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The Truth about Falash Mura
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Posted in: Boosting Jewish populations in Arab neighborhoods stokes tensions
08/30/09 08:48 PM
Why a Jew in Peki'in needs to be totting a gun on his shoulder is beyond me. Jews have lived together with their neighbors back in the early 1950s when I first visited Peki'in. It was and is a pacified area, and I know of no bad things happening in Peki'in on the basis of someone being Jewish. And in Akko, this has been true three times over. These Jews are settlers in the sense of those Jews in the West Bank who think they are recapitulating the Wild West. The only horses they can ride is the wannabee ideology of a merry-go-round horsey. I hope God knows what mischief these misplaced settlers will cause us. Jerry Blaz
Posted in: Op-Ed: New Israel Fund should not fund groups that oppose Jewish state
07/31/09 07:41 PM
Mada el-Carmel issued a statement with which I emphatically disagree. However, there is other work that this organization does that can make it meritorious. If all the institutions where papers are written are to be examined on the basis of one report, we would find all the institutions posul. The only answer to the claim against Mada el-Carmel is to prohibit fundraising for all academic and quasi-academic institutions. The Coalition of Women for Peace is a coalition. I'm certain other coalitions receive American-Jewish funds that have within them elements that some may believe to be "anti-Israel." And "Break the Silence" is trying to get answers to many of the questions raised by the action of the IDF in Gaza. The IDF has recently published a 160-page booklet on the subject, and this may help clear up the questions raised by Cast Lead. In fact, it may be a direct result of the work of "Break the Silence," making their efforts meritorious. During the Shamir government, we heard that it was a "shande and a Xirpa" to say something critical about a government of Israel, and I listened, and though I disagreed with it, I kept quiet. Then when the Rabin government came in the same sources were very critical, and added to the atmosphere that may have led to Rabin's assassination. So I have taken to heart, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." We should get full information.
Posted in: Best take so far on Blumen-journalism
06/09/09 11:56 PM
I really got the drift of the level of political awareness and cognizance of the group when Blumenthal asked the plump girl (with her large boobs apparently there as "wares for display") who Benjamin Netanyahu was and she couldn't answer. Imagine sitting in the midrohov of Jerusalem and not knowing who the head of the government of Israel is and spouting off about the head of government and state of the U.S. as if she did. This video did Israel no favor displaying such a drunken mob who were not excited by a sheikh but a bottle.
Posted in: How a settlement's 'natural growth' appears at ground level
06/02/09 08:20 PM
There is an irony involved in this. According to the Oslo agreement, there was a time-table that is, of course, long overdue. But IF this time-table had been followed and the subsequent agreements once reached with the PA had been culminated and the implementation of a two-state solution was in force, there is no doubt that the construction on Modiin Ilit would be perfectly fine, because there had been an agreement to cluster all the settlements, etc., close to the "green line," therefore close to the border of the State of Israel, This would have been accompanied by a transfer of Israel lands from other places such as the area around Halutza in the Western Negev, which would afford the Arab population in Gaza needed space. But because of the problematic political structure that permitted governments to fall too frequently and the resulting procrastination on resolving the issues between Israel and the Palestinians, building on Mod'in Ilit is a political problem now.
Posted in: The Israel-America clash
04/28/09 07:47 PM
First of all, there hasn't been a meeting between Netanyahu and Obama yet, and we don't know what separates Israel and the U.S. We do know what Israel has agreed to and what the Palestinian Authority has agreed to, and even a "unity government" which isn't going to happen tomorrow, will have to accept these agreements. It will mean that Hamas, as a part of the PA, will have to fight, not sponsor or encourage or condone terrorism. It means that its current dependence upon Iran will have to end. Otherwise, it will not happen, because it is against Israeli policy and U.S.law. And the Fateh knows on which side its bread is buttered.
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