tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post327318910951081659..comments2024-03-24T11:22:15.548+00:00Comments on Lustig's Letter: Is Israel about to turn sharp right?Robin Lustighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578195216460807588noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-28780415417164653362013-01-20T11:02:45.062+00:002013-01-20T11:02:45.062+00:00General interest.
http://www.spiegel.de/internati...General interest.<br /><br />http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ronen-bergman-on-the-conflation-of-criticism-of-israel-with-antisemitism-a-877479.htmlquietoaktreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-91461695372603468322013-01-15T21:52:51.605+00:002013-01-15T21:52:51.605+00:00`Is Israel about to turn sharp right?´
Now some a...`Is Israel about to turn sharp right?´<br /><br />Now some are suggesting that the ´right side of Jordan´be given to the Palestinians while Israel keeps ´the left side´(West Bank)<br /><br />-- Sounds a bit like a one sided ´Polish Solution´quietoaktreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-6608254892352019072013-01-14T17:04:23.269+00:002013-01-14T17:04:23.269+00:00"Meanwhile, Israel's settlement policy wi..."Meanwhile, Israel's settlement policy will soon render the idea of a Palestinian state impossible. When Hans-Ulrich Klose, the SPD's top politician on foreign policy issues, recently attended a political congress in Israel, he met hardly any politicians still working for a two-state solution -- the solution Germany considers the only viable path to peace in the Middle East. "It was sobering," Klose stated."<br /><br /> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-debates-the-meaning-of-anti-semitism-a-877414.htmlquietoaktreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-88067580195304150982013-01-13T16:02:14.874+00:002013-01-13T16:02:14.874+00:00Israel will be seen as an unfortunate ´burp´in the...Israel will be seen as an unfortunate ´burp´in the thousands of years of Jewish history --I wished otherwise.<br /><br />When rabid Rabbis--<br /> <br />http://www.rabbiwein.com/blog/post-1434.html?utm_source=Weekly+Newsletter+Email+-+Parshat+Shemot+5773+&utm_campaign=Weekly+Parsha&utm_medium=email<br /><br />are praised by some, for conclusions reached <br />ignoring reality -- something is far form being ´Kosher´<br /><br />With an ineffective/ unwilling Israeli Supreme Court having or using powers to stop the Apartheid and ethnic cleansing (etc.) behavior of the government --the Courts right to exist is also debatable.<br /><br />At the International level we have--<br /><br />"Israeli police have evicted Palestinian and international activists from an area of the West Bank where Israel is planning fresh settlement building. <br /><br />Israel's Supreme Court had ruled on Friday that the encampment could remain for six days."<br /><br />-- The Israeli Supreme Court obviously claims jurisdiction in the West Bank and is therefore an active participant in the ignoring of International Law. (Humanitarian inclusive)<br /><br />-- What is a Rogue State-- if not that ?<br /><br />Right Wing propaganda and actions have turned the Jewish dream (of some) into a nightmare for all,<br /><br />"In two weeks millions of Jews will cry out, "Next Year in Jerusalem" and millions more will cry out, "Vote for Obama." And we shall see whose faith will prevail."<br /><br />-- How many will only cry ?quietoaktreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-49670393190444068332013-01-12T13:02:17.120+00:002013-01-12T13:02:17.120+00:00Israel reacts in crazed fury when anyone likens it...Israel reacts in crazed fury when anyone likens its oppression of Palestinians to South Africa’s apartheid, but the comparison is growing harder and harder to ignore because Israel has slipped from South African standards to "the great Palestinian apartheid" = Get Palestinians out of Holy Land - all of it from the Nile River to the Euphrates.<br />Does the world care?<br />International opposition to ongoing apartheid — Israeli subjugation of Palestinians — is practically non-existent. <br /><br />50 years: Israel launched, seized the West Bank and other Arab territory. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition have a weakening stranglehold on Israeli politics; I say weakening because the politics are becoming even more right-wing. Related to this, is the charge that anti-Semitism is quickly injected into any discussion that even attempts to question Israeli policies. "Israel must have the right to defend itself!" <br /><br />Perhaps if Chuck Hagel is confirmed as Secretary of Defense in the face of ISRAEL LOBBY RESISTENCE, that will INDICATE orthodoxy may be weakening; on the other hand, Hagel may be just the offset to the very orthodox Jack Lew in Treasury.<br /><br />Two-state solution? This was supposed to make the situation different from South Africa, in which the objective in dismantling apartheid there was always going to involve a one-state solution. But where in the so-called Holy Land is there NOW any room for a two-state solution vs. Bantustans? Netanyahu’s can continue to pretend to seek a two-state solution, treating the situation in the West Bank not as one of permanent subjugation but as only a temporary problem involving “disputed territory”, but this is a lie - demonstrated by the ongoing "facts on the ground".<br /><br />Israel says, "If the Palestinians will just stop terrorizing, start negotiating they can have a state of their own?" Another lie. There is no hope, no place for a two-state solution. Meanwhile, Israelis can keep bombing on, defending themselves, relying on their armed might, believing genuinely that they can maintain their superior position indefinitely. Meanwhile, Palestinians are cordoned, ghettoized, fenced-in - treated in a manner with which Jews should be very familiar.<br /><br />The current leadership, moving further right-wing, gives no hope for a Palestinian State - unless Palestinians are far more ready to fight, united Fatah and Hamas, supported by those willing to assist.Gaye Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03881763124748309634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942478546968158905.post-24803431739014329982013-01-11T10:49:42.175+00:002013-01-11T10:49:42.175+00:00What are the prospects for an entire region which ...What are the prospects for an entire region which is so deeply divided in every way -- by wealth (or the lack of it); by access to natural resources, agricultural land and water; by ethnicity; by religion; by arbitrarily drawn political borders; by culture; by internal national rivalries; by transnational rivalries; by type of governance system; by military strength...?<br /><br />A shift in any of these elements will generate knock-on effects in the region as a whole, some of which are somewhat predictable and some are not. But in any case, no decision-making structure or universally acceptable arbiter exists that is capable of making any significant contribution to preventing or resolving these potential or actual sources of conflict.<br /><br />In general, I try to find reasons for optimism in difficult situations, but most of the problems confronting the countries of the Middle East seem uniquely complex and intractable.<br /><br />I suspect that any solution (or at least partial solution) will only be possible after the region's general economic conditions improve enough to significantly weaken the motivation of various groups in that region to resort to violence. But that will be a very long-term development, and there is plenty of scope for things to go badly awry in the meantime.Erik Kowalnoreply@blogger.com