Palestine & U.N. Recognition
One million people across the world have signed the petition for a Palestinian State. Avaaz will deliver this to key leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York throughout this week. Let’s keep ramping up the pressure and make sure our Heads of State support this legitimate bid for self determination.
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times published an opinion piece last week in which he argued that the Palestinians need to embrace unarmed resistance. I wrote a letter to the Times gently telling Mr. Friedman that the Palestinian have already begun to embrace unarmed resistance. The New York Times did not publish the letter.
As Tunisia has gone, Egypt may go soon, too
It’s nice to see dictatorships fall.
Let’s hope that secular, representative republics form in their place
I can’t take it anymore, …Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation, there’s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckes.
the suicide note of Moshe Yatom, former psychiatrist of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
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poll: Zionism is Fascism
After the flotilla incident, will Israelis speak up? by Dahlia Scheindlin | The Middle East Channel
A 2008 survey commissioned by the human rights group Gisha showed that they were at once realistic and intransigent. Seventy-nine percent of the 600 Jewish respondents, a near-consensus, agreed that the closure primarily harms civilians. Sixty percent worried that it would increase Islamic extremism, fully two-thirds (67%) said it hurt Israel’s image internationally. Nearly eight-in-ten (78%) said it would not bring down the Hamas. Despite acknowledging these failings, a broad majority of nearly two-thirds (63%) rejected easing the closure.Accordingly, in a survey by the Dahaf polling agency for the Knesset Channel taken just before the ships set sail, 65% of 425 Jewish Israelis said Israel should “prohibit protest inside Israel’s territory such as the aid flotilla for Gaza residents.” (Note the keyword: “inside.”)
Someone makes a good point about Avigdor Lieberman
Helen Thomas, the legendary reporter whose deteriorating mind can no longer reliably filter out her anti-Semitic brain-burps — and who is most recently God’s gift to Benjamin Netanyahu — is gone, after suggesting Jews in Israel should “go home” (to Poland and Germany, etc.).
Now, how about Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister who insists that he, as an ex-bar bouncer from Moldova who moved to Israel as an adult, has the right to expel Arab families who have been living there for 13 centuries unless they pledge an oath of loyalty to the taking of their homes and to being outsiders in their own country?
…that would be too honest, though.Helen, you know as well as I do that the Palestinians and Israelis have been at each others throats for longer than I can remember. You knew Carter — he was as close as any president got to ending that clusterfuck. Then some asshole took Sadat out. You’ve been here longer than any of us, so I’d think that you’d have some bright ideas on how to get those savages to set down the guns and sing “kumbayah” if anyone does.
No, don’t give me that it’s not the journalist’s role to yada-yada-yada rap. Shit has hit the fan and it’s time to roll up our sleeves.
