Art and Fear -
A good book about the internal and external challenges to making art, along with the rewards.
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Sunday, 22 January 2017
quote [ "Now we can build," a Jerusalem official says, as a staunch Israel supporter takes office in the US.
Jerusalem's City Hall approved construction permits for 566 new homes in the East Jerusalem settlements of Pisgat Zeev, Ramat Shlomo and Ramot. Mr Turgeman said: "I was told to wait until Trump takes office because he has no problem with building in Jerusalem. "The rules of the game have changed with Donald Trump's arrival as president. We no longer have our hands tied as in the time of Barack Obama." He said the delay was at the request of Mr Netanyahu in the wake of the 23 December UN Security Council resolution opposing Israeli settlement construction. ] Netanyahu is almost as happy as Putin.
US Ambassador Friedman to reside in Jerusalem
In the Trump Era, Israelis and Palestinians Must Find Their Own Path to Peace #new world disorder
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Bleb said @ 12:29am GMT on 23rd Jan
[Score:4 Funsightful]
Dear Israelis,
Most of you seem like pretty cool people. You're governed by fucking asshats, though. Cheers, Bleb PS. You too, Americans. |
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sanepride said @ 1:36am GMT on 23rd Jan
Most Israelis do seem like pretty cool people, and yet somebody keeps voting for these asshats.
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slaytanik said @ 4:02am GMT on 23rd Jan
I think you just described every nation.
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sanepride said @ 4:07am GMT on 23rd Jan
Well there are still plenty of nations with asshat leaders that nobody voted for (or voted for willingly).
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midden said @ 9:01pm GMT on 22nd Jan
Sad and fucked-up as usual. I still think the best strategy is to force everyone out and deed the whole place to Disney for development into a massive Holy Land theme park. Use the proceeds to fund two small, new states on the opposite sides of the planet for the Israelis and the Palestinians. They both seem perfectly happy with crappy desert land, so it shouldn't be too expensive.
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arrowhen said @ 9:43pm GMT on 22nd Jan
Fuck Disney, just kick everyone out and cover the whole place with an impenetrable dome until they can learn to share their toys like big kids.
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midden said @ 10:25pm GMT on 22nd Jan
But then someone else has to put up with them sulking at the dinner table. Just send them to their rooms. Unfortunately, they don't have rooms, so we can buy them rooms by renting out their toys in the meantime.
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HoZay said[1] @ 11:20pm GMT on 22nd Jan
Trump invites Netanyahu to Washington
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday invited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to come to Washington to meet him in February, the Prime Minister’s Office said shortly after the phone conversation between the two. ... The call between the two came amid speculation regarding possible progress in the proposed relocation of the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. |
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knumbknutz said @ 3:54am GMT on 23rd Jan
Well - this is going to make his stormfront.org contingent happy now isn't it? If I recall correctly, him promising the cessation of all ties with Israel, and Jews in general, were a huge part of why they whipped themselves into a ferver over him to begin with.
Of course, seeing how the way every one of his cult followers have suddenly embraced and started group fellatio sessions with Russia and Putin, the alt-whitepower segment twisting themselves into logical knots to whip their groups into apologist mode wouldn't surprise me in the least either. |
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raphael_the_turtle said @ 8:10pm GMT on 22nd Jan
[Score:-1 WTF]
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 9:02pm GMT on 22nd Jan
[Score:2 Insightful]
I don't think anyone is trying to rewrite history. Obama didn't want settlements built, but that pesky Congress would never let him cut funding or anything like that. He also didn't make it a priority, that's true.
However, under Trump, it's going to get much, much worse. Not only does a Trump administration give tacit if not outright approval to settlement expansion, one of the more public ways of putting pressure on Israel, the UN, is something the US is now trying to extricate itself from. All evils didn't end under Obama. Many evils are set to escalate, however. There's a difference. |
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midden said[1] @ 9:05pm GMT on 22nd Jan
Well, if the numbers cited by the AP are accurate, it's more of a correction/clarification than a re-writing of the past. On the other hand, the numbers are from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, so they certainly have plenty of motivation and opportunity to cook the books.
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 4:41am GMT on 23rd Jan
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