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    #76
    Well, this is charming: Israeli lawmaker brags about his fantasy of going to the jail where Ahed Tamimi is held and kick her face in to the point that she requires hospitalisation. That is a representative of Israel's elected government and a member of Netanyahu's Likud. Is he being reprimanded, maybe even fired? No, he has a wank-circle formed around him.

    But, as the article points out, what is revealing is not the crazy wank fantasy of a politician, but how it is being handled by Israel's "liberal" apologists. So it's the BBC's fault for interviewing the representative of the elected Israeli government to maker Israel look bad.

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      #77
      Classrooms. Built (with support from the EU) autumn 2017
      demolished February 2018

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        #78
        Netanyahu tells Likud he's discussing Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements wth Trump
        Last edited by Nefertiti2; 12-02-2018, 20:04.

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          #79
          Calling a salad "Palestinian" = supporting Terrorism

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            #80
            This link doesn't work for me Nef.

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              #81
              fixed the link in my original post-sorry but its ha'aretz so may not work for all

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                #82
                Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
                fixed the link in my original post-sorry but its ha'aretz so may not work for all
                Thanks for that.

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                  #83
                  Had a coffee in the Picturehouse cafe today and noticed this salad:

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                    #84
                    Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi's trial begins behind closed doors

                    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y_to_clipboard

                    The part which gives context says, "her supporters say". FFS.

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                      #85
                      Netanyahu to be indicted for corruption.

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                        #86
                        About time

                        https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/963474978334232577

                        https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/963475774513844225

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                          #87
                          Gideon Levy in Haaretz (Ive cut and paste as Haaretz seems to flicker in and out of a paywall) https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.pre...yahu-1.5822856

                          We May Miss Netanyahu Yet
                          A moment before the party ends, we should start thinking about the morning after

                          Gideon Levy Feb 15, 2018 3:43 AM



                          The celebrations are going full steam. The Israeli Nicolae Ceausescu (with his wife Elena) is on his way home, and probably to prison. The good people demonstrating in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard are jubilant, the justice fighters are rejoicing, the analysts are exuberant.

                          From bondage to slavery, from darkness to light, the end of corruption. Benjamin Netanyahu has earned all the gloating against him, not to mention his description as Satan. His conduct is repulsive, the damage he has caused the country is considerable, the suspicions against him are heavy. His term must end, immediately. Netanyahu go home.

                          But a moment before the party ends, we should think, as always in this kind of revelry, about the morning after. What awaits Israel and who awaits it? The candidates are limbering up on the starting line and the sight is somewhere between embarrassing and grim. This can’t be ignored, even as we rejoice over the despot’s fall.

                          Some of those who are now celebrating will miss Netanyahu’s days. The days ahead may be darker; it’s possible: a prime minister worse than Netanyahu. All those who saw the struggle to remove Netanyahu as the be all and end all – let’s just get rid of him and everything will be wonderful as it once was – will discover that everything may still blow up in their faces.

                          Netanyahu has displayed disgusting corruption alongside the great state corruption, which has been perpetrated by almost every Israeli prime minister in recent decades. His heirs may steer clear of cigars and champagne, but none of them can fix Israel’s great corruption – the institutionalized state corruption arising from 50 years of occupation.

                          So the rejoicing over Netanyahu’s demise is premature, and more to the point exaggerated. An Israel led by Yair Lapid, Gideon Sa’ar or Yisrael Katz wouldn’t be a better place. It may even be worse, even if their wives are pious and their ways nothing but modesty and honesty.

                          The leading candidate on the way to this light is of course Lapid – a hope-infusing victory speech at first light in the square, a new dawn for Israel. Shining photo ops with world leaders, most of whom will be happy to shake off Netanyahu, whom they see as the biggest obstacle on the way to peace and justice. Lapid would charm them. They’d only find out the truth over time: His positions aren’t different from his predecessor’s. Only the rhetoric is a bit different.

                          At a meeting with Donald Trump the two wouldn’t lack a common language. They’d compare which of the two is the shallowest and hollowest; who’s the more ignorant and opportunistic. The competition wouldn’t be easy. They could talk about how they both made their way to the top, straight from the ideological void. That too would be a love story – without a happy end.

                          A Lapid government would probably consist of the radical right brother-or-not Naftali Bennett and perhaps Avigdor Lieberman. Lapid would be like a babe in the woods.

                          Anyway, there’s nothing to expect from a man who thinks Jerusalem must not be divided, the settlements must not be evacuated and the Arabs are Zoabis. His father left him the country as a gift and only this week he supported the bill extending Israeli law to colleges and universities in the West Bank. To prove himself he may also launch some savage patriotic attack on Gaza or a little war in the north. He always sports an Israeli flag on his lapel.


                          And he wouldn’t save Israel’s democracy either – he sees the ex-soldiers in Breaking the Silence as traitors, and his party is a paradigm of servile obedience to a single leader. If Lapid rules we’ll miss Netanyahu, even the cigars. For a moment we might even miss Sara.

                          Sa’ar, friend of the settlers and the ultra-Orthodox, should be the terror of the center-left. The commander of the war against the asylum seekers, the founder of the deportation and round-up doctrine, may become a prime minister who exceeds his predecessor’s brutal nationalism. His colleague Katz may build an island off Gaza to act as an artificial port, but he’d deport Arabs in iron chains, as he beat them in his university days. All three may turn out more dangerous than Netanyahu.

                          The thought that there isn’t a single hope-inspiring leader in Israel today, someone who harbingers change or can generate a revolution, is depressing. It dampens the joy of losing Netanyahu.

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                            #88
                            All too true

                            And still better if he goes

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                              #89
                              Avner Gvaryahu from "Breaking the Silence" on BBC Hard Talk


                              " we would enter an innocent Palestinian home in the middle of the night...if they wanted to use the bathroom, or their kitchen, or their phone they would need permission from me"

                              "between the river and the sea you have a population of about 13 million people where about half of them do not get to elect anyone"

                              A very impressive guy. What a shame he never gets to appear on the main news channels.
                              Last edited by Nefertiti2; 16-02-2018, 17:06.

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                                #90
                                'This is what annexation looks like"

                                There will be no definitive moment, event or a point in history, when we can say that annexation happened. Israel’s annexation is a process — a deliberate process — which has been carefully planned, began a long time ago, and which will continue for years to come.

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                                  #91
                                  I Like Sarah Sugarman

                                  https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/964329047386832896

                                  I bet ursus is wishing he never taught me how to post links to tweets

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                                    #92
                                    Prefer Sarah Silverman myself.

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                                      #93
                                      Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                      Prefer Sarah Silverman myself.
                                      I've made a fool of myself

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                                        #94
                                        Read this. Seriously, just read it. http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/propag...cial-mohammed/

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                                          #95
                                          Interesting piece on the history of AIPAC. In the Washington Post no less
                                          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.1ee963ab1934

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                                            #96
                                            Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
                                            Read this. Seriously, just read it. http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/propag...cial-mohammed/
                                            So, I'm on a Southern Rail train, tells me that
                                            'Content Blocked
                                            You tried to access the web page: http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/propag...cial-mohammed/

                                            The site http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/propag...cial-mohammed/ contains content that is not allowed on this network.'

                                            Have no idea why, I've never seen that message before, and everything else comes up fine. Sorry to derail for a moment, but why would that be?

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                                              #97
                                              No idea. It's the story of how 15 year old Mohammed Tahimi was coerced/tortured into a statement that he fell of his bike and damaged his head when there are actually photos of the bullet that doctors removed from his head (and the CT scan with the bullet in there).

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                                                #98
                                                Here's the Mondoweiss front page. Does that work? http://mondoweiss.net/

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                                                  #99
                                                  Yep, ta (I'm off the train now, don't know whether that makes any difference)

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                                                    Israel passes law to strip residency of Jerusalem's Palestinians

                                                    People born in Jerusalem can now be deported to the West Bank. If they are too political of disloyal to the occupying regime, which could include protesting against their houses being demolished. It will be an easy pretext for the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem which Israel is already preparing or.

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