‘When Israeli forces destroyed the cultural centre, they thought they would also destroy our dreams’
THE MUSIC CONTINUES DESPITE IT ALL! GAZA WILL CONTINUE TO SING TILL IT IS FREE!!
August 15, 2018 at 16:01 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Gaza)
ZIONISM DECLARED NOT KOSHER
August 14, 2018 at 11:27 (DesertPeace Exclusive, zionism)
Badatz to winery: ‘Remove Zionist label’
Beit Din Tzedek, or Badatz, the ultra-Orthodox body that grants kosher certificates and serves the Haredi community, told Psagot Winery to remove its kosher certificate from its labels celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary. As the wine labels, which featured a big number ’70’ had already been printed, the winery complied by covering up Badatz’s kosher seal with a sticker.
I spoke to one of the owners of the winery in question …. here is what he said;
“Good for sales — people have seen that article and because of it want to buy full cases of wine! 🙂 “
Here is a picture of the bottle of wine causing the friction..
either Eida or Israel, but not both on your wine
The latest kashrut brouhaha with the Eida Hachareidis is a report on Channel 11 News (Kan) is regarding a winery that put out a line of wine marketed with the celebratory symbols for Israel’s 70th birthday. The Eida has told Psagot Winery that they must either cover up the Zionist symbols on the labels of the bottles, or must cover up the Eida hechsher.
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What a conflict! They want to market to a community that will only rely on the Eida hechsher and not any of the other hechshers available, but they also want to market their wine to people who will buy it as part of a celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday! And the Eida will only allow it to be one or the other, not both.
It is also possible that the Eida was simply embarrassed to have its logo on a bottle for a company that could not even spell the worth “birthday” correctly for a major marketing campaign taking advantage of Israel’s 70th birthday!
The Eida always claims that the kashrut division is independent of the rest of the activities of the Eida and is “kashrus neto” with no involvement in the anti-State activities of the Eida. An incident like this shows that this is not true – they are giving an ultimatum that it is either a symbol of the State of Israel or it is the logo of the Eida, but the two cannot reside on the same bottle side by side.
Being that this is purely a marketing issue, companies feel that having the Eida hechsher will bring them a lot more business, people need to make it known to the companies that the Eida hechsher will expose them to an entirely new market, but it will close them off from other markets.. If the Eida says it can only be one or the other, who can blame them for choosing Eida if there are no ramifications?
URGENT APPEAL FROM THE CHILDREN IN GAZA
August 12, 2018 at 11:46 (Action Alert, Collective Punishment, DesertPeace Exclusive, Gaza, Palestine, Rights of The Child)
‘When Israeli forces destroyed the cultural centre, they thought they would also destroy our dreams’
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Dear Gaza Children Cinema friends and supporters,
First and foremost, we would like to repeatedly extend our sincere gratitude for your kind and generous support to our Gaza education community-based initiative: Gaza Children Cinema.
We have been silent in the last few months but invariably busy with organising fundraising events to extend the wonderful momentum of the project to further reach to children communities in Gaza. We also have been minutely working with our partner in Gaza, Tamer Institute for Community Education to plan for the second phase of cinema workshops implementation across the enclave Gaza Strip.
Children in Gaza need our help and support to heal. Please consider contributing to Gaza Children Cinema to provide spaces of fun, creatively temporary escapism through basic human engagement: watching a movie in a safe environment.
According to a recent study by Gaza-based university professors of psychological health, Dr Jamil Tahrawi and Dr Sanaa Abu-Dagga, “Drawings of Palestinian Children after the War on Gaza,” 82.3 percent of 445 children surveyed have drawn images related to war. These include: fighter planes, destroyed homes and mosques, Israeli rockets and missiles, dead Palestinians, various military vehicles, and fighters. The drawings showed fear, terror, and sadness over the those killed and wounded. The study is available in Arabic here.
But there is still hope. Dr. Tahrawi explained that art could be used as a bridge to a better future and that despite the gruesome content of many of the children’s pictures the drawings could help the children overcome their grief and move on.
“The children can relieve their stress by expressing their feelings instead of repressing them. I was surprised at the bright and cheerful colors used by certain children. I expected them all to use bleak colors such as black and brown. But the rainbow of colors is proof of their resilience,” according to Dr. Tahrawi.
“If they are given the chance and the same opportunities as other children they can overcome Gaza’s tragic history and circumstances. Unfortunately we don’t have sufficient people qualified in art therapy in Gaza,” added Tahrawi.
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RECENTLY DISCOVERED NORMAN ROCKWELL PAINTING
August 7, 2018 at 16:22 (Activism, Civil Rights, DesertPeace Exclusive)
This is a Norman Rockwell painting called Murder in Mississippi. It depicts the final moments in the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan 53 years ago this summer for registering people to vote. That’s not ancient history. It’s not even history. It’s current events.
Harry Belafonte These Three Are On My Mind
REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA
August 6, 2018 at 14:35 (Collective Punishment, DesertPeace Exclusive, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Poetry)
“I AM BECOME DEATH THE DESTROYER OF WORLD”
By Tom Karlson
August 6th nineteen and forty-five
Enola Gay flies high
8:15
bombs away, Little Boy
8:16 one hundred fifty-thousand dead, vaporized
two hundred-thousand Hibakusha,
zombies stagger down streetless streets
silhouetting their dead friends, family
a cityless city
called Hiroshima
on a standing wall an image of
a man, a woman, burned into the brick’s retina
the little haberdasher is not done
“using the bomb is no great decision”
August 9th,
he orders Bockscar to drop Fat Man,
ninety thousand exterminated, vaporized
Hiroshima and Nagasaki will sing no more
Eisenhower “…the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”
MacArthur “…no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.”
“Albert Einstein…President Roosevelt would have forbidden the atomic bombing of Hiroshima had he been alive and that it was probably carried out to end the Pacific war before Russia could participate.”
THE NEW UNTOUCHABLES ~~ THE KOSHER NOSTRA
August 6, 2018 at 10:42 (Corrupt Politics, Cover Up, DesertPeace Exclusive, Irony)
As the ‘illegal’ roundup continues, there is one group that seems to be completely untouchable …
An Israeli man who owns kiosks in shopping malls in seven states was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in jail for illegally employing Israeli nationals to sell Dead Sea beauty products.
Yet this criminal activity continues …. and the Feds turn a blind eye to it
Illustrative photo of an Israeli salesman demonstrating a beauty product at an American mall. (Creative Commons via JTA)
More info in the following …. (Click on links)
Dead Sea products mall kiosk owner sentenced to jail for illegally employing Israelis
(related)
PHONY Israeli Owned Locksmith Compnanies Operating in the US
And from my archives ...
ISRAELI? >>> NO GREEN CARD?? >>> NO PROBLEM!
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!!
THE CHANGING TIDE IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
ISRAEL WORRIED ABOUT ITS IMAGE ABROAD
HILLARIOUS VIDEO ABOUT A BOAT THAT WASN’T HIJACKED BY ISRAELI FORCES
August 5, 2018 at 14:13 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Humour)
Still funny years after it was made
PHOTO OF THE DAY … ONLY IN GAZA
August 3, 2018 at 11:50 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Gaza)
Family reunion 😦
FUNNIEST VIDEO OF THE DAY ~~ MY MOM’S CRAZIEST STORY
August 1, 2018 at 11:44 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Humour, Irony)
MY MOM HAS NO BOMB!
Security is desired by everyone. But it’s high time we stop treating everyone as if they’re terrorists, not humans. Under the name of security, governments can do whatever they want (water boarding, Guantánamo, torture, etc). But sometimes they go too far and it’s the job of people like us to know when things are too far or not.
Similarly, under the name of security, millions are given a sub-human treatment. I’ve always had the mindset that it’s possible to treat people as humans and still keep the world secure. If you don’t think it’s possible, then that’s a whole bigger issue!
Plus, this is a funny video not an angry one
A PALESTINIAN ICON … AHED TAMIMI
August 1, 2018 at 09:33 (Collective Punishment, DesertPeace Exclusive, Israel's Shame, Palestine)
Ahed Tamimi is free, but she hasn’t forgotten the other 5,000 Palestinians still trapped inside Israeli prisons. AJ+ spoke to Ahed about life inside an Israeli prison.
Insightful and wise beyond her years.
IMAGE OF THE FIRST TASTE OF FREEDOM
July 30, 2018 at 14:38 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Israel's Shame, Occupation, Palestine)
Our dear heroine’s first taste of freedom …
A bittersweet moment in reality ….
After eight months in Israeli prison, 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi returned home on Sunday morning to a hero’s welcome in her village of Nabi Saleh, in the central occupied West Bank. Arm in arm with her father Bassem and mother Nariman, who was also released on Sunday along with her daughter, the teenager broke down in tears as she was embraced by her younger brothers, extended family, and fellow residents of Nabi Saleh.
FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS FROM PALESTINE ~~ AHED TAMIMI FREE AT LAST
July 29, 2018 at 11:41 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Israel's Shame, Palestine)
Jail bars won’t silence the truth! Ahed Tamimi is FREE
Images by Latuff
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi has been released from Israeli custody following eight months of incarceration. The renowned teen became a significant figure of the Palestinian resistance after standing up to Israeli forces.
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From Yahoo ….
Palestinian teenager jailed for slapping soldiers leaves prison
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi left prison Sunday after an eight-month sentence for slapping two Israeli soldiers, an episode captured on video that made her a symbol of resistance for Palestinians, a prison service spokesman said.
Assaf Librati told AFP Tamimi, 17, and her mother, who was also jailed over the incident, were being driven by Israeli authorities from a prison inside Israel to a checkpoint leading to the occupied West Bank, where they live.
“They just left the prison,” Librati said.
Israeli authorities provided conflicting information on which checkpoint they were being taken to.
They were first expected to arrive at a checkpoint near the Palestinian city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, but there were later indications they would be taken to a crossing at Rantis.
Both Tamimi and her mother were sentenced to eight months in an Israeli military court following a plea deal over the December incident which the family said took place in their yard in Nabi Saleh in the West Bank.
Video of it went viral, leading Palestinians to view her as a hero standing up to Israel’s occupation.
Her now-familiar image has been painted on Israel’s separation wall cutting off the West Bank. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has praised her and social media has been flooded with support.
But for Israelis, Tamimi is being used by her activist family as a pawn in staged provocations.
They point to a series of previous such incidents involving her, with older pictures of her confronting soldiers widely shared online.
Many Israelis also praised the restraint of the soldiers, who remained calm throughout, though others said her actions merited a tougher response.
– Embassy protests –
Tamimi was arrested in the early hours of December 19, four days after the incident. She was 16 at the time.
Her mother Nariman was also arrested, as was her cousin Nour, who was freed in March.
Israel’s military said the soldiers were in the area on the day of the incident to prevent Palestinians from throwing stones at Israeli motorists.
The video shows the cousins approaching two soldiers and telling them to leave before shoving, kicking and slapping them.
Ahed Tamimi is the most aggressive of the two in the video.
The heavily armed soldiers do not respond in the face of what appears to be an attempt to provoke rather than seriously harm them.
They then move backwards after Nariman Tamimi becomes involved.
The scuffle took place amid clashes and protests against US President Donald Trump’s controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Relatives say that a member of the Tamimi family was wounded in the head by a rubber bullet fired during those protests.
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Ahed’s first statement upon release …..
“My freedom is incomplete without the freedom of other detainees who stood beside me and supported me throughout my detention and I hope they will be freed soon.”
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Followed by a press conference
IN IMAGES … THE SADDEST SIGNS OF OUR TIME
July 25, 2018 at 13:43 (Cartoons, DesertPeace Exclusive, Humour)
All sad, but unfortunately true
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A MESSAGE FROM ROGER WATERS
July 18, 2018 at 10:57 (Activism, DesertPeace Exclusive, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid Flotilla)
No updates available yet on the fate of those ‘captured’ by the Israeli pirates
Gaza bound with cargo of medicine. Godspeed our hearts are with you.
You MUST join the protests to end the illegal siege on Gaza!
2nd GROUP OF YOUNG JEWS REALISE WHAT ‘BIRTHRIGHT’ REALLY MEANS
July 16, 2018 at 14:41 (Activism, DesertPeace Exclusive, International Solidarity, Occupation, Palestine)
Another group of young American Jews just walked off their Birthright trip, to meet with a Palestinian family and see the reality of the Occupation for themselves, a reality Birthright actively hides
8 left-wing activists stage 2nd Birthright walkout in less than a month
Participants affiliated with IfNotNow leave trip four days early to meet with Palestinian family whose home is slated for demolition in East Jerusalem
Birthright has refused to show us the truth about the occupation’s impact on Palestinians, instead asking us to visit a site operated by a far-right settlement organization. We’ve decided instead to go meet with the Sumarin family, a family that has lived in East Jerusalem under threat of eviction for years to learn from them and hear their story.
More HERE on FacBook page
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And HERE on Twitter
I C E NOT WELCOME IN NEW YORK
July 15, 2018 at 13:15 (Activism, Associate Post, Collective Punishment, Corrupt Politics, DesertPeace Exclusive, Photography)
Waiting for global warming to melt I C E
New York City played host to the biggest ever gathering of homeland security officials and private security corporations. They will be coming from all over the country to plot how they can place even more of our hermanxs in cages and concentration camps — and how they can continue to profit at all of our expense.
Say it loud, and say it clear: ICE is not welcome here!
Photos © by Bud Korotzer
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IN PHOTOS ~~ THE FEARLESS WOMEN OF WALL STREET
July 5, 2018 at 14:32 (Activism, Associate Post, DesertPeace Exclusive, International Solidarity, Palestine, Photography)
Our group wanted to do something in solidarity with the Gaza Women’s March yesterday so decided to spend a few hours with the Fearless Girl statue – our Ahed – at Bowling Green because there are so many tourists there – maximum exposure. We do this once or twice a month and there is always a very positive reaction.
Some people respond to the little statue very affectionately with hugs, yesterday she got a kiss (from an adult). It seems we actually manage to create the Ahed connection among some visitors.
Photos © by Bud Korotzer, Commentary by Chippy Dee
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WHAT DID JESUS REALLY LOOK LIKE?
June 27, 2018 at 12:02 (Deception, DesertPeace Exclusive, Irony)
Not even close ….
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A more realistic parody ….
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Even more realistic ….
Using methods similar to those police have developed to solve crimes, British scientists, assisted by Israeli archeologists, have re-created what they believe is the most accurate image (above) of what the historical Jesus looked like.
WE CAN REALLY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
June 26, 2018 at 12:45 (Collective Punishment, Deportations, DesertPeace Exclusive)
Enjoy …
Don’t wait for this to happen …
Or this …
IMAGE OF THE DAY ~~ THE BIG GAY APPLE
June 25, 2018 at 14:09 (DesertPeace Exclusive, Gay Rights)
‘Pride in the sky’
NYC Pride: Empire State Building Turns Rainbow
‘Somewhere over the rainbow’
Enjoy …..
