Today is election day in Israel…..and in the end history will be made…..and it has NOTHING to do with the crap master, BiBi……….
Arab-Israelis have made history….for the first time they are working together instead of back fighting and division….this could be the start of something amazing….they need to keep the pressure on……electoral politics could do what rockets could not…….
How the Joint List has already made history in Israel | +972 Magazine.
I have been watching the Middle East for decades especially the Israeli-Palestinian conflict………the 1st Intifada got the Palestinians lots of international attention….the images of kids with rocks facing off against soldiers with auto rifles and tanks……then the 2nd Intifada was a bust…it started off like the first and then the militants got involved with rockets and violence and any international support the Palestinians had eroded……
I have been saying that the violence is getting the Palestinians nothing but death and sorrow….I understand the anger but throwing violence at the Israelis is doing NOTHING…….I keep saying that protests non-violent ones would do more than a rocket fired into Israel……I said that all parties on the Palestinian side should find a way to work together from many different angles….this would be more successful and limit the violence so the world would see that the Palestinians are serious about their freedoms…..
BiBi’s final words before the election were ones that could help the voting bloc win some prestige………
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it plain today on the eve of a snap election in Israel: If he wins, there will be no Palestinian state, the New York Times reports. “I think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands, is giving attack grounds to the radical Islam against the state of Israel,” he says in an interview with the NRG website. “Anyone who ignores this is sticking his head in the sand.” He was asked to clarify whether that meant no Palestinian state will be forged if he wins re-election, and he replied, “Correct.”
AFP depicts his comments as “a last-ditch effort to woo rightwing voters” while Netanyahu’s Likud party trails the center-left Zionist Union in polling; voting in the Israeli election starts tomorrow morning at 5am GST. Netanyahu’s stance on Palestine reverses his support for the two-state solution expressed in a 2009 speech, which Haaretz reprints here. Netanyahu said earlier this month that his 2009 position is no longer workable because of unrest in the Middle East, Bloomberg reports.
Today is the beginning of the Israeli election process….it differs from the US and it may take weeks even months before a PM is found……but this time around the Arab-Israelis are playing it smart……
“My answer to racism.” This is not a typical campaign slogan for a national political party, but the Arab Joint List party (“Joint List”) in Israel is not a typical political party. And the upcoming Israeli election next Tuesday is far from a typical election, considering that this Arab-led party may very well decide who will be the next prime minister of the Jewish state.But what might truly surprise some is that the Joint List party, per many polls, is either the third most popular party in Israel or just a few points behind the left-of-center Yesh Atid party headed by Yair Lapid for that spot.The fact that the party is polling so well may lead some to ask: what is the “racism” that the Israeli Arabs (actually ethnically Palestinians) who comprise the Join List talking about with their campaign slogan? After all, Netanyahu bragged in his 2011 to Congress that of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East, “less than one-half of one percent are truly free, and they’re all citizens of Israel!”
We are waiting to see how the AUMF vote will go….the problem is that the Congress in their limited mental capacity can only do one thing at a time and right now they are all twitchy about Clinton’s e-mails……maybe after that investigation they will actually worry about something that matters…..the e-mails are just a diversion from doing real Congressional work.
I am opposed to the AUMF because I feel that a lot more thought ought to go into sending Americans to die than politicians are willing to give it…..
This article list some pretty good reasons for voting against the AUMF…..some I agree with and others not so much…..read for yourself and say what you think……
Ten reasons to vote against the use of military force | Fox News.
(The title alone should draw some TROLLS and the off-topic BS will begin)
The question came up recently….who are the happiest…liberals or conservatives?
You would think because of their love of of Constitution life, guns and religion that they would be the happiest by far, right?
Not necessarily so………
Who’s happier, the left or the right? Years of research would say the latter—but a new series of studies is challenging the notion that conservatives are the more cheerful ones, the New York Times reports. The new research, published in Science, finds that while conservatives say they’re happier, it’s actually liberals who show a little more happiness. Previous findings have been “limited to self-reports of subjective well-being,” Professor Peter Ditto tells the Times. But “if it’s real happiness, it should show up in people’s behavior.” To examine that behavior, researchers looked at posts on social media and the habits of politicians.
They reviewed, for instance, the positive and negative language of 4,000 Twitter users defined as liberal or conservative based on who they followed on the site. They also looked at the language of politicians of both parties, as well as those politicians’ facial expressions. Conservatives, the researchers argue, are more likely to engage in “self-enhancement,” offering an overly positive perception of themselves, the Times reports. But lead researcher Sean Wojcik acknowledges that his own research doesn’t offer the final word any more than earlier studies do, the Washington Post reports. “This does raise more questions than answers,” he says
Surely there is enough infor5mation in this study to keep the TROLLS and Bobble=heads busy for a couple of days trying to counter the findings.
I just cannot wait for them to show up and babble on and on….mostly about something that has little to do with the post.
Surely you can shed some light on this issue.
For months now the media has been making Russia, especially Putin, out as some sort of demon that must be confronted…….
Propaganda on both sides has been working overt time…..the media has been just as busy…..and at times it is hard to tell which is news and which is propaganda……
We need to be aware of the situation and maybe we can stop a conflict before it has a chance to explode into something uncontrollable…..
The demonisation of Russia risks paving the way for war | Seumas Milne | The Guardian.
As my regular readers know I am a supporter of independence of Western Sahara from Morocco……I visited there in the 80’s when I worked in the region and fell in love with the people and land……
I promised my friends there in Western Sahara that I would do what I could to help the movement…..
Please check this out and if you feel that you can support their goals…..please lend a hand……
TAKE ACTION: Protect rights and resources in Western Sahara | Western Sahara Action Forum.