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Farmers sceptical of government promises of protection from cheap food imports
Guardian has a useful article on the right of Palestinian refugees to return and how it can be accomplished. It reminds how the Russian Jewish migrants – a half million was integrated within 4 years.
Even Hamas leaders considered it might be a generational issue to be solved but apparently studies show it needn’t be.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/18/a-jewish-case-for-palestinian-refugee-return
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi’s bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The eventual ruling by the conservative-majority court, expected next year, could allow states to ban abortions before a fetus is viable outside the womb
James, our response in 1948 to the establishment of Israel
“…For the Arab and Jewish worker neither Arab nor Jewish national independence will remove the mark of subservience…”
Another about the see-saw attitudes
I was going to listen but saw the date of his article being 1983 which put me off since a lot of things have happened in the subsequent 40 years, the 1st Intifada and hundreds of thousands of foreign migrants and an underclass (if we can describe them as) of 40,000 African asylum-seekers now in the Israeli job market.
Is the interview using data more up to date?
I think the only thing missing was discussion of the Israeli Jewish working class’ conditions, because it’s not a bed of roses for them neither.
Wasn’t it 2011 that saw mass protests by Jewish-Israelis about the cost of living and scarcity of affordable housing, taking a lesson from the Arab Spring?
I’m going to ask something controversial.
What is so special about the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel which makes it much more news-worthy than the many more tragic events that take elsewhere around the world, also often arising from religio-ethnic causes?
Anyone who follows news from Africa will know that the number of deaths and casualties of innocent victims in Gaza is relatively low in comparison to the sustained atrocities in the Congo, for example.
Hypocrisy and double standards?
101 “pro-life” and “pro-family” Republicans voted against a bill to protect the rights of pregnant workers.
The ICC response…no, not the International Criminal Court but the International Communist Current
https://en.internationalism.org/content/17016/wars-and-pogroms-future-capitalism-offers-us
“The person who is responsible for this Intifada is Itamar Ben Gvir:” Israel’s police chief, Kobi Shabtai.
According to Shabtai, the provocations of the ultra-zionist MP and his supporters have fanned the flames of Palestinian anger and provoked the violent clashes that shook Jerusalem last week.
The practicalities of Greater Israel are i believe just as impossible as any of the other so-called “solutions” being implemented to bring peace. It is just a talking point, tbh.
I don’t think the similarities with South African apartheid are 100%. There are crucial differences. World capitalism overall were generally against apartheid as an hinderance to their profits. I’m not sure Israel has that same significance to the capital class other than the domestic ruling class.
I’m very happy to accept any proposal that i perceive will bring less conflict and more peace to alleviate the suffering being inflicted upon the innocent. It may be reformist but a dead worker will never become a socialist. I’m very sure of that.
I have argued on-line that the justification of Hezbollah that Israel occupying a few sq. miles of Shebaa Farms cannot justify its existences as an army of “national liberation”. A few acres of land can easily be given up to bring the greater reward of peace. But it serves the political interests of Hezbollah to demand that small patch of territory is returned. (It actually belongs to Syria and to neither Israel or Lebanon)
MS, i wouldn’t praise Obama too much for his Israel-Palestine policy.
From the Israeli side:
https://jacpac.org/story/12/02/21/president-obama-and-israel-september-2012
From the Palestinian side
https://oldwebsite.palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/207365
An honourable mention should be made of Jimmy Carter, however, in his Camp David talks
Hmmm….haven’t i sort of heard that somewhere else, ALB. Perhaps in an article submission ;-p
I know where i first read such a strategy being proposed. Our own BillM quite a number of years ago. Can’t remember exactly where but since that time i have adopted the Greater Israel option One State as a go-to position when discussing the now unviable Two-State proposal and our own No State isn’t considered.
I have tried to come up with a new name for Eretz Israel which would be acceptable to all. But i struggle. Perhaps others might have suggestions.
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was originally called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and the original name for the Jerusalem Post was the Palestine Post. But the fact they changed their names indicate it is not acceptable to the Jewish community.
You learn something new everyday
The last US president who stood up to Israel and its lobby was George Bush Senior who with-held billions in aid money to first, Shamir, and then to Rabin to pressure them into the Madrid peace talks and to halt the settlement expansions.
Rabin said he would comply but reneged once Israel received the loan guarantees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Conference_of_1991#Loan_guarantees_and_the_settlements_issue
But for Rabin merely paying lip-service to peace cost him his life from an ultra-Zionist.
The out-come in the USA was Bill Clinton courted the Israeli lobby assuring them that he would never do as Bush did and make American aid conditional and subsequently received all the Jewish-American political donations to go on to defeat Bush in the election.
I think since then all the US presidents understand what is expected of them when it comes to policies towards Israel and to cross Israel at your peril.
The debate on the origins of Covid-19 continues and it cannot be accused of being conspiracist theorists
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-scientists-call-for-covid-19-origin-probe/a-57528583
Yet another UBI trial (how many is that now?)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/14/wales-to-launch-universal-basic-income-pilot-scheme
No details as yet on the actual operation of the scheme.
