Talking About Israel: NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Talking About Israel By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: March 18, 2007
The lack of serious political debate about our policy toward Israelis and Palestinians harms America, Middle East peace prospects and Israel itself.
Democrats are railing at just about everything President Bush does, with one prominent exception: Mr. Bush’s crushing embrace of Israel.
There is no serious political debate among either Democrats or Republicans about our policy toward Israelis and Palestinians. And that silence harms America, Middle East peace prospects and Israel itself.
Within Israel, you hear vitriolic debates in politics and the news media about the use of force and the occupation of Palestinian territories. Yet no major American candidate is willing today to be half as critical of hard-line Israeli government policies as, say, Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper.
Three years ago, Israel’s minister of justice spoke publicly of photos of an elderly Palestinian woman beside the ruins of her home, after it had been destroyed by the Israeli army. He said that they reminded him of his own grandmother, who had been dispossessed by the Nazis. Can you imagine an American cabinet secretary ever saying such a thing?
The Jewish owned NYT has been finally forced to address this issue. The paper is obviously pro-Israel over Palestinians concerns. The big fear among Zionists is the building support for a peace settlement, and to their horror, one that establishes a bi-national state, that is one state for Jews and Palestinians. Even the Israeli Jewish public prefer this to a two state solution. The Rightwingers want neither solution. The NYT quotes in this story a former AIPAC publicist, Rosenberg, a gatekeeper who calls for a two state solution.
New Palestinian government marks collapse of Israel's Middle East positions
From Debka, the unofficial voice of Mossad.
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New Palestinian government marks collapse of Israel's Middle East positions
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
March 18, 2007, 10:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Hamas-Fatah government taking office Sunday, March 18, is more than a policy failure by prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni; it is another milestone on the road to the collapse of Israel’s Middle East positions at large, on a scale comparable to the setback to its deterrence from the mismanaged war against Hizballah last summer....
"The Jewish owned NYT has been finally forced to address this issue."
All the same, the Zionists who own the Jew York Times will probably call Mr. Krostof in for a spanking, since he's not Jewish.
From Guilt to Responsibility
Speech given in Stockholm 18 March 2007
By Gilad Atzmon
The impossible condition of being an ex-Israeli as well as an ethically orientated human being necessary leads towards a serious guilt complex. I am referring here to the obvious case of one feeling guilty for the crimes committed on one’s behalf by one’s brethren. Yet, I have to confess that while guilt can be charming, at least for a while, it is far from being a productive state of mind in the long term. Guilt is a self-centred endeavour, it doesn’t aim towards a change. In guilt alone, there is not much hope for better future. In fact, the only way to translate guilt into productivity is to transform remorse into responsibility.
At least in my case, responsibility is primarily grounded on the deep acknowledgment that, though totally against my will, as things are set by the Jewish State, every atrocity committed by Israel is actually committed in my name and on my behalf. In other words, my commitment to the Palestinian issue is evoked by my acceptance of my responsibility. Though shouting ‘not in my name’ would have helped to vindicate me as an individual person, it won’t change the grave sinister fact that every Israeli war crime is actually done in the name of the Jewish people. Thus, I have never been an advocate of the ‘not in my name’ call. Clearly, I am not searching for my own self-redemption but rather for a metaphysical shift of awareness. Consequently, responsibility is for me a form of intervention that bridges the necessary gap between silent acceptance and ethical commitment. My responsibility is my pledge to do whatever I can to bring the suffering of the Palestinians to an immediate halt....
The world should welcome the Palestine unity government
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Israel’s priority, however, is the very opposite. It wants the Palestinians to fight each other....
"Israel’s priority, however, is the very opposite. It wants the Palestinians to fight each other and it will do everything possible, including resorting to its familiar black arts and to provocation by its army of informers, to set them against each other. It wants Fatah to destroy Hamas and drive it from power. It repeats its mantra that there can be "no compromise with terrorists," while seeking to persuade the world that its own violence -- far more lethal than that of the Palestinians -- is that of legitimate self-defence."
The world should welcome the Palestine unity government by Patrick Seale, Mar 18, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Jimmy Carter and Apartheid
Volume 54, Number 5 · March 29, 2007
Jimmy Carter and Apartheid
By Joseph Lelyveld
Perhaps an intrepid researcher will one day go through the many Internet pages that make assertions pro and con on the question of whether Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories can properly be assessed as "apartheid." Then we may be in a position to tell whether the first polemicist to sling the term in the context of the West Bank was a foreigner, a Palestinian, or, just possibly, an Israeli. Suffice it to say, it wasn't Jimmy Carter, whose recent book, with its unpunctuated title Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, has been high on the best-seller lists for nearly three months despite—maybe, in part, because of—the wrath his use of the term has provoked among Israel's supporters....
Palestinian American Congress statement and action alert on the formation of the Unity Government
Virginia, 3/18/07.--The Palestinian American Congress congratulates all Palestinians at home and in the Shatat on the formation of a unitary Palestinian authority in the West Bank and Gaza. The Zionist lobby in America is mobilizing to continue the siege on the people of Palestine who live in the illegally occupied areas. We salute countries like Norway who took the courageous step of recognizing the new unity government and extending aid. We call on all Palestinian Americans and all people of conscience to mobilize and disseminate information to media and all elected officials and candidates for office to: ...
Israeli MP refuses to sing national anthem
He's Arab, one among millions in Israel. Here's the national anthem:
"As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,
With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion,
Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost:
To be a free people in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem."
Imagine the US national anthem, "... home of the brave, land of the free white people..."
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Majadele refuses to sing national anthem
Rightist MKs slam Israel's first Arab minister, who said in newspaper interview he would not sing anthem, because song was written 'only for Jews'
Amnon Meranda Published: 03.17.07, 23:37 / Israel News...
"The paper is obviously pro-Israel over Palestinians concerns."
They're pretty f*%$#n' pro-Israel when it comes to investigating 9/11 also. The attack on the USS Liberty came in on page 29. Kristoff and the crew are strictly sewage workers.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Jewish woman tells activist trying to protect Palestinian kids to 'go to Auschwitz' - with video
Settler harasses activist
Hebron: Jewish woman tells activist trying to protect Palestinian kids to 'go to Auschwitz'
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Jewish woman tells activist trying to protect Palestinian kids to 'go to Auschwitz' - with video
Settler harasses activist
Hebron: Jewish woman tells activist trying to protect Palestinian kids to 'go to Auschwitz'
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Thank You Nicholas Kristof Dot Org
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