 2015-03-10 16:19
#23
Tue, 2015-03-10 16:22
#24
Tue, 2015-03-10 16:25
#25
Wed, 2015-03-11 16:02
#26
Thu, 2015-03-12 12:03
#27
Thu, 2015-03-12 12:09
#28
Thu, 2015-03-12 12:11
#29
Thu, 2015-03-12 12:54
#30
Thu, 2015-03-12 15:55
#31
Fri, 2015-03-13 21:20
#32
ONCE A Soviet citizen went to vote. He was given a sealed envelope and told to put it in the ballot box.
"Could I possibly see for whom I am voting?" he asked timidly.
"Of course not!" the official answered indignantly, “in the Soviet Union, we respect the secrecy of the ballot!”
In Israel, elections are also secret. Therefore I shall not tell you for whom I shall vote. Certainly I shall not be so impertinent as to tell my readers how to vote. But I shall set out the reasoning that will guide me.
WE ARE voting for a new government, that will lead Israel for the next four years.
Sat, 2015-03-14 11:43
#33
Sat, 2015-03-14 14:10
#34
Sat, 2015-03-14 14:14
#35
Sat, 2015-03-14 18:14
#36
Sat, 2015-03-14 18:16
#37
Mon, 2015-03-16 11:31
#38
Tue, 2015-03-17 14:54
#39
Tue, 2015-03-17 15:51
#40
Tue, 2015-03-17 23:44
#41
Wed, 2015-03-18 11:13
#42
Wed, 2015-03-18 11:28
#43
Wed, 2015-03-18 11:33
#44
Thu, 2015-03-19 11:35
#45
Thu, 2015-03-19 18:19
#46
Fri, 2015-03-20 11:54
#47
THE MESSIAH HASN'T COME and Bibi hasn't gone.
That's the sad outcome.
Sad, but not the end of the world.
As the American saying goes: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
I would say: "Today is the first day of the battle for the next elections!"
The battle for the salvation of Israel must start right now.
SOME PEOPLE say that the best course now is a so-called National Unity Government.
Looks like a nice idea. Unity always sounds nice.
Fri, 2015-03-20 14:46
#48
Sat, 2015-03-28 13:29
#49
THE 2015 election was a giant step towards the self-destruction of Israel.
The decisive majority has voted for an apartheid state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in which democracy will slowly disappear.
The decision is not yet final. Israeli democracy has lost a battle. It has not yet lost the war.
If it does not draw the lessons, it will lose the war, too.
All the justifications and alibis of the Israeli Left are useless. It's the bottom line that counts.
The country is in existential danger. Not from the outside, but from the inside.
An Israel Salvation Front is needed now.
We have no other country.
Sun, 2015-03-29 18:16
#50
Sun, 2015-03-29 18:19
#51