I have comments and news after watching accidentally two
videos of cats and men
1) A cat dealing with a dead cat
2) Men proud of suffering and death of fellow men
While we should not generalize about either cats or men,
increasingly some of us question the self-destructive nature of people on this
earth. What does keep us optimistic is
that some groups of humans actually work to change the behavior in a positive
way. Millions do that. I was proud to watch the great reception of
the South African team which achieved several medals at the Olympics. They were of mixed background: white and
black, and various religions. The all
Zionist, all Jewish Israeli team were losers (and I am not speaking here of
medals but of principles) who returned here without fanfare to an apartheid
state reminds us that this cannot last.
But I dreamt of living to go welcome at the Lod Airport a winning
Palestine Olympics team that includes Jews, Christians, and Muslims. I know that this future of one democratic
state is coming. The example of South
Africa is worth looking into. Much
struggle remains to be done in South Africa to achieve equality especially in
economic issues. But we are long past the days when leaders of Apartheid South
Africa met and collaborated in developing nuclear weapons and modes of
repression with Jewish state leaders.
On Thursday settlers tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Palestinian
car carrying a family from Nahhalin. Six
civilians sustained first, second, and third degree burns: They were a mother,
father, and two children and two other relatives. On Friday, Israeli Jewish colonial settlers
attempted to lynch young Palestinians in Jerusalem leaving one critically
injured. Settler attacks thus continue
despite the repeated assurance that "perpetrators will be found", the
Israeli government is not really exerting any effort to do so as they failed to
do previously with thousands of other cases.
http://www.imemc.org/article/64081
(text in English on the burning incident)
http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=513099
(text in Arabic but with several pictures of the victims)
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=513216
(on the attempted Lynch)
When settlers attack. A sobering study of the
skyrocketing Jewish colonial settler attacks on native Palestinians
Also on Thursday, Al-Araqib village in the Negev was
destroyed for the 41st time. Background information
Also on Thursday, Israeli forces attacked media
professionals trying to cover a story in Kufr Qaddoum.
Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uymV3EHLAY
Israel releases latest plan for Wall that will choke and
encircle the Bethlehem-area village of al Walaja and drive its remaining
inhabitants out
Books I read recently and recommend
1) Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza
Freedom Flotilla and How it Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Midnight-on-the-Mavi-Marmara
2) Freedom Sailors (the story of attempts to breach the
siege on Gaza)
3) Born in Jerusalm Born Palestinian: A memoir, Jacob J.
Nammar, Oplive Branch Press
May we all be as good as that cat
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