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Post by Jaga on Jul 26, 2014 22:48:18 GMT -7
Pieter,
+++The main problem is the fact that there are more Christian Zionists than Jewish zionists in the USA. The 50 million Evangelicals.++++ yes, and there is also "Christians for Israel" organization which is very influential.
+++American jews are very American and there is a huge mixing between American jews and Protestant christian Americans (and others), like in Europe+++
but still Jewish Americans are supporting Israel. Bloomberg travelled there and criticized that FAA did not want airplanes to fly there. New York Times is much more Israel''s friendly than any other state friendly.
+++U.S. President Obama's former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates categorized the relationship between U.S. and Israel with the following: "I cannot recall a time during my public life when our two countries have had a closer defense relationship. The U.S. and Israel are cooperating closely in areas such as missile defense technology+++
It is just that Israel gets lots of technology and money for free. They also spy on the US... if there are any secrets they cannot get for free.
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 2:04:35 GMT -7
This is the short wonderful scene of the movie Omar by Hany Abu-Assad. God bless the people in West Bank and Gaza.
Trailer of the movie
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 2:51:29 GMT -7
For some reason Protestant christians have biblical reasons to support Israel. And there is some ambiguity , because they absolutely believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of all mankind, and the true messiah (therefor rejecting and correcting the Jewish faith), but in the same time support Israel and Israeli jews because Israel is the promised land to the Israelites (the Jewish people) in the bible. The promise was first made to Abraham ( Genesis 15:18-21) and then renewed to his son Isaac, and to Isaac's son Jacob ( Genesis 28:13), Abraham's grandson. The promised land was described in terms of the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates river ( Exodus 23:31) and was given to their descendants after Moses led the Exodus out of Egypt. ( Deuteronomy 1:8) The Protestant christians who take both the Old testament and the New testament very serious, just live and believe strictly what the bible says. And that is the cause of their Zionism and support of the state of Israel. Many Dutch reformed Calvinist christians are also Pro-Israel, because of that. Some of them are members of ' Christenen voor Israel', the same organization as your " Christians for Israel" organization. Actually it is the Dutch branch of that organization. Back to the ambiguity of the Christian supporters of Israel, the Christian zionists. If you go further into the matter, they believe that only the faith in Jesus Christ will safe you. They hope that in time the jews will come to the true faith, Christianity, and that they will accept Jesus as their messiah, and the trinity of ' the father, the son and the holy spirit' too. How do I know Jaga? Whel, because I talked with an met with Christians for Israel, Israeli's, Diaspora (Non-Israeli) jews and visited Peace Now gatherings in the Netherlands, talked with Palestinians, and read a lot of books of Israeli, Palestinian and christian (Western) authors since I was a teenager. I watched, monitored and examined the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israel from all angles. I also saw dozens of Israeli art house films (some who were very critical about various issues in Israel and Palestine), and Palestinian/Arab movies too. I saw this movie from the Israeli-born Palestinian film director Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic: هاني أبو أسعد, born 11 October 1961)Paradise Now (Arabic: الجنّة الآن) is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. " The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue," Abu-Assad said. " The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing." ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Now ) 8.14; the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands speaks to Christians for Israel in the Netherlands, who hold a demonstration in the Hague.The ambassador mentions CIDI ( Center of Information and Documentation Israel) The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel ( CIDI) is a foundation that was established by the Jewish community in the Netherlands in 1974. CIDI is an independent Dutch organization that aims to defend the right to peace and security of the Jewish people, anywhere in the world, and it feels connected to the state of Israel in the global movement of Zionism, inspired by Theodor Herzl. Netanyahu is a very good propaganda tool, a marketing person, who understands American christians and Amercian zionists very well.The Israeli government version of the present conflict:The Palestinians aren't the only ones who suffer in Israel. A group who has always been loyal to the state of Israel, and delivered generations of new soldiers to the Israeli army suffers too. The bedouins of the Negev desert. forward.com/articles/180281/bedouins-fight-israels-resettlement-plan-and-bid/?p=allAmerican Jewish journal. And read the comments! Today, both Jews and Palestinians believe they are the intended inheritors of this " divine promise". The concept of the Promised Land is the central tenet of Zionism, whose discourse suggests that modern Jews descend from the Israelites and Maccabees through which they inherit the right to re-establish their " national homeland", whilst the Islamic and Christian Palestinian discourse suggests that modern Palestinians descend from all the different peoples who have lived in the region including the ancient Israelites. You see real and pure anger in the face of the Palestinian woman. " You kill my family, put your flag down."
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 4:23:21 GMT -7
Israeli women and Palestinian women
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 4:29:48 GMT -7
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Post by kaima on Jul 27, 2014 7:26:34 GMT -7
For some reason Protestant christians have biblical reasons to support Israel. And there is some ambiguity , because they absolutely believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of all mankind, and the true messiah (therefor rejecting and correcting the Jewish faith), but in the same time support Israel and Israeli jews because Israel is the promised land to the Israelites (the Jewish people) in the bible. The promise was first made to Abraham Back to the ambiguity of the Christian supporters of Israel, the Christian zionists. If you go further into the matter, they believe that only the faith in Jesus Christ will safe you. They hope that in time the jews will come to the true faith, Christianity, and that they will accept Jesus as their messiah, and the trinity of ' the father, the son and the holy spirit' too. How do I know Jaga? Whel, because I talked with an met with Christians for Israel, Israeli's, Diaspora (Non-Israeli) jews and visited Peace Now gatherings in the Netherlands, talked with Palestinians, and read a lot of books of Israeli, Palestinian and christian (Western) authors since I as a teenager. I watched, monitored and examined the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israel from all angles. I also saw dozens of Israeli art house films (some who were very critical about various issues in Israel and Palestine), and Palestinian/Arab movies too. I saw this movie from the Israeli-born Palestinian film director Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic: هاني أبو أسعد, born 11 October 1961)Paradise Now (Arabic: الجنّة الآن) is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. " The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue," Abu-Assad said. " The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing." ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Now ) 8.14; the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands speaks to Christians for Israel in the Netherlan/i]."Pieter, I see it as a simple dynamic with the fundamental Christian prejudice of ews being Christ killers in the 1960's has transformed itself to a belief that all means must be taken to re-establish a stron Israel in order to facilitate the Second Coming as they read the bible. Neglected in their approach is the implication that God is too weak to bring about the Second Coming on a convenient schedule for the Evangelists, so he needs all of the earthly help he can get. Thus the Christian Zionism.
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 9:28:08 GMT -7
Dear Kaima, Your short reply is very interesting from a theological and political (even geopolitical point of view), and I think we agree. Religion (theology, religious philosophy, religious ideology, religious psychology and sociology, mythology and spirituality) and politics aren't separated in this world. The Popes, priest, rabies, Sheikhs, Ayatollah's/Supreme leaders, (christian) ministers, Guru's, sectarian leaders and other religious people have political, social-cultural and relgious/ethnic power. I believe that the combination of Christian Fundamentalist extremism and Jewish extremism is an extremely dangerous mix. You have idiots, radical lunatics who want to tear down the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to built the Third Temple there. These Zealots could start a large Middle-eastern war or a Third World War. Because when the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be destroyed one billion muslims world wide, in the Middle-east, Africa, Continental-Europe, Asia, Northern- and Southern-America, Latin-America, Australia and Great-Britain will explode, with riots, civil war, war, terrorism on a scale we haven't seen yet, anti-semitism, xenophobia, vicious racism (against anyone with a Middle eastern, Caucacian or Asian; Arabic, Turkish, Berber, Kurd, Iranian, Afghan, Pakistani or brown Asian -like Malayan/Indonesian looks) in the West, fierce islamophobia, and probably large bloodbaths and multiple genocides world wide. Even Israel, conservative christian leaders and other supporters of Israel want to prevent that. Can you imagine, all the armies of all the Muslim countries united, all Islamist United, all Sunni Muslim and Shia Muslims united against the non-Muslims? That will happen if one or several Muslim holy places will be destroyed by Non-Muslims. But people have no idea how strong the Settler movement is and the religious christian zealot sects. The world has to avoid Indian circumstances. The destruction of the "Golden Temple" (the Harmandir Sahib, also Darbar Sahib) in 1984, a prominent place of worship for Sikhs located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. Over 100,000 people visit the holy shrine daily for worship.Operation Blue StarOperation Blue Star was an Indian military operation on 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in order to establish control over the Harmandir Sahib Complex in Amritsar, Punjab and remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir Sahib and made it his headquarters in April 1980. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (2 June 1947 – 6 June 1984) The operation had two components: Operation Metal, confined to the Harmandir Sahib complex, and Operation Shop, which raided the Punjabi countryside to capture any suspects. Following it, Operation Woodrose was launched in the Punjab countryside where devout Sikhs, specifically those carrying a kirpan or wearing a saffron turban, were now targeted. The operation was carried out by Indian Army troops with tanks, artillery, helicopters, and armored vehicles, and chemical weapons. Casualty figures of Operation Blue Star given by Kuldip Singh Brar put the number of deaths among the Indian army at 83 and injuries at 220. According to the official estimate presented by the Indian Government, 492 civilians were killed, though some independent claims run to 5,000 or higher. The kirpan is a ceremonial sword or dagger carried by baptised Sikhs. It is a religious commandment given by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 in which all baptised Sikhs must wear five articles of faith at all times, the kirpan being one of five articles. A Sikh wearing a Saffron turbanIn addition, the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) (the Indian FBI) is considered responsible for seizing historical artifacts and manuscripts in the Sikh Reference Library, before burning it down. The military action led to an uproar amongst Sikhs worldwide and the increased tension following the action led to assaults on members of the Sikh community within India. Many Sikh soldiers in the Indian army mutinied, many Sikhs resigned from armed and civil administrative office and several returned awards and honours they had received from the Indian government. Four months after the operation, on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, two of her Sikh bodyguards, in what is viewed as an act of vengeance. Subsequently, more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the ensuing anti-Sikh riots. Within the Sikh community itself, Operation Blue Star has taken on considerable historical significance and is often compared to what Sikhs call ' the great massacre' by the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Durrani, the Sikh holocaust of 1762. Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime MinisterSatwant Singh, one of the two assasins of Prime Minister Indira GandhiBeant Singh, one of the two assasins of Prime Minister Indira GandhiCheers, Pieter
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Post by Nictoshek on Jul 27, 2014 9:46:38 GMT -7
A world gone MAD ?By Bob Schieffer CBS News July 27, 2014, 10:57 AM Trying to understand the news of this terrible summer, it is hard to come away with any feeling but that we are in the midst of a world gone mad. On one side of the world, an ego-driven Russian leader seems to yearn for the time of the czars, when rulers started wars on a whim or a perceived insult -- and if people died, so be it. In the Middle East, the Palestinian people find themselves in the grip of a terrorist group that has embarked on a strategy to get its own children killed in order to build sympathy for its cause -- a strategy that might actually be working, at least in some quarters. Last week, I found a quote of many years ago by Golda Meir, one of Israel's early leaders, which might have been said yesterday. "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children," she said. "But we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children."In a world gone mad, what is to be learned? Perhaps we should start by remembering what historian Will Durant once said: "Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim." _
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 10:32:02 GMT -7
Nicetoe, Israeli Prime-minister Golda Meir (May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) The quote of Golda Meir reminds me of a statement made by a Dutch writer, Willem Frederik Hermans, decades ago. He said: " We so called human beings have a layer of education, civilization and ethics of 10%, under that 10% lies the beast, the 90% of the monster, the uncivilized barbarian, the cageman, who wants to come out." What he meant was that this 10% controls us in the so called civilized world, with our ' social behavior', ' your upbringing' (teachers teachings didactic; pedagogic methods our parents used, the values and ethical ideas we were raised with), our being part of ' a community', a ' civil society', our school, our neighborhood, our work, our church community, our sportsclub and our social behavior towards others, because they are compatriots, who speak the same language, pay taxes, and share a nationhood in our country. Or our friendlyness, empathy and compassion with strangers; tourists, businesspeople, travellers and familymembers of people who live in our country, who visit our country, our town or city. And we help them if they can't find their way, and point them in the right direction or help them in another way if they need help. Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans (Amsterdam, September 1, 1921 – Utrecht, April 27, 1995)But the barbarian in ourselves in the West, are the numerous occasions, when we see ordinary compatriots or migrants abuse the space they live in, transcend in a primitive state, when they are suddenly taken over by insanity, rage, fury, psychopathic behavior, aggression, cruelty, viciousness, jealousy, egocentric narcistic behavior, violent lunacy and * total irrational behavior. People can suddenly change due to fear, anxiety, deep grief (sadness), sudden loss, an attack from the outside, and unreasonable behavior of strangers (like in the case of 911 and the plane disaster in Eastern-Ukraine, the plane crash in Mali in which 51 French people lost their lives (and many others) and the bloody wars in Gaza, Syria and Iraq) There are always people in this ' Global village' who are effected by anything which takes place in this world. We have people of all ethnicities, all religions, sects, ideologies, life philosophies, races and nationalities in our countries. All events in the world are connected to people in our environment. French soldiers stand by the wreckage of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 which crashed in Mali's Gossi region, west of Gao, on July 24, 2014.Cheers, Pieter P.S.- * Nation states or certain people, clans or tribes can show total irrational behavior, and act like the bully in kindergarten, a primary school or highschool.
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Post by Nictoshek on Jul 27, 2014 11:49:53 GMT -7
Sounds like something out of a 50's sci-fi Forbidden Planet scene script. Except its happening all too real in our day and age. Carl Jung warned that the 21st century would be the age of catastrophe...because of man's unrestrained primitive shadow. Thanks for sharing pieter. Jung: On The Shadow
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Post by pieter on Jul 27, 2014 13:48:45 GMT -7
Dear Nicetoe, It is hard to understand the news of this terrible summer. We are in the midst of a world gone mad. Unfortunately that world is made since homo sapiens emerged on the stage. For thousands of years already. The ego-driven Russian leader tries to make a synthetic system and ideology Czarist and Sovjet elements. I heard Dutch media-entrepreneur Derk Sauer who lives and works in Russia, he said that we Westerners, especially the Dutch, completely misunderstand the Russians. The Russian state of mind in his view is today totally irrational and in total contrast with the West. Conspiracy theories and invasion stories are alive and kicking in Russia. The Russians believe that NATO is at the brink of invading Russia, and that NATO tanks are standing at Russia's borders in Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia and even Azerbaijan. Not only the population is ill informed and irrational according Sauer, but also it's political leaders and rulers. The Russian propaganda is fierce, and it seems that both the population and the leaders themselves believe in that propaganda. Russia according to Sauer follows a Russian-Orthodox (Christian), conservative and nationalistic course. The Russians sincerely believe that they are under Siege of NATO (the USA, Europe and Ukraine). And that it is in foreign affairs, geopolitical, military and political psychological sense very serious and dangerous. Derk Sauer accuses the Dutch prime-minister, foreign minister and king to haven't been straightforward to the Russians. The Russians received mixed messages last year during the Netherlands-Russia 2013 year. Sauer, who understand the Russians, like by the way Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans, too, said in Newshour, a Dutch Public television, news program from 21:00 hours until 22:00 hours; " You have to be tough, straightforward, direct and clear to the Russians, than they understand you." " Don't be too diplomatic, polite, ambivalent, subtle, refined, sophisticated and multi-layered in your message to the Russians." Derk Sauer was irritated that the Dutch leaders didn't stood for Dutch liberal values, Dutch political aims and some unnegotiable issues. What he meant was that the Dutch on one occasion were tough during the diplomatic conflict and on other occasions were soft, in the case of the Olympic games, the treatment of the arrested and imprisoned Dutch Green Peace activists, and the human rights situation in Russia. Sauer said: " Say that to the Russians, be clear, make your point, and don't be unclear for diplomatic or economic reasons". The Netherlands have to stand for liberal values as equality, fighting xenophobia, racism, discrimination, anti-semitism, islamophobia, Polonophobia (anti-Polonism), homophobia, corruption, nepotism, human right violations, lack of freedom (of speech, demonstration, gathering and opposition). Derk Sauer said that the Dutch leaders didn't speak out enough and weren't clear enough to the Russians. The Dutch underestimate their financial-economical and political power as European force within the EU, NATO and as important trade partner of Russia. In 1989 Sauer moved to Russia, and started the first glossy-magazine of the Soviet Union with the help of Russian journalists, whom later were exposed as KGB agents. He had experiance in the Netherlands with working as editor, correspondent and reporter for two magazines. In 1992 together with the Dutch entrepreneur (businesswoman) Annemarie van Gaal and the Novamedia group the publishing company ‘ Independent Media’. He published the Russian versions of the English succesful international magazines like Playboy, the Cosmopolitan, the FHM and Men's Health. The publishing house grew under Sauers leadership to become an international multimedia company and it even became the marketleader in Russia. He works and lived there until today and travels between the Netherlands and Russia, because he has interests in the Dutch press/media world too. So with 25 years Russia he has some experience with Russia and a certain right to speak. Derk Sauer, Dutch media entrepreneur in Russia and the Netherlands.In the Middle East, the Palestinian people find themselves in the grip of a 'terrorist group' that has embarked on a strategy to get its own children killed in order to build sympathy for its cause and the opponent of that group who in retaliation of the Rocket fire of that 'terrorist group' shells, bombards and invades the territory of that group by land, sea, air and via it's allie (another neighbor of the Palestinians who live in the small piece of land, but who not openly admids or collaborates with the other neighbor). Both neighbors of the terrorist group who rules the small space of land on which 1,816,379 Palestinians live, desire for the dismantlement of the military infrastructure, and the weakening of the political power of that terrorist group. In my point of view the strategy of that 'terrorist group' will not work. The Palestinians who lose children, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandparents, babies, todlers, children and a lot of teenagers are fed up with the loss of life, lack of safety, uncertainty, poverty, lack of perspectives in life, lack of clean water, proper housing, education, unemployment, unpayed (government) saleries, traumatized families, friends, colleages, neighbors and people from their neighborhood, and the schools of their children. The lack of future perspective makes the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, whom are already traumatized, desperate, people without hope and thus lost people. The Palestinian children (primary school pupils), teenagers (High school students) and young adults are a lost generation. Several civil wars (Hamas-Fath war 2007), and Israel-Hamas wars have destroyed the Gaza infrastructure, houses, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and mosques. How can we or they repair the mental (psychological), physical, cultural, financial, economical and materialistic damage that is done? Illustration: Simon BoschI can understand the logic of the Israeli prime-minister of the seventies who could forgive the Arabs for killing Israeli children, and who can't ever forgive the Palestinians for forcing us to kill their children. Both Israeli's and Palestinians are brought up in a climate of fear, hatred, and the dehumanization of the enemy. Zionism and Palestinian nationalism and Islamism (the ideology of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad) can't see 'the other', the Palestinian or the Israeli as a human being. One side calls the other 'the occupier', 'the Zionist entity', 'the Jews' and the other side calls the other 'terrorists', 'beasts', 'Arabs', 'Non-jews' or 'Palestinians' with a sound in their voices like speaking about a foreigner, alien or migrant. It is tragic that in such a small space where often Jews, Arab Muslims and Arab christians live next to eachother or only with a distance of a few miles, that these people see eachother as aliens. It is also tragic, because a lot of Palestinians and Israeli arabs speak Hebrew, can read and understand hebrew, and even watch Israeli hebrew language television next to their own Arab language Palestinian chanals. From the other side hundred of thousands and maybe a million Israeli jews of Middle easter heritage understand the Arabic of their Israeli arab neighbors and the Palestinians of the West-Bank and Gaza, and thus also their Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian neighbors. Imagine that all Israeli kids would learn arabic on school next to Hebrew and English and that Palestinian kids would learn hebrew in school. I believe in a bi-national state. I am not against a two state solution, but believe that a bi-national Federal state would work better. The situation is very dark and bleak now in Gaza and Israel, but I also think (still believe) that peace, coexistance, cooperation and cultural-, financial-, economical- and political exchange and joint ventures are still possible between Israeli's and Palestinians. The world only has to be clear and direct and transparent about who is the 'strong and dominant' party and who is the 'weak, desperate and radicalized' party. And both sides have to acknowledge that facts. If people recognize the state they are in and who their opponents, neighbors and competitors are than they can work on reconciliation, peaceful coexistance, and working on a shared future. Yes, we live in a world which has gone mad! What is to be learned? The fact that humanity, human beings are irrational, envious, revengeful, vicious, crual, mean, psychopatic and brainwashed people. That unfortunately we have learned nothing from the Frist World War, the Armenian genocide ( 1915: 1.5 million dead Armenians in the Turkish Ottoman Empire), the Holodomor (" Killing by Starvation" in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933), the Second World War (1939-1945), Katyn ( mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police, NKVD, in April and May 1940), the Holocaust ( Shoa), Cambodja ( the Killing fields of the Khmer Rouge; one to three million dead), the civil wars in former Yugoslavia during the ninetees ( Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo; Serajevo, Srebrenica and etc.), Afghanistan (since the Russian occupation of 1978), the Chechen wars of the nineties, Liberia and Siera Leone/ Ivory Coast, Rwanda (Over the course of approximately 100 days, between 500,000 and 1,000,000[45] Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were killed in well-planned attacks on the orders of the interim government in 1994), Congo, Sudan, Dafur, Somalia, Mali, Libiya, South-Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, North-Korea, Burma, Tibet, the Phillipines,Thailand, Bangladesh, and the many dictatorships, terror of drugscartels and rebel movements in latin- and Southern-America. I think that historian Will Durant is true in his statement, but also believe that we as human beings have to continue to fight to maintain and strenghen that barriers that civilization has thrown up against Barbarism, the lack of rule of law; murder, pillaging, rape, destruction of human property and lives, maiming, dehumanization of groups, people and individuals. Even if we can reclaim our civilization for decades or a century, that is worth while living and fighting for. I can't imagine living in an unjust, brutal, barbaric and vile world. I think that we have the obligation to fight against barbarism, aggression, violence, organized crime, totalitarianism, fundamentalist sects and ideologies, terrorism and imperialism; by putting our continued effort in making this world a better place for every one. Each life is precious, each life counts. And thus we have to fight for education and better health care for children everywhere in the world. We have to invest in culture, in art, in music, in poetry, in dance, in sport, in beautiful architecture, science, Research & Development, Human Capital (the future generations; the todlers, children, teenagers and young adults from today), innovation, progress, an entrepreneural spirit, learning about other people, cultures, religions and civilizations (broadening our horizons), realizing that " all men are brothers", that we are one humanity. When we (and others) realize that we are all homo sapiens with the same basic needs, feelings and emotions, we could become more empathic, more understanding and more loving and sharing. A nice saying of Native Americans is that when you give, you will receive back. Good deeds will be rewarded on this earth and in the hereafter, in Heaven. We could travel more in our lives, visit more continents and visit more countries. If more people meet each other and learn to appreciate each others cultures, heritages and cultures, the world would be a better place. There are also a lot of positive things in the world, which get less attention in the news, in our press and media. Part of the problem of hostilities, danger (or sense of danger), fear, anger and aggression in the world is the fact that we, and people don't know 'the other', the anonimity of the other creates fear. The alien looks different, he speaks a different language, has a different skin color, has another heritage, other customs, another personal history and comes from a different place. But what we share is that we come from a family with a father and mother, grandparents, probably a sister and a brother (one of them or both), that we grew up in a house, in a street, in a neighborhood, in a town, village or city, and that we went to school, played games (sport), had and have hobbies, our favorite foods and drinks, and that we are social beings. When we realize that we have more in common as human beings than what segregates or separates us, language barriers, cultural differences, political differences of opinion, and ethnic, racial and national differences will be no problem. We can all get along, only corporate, political and religious interests and certain powers stand in our way. Again I believe that we can heal this world with positive spirituality (our honest and deep faith), positive attitudes, with culture, art and literature, with sport, with positive, beautiful, optimistic and esthetic and functional architecture, beautiful cinema, marvelous music, delicious cuisines, great fashion, 3D design, graphic design, innovative scientific solutions, improvement of our schools, universities and technological institutes (vocational universities) and adult education. We should invest in an ethical and esthetical world, a better world. nieuwsuur.nl/video/679749-poetindoctrine-gevaarlijk-voor-de-hele-wereldorde.htmlCheers, Pieter
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Post by Nictoshek on Jul 29, 2014 3:57:34 GMT -7
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Post by Nictoshek on Jul 29, 2014 9:46:49 GMT -7
A Palestinian firefighter on the scene of a fire at Gaza's main power plant, which was hit by shelling overnight. Power, TV and Radio Stations Hit in GazaBy BEN HUBBARD and JODI RUDOREN GAZA CITY — Israeli airstrikes flattened the vacant four-story home of Hamas’s top political leader in the Gaza Strip and destroyed offices of the organization’s radio and television station early Tuesday, broadening Israel’s targets as diplomacy toward a cease-fire sputtered in confusion on the battle’s 22nd day. Palestinians said Israeli strikes had also hit Gaza’s only power plant, where an enormous fire hurtled thick, black smoke skyward, visible for miles. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner of the Israeli military said he was still looking into the circumstances of the fire, including “whether we had anything to do with it.” But the attacks on Hamas’s media operation and the home of Ismail Haniya, the deputy chief of Hamas who is second only to Khaled Meshal, the leader who lives in exile in Qatar, signified Israel’s widened roster of targets marked for destruction in the conflict, the deadliest in years. The strikes, during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, came after the latest humanitarian halt to hostilities collapsed because of attacks on both sides, culminating in the most deadly incursion yet by Palestinian militants through a tunnel from Gaza into Israel. Colonel Lerner said Tuesday that between four and eight gunmen had burst from the tunnel near a military watchtower near the border and killed five soldiers in an adjacent building with antitank missiles. “As they were trying to escape and grab one of the bodies, the soldiers in the tower opened fire,” he said, and they killed or wounded one. The militants then escaped back to Gaza, he said. Colonel Lerner said Israel had identified the tunnel, near the kibbutz Nahal Oz, as part of its objective to destroy underground pathways from Gaza into Israel, the stated goal of the Israeli ground invasion that began July 17. But he said that the military “did not know where its opening was,” and that the militants “only opened the tunnel immediately close to the time of the attack.” The shutdown of the power plant, which Israel previously attacked in 2006 and which sat idle for weeks this past winter for lack of fuel, threatened to turn the deprivations in Gaza into a humanitarian crisis. The facility powers water and sewage systems as well as hospitals, and it had been Gaza’s main source of electricity in recent days after eight of 10 lines that run from Israel were damaged. “Today there is no electricity in Gaza,” said Jamal Dardasawi of Gaza’s electricity distribution company, noting that the power supplied by Egypt is not even enough for the southern city of Rafah. “The shelling of the station is a violation of all red lines.” Rafiq Maliha, director of Gaza’s power plant, said it would probably take “months or a year” to repair it. Mr. Maliha said the shells had hit the main fuel tank, the fuel-treatment facility and two turbines. The intensified Israeli assaults came as renewed attempts to create a cease-fire swirled with mixed messages and diplomatic confusion. Continue reading the main story The West Bank-based Palestinian leadership, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, announced that the Palestinian factions fighting in Gaza were ready for another immediate 24-hour truce, and that efforts were underway for a Palestinian delegation to head to Cairo for broader cease-fire talks. In a televised statement made in Ramallah by Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official, and carried by the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, the leadership said that it had held intensive consultations with leaders of Hamas and its affiliate group, Islamic Jihad, and that there was a willingness to consider extending the truce to 72 hours at the request of the United Nations. But Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, immediately responded in a text message that the announcement of a unilateral, 24-hour truce was “incorrect and has nothing to do with the positions of the resistance.” The announcement was greeted with skepticism in Israel. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said, “This is just another example of them rejecting cease-fires.” Still, the Palestinian announcement seemed to be part of a larger effort involving Egypt, an important participant in any cease-fire deal for both Israel and Mr. Abbas. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Mr. Abbas had initiated a proposal to bring representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to Cairo for another round of cease-fire talks, which Egypt supports. Regarding the talks, Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official in Beirut: said, “On principle, we have no objection and accept. A delegation will be formed and we might leave for Cairo soon.”
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Post by Jaga on Jul 29, 2014 16:18:51 GMT -7
Nictoe, and then we get about 100 people dead people per day. Maybe we should count after how many days the whole Gaza will be clear from Palestinians, that means present, past or future terrorists.
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Post by Nictoshek on Jul 29, 2014 16:26:07 GMT -7
The Israelis are saying that they're just mowing the lawn, but it looks like now they're turning Gaza into a parking lot.
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