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"""
Simplex method for solving linear programming problems
"""

import numpy as np
from warnings import warn
from .optimize import OptimizeResult, OptimizeWarning, _check_unknown_options
from ._linprog_util import _postsolve

def _pivot_col(T, tol=1.0E-12, bland=False):
    """
    Given a linear programming simplex tableau, determine the column
    of the variable to enter the basis.

    Parameters
    ----------
    T : 2D array
        The simplex tableau.
    tol : float
        Elements in the objective row larger than -tol will not be considered
        for pivoting.  Nominally this value is zero, but numerical issues
        cause a tolerance about zero to be necessary.
    bland : bool
        If True, use Bland's rule for selection of the column (select the
        first column with a negative coefficient in the objective row,
        regardless of magnitude).

    Returns
    -------
    status: bool
        True if a suitable pivot column was found, otherwise False.
        A return of False indicates that the linear programming simplex
        algorithm is complete.
    col: int
        The index of the column of the pivot element.
        If status is False, col will be returned as nan.
    """
    ma = np.ma.masked_where(T[-1, :-1] >= -tol, T[-1, :-1], copy=False)
    if ma.count() == 0:
        return False, np.nan
    if bland:
        return True, np.nonzero(ma.mask == False)[0][0]
    return True, np.ma.nonzero(ma == ma.min())[0][0]

def _pivot_row(T, basis, pivcol, phase, tol=1.0E-12, bland=False):
    """
    Given a linear programming simplex tableau, determine the row for the
    pivot operation.

    Parameters
    ----------
    T : 2D array
        The simplex tableau.
    basis : array
        A list of the current basic variables.
    pivcol : int
        The index of the pivot column.
    phase : int
        The phase of the simplex algorithm (1 or 2).
    tol : float
        Elements in the pivot column smaller than tol will not be considered
        for pivoting.  Nominally this value is zero, but numerical issues
        cause a tolerance about zero to be necessary.
    bland : bool
        If True, use Bland's rule for selection of the row (if more than one
        row can be used, choose the one with the lowest variable index).

    Returns
    -------
    status: bool
        True if a suitable pivot row was found, otherwise False.  A return
        of False indicates that the linear programming problem is unbounded.
    row: int
        The index of the row of the pivot element.  If status is False, row
        will be returned as nan.
    """
    if phase == 1:
        k = 2
    else:
        k = 1
    ma = np.ma.masked_where(T[:-k, pivcol] <= tol, T[:-k, pivcol], copy=False)
    if ma.count() == 0:
        return False, np.nan
    mb = np.ma.masked_where(T[:-k, pivcol] <= tol, T[:-k, -1], copy=False)
    q = mb / ma
    min_rows = np.ma.nonzero(q == q.min())[0]
    if bland:
        return True, min_rows[np.argmin(np.take(basis, min_rows))]
    return True, min_rows[0]

def _apply_pivot(T, basis, pivrow, pivcol, tol=1e-12):
    """
    Pivot the simplex tableau inplace on the element given by (pivrow, pivol).
    The entering variable corresponds to the column given by pivcol forcing
    the variable basis[pivrow] to leave the basis.

    Parameters
    ----------
    T : 2D array
        A 2D numpy array representing the simplex T to the corresponding
        maximization problem.
    basis : 1D array
        An array of the indices of the basic variables, such that basis[i]
        contains the column corresponding to the basic variable for row i.
        Basis is modified in place by _apply_pivot.
    pivrow : int
        Row index of the pivot.
    pivcol : int
        Column index of the pivot.
    """
    basis[pivrow] = pivcol
    pivval = T[pivrow, pivcol]
    T[pivrow] = T[pivrow] / pivval
    for irow in range(T.shape[0]):
        if irow != pivrow:
            T[irow] = T[irow] - T[pivrow] * T[irow, pivcol]

    # The selected pivot should never lead to a pivot value less than the tol.
    if np.isclose(pivval, tol, atol=0, rtol=1e4):
        message = (
            "The pivot operation produces a pivot value of:{0: .1e}, "
            "which is only slightly greater than the specified "
            "tolerance{1: .1e}. This may lead to issues regarding the "
            "numerical stability of the simplex method. "
            "Removing redundant constraints, changing the pivot strategy "
            "via Bland's rule or increasing the tolerance may "
            "help reduce the issue.".format(pivval, tol))
        warn(message, OptimizeWarning)

def _solve_simplex(T, n, basis, maxiter=1000, phase=2, status=0, message='',
                   callback=None, tol=1.0E-12, nit0=0, bland=False, _T_o=None):
    """
    Solve a linear programming problem in "standard maximization form" using
    the Simplex Method.

    Minimize :math:`f = c^T x`

    subject to

    .. math::

        Ax = b
        x_i >= 0
        b_j >= 0

    Parameters
    ----------
    T : 2D array
        A 2D array representing the simplex T corresponding to the
        maximization problem.  It should have the form:

        [[A[0, 0], A[0, 1], ..., A[0, n_total], b[0]],
         [A[1, 0], A[1, 1], ..., A[1, n_total], b[1]],
         .
         .
         .
         [A[m, 0], A[m, 1], ..., A[m, n_total], b[m]],
         [c[0],   c[1], ...,   c[n_total],    0]]

        for a Phase 2 problem, or the form:

        [[A[0, 0], A[0, 1], ..., A[0, n_total], b[0]],
         [A[1, 0], A[1, 1], ..., A[1, n_total], b[1]],
         .
         .
         .
         [A[m, 0], A[m, 1], ..., A[m, n_total], b[m]],
         [c[0],   c[1], ...,   c[n_total],   0],
         [c'[0],  c'[1], ...,  c'[n_total],  0]]

         for a Phase 1 problem (a Problem in which a basic feasible solution is
         sought prior to maximizing the actual objective.  T is modified in
         place by _solve_simplex.
    n : int
        The number of true variables in the problem.
    basis : 1D array
        An array of the indices of the basic variables, such that basis[i]
        contains the column corresponding to the basic variable for row i.
        Basis is modified in place by _solve_simplex
    maxiter : int
        The maximum number of iterations to perform before aborting the
        optimization.
    phase : int
        The phase of the optimization being executed. In phase 1 a basic
        feasible solution is sought and the T has an additional row
        representing an alternate objective function.
    callback : callable, optional
        If a callback function is provided, it will be called within each
        iteration of the simplex algorithm. The callback must have the
        signature `callback(xk, **kwargs)` where xk is the current solution
        vector and kwargs is a dictionary containing the following::
        "T" : The current Simplex algorithm T
        "nit" : The current iteration.
        "pivot" : The pivot (row, column) used for the next iteration.
        "phase" : Whether the algorithm is in Phase 1 or Phase 2.
        "basis" : The indices of the columns of the basic variables.
    tol : float
        The tolerance which determines when a solution is "close enough" to
        zero in Phase 1 to be considered a basic feasible solution or close
        enough to positive to serve as an optimal solution.
    nit0 : int
        The initial iteration number used to keep an accurate iteration total
        in a two-phase problem.
    bland : bool
        If True, choose pivots using Bland's rule [3].  In problems which
        fail to converge due to cycling, using Bland's rule can provide
        convergence at the expense of a less optimal path about the simplex.

    Returns
    -------
    nit : int
        The number of iterations. Used to keep an accurate iteration total
        in a two-phase problem.
    status : int
        An integer representing the exit status of the optimization::

         0 : Optimization terminated successfully
         1 : Iteration limit reached
         2 : Problem appears to be infeasible
         3 : Problem appears to be unbounded
         4 : Serious numerical difficulties which could not resolved using
             a more robust, albeit less efficient, solver encountered

    """
    nit = nit0
    complete = False

    if phase == 1:
        m = T.shape[0]-2
    elif phase == 2:
        m = T.shape[0]-1
    else:
        raise ValueError("Argument 'phase' to _solve_simplex must be 1 or 2")

    if phase == 2:
        # Check if any artificial variables are still in the basis.
        # If yes, check if any coefficients from this row and a column
        # corresponding to one of the non-artificial variable is non-zero.
        # If found, pivot at this term. If not, start phase 2.
        # Do this for all artificial variables in the basis.
        # Ref: "An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory"
        # by Paul R. Thie, Gerard E. Keough, 3rd Ed,
        # Chapter 3.7 Redundant Systems (pag 102)
        for pivrow in [row for row in range(basis.size)
                       if basis[row] > T.shape[1] - 2]:
            non_zero_row = [col for col in range(T.shape[1] - 1)
                            if abs(T[pivrow, col]) > tol]
            if len(non_zero_row) > 0:
                pivcol = non_zero_row[0]
                _apply_pivot(T, basis, pivrow, pivcol)
                nit += 1

    if len(basis[:m]) == 0:
        solution = np.zeros(T.shape[1] - 1, dtype=np.float64)
    else:
        solution = np.zeros(max(T.shape[1] - 1, max(basis[:m]) + 1),
                            dtype=np.float64)

    while not complete:
        # Find the pivot column
        pivcol_found, pivcol = _pivot_col(T, tol, bland)
        if not pivcol_found:
            pivcol = np.nan
            pivrow = np.nan
            status = 0
            complete = True
        else:
            # Find the pivot row
            pivrow_found, pivrow = _pivot_row(T, basis, pivcol, phase, tol, bland)
            if not pivrow_found:
                status = 3
                complete = True

        if callback is not None:
            solution[basis[:n]] = T[:n, -1]
            x = solution[:m]
            c, A_ub, b_ub, A_eq, b_eq, bounds, undo = _T_o
            x, fun, slack, con, _, _ = _postsolve(
                x, c, A_ub, b_ub, A_eq, b_eq, bounds, undo=undo, tol=tol
            )
            res = OptimizeResult({
                'x': x,
                'fun': fun,
                'slack': slack,
                'con': con,
                'status': status,
                'message': message,
                'nit': nit,
                'success': status == 0 and complete,
                'phase': phase,
                'complete': complete,
                })
            callback(res)

        if not complete:
            if nit >= maxiter:
                # Iteration limit exceeded
                status = 1
                complete = True
            else:
                _apply_pivot(T, basis, pivrow, pivcol)
                nit += 1
    return nit, status

def _linprog_simplex(c, c0, A, b, maxiter=1000, disp=False, callback=None,
                     tol=1.0E-12, bland=False, _T_o=None, **unknown_options):
    """
    Solve the following linear programming problem via a two-phase
    simplex algorithm.::

        minimize:     c^T * x

        subject to:  A * x == b
                    0 <= x < oo

    Parameters
    ----------
    c : 1D array
        Coefficients of the linear objective function to be minimized.
    c0 : float
        Constant term in objective function due to fixed (and eliminated)
        variables. (Purely for display.)
    A : 2D array
        2D array which, when matrix-multiplied by ``x``, gives the values of
        the equality constraints at ``x``.
    b : 1D array
        1D array of values representing the RHS of each equality constraint
        (row) in ``A_eq``.
    callback : callable, optional (simplex only)
        If a callback function is provided, it will be called within each
        iteration of the simplex algorithm. The callback must require a
        `scipy.optimize.OptimizeResult` consisting of the following fields:

            x : 1D array
                The independent variable vector which optimizes the linear
                programming problem.
            fun : float
                Value of the objective function.
            success : bool
                True if the algorithm succeeded in finding an optimal solution.
            slack : 1D array
                The values of the slack variables.  Each slack variable
                corresponds to an inequality constraint. If the slack is zero,
                the corresponding constraint is active.
            phase : int
                The phase of the optimization being executed. In phase 1 a basic
                feasible solution is sought and the T has an additional row
                representing an alternate objective function.
            status : int
                An integer representing the exit status of the optimization::

                     0 : Optimization terminated successfully
                     1 : Iteration limit reached
                     2 : Problem appears to be infeasible
                     3 : Problem appears to be unbounded
                     4 : Serious numerical difficulties which could not resolved
                         using a more robust, albeit less efficient, solver
                         encountered

            nit : int
                The number of iterations performed.
            message : str
                A string descriptor of the exit status of the optimization.
    Options
    -------
    maxiter : int
       The maximum number of iterations to perform.
    disp : bool
        If True, print exit status message to sys.stdout
    tol : float
        The tolerance which determines when a solution is "close enough" to
        zero in Phase 1 to be considered a basic feasible solution or close
        enough to positive to serve as an optimal solution.
    bland : bool
        If True, use Bland's anti-cycling rule [3] to choose pivots to
        prevent cycling.  If False, choose pivots which should lead to a
        converged solution more quickly.  The latter method is subject to
        cycling (non-convergence) in rare instances.

    Returns
    -------
    x : 1D array
        Solution vector.
    status : int
        An integer representing the exit status of the optimization::

         0 : Optimization terminated successfully
         1 : Iteration limit reached
         2 : Problem appears to be infeasible
         3 : Problem appears to be unbounded
         4 : Serious numerical difficulties which could not resolved using
             a more robust, albeit less efficient, solver encountered

    message : str
        A string descriptor of the exit status of the optimization.
    iteration : int
        The number of iterations taken to solve the problem.

    Examples
    --------
    Consider the following problem:

    Minimize: f = -1*x[0] + 4*x[1]

    Subject to: -3*x[0] + 1*x[1] <= 6
                 1*x[0] + 2*x[1] <= 4
                            x[1] >= -3

    where:  -inf <= x[0] <= inf

    This problem deviates from the standard linear programming problem.  In
    standard form, linear programming problems assume the variables x are
    non-negative.  Since the variables don't have standard bounds where
    0 <= x <= inf, the bounds of the variables must be explicitly set.

    There are two upper-bound constraints, which can be expressed as

    dot(A_ub, x) <= b_ub

    The input for this problem is as follows:

    >>> from scipy.optimize import linprog
    >>> c = [-1, 4]
    >>> A = [[-3, 1], [1, 2]]
    >>> b = [6, 4]
    >>> x0_bnds = (None, None)
    >>> x1_bnds = (-3, None)
    >>> res = linprog(c, A, b, bounds=(x0_bnds, x1_bnds))
    >>> print(res)
         fun: -22.0
     message: 'Optimization terminated successfully.'
         nit: 1
       slack: array([ 39.,   0.])
      status: 0
     success: True
           x: array([ 10.,  -3.])

    References
    ----------
    .. [1] Dantzig, George B., Linear programming and extensions. Rand
           Corporation Research Study Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ,
           1963
    .. [2] Hillier, S.H. and Lieberman, G.J. (1995), "Introduction to
           Mathematical Programming", McGraw-Hill, Chapter 4.
    .. [3] Bland, Robert G. New finite pivoting rules for the simplex method.
           Mathematics of Operations Research (2), 1977: pp. 103-107.
    """
    _check_unknown_options(unknown_options)

    status = 0
    messages = {0: "Optimization terminated successfully.",
                1: "Iteration limit reached.",
                2: "Optimization failed. Unable to find a feasible"
                   " starting point.",
                3: "Optimization failed. The problem appears to be unbounded.",
                4: "Optimization failed. Singular matrix encountered."}

    n, m = A.shape

    # All constraints must have b >= 0.
    is_negative_constraint = np.less(b, 0)
    A[is_negative_constraint] *= -1
    b[is_negative_constraint] *= -1

    # As all constraints are equality constraints the artifical variables
    # will also be basic variables.
    av = np.arange(n) + m
    basis = av.copy()

    # Format the phase one tableau by adding artificial variables and stacking
    # the constraints, the objective row and pseudo-objective row.
    row_constraints = np.hstack((A, np.eye(n), b[:, np.newaxis]))
    row_objective = np.hstack((c, np.zeros(n), c0))
    row_pseudo_objective = -row_constraints.sum(axis=0)
    row_pseudo_objective[av] = 0
    T = np.vstack((row_constraints, row_objective, row_pseudo_objective))

    nit1, status = _solve_simplex(T, n, basis, phase=1, callback=callback,
                                  maxiter=maxiter, tol=tol, bland=bland, _T_o=_T_o)
    # if pseudo objective is zero, remove the last row from the tableau and
    # proceed to phase 2
    if abs(T[-1, -1]) < tol:
        # Remove the pseudo-objective row from the tableau
        T = T[:-1, :]
        # Remove the artificial variable columns from the tableau
        T = np.delete(T, av, 1)
    else:
        # Failure to find a feasible starting point
        status = 2
        nit2 = nit1
        messages[status] = (
            "Phase 1 of the simplex method failed to find a feasible "
            "solution. The pseudo-objective function evaluates to {0:.1e} "
            "which exceeds the required tolerance of {1} for a solution to be "
            "considered 'close enough' to zero to be a basic solution. "
            "Consider increasing the tolerance to be greater than {0:.1e}. "
            "If this tolerance is unacceptably  large the problem may be "
            "infeasible.".format(abs(T[-1, -1]), tol)
        )

    if status == 0:
        # Phase 2
        nit2, status = _solve_simplex(T, n, basis, maxiter=maxiter,
                                      phase=2, callback=callback, tol=tol,
                                      nit0=nit1, bland=bland, _T_o=_T_o)

    solution = np.zeros(n + m)
    solution[basis[:n]] = T[:n, -1]
    x = solution[:m]

    return x, status, messages[status], int(nit2)

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*Currently I cloned the Dialer source code from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Dialer/

*It doesn't seems to be a gradle project. How can I build this project ?

*I need to add this entire project as reusable module in my project. Could you please help me on this. How can I start with this ?

This Answer seems very informative https://stackoverflow.com/a/8668334/3020568 but I need to get some more help from guys those who tried to build this type of applications.
WE tried below steps.

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*Checked out source code from google source.

*Tried to import the project in Android Studio.

*It has dependencies outside the project which are not able to resolve. - Some classes and methods has no reference inside the source code.

Thanks in advance.

A: I know this is old but this is for future reference.
You cannot build the Dialer application without access to the rest of the source code. You need to first download the whole Android source (AOSP) and then build it because the Dialer application that comes with AOSP requires some framework files which is included in AOSP; hence the Dialer code may not actually work on all devices. Your best bet is using a tutorial to build a dialer application from scratch.

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Israel's Worst Enemy is Israel
Filed under: Anti-Israel,Anti-Semitism,Anti-Zionist,Arab Authority,Arab World,Donald Trump,European Pressure,Executive Order,Green Line,Israel,Israeli Interests,Leftist Pressures,The Donald,United Nations Presures,United States — qwertster @ 3:11 AM
Tags: Arab Palestinians, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Congressional Record, House of Representatives, Jordan, Khartoum Resolution, Mandate for Palestine, Peace Process, President Barack Obama, President Donald Trump, President Warren G Harding, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Secretary of State, Three No's
Prime Minister Netanyahu is meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May where the two are expected to talk about how they can work together and pursue mutual interests. It is commonly thought that since BREXIT that Britain separating from the European Union (EU) might actually side with Israel on matters which would naturally be opposed by most leaders of the EU membership. Where this might be valid for many members of the British public, one need remember that there is an entire party, one of the larger parties, the Labour Party which has been having a devil of a time with anti-Semitism within its ranks. It comes as little surprise that this was also the part most opposed to BREXIT. We may as well state what many believe from all evidence to be true, the membership nations of the EU largely hate Israel due to their undertow of anti-Semitism, something Europe has never really found a means to get around. Anti-Semitism is pretty rank across the EU and they show it most when it comes to Israel. This is not to claim that such feelings are universal, fortunately they are not. Still, many members and politicians across the EU hold a visceral hatred of all things Israel and by their actions make it appear that their best served interests would lead to the end of Israel once and for all, a seeming cherished outcome. Way back in ancient history when anti-Semitism was better received, 2001 to be exact, French Ambassador to the United Kingdom Daniel Bernard was quoted of having stated during a conversation with Conrad Black of the Daily Telegraph at a private dinner party Black was hosting, "All the current troubles in the world are because of that shitty little country Israel. Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?" He pretty much summed up the feeling of many in Europe then as well as now as the EU and its member nations remain amongst the major contributors to the various Arab agencies working towards the annihilation of Israel. What can we conclude from all of this? We can have fairly low expectations of earth shaking results coming from the meetings between our two Prime Ministers, that is all.
Later this month there will be a slightly more important meeting, or at least it could be if and only if Israel is not sabotaged by her own Prime Minister. Israel still appears to be working in the service of those who wish to do her harm. Partly this is a result of the Israeli desire for two items which often appear to be mutually exclusive. The first is the demand that Israel do everything out in the open in the light of day because, as the Talmud teaches, sunshine is the best cleanser of corruption, by dealing in all things openly, Israel avoids conflicts of interest and other pitfalls from government malfeasance. Secondly, Israel wishes to be liked and accepted by the rest of the world, but as this is ever so unlikely, by being open and above board in so many government and private business dealings she opens herself more to criticism than acceptance. One might ask what other government works so hard at being upright and free from backroom dealings and where would even what other nations consider doing business get new elections other than in Israel. It is partly due to this openness that Israel receives regular scorn and the proof is the method by which new residences and office buildings and other such constructions are permitted especially beyond the Green Line. The method consists of announcing the government taking bids, tenders, for the project. Then there come public debate over whose bid is the best for the lowest price. Then there is a second round of this bidding, why we will never know as rarely does it alter who wins the bid. Then there are more hearings where those opposed to such building are given privileged opportunities to state their case, and they are legion and very boisterous. Then the proposed date is publically debated, then announced and then eventually the building starts and it becomes obvious that something is actually being constructed. Everything leading up to the surveying the landscape and breaking ground takes over two years and countless announcements each and every minor step along the way. This leads to Israel being raked over the coals for every building project beyond the Green Line multiple times for over two years before anything solid even takes place on the ground. Most, if not all, of the process could just as openly be conducted in private government operations which would still allow for public review without making formal declarations to the world and give every newspaper the world over the particulars of projects which often never get off the ground or ever become reality. This has been the reality for all too many projects to build anything anywhere in Israel, particularly if the buildings will benefit the Jews and double so if it is on what Mahmoud Abbas will scream is land belonging to his Arab Palestinians, which for your information is anywhere in Israel between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. And once Mahmoud Abbas or any other Palestinian authority (PA) or PLO leadership goes public with an outcry over any single part, or each and every step along the two year plus procedure, the EU and member nations amongst others, often President Obama these past eight years, along with whomever was serving as Secretary of State, would all scold Israel for building on lands which belong to Israel and will remain Israeli until such time as Israel signs any treaty gifting the lands to some other entity. This all but demanding a public flogging at each progression along the winding road to any project has got to come to an end if Israel is ever to be a normal nation, something she seems very proud not to be considered as she acts so above board and carefully in all actions of governance. Such is of course needless agony brought upon herself.
That is one point where later this month Israel may catch the biggest break possibly since the San Remo Conference formalized and gave near universal acceptance of the Balfour Declaration and led to the Mandate system which was to become a benefit and a curse for Israel. This break could come in the form of one President Donald Trump who himself also tends to announce everything he does and give it great notice, though for a far different reason. The Donald, as he becomes during such times, likes to boast and be the great pretender, even when he is actually winning, and actively seeks admirations and recognition for all he does and does in such a grand manner. Still, President Trump proved along the campaign trail and its trials and tribulations that he knew how to manage the media such that he got what he wanted out to the people for whom it was meant and worded as he would have stated such, and often had stated such. Learning some pointers on how to gain a positive image while doing that which you desired to accomplish anyway would be a valuable lesson. But President Donald Trump could go a whole lot further, though initially it might appear otherwise.
You see, if President Trump begins his meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu with a public press conference, then President Trump could point out that he is expecting to take Prime Minister Netanyahu into private meetings where many demands and other instructions will be identified, delineated and demanded of Israel going forward, especially concerning the "Peace Process," amongst many other items of mutual interests. Then when the two men are in private, perhaps at an informal two family dinner the two men could retire to a private session, play some mutually preferred music to mask their voices, smoke a good Cuban cigar, made in the United States from old Cuban seeds, have a sifter of brandy and get down to the one thing that President Trump may demand of Israel. That singular thing would be to shut up and get one with ending the stalemate the only way it can possibly end. Oddly enough, by using the traditional method first utilized by Joshua right before he led the Israelites across the Jordan River into the Promised Lands to start what would be the ensuing three to four millennial history of the Jewish People and their land, the solution would resolve today's problems even more efficiently than it did in Biblical times where it took over a century to complete the conquest of the Promised Lands. The Torah tells us as well as repeating such in later books and writings that the Canaanites were given three options and some took each of these options. The first option was to live amongst the Israelites in peace, obey the seven Noahic Codes for a civil society, and cooperate with Israelite rule and be content to benefit when the Israelites would benefit. The second option was to gather all of your belongings and all the wealth you cared to bring with you which were actually yours and leave to find another land in which to reside and the Israelites would allow you to leave unmolested by them. The final choice was to war with the Israelites and refuse their other offers at which point you would be granted your war and would be erased from all future history. No matter which you chose, the one certainty was that the Israelites would have their Promised Lands and that did come to pass, though it did take a while to fully accomplish. This could be a part of the deal a President Trump would impart to Prime Minister Netanyahu, but there should be more.
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu
Further, President Trump should lay out exactly what he sees as the best alternative for the United States to assist in the solutions to come, and he should stress that things are going to be vastly different and that Israel need take their moves largely from President Trump and his agents. There is a promising deal as well as some links to other proposed solutions which can be found in Ted Belman's article titled "The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution" which spells out a regional solution which could benefit all honest and true brokers for peace in the region. The deal would require much from the United States in forcing assistance from the United Nations, the EU, most, if not all, the EU member nations, some United States allies in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt as well as Jordan as well as their leaders, and some radical changes with the Arab Palestinians basically being granted the same set of deals as the Israelites gave the Canaanites with a major difference, Israel would contribute fairly and, some might say, in mutual interest, being generous to a fault making relocation appear as the most beneficial of options. Jordan would necessarily become the Arab Palestinian State it was intended to be before the British placed the Hashemites in as the monarchs. Some of the lands where Hashemites and those Bedouins desiring Hashemite rule could be granted their own kingdom, simply smaller and without Arab Palestinians to oppress in the pursuit of continued power. The remaining Arab Palestinians could be offered, as were the Arabs of Eastern Jerusalem, a path over time to full Israeli citizenship or they could become Jordanian citizens residing legally in Israel recognizing Israeli laws as their laws. The particulars could be worked out for the most mutual benefit possible but each would need choose whether they were to be Jordanian or desirous of Israeli citizenship. It should be noted that simply desiring Israeli citizenship would not automatically grant one such status until a number of other elements and conditions were satisfied. As far as Mahmoud Abbas, the upper officers of the PA, the officers and other key personnel from Arab Palestinian Security Forces (which could be referred to seriously as the Arab Palestinian Military) would need to be dealt with largely by the United States who could find a nation which would allow their residence and see to their comfort in their remaining years, preferably an Arab or European State which would be of a welcoming nature. Wherever they are sent, they must have stipulations which would prevent them from once again being connected to terrorism or other illegal acts.
There is a group in Jordan known as the Jordan Opposition Coalition (JOC) (الائتلاف الاردني للمعارضة) which has been fighting for the Arab Palestinian rights and simply requires some additional pressures to be brought to manage a solution which would be mutually beneficial for the Jordanian Monarch and the Arab Palestinian desire for secular self-rule. The main obstacles this peace proposal will face is the fact that it actually recognizes the reality that under International Law, by several treaties and conferences and by a Congressional Resolution Israel is the rightful owner of the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. June 30, 1922, a Joint Resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States unanimously endorsed the "Mandate for Palestine," confirming the irrevocable right of Jews to settle in Palestine—anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Here also is Congressional statements concerning the recognition by the United States after a joint resolution passed both House of Representatives and the Senate which was subsequently signed by President Warren G. Harding on September 21, 1922, the Congress added additional information by attaching from the House of Representatives in the Congressional Record for the 1922 House of Representatives concerning the National Home for the Jewish People whereby on June 30, 1922 House Resolution 360 (Rept. NO. 1172) stating their feelings on the matter and was formally entered into the Congressional Record. These basic articles would give sufficient backing to any plan which President Trump cared to pursue provided it supported Israeli full rights to the lands promised them and finally removing any stigma caused by the illegal nineteen year Jordanian occupation and the British attempts to drown the Jewish State under a sea of immigrant Arabs having far less legitimate claims to the lands in question.
Finally, President Trump could insist that from their meeting forward, upon agreement of the Israeli leadership, follow the lead and be seen as walking with President Trump and cooperating with her Middle Eastern neighbors such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and whomever else President Trump corrals together making this an inclusive measure receiving support from numerous governments such that it has all the backing necessary to implement the details. President Trump will need to make Prime Minister Netanyahu and the people of Israel one very large promise which must be kept, namely that he will implement this peace in such a manner that the main political and other power structures, hopefully including the Arab League, finally recognizing Israel's right to existing as the Home of the Jewish People and their ending all belligerent actions against the Jewish State of Israel. The final item would be the repealing by the Arab League of the Khartoum Resolution and especially its "Three No's; no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel." This in and of itself would be a major accomplishment for bringing peace and stability to a region sorely in need of such. Israel should be far less of a problem as these nations in the Arab League face threats from Iran as well as in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and the Sudan (hopefully this list seems a tad familiar). Should President Trump deliver on such a wide ranging solution forging some credible amount of peace and stability in the Middle East, do not expect any parades, laurel wreaths, write ups in the New York Times or any recognition other than, at best, stunned silence or, at worst, attempts to make a mockery of that which their heroes could not accomplish. Whether any of this comes to pass is unfortunately up to many of us despite how much we may desire such solutions, but the most we can do is pray and write our representatives in Congress and wherever else one may have such. So, for now pray and may these prayers be answered as we wish and our celebrations be true and many.
Hubris Thy Name is France
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Tags: Arab World, Armageddon, France, Israel, Jerusalem, Jordanian Occupation, Judea, Khartoum Resolution, Kotel, NATO, Palestinians, Samaria, Six Day War, Temple Mount, Three No's, Two State Solution, Zionism
French diplomats told Haaretz, describing the situation after the meeting between French envoy Pierre Vimont and Israeli officials Monday where the Israelis restated their refusal to cooperate with the French peace plans, the French representatives stated, "Envoy Pierre Vimont's discussion with Israeli government representatives in Jerusalem was sincere and difficult. The negative Israeli response was predictable, and we will take Israel's position into consideration. However, we plan to carry on promoting our peace initiative." Apparently the French establishment is determined to pursue their designs on formulating a peace proposal based on the defunct two state solution, which they feel and believe is fair and acceptable to the nations they are able to gather by year's end even if Israel is not included in the formulation of the solution. Israeli refusal is based on the insistence for direct party to party negotiations to resolve any differences. Since Israel rejected the French proposals, the Palestinian Authority (PA) accepted the French proposal and is seeking for the Arab League and Nonaligned Nations (NAM) joining the French negotiation in order to formulate a proposal which will facilitate the eradication of Israel through Arab Palestinian refugee and their descendants right to return to within Green Line (1949 Armistice Lines), all five to eight million making Israel just one more Arab majority state which will vote to deport, murder or otherwise deal with their Jewish minority. The PA is simultaneously seeking a preferably binding Security Council Chapter Seven resolution making all Israeli existence beyond the Green Line illegal under International Law believing that United States President Obama will not veto and might even propose such a measure in his closing weeks before the new President, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, a decision still being voted upon as we write, is inaugurated and such returns to being a dicey issue which remains a third-rail issue.
The French, with Egyptian assistance, have already made one run at this which started to be setup back in February 2016 and held in June, with no agreement being accepted by the attending nations and the French vowing to hold a follow-up by the end of the year. France is intending to form a coalition of the willing to reach a completely fleshed-out agreement accepted by and signed onto by the majority of the attending nations whether either concerned party, the Israelis or PA, approve or even accept the invite to join and assist in the drafting a resolution. The French believe that their record as world leaders stretching back century after century to the modern day giving them the right to design, implement and enforce any solution resolved by their conference. The first failed attempt consisted of largely European, Arab and Muslim nations plus the United States breaking-up with acrimony and disagreement leaving the French empty-handed with no two-state agreement to implement by any and all means necessary. How the French plan on forcing any agreement has also not been discussed with some believing that the French conference would be the first step to a Security Council Chapter Seven initiative then enforced using troops under the United Nations command relieving the French of posting an enforcement military contingent. The French even had to pull from the military contingent of NATO as they were unable to continue to provide their share, despite the limited demands being asked, and preferred to sit snug realizing there could be no actual threat to their nation as the Soviet Union threat was gone and any other threat would require hitting France's neighboring countries thus giving them ample warning time to seek a solution.
All this still begs whether the world is ready to place military troops inside Israeli borders engaging the IDF in a general state of war? Would Russia sign on to a second front in the Middle East against the one nation capable of assisting their efforts in what remains of Syria and working against the Islamic State? What about China? China and India are both trading partners with Israel and potential recipients of military and dual use technologies as well as advanced in crop production, irrigation, resource management, computing sciences and numerous other scientific and social areas of research and development from Israel and these trade and sharing relations, to quote a song, have only just begun. Neither nation is to be expected to turn against Israeli interests making an antagonistic enemy out of a developing friendly nation. Other nations from the Middle East are currently so involved in internal conflicts that their participating in any joint military endeavor is next to or absolutely impossible. Examples include but are not limited to Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and others. Whether the United States would be even approachable to participate depends heavily on who becomes the next President and which party controls Congress. Canada is currently one nation which can be expected not to attend any such conference, let alone actively participate in any actions against Israel. There are other nations which would never act against Israel even if simply because of emergency aid received often starting early after the emergency and almost always remains being amongst the last to depart and giving a level of aid only matched by the United States. Such nations would include Haiti, Japan, Philippines, Nepal and others. These facts might make fielding a military force capable of engaging the IDF adequately with sufficient force to alter the current realities on the ground. Further, placing troops for making an assault against Israel might be problematic as Jordan and Egypt both have peace treaties with Israel which would preclude their permitting any military force to be mounted from their fronts, their borders.
The dream the French envision will not only be a nightmare for Israel should some agreement be concluded but also a nightmare for any and every nation choosing to join in being resolved to force any two state solution which addresses also the right for the Arab Palestinian refugees being relocated within Israel and splitting Jerusalem. Those opting to provide troops will be on the front lines of the war prophesized to incur the greatest casualties of any war throughout history making the blood and bodies to be piled deep upon the plains at Megiddo and others being cut to pieces against the sharp shards of the injurious bolder which is Jerusalem. The New Testament relays the story in Revelations which describes a final battle between good and evil. This is, in appearance, exactly the plan by the French as they appear to include initiating a war solely for and by themselves where no others are pressed into war. But even if France is foolhardy enough to initiate such a war believing that such a conflict would not soon balloon up and explode in their faces, then they are horribly ignorant or simply foolhardy to such a point taking risks beyond any an informed and sane person would pursue. But then again we are speaking about the forcing of an Arab Palestinian State, which would soon fall to Hamas or Islamic State if not a marriage of the two, against Israel so completely losing one's sanity is all but required when addressing this problem.
Armageddon Before and After
Where the French may dare to go has been covered by their leadership though there does appear to be minimal wiggle-room such that they could back down from the threatened result even should the French proposals fail to gain any traction. This determined alternative was stated as France officially recognizing a Palestinian State and potentially delivering them with France even recognizing the actual borders. Should France take such a foolish direction it would all but guarantee a raised level of conflict and a far lesser possibility for the two parties negotiating one with the other. The PA has always had a singular goal from its very start as the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization, a terrorist group) back in 1964, a full three years before the Six Day War of June 1967 when the perverse concept that Judea and Samaria along with Eastern Jerusalem including the Old City, the Kotel and the Temple Mount were being occupied by Israel, not liberated from the nineteen years of Jordanian occupation; and that is, was and continues to be the destruction of Israel, all of Israel by any and all means necessary. The reality is that Judea and Samaria were Jordanian occupied lands before their liberation by Israel in the Six Day War. That is the dirty little lie the world has swallowed and used to attempt to assist the Arabs in destroying Israel. Each time a nation recognized an Arab state anywhere in Judea and Samaria and especially any part of Jerusalem the possibility that the Arabs, many of whom were placed there by Jordan during their occupation from 1949 through June 1967 were and remain the real "settlers" as they were in many cases forced to resettle so as to create the appearance of Jordanian ownership. In some cases they were moved into the homes the Jews lost when they were forced from their homes, lands and businesses by the Jordanian troops as Jordan refused to permit a single Jew to remain on their lands during the occupation. That is the reality which in far too many cases is driven by anti-Semitism in the form of either anti-Zionism or anti-Israelism; the three are interchangeable as to hold any one implies your support for the other two.
France is not forwarding anything new and the PA is continuing with their enforcement of the Khartoum Resolution of 1 September 1967 which included the Three No's. These Three No's are, no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel. This was broken by Egyptian martyred President Anwar Sadat. He broke the silence and negotiated peace with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin while United States President Jimmy Carter was presumably facilitating but later it was learned that Carter kept pressing Sadat to demand more of Israel and almost cost the two nations' peace. President Carter was a virulent anti-Israel politician and thought Egypt should have demanded the Israelis return every inch of land and admits the Arab refugees and their children and children's children making Israel simply another Arab state. Sadat was more interested in making a real and lasting peace. He attained his vision before the Muslim Brotherhood had succeeded in assassinating this man with a vision. That has been a problem in the Arab and much of the Muslim lands, few leaders have visions of peace and there lies the wall the French will hit. The question is will they learn or simply recognize a state where the sole desire is the destruction of an existing state and after that returning to their respective tribes leaving the land barren again, as it was in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century when the first Zionists returned joining the remnants of the Jewish Israelite civilization still residing in Jerusalem, Hevron, Shechem and throughout the Galilee, Judea, Samaria and even the Negev Desert. There is another reality; the land was mostly empty until the Jewish Zionists constructed the waterworks irrigation systems. After much of that work had been accomplished, the Arabs arrived for the better economy and that is their reason for remaining. Should the world end their payments to these terror masters, they would leave never to be seen again. The few who would remain would be those willing to work and make something with their lives and with those Israel will be capable of negotiating a lasting peace. Think about that France, if you can see past your hatreds and anti-Semitism.
*Tomorrow Reaction to President Elect Donald Trump and what that entails for the future.
So You Really Hate Israel… Why?
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Tags: Apartheid, Arabs, Bahá'í, Buddhists, Christians, Haiti, hatred, Hindus, Islamic State, Islamists, Israel, Japan, Jews, Khartoum Resolution, Muslims, no negotiations with Israel, NO peace with Israel, NO recognition of Israel, Philippines, Three No's, United States
There are two nations on this planet which have entire NGOs and groups who make their millions by hating them and running around screaming about everything they can find or think they know is evil about them. One is Israel and the other is the United States. Well, guess what. Both nations air their mistakes right out front for the world to feast upon if they so desire. They also both quietly go about helping save the world and not asking for anything much in return. Those who have benefited from this help often turn right around and speak evil about both of us and that is just fine because we know who we are. You want to hate Israel? We are not going to stop you, argue with you or apologize for our few problems. But maybe you should look at Israel, and if you hate the United States you better take a long hard look at them too. While you are seeking an honest answer, perhaps you should check yourself and those who have been feeding you this hatred because you will probably realize some problems with your information train. But if you want to hate Israel, go ahead because we can take it, we Jews have been the object of a general hatred for a few hundred years now, close to over thirty-hundred.
In case you are having difficulty with the math, allow us to help. Thirty-hundred is three-thousand, yes, three thousand years with most of that time our living right here in Eretz Yisroel. That is why Jews have another name less used these days but it is all over this bestselling book, the bible. We are also the Children of Israel. Why children? Well, that is an easy one. We are His children, Hashem, the Big Guy upstairs. Perhaps you've heard of Him. We are His children and will forever be His children and just like all children we make mistakes. We do try to learn from our mistakes but sometimes that is a difficult path. We really messed up badly a few times and paid a heavy price. Our first foray into being less than all we could be got us exiled to Babylonia, but rather quickly our Father forgave us and we returned here to Israel and built the Second Temple. For your information, that was around the time when Buddha, Confucius and a few other well-known fathers to some of the other great Earthly philosophies and religions were just starting out. That was nothing compared to our later mistake where too many of us turned to evil such as idolatry and hating one another. For that we paid an even dearer price. The Second Temple was destroyed and the majority of us spread all over the globe for almost two-thousand years. Our Father, oh, and your Father too, but you hopefully know that or have briefly forgotten about that, He finally allowed His displeasure to subside and we have been given another return home and we are hoping that enough of us can keep things real and on the straight and narrow. Two thousand years of basically being thrown out of your house and told to go stand in the corner is a tough lesson and we had better have learned our lesson.
What lesson? Well, to love one another and especially each and every member of our family and to help where and when and how we are able and to give of ourselves for the betterment of humankind and not to turn away from our Father and to pay Him His due. That may sound easy but it is not as people have been getting that one wrong seemingly forever but yet our Father still loves His children, not just us, but all of His children and that includes you. We hope we have learned a few things about truth and the ways of the universe and it is a lot more difficult to grasp or understand than many think. Yes, sure there are tons of nice formulae which describe everything and as the scientists discover more the more they realize they do not know and more recently they have figured out the BIG truth, they will never know all there is because there will be more and it will be beyond their ability to even see the whole picture, let alone figure it out. The real truth is we need to care for what we have and everything else will come in its time.
Israel and the United States share a few things. We are usually the first two nations to arrive when there is a natural disaster to assist and we often are the last to leave. We both send our physicians out into the world to teach procedures and other things which a few hundred years ago were considered witchcraft but today we know are simple facts used for the betterment of mankind. Israel and the United States are often the target of unfounded hatreds even from those we have assisted the most. We have treated freely many Palestinians and especially those their own hospitals do not have the equipment or know-how to treat. This has included relatives, close relatives including mothers, siblings, children and even those leaders themselves of both Hamas and the PLO. Why do we help our mortal enemies? They are not our enemies, they just are people who have erred into blind hatred; yet still parts of their reason allows them the ability to turn to that most hated people, the Jews of Israel, and seek us out when their own family is in the most dire place need of help. They turn to Israel knowing that despite their desire to murder all of us, we will help them when they are in need because they are also our fellow human beings, our brothers and sisters who are lost. Further, our Father tells us to assist those seeking our help, so we do so. It is that simple.
For your information, it is because we refuse to even hate our mortal enemies that they hate us even more. They see their failings and blame us and we do not fight back as that would be something our Father would not abide. We have an obligation to be as wonderful and helping in all cases to all our fellow human beings and not judge their rights and wrongs as that is not our place. We are His children and we must strive to be worthy of that name. We fail and fail far too often to worry about those false accusations as we need to live up to our expectations of ourselves and then go beyond that to His expectations of us. We will never be the perfect people Hashem desires of us but we will pick ourselves up off the floor every time we fail and try harder. That is what drives us and keeps us working at making ourselves and all we touch better. We are supposed to help and fix that which needs repair and leaving alone that which either is already good or that which refuses to be helped. When they then stop the hate long enough to beseech our aid, we give it freely because that is why we are here and why you are here.
That dictate, telling all of us about loving thy neighbor as thyself thing, we were first commanded to try and live up to that and we have stumbled. We still work on that principle and we will likely stumble some more, but we will continue to try. Treating the stranger amongst us kindly is also one of the commandments we try to live by. But let me tell you a few things we bet you have never heard about. First thing is the Arabs who are citizens of Israel are fully equal with the Jews. They vote, work as they please, live where they please and have every right to fair treatment as anyone else in Israel and some would claim that we are harder on our fellow Jews than any of the myriad of minorities residing in Israel, citizens or not. The Palestinians you demand so much for, rule themselves within our borders in semiautonomous zones. The reason they are semiautonomous is because we do not demand they raise armies and we would defend them from foreign attacks. They continue to reside here because the majority of the Palestinians would love for there to be peace but outside forces rule them and demand they never make peace. Look up the Khartoum Resolution and the resultant Three No's and read why there is such a movement of hate against Israel. This conference, as you would read, came about after the Six Day War of 1967. The three no's, just to save you reading all that Wikipedia propaganda, are "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel." The Khartoum Conference was technically an emergency meeting of the Arab League called in order to end Israeli aggressions. Israeli aggression is defined by our Arab brothers and sisters officially as Israeli existence. The only solution acceptable is the complete and total destruction of Israel, and if truth be told, followed by the hunting down and murder of every Jews, practicing or not, everywhere. By the way, the leaders of this movement are also the people paying for your NGO through many long, convoluted and twisting channels as they desire to be hidden from view. They know that should their backing become common knowledge then they would not have as much backing as they have collected. Personally, I believe they might receive more backing if they went public, but it matters not.
Arab League Summit
From left to right: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia,
Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Abdullah Sallal of Yemen,
Sheikh Ahmad Sabah of Kuwait and Abd al-Rahman Arif of Iraq
Israel will continue and will seek peace even when doing so appears suicidal. We are commanded to offer those residing in our lands a choice of three options about their residing here. This was also what we offered the Canaanites when we entered here from Egypt, and we know there are historians who claim we never were in Egypt and that is their right to believe as they choose. They were told they could remain and live in peace as long as they observed the Noahic Code, or they could depart over our borders and we would not pursue or harm them without due cause, or they could choose to war with us at which time we would defeat them and destroy every last vestige that they existed, their people, cities, cattle, crops, idols (definitely their idols) and lastly anything else we could find. Many of the Canaanites chose the war option but there were a minority which chose leave or live with us and observe the seven Noahic Laws (see below). The Noahic Code is given in the bible and has also become known as the Divine Code which also has a nice ring to it. Yes, the Noahic Code is also part of the Ten Commandments but is not all ten, it is seven on which a right and decent society must be built or it will fail. The Palestinians claimed they would abide by the Noahic Code but some insist on trying to kill us. As long as one tries to kill us, we will answer them in kind. If they wish peace then we will give peace for peace. It really is that simple, peace for peace, threat for threat, death for death, war for war, eye for an eye and life for a life, it sounds almost Biblical, doesn't it.
Noahic Codes
Let us conclude our little conversation and ask a simple favor, if we may. Visit Israel and realize that despite the attractive life in Tel Aviv, that is not our best and finest, just the wealthiest. But then the major cities in the United States is not representative of the heart of America, it is just where the wealth resides. The measure of a person and a nation are similar, gold does not make them necessarily right, it just makes them wealthy and able to be heard louder. Loud does not equal right just quiet also does not impart automatic justness as often whispers are the most devious of all lies as they carry the shroud of being long kept secrets. Often the whispers and the person screaming in the town square are repeating the same oft told lies which many are centuries old. Hatred of the Jews is amongst those ancient hatreds and we were warned that in every generation one would rise to destroy us and unfortunately it has often not been just a single one but often a multitude with numerous leaders and prophets. The Nazis did not act completely alone as some nations have admitted and others still remain unrepentant. Neither did the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Philistines, Nazis, Stalinists, Czars, British, French, Spanish (Inquisition), Ottomans, Assyrians, Persians (Haman the Amalekites, descendant of King Agag), Amorites and now the Islamists. Many of these listed were our friends and turned against us or were our enemies and made eventual peace with us.
But do something easy and spend a couple of weeks visiting Israel and travel to the far corners and walk the fields, enjoy the fruits of the land and get to know the people, Jews, Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Baha'I, Buddhists, Hindus and the other myriads of people as well. If you prefer take that vacation in Haiti and ask of the Israelis there, or the Philippines, Japan where the quake and tsunami hit worst, or even New Orleans from the hurricane or the parts of Louisiana recently flooded and you will hear that the Israelis came and assisted. As a matter of fact, Israel is one of only a few nations which offers assistance to the United States and does not simply believe they can handle it alone; they do not need or want our help. We know that would be a lie and is simply a reason for not assisting and we take assisting our fellow man in need and try to help whenever we are permitted, even if that means deception about the aid given coming from Israel as the Save a Child's Heart (SACH) foundation does regularly when a child from an Arab and/or Muslim nation which refuses to recognize Israel and would torture or murder the family if it were known they received our help. These special cases are handled discreetly and they are flown to a neutral nation and brought to Israel on El Al or private airlines and their travel documents never show any reference to Israel as we are helping and not in the business of burdening people who have suffered the pains of a deathly ill child and the only true assistance being theoretically out of reach due to unseemly hatreds.
Before you continue with the next Apartheid Israel demonstration or give the Palestinians their own country or whatever the next "thing" protesting Israel, seek a little truth, check out those claims you have been fed, realize there is a silent, quiet, underlying lie in the slanders and a kernel of truth out there if only you seek it. We cannot simply yell from the bell tower as we have limited funds which can be better used helping people, other people who really need the help, than using the money to fight the lies. The lies are backed by some of the richest oil wealth nations whose people often reside in poverty and whose education system indoctrinates, not teach. We could never scream louder than the paid adversaries receiving their ill given hate funding from people who would line every Jew on the planet up and slaughter them ISIS (Islamic State, Daesh or ISIL as President Obama prefers to call them) style and would probably do as did the Nazis and record it for posterity. We would rather save lives whenever possible and that is the reality. Israel has saved more Arabs, children and adults, than we have killed in our defense of our nation and wish that we could only save lives and never be in the position of having to take them. But that probably remains for you to find out for yourself, and we invite you to do so. For the rest who already know and appreciate these facts, we would like to give you our heartfelt thanks for your support at any level or effort. Even your smile towards us is sufficient recognition, thank you.


The topic that stoked the most anti-Jewish sentiment online was the outing of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
NEW YORK – An estimated 4.2 million antisemitic messages were posted to Twitter over a 12-month period starting from January 2017, the Anti-Defamation League found in a groundbreaking new report released on Monday.
The in-depth analysis commissioned by the civil-rights organization provides the first-ever snapshot of the trends and themes of antisemitism on the social-media platform over the course of a one-year period.
"Using proprietary research strategies to evaluate Twitter for thousands of possible antisemitic expressions, including classic stereotypes, code words, symbols and conspiracy theories, and conducting a human review to scan for sarcasm or other non-antisemitic uses of such terms, the ADL's Center on Extremism found that at least 4.2 million antisemitic tweets were shared or re-shared in English on Twitter over the 12-month period ending January 28, 2018," the organization said.
The online anti-Jewish attacks fluctuated between a low of 36,800 in the last week of July 2017 to a high of 181,700 in the first week of December 2017, with an average of 81,400 antisemitic messages being uploaded every week over the studied time-period.
The report, titled "Quantifying Hate: A Year of Antisemitism on Twitter," was released during the ADL's National Leadership Summit, a three-day conference of more than 800 leaders and activists from across the country in Washington.
"Algorithms and artificial intelligence will be key to identifying hate online, but human experts are needed to define the problem and, at least in the initial stages, to help the systems assess sentiment and eliminate false positives," he said.
The topic that stoked the most anti-Jewish sentiment online culminated in the outing of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, along with conspiracy theories associated with the Rothschild family.
Anti-Zionism, Holocaust denial and Hungarian-American businessman George Soros were also among the topics that engendered the most antisemitic posts online.


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Between heartbreak and heartburn: Why go public with your dirty laundry?
By Joel Pablo Salud Published Oct 28, 2021 4:52 pm
Kang Garcia
Love, they say, makes the world go round.
This may have been true in the 1960s. Back then, making love was tax-free, bras cumbersome, flirting legal, and orgasm wasn't sexist.
But in today's Facebook world, relationships—and the scandals that love to piggyback on its coattails—have far better chances of rolling about the globe in a thousand-and-one viral posts than any life-saving thing you may have done.
With the exception of posting rescued cat photos, that is. On Instagram and Tiktok. Nothing beats that.
Welcome to the world of spin-dryer entertainment.
How and why some people choose to publicly incriminate themselves is beyond me. The Mafia got it right the first time: omerta, the vow of silence.
This is where laundry is wrung, spun, and hung for all to see. It's like deciding to fall off the stage during a Miss Universe Beauty Pageant. The attention one garners beats all advantages, and not quite by accident, of having the perfect waistline.
Take for instance the Aljur Abrenica-Kylie Padilla break-up. At first glance, one may perhaps guess why the actor aired his washables in public by accusing his wife, Kylie Padilla, of infidelity resulting in a break-up.
Abrenica's newest film Manipula was about to hit to the silver screen at the time. One immediate assumption could be that the rumpus was all part of an industry-wide publicity stunt out to get audiences to buy into the hysteria.
It's no secret that in Pinoy Tinseltown, no scandal is too damaging if it can help swing sales in the box-office. The mud in the eye is nothing that a million-peso talent fee can't handle.
'Tell them who cheated first:' Aljur Abrenica breaks silence and urges Kylie Padilla to 'tell the truth'
Kylie's reply days later was everything but friendly: "Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes," she posted on her Instagram stories followed by outright denials that she had been unfaithful. The above quote from Kylie, I learned later on, referenced the Barbadian singer Rihanna's Twitter post.
I leave it to the virtuosos of the pinilakang tabing and the private chatrooms to strip the controversy of its guts and gills. I'm sure that whatever Aljur Abrenica got in return for his rather uncalled-for Facebook post, well, he had it coming.
Airing one's dirty laundry in public is basically simple: it means to hang your once dirty briefs or panties or any other intimate apparel to dry, with or without tears or holes, where everyone can see it.
It's anything about your life you choose to divulge, which can be deemed malodorous, fetid, and foul, or generally, stuff that is not for public consumption. The phrase allegedly originated in France. Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly had the distinction of using it first.
Yes, shit happens. And it happens to you and I. But you and I are under no obligation to shoot the public full of holes with it.
The list goes on and on. From botched cookie recipes to wanton and gratuitous sexual congress with everyone but the kitchen sink. Past crimes. Teenage stupidity you've buried under a ton of cigarette butts. Your well-kept schizophrenic moments until that shocking Freudian slip. Secrets interred in the bowels of the earth 'til the flood came along.
Fundamentally, your basic bloody crime scenes that no one knows but you.
How and why some people choose to publicly incriminate themselves is beyond me. The Mafia got it right the first time: omerta, the vow of silence. Besides, there's a whole treatise as to why people have the right to privacy. And one of them is to spare the public one's personal bout with life's excremental moments.
'#passdivorcebill': Kylie Padilla shares cryptic social media posts after Aljur Abrenica's searing Facebook statement
If you're a couple who has children, then you have all the more reason to keep those big smuckers shut. Individual personal problems, too, ought to fall in that category, that is, if you have a tightly knit family to protect from the havocs of gossip.
For instance, we're all aware of that one unguarded (or was it deliberate?) moment when someone high up in the ladder of power revealed that he had once, as a teenager, sexually abused the family's kasambahay while she was fast asleep.
Thing is, even the best thinkers and writers indulge in laundromat confessions.
For what grand purpose, other than to go all nostalgic about one's ever-diminishing sexual prowess, will it serve to expose such a thing? Good if justice was served, but he was never jailed for it. He hardly took responsibility for his actions, neither did it prove anything save that he's a sexual predator long before he was voted into office.
I remember reading that news item at breakfast. All it did was make my eggs benedict taste like roach bum. To be excruciatingly honest about it, do people even care what he had done save for that one chance to gossip about closely guarded secrets? They should, but they don't.
Thing is, even the best thinkers and writers indulge in laundromat confessions. Pablo Neruda, in his memoir of a little over 40 years ago, was said to have admitted to raping his Tamil housemaid while he occupied a diplomatic post in Ceylon.
'Bugbog na mental health ko': AJ Raval apologizes for sharing Aljur Abrenica's 'breaking silence' post, announces break from social media
True or not, Neruda's airing of his dirty laundry in a memoir sparked efforts to demystify the world-renowned Chilean poet. This only goes to show that even the most esteemed heroes of any generation—literary, politically, or otherwise—walk with feet of clay.
In whatever way you wish to deal with people airing their dirty laundry, this much is certain: the truth will always wound both the revealer and the hearer.
How the information, painful as it may be disturbing, will benefit the public in the long run is up to the people to decide. What we do with the information practically tells us if our right to know stands at equal footing to knowing our rights.
Unfortunately, some people can't tell between heartbreak and heartburn.
Other 'Kylies' dragged in the Aljur Abrenica-Kylie Padilla drama as fans crave more tea
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As sad as it sounds I'm on the computer for a majority of my day. I'm constantly interacting on and perusing various social media platforms for work and again later on in the evening when I'm relaxing at home. Throughout the day I stumble upon a bunch of interesting finds that intrigue me, so I thought I'd share with you.
Random strawberry basil mojito I created.
I love when the warmer weather comes around, because I know that's when all the fresh fruits and veggies are available at local farms. Since it's rare that I find myself perusing farmers markets on the weekend I searched for a food subscription that delivers and discovered Field Goods.
I wanted to make sure I really enjoyed and supported everything Field Goods has to offer, so I waited until I received my second delivery before blogging about them; I'm happy to say I love them!