The area is just east of Tubbas down to the Lower Jordan Valley.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Wadi Al-Maliach - Hiking
To see more pics like this, go here:
The area is just east of Tubbas down to the Lower Jordan Valley.
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The area is just east of Tubbas down to the Lower Jordan Valley.
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Mitch Bard Has A Good Idea
In an opinion piece at Fox, Mitch Bard notes that
and that
and suggests:
That seems to be a very good idea.
As long as Hamas, like its counter in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, doesn't majke a grab in a period of political vacumm.
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It is ironic that Arabs are fighting for freedom across the region, but the Palestinians continue to tolerate a leadership that denies them freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the press and denies rights to women and gays.
and that
The Obama administration continues to support a Palestinian regime that is no less ruthless and undemocratic than those we are now opposing throughout the region.
and suggests:
It is time for the United States to demand that the Palestinians implement democratic reforms and put an end to the culture of incitement that leads to the horrific murder of Jewish children and their parents in their beds, attacks on public buses and rocket attacks on playgrounds and kindergartens. International tolerance of this behavior over the years has given Palestinians reason to believe terror is the way to achieve their goals.
...The president should be clear and unequivocal, something he has had trouble doing both with the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the turmoil in the rest of the region. He should declare that the obstacle to peace is a Palestinian leadership that is undemocratic and represses its people, that refuses to compromise or negotiate, that is unwilling to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish democratic state and that engages in incitement and terror that is perpetuating the conflict. Like the other despotic leaders in the region, they must either change or they must go.
That seems to be a very good idea.
As long as Hamas, like its counter in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, doesn't majke a grab in a period of political vacumm.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
You Can Pray
From Rabbi Rachamim Pauli
Forwarded by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East Analyst & Commentator
Please note not all names for prayers are the Halachic names but what is known.
Odelia Nechama bat Michal - suffered serious head injuries and is in intensive care. Her life is still in danger.
Natan Daniel ben Shulamit - a 17-year-old student who is in serious condition. He suffered massive internal injuries and has had a number of internal organs removed.
David Amoyal - David is the owner of the snack stand next to the bus stop. He told everyone to run away and then called the police, and was on the phone with them when the bomb exploded. He suffered injuries to his legs and feet and lower body. He is in moderate condition.
Sasson ben Shulamit - This is the second time Sasson has been injured in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem. He suffered lower body injuries and serious post-traumatic symptoms.
Ad Shapira - Ad is 18 years old and just about to complete high school. She suffered light orthopedic injuries and is in good condition in hospital.
Shilo ben Ofra - Shilo is 15 years old, and suffered burns and fractures to his legs and lower abdomen. He is sedated in intensive care.
Daniel ben Nurit - Daniel is 13 years old, and suffered lacerations and shrapnel injuries to his lower extremities, and is likely to be released from the hospital before Shabbat.
Elchanan ben Alona - Elchanan is 14 years old, and suffered serious injuries to his feet. One ankle and three of his toes were crushed. He has had one operation and will require more surgery. He will likely be in the hospital at least 2-3 weeks.
Netanel ben Shlomit - Netanel is 18 years old and works as a security guard at the bus station. He was injured in the abdomen had surgery. He is now recuperating in the hospital
Leah Bracha bat Shoshana Batya – is a 19-year-old seminary student. She suffered burns to her legs and arms as well as serious shock.
Please visit OneFamily’s website at http://www.onefamilyfund.org/ for more updates on the injured victims of this week’s attacks.
Forwarded by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East Analyst & Commentator
Please note not all names for prayers are the Halachic names but what is known.
Odelia Nechama bat Michal - suffered serious head injuries and is in intensive care. Her life is still in danger.
Natan Daniel ben Shulamit - a 17-year-old student who is in serious condition. He suffered massive internal injuries and has had a number of internal organs removed.
David Amoyal - David is the owner of the snack stand next to the bus stop. He told everyone to run away and then called the police, and was on the phone with them when the bomb exploded. He suffered injuries to his legs and feet and lower body. He is in moderate condition.
Sasson ben Shulamit - This is the second time Sasson has been injured in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem. He suffered lower body injuries and serious post-traumatic symptoms.
Ad Shapira - Ad is 18 years old and just about to complete high school. She suffered light orthopedic injuries and is in good condition in hospital.
Shilo ben Ofra - Shilo is 15 years old, and suffered burns and fractures to his legs and lower abdomen. He is sedated in intensive care.
Daniel ben Nurit - Daniel is 13 years old, and suffered lacerations and shrapnel injuries to his lower extremities, and is likely to be released from the hospital before Shabbat.
Elchanan ben Alona - Elchanan is 14 years old, and suffered serious injuries to his feet. One ankle and three of his toes were crushed. He has had one operation and will require more surgery. He will likely be in the hospital at least 2-3 weeks.
Netanel ben Shlomit - Netanel is 18 years old and works as a security guard at the bus station. He was injured in the abdomen had surgery. He is now recuperating in the hospital
Leah Bracha bat Shoshana Batya – is a 19-year-old seminary student. She suffered burns to her legs and arms as well as serious shock.
Please visit OneFamily’s website at http://www.onefamilyfund.org/ for more updates on the injured victims of this week’s attacks.
Liz Taylor - Jewish Til the End
Elizabeth Taylor seems to have been Jewish until the end.
Not only did Rabbi Jerry Cutler officiate the funeral service but, in a typical Jewish characteristic trait:
What a gal.
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Not only did Rabbi Jerry Cutler officiate the funeral service but, in a typical Jewish characteristic trait:
"Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest this afternoon at a small private funeral service attended by family and close friends in The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn-Glendale. The service was scheduled to begin at 2 PM but at Miss Taylor's request started late. Miss Taylor had left instructions that it was to begin at least 15 minutes later than publicly scheduled, with the announcement, 'She even wanted to be late for her own funeral,'" a statement from the late actress' rep to Access Hollywood read.
What a gal.
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Listen In on April 5
April 5.
Temple Awareness Day.
Radio Nachlaot.
I'll be on at 4PM local Israel time.
Tune in.
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Temple Awareness Day.
Radio Nachlaot.
WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US APRIL 5TH from 2pm - 8pm Jerusalem Time
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Please mark your calendars and plan to join us LIVE on Tuesday, April 5th (Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5771) from 2pm - 8pm Jerusalem time for this very special program!
The 2nd Annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day Program will be brought to you (and the world!) in live streaming video courtesy of BE THERE ISRAEL Live Streaming Video Services!
On April 5th 2011 - which is Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5771 - we'll be broadcasting a live 6-hour show beginning at 2pm Jerusalem time until 8pm Jerusalem time - celebrating the SECOND ANNUAL TEMPLE MOUNT AWARENESS DAY featuring special guests Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven.
The Holy Temple - Har HaBayet, the Temple Mount - is the focus of the show, and how appropriate to focus on the things of the Holy Temple on Rosh Chodesh Nissan as it was on that day that Moses erected the Tabernacle, the day the Divine Service began, the day that 10 crowns descended upon Israel, the day that G-d's Presence rested on Earth, the day that Israel's offerings were accepted by Heaven!
Rabbi Chaim Richman is the Director of the Temple Institute's International Department and the world's leading English-language expert on the Holy Temple. He will be sharing special Torah teachings all about the Temple's building, service, history, dimensions, inner meanings, past and future!
I'll be on at 4PM local Israel time.
Tune in.
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How Does It Appear To You? Welcome to Palispeak
An AP report on the work of 'militants':-
Palispeak (*).
A media and academia problem.
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(*) My new term for the langauge and the terms the media has adopted to avoid all pretense of possibly accusing Arabs of the former territory of the British Mandate of Palestine of being and doing what the actually are and do.
Please note: Pali-speak is something else:
Really:
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A bombing on Wednesday killed a British tourist in Jerusalem, and earlier this month five members of an Israeli family were slain while they slept in a West Bank settlement. Both attacks appeared to be the work of Palestinian militants.
Palispeak (*).
A media and academia problem.
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(*) My new term for the langauge and the terms the media has adopted to avoid all pretense of possibly accusing Arabs of the former territory of the British Mandate of Palestine of being and doing what the actually are and do.
Please note: Pali-speak is something else:
Really:
The word Pali means "the Text", though it has now come to be the name of a language. Magadhi was the original name for Pali. It was the language current in the land of Magadha during the time of the Buddha. The elements of Pali can be mastered in a few months, Pali opens one's ears to the Dhamma and the music of the Buddha's speech. This little book on Pali is intended to be an elementary guide for beginners.
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Even If It's A British National, It's Still The Same
The BBC just can't bring itself to release itself from the Orwellian formula.
Here's its report on the murder of Mary Jean Gardner:
There's hope, though. The Foreign Minister uses language as it should be used.
P.S.
My new term: Palispeak.
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Here's its report on the murder of Mary Jean Gardner:
24 March 2011 Last updated at 15:54 GMT
A British woman who died when a bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday has been named by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Mary Jean Gardner, a 59-year-old British national, was studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
...UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told MPs the attack had been a "shocking and despicable act of terrorism".
Ms Gardner, an evangelical Christian and bible translator, leaves behind her parents who live in Orkney, according to the Press Association...she worked for Wycliffe Bible Translators...in Togo since 1989 where she was part of a team translating the New Testament into a language called Ife..."She was in Israel for six months studying Hebrew in order to go back to Togo to translate the Old Testament.
There's hope, though. The Foreign Minister uses language as it should be used.
P.S.
My new term: Palispeak.
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Fighting Lawfare Legally
Here is the letter:
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LITIGATING PALESTINE: CAN COURTS SECURE PALESTINIAN RIGHTS?
AGENDA
Friday March 25
3:00 Welcome by Dean Frank Wu, UC Hastings College of the Law
Introduction by Professor George Bisharat, UC Hastings College of the Law
3:15 – Panel I – Palestinian claimants and defendants before U.S. Courts
Professor Gwynne Skinner, Willamette University Law School, “The Nonjusticiability of the Middle East:
U.S. Human Rights Litigation and the Misuse of the Political Question Doctrine”
Noura Erakat, Adjunct Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University,
“Palestinians in US Federal Courts: Constructing a ‘Terrorist’ Prototype”
Linda Moreno, Esq., “Political Prosecutions in America: Prosecuting Other People's 'Terrorists’”
5:15-5:30 – Break
5:30-6:15 – Keynote Address
Professor Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh Law School, “Success Without Victory: The Politics of
Palestinian Litigation”
Saturday March 26
8:45 – Panel II – Courts in Israel/Palestine
Jamil Dakwar, Esq., ACLU – New York, “Hollow Justice: Litigating Palestinian Equality In Israeli Courts”
Nimer Sultany, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School, "The Master's House and the Master's Tools:
Occupation and the High Court"
Diana Buttu, Esq., "Fitting a Square Peg Into a Round Hole: The Use of Palestinian Courts to Secure
Palestinian Rights"
10:45-11:00 – Break
11:00-1:00 – Panel III – Other National Courts and the International System
Emily Schaeffer, Esq., Law Offices of Michael Sfard, "Litigating Bil'in in Canada: Victories and Obstacles
in the Face of an ‘Inconvenient’ Forum"
Daniel Machover, Esq., Hickman and Rose, “Delegitimising the Rule of Law – The Israeli Campaign
Against Universal Jurisdiction”
Victor Kattan, Lecturer in Law, SOAS, "Litigating ‘Palestine’ before International Courts: The
Prospects of Success and Perils of Failure"
Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Discussant
1:30-2:30 On Campus Lunch
2:45- Panel IV – Beyond Litigation
Yasmine Gado, Esq., "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: London Session on Corporate Complicity in
Israel's Violations of International Law"
Matthew Ross, Esq. and Elizabeth Jackson, “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Defending the BDS
Movement from Legal Challenges”
Samera Esmeir, Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, “International Strategies of Rule and Liberation
Struggles: Between Revolution and War”
4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks by Professor George Bisharat, UC Hastings College of the Law
Dear Chancellor Wu:
On March 25 and March 26, 2011, University of California Hastings College of the Law is officially co-sponsoring and funding a conference entitled "Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure Palestinian Rights." The conference is listed on Hastings' official website, and you, in fact, are opening the conference by welcoming the participants.
It is, of course, completely within the purview of Hastings College of the Law to examine lawfare as it pertains to the Israeli-Arab conflict. However, the authorized description of this event makes it clear that conference participants will be advocating for one side of the conflict, the Arab side, and seeking to exploit Western courts in order to agitate against Jews and the Jewish state through anti-Israel lawfare.(*) This is not only a misuse of the name and resources of the University of California for political and partisan purposes, it is also ethically and morally reprehensible.
Moreover, we believe that this event fits within the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism issued by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), endorsed by the U.S. State Department in its Reports on Global Anti-Semitism, and used as well by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in its examination of campus anti-Semitism. As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has observed, "Anti-Semitic bigotry is no less morally deplorable when camouflaged as anti-Israelism or anti-Zionism."
The EUMC Working Definition identifies the following practices as anti-Semitic and distinguishes them from acceptable forms of criticism of a sovereign nation's policies:
- Denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination
- Applying double standards by requiring of Israel behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
The Trans-Arab Research Institute, which is the sponsoring organization, has stated that part of its mission is the elimination of the Jewish state. Several of its board members are affiliated with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and serve as some of its leaders. In addition, more than half of the speakers at the event are also affiliated with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns, and at least one talk will be devoted to finding legal strategies for defending these campaigns.
This leaves no doubt that the conference was organized for the purpose of harming the Jewish State. Your law school has provided funding and is therefore complicit in this effort.
The heads of sixty Jewish organizations -- including the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Bnai Brith, Hillel, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox movements, both Democratic and Republican supporters, as well as organizations from Mexico, Australia, Belgium and the United Kingdom -- have recently signed a statement identifying Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaigns against Israel as "part of a greater effort to undermine the Jewish people's right to self-determination in their homeland, Israel." They condemn such campaigns and assert that its "proponents have provoked deep divisions among students and have created an atmosphere of intolerance and hatred." We are copying this letter to the heads of many of those organizations.
Finally, we believe that this event may be in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Right Act. As you probably know, there has been a recent change in the interpretation of Title VI by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. Now, under Federal law, anti-Semitic animus on campus is comparable to other forms of bias and must be aggressively combated by the university administration. The Office of Civil Rights has already opened two investigations of possible Title VI violations at the University of California. One of the complaints, submitted by one of us, argues that university funded/sponsored events that are virulently anti-Israel have created a hostile environment for Jewish students at the University of California Santa Cruz, in violation of federal law.
For the reasons we have outlined above, we urge you to publicly announce that you are withdrawing all Hastings College of the Law funding and sponsorship of this event, as well as your own participation in it.
Sincerely,
Leila Beckwith
Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz
CC: Hastings College of the Law Board of Directors
Governor Jerry Brown
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
State Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez
Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Fiona Ma
Heads of the following organizations, who are signatory to a statement condemning Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns against Israel:
Aish HaTorah
Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)
The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA)
B'nai B'rith International
The Board of Deputies of British Jews
Boycott Watch
Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations
The Fellowship for Campus Safety and Integrity
Hadassah
Hagshama – The Department for Diaspora Activities of the World Zionist
Organization
Hasbara Fellowships
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC)
The Israel Project (TIP)
Conrad Giles, Rabbi Steve Gutow
Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)
The Jewish Federations of North America
Jewish National Fund (JNF)
Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI)
Masa Israel Journey
MERCAZ USA
National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ)
National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC)
Orthodox Union (OU)
Rabbinical Assembly
Republican Jewish Committee (RJC)
Simon Weisenthal Center
StandWithUs
Union for Reform Judaism (URJ)
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and campus division KOACH
Women's League for Conservative Judaism
World Jewish Congress, North America
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
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(*)
LITIGATING PALESTINE: CAN COURTS SECURE PALESTINIAN RIGHTS?
AGENDA
Friday March 25
3:00 Welcome by Dean Frank Wu, UC Hastings College of the Law
Introduction by Professor George Bisharat, UC Hastings College of the Law
3:15 – Panel I – Palestinian claimants and defendants before U.S. Courts
Professor Gwynne Skinner, Willamette University Law School, “The Nonjusticiability of the Middle East:
U.S. Human Rights Litigation and the Misuse of the Political Question Doctrine”
Noura Erakat, Adjunct Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University,
“Palestinians in US Federal Courts: Constructing a ‘Terrorist’ Prototype”
Linda Moreno, Esq., “Political Prosecutions in America: Prosecuting Other People's 'Terrorists’”
5:15-5:30 – Break
5:30-6:15 – Keynote Address
Professor Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh Law School, “Success Without Victory: The Politics of
Palestinian Litigation”
Saturday March 26
8:45 – Panel II – Courts in Israel/Palestine
Jamil Dakwar, Esq., ACLU – New York, “Hollow Justice: Litigating Palestinian Equality In Israeli Courts”
Nimer Sultany, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School, "The Master's House and the Master's Tools:
Occupation and the High Court"
Diana Buttu, Esq., "Fitting a Square Peg Into a Round Hole: The Use of Palestinian Courts to Secure
Palestinian Rights"
10:45-11:00 – Break
11:00-1:00 – Panel III – Other National Courts and the International System
Emily Schaeffer, Esq., Law Offices of Michael Sfard, "Litigating Bil'in in Canada: Victories and Obstacles
in the Face of an ‘Inconvenient’ Forum"
Daniel Machover, Esq., Hickman and Rose, “Delegitimising the Rule of Law – The Israeli Campaign
Against Universal Jurisdiction”
Victor Kattan, Lecturer in Law, SOAS, "Litigating ‘Palestine’ before International Courts: The
Prospects of Success and Perils of Failure"
Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Discussant
1:30-2:30 On Campus Lunch
2:45- Panel IV – Beyond Litigation
Yasmine Gado, Esq., "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: London Session on Corporate Complicity in
Israel's Violations of International Law"
Matthew Ross, Esq. and Elizabeth Jackson, “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Defending the BDS
Movement from Legal Challenges”
Samera Esmeir, Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, “International Strategies of Rule and Liberation
Struggles: Between Revolution and War”
4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks by Professor George Bisharat, UC Hastings College of the Law
How Do You Define Colonization?
Over at Mondoweiss (always a dangerous journey), I found this:
I felt an urge reading that to ask:
What do you think?
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I say all the time that American Jews have supported the settlement project...When Israel disappears as a Jewish state-- an inevitability of the unending colonization project-- it will be these fools who the American Jewish community will then turn on.
I felt an urge reading that to ask:
Just to be clear, when you write: "When Israel disappears as a Jewish state-- an inevitability of the unending colonization project-- it will be these fools who the American Jewish community will then turn on. ", how do you define "colonization"? Is it a liberal, progressive definition of, say, beyond the 1967 borders? Or do you accept the Arab demand for a return to the 1949 borders? Or is one to accept the Arab demand that all of Zionism is colonialism? What is the beginning of that "unending project"?
What do you think?
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Fight the Battle of Jericho
The Jericho group announces:
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Tuesday 1st Nissan (5th April) in the early morning
We greet the month of redemption on the banks of the Jordan, in Gilgal, where Israel crossed the Jordan into the Land, in days gone-by…
Then we proceed to the new month prayer in the ancient Shalom Al Israel synagogue in Jericho.
A bus leaves Jerusalem at 6:30 AM. A lift can be arranged with Yoni (tel 052-3527313) from Petah Tikva, via highway 5 and Tapuah Junction.
Cost 25 sh for youth / students, otherwise, 50 sh. You must register in advance: Erna tel 052-8699300, or Yoni tel 052-3527313.
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Psssst. Wanna See The Face of a Terrorist?
Here is a poster for the new Miral film which perverts history:
If you want to see real terrorists, females, some pretty, go here.
By the way, the mistress of the orphan home in the film, you'd never know, was the sister of the Grand Mufti. You know, the guy who collaborated with the Nazis and actually managed to have the immigration of thousands of young Jews to Mandate Palestine halted. Nice brother, there, Hind.
P.S.
What about Leila Khaled?
UPDATE
EOZ acceded to my suggestion:
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If you want to see real terrorists, females, some pretty, go here.
By the way, the mistress of the orphan home in the film, you'd never know, was the sister of the Grand Mufti. You know, the guy who collaborated with the Nazis and actually managed to have the immigration of thousands of young Jews to Mandate Palestine halted. Nice brother, there, Hind.
P.S.
What about Leila Khaled?
UPDATE
EOZ acceded to my suggestion:
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Peace Now Goes To Court
I found this map over at the Peace Now site where they inform of an appeal to the High Court of Justice to halt construction at Shiloh. The various areas are marked and I've added an arrow pointing to my house:
ג-1 are 25 apartments.
ג-2 are 12 apartments.
א are completed 10 units.
ב are 18 almost completed units.
As we say, "the ____ bark and the caravan proceeds".
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ג-1 are 25 apartments.
ג-2 are 12 apartments.
א are completed 10 units.
ב are 18 almost completed units.
As we say, "the ____ bark and the caravan proceeds".
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It's An Issue of Zoning
Reported:-
Something I caught which wasn't in the release by Fox:
Palin is asked about the fact that the Israelis have asked our help (implying that if we get help then we are beholden to the US to the extent that we shouldn't do what we want or need to do or should be allowed to do) and Palin answers: "let them build", at around 11:15. "Pesident Obama didn't want to see that allowance of building, and I would have taken the opposite approach".
She adds "Israel facing concession after concession, threat after threat".
I hope there's a transcript around.
You can see the clip here (k/t= Cheryl Lewin).
The Israel theme begins at approximately 9:40.
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Sarah Palin on Wednesday night hammered President Obama for not standing strongly enough behind Israel, conceding too much to the Palestinians, and interfering in a local “zoning issue” – settlement building on the West Bank.
“I think there are many in Israel who would feel even more comfortable knowing that there is an even greater commitment from those who presently occupy the White House that they are there on Israel's side, and that our most valuable ally in that region can count on us,” Palin told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren in an interview in Naples, Florida.
...Palin struck a pro-Israel tone saying, if she were president, she would take an opposite approach to Obama and stay out of Israel’s way regarding settlements in the West Bank, and take a harder line with Palistineans.
“President Obama was inappropriate to intervene in a zoning issue in Israel,” she said, referring to settlement building on the West Bank. "Let Israel decide their zoning issues themselves.”
Palin said the current administration concedes too much to Palestinians. “Why is it in that the past, too often, the U.S. government has told Israel that they’re the ones, the Jewish community, that they need to back up, they need to back off or there will never be peace,” she said. “Why aren’t we putting our foot down with the other side and telling the Palestinians, If you’re serious about peace, quit the shellacking and the shelling. Quit the bombing of innocent Israelis.”’”
Something I caught which wasn't in the release by Fox:
Palin is asked about the fact that the Israelis have asked our help (implying that if we get help then we are beholden to the US to the extent that we shouldn't do what we want or need to do or should be allowed to do) and Palin answers: "let them build", at around 11:15. "Pesident Obama didn't want to see that allowance of building, and I would have taken the opposite approach".
She adds "Israel facing concession after concession, threat after threat".
I hope there's a transcript around.
You can see the clip here (k/t= Cheryl Lewin).
The Israel theme begins at approximately 9:40.
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