Thursday, February 27, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Nationalism handled wrong is as deadly as any weapon and Karl Marx and other socialist thinkers are now more important and "more correct" than at any point since large part of the "West" embraced social democracy.
As social democracy gives way to austerity and destruction of welfare state to protect the very same people who are behind the recession and economic woes, we are facing just two options: More of the same in the sake of protecting the 1 % or socialism.
Based on the recent evidence that modern human & Neanderthal hybrids suffered from reduced fertility and male offspring might have been sterile, two questions that I think should be asked are that what relationship the fact that late Denisovans were hybrids (having mixed with both their Neanderthal cousins and that unknown species) had with their higher rate of mutations and observed decrease in population? So, could the decrease in population point towards the timing of these hybridization events?
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Calling for boycott of Israel for its human rights violations and war crimes is no more racism than the ongoing calls for boycott against China by Tibetans and against Qatar for mistreatment of workers in FIFA World Cup building projects.
It's not BDS movement which equates Jews and Judaism with Israel and everything it does, but Israel's own government and it's foreign supporters.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Sunday, February 09, 2014
Thursday, February 06, 2014
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We have one state solutions both in Burundi and Rwanda. Death toll in Burundi's almost unnoticed civil war was 300 000 and during Rwanda's 52 years of independence 1.2 million people have been killed in ethnic violence according to Rwandan official statistics.
Yet the same Western leaders who chant "Jewish state!" when it comes to Palestine, are quite happy to accept one state solutions in Burundi and Rwanda.
Let's remember that Britain in effect created the whole conflict. There were 84 000 Jews in Palestine when Britain took over, and when it left, there were over 630 000.
Jews, in the words of the first British governor of Palestine, were intended to be the local "loyal Ulstermen" who would be the pillar of the British rule, because they would owe everything and would depend on Britain.
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Burundi and Rwanda show that Western governments are quite happy to support one state solutions even after massive bloodshed, yet they use the possibility of a future bloodshed to oppose a one state solution in Palestine.
Which I find very unlikely. One state in Palestine would be in a very different position, a likely EU and NATO member.
Britain's role in creating this problem has very much to do with a solution, as reminding the British government and people of this fact might actually make them more likely to support a solution, instead of accepting the status quo.
Britain sells large amount of weapons, ammunition and parts used in manufacture of weapons to Israel too and in the UN Security Council Britain has been reluctant to push or even let to pass any action directed to ending the occupation without US approval.
When Palestinians sought to have the Security Council to vote for full membership for Palestine in UN, British government indicated that it would not support it nor vote against it.
There are people who have been living in refugee camps for 66 years because of what Britain did and did not do when it ruled Palestine.
Bluntly said, Britain owes more to those people than David Cameron complaining about boycotts against Israel as "attempts to delegimitise Israel".
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If Britain would truly support a two state solution in Palestine, it should recognize the state of Palestine.
Instead the British position is that Palestine can't be recognized without approval from Israel, which is daily creating new "facts on the ground" to make this impossible.
Since the peace negotiations began again in the summer, Israel has announced almost 11 000 new illegal settlement housing units on occupied areas.
Latest announcement is 558 new illegal settlement housing units in East Jerusalem, where Israel destroyed the homes of over 1000 Palestinians during 2013 and dozens more already during this year.
The British position that any movement towards solution is conditional of Israeli regime accepting it freely without outside pressure will only lead to a one state solution.
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
The people any deal needs to be satisfy are those voting in the promised referendums on either side. Palestinian leaders can't sacrifice right of return without consent from voters, and there are 650 000 Palestinians from Syria who are now refugees second time.
If Israel can take average of up to 100 000 people of Jewish descent per year, it can take for example 50 000 of them and an equivalent number of Palestinian refugees per year in the future without any demographic change. And the equivalent number to any illegal settlers remaining on the occupied areas.
Monday, February 03, 2014
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Live From Occupied Palestine: UPDATE: Day 2 in Palestinian Jordan Valley protest...
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Saturday, February 01, 2014
First version:
The illegal settlement of Maaleh Adumin is not only intended to cut West Bank in half - same role as the illegal settlement of Ariel, which Israel and USA insist Israel must get, plays in the northern part of West Bank - but to cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
The illegal settlement of Maaleh Adumin is not only intended to cut West Bank in half - same role as the illegal settlement of Ariel, which Israel and USA insist Israel must get, plays in the northern part of West Bank - but to cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
Israel demands that it will get not only Maaleh Adumin, but also all land between it and East Jerusalem and whole of East Jerusalem. John Kerry demands that Palestinians give up entire East Jerusalem proper and get few outlaying neighbourhoods, but Netanyahu refuses even this and has announced that Jerusalem can't even be mentioned in the entire peace agreement.
To those who claim that Jerusalem is originally a "Jewish city" and thus Israel must get it all - which is, Israelis claim, why Barack Obama supports Israeli annexation of whole East Jerusalem proper - let's remind what the Old Testament says: That the Hebrews conquered the city and killed its entire original population.
Holocaust, anyone?
Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem would mean the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem's remaining 250 000 Palestinian residents. In Israel itself, in Haifa and Jaffa, local Jewish-run governments have accepted plans that would mean the destruction of the last remaining Arab neighbourhoods, in whose place would be build neighbourhoods in which only Jews can live.
According to Israel, there is room for only Jews in Jerusalem and increasingly also in Israel itself. Everybody else must be driven out.
And Maaleh Adumin plays a major role in all of this US supported Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing.
As he is so fervent supporter of Israeli Apartheid, I wonder when Barack Obama will re-instate the Jim Crow laws in the United States? After all, when Israel has entire towns where only Jews are allowed to live and entire road network, partly funded by the USA, in the occupied areas that only Jews can use, why shouldn't US follow in Israel's footsteps?
After all, Chosen People of the God, the Righteous Among the Nations can't be wrong - after all, that would be antisemitism, wouldn't it?
Second version:
Second version:
The illegal settlement of Maaleh Adumin is not only intended to cut West Bank in half - same role as the illegal settlement of Ariel, which Israel and USA insist Israel must get, plays in the northern part of West Bank - but to cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
Israel demands that it will get not only Maaleh Adumin, but also all land between it and East Jerusalem and whole of East Jerusalem. John Kerry demands that Palestinians give up entire East Jerusalem proper and get few outlaying neighbourhoods, but Netanyahu refuses even this and has announced that Jerusalem can't even be mentioned in the entire peace agreement.
To those who claim that Jerusalem is originally a "Jewish city" and thus Israel must get it all - which is, Israelis claim, why Barack Obama supports Israeli annexation of whole East Jerusalem proper - let's remind what the Old Testament says: That the Hebrews conquered the city and killed its entire original population.
Holocaust, anyone?
Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem would mean the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem's remaining 250 000 Palestinian residents. In Israel itself, in Haifa and Jaffa, local Jewish-run governments have accepted plans that would mean the destruction of the last remaining Arab neighbourhoods, in whose place would be build neighbourhoods in which only Jews can live. In Jaffa this will be done by US contractor Yaakov Hayman, who openly calls his "development plan" as "Making Jaffa Jewish".
According to Israel, there is room for only Jews in Jerusalem and increasingly also in Israel itself. Everybody else must be driven out. In the Negev desert up to 80 000 Bedouins are threatened with ethnic cleansing so that Jewish only towns can be build in the place of their "illegal" villages.
And Maaleh Adumin plays a major role in all of this US supported Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing.
As he is so fervent supporter of Israeli Apartheid, I wonder when Barack Obama will re-instate the Jim Crow laws in the United States? After all, when Israel has entire towns where only Jews are allowed to live and entire road network, partly funded by the USA, in the occupied areas that only Jews can use, why shouldn't US follow in Israel's footsteps?
After all, Chosen People of the God, the Righteous Among the Nations can't be wrong - after all, that would be antisemitism, wouldn't it? (I don't claim that Israel represents all Jews, in fact I deny it, but that's Israel's official position; when it destroys a Palestinian village, like it did this week on the West Bank, it claims to do it in the name of all the Jews in the world.)
Palestinians have been ready to give up 78 % of British Palestine to Israel so that they could get just 22 %. But according to both Israel and the USA government they have to give up more and the more they give up, the more Israel wants. Every concession by the Palestinian Authority has been followed with by more demands by Israel.
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