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Clinton Interviewed on Fox News Sunday

2006-09-26T20:30:00.000-07:00

This is the first 20 minutes of Bill Clinton’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. In this clip, Wallace asks Clinton why he didn’t do more to capture or kill Osama bin Laden while he was in office. Clinton clearly feels like he has been set up and doesn’t hold back in telling Wallace just how he feels.

full transcript here:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/24/fox-clinton-interview-part-1-osama-bin-laden/

The Ether

2006-09-18T08:01:00.000-07:00

Read Bulletin

From:

shiri

Date:

Sep 14, 2006 2:09 PM

Subject

the time is NOW rather then later

Body:

it is

NOW

that we see each other has faces in places we don't usually meet.

NOW

is the place where i used to live no more. i..ll meeet u l8r, alligator,

NOW

is a time for kroks and swindles.
come

NOW

one come all, meet us at

conflux

this saturday, september 16th, 4PM @ the lucky cat
http://www.theluckycat.com/

if you're lucky, u will get stickers. if you're luckier u'll get cake.

4:45 a trail of cats will go on a spontanious tour of the hood, as seen from the b61 and will take it over for a while.

if it rains, this should be something

kisses and whistles, sez an ape gal

Read Bulletin

From:	Glass House Gallery Tapes
Date:	Sep 14, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject	the many
Body:	now goes a way to do the, answer peace piece, atrosity, goes the another, away to do them, the now, the many.

I'm an Angel NOW

2006-09-03T21:05:00.000-07:00

I AM AN ANGEL NOW.

SEVENTY TWO VIRGINS ARE HUGGING ME IN HEAVEN. I SAVE MYSELF NOW. I AM PINK. I AM PINK PASSIONATE PANTHER. I BLOW HARD, I SAVE MY SELF. I SAVE YOU. I SAVE ALL OF YOU. IT'S UP TO YOU, NOW. IT'S UP TO YOU NOW.

~AN aPE gIRL JOINT~
SEE HER PRFORM PINK PANTHER @conflux, september 16th.

bimboim's trip to the western wall

2006-08-30T08:26:00.000-07:00

bimboim's trip to the western wall
a mornography film

Video Description

A touching short by Mornograpy, "Bimboim's trip to the Western Wall" is a mixed-media animation film set to a score of original music, though originally presented at the Jewish Community Center in New York City as a silent film followed by a live Klezmer orchestra.
Bimboim's Trip to the Western Wall has screened in New York, and film festivals in New Jersey, Belgium, and Israel. The short was made in loving memory of the Israeli Bedouins who died at the tunnel bombing at the Philadelfi Corridor in December 2004.
after effects animation and editing- Rene Avalos, Flash animation and photography-Mor Erlich, Music before bus explosion- Lee Bams Frisari,Music after bus explosion- Tomer Tzur

Personal Message

This video is awesome!

Thanks,
shiri

Post-War Analysis

2006-08-27T20:01:00.000-07:00

The IDF bombed a Hizballah bunker today, 2 sq KM in size, located 400 M from the border.
Talkbackers are raising all hell against Israeli intelligence being un-prepared.

Gideon Levy wrote an article on Haaretz.com, describing how the IDF has deteriorated from a strong defence force, into the occupation army. He blaims an entire generation, "The Candle Kids" of post PM Rabin's assasination of being a bunch of whiners.

And I say, Mr Levy, the people is being regulated to maintain a satus quo.
It is impossible for a nation as a whole to develop a rebelious mindframe against its government,
unless in cases of great extremity.

Recent action in Lebanon is one:
Photo Essay of the bombing
(The war, through the lens of an award-winning photographer= photogenic, sexy truth, destruction)

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/lebanon.aspx

Katiusha missiles on the center of Haifa's Mt. Carmel is two:
(The war, through the lens of a civilian's digital camera= not sexy, very mundane,
un-glorified bullet holes)

Recent bunker dig near the border is three:
Click to watch the video clip

http://video.nrg.co.il/lib/wmv/579/250.wmv

The public discourse in Israel is a daily, on-going grind. In times of war there are no programs but news. It is a state of constant news. It has become easy for our generation to switch a channel and try to maintain the appearance of normality, because we are tired.

We are tired of war, so we believed for the past six years that in deed there was a peace.
Or at least, anything for the prospect of peace.

We have now learned that this is not possible. We protest.

Link to Mr Levy's article here:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/755016.html

Blog Post: Spun Reality

2006-08-24T06:48:00.000-07:00

My friend K. is an American. She spent the better part of her 20's and early 30's in NYC.
And much like many people of her age and residence, she is also a life-long student and a democrat.

My friend K. told me last night, about 9/11: how it changed reality in the eyes of New Yorkers,
and Americans. The world became a scary place for them.

Not because of the Terrorist Threat Per-Se, the Terrorist threat is presented in news-media as something to be erradicated. Terrorists are presented as an infestation.

My friend K. is afraid, and the reason is she feels, her government - elected officials - is not able to provide her with any kind of protection nor does it aim to. The feeling of helplessness against that is overwhelming.

Recent war events on the Lebanese-Israeli border reflect an inclination to do the same on the Israeli side. It may be easy to divide and conquer, wag the dog when being remote from the battle ground. It becomes immediately transparent when the government SITS ON the battle ground.

Recent voices in Israeli news-media are re-examining PM Olmert's "take" on the war and asking: DO we really know this person? Can we trust him to lead us?

After decades of generals as politicians, he will be remembered as the first statesman that took us to war.

Words from Director of the Makor Gallery

2006-08-23T05:25:00.000-07:00

Amendicons Gathering, Makor Gallery, Aug 17^th, 2006.

Photograph by Caridad Sola

Amendicons project - A few words

Since the outburst of the crisis on the Israeli-Lebanese border over a month ago, we at Makor have been thinking about possible ways to respond to the situation in a manner that fulfills our role as a non-political pluralistic cultural center. This task has been a challenging one as it not only raises difficult questions regarding the essence of culture and meaning at a time of war, but also touches upon political commitment and social activism – issues that can rapidly lead to polarization.

In an effort to respond to these issues and concerns, the staff at Makor came up with the idea of creating an open format for expression and dialogue in the Makor Gallery. The initiative is an attempt to offer an open, direct, and ongoing outlet for expressions that captures various reflections about the war in real time and in real space. We were motivated to provide a forum to express the overwhelming feelings of helplessness and indifference, to encourage a multi-perspective consciousness about the conflict within a communal environment, and to create an alternative medium for communication free of the bias of mass media.

The name AMENDICONS suggests that that the diverse images – or “icons” - displayed on the wall, salon style, have in their own humble way, the potential to amend, to revise, to expand our awareness. This notion remains relevant also on an individual level as each response exhibits a process of amending - requiring each person to apply creative tools to the matter; to filter to create and to deliver a personal expression into the public sphere. It is important to emphasize that the Amendicons project is not an art exhibition but rather a display. It is not curated, nor does it carry a cohesive artistic or political statement. Rather, it is the sum of fragmented, “self curated” public responses to the crisis by artists and non artists alike. It is itself a work in process.

The Amendicons project currently includes over 100 responses of three different kinds: direct responses and expressions (text, artwork, image); documentation of street art and social activities in response to the war (graffiti, protests, propaganda signs); and an archive of “war blogs” from Israel, Lebanon and the USA. The project began 5 days into the war, and now, a month later and 5 days into the cease-fire agreement, it continues to grow and evolve.

Amendicons has been invited by Edwin Ramoran, Director of the Longwood arts project, to be displayed at the Haven Art Gallery in the Bronx during September 06, and will be featured on the Globo broadcast, the main Brazilian TV network. We are excited that this display will become mobile and will be exposed to new and varied audiences. We hope to find additional venues for the project and to eventually document it in a catalog.

The crisis in the Middle East has torn open old and new wounds. It is a reminder of our vulnerability, east and west, in the face of war and terror; a reminder of the consequences of deep rooted hatred. In that sense, the crisis is a call for us to cease-silence. I would like to believe that the Amendicons project is a step in that direction.

I would like to personally thank the Makor staff for collaborating on this project, to Jane Slotin, Director of Makor for enabling and supporting the project, to Amelia Morgan, Makor Gallery intern for assisting with installation and managing of display, to Shiri Sandler for design materials, promotion and blog (www.amendicons.blogspot.com), to Leor Grady for ongoing support and promotion and to Edwin Ramoran, for inviting the project to the Haven Art Gallery.

Thank you for your participation in this project and for contributing to the dialog.

I invite you to continue to bring your voice to the Makor community, and hope to see you at the Makor Gallery in our upcoming reception on Sep 28^th. More info below.

Please send the attached release form at your earliest convenience. Due Aug 22^nd, 2006.

Please note that we will continue to accept new responses to Amendicons until Aug 30^th.

Sincerely,

Anat

Anat Litwin

Director of the Makor Artists-in-Residence Program & Makor Gallery/ Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y

35 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023.

Tel: 212.413.8842 Fax: 212.413.8860 Email: alitwin@92y.org

Yossi Banai

2006-08-22T05:20:00.000-07:00

I'm not going to attempt translating this song by Yossi Banai.
For more info about the late artist, click here

It's called "Dying for a cause"

שיר שכתב יוסי בנאי

למות למען רעיון - זה רעיון נפלא,

אבל אני עוד חי כי בראשי הוא לא עלה.

ונביאי הזעם ממשיכים פה להטיף,

דגלים וסיסמאות לא מפסיקים הם להניף .

יום אחד כשנצעד למלחמה קרובה ,

זקופי קומה ומלאים בים של גאווה,

עוד יתברר שמתנו סתם בגלל טעות קטנה,

מרעיון שכבר יצא מזמן מהאופנה.

למות למען רעיון - כן זו ממש מצווה,

אבל לאט למות, לאט ובשיבה טובה.

כי מה שאידיאל היום - מחר, כך יסתבר ,

היה טעות, ואז יצוץ פה אידיאל אחר .

חזון מולדת, גאולה, מילים שוות זהב ,

אך לא שוות את אלה שנופלים בשדה הקרב.

כי החיים ניתנו כדי לחיות טיפה

ולא לרוץ כמו אדיוט אל העולם הבא.

למות למען רעיון זה רעיון נשגב

אבל כדאי להיזהר ולא למות לשווא.

למות למען רעיון, כן זו ממש מצווה,

אבל לאט למות, לאט ובשיבה טובה.

מתי נלמד סוף סוף לחיות בלי חרב ודמים?

מתי יפסיקו כבר אבות לבכות על הבנים?

מתי נבין שלא כדאי לרדת לטמיון

בגלל גל אבנים עתיק או קבר בן מיליון ?

אך נביאי הזעם עם אש בעיניהם

קוראים לנו לקום לצעוד אחריהם

אז אם למטיפים חשוב כל כך להתפגר

שהם ילכו הראשונים - לנו לא בוער .

למות למען רעיון כן זו ממש מצווה ,
>אבל לאט למות, לאט ובשיבה טובה!

the result: complete mistrust

2006-08-20T16:32:00.000-07:00

Current post-war events have surfaced at least two petitions.

The first, reported today in Maariv on-line is presented by reserved military forces
towards the Prime Minister

The second, by civilians - calling for the PM's resignation.

http://www.petitiononline.com/olmert/petition.html

Reportedly, voices of hesitaion and in-experience in the government had prevented, quite delibaratly from Israel winning this war. Victory not having a clear definition of us against them, but there could have been less of a waist of human life and less procrastination.

When the high rank is hesitant, the foot soldiers feel it well - and lose trust.

up to date sticker

2006-08-20T07:48:00.000-07:00

current chain-mail is: up to date sticker.

"we're going to win!"

"a tie wil do!"

"it's participation that counts"

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This was not a war of the people. this war was led by the politicians.
it was led by words, not strategy. one of this war's lessons was -
one can not spin a war this close to home.

These stickers show a gradual dissapointment in the public eye.

Many day-after news stories and opinions reflect mistrust of the government
and the schytzo-messaging: "the war went well" accompanied by "we've lost"

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My Friend, Poo Two

2006-08-17T05:20:00.000-07:00

AT night, Poo came back and read my posts. He pointed to the fact that I had misinterpreted him using news-like tactics.

Eventually, it hit me that we're both trying to gather diferent views of the topic, er fore - the same thing. However, it did take us a long while to find the right language to convey that.

Poo, I eat my hat and post your blog: http://poogene.blogspot.com

~Shiri.

5 minutes

2006-08-17T05:00:00.000-07:00


in 5 minutes there will be peace in 5 minutes i will finish crossing the bridge and there will be peace i am now crossing the brooklyn bridge and when i finish there will be world peace all problems will end there will be no more war i have just finished crossing the bridge and there is peace 5 minutes ago they declared world peace there is no more war.

2006-08-16T19:23:00.000-07:00

What the Israeli flag means today

Israel has little to hold on to but satire.
We love laughing at ourselves.
And we love laughing at Maya Buskila.

Trader Joe's... Auh, Union Jack's

2006-08-16T18:42:00.000-07:00

The Star-Spangled Banner

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"The Star-Spangled Banner"

is the national anthem of the United States of America, with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote them as a poem after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.

Set to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven," a popular British drinking-song, it became well-known as an American patriotic song. It was recognized for official use by the United States Navy (1889) and the White House (1916), and was made the national anthem by a Congressional resolution on 3 March 1931. Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.

Modern history

A famous instrumental interpretation is Jimi Hendrix's guitar solo at the first Woodstock Festival. It became a late-1960s emblem. Whitney Houston's rendition at Super Bowl XXV is often considered one of the best performances of the song.

When sung in public (before major sporting events, for example), verses after the first are almost always omitted, and few Americans know their words. Isaac Asimov's short story "No Refuge Could Save" made light of this: a foreign spy was identified when it was found he knew every stanza, the joke being that no "real" American would know the whole text. It is also sometimes said humorously that the last two words of the national anthem are "PLAY BALL!" since that phrase is shouted by baseball umpires after the anthem is played before games.

Flag of the United States

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National flag and ensign. Flag ratio: 10:19

So-called First Navy Jack. Once credited by historians as having been used as naval jack, ca.1775–1776, but recent investigations have proven this false. Designated as the US Jack 2002-present.

Union Jack. Used as naval jack, 1960–2002.

The flag of the United States

consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies. The United States flag is commonly called "the Stars and Stripes" or "Old Glory," with the latter nickname coined by Captain William Driver, a 19th century shipmaster.

Because of its symbolism, the starred blue canton of the U.S. national flag is called the "union." This part of the national flag also serves as a flag in its own right: the Union Jack used as a maritime flag. The Union Jack served as the naval jack for U.S. warships until 2002, when it was replaced by the First Navy Jack as part of the War on Terrorism. However, the Union Jack continues to be used as a jack by U.S. vessels outside the Navy, including those of the U.S. Coast Guard and NOAA. This Union Jack should not be confused with the, perhaps better known, British Union Jack.

Baalbek:

2006-08-16T16:28:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek

The new world clashes with the old, and on its path there is destruction.
This sounds as the mother of generalizations.

What images are seen on broadcast media are mostly forms of propaganda enforcing
this new world order. The order is WESTERNIZE. ADVANCE.
erasing cultural heritage.

And here I will quote my favorite, Mr Walter Bejamin. a Jew.

IX
	My wing is ready for flight, I would like to turn back.If I stayed timeless time, I would have little luck.	*Mein Flügel ist zum Schwung bereit,* *ich kehrte gern zurück,* *denn blieb ich auch lebendige Zeit,* *ich hätte wenig Glück.* *Gerherd Scholem,* *‘Gruss vom Angelus’*
	A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

	Click here to see a screen version of Klee’s painting Angelus Novus

Fairuz: words put in a beautiful voice

2006-08-16T15:57:00.000-07:00

Ya Tair
O bird
Lyrics & Music: Rahbani Brothers
O bird flying / on the tip of the world / If you would only tell / the beloved about me / O bird.
Go ask the one who is alone / and wounded, all remedies of no avail / pained and not telling / what pains him / and in his memory recur / nights of childhood.
O bird who carries / the color of trees / in which there's nothing but boredom / and waiting / with the sun's eye I wait / on coldness of stone / the hands of reparation shake me / and I am troubled.
I beseech you by your teachers / which are equal to my days / I beseech by the thorn-rose and the wind / if you are going toward those / whom I love / and were love to erupt again / take me even for one minute / and return me.

From Fairouz; Legend and Legacy

Words of Wisdom

2006-08-16T15:21:00.000-07:00

My friend P is from california, of asian descent and is a male dancer.

This mixture of cultures would seem to make him extremely tolerant at sight
(sorry, poo you are my test case)

But - what seems to me as beautiful. poetic language - still strikes him as "this scary arab lady".

I would like to introduce you to to the most immediate poetic reference I have in mind:
FAIRUZ.

One can not speak war and listen to Fairuz, and here you'll see why:

Fairuz is worshiped by millions worldwide. She is revered, almost as holy, in so many circles and is routinely received by kings, presidents, and illustrious dignitaries. Unlike any other artist, Fairuz holds the key to almost every city where she has performed, given to her as a symbolic gesture of appreciation and recognition. Though she never sang in the holy city, the key to Jerusalem presented to her during a private visit with her father is among her most prized possessions.
In recognizing Fairuz, which means “gem”, American poet Andrew Oerke says this of heaven’s gift to humanity:

“The land of the prophets formed a river in
your throat. You cannot help it, you were
found in a church. Fairuz, you are a cloud,
I know for I have floated in your song.
I could see the rain, at first I thought it was
tears, but it was thirst creating its own answer
in a mist of hope for the land you sing.
Your secret is that the moon constantly
melts and reconstitutes in your voice.
Your secret is the Source that populates
you with the spirit of the people.
Your curtains dance with the wind through
the flutes whose drapes are woven from
grass and under the trudge of Jesus’ feet,
and you sleep well on angels’ hair.”

http://www.fairuzonline.com/fairuz_welcome.htm

My Friend, Poo

2006-08-16T15:02:00.000-07:00

p Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 3:11 PM
To: shiri

is everything okay with you and your family?

it's not really something to joke about... sorry.

...

can i ask you what you make of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAUcRA0Z2cs&mode=related&sear%20ch=Wafa

----- Original Message -----
From: shiri
To: p
[Quoted text hidden]

shiri Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 4:38 PM
To: p

thk u, poo

this video came to me a few back,
i think its real powerful and would like to hug her.
i wish everyone saw this.

that not all arab are muslim
that not all muslim are hateful
that there are educated and tolerant people in the arab world
and this was on al-jaseera, of all places

my family is well,
i. however, am not the same.

big kiss, did not mean to pick fights.

s.

[Quoted text hidden]
p Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 5:02 PM
To: shiri

hmmm...

interesting viewpoint on your take which is nice, but this video coming from israeli's also sends out another message to some no?

that the lady is pretty blunt and is basically spurting out that islam is evil, no? one might interpret this as

"we have to blow up the middle east because arabs are crazy, and here's an arab lady who says so"

?

anyhow.

----- Original Message -----

From: shiri
To: p
[Quoted text hidden]

shiri Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 5:27 PM
To: p

THIS IS NOT AT ALL HOW I READ HER.

oops caps

first of all, there are 2 kinds of muslims, the suni and the shiyte

one stream is tollerant while the other is fanatic.

therefore, not all muslim/ arabs are evil to begin with.
or evil= hateful.

it takes a bigger charge when she rephers to jews as scientists and by that makes it a war of knowledge with backwardness.

mixing religion with politics is a sad affair, and she points to that.

viewing from my israeli eyes, i can say that i'm glad she reveals an on-going debate (within the enemy)
which shows a dis-unified arabic voice.

she is breaking the "black mass" image we see on the news.

she is a pillar of light in a sea of black.

this is why she's successful.

anyhow..

2006-08-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

Arab secularist tells it like it is.

This video came to me last week from one friend. Today it came returned on a second and third round.

The war will be won with words of wisdom, and scientific knowledge.

Any attempt at hate or blind-conviction will remain unheard.

With simple testimonail, placing herself under the public eye, Wafa Sultan speaks a voice of reason from with in what is widely percieved as a host of hate and violence.

She succseeds, because she is using an academic, learned discourse while using a clear and poetic language.

Arabic, when spoken in the formal (classic) form is quite poetic. Ms Sultan shows us in a blow of the word - rather than the sword - how cultural richness carries more weight that the whole army of terror backed up by their papparazzi.

I wish her all of my best, and would like to continue persuing a similar path of re-explaining our icons to different minds.

peace.

With sympathies to the Grossman Family

2006-08-14T07:47:00.000-07:00

Uri Grossman, son of renowned Israeli writer David Grossman, was killed in a missile/tank hit.
He was supposed to celebrate his 21st birthday within 2 weeks.
A day earlier, his father called in a press conference together with fellow writers Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua to voice their call to end this war.

עדכון אחרון - 21:37 13/08/06

סמ"ר אורי גרוסמן

בן 20 ממבשרת ציון

סמ"ר אורי גרוסמן, בנו של הסופר דויד גרוסמן, נהרג מפגיעת טיל נ"ט בטנק מרכבה. בהודעה שפירסמה משפחתו נאמר: "אורי גרוסמן, נולד ב-27 באוגוסט 1985 והיה אמור לחגוג את יום הולדתו ה-21 בעוד כשבועיים. אורי למד בבית הספר הניסויי בירושלים, התגייס לחיל השריון, והגשים את שאיפתו להיות מפקד טנק. הוא עמד להשתחרר בנובמבר הקרוב, לצאת לטייל בעולם, ואחר כך ללמוד תיאטרון. ביום שישי בערב הוא שוחח בטלפון מלבנון עם ההורים ועם אחותו. הוא שמח שהתקבלה החלטה על הפסקת אש. הוא הבטיח שאת ארוחת ליל שבת הבאה יאכל בבית. אורי גרוסמן הוא בן לדויד ולמיכל גרוסמן ואח ליונתן ולרותי. היה בעל חוש הומור משגע וכשרון למשחק. היתה לו נשמה גדולה ומלאת חיים ורגש".

אורי גרוסמן נהרג יחד עם קצין ושני חיילים נוספים באזור חירבת כסיף שבגזרה המרכזית. הוא היה מפקד טנק, וצורף לצוות של מפקד הפלוגה, סרן בניה ריין מקרני שומרון, ונהרג יחד עמו.

הסופר דויד גרוסמן יצא ביום חמישי במסיבת עיתונאים בקריאה פומבית להשגת פתרון דיפלומטי ולסיום המלחמה, יחד עם הסופרים עמוס עוז וא.ב. יהושע. גרוסמן אמר כי המשך המלחמה מסכן את ישראל ומחזקת את חיזבאללה. "האינטרס של החיזבאללה הוא להעמיק את השקיעה שלנו בלבנון", אמר, "את המצב האסוני הזה אפשר למנוע ברגעים אלה ממש". הוא טען כי "מנהיגי צבא ומדינה חייבים לזהות את הרגע שבו ישיגו את מרב ההישגים עבור עמם. נדמה לי שאנחנו נמצאים כבר אחרי הרגע הזה, ומידרדרים במדרון, אבל גם למדרון יש נקודות שונות ואפשר לעצור לפני התהום".

סגור חלון

Patriotizm

2006-08-14T06:52:00.000-07:00

Roof top of Israeli citizens, in a kibbutz

wishing good-luck to the soldiers

It's slowly getting out there...

2006-08-13T18:04:00.000-07:00

Bush 'helped Israeli attack on Lebanon'

Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Monday August 14, 2006
The Guardian

The US government was closely involved in planning the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, even before Hizbullah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross border raids in July. American and Israeli officials met in the spring, discussing plans on how to tackle Hizbullah, according to a report published yesterday.
The veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh writes in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine that Israeli government officials travelled to the US in May to share plans for attacking Hizbullah.
Quoting a US government consultant, Hersh said: "Earlier this summer ... several Israeli officials visited Washington, separately, 'to get a green light for the bombing operation and to find out how much the United States would bear'."
The Israeli action, current and former government officials told Hersh, chimed with the Bush administration's desire to reduce the threat of possible Hizbullah retaliation against Israel should the US launch a military strike against Iran.
"A successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign ... could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations," sources told Hersh.
Yesterday Mr Hersh told CNN: "July was a pretext for a major offensive that had been in the works for a long time. Israel's attack was going to be a model for the attack they really want to do. They really want to go after Iran."
An unnamed Pentagon consultant told Hersh: "It was our intention to have Hizbullah diminished and now we have someone else doing it."
Officials from the state department and the Pentagon denied the report. A spokesman for the National Security Council told Hersh that "The Israeli government gave no official in Washington any reason to believe that Israel was planning to attack."
Hersh has a track record in breaking major stories. He was the first to write about the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and has written extensively about the build-up to the war in Iraq. He made his name when he uncovered the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam war. Most recently he has written about US plans for Iran, alleging that US special forces had already been active inside the country.

Overheard: They're saying it's over

2006-08-12T04:45:00.000-07:00

My eye caught a Banner saying "the day after" on Ha'aretz daily news.
They made a graphic for the day after the war, it is time to begin discussing an aftermath, calming down the people, broadcasting everything is alrite and going back to normal.

What IS normality? when all these lives have been lost, all these infra-structures destroyed, economies shaken.

This personal journal have been an attempt in understanding the process of War and a way of dealing with the frustration of being away from loved ones, away from home. A home away from home. The experience of exile (diaspora).

A waking up to the truth, that the world is a much different place than I had been taught.

A physical response, like a fake sympathetic pregnancy
I have not been able to eat for a month
It felt like they're tearing down my insides
And concern to all of my family, with an understanding that with all my love to
the place in which I grew up, I am not able to go back there unless
there is some sort of political, personal, etc etc way of change.

What can I change?

Change starts in me, I can promote change by distributing information.

This IS an age of information, wars will be won by keeping it free.

They're telling me it's over although it's in plain sight that it is not.
The military campaign may be winding down, the diplomatic/political campaign is not.

Keyword: winding down does not mean full stop.

We have grown up in this process.
It is now our responsibility to figure out a different way.

S.

"What Can Israel Achieve?"

2006-08-11T16:53:00.000-07:00

The following was forwarded by Christobal, and published in full according to re-publishing rights.

Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
List of previous commentaries in English and translations in other languages

Commentary No. 190, August 1, 2006

"What Can Israel Achieve?"
by Immanuel Wallerstein

The State of Israel was established in 1948. Ever since, there has been continuous violence between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and between Israel and its neighbors. Sometimes, the violence was low-level and even latent. And every once in a while, the violence escalated into open warfare, as now. Whenever full-scale violence broke out, there was an immediate debate about what started it, as though that mattered. We are now in the midst of warfare between Israel and Palestine in Gaza and between Israel and Lebanon. And the world is engaged in its usual futile debate about how to reduce the open state of warfare to low-level violence.

Every Israeli government has wished to create a situation in which the world and Israel's neighbors recognize its existence as a state and intergroup/interstate violence ceases. Israel has never been able to achieve this. When the level of violence is relatively low, the Israeli public is split about what strategy to pursue. But when it escalates into warfare, the Jewish Israelis and world Jewry tend to rally around the government.

In reality, Israel's basic strategy since 1948 has been to rely on two things in the pursuit of its objectives: a strong military, and strong outside Western support. So far this strategy has worked in one sense: Israel still survives. The question is how much longer this strategy will in fact continue to work.

The source of outside support has shifted over time. We forget completely that in 1948 the crucial military support for Israel came from the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites. When the Soviet Union pulled back, it was France that came to fill the role. France was engaged in a revolution in Algeria, and it saw Israel as a crucial element in defeating the Algerian national liberation movement. But when Algeria became independent in 1962, France dropped Israel because it then sought to maintain ties with a now-independent Algeria.

It is only after that moment that the United States moved into its present total support of Israel. One major element in this turn-around was the Israeli military victory in the Six Days War in 1967. In this war, Israel conquered all the territories of the old British Mandate of Palestine, as well as more. It proved its ability to be a strong military presence in the region. It transformed the attitude of world Jewry from one in which only about 50% really approved of the creation of Israel into one which had the support of the large majority of world Jewry, for whom Israel had now become a source of pride. This is the moment when the Holocaust became a major ideological justification for Israel and its policies.

After 1967, the Israeli governments never felt they had to negotiate anything with the Palestinians or with the Arab world. They offered one-sided settlements but these were always on Israeli terms. Israel wouldn't negotiate with Nasser. Then it wouldn't negotiate with Arafat. And now it won't negotiate with so-called terrorists. Instead, it has relied on successive shows of military strength.

Israel is now engaged in the exact same catastrophic blunder, from its own point of view, as George Bush's invasion of Iraq. Bush thought that a show of military strength would establish U.S. presence unquestionably in Iraq and intimidate the rest of the world. Bush has discovered that Iraqi resistance was far more formidable militarily than anticipated, that American political allies in Iraq were far less reliable than he assumed they would be, and that the U.S. public's support of the war was far more fragile than he expected. The United States is heading towards a humiliating withdrawal from Iraq.

Israel's current military campaign is a direct parallel of Bush's invasion of Iraq. The Israeli generals are already noting that Hizbullah's military is far more formidable than anticipated, that U.S. allies in the region are already taking wide distance from the United States and Israel (note the Iraqi government's support of Lebanon and now that of the Saudi government), and soon will discover that the Israeli public's support is more fragile than expected. Already the Israeli government is reluctant to send land troops into Lebanon, largely because of what it thinks will be the reaction of its own people inside Israel. Israel is heading towards a humiliating truce arrangement.

What the Israeli governments do not realize is that neither Hamas nor Hizbullah need Israel. It is Israel that needs them, and needs them desperately. If Israel wants not to become a Crusader state that is in the end extinguished, it is only Hamas and Hizbullah that can guarantee the survival of Israel. It is only when Israel is able to come to terms with them, as the deeply-rooted spokespersons of Palestinian and Arab nationalism, that Israel can live in peace.

Achieving a stable peace settlement will be extremely difficult. But the pillars of Israel's present strategy - its own military strength and the unconditional support of the United States - constitute a very thin reed. Its military advantage is diminishing and will diminish steadily in the years to come. And in the post-Iraqi years, the United States may well drop Israel in the same way that France did in the 1960s.

Israel's only real guarantee will be that of the Palestinians. And to get this guarantee, Israel will need to rethink fundamentally its strategy for survival.

by Immanuel Wallerstein

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I'm not kidding/ The war is over ???

2006-08-11T15:33:00.000-07:00

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The Typical Israeli Going to War

2006-08-11T15:09:00.000-07:00

Bridging the Cultural Clash between the Middle East and the West

2006-08-11T14:34:00.000-07:00

MEMRI
The middle east Media Research Institute

http://www.memri.org/

Arab-American Psychologist
Wafa Sultan
(Al-Jazeera TV, Qatar)
Feb 21, 2006

Click here to watch the video

לכל ידידי וחברי שלום

קבלתי את האימייל המצורף מחבר, ונדהמתי לשמוע (לקרוא) את תוכנו,
כדאי להקפיא את התמונה תוך כדי הקרנת הקליפ מדי פעם בפעם
כדי להספיק לקרוא ולהבין היטב את דבריה, זה שווה.
אם לא הבנו את מהות הקונפליקט שבין ישראל לבין העולם המוסלמי
ובתוכה גם המלחמה המתנהלת בימים אלו, הגברת הערביה מסבירה זאת טוב יותר
מכל אחד מאיתנו

הקשיבו היטב (או יותר נכון, קיראו את התרגום)
למה שאומרת הגברת

חשוב ביותר-העבירו לכל מי שאתם יכולים-שירוץ בכל רחבי העולם

אין שום משרד הסברה שיכול לעשות עבורנו את העבודה יותר טוב ממנה

וזה עוד שודר בתחנת רדיו דוברת ערבית

בתרגום עברי:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdhRpyhhgfs&mode=related &search=Wafa

English translation:

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv &ak=null

You must see/here and send to the whole world:
נשלח ע"י דוד ברקן

we ARE visible

2006-08-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

(08/11/2006)

The War, At Makor

Steve Lipman

A green hatchet, some red Cedars of Lebanon, some poetry, some cartoons, some photographs, some blog journals printed out on pink sheets of paper.

In the weeks since the war in Lebanon began, a wide variety of artistic and non-artistic types have expressed their feelings about the fighting — and the 92nd Street Y’s Makor Gallery on the Upper West Side has put many of their expressions in 8-by-10-inch wooden frames and hung them in a public display.

“Amendicons” (amendicons.blogspot.com), which opened this week and closes Aug. 30, is a “real time” forum that allows people here, and outside of New York in cyberspace, to respond to the crisis in the Middle East, says Jane Slotin, Makor director. “We needed to have a creative outlet.”

“It’s not an art exhibit, it’s a display,” says Anat Litwin, gallery director. It was conceived on short notice, “it is open to everyone,” and, unlike traditional art exhibits, its collection of text includes portions of online blog journals, she says. She calls the display a “unique” way for Makor “to fill our role as a cultural center.” (For information, call [212] 413-8842; makorartists@92y.org.)

More than 70 framed items were on display in the Makor Gallery by midweek. Makor has 150 frames, and space on the room’s three walls for a total of 450 to 500, she says.

The messages of the items range from oblique (a simple declaration that “I am ashamed of my species.”) to the ambiguous (a picture of a child in a yellow Teletubby costume). “It’s anti[war], it’s pro, it’s completely across the board,” Slotin says. Contributors so far include Jewish artists from Tel Aviv and at least one Muslim artist from Beirut, she says. “It allows people to come together,” both creatively on the gallery walls, and in person during viewing hours (Monday-Thursday noon-6 p.m, and Friday noon-4 p.m.).

The gallery will host a “gathering” for contributors, similar to blogging “meet-ups,” on Thursday, Aug. 17, 7-9 p.m.

“When the display ends, it will not end,” Slotin says. Plans are under way for the items to form a traveling exhibition in the U.S. and Israel.

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Katyushas: Going Once, Going Twice
More Looted Paintings To Be Auctioned
Poll: Americans Still Support Israel
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It's filling up! (gallery detail)

2006-08-10T06:35:00.000-07:00

AMENDICONS* (official) OPEN CALL

2006-08-09T20:29:00.000-07:00

The AMENDICONS project aims to create a live platform of responses to the urgent situation in the Middle East. It is designed to be a forum for direct personal and progressive expressions that stand outside of mainstream media bias. The display will include free form responses in various media (text, photographs, emails, images, artwork, signs, stickers, graffity, blogs, collage, documentation etc.) all sized 8 " x 10" exactly , framed , and mounted on the gallery wall. The project will grow to contain a wide range of responses to the evolving situation, and is open to all.

Contribute your voice NOW

Submission Guidelines:

All works/ responses must be sized 8"
x 10" exactly

Clearly mark your name and email address on the back of your work.
Please include personal information: Full name, Age, Nationality, occupation, email address.
If you wish the work to be returned, include SASE Envelope
Include signature release for documentation of your work in project catalog
E-mails will unfortunatly not be accepted

Send your work to the Makor Gallery(address below) or drop it off at the Makor box office during business hours. For more info call : 212-413-8842 or email makorartists@92y.org

Attn: Amendicons Project-

Makor Gallery, 35 west 67th street, New York, NY 10023

Amendicons display dates: Aug 4th - Aug 30th

Gathering will be held at the Gallery: Thursday August 17th , 7-9 PM

Gallery Hours: Mon - Thursday : 12 - 6pm, Friday :12 - 4 pm, Saturday closed.
http://www.92y.org/content/makor_gallery.asp

na nach nachash nachash tzeffa (an israeli meme*)

2006-08-08T20:24:00.000-07:00

*meme

"And know that a person needs to traverse a very, very narrow bridge, but the fundamental and most important principle is to have no hesitation or fear at all…" (This saying has been set to music in Hebrew as the song Kol Ha-Olam Kulo[2]

Nachman of Breslov

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כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאוד והעיקר לא לפחד כלל

ויש אומרים כל העולם כולו מחנות עולים מחנות עולים מחנות עולים - דת בשירות ציונות

this is a famous hassidic himn that became a popular zionistic movemment jingle
with a slight change of lyrics, same tune.

A big debate is happening when religion is embedded in settlement.

spiritually:
(a visual metaphore)

the soul is temporary in the world, only passing through (1)

life is nothing but crossing a very narrow bridge, high up and below nothing but air and sky
but you should never be afraid

there is nothing to fear but fear it self

giving up to fear means blocking all chance to finish crossing the bridge succefully

nothing is more dangerous than mixing up your nationality and religion

HASBARA email pics

2006-08-08T08:50:00.000-07:00

Those are photos of underground tunnels dug by hizbulla, found by Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon. The bunker is 5 meter deep and used for storing weapons used against Israel.

Images are posted by the IDF

sELF rEFERENCE

2006-08-07T20:58:00.000-07:00


Shiri Sandler: Myths and Monsters storytelling When time began, there were two women in the world with only one man. Their names were Lilith and Eve. They were quite passionate, but had only one man to share! Tikkun Leil Shavuot Bus Monologues Central Park, NY

Lion's Honey

2006-08-07T20:24:00.000-07:00

aPE-gIRL 06

Maarav cultural Journal/ Israeli artist petition

2006-08-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

Drafted Art

We are opposed to the war, to the Israeli army’s horrible bombardment of Lebanon and to Hezballah’s firing of rockets onto northern Israel. Our conflict with our neighbors has lasted for more than 100 years and so the question of who started this round of violence is irrelevant. We believe that conflicts are solved through dialogue, negotiations and compromise, not through violence, more bombings and annihilations, more security zones and occupations, more territories in which soldiers and civilians alike will be killed from both sides.

As Israeli citizens we are responsible for our government’s actions. It is our duty to do all that we can to stop the war crimes committed by our country in our name. The Israeli army’s actions in Lebanon – the shelling of entire neighborhoods, the destruction of bridges and roads, and water, communications and electrical infrastructure, and especially the killing of hundreds and wounding of thousands of nonaligned civilians – are an immoral and criminal response. It is the common interest of Israelis and most Lebanese that Hezballah be disarmed and obliterated and for the shelling of northern Israel to be stopped. Yet, our rash and cruel reactions lead to the opposite outcome.

It is a civil and moral duty to oppose the government and the army’s actions in Lebanon and in Gaza. We stand in solidarity with our northern neighbors, the Lebanese, and our southern neighbors, the Palestinians, whose lives are coming to ruin. We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in northern Israel, who the government, under pretext of defending their lives, has turned into the hostages of its floundering diplomacy.

We love Israel. We have chosen to live here, in the Middle East, and we want to contribute to it, to be a part of it, and to enjoy all that it has to offer. But the walls of hatred, the shelling and the forceful military actions corner us back behind ghetto walls. Under such conditions we will not be able to live in this region in peace for many years to come.

It is with a love for Israel, a love for Lebanon and a love for the entire Middle East, with true patriotism and love for our homeland, for mankind and for peace, that we call for the immediate ceasefire of shelling and all military activities, the release of Lebanese, Palestinian and Israeli prisoners and hostages, negotiations with any party that is willing including the Lebanese and Syrian governments, Hamas, and, if possible, Hezballah as well.

Many of us have signed petitions, participated in demonstrations and distributed important information through the media and internet. These are important actions, but they also increase the feeling of helplessness. There are no magic answers. Every action is a step on the way to revolution. Instead of being comprised of just names, this exhibition is a petition consisting of visual signatures (using design, photography, comics, painting, video, etc.). We are recruiting our creativity and talent for the fight against war.
http://maarav.org.il/draftedart/

Cartoonz are Critical

2006-08-07T07:48:00.000-07:00

In the far far west, we have a right to make and brake our {culture} heroes.
flatter than flat, the cartoon is last refuge of this cultural critism because of the odd
chance satire is regarded often as "entertainment" therefore marginalized in its power.

Cartooning and comics is still an underground movement as "Art"
yet a huge market as "Pop"

We live somewhere in between-the-lines, subverting visual culture.

This is NOT a history of comics. Just a link.

The imphamous cartoon of blasphemy:

http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/commentary/4166/

Dry Bones:

http://www.drybonesblog.blogspot.com/

Israeli comix:

http://www.dimonacomix.com/online-comix.html

copyright: Dula

http://www.expoze.co.il/go/dulayavne

The letter :p

2006-08-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

A. P.
A.P.E.

Associated Press
Adobe Photoshop

:p

protest palestine politics poland passion pink parade procession procrastinate
performace poetry pre-emanent paloozas
pallate pallete pornographic pink passion

problematic pillaging poop
play patronizing pinguins
processing pissing poppies
pounding, padding, pussicats

Paralized Paradise

Is Reuters doctoring photos of destruction in Lebanon?

2006-08-06T08:19:00.000-07:00

Did the Reuters news service doctor a photo to make the destruction in Beirut look more dramatic? Photo shop experts might want to review this evidence and weigh in.

read more | digg story

R.I.P. / R.O.P.

2006-08-06T08:06:00.000-07:00

Terms that Probably Did Not Originate on LGF (evidence pending)

ROP - The Religion of Peace -- a reference to George W. Bush's famous post-9/11 declaration that Islam is a "religion of peace." ROP is generally used as a substitute for the word "Islam," though it can also refer to Muslims in general. ROP can also be used as an adjective, though this usage is less common. In all cases, use of the term ROP indicates either distaste for Islamic beliefs and practices, or derisive mockery of the PC attitudes (as embodied by Bush) that spawned the phrase "religion of peace"; or both simultaneously (e.g. "The ROP claims another victim"). See also the LGF FAQ.

More naive then naive

2006-08-05T09:04:00.000-07:00

I'm naive because I grew up in a Naive time.

Born: USA, 1976
Bred: Israel, 1976-2003
Fled: New York, 2003-now.

From the first Gulf War, I remember getting time off school,
hanging out with the family - wearing a gas mask.
It was all mashed up with my teenage angst/ awkward period.

We were lucky enough to HAVE a privileged, teenage angst.
Fuled by all the right music and slogans.

The right slogans have arrived from America, we had diplomatic relations always.

My neighbors fled and abandoned their poodle.
Walking the dog, I recall empty streets.

I don't remember '82 in Lebanon.

My dad does.

My dad fought in that war (reserves), came back with stories about camels
he had totally fabricated while guarding the middle of no where.

I was six.

My dad also remembers how 30 years back, Lebanon was beautiful -
before INTERNAL sect-wars had torn it apart, before they had a puppet-government.

My dad sent me this photo today, his parking spot got demolished by a Katyusha missile.

s.

(for dad, love)

PALASTINI (spelling alternatives)

2006-08-05T08:15:00.000-07:00

PALASTINI

Spelling Alternatives

palatine officer of a royal court; feudal lord...

Palestine Biblical land of Israel; land of Israel...

ballasting stabilize with ballast; steady

palpating examine by touch, check by feeling;...

pulsating expand and contract rhythmically; beat,...

blasting explode, blow up; destroy, ruin

Pakistani resident of Pakistan

Babylon English-English

palatine

adj. of a palace; pertaining to an imperial officer, having royal privileges; under the rule of a feudal lord; pertaining to the palate

x

n. officer of a royal court; feudal lord who rules sovereignly over a province; count; either of the two bones of the hard palate

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Palatine
Palatine is an adjective, derived via Latin palatinus from palatium 'palace', which was named after the Palatine Hill for geography of Rome. It has also become used as a substantive.
See Palatini for various ecclesiastical offices
See Palatinate for vice-regal office-bearers, especially in Germany. Hence Rhineland-Palatinate for one of the 16 German Bundesländer.
See County palatine for palatine counties (and duchies) in England
See Palatine (Kingdom of Hungary)
See Palatine Bone for the bone of the same name. See Kasztelan and Voivode for gubernatorial officials in Poland often rendered as Palatine
Castellan
A castellan was the governor or caretaker of a castle or keep. The word stems from the Latin Castellanus, derived from castellum 'castle'.
His role was often partway between that of a majordomo and that of a military administrator — while a castellan was responsible for the work of a castle's domestic staff, as a majordomo was, the castellan was also often responsible for maintaining defences and protecting the castle's lands. This was particularly the case if there was no lord resident at the castle, or if the resident lord was frequently absent.

Majordomo

Majordomo can refer to:

· the head of a household staff

· an open-source mailing list software project

Babylon English-English

majordomo

n. manager of a household

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ma·jor·do·mo

Pronunciation:

ˌmā-jər-'dō-(ˌ)mō

Function:

noun

Inflected Form:

plural -mos

Etymology:

Spanish mayordomo or obsolete Italian maiordomo, from Medieval Latin major domus, literally, chief of the house

Date:

1589

1 : a head steward of a large household (as a palace)
2 : BUTLER, STEWARD
3 : a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another broadly : the person who runs an enterprise majordomo of the fair>

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<messaging, tool> A popular freeware mailing list processor written in Perl which runs under Unix. Majordomo is a "groupware" project which evolved from code by Brent Chapman brent@greatcircle.com, with maintenance by John Rouillard rouilj@cs.umb.edu. The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson cwilson@sgi.com.
A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; from Latin "major domus" - "master of the house".
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shiri.

Divine Intervention

2006-08-05T04:26:00.000-07:00

Now is Uncle Sam's turn:
And they're giving you a deal! Best Quote ever!

Apparently Schwartzkopf has appointed him self as messenger of god.
Not General in office, not spokesman of military forces,
but a voice of god.

What does this say about the U.S. ?

Is it a direct reference to Hizbulla "Party of God?"

Who has ownership of God these days, and why are Israel the mediator?
Doesn't the Chosen People have a direct link to G'd?

What this really means:
General Norman Schwartzkopf is publicly admitting that Israel is clearing
the ground for the next U.S. invasion, and in fact - is getting the dirty job done
for G' Bush.

And they're giving you a bargain.

~s.

What is U.S. saying in my inbox?

FW: One of the best quotes I have heard! Inbox

>
>BEST QUOTE!
>
>In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought
>there was room for forgiveness toward Hizbollah
>
>The General said,
>" I believe that forgiving Hizbollah is God's function. The Israeli's job
>is
>to arrange the meeting ."
>
>

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Old Poland

2006-08-04T13:35:00.000-07:00

כיסאה. אבל אוי ואבוי אם חס וח
לילה הסושי לא יעלה על שולחנם של הת
ל אביבים האלה, כאשר, נגיד, טיל תועה של
החיזבאללה
יפציץ את שיירת המשלוח של הסושי. או אז יתחילו לעוף פה ראשים.

גם בדבר הזה אנחנו נעשים יותר ויותר - עם כל הרהב שלנו על היותנו מדינת רווחה דמוקרטית מערבית - ארץ שהיא בעצם אוליגרכיה בורגנית מתחסדת וצדקנית המגינה בעיקרו של דבר על מעמד מבוסס אחד, שהמלחמה - שבואו נקרא לה בשמה הנכון, "מלחמת שלום הבורגנות הישראלית" - בסך הכל עוזרת לו לבסס את מעמדו ביתר שאת בחסות האולמרטים (וגם באופן פרדוקסלי על ידי פרץ ושות' שמספקים לעם את הסיסמאות המרגיעות המתאימות), כי הרי המלחמה מרוששת עוד יותר את המרוששים-ממילא ואת השוליים הופכת לעוד יותר שוליים, וכך המבוססים נעשים באופן יחסי מבוססים יותר. אז ביג דיל, הבורגנות הישראלית לא תיסע הקיץ לצימרים בגליל. מה יש, אין צימרים בטוסקנה? וסימכו עליהם. בזמן שאתם הייתם במקלטים, הם סידרו גם לילדים ולנכדים פספורט פולני. שיהיה, למקרה שפתאום יקרה פה
משהו ולא יהיה להם חס וחלילה לאן ללכת. עוד פעם שואה זה כבר יותר מדי בשבילם.

-מתוך הבלוג של בני ציפר, עיתון הארץ

quote from Benni Zifer's blog, "Haaretz.co.il"

"The war for peace among the Israeli Bourgoisee

...As long as they're not bombing the Sushi trail heading for Tel-Aviv we're OK...
...The war bankrupts the broke and marginalizes the margin even more....

...While you're sitting in shelters, they all gotten Polish and German passports for their kids and grandkids.
Just in case, so there's somewhere to go. Another holocaust is too much for them. "

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=746595&bl=2&contrassID=2

Reply:

Dear Mr Ziffer,

While you were sitting at your desk getting smug towards your own clan -

I was sitting here having a chicken cutlet. mashed potatoes, side of salad and a lass of juice.
Total: $5.75, not too bad for a whole meal.
One can have it every day, it's nutritios - and nobody makes it anymore.

All of our grandmothers directly from Old Poland have passed away,

Then it hit me - I am exiled and it is fine.

I have no moral problem having my lunch in Old Poland, Brooklyn every day.

I miss my grandmother, I miss home cooking and here I've found the source.
The motherload of chicken cutlets, let them flow.

This is now my new home,
until Israel figures out its mistakes
When electing a socialist like Amir Peretz for Minister of security,
you get what you deserve.

No dessert.

Regards,
Shiri Sandler

Greenpoint
Brooklyn, New York

Message from Lebaon: online now (((*)))

2006-08-03T19:00:00.000-07:00

From:	Peace In Lebanon
Date:	Aug 3, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject	Message From Lebguide.com
Body:	Dear all, As you all know, the situation in Lebanon is escalating and there is still no talk of a cease-fire. The humanitarian crisis is becoming greater by the hour and the material losses of the country are beyond description. Our families, friends, and fellow-citizens in Lebanon need our support and it is with that aim in mind that the LEBGUIDE team and other friends have set up SODELEB. We are not asking you for much, other than to spread the word and allow people to have access to invaluable information about this crisis. SODELEB website @ http://www.sodeleb.org is threefold: 1. It will give you all the necessary information to be up to date with the crisis in Lebanon. 2. It will direct you to all the necessary agencies would you want to have the means for direct action for Lebanon. 3. It will give you access to campaign tools to spread the word on the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon. Indeed, we have worked on an ad campaign to mobilize public opinion in various countries in support of Lebanon. Note that this advertisement will run in several newspapers around the world in the following days. Thank you for your support! Karim El-Khazen The LEBGUIDE team Email: info@lebguide.com URL: http://www.LebGuide.com

We are (no) news

2006-08-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

There's absolutely (nothing) going on in this picture

Chain letter

2006-08-03T06:30:00.000-07:00

Fw: תמונות של חיילים ישראלים שאף פעם לא יופיעו בעיתונים זרים - תעבירו הלאה Inbox

Translates: FW: Images of Israeli soldiers you will never see in a foreign newspaper

(pass it on)

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My Reading:

Israeli soldier reaching out to a child over a barricade

Soldier playing with a child, sitting at his eye-level, both casting same-length shadow.

Israeli soldier grabbing an old Arabic man in the arm, seems like a helping gesture

Other Israeli soldier helping out an elderly Arabic man over a barbed-wire fence

Repetition: Israeli soldier touching a little girl's hand

Culmination: Israeli higher ranking soldier shaking hands with Lebanese soldier, smiling in joy of (victory? satisfaction? what goes through his head? )

Finale: Israeli sodier petting a kitti-cat. My heart melts.

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What does this mean?

Israeli soldiers are well mannered, kind to children, the elderly and small animals.

What are they not showing you?

All of the above are non-threatening.

They are not showing you young men of fighting age being petted by Israeli soldiers.

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They are promoting propaganda on every channel possible.
I stopped buying it.

Conclusion?

I don't know.

Bad, bad, citizen (of where?)

~s.

This is really happening

2006-08-03T04:09:00.000-07:00

This email arrived in my inbox this morning. A case of life immitating art?

Dear friends,

Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better,

and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.

Please go to www.giyus.org , download the Megaphone , and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.

We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.

Do it now. For Israel.

Amir Gissin

Director

Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

Walla! Mail - get your free 3G mail today

Reference

2006-08-03T04:07:00.000-07:00

Coming soon,

to anywhere near you.

When it comes, will

Still be nearing.

Flash animation by Shiri Sandler

VIDEOZONE 1st intl. biennale for video art, Tel Aviv 2002

www.shirisandler.com/ (coming soon)

Curated in compilations at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Cinematecs.

5 minutes

2006-08-02T13:06:00.000-07:00


in 5 minutes there will be peace in 5 minutes i will finish crossing the bridge and there will be peace i am now crossing the brooklyn bridge and when i finish there will be world peace all problems will end there will be no more war i have just finished crossing the bridge and there is peace 5 minutes ago they declared world peace there is no more war.

Tisha B'av & 3x3

2006-08-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

3x3x3x3=

Tisha B'Av
is a fast day, that commemorates two of the saddest days in Jewish history— the destruction of both the first Temple (587 BC) originally built by King Solomon, (see Solomon's Temple), and the Second Temple in 70 on this same date. Also on this date in 1290, King Edward I signed the edict compelling the Jews to leave England. The Jewish expulsion from Spain in 1492 also occurred on this day. World War I also began on this date (which is seen as connected to World War II and the Holocaust).

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World War Three
is a term used to describe a hypothetical conflict on the scale of World War II or larger. Most usages of the term assume the use of weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons.
In the latter half of the 20th century, military confrontation between the two superpowers was considered to pose an extreme threat to establishing world peace, when the Cold War saw the capitalist United States face the communist Soviet Union. If this confrontation had escalated into full-scale war, it was widely thought that the conflict would become "World War III," and that the end result would be the destruction of most life on Earth, an extermination of human life or, at the very least, the partial collapse of civilization, with total casualties exceeding 1 billion. (See also Mutually Assured Destruction.) This outcome ranks with asteroid or comet impact events, worldwide pandemics, and catastrophic climate change as one of the major mass extinction events that could befall humanity or even all life on Earth.
The term has carried on beyond the Cold War, and now usually refers to any potential future global conflict which would involve nuclear weapons. In modern times, the possibility of WWIII taking place between superpowers has been replaced by the threat of a nuclear attack by a smaller party, which could incite retaliation and cause a destructive domino effect.

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Three Cities Against the Wall
brings together Palestinian, Israeli, American and European artists in a unique and historic 3-city exhibition to protest the "Separation Wall" Israel is building in the Occupied Territories. Each artist is represented by works in all three cities.

http://3citiesagainstthewall.net/exhibition.html

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About World War 3 Illustrated

WW3 isn’t about a war that may happen, it is about the ongoing wars our so-called leaders have been waging all our lives around the world and on our very own doorsteps. WW3 also illuminates the war we wage on each other and sometimes the one taking place in our own brains.

http://www.worldwar3illustrated.org/

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Contemplating the destruction of old ideas, and the construction of new ones.

Last night a friend and I talked about how it is impossible to stay living on Israeli land and remain left-winged.

This led to beginning to think of a different way of having a people, a nation

that is self-contained.

A way that is not continuing old zionizm, not escaping war in Europe, not facing genocide,

a way that has room and respect for Jewish heritage and is embedded in every-day life.

Tel-Aviv style spiritual/ secular.

Utilizing the metaphore of WW3 in the global sense. The new war may have already begun,

it is not up to us. The new war is determined perhaps by 3 people.

The rest of the globe can either follow, or choose to stop CONSUMING.

--- more to follow, would love your comments.

Shiri.

It's been 3 days and my video is still being verified...

2006-08-01T09:11:00.000-07:00

~ aPE-gIRL ~
06

//:3

skype call: the people want peace!

2006-07-31T13:35:00.000-07:00

My friend diti fwded the following transcript:

[4:24:53 PM] diti says: [26/07/2006 17:47:37] bou 2006 says: Death to Israel
[27/07/2006 10:10:10] diti says: people that dill with hate die first
[27/07/2006 10:11:16] diti says: but you are young.
[27/07/2006 10:11:34] diti says: you want to die so fast??
[27/07/2006 17:53:36] bou 2006 says: Now you looking for peace....!!, you Will never find it, you Will live in constant terror
[27/07/2006 17:57:03] bou 2006 says: you are a girl....!!! . So I am verey sorry
[27/07/2006 17:59:03] bou 2006 says: I not Be careful..... (F)
[27/07/2006 17:59:16] bou 2006 says: bay
[27/07/2006 18:56:08] diti says: i wish you only good in your life becouse if you will have good life you will want others to have good too.ang than it will be only good energy and you won't want me to die.
[30/07/2006 11:17:02] diti says: anyway just to let you know that all people in israel want peace and worship life. bye.
[21:33:00] bou 2006 says: Is this hypocrisy ......... or what?
[21:33:29] bou 2006 says: 37 of them children dead....... Are these courageous soldiers of Israel?
[21:33:50] bou 2006 says: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6334D333-E2A2-4F66-81E6-42FD108FD8BB.htm
[21:34:25] bou 2006 says: Peace died.....
[21:34:51] bou 2006 says: Forever
[21:39:06] bou 2006 says: Death to Israel and USA
[22:14:11] diti says: years of bombing the north of Israel and nobody cares,2 soldiers kidnapped and nobody care. now, what do YOU care????
[22:15:33] diti says: and i will tell you AGAIN : the people want peace. SALAM!!! salamat kul taib.

FREE BANNER TO GRAB

2006-07-31T12:02:00.000-07:00

Hi All,
Please help promote peace by linking back to this blog.

Much thanks,
Shiri.

They are going for Iran

2006-07-31T11:16:00.000-07:00

This is no surprise, we can now sit and watch as media spinning takes the war further.
Make the 1+1= This is how Iraq started.

s.

Security Council gives Iran sanctions deadline

The U.N. Security Council said it would sanction Iran if it did not suspend uranium enrichment by Aug. 31.

The 14-1 vote Monday was the first time all five veto-wielding permanent members of the council agreed to sanction Iran.

The resolution calls on Iran to suspend �all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development� and to allow international nuclear inspectors to verify the suspension.

If it fails to do so, the Security Council expressed its intention to �adopt appropriate measures� under Article 41, which carries economic and diplomatic sanctions.

Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful. International inspectors have concluded that Iran has a weapons program. Qatar cast the lone dissenting vote.

Poetry Recess

2006-07-30T21:45:00.000-07:00

There is a widespread Western messianism that posits that peace in Jerusalem
will lead to peace in the rest of the world.
Although this is a Christian belief, originally associated with the political right,
it is now mostly voiced by those who are secular and on the political left.

Women Have a Nesting Sindrom

Gathering, Gathering,

Padding their Wombs.

When a Bomb is gonna hit it,

She don't care no Masiah

Wassuposta Come,

Especially not from da Lefside.

Bombs come frome above,

Love, heart open torn in chuncks.

In the Up Set Gut.

Is a territory neccesssary -

whistling bullets zoom past
say

Saving my digital archive

2006-07-30T16:12:00.000-07:00

In the meantime, for an exact sense of Tel Aviv at 6 a.m.
you can go to my website,

http://www.shirisandler.com

at the header, click on un_titled and select video 1/ real media only.

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It's a zoo out there.

2006-07-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

Brother and self, in front of Tel Aviv Zoo 1976.

A photo speaks volumes. Out of my family archives, this is a rare one.
It speaks in its naivity over a pseudo exotical space. Yes, there was a Zoo in Tel Aviv, my grandmother's apartment was right across the street from it - i kid you not.

On a bright summer's night you could smell the elephant shit behind the bus fumes
and the rotting smell of old water, trees shedding on sidewalks and old woman's chatter.

The unique scent of Tel-Aviv polution, a city raised in sand dunes to grow flamingos.

Those infact are pink flamingos in the back, contrasted by a pair of twins who'd recently arrived from AMERICA wearing Wallmart clothing - unseen at the time at the region.

America was Uber Ales, it was the best, it was a place to go and make dreams come true,
and our parents - a complete product of 67 - the 6 days war - had never felt more patriotic and hopeful. They were serving the two governments in a military collaboration, a fact which had gotten me a lifetime open ticket yet no physical place to miss what so ever.

Tel-Aviv has since moved its enviromental hazard to the outskirts of town,
away from City Hall, and has built a 12-story high-rise with a mall underneath -
still a staple of little old ladies where ever they are.

I am holding a piece of meat.
And no, I did not grow up to be a biker.

Nothing is what it seems, only what it is interpreted.

s.

On the importance of Israel to stability of the region

2006-07-30T11:50:00.000-07:00

MEF Wires

Is Israel Important?

A briefing by Bret Stephens
January 19, 2005

Bret Stephens is a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and was in 2002-04 editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, Israel's leading English-language daily. Previously, Mr. Stephens was an editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe. In 2004, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, where he is also a media fellow. Mr. Stephens addressed the Middle East Forum in New York, on January 19, 2005.

Is Israel significant or insignificant regarding its position in the affairs of the Middle East and the world? Although the views from Jerusalem and even the United States and Europe may present Israel as part of the most important story in the world, there are more pressing stories, particularly in the Middle East.

For example, the possibility of Iran possessing a nuclear arsenal in the near future may pose the greatest foreign policy challenge the United States has faced in decades. The unfolding results and consequences of the recent Iraqi election are also of the utmost importance. In addition, the gradual weakening of the Saudi kingdom, coupled with the eventual passing of Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, will present two enigmas concerning leadership succession.

Read the full article here

Guess we were too early?

2006-07-30T09:32:00.000-07:00

Inbox

Karen Gregory to Me, Rob

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/74007.html

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Re:

I'm glad we were. Our subtle experience surpassed by far any other demonstration of power.

s.

5 Minutes

2006-07-30T07:47:00.000-07:00

5 Minutes.

Title: 5 minutes.

Dir: Shiri Sandler.

Camera etc.
Karen Gregory & Rob Fellman.

Synopsis:
We ventured out on a HeatWave Saturday to join the protest.
As we arrived the Brooklyn Bridge, there were no protestors there,
except us three, a camera and a megaphone.
So we went.

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.spell.gif

2006-07-30T06:19:00.000-07:00

Note: forwarded message attached.

Open multiple messages at once with the all new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

From: Aviva Cohen
To: undisclosed-recipients:

Thread-Topic: Israel: One picture says it all...

We are such bullies!

The above message was in my mail box this morning.
I don't know Aviva, it was mass forwaded by a friend of a friend.

A rhetoric that's common in Israeli discourse: oh look, we are so small in geographic size, and surrounded by enemies.

Well, my friends, this does not convince us anymore.

The world is long an open economy, supported by U.S. currency.

In which case, we are all on American land.

s.

A communal stomache ache

2006-07-30T05:32:00.000-07:00

Corie was experiencing a stomache ache while visiting Isrel.
So have I and so have our commander of the IDF.

Last week in the war.

Rav-Aluf Halutz Hospitalized with a stomache ache

Corie Feiner
to me
More options Jul 29 (22 hours ago)

Shiri,

Interesting about the commander of IDF. The stomach is the center of
intuition.

Yes, link ahead.

Love,
Corie

A LETTER FROM CHOMSKY AND OTHERS ON THE RECENT EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

2006-07-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

A LETTER FROM CHOMSKY AND OTHERS ON THE RECENT EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Chomsky.info
July 19, 2006

http://www.chomsky.info/2006_07_01_archive.htm#115350344072235040

The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when
Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An
incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The
following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner - and proposed
a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis - there are
approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.

That this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the illegal military
occupation of the West Bank and the systematic appropriation of its natural
resources - most particularly that of water - by the Israeli Defence (!)
Forces is considered a regrettable but realistic fact of life, is typical of
the double standards repeatedly employed by the West in face of what has
befallen the Palestinians, on the land alloted to them by international
agreements, during the last seventy years.

Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles cross sophisticated ones.
The latter usually find their target situated where the disinherited and
crowded poor live, waiting for what was once called Justice. Both categories
of missile rip bodies apart horribly - who but field commanders can forget
this for a moment?

Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But
the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in
order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and
geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation
of the Palestinian nation.

This has to be said loud and clear for the practice, only half declared and
often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it must be
unceasingly and eternally recognised for what it is and resisted

Tariq Ali
John Berger
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Naomi Klein
Harold Pinter
Arundhati Roy
Jose Saramago
Giuliana Sgrena
Howard Zinn

A. He is not dead yet. Just comatosed.

2006-07-29T15:21:00.000-07:00

To disprove public conception, Former PM Sharon is still with us.
Only hospitalized and comatosed.

Silenced.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3281750,00.html

MySpace bulletin messaging

2006-07-29T09:48:00.000-07:00

You Wanna know what blogs do, they bring the impossible/ the improbabble together.

following thread from myspace

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Jul 17, 2006 6:36 PM
Subject: re:message from lebanon
Body: I'm etremely upset about the whole thing
and would like to show my support at civilians.

Some of us do not agree with Israeli policy
neither do we support Bush and the Israeli-American Co-dependency.

I fear that this was planned a long time ago as
a media spin opportinity, to (U.S.) continue and invade neighboring countries.

Uri Avnery wrote about it today in Maariv
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/450/418.html
(hebrew)

S.

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: U U U U
Date: Jul 16, 2006 12:26 PM

Here is a report from my friend Bilal in Lebanon (he is Lebanese). I've been worried about him -- so glad to hear he is okay. The situation is causing me much grief and distress...

ww
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From Beirut
July 16

Hi everyone. First of all, I am fine as are
family and friends. We're scattered in different
places, some still in the south, some in Tyre,
the rest in Beirut and its surroundings. Those
who live in the southern suburbs where Hizbullah
is based managed to leave before the latest
strikes and are safe with relatives.

As most of you know, Hizbullah carried out a bold
operation a few days ago and managed to capture
two Israeli soldiers. The resistance has been
saying for quite some time now that it intends to
free the remaining Lebanese prisoners in Israel,
most prominently Samir Qantar. Dubbed the "dean
of the prisoners," Qantar is the longest serving
Arab prisoner in Israel. He was to be released
along with other Lebanese prisoners in a swap
between Hizbullah and Israel. The Israeli
government voted not to release him and two
others and stupidly kept the prisoner file open.

The Hizbullah operation was an attempt to put an
end to the matter. There were several previous
unsuccessful attempts that were costly to the
resistance. This operation according to
Nasrallah, the general-secretary of Hizbullah,
was months in planning and its timing, which has
been endlessly criticized, may have been logistical
more than anything else.

In light of Israel's ferocious response, it is
worth noting that the capture of the two Israeli
soldiers was a pure military operation and did
not as much scratch an Israeli civilian. Israel's
counter is exactly the oppositecollective
punishment of the civilian population by
destroying the country's infrastructure and
committing ugly massacres against families and
fleeing refugees as they did yesterday in the
south. Who's the terrorist in this case, even by
the self-serving definitions peddled in Washington.

Why did Hizbullah do this, did they not know that
Israel would respond this way. I'm certain that
they considered this scenario as one of several.
But Hizbullah's two decades of experience in
dealing with Israel have taught it one thing and
that is Tel Aviv will never budge on any matter
without threat of force. Israel was compelled to
leave southern Lebanon in May 2000after over 20
years of occupationonly after the resistance
gained the upper hand militarily.

The consequent prisoner swap in which nearly all
Lebanese prisoners in Israel were released was
only possible once Hizbullah managed to capture
Israeli soldiers and offer them in exchange. As
Nasrallah put it, the recent operation was the
only logical conclusion given Hizbullah long
experience with Israel. To get the remaining
prisoners out, Israeli soldiers must be
capturedIsrael simply offered no other option.

The current situation only confirms Hizbullah's
experience. The whole worldand most painfully
the Arab governmentshave refused to lift a
finger to restrain Israel. The UN met and decided
to do nothing, yesterday the Arab League met and
was even more insulting. The Lebanese government
has yet to act, besides denouncing Hizbullah and
distancing themselves from the resistance--not
even providing the most basic services to the displaced
and injured.

The Arab League meeting and statements by the
Lebanese prime minister suggest that there is a
convergence of interests between them and Israel
over putting a halt to the Lebanese resistance by
disarming Hizbullah and burying once and for all
those forces in the region, including Hamas for
example, that believe in a line of confrontation
with Israel as the only road to get some
semblance of justice. The Saudi royals and their
slavish counterparts in Jordan and Egypt, want
Arabs to submit and swallow the humiliation we
are subjected to daily in Iraq, Palestine and
Lebanon, all in the name of stability and rational
thinking.

Since 1993 and the signing of the Oslo Accords,
the Arab leaders, the US and the UN have been
saying that negotiations and normalization with
Israel are the only way to peace. But we have yet
to see Israel make the smallest concession,
taking the opportunity to swallow up yet more
land, butcher the Palestinian people and continue
to imprison thousand. Hamas' election was but one
indicator that ordinary Arabs have understood
that successive peace accords have brought them
nothing but further miseryonly resistance, with
all the suffering that comes with it, bears fruit.

Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese are all
alone, abandoned to be taught a lesson by the
regional and global powers. Hizbullah's
incredible response (striking a war ship and
bombing as far as Haifa) shows that they perhaps
considered and prepared for Israel's ferocious
response. Only their ability to strike back
effectively can save Lebanon from complete
destruction at the hands of Israelthe lunatics
in Tel Aviv know no other language.

-Bilal El-Amine

www.leftturn.org | www.ideasforaction.org

This means War

2006-07-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/

The independent is continuing its glossy arts poster series,
followed by news coverage of the Israel-Lebanon war.

Who is really responsible for this?

Is it really Israel, Is it the Lebanese government, Is it the American government.

The bottom and far most important line, is the fact this debate is inter-woven.

Israel, in fact is doing the dirty job for its sugar-daddy Uncle Sam to increase instability in the region.

It is the larger truth and we should ask where this could be going next.

The answer can not even be swept under a Caravaggio poster - magnificent as may be.

This is my final response in writing. As a dual-citizen I am truly baffled regarding the direction in which the wind blows. I shall choose to respond in moderating response, gathering further information and posting VLOGS.

Manipulated information can only be disproven with corresponding manipulated information.

When manipulated in a precise way, we can show redicule -- expose it - and confront more truth.

s.

[IMA] Open call for words about Israel-Lebanon war

2006-07-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

I am posting the following letter in full,
as I feel it is ALL important.

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Shiri....

Thank you for your insight and bravery in bringing this to our program through a call for entries.

This is such a heated topic, and I've seen that your simple call for entries has become a major dialogue on the ListServe. I personally responded to Gocken, Josh, Jarah, Allison and Simone, as I felt they were the most active and the most verbal on the list and I didn't want to cloud up the "public airwaves" with any more with comments on this. Wow.

Your astute question:
How should artists respond when the mask of culture is being taken off and bloody war exposed?

Here's what I think: There have been many wars and many masks taken off through time, and artists respond, I hope, as human beings first. How an artist responds rests on what the artist identifies with, first personally, and then perhaps how she sees herself within a larger context. I would like to think that art transcends the incidents of history and brings us to the realisation of the most inclusive issues between us, but of course, this is only one perspective.

The specifics: Israel/Lebanon
Personally specific: I am not Jewish
Why should/does this matter in terms of what I feel as an artist:
I feel if I express disagreement with Israeli politics or what Israel does relative to its neighbors I will be labelled a racist or be seen as "un-American". As a non-Jewish American, I feel that I have been "taught" to respond this way. It is reflexive, and thus I do not feel I have a "right" to participate in this dialogue.
DISAGREEMENT = RACISM
I am not a racist...ie...
I AM SILENCED.

This is truthful for me and you've really given me cause to think and express myself on this. If you wanted to use my above statements in something you are putting together, that would be fine. Thank you again and I'll be interested to see where this ends up....

Clare Ultimo

Another professor voices opinion

2006-07-29T06:11:00.000-07:00

Dear colleagues and friends,
I have been keeping up with the IMA discussion and find it very important. My e-mail is filled with messages about what is happening in the Middle East. the following correspondence between a union member and a union preseident makes a very powerful point. These are not private matters. We should be debating them openly. I hope you take the time to read this. Finally, I think this is a critical moment and an important discussion to have and I propose we organize a IMA public forum in the fall to deepen our understanding of what is happening in the milddle east and why.
tami

ZNet | Israel/Palestine
Unions and Israel
A letter from a rank-and-file unionist to CAW's President
by Joe Emersberger and Buzz Hargrove; July 23, 2006

To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers) July 19, 2006
Buzz,
Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half a million. It has been given cart blanche by the international community - including Harper's government - to kill as many people as it likes.

The corporate media has sold people on the lie that the crisis originated with the capture of a single soldier by Hamas militants based in Gaza. As always, Israeli expansionism is ignored and it is depicted as acting in self defence..Israeli strikes killed scores of civilians in Gaza in the weeks prior to the capture of the Israeli soldier. The day before his capture Israel kidnapped two civilians from Gaza. Worse, since 2000 Israel has implemented a murderous siege on Gaza that has tripled malnutrition among children according to conservative sources such as the UN and the World bank. It is important to note that Israel's economic strangulation precedes both the election of Hamas and the so called "withdrawal" from the Gaza.

It is worth remembering that Israel funded Hamas during its early days to undermine the PLO. Israeli policy has consistently placed expansionism above security. Contrary to much fantasy that has not changed in recent years.
Please reconsider your stand on CUPE's call for economic sanctions against Israel. The labour movement should be taking action.
Joe Emersberger Local 1498
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REPLY FROM CAW
Dear Joe,
Thanks for your interest. I am attaching a copy of the letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper which was endorsed by the CAW National Executive Board.
July 18, 2006
Media Release For Immediate CAW National Pack Distribution
CAWs Hargrove Calls on Prime Minister to Take Leadership Role in Middle East
Canadian Auto Workers union president Buzz Hargrove has issued a statement on the crisis in the Middle East and has called on Prime Minister Harper to take a leadership role in trying to bring the parties to the table to find a resolution to the conflicts.
Hargroves letter follows:
Dear Prime Minister,
The crisis in the Middle East cannot be allowed to escalate and I believe Canada can take a leadership role in finding a diplomatic resolution.
The potential of provoking a much wider conflict, plummeting the entire region into chaos, is a real danger. Up to 200 people in Gaza and Lebanon have been killed and thousands more may die because of the destruction by Israeli bombings of power plants, homes and hospitals. Hamas and Hezbollah must assume responsibility for this latest crisis, but this does not give Israel the license to kill innocent citizens and destroy the infrastructure in Gaza and Lebanon. The continuing killing of Israeli soldiers and over 25 innocent citizens alike cannot be ignored by the world community. We are extremely concerned about the recent killing of 7 Canadians in the bombing of Lebanon.
Certainly Israel has the right to defend itself against attacks on its citizens by extremist forces such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Countries like Lebanon, Syria and Iran that harbour extremist forces must expect that there will be consequences to their complicity in the attacks on Israel.
However, Israel’s military response has been brutal and disproportionate to the provocation by Hezbollah and Hamas. The killing of innocent civilians and destruction of the infrastructure destabilizes the region and impedes advancing the goals of democracy and peace for Palestinian, Israeli and Lebanese people.
The CAW calls for:
the immediate return, unharmed, of captured Israeli soldiers. an end to the shelling of Israeli cities by Hamas militants. an end to the shelling of Israeli cities by the Hezbollah militants.
-an end to Israeli bombing of Lebanon and Gaza and all military operations including the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and Lebanon. -the release of the Palestinian ministers and parliamentarians arrested by the Israelis -the immediate reinstatement of international aid to the Palestinian Authority under the leadership of President Abbas. -expedite the evacuation of all Canadians who are caught in the war zone in Lebanon.
Canada must take a leadership role in bringing the parties to the table to find a resolution to this crisis, which has cost too many innocent lives.
In order for Canada to take a credible leadership role, the federal government must end its unsavoury attempts to mirror George Bushs policies during this crisis and instead, reflect the strongly held Canadian values of fairness and justice and to uphold our obligations to international law.
We propose the Canadian government withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and further propose they be reassigned to a peacekeeping role in the Middle East.
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REPLY TO CAW - July 21, 2006
Buzz,
I never thought I would ever be so disappointed with the CAW. The letter to Harper is terrible. It makes some decent suggestions - some not so decent - but mainly it's terrible for what it didn't say; and for its denial of a simple fact: Israel provoked this latest crisis. Hamas and Hizbullah are certainly not blameless, but Israel is the primary culprit. This conflict puts the world in danger. The CAW has failed to respond appropriately.
Why did the CAW not acknowledge a Palestinian (and Lebanese) right to self defence? How many bombings and civilian casualties must they endure before the CAW would acknowledge their right to strike back at Israel's military?
Why did it the CAW not call for an end to Israel's economic strangulation of Gaza? That goes far beyond the international aid embargo which, thankfully, the CAW called on Canada to no longer participate in. You should be aware that since 2000 Israeli imposed sanctions have tripled child malnutrition in Gaza. If Palestinians could inflict this damage on Israeli children would Israelis not have the right to strike at the military that enforces the sanctions?
Why did the CAW not call for the release of the two civilians from Gaza that were kidnapped by Israeli forces the day before the Israeli soldier's capture?
Why did the CAW have nothing to say about the 1000 Palestinians kidnapped and held under "administrative detention" by Israel? Why did the CAW not call for their release? These people have never been charged with a crime! At what point does the CAW acknowledge a Palestinian right to strike at the military that carries out these kidnappings?
Why did the CAW not call for and end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank - or for it to stop building settlements?
None of these questions are rhetorical. Please answer them and note that I will be making any correspondence public. These are not private matters. We should be debating them openly.
Regards,
Joe Emersberger local 1498

The discussion went to freedom of speech

2006-07-29T06:10:00.000-07:00

Dear IMAers

I have followed the recent set of posts with interest.

One interest is personal. During the previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon in
the early 1980â€™s, I went to Lebanon with a camera and an Israeli film school
buddy to document the situation in South Lebanon and see for myself what I
thought of modern war and how to depict it.

Itâ€™s not clear to me that the listserve is only about announcements. Other
listserves I participate in have threads, and you follow the ones youâ€™re
intrigued by.

Having said that, the group discussion moved off onto Joshâ€™s personal blog.
That should not limit or prohibit people from bringing up related topics in the
future on the IMA list. How artists in general, and we at Hunter specifically
should respond to question raised by larger and more complex matters in our
society such as wars and invasions are key issues, particularly when they are
raised as they have been raised here in terms of what our responses my be as
media makers, and how those might be relevant. I would argue that this program
has a social dimension. It is not a technical program in media production
software, for instance. Whether the discussion needs to stay on the listserve if
people agree to move it is another issue.

Moving onto a specifically personal blog has an important drawback. The IMA
list has lurkers no doubt, but it is not a schoolyard where the children are
watched at play, or a rec yard where prisoners are observed by guards as the
â€˜panopticonâ€™ metaphor and the Foucoult-derived paralysis that notion
engenders suggest. The fact is, that in a certain way the listserve is
â€˜publicâ€™ .

In a recent essay Noortje Marres looks at John Deweyâ€™s response to the idea
that in an age of complex technology and big global questions democracy needs
to be attenuated so that problems can be solved by leaders and â€œexpertsâ€ in
the know. For Dewey and for Walter Lippmann, it was exactly complex problems
that the public had to grapple with.

I quote: "Lippmann and Dewey began developing the argument that â€˜foreign
entanglements,â€™ far from constituting an obstacle to democratic politics,
actually play an absolutely key role in getting people involved in politics.
The emergence of a strange, unfamiliar complex issue, they posited, is an
enabling condition of democratic politics." from â€œIssues Spark a Public Into
Beingâ€
Making Things Public Eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

It is at moments like the present, when our leaders seem footless that the
regular channels may not provide space to create public debate. This debate
then overflows channels that we tend to use for other purposes.

Are we clogging up the arteries of communication? The IMA program, with its
ability to create and analyze social software, should be able to investigate
these problems and solve them. Past problems aside, wikis are a typical
solution for groups that need announcements, calendars, AND discussion areas.

Finally, The University is to be treasured, and offers one of a shrinking number
of spaces for the creation of a valid public sphere. (i.e. people not talking to
themselves.) Rather than restricting our discussion space, we should seek to
expand it.

best,

Marty L.

The discussion has gotten ugly right away

2006-07-29T06:05:00.000-07:00

I agree that democracy and dialogue is, ashamedly, mostly a dream and a sham in this country. However, I was referring to our own MFA program, over which we have a bit more control. Dialogue and democratic talk are necessary in academia and mudslinging and scapegoating are not. If some people prefer to not-so-subtly blame diasporic Jews for the misery of this war, it should happen in a different setting than this listserv. Gekko: you should be disgusted as many of us are. But I ask that you reflect on your claim that "Jews worldwide" (you mean The Conspiracy?) have the power to stop this.

Please explain to my family -- not only my ancestors who were kicked out of Spain and Russia but the more recent relatives who learned how to make belts and ice cream and sell mens clothing and work for unions, how to become doctors and laborers and musicians and academics (well, that was me anyway) -- how are we to stop the disastrous war in Lebanon? We are not Israelis, and we have our own country to be at odds with (and we were powerless to stop the war in Iraq). I'm tired of being told that I must feel one way or the other, or must align myself with one side or the other. This is the tribalism that lies at the root of this and most wars.

Gekko's request that I and other Jews stop this "feed" is quite similar to the unspoken understanding after 9/11 that immigrant shopkeepers in New York must display an American flag to show they aren't terrorists. I can handle my dissent on my own; I don't need to be lumped in with a group of people and told how to behave.

I agree with Simone that continued discussion is necessary. Without it, we're left to more visceral responses. And I have to disagree with Gekko: blogs are a great way to communicate. Let's continue the conversation, but I don't think this listserv is the place to do it. Come on over to www.levjoy.com/blog and continue a discussion that's already been taking place about this.

-Josh

Hey,
I appreciate what Shiri is doing--I think getting out alternative views to what we are all being fed is an important thing--again, there are many ways of expressing views and mobilizing for change and art is one way. By the way, I don't see anyone in the IMA program throwing away their multimedia, film, video, or whatever tools to pick up arms in revolution (or have you done that, Gekko?) so we might as well support one of our classmates who is doing something!
Best,
Pam

Original Call Letter

2006-07-29T06:03:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Due to the urgent state of affairs, we're putting together a gallery
exhibition
that will respond to current war on the lebanese border.

Gallery space has been made available for next week.

This part of the show will be put together in form of letters/ opinions
and will be posted on a blog both in the gallery and then on the www.

Plese respond in any way you see fit, we'd like to get a discussion
going and have civilian voices heard.

What do artists think, how should they respond, when the mask of culture
is being taken off and the bloody war is exposed?

write emails to: shiris.man@gmail.com

Thanks,
Shiri

Call for artists

2006-07-29T05:57:00.000-07:00

There's a war in my home.

Is this a new situation, no -
being away gives me enough freedom to do something about it.

An exhibition has been put on.
A call has been issued, the responses - explosive.

Read below for the official call letter,
and responses as well as neighboring blogs.

Shiri Sandler,
Artist.


Pronunciation:		ˌmā-jər-'dō-(ˌ)mō
Function:		noun
Inflected Form:		plural -mos
Etymology:		Spanish mayordomo or obsolete Italian maiordomo, from Medieval Latin major domus, literally, chief of the house
Date:		1589

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Patriotizm

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The Typical Israeli Going to War

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MEMRIThe middle east Media Research Institutehttp://www.memri.org/

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Contribute your voice NOW

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More naive then naive

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This is really happening

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It's been 3 days and my video is still being verified...

skype call: the people want peace!

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It's a zoo out there.

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http://www.memri.org/