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It's all very complex. Talking to a Syrian/British young man the other day.
What he had to tell me about
Bashar Al-assad shon a different light on things as well.
Irony...
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It's all very complex. Talking to a Syrian/British young man the other day.
What he had to tell me about
Bashar Al-assad shon a different light on things as well.
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What about Christians in Palestine /Israel.
Even the Israelis need someone to empty the bins and brush the streets.
A few more have turned up since you took these pics...
Tens of thousands of Israelis have marched into Jerusalem and more protesters took to the streets in Tel Aviv in a last-ditch show of force aimed at blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan.
Protests have intensified in the days leading up to the debate that began [today] ahead of a parliamentary vote on Monday which could see a key part of the proposals passed into law.
In Jerusalem on Saturday, marchers turned the city’s main entrance into a sea of blue and white Israeli flags as they completed the last leg of a four-day, 70km (43 miles) trek from Tel Aviv to Israel’s parliament.
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You want to see how they deal with hunger strikers
They force feed them Dublin prawns?
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No... just one at a time.
You ought to see how they deal with Arab protestors (or nearby journalists or onlookers)
- Israel’s parliament voted into law a contested curb on some Supreme Court powers submitted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the Knesset speaker has announced.
- The bill passed by a 64-0 vote, the speaker added, after opposition lawmakers abandoned the Knesset plenum in protest.
- Israel’s Medical Association has announced a 24-hour strike starting on Tuesday in response to the approval of the judicial overhaul bill, The Times of Israel has reported.
I imagine the protests will continue as these reforms take shape under Netanyahu's regime.
Palestinians have largely avoided them...for obvious reasons.
The weak protest by the American President illustrates how his hands are tied by the Jewish Lobby in Washington and it'll be interesting to see the position our government takes on this matter.
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What can they say when they themselves have been frustrated by the courts.
Palestinians say a law passed by the Israeli parliament that limits some powers of the Supreme Court will make it easier for the Israeli government to pursue policies that serve its “far-right” agenda.
The law is part of a wider effort from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies to overhaul the judiciary and prevents the Supreme Court from vetoing government decisions on the grounds of being “unreasonable”.
The law “weakens and eliminates any form of supervision that the Supreme Court has over the decisions of the government,” Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Knesset or Israeli parliament, told Al Jazeera.
Such appointments directly affect Palestinian citizens of Israel, for instance “how much money they get” and how police departments “pursue the vision of the far-right government”, Iraqi told Al Jazeera from Haifa.
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The Jewish nation has experienced rifts and divisions: Sadducees and Pharisees, Hasidism and Misnagdim, and many other opposing factions. But what has been occurring in Israel these past few months is no longer on the same continuum. We do not yet have the words to adequately describe this turn of events, and that is why it is so frightening. It may transpire that it was the beginning of a process that will crumble – and possibly resolve – our society’s ossified, dangerous points. But for now it is bringing to the surface Israel’s secrets and lies, the cumulative historical offences, the lack of compassion, the injustices, all of which have become an intolerable dissonance that breeds mutual revulsion.
As if the awareness that has been dulled for so many years has suddenly been awakened, we now comprehend the responsibility – no, the culpability – of the self-proclaimed agents of Jewish history who brought about the state’s greatest disaster: the settlement enterprise.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/democrat-aoc-boycott-israel-isaac-herzog
This week, the fate of Israel as a democratic state will be determined. The hundreds of thousands of Israelis who left their homes under impossible circumstances did so in order to protest and sound the alarm bells, but also because they felt the need to live, however briefly, in a proper, functional, benevolent atmosphere. It is a need that should not be taken lightly. For decades, it was stolen from us. The state became a place of violence, vulgarity, pollution. The deception perpetrated by Simcha Rothman (member of the Knesset for the far-right Religious Zionist party), the justice minister, Yariv Levin, the security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Benjamin Netanyahu is, ultimately, just the artist’s signature in the corner of the big picture.
David Grossman@theGuardian (translated from the original article in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz)
The law is part of a wider effort from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies to overhaul the judiciary and prevents the Supreme Court from vetoing government decisions on the grounds of being “unreasonable”.
The law “weakens and eliminates any form of supervision that the Supreme Court has over the decisions of the government,” Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Knesset or Israeli parliament, told Al Jazeera.
Such appointments directly affect Palestinian citizens of Israel, for instance “how much money they get” and how police departments “pursue the vision of the far-right government”, Iraqi told Al Jazeera from Haifa.
more@AlJazeera
The Jewish nation has experienced rifts and divisions: Sadducees and Pharisees, Hasidism and Misnagdim, and many other opposing factions. But what has been occurring in Israel these past few months is no longer on the same continuum. We do not yet have the words to adequately describe this turn of events, and that is why it is so frightening. It may transpire that it was the beginning of a process that will crumble – and possibly resolve – our society’s ossified, dangerous points. But for now it is bringing to the surface Israel’s secrets and lies, the cumulative historical offences, the lack of compassion, the injustices, all of which have become an intolerable dissonance that breeds mutual revulsion.
As if the awareness that has been dulled for so many years has suddenly been awakened, we now comprehend the responsibility – no, the culpability – of the self-proclaimed agents of Jewish history who brought about the state’s greatest disaster: the settlement enterprise.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/democrat-aoc-boycott-israel-isaac-herzog
This week, the fate of Israel as a democratic state will be determined. The hundreds of thousands of Israelis who left their homes under impossible circumstances did so in order to protest and sound the alarm bells, but also because they felt the need to live, however briefly, in a proper, functional, benevolent atmosphere. It is a need that should not be taken lightly. For decades, it was stolen from us. The state became a place of violence, vulgarity, pollution. The deception perpetrated by Simcha Rothman (member of the Knesset for the far-right Religious Zionist party), the justice minister, Yariv Levin, the security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Benjamin Netanyahu is, ultimately, just the artist’s signature in the corner of the big picture.
David Grossman@theGuardian (translated from the original article in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz)
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