I'll be offline until Tuesday. German readers from Hessen may want to come by and say hello
here, Sunday afternoon. Everyone else should take the time to read a book. If you then don't come back to the blogosphere, and decide to stay with the books, even better.
I'd love to come. Right now it seems I won't be able to come to Frankfurt sooner than 19:00.
ReplyDeleteBut I'll try!
Best regards, André
Hey, didn't know you speak such excellent German!
ReplyDeleteThanks for being with us!
If one of you two heard Yaacov, I want to be told all about including best female gossip style stuff i.e. which tie did he wear, was his haircut becoming etc. ;-)
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Silke,
ReplyDeletenope, I didn't make it. :( But I spread some advertising for this event. :)
His haircut, tie? LOL. You'll find a black/white photo of him in his book "Right to Exist", though.
Best regards, André
Maybe when he's back from his rest, Yaacov can contextualize the following video for us: http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/how-many-israeli-soldiers-does-it-take-to-keep-an-elderly-palestinian-woman-from-harvesting-her-olives.html. I guess I mean that somewhat snidely, but I'd still be interested. I suppose I can imagine the rationale: it's the law, any country would keep people out of military zones, the soldiers do well while being subjected to provocation, this was (obviously) staged to make Israel look bad, etc. But it does make Israel look kinda bad.
ReplyDeleteThat's nothing.
ReplyDeleteYou want to know what makes Israel look really, really bad?
That report from some gorgeous left-wing Israeli academic chick that Israel soldiers refuse, absolutely refuse, to rape Palestinian women because, because, because, Israeli soldiers---as everyone knows---are incredibly RACIST!!
Now, that's bad. I'd even go so far to say that that's almost irredeemable.
(And you can bet that Palestinian women are pretty steamed up about it, too.)
But wait, wait.
ReplyDeleteWhat am I saying???
(Oops. Got a bit carried away there....)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3872384,00.html
For those who may be feeling a bit perplexed or even blue, uncertain or unsure, here's some high comedy:
ReplyDeletehttp://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=7279
File under: Laughter is the best medicine(?)....especially, perhaps, on "Super Tuesday"(??)
Anon
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather have you ask Mondoweiss to "contextualize" this story
why should Israelis always be obligated to "contextualize" the nutters' stuff?
I find the demand insulting. There is something like "presumed innocent" which is constantly violated in the conversation with Israelis.
Let the nutters get attacked wherever possible for non-contextualizing their slanders or rather since this is impossible to do because they either censor or evade answers, let them get attacked for that.
People giving any credit to what Mondoweiss says will credit anything, with or without contextualisation.
Silke
Near Har Bracha, a verbal confrontation erupted yesterday between Jewish farmer Erez Ben Sa'adon and Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the head of Rabbis for Human Rights. Ascherman claimed Ben Sa'adon was harvesting olives that belonged to Palestinians from nearby Karyut. Ben Sa'adon, whose nearby vineyard had been destroyed by unidentified parties the previous night, said he had leased that plot for the past 12 years and the olives were his.
Civil Administration officials were called to resolve the dispute, and they summoned the mayor of Karyut - who admitted that the trees belonged to Ben Sa'adon.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/10/ap-promotes-stereotypes-of-fanatic.html
OT
ReplyDeletehere is a book review by Alex Romirowsky, one of the authors of recent piece-on-Galloway-fame
Silke
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=5&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=625&PID=0&IID=5156&TTL=Asaf_Romirowsky_on_Palestine_Betrayed,_by_Efraim_Karsh
I don't know Silke, even EoZ picked up on some of the problems with Karsh's book, specifically the footnotes. However, given the scholarship in the piece on Galloway, I might forgive him this one.
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T34
ReplyDeleteEoZ is a stickler for accuracy which is of course the reason why I read him so faithfully and trust him. But as I am addicted to book reviews I find that lots of them are just extended blurbs and measured against that this one reads like a pretty good one.
What I wish for in reviews of books on these subjects though is a constant reminder of which archives are still unaccessible and of course which ones were open.
That I would consider a real service to me the reader.
Silke
@Silke:
ReplyDeleteno tie, his next hair cut is probably due.
Nice guy. Gray hair. Slim.
Enough?
heplev
ReplyDeleteyou lucky guy
but other than that no way ;-)
you men*) just don't know how to do it but since this is not the appropriate place for it I won't ask the questions
Silke
*) this is final proof that you really are male ;-)
Silke, just for you:
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Wow heplev
ReplyDeletejust between you and me and only because he has no access to reading this
he looks great, no gorgeous, really Hollywood-star-quality like (it is really unjust that some men get more beautiful with age)
much better than on the book-fotos I saw (btw my book still hasn't arrived - so much for buying it through the local book store)
Silke
(nearing 70 and only into looking by now ;-)