ANYONE PROPOSING the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these.
There is no effective therapy for any of these defects. I wouldn't even try.
A fool would not understand the overwhelming evidence for the conclusion. For a cynic, advocacy of the death penalty is a proven votecatcher. A mentally disturbed person derives pleasure from the very thought of an execution. I am not addressing any of these, but ordinary citizens of Israel.
NOBODY DESCRIBED the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher.
A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously. Between the two a bitter enmity arises. Who is to blame?
Of course, no parable can reflect reality exactly. The man who jumped out of the burning house did not land on this particular passer-by by chance. The passer-by became an invalid for life. But on the whole, this parable is better than any other I know.
US President Donald Trump believed he would be able to secure a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israel in less than a year and was surprised by his predecessors' failure to resolve the issue, a Palestinian official involved in talks with the White House has told Turkey's Anadolu news agency.
"At the beginning, the American president was telling us that he was surprised how previous American presidents were unable to solve the conflict and said he would be able to find an agreement within nine months to a year maximum," the unnamed official was quoted as saying, adding that "We told him this is what we want".
Trump has met three times with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since taking office in January 2017, and has made frequent references to an "ultimate deal" which he has said will bring peace to the region.
The US president also formed a team to sketch out a peace plan led by Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, and including Jason Greenblatt, Trump's special representative for international negotiations; David Friedman, the US ambassador in Israel; and Dina Powell, Trump's deputy national security adviser.
Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of "assaulting" an Israeli soldier and an officer. A day earlier she had confronted Israeli soldiers who had entered her family's backyard. The incident happened shortly after a soldier shot her 14-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet, and fired tear-gas canisters directly at their home, breaking windows.
Her mother and cousin were arrested later as well. All three remain in detention.
There has been a curious lack of support for Ahed from Western feminist groups, human rights advocates and state officials who otherwise present themselves as the purveyors of human rights and champions of girls' empowerment.
"American neo-Nazi demagogue Richard Spencer has again praised Israel as a model for the Aryan homeland he wants to create in the United States. 'The most important and perhaps most revolutionary ethno-state, and it's one I turn to for guidance..."
I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed.
Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many centuries in the Islamic world. Western Jews are those who lived in Christian Europe.
The words are, of course, misnomers. Russian Jews are "Westerners", Moroccan Jews are "Easterners". A look at the map shows that Russia is far to the East of Morocco. It would be more accurate to call them "Northerners" and "Southerners". Too late, now.
NO, I don't want to write about the affair of Ya'ir Netanyahu. I refuse adamantly. No force in the world will compel me to do so.
Yet here I am, writing about Ya'ir, damn it. Can't resist.
And perhaps it is really more than a matter of gossip. Perhaps it is something that we cannot ignore.
IT IS all about a conversation between three young man in a car, some two years ago.
One of the young men was Ya'ir, the eldest of the two sons of the Prime Minister.
Ya'ir is named after the leader of the "Stern Gang", whose real name was Abraham Stern. The original Ya'ir split from the Irgun underground in 1940, when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany. While the Irgun stopped its actions against the British government for the time being, Stern demanded the very opposite: exploit the moment in order to get the British out of Palestine. He was shot by the British police.
American activist killed by Israeli army, family spied on by company with ties to US gov’t
https://youtu.be/vvxDyELTTAE
Peaceful Palestinian Protester With No Legs Killed By IDF
https://youtu.be/ZPnnG-0jIVc
oops!
Jeff Halper: Die Zweistaatenlösung ist längst passé(It's in English, I swear!)
https://youtu.be/NIcdI8SuF8s
Ilan Pappe's keynote address at Palestine Book Awards 2017
https://youtu.be/a6ESYP5M4iY
Ilan Pappe on Israel-Palestine (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/Us6ZuIb_ZZA
Trump threatens to cut aid over UN Jerusalem vote
https://youtu.be/FKiuTRS5R-4
UN defies threats to reject Trump's Jerusalem move
https://youtu.be/nE8Fc5iJvoc
Why Jerusalem can make or break peace between Israelis and Palestinians
https://youtu.be/Eyh1_XGHAnQ
16-year-old Palestinian girl arrested by Israeli forces
https://youtu.be/JSMiOpg-fXo
What will the Jerusalem vote mean for US foreign policy?
https://youtu.be/A4ughDN6J9Q
France's Macron meets Palestine's Abbas
https://youtu.be/GWsAK3TCels
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Gaza protests
https://youtu.be/2oM27cgZgww
ANYONE PROPOSING the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these.
There is no effective therapy for any of these defects. I wouldn't even try.
A fool would not understand the overwhelming evidence for the conclusion. For a cynic, advocacy of the death penalty is a proven votecatcher. A mentally disturbed person derives pleasure from the very thought of an execution. I am not addressing any of these, but ordinary citizens of Israel.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1513957629/
Vatican disputes US decision on Jerusalem
https://youtu.be/YBiOP6T2T5s
Christmas in Gaza: Christian community is getting smaller
https://youtu.be/3GShk5RuQ8U
Jerusalem: Competing claims over a contested city
https://youtu.be/QH3BWlXzHV4
Evangelical beliefs still influence US politics
https://youtu.be/5fVpuJq8j3o
Christian groups in UK concerned about Jerusalem's fate
https://youtu.be/PbaJ2hmjVkE
The Holy Land - Al Jazeera's news special
https://youtu.be/a5nol4uYMd0
Exiled Palestinians in Gaza long for home
https://youtu.be/kvSxBZDWad4
Monument of the past: Jordan's relationship with Jerusalem
https://youtu.be/ac2fZ82-6So
Salman Abu Sitta: Jerusalem is Palestinian longer than London is English
https://youtu.be/l9c2mDdkoZc
Life under occupation: Hanukkah in Hebron’s Old City, 12 December 2017
https://youtu.be/IG-_jItjBdc
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1514561792/
NOBODY DESCRIBED the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher.
A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously. Between the two a bitter enmity arises. Who is to blame?
Of course, no parable can reflect reality exactly. The man who jumped out of the burning house did not land on this particular passer-by by chance. The passer-by became an invalid for life. But on the whole, this parable is better than any other I know.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trumps-team-do-not-know-arab-israeli-c...
US President Donald Trump believed he would be able to secure a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israel in less than a year and was surprised by his predecessors' failure to resolve the issue, a Palestinian official involved in talks with the White House has told Turkey's Anadolu news agency.
"At the beginning, the American president was telling us that he was surprised how previous American presidents were unable to solve the conflict and said he would be able to find an agreement within nine months to a year maximum," the unnamed official was quoted as saying, adding that "We told him this is what we want".
Trump has met three times with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since taking office in January 2017, and has made frequent references to an "ultimate deal" which he has said will bring peace to the region.
The US president also formed a team to sketch out a peace plan led by Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, and including Jason Greenblatt, Trump's special representative for international negotiations; David Friedman, the US ambassador in Israel; and Dina Powell, Trump's deputy national security adviser.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/west-praising-malala-ignoring-a...
Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of "assaulting" an Israeli soldier and an officer. A day earlier she had confronted Israeli soldiers who had entered her family's backyard. The incident happened shortly after a soldier shot her 14-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet, and fired tear-gas canisters directly at their home, breaking windows.
Her mother and cousin were arrested later as well. All three remain in detention.
There has been a curious lack of support for Ahed from Western feminist groups, human rights advocates and state officials who otherwise present themselves as the purveyors of human rights and champions of girls' empowerment.
Capital shift: US proposes 12,000-dweller village as capital of Palestine
https://youtu.be/MlCwwoLLcSk
Jake Tapper Implies Anti-Semitism To Blame For UN Denouncing Israel
https://youtu.be/0czuPVn3rFQ
And if Ahed Tamimi Were Your Daughter?
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.832065
Analysis: Likud calls to annex parts of West Bank
https://youtu.be/HPPDewsaA7Y
Is a two state solution still possible? | Inside Story
https://youtu.be/IrAHrkwVnlw
Knesset passes bill to hinder East Jerusalem withdrawal
https://youtu.be/YERA7p5C-TY
Gaza cartoon: The story of life under a blockade
https://youtu.be/QfoxT6Gr8hM
Lorde Called A Bigot
https://youtu.be/SZZWY3bhNuA
Is Facebook silencing Palestinians at government’s request?
https://youtu.be/OqjCniffUuk
I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed.
Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many centuries in the Islamic world. Western Jews are those who lived in Christian Europe.
The words are, of course, misnomers. Russian Jews are "Westerners", Moroccan Jews are "Easterners". A look at the map shows that Russia is far to the East of Morocco. It would be more accurate to call them "Northerners" and "Southerners". Too late, now.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1515161565/
Egypt denies pressuring TV hosts over US' Jerusalem move
https://youtu.be/0DVp6JA9EEo
Will Trump cut all aid to Palestine and Pakistan? | Inside Story
https://youtu.be/_0BjgiZ5NbU
Inside Story - Does Egypt support Donald Trump's Jerusalem move?
https://youtu.be/C_96lfQVpNo
Palestinians mark Orthodox Christmas amid protests over land deals
https://youtu.be/7I3GU0H06WY
Empire Files: Abby Martin Meets Ahed Tamimi—Message From A Freedom Fighter
https://youtu.be/yV1HwG1_phs
Why is Israel jailing Palestinian minors? - The Stream
https://youtu.be/_zPjCEPjZWE
I'm speaking with Israeli Jew Miko Peled and Palestinian Baha Hilo.
https://youtu.be/6zb_0J4aOc8
NO, I don't want to write about the affair of Ya'ir Netanyahu. I refuse adamantly. No force in the world will compel me to do so.
Yet here I am, writing about Ya'ir, damn it. Can't resist.
And perhaps it is really more than a matter of gossip. Perhaps it is something that we cannot ignore.
IT IS all about a conversation between three young man in a car, some two years ago.
One of the young men was Ya'ir, the eldest of the two sons of the Prime Minister.
Ya'ir is named after the leader of the "Stern Gang", whose real name was Abraham Stern. The original Ya'ir split from the Irgun underground in 1940, when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany. While the Irgun stopped its actions against the British government for the time being, Stern demanded the very opposite: exploit the moment in order to get the British out of Palestine. He was shot by the British police.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1515761103/
Do #BlackLivesMatter in Israel?
https://youtu.be/PDvM3axEAcQ
Gaza's weavers: Sales slowing for handmade carpets
https://youtu.be/wIgAW71j-k4
oops!
Muslim guardians of Jerusalem's holy sites
https://youtu.be/y3kBt7hO_wg
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