Thread: Jewish issue's- the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

It's a strange country all right, full of contradictions. On the one hand, you've got gay Tel Aviv- sometimes described as the gay capital of the world, OTOH you've got the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, that make a fundamentalist Moslem seem lib'rul and tolerant. Some of them do not even believe in the existence of the state of Israel. It also proudly describes itself as the only democracy in the mid east, while it goes about colonising Palestine and denying it's population basic human rights.

I don't know about Israel but Israelis are all over the place in Nepal.

Donald Trump today changed US policy, saying he’s not wed to a two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. In his press conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said:

As far as settlements, I’d like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. We’ll work something out. But I would like to see a deal be made. I think a deal will be made. So I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the one that both parties like. I could live with either one. I thought for a while the two-state looked like it may be the easier of the two, but honestly, if Bibi and if the Palestinians, if Israel and the Palestinians are happy, I’m happy with the one they like the best. The Israelis are going to have to show some flexibility, which is hard, it’s hard to do… I think the Palestinians have to get rid of some of that hate… - See more at: Trump says he's 'happy' with one-state outcome, ringing in a new era

..... Many in the human rights community will welcome the end of a hypocritical period in which the U.S. maintained a two-state policy even as no viable state was possible in light of Israel colonization. Jamil Dakwar of the ACLU writes:

The 2-state solution has been long dead so the choice is between an apartheid colonial state or one democratic state with full equal rights.

While Yousef Munayyer crystallizes the moment, and the issues, for the Institute for Middle East Understanding:

“The comments by the Israeli Prime Minister and President Donald Trump today make one thing perfectly clear; the questions about one-state or two-states are dead and decided. There is and will be one state between the river and the sea encompassing millions of Israelis and Palestinians. The question now is what sort of state will that be, one of full equality or an Apartheid state. In his comments today, and in his policies, Netanyahu has made clear he will never support relinquishing control over the West Bank and favors perpetual occupation or Apartheid. For years the United States has supported this in its actions but opposed it in its words. Now President Trump has finally put America’s mouth where its money has been all these years.

“This is the clarifying moment we had been expecting. Now Americans must ask themselves what it is that they support, an exclusivist, ethno-nationalist, Apartheid state or freedom, justice and equality for all regardless to race, religion or ethnicity?

Diana Buttu of IMEU also heralds the new era of apartheid and resistance:

Israel’s apartheid regime will be challenged in the same way that South Africa’s was- by holding Israel accountable through boycotts, divestment and sanctions. Ultimately, as in South Africa, the outcome will be the same: equality for all. And no one should have a problem with that.

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Originally Posted by sabang

Israel’s apartheid regime will be challenged in the same way that South Africa’s was- by holding Israel accountable through boycotts, divestment and sanctions. Ultimately, as in South Africa, the outcome will be the same: equality for all.

Israel is part of the Middle East where INequality is the name of the game. Now what's all the commotion about?

Unless there is equality for ALL !

Documents Reveal How Israel Made Amnesty's Local Branch a Front for the Foreign Ministry in the 70s

The Israeli government funded the establishment and activity of the Amnesty International branch in Israel in the 1960s and 70s. Official documents reveal that the chairman of the organization was in constant contact with the Foreign Ministry and received instructions from it.

“The Amnesty branch in Israel consists of one person (more precisely, one woman), who is Ms. Bella Ravdin who lives in Haifa.

According to Foreign Ministry documents, Ravdin’s activity was subsidized by the state, which paid her Amnesty International membership dues and funded her trip to the organization’s international conference in 1969. At the time, Ravdin was briefed to bring up the problem of the Jews in Arab countries at the conference and on how to react if the subject of “the Arab detainees in the territories” was raised.



Lots more here: Documents reveal how Israel made Amnesty's local branch a front for the Foreign Ministry in the 70s - Israel News - Haaretz.com