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01 Friday Aug 2014

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Act I: bigots make bad neighbours.

In the first act, the principal character, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, makes his appearance on stage in the flowing black robes of a war-cleric. He is known by his kunya (name given in respect to an elder) ‘bad knees’ and is seen climbing the stairs in the manner of a man whose time is rapidly degrading and whose end is near. As he delivers a fiery oration, a magnificent digital presentation displays a collage of images from Mosul. Convoys of cars are seen leaving the city. Bakeries are closed and shops are shuttered. Schools are vacant and only men are noted outside the homes.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/01-Aug-2014/shakespeare-in-mosul – 8/1/2014.

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FTAC – Gazans Obtain Access to Israeli Emergency Health Services

01 Friday Aug 2014

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Because of the enforced isolation, much including Arab unwillingness to integrate the same, the residents of Gaza, “Gazans”, a term I am seeing more frequently, are positioned in time to become their own people in their own city-state.

When Hamas is gone — and it appears Hamas is working on that — the culture of Gaza may be open both to Egypt and Israel. Israel, incidentally, may have afterward plans for Gaza in the form of services made ready, starting with medicine — there’s already a built emergency field hospital for Gazans far into construction.

Actually, Israel’s emergency hospital unit for Gaza is open.

So how is this working out?

Walla reports that Hamas has actively prevented injured Gazans from going to the hospital to be treated by Israel. Even worse, on Wednesday Hamas shot ten mortars at the hospital!

Yes, Hamas is targeting a hospital, something that the “human rights” community seems not to care much about in this case.

UPDATE: Yes, the hospital is live and treating Gazans who manage to get there.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/hamas-shells-field-hospital-set-up-to.html#.U9u08-NdV8E – 7/23/2014

From 2012:

At 2:05:

A senior Israeli cardiologist told the group that there are no dilemmas for Israeli doctors in treating children who may be the offspring of enemy combatants: “We treat them as human beings.  We look at them as human beings.  We see their families in their hour of dealing with an extremely sick ill child.  This is a humanitarian program.”

Related Reference

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/18/israeli-doctors-treat-hamas-pm-haniyehs-granddaughter/ – 11/18/2013.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/haniyehs-mother-in-law-treated-in-israel/ – 6/3/2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/15/wife-of-palestinian-president-mahmud-abbas-being-treated-in-israeli-hospital/ – 6/15/2014.

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01 Friday Aug 2014

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“Of the 5000 injured [now above 6000] in Gaza, about 30% will be in need of rehabilitation, but there is no offer for them now”, al-Ashi said. He denied that the hospital was used for a military purpose as claimed by the IDF.

Israel says Hamas—which has ruled Gaza since 2007—and militant group Islamic Jihad use civilians as “human shields” and store weapons in schools, mosques, and hospitals. “Civilian casualties are a tragic inevitability of [Hamas’] brutal and systematic exploitation of homes, hospitals and mosques in Gaza”, the IDF said in a statement.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61125-9/fulltext – 7/31/2014.

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Link – Martin Luther King on the Jewish People and Israel – But There’s a Hitch . . . .

31 Thursday Jul 2014

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“. . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely ‘anti-Zionist.’ And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God’s green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews–this is God’s own truth.

“Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so.

“Why is this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever tyrant happened to rule over them.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031211052106/http://www.mideasttruth.com/mlk.html – August 1967

About seven additional paragraphs follow from the three quoted here.

The hitch?

The body’s a hoax, but not completely inauthentic:

However, because we do not ordinarily rely on anyone else’s research, we decided to double-check, by searching back issues of Saturday Review (Rabbi Shneier’s book had referenced the “letter” as being published in the August 1967 Saturday Review). We found no such letter in any of the August issues, nor do the page and volume numbers cited conform to those actually used by that publication. CAMERA also checked with Boston University, where Dr. King’s work is archived. The archivists, too, were unable to locate any such letter. We can only conclude that no such letter was written by Dr. King . . . Since the message of the letter (anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism) was one Martin Luther King, Jr., had indeed articulated, we can understand why the King family and the ADL did not feel the need to verify the “Letter to an anti-Zionist friend.” This episode is a reminder of the importance of verifying the authenticity and accuracy of sources, even when they appear to be solid.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=369&x_context=8 – 1/22/2002.

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The author of this blog apologizes for slingin’ it a little too fast.

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31 Thursday Jul 2014

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. . . the governor wasted no time translating his beliefs into law. Because the governor believed that homosexuals were “a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick,” he outlawed them, instructing his police officers to seek, capture, beat up, and imprison every gay individual in the state. Similarly, women were deemed better off tending to their families than wasting their time with such corrupting pursuits as jobs. A special educational program was devised and approved to teach young girls the fundamentals. These future wives and mothers, read the governor’s statement, “must be fully capable of being aware and of grasping the ways to manage their households. Economy and avoiding waste in household expenditures are prerequisites to our ability to pursue our cause in the difficult circumstances surrounding us.” The men of the state reveled in this new way of life, asserting themselves as lords of their manors; before too long, nearly half of them took to regularly battering their wives.

How many of those who define themselves as liberals would support the governor?

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/180947/liberals-who-oppose-israel#undefined – 7/31/2014.

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31 Thursday Jul 2014

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In Gaza, Syria, and northern Iraq, the moderate have been disempowered. The dictator has an army; the religious fascists have arms and sufficient martial narcissism to bully their domains, but none act in the interest of the main body of their constituencies. The more “open societies” surrounding — or surrounded by — these conflict have the challenge of moving from complaint toward useful political action and evolution toward the recognition of a common humanity and its interests, and then within the turmoil, the resident such as “Sarah” may need to realize that her interests count, that she is the change, but perhaps not empowered or organized to see her will and her interests evident in the local politics.

Inspiration:

http://www.jta.org/2014/07/29/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/in-ramle-a-holocaust-survivor-worries-about-her-daughter-and-grandchildren-living-in-gaza – 7/29/2014.

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The End of Together

30 Wednesday Jul 2014

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At one point, it is the end of an era; at the same time, it’s the formation of a challenge ushering to it the vanguard of a new era, and such as Baghdaddi are not of it.

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Over July 24-6, 2014, a chapter of religious pluralism ended in the city of Mosul, Iraq and its sister city across the Tigris, the ancient city of Ninveh. The Islamic militants of ISIS forced out all of the Christians, and blew up the Tombs of Seth (son of Adam and Eve) and of the Prophet Jonah.

Jonah

Jonah was the last prophet considered holy to each of the monotheistic religions. His story was unusual in several respects which enabled him to capture the imagination and dreams of Christians, Muslims and Jews.

Thousands of years ago, Judaism was the only monotheistic religion. The people in the Middle East practiced a variety of religions and worshiped many gods. The non-Jews were not particularly interested in the Hebrew Bible, and the Bible – seemingly – did not address them. The prophets in the Old Testament almost universally addressed the Jews: the children of…

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