Then read this:
Channel 10's weekly Friday evening newscast aired audio of the call, which confirmed earlier reports on social media that Palestinian paramedics did not tend to the victims of the shooting near the West Bank settlement of Otniel.In other words, when the 16 years old son of the rabbi who died (with his other, older, son) in the shooting, tried to stop a passing Palestinian ambulance, the ambulance simply drove away.
Update to this post: the so called "Wesley Brown" is a fake account, for the nefarious purposes quite easy to comprehend. Whatever the goal, this "Wesley Brown" and/or whoever is behind the creation of this account is a miserable piece of shit. So the initial diagnosis stands.
I sincerely hoped that no one will try to score political points and dance on the graves (actually on the bodies) of the victims. But here comes one Wesley Brown, "Loving Husband and Father, Labour Party Activist, The New Politics. Special Adviser to RT. Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP". (Emphasis mine).
The Paris attacks had nothing to do with Islam. The Zionists & Israel should take full responsibility for this deadly massacre
— Wesley Brown (@WesleyBrownLab) November 14, 2015
I haven't accused Israel of involvement. Still, Bibi is upset about the European settlement boycott. So who knows? https://t.co/qkoUXhzcm1
— Mary Hughes-Thompson (@Mariapalestina) November 14, 2015
The lady is a co-founder of the Free Gaza movement.
This is not the time to score political points, only to grieve and to send our deepest condolences to the victims of this barbaric attack, to their relatives, loved ones and friends.
First of all, I have to thank Jeremiah (Jerry) Haber aka prof Charles H. Manekin, due to whose blog The Magnes Zionist* I learned (albeit very little, but still) about a fascinating person, Judah Leon Magnes, a prominent Reform rabbi, a leader in the pacifist movement and a one-stater (or a supporter of a binational Jewish-Arab state in Palestine, if you will).
I have to explain why I am dedicating this post to a person I don't know. I stumbled on a comment by Mr Haber (since he prefers this name, I shall stick to it for now) on a Facebook post by a Facebook friend:
Israeli incitement to violence and terror a.k.a. the occupation, oppression, extrajudicial killings, theft of land, burning of olive trees, lack of justice system, etc., etc. -- that's SO much more effective than posts of facebook and Palestinian textbooks. But you know the Israelis -- they can't believe that the Palestinians have any cause to hate them except incitement and anti-Semitism. That's because they have the galus mentality that Jewish actions are not efficacious, Zionism didn't return the Jew to history; it just gave guns to folks in the ghetto and made the ghetto bigger.Since there was a slight dissonance (ahem) between the friend's general attitude to the issue and this comment (which is rather copied from an Electronic Intifada page), I have decided to dig around that comment and this commenter a bit. Thus I came upon Mr Haber and, after learning that he is a professor of philosophy in two respected institutions, one of which is Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I have dug a bit deeper, hoping to learn something new. Some pearl of wisdom that will teach me about a new way to get out of this deathly embrace we and our Palestinian cousins are locked in for so many years. Even if my beliefs are contrary to what I might find in the learned philosopher's writings, I thought, it would be at least possible to ascertain some of these beliefs, arguing (even if in absentia) with a man of such caliber.
Zionism — Jewish nationalism — was a noble cause until the Political Zionists, in great haste, and with the best of intentions, founded a state in 1948 that was neither substantively Jewish nor democratic.A person familiar with he textbook definition of Zionism might be confused. As I am, thus here comes this definition:
Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews (Hebrew: Eretz Yisraʾel, “the Land of Israel”).But let's continue the quest for pearls. Pearl of sectarian (in this case religious orthodox) thought like this:
Israel is not Jewish in any serious sense of the term because the three forms of Judaism that have developed there — secular Judaism, haredi Judaism, and religious zionism — are either devoid of Jewish content (secular Judaism), bigoted parochial, and isolationist (haredi Judaism), racist and ultranationist (religious zionism), or a combination of the above.So secular Judaism is devoid of Jewish context, while still being called "Judaism"? Hm... a bit hard to figure out, although it fits the normally condescending attitude of an orthodox Jew toward all of us secular shlemazls, for some orthodox folks being worse than Satan.
Zionism teaches us that the Palestinians have much more to fear from the Zionists than vice-versa. Only one side has ever actually wiped the other’s country off the map – and it wasn’t the Palestinian side.Where exactly on the map was that "other's country", if I may inquire? And where is that map, for that matter? Mighty strange.
I simply don’t see how any American who believes in democracy can accept Israel as essentially democratic. Even Latvia is better in this regard.Latvia? Normally people that share Mr Haber's set of beliefs use South Africa at the times of the apartheid, Nazi Germany in a pinch (or at the end of their anti-Zionist diatribe). But Latvia? What does Mr Haber have against this poor fledgling member of the EU? Unless he confuses Latvia with, say, Zimbabwe?
The organizers push back against the BDS group’s demand to the artist to clarify whether he supports the three goals of the BDS movement. Instead he is asked whether he supports a Palestinian state...I guess that if the idea of requesting a political pledge from an artist before letting him to the microphone is reasonable, then the McCarthyist practice of demanding a political pledge from a scientist, a writer, a poet etc should be declared reasonable and acceptable too. In a way, Mr Haber confirms this:
You cannot take a political stand and then say that your music is above politics.But, being a master of dichotomy, he adds:
That is why I said that the local BDS group's position was reasonable, but one could disagree with it.In this brilliant example of dichotomy, Mr Haber seems to be in a curious agreement with Mr McCarthy - or the infamous "loyalty oath" as proposed by Mr Lieberman. Go figure... especially since he allows one to disagree with it.
First, the facts. The 2005 Palestinian BDS call makes absolutely no mention of one state or two. It is not a call for a political “solution.” It is a rights-based call with three clear demands of Israel:Right, only the right of return - otherwise no problems, ladies and gentlemen.Oh, and that mention of "Arab lands" - Mr Haber will do himself a favor by checking this definition.
(1) Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall
(2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
(3) Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
Following the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Magnes ceased advocating binationalism, and accepted the existence of the state of Israel, telling one of his sons "do you think that in my heart I am not glad too that there is a state? I just did not think it was to be."Q.E.D.
It is early days, of course, and the report might be wrong. In any case, this is rather good news. The bounder with a penchant for cutting people's throats could do with a Hellfire up his arse.
As for the usual report that he "had been quiet and 'reasonably hard-working'" - yeah, I hope he will be quiet now, busy as he might be with all these virgins.
As usual. Only:
Shocking security camera footage from today's terror attack in the Jerusalem light rail in which 12 and 13 year old Palestinians viciously stab the security guard. These children have been taught hate from infancy and today they try to kill Israelis. THIS is why incitement matters. #StopIncitementFull story here: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/WATCH-Video-emerges-of-2-minors-attacking-guard-on-Jerusalem-light-rail-with-knives-432617Credit: The Jerusalem Post / JPost.com
Posted by StandWithUs on Tuesday, November 10, 2015
As told here. Time to remind you:
Two huge British paper machines were purchased in 1968 for Syassky pulp and paper mill (Leningrad region) for production of toilet paper. A ceremonial start of production occurred on November 3, 1969. At first the new product encountered zero demand - a simple citizen of the USSR didn't know what do with these rolls of paper and didn't buy it. But quite shortly, after an advertising campaign organized through newsreels in theaters (shown before the main movie) and voluntary-compulsory distribution among workers in large factories, toilet paper has become a scarce commodity.This is the factual historical treatment. The wider social aspects of this event were interpreted by a Russian blogger:
Emergence of the toilet paper in the Soviet Union affected the durability of the Soviet state's foundations most directly. Going to the toilet and settling there for a long time, a citizen of the most reading country in the world picked up a Soviet newspaper hanging there and inevitably ingested from it a few ideologically correct statements about the advantages of the socialist system over the capitalist one. And this wasn't happening at Party meetings - but during a very special state of the citizen's mind.As this wise Russian guy says:
Along with the lead from the newspaper ink, all the newsprint wisdom of Marxism-Leninism and the leading and guiding force of Soviet society - the Communist Party - were rubbed into the arse of the Soviet citizen.
And with the advent of the toilet paper, the said arses became too tender, which led to the collapse of their hitherto unswerving ideological orientation ...
So when you hear that we "shut the USSR out", you can safely take it literally!
It might yet happen that I, in my senior waning years will start respecting a dictator. Well, no, hardly - but this speech is another confirmation of my belief that one must listen carefully to what everyone says, no matter where that everyone is on the political map.
Dick Stanley mentioned the latest in the waste disposal, as it is going to be practiced in the sunny state of California soon.
Well, now, all those jokes about seeing girls’ underpants will now be passe’.According to my latest and very imprecise count, there are now somewhere between 15 and 86 different genders, if we go by the New Age Politically Correct progressive field guidance. In a situation like this it might be simpler to destroy all public toilets altogether. Just provide some open safe zone somewhere behind the building, where everyone will be able to do whatever everyone wants, without triggering and abusing one's privileges.
Here how the today's stabbing event (one of several) was presented:
צפו: המחבלת שולפת סכין מתיקה ומנסה לדקור את המאבטח >> http://www.kikar.co.il/184941.htmlWATCH: Terrorist tries to stab a security guard in Baiter Eliteצילום: מוקד חירום עיריית ביתר עלית
Posted by חדשות כיכר השבת on Sunday, November 8, 2015
The tragic story of the Russian Airbus 321 crash in Sinai continues to meander in the fog of speculations, although just yesterday more indications of an act of terror were voiced by US and UK - off the record, of course.
One aspect of the crash, however, escalated quickly, although not quite visible to the Western media. Here is a relatively short article by Medusa - a new Russian Internet publication, supposedly free of the Russian government's pressure. For now, at least.
Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, says the latest caricature by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is blasphemous. The new art contains a caricature of the recent Russian plane crash in Egypt, which claimed the lives of 224 people.And here is one of the two* offending cartoons:
"This is truly unacceptable to us. I don't presume to judge the moral standards of the French, but for us in our country this is blasphemy," Peskov said. "This has nothing to do with democracy or to self-expression. This is blasphemy."
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The notorious weekly Charlie Hebdo, which belongs to the satirical publications, published in its latest issue a caricature of the crash of the Russian aircraft in Egypt. It's mean! They have no heart, no conscience!One Pavel Astachov, a man responsible for children's right in the Russian government went much further:
Charlie Hebdo's cartoons spread the stink of sulfur and netherworld for a long time, and their "creativity" is more like public necrophilia. These guys were able to dance even on the blood and bones of their own colleagues and employees, earning a considerable fee. It is unlikely that our condemnation will register with people who voluntarily turned themselves into obscene immoral perverts, who deliberately laugh and sneer where normal people mourn. We can only pray for the salvation of their souls, if they still own such...And a call to action came from the leader of the party "Rodina", Alexey Zhuravlev:
I believe that such an ugly gesture from a Russophobic marginalized French publication - is not merely an act of misanthropic brutality, but a direct incitement to terrorism and murder. French authorities should close the rotten rag, if they don't want to be complicit in such crimes. And in Russia, Charlie Hebdo is to be entered in the list of extremist materials and officially banned.To cap this (very small) selection of indignant VIPs, here comes Putin's favorite strongman, the Chechen current leader, Ramzan Kadyrov (yes, read this Wiki entry on the man - it is only a tip of the iceberg, but still illustrious):
It is impossible to come up with more disgusting mockery of the pain of the relatives and the loved ones, the pain of the whole nation. I'm curious to know how this has been seen in Paris. They might say that it is the freedom of speech, democracy, allude to the fact that it is a personal opinion of a journalist? I would also like to see and hear the reaction of hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen and hundreds of world politicians, who had previously expressed support for the magazine after the publication [sic!] of cartoons offensive to Muslims. My personal opinion is - those who drew and published the cartoons are not human. I can't call them animals, as this would offend innocent animals. This creatures are filthy and asexual [?] beings who do not have the right to exist among people.Now it is time to switch to a more temperate discussion, initiated on Twitter by Yury Barmin, analyst on Russia / Russia's strategy in the Middle East, who resides in Abu Dhabi, according to this. Mr Barmin is not flaming on this Twitter thread, asking all kinds of questions instead. Here is one of his conclusions:
That's an interesting poll we had. However, a lot of people commented that it's both, and I have to agree. pic.twitter.com/VAQaqS0LBc
— Yury Barmin (@yurybarmin) November 7, 2015
Mr.Makin: why nobody made a caricature of them [Charlie Hebdo] shot?And immediately:
Vik West: there ya go
