Israel to World: "Suck It."

oh and friends-of-the-Roma France

or at least overly focused on Israel.

hmmm I wonder why that is

Anti-semitism, of course.

still don't get stanm's post

what's not to understand? the first one is a link to an article. the second one is a joke in response to kgvz's "right in your fuckin' eye" remark about how anything critical of Israel is immediately branded as anti-semitic by the Israeli gov't.

oh right!

ha, ha that's hilarious, well done stanm

also a double entendre FYI

on the one hand, extend the building freeze ffs

on the other... owned much?

oh and friends-of-the-Roma France

I am always very persuaded by the "Israel may be oppressive, but other countries are much more oppressive" argument.

I am always very persuaded by the "Israel is worse than every other country in the world" argument.

ooh ooh can we have a poll you guys?

the cyber-attack thing is pretty genius, gotta say I prefer this method of warfare to Israel's other erm military tactics

I am always very persuaded by the "Israel is worse than every other country in the world" argument.

even North Korea?

erm - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/un-factfinding-mission-sa_n_743873.html

countdown to Israel calling video footage anti-semitic and biased 10, 9, 8...

7... 6... 5...

“Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.”

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/auschwitz-survivor-israel-acts-like-nazis-1.1000918

oh great, another 'anti-semitism doesn't exist' post from stanm

Yes, that is exactly what that article says and why I linked to it. Well done.

this guy's MO seems dubious, but what he says in that quote above has been true for a while.

stanm you made another lame crack about accusations of anti-semitism not long ago. im just wondering why you clipped that part of the article, which seems to me the least defensible. it's a battle of strawmen: sure, some people say any criticism of israel is always anti-semitic. but to say 'nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews' is bullshit. there are plenty of people who are called anti-semites who are actually anti-semites.

Could we leave the antisemitism out of it and just get back to Israel telling the world to suck it?

inspired by "What are some great charities to donate to out of spite?; i've given the zionist federation of great britain and ireland some cash on stanm's behalf. israel thanks you, stanm!

loool

What a relief! I'm so glad to find out that anti-Semitism is just another Jewish invention, like the Protocols and the Theory of Relativity. I was worried that an anti-Semite was just another racist dickwad, but it turns out that whatever it is, it's the Jews' fault and clearly isn't anyone else's problem. Thanks for the lesson, Dr. Meyer and StanM!!

That's not what was said at all.

hate stanm so much, let's all pile on.

yeah! Who does he think he is? I know where he lives and I just peed into his mail box! Take that, god hater!

Oh wait. Damn.

pimp c bitch I got a zoo up in my closet

sorry, carry on

The statement from Mr. Netanyahu’s office addressed the talks by saying that “Israel sees no connection at all between the peace process and building plans in Jerusalem.”

how convenient

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21423

xpost to shakey interesting then that the US is specifically offering various guarantees in exchange for a (3-month) settlement freeze

Israel to Cyclists: Suck It

Israeli activist imprisoned for protest against Gaza blockade

Jonathan Pollak handed three-month term after taking part in Tel Aviv protest cycle ride in January 2008

that was interesting. Is it unusual for these kind of sentences to be dished out to Israeli activists?

It is unusual for the level of the offence but he did already have a three months suspended sentence for something else.

still not sure of the "offense" here tbh /self-righteous cyclist

Things seem to be getting worse and worse:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/report-44-of-israeli-jews-support-rabbis-edict-forbidding-rentals-to-arabs-1.333825
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/head-reform-rabbi-israeli-society-is-falling-into-a-deep-pit-of-racism-1.333996

OTOH, was impressed with this, given the source:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/dec/04/the-time-has-come-to-say-these-things/

makes me think about how sometimes politicians who actually wish to do the right thing can be hamstrung by politics

too bad thats from 2008

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/is-israel-still-a-democracy/69377/

Anyway, when the Katsav verdict came down, I didn't quite realize who had delivered it. Now I do, and it is sort of stunning. There are six aspects of the Katsav trial which prove that Israel is still a democracy, and a country very much unlike all of its neighbors.

1) An ex-president of the nation was brought to account for his alleged crimes. Doesn't happen too often in Israel's neighorhood.
2) The crimes in question were crimes against women. Happens only rarely in the non-democratic East.
3) Two of the three judges in the Katsav case were women -- doesn't happen.
4) Here's the stunner -- the head judge of the three-judge panel was an Arab Israeli named Geoge Karra.
5) Maybe this is the real stunner -- No one in Israel seemed to think it abnormal for an Arab citizen of the Jewish state to sit in judgment of a Jewish ex-president.
6) And, by the way, the president was convicted.

An ex-President being convicted for crimes? Doesn't even happen in US.

nobody talkin about the leaked documents yet?

apparently condoleeza rice suggested that palestinian refugees could be resettled in chile

o_O

Refugees in countries like Jordan & Lebanon should be removed from camps and settled in those countries, not sent to Chile.

I think most human beings with beating hearts instead of ashes and tears would agree with you

i hear the weather in chile is nice, though. almost....mediterranean.

Joodoo Chile

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/61477/five-jews-murdered-in-west-bank/

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-israel-s-approval-of-new-west-bank-homes-counters-peace-efforts-1.348998

Both items are sad

ugh