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Different Visions and Angles on Terror
Filed under: Act of War,Amalekites,Arab Appeasement,Arab World,Beheading,Civilization,Clan,Conflict Avoidnce,Hate,Immigration,International Politics,Intifada,Iraq,Islam,Islamic State,Islamic State Forces,Israel,Jihad,Leftist Pressures,Libya,Muslim World,NGO,Palestinian,Palestinian Authority,Palestinian Pressures,Politicized Findings,Politics,Ramming Vehicle Into Civilian Crowds,Religion,Shooting,Stabbing,Syria,Tribe,Turkey — qwertster @ 2:30 AM
Tags: Apartheid State, Arab, Arabs Celebrate, Boycott, Divestment, False Claims, Israel, Israelis Sympathize, Jew, Judea, Murder, Palestinians Honor Terrorists, Samaria, Sanction, Terror, Twin Towers, West Bank, Yonatan Palmer
Whether attacks by a group on another people is definitely terrorism depends upon if they include attacks upon innocents as defined by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations (UN) as well as numerous other entities, governments, international bodies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The most agreed upon definition of innocents are noncombatants, especially women, children and the elderly who are clearly not military and are unarmed thus relatively defenseless. The Palestinians claim that every child and Jew is potentially an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) member and thus legitimate targets and no Israeli is to be considered an illegal target. Courts and the United Nations have defined a number of Israelis to be innocent noncombatants and as such out of bounds and whose murder is a crime against humanity and the perpetrator of such crimes to be terrorists. A further definition of a terrorist act is any illegal action taken on a population with the intent of affecting the political realities existing in a nation changing them in order to meet a political desire. Where things get fuzzier are the attacks upon military and political leadership especially of an occupying force and only enforcing troops and leadership and not other people from the occupying power such as businessman, members of the family of soldiers or family members of the political leadership who have no part in the presence beyond being relatives of those serving in the occupying power's ruling and enforcement arms. The final difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter has a very subjective answer where the side which wins, especially in Biblical times when any challenge or war, whether your side was the victor or vanquished, very often the vanquished were forced into slavery or their entire existence destroyed bringing their existence to a formal and often complete end. This is very often a matter which is decided by those who write the history and thus depict their enemies as utilizing whatever horrific tactics in order to justify what some might describe as horrors as an afterthought despite the many famous individuals who often referred to warfare as a destructive and messy affair, especially in wars where asymmetric fighting was used by the presumed weaker forces.
The recent stabbings, rock assaults, and suicide bombings all used by Islamic State and Hamas in Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iraq and beyond all qualify as terror acts as they murdered randomly and largely targeted civilians and were not targeting things which were of any military significance. These attacks were also planned to be executed in such a manner as to attain the highest numbers of casualties in areas known to be frequented by in large civilians and very low probability of these attacks destroying anything of military value. Both Islamic State and Hamas are proud of their targeting of civilians and even more-so murdering children as noticed in the video below where the woman terrorist, who is in Israeli prison when the interview was recorded, was asked if she knew how many children were killed (murdered) in the suicide bombing of the restaurant. Her response is, "Three children were killed in the operation, I think." When she is informed that there were eight children murdered her reaction is one of pride and great joy and amusement. Many Arab nations and terror groups objected to the airing of this clip claiming it was doctored to make the Arabs appear to be blood-thirsty murderers. We will allow our erudite and perceptive readers watch and figure out who had what motivations and whether revealing the pride this woman, a mother, took at the death of eight children, five more than she had estimated and she is filled with pride and exudes a celebratory emotional reaction. Of course this video was never shown on any European or American news media as it does not match their intent in their coverage of the Middle East, especially under the current administration.
The reaction to acts of terror presumably performed in your name has brought signs of shame and remorse from others who the terrorists claim to be representing. One such reaction was the reactions of the Zionist Congress to the terror acts of the Stern Gangs and others who while fighting against the British presence in the holy land and their anti-Jewish actions often indiscriminately struck areas frequented by British troops, their political class and the families of the British which were caught in the crossfire of an assault on the restaurant during the lunch time rush killing numerous innocents and drawing a sharp rebuke from the leader of the Haganah and the Zionist Congress. That was one thing about resisting the British that the Israelis are split over with many believing that there were actions which did loose harm upon innocents and that was not to be condoned. Too often there are some from Europe, the United States, the Arab Palestinians and other anti-Israeli groups and individuals who have pointed their finger at Israel claiming the Jews were just as evil and terroristic in their efforts to be rid of the British occupation going so far as to point to the Stern Gang and a couple of other extreme groups. The difference is the main body of the Jewish people and governance were against these acts and that Israel did not name streets after these people nor did Israelis lionize these terrorists as have the Arab Palestinians. The Jews, no matter what, immediately mourned and sympathized with the American people and offered condolences as individuals while at the same time as the twin towers of the World Trade Center were struck and felled, candies and sweets were passed out in the streets in the Arab Palestinian neighborhoods both in Gaza as well as Judea and Samaria. There is the stark difference between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs, the Jews love life while the Arabs idolize the nineteen hijackers and the almost three-thousand deaths they caused.
As mentioned, attacks made against military targets or command and control facilities, even if they are manned by civilian personnel, are warranted and defined as military targets as they are used as the central controlling function and thus mostly effecting the military and its operations. The reasons that most of the terrorist functions used against Israel are terror is due to their targeting of civilians and this is often the stated goal and not simply a side effect. Additionally, these terrorist murderers are lionized and portrayed as heroes to be emulated and the anniversary of their deaths, often at their own hands in order to produce a new set of rules which need be followed which will assure that any actions made by Israelis be seen as provocative in any manner. Israelis are reminded almost daily that they are residing, working and building their own national homelands upon the graves of the Palestinian people. First, jumbled up are names which appeared in the Biblical era so the Jews often felt a strong attachment to these places. Then there are many which have changed names yet the Jewish People will be tasked in recalling them before they are gifted away. The heart and soul of Israel lies in the hills and valleys surrounding Jerusalem and such places as Shechem, Bethlehem and other places holy to both Christians and Jews. These places have been written into the history of Islam with Abbas telling lies once again about the history where he reveals that the Palestinian people have resided in Judea and Samaria for nine-thousand years they invented the Palestinian-Canaanite language. This is all part of the claim that Jesus was the first martyred Palestinian when the Jews left him to be crucified. Never mind that crucifixion was a Roman form of execution and had little if anything to do with the Jewish scribes or most of the Jews of the time as they were all celebrating Pesach, or should we say commemorating Pesach further proven as Jesus held a Seder which became known as the Last Supper. The violence the Palestinian Arabs perpetrate against the Jews and the Christians within their areas of control are horrific when compared to the treatment worldwide by Jews and Christians have reached. The Arab Palestinians who throw rocks into car windscreens in the hopes of smashing through the glass and killing the driver or otherwise cause them to lose control of the vehicle smashing it into a building or a tree as was the case in which Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan both died when a rock crashed through the windshield likely killing Asher resulting in the car careening off the road smashing into large rocks and a tree killing little Yonatan Palmer. That is terrorism.
Yonatan & Asher Palmer rock attack victims
Terrorism does not need to kill directly as it can be economic in nature such as the BDS Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel which was started by Yasser Arafat as an Arab boycott of Israel and was expanded through the instructions of Mahmoud Abbas and handled by the brother of terror mastermind Marwan Barghouti, Omar Barghouti. This form of terrorism is also extremely anti-Semitic as the sole nation singled out for this has been Israel, the sole democracy and nation with human rights and equality for all no matter their religious faith, race, gender, social class or any other item which are often used as a means of subjugating or singling out for blame in her neighbors in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The aim of the BDS is to economically starve Israel forcing her to survive solely on what she produces domestically. This is done as it is known that Israel does not produce sufficient food in either quantity or variety to feed its population. The problem is by starving Israel the boycotters will also be starving Arabs who also reside in Israel and this includes a number of Muslims. Further, the storied basis for the BDS movement is that Israel is an Apartheid State, another lie which is never refuted by the media and who repeat the claims and accusations while ignoring the truth as should they refute the claims their reporters would no longer be trusted by the Arabs and they would lose a major source of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic tropes and malapropisms with which to fill the pages of their editorial to prove their mettle and maybe win a Pulitzer Prize along the way. What more can we add beyond the picture below.
BDS Was Never Meant To Free
an Inch of Palestine
It Was Always Meant
To Destroy Every Inch of Israel
And the story has only just begun as Israel is not even seventy years old and has only liberated the occupied Judea and Samaria from Jordanian control in the last forty-nine years. And how is that for a surprise that the only time the lands of Judea and Samaria, which Jordan renamed West Bank to remove the obvious Jewish links to the land, especially Judea, are used in reference to these lands by Zionists speaking truth to the lies as that is where the word Jew originated as the people were referred to as Judeans and over the years Judean became simply Jew. The occupiers were the Jordanians and are now calling themselves Palestinians using the Roman renaming of Judea to Syria Palaestina in order to infuriate the Jews, well Romans, you may have passed into history and we Jews remain and your curse of the name Syria Palaestina has most certainly infuriated us and it is still a curse. The real problem is most people have little if any knowledge of history past breakfast yesterday morning, if they can remember that far back. The old proverb which has many claims but no actual known author states a truism just the same and it really applied to the way the world is headed currently. It goes, "You cannot know where you are going if you do not know where you have been." And that is a thought on which to end this rant.
Brexit Passes and Cameron Plans to Resign and Jo Cox Memorialized
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Tags: Brexit Passes, Britain, Conservatives, David Cameron, Economics, Ehd of an Era, Euro, European Union, Exit, France, Germany, Greece, Jo Cox Memorialized, Labor Party, London, Minister of Parliament, Mudered, Netherlands, Plans to Resign
All of the votes have been counted and it is official as 52% voted yes to Brexit and 48% voted to remain in the European Union (E. U.). Along with the Brexit yes vote comes news that Prime Minister Cameron will resign, as he stated, "But the British people made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. I will do everything I can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months. But I do not think it would be right for me to try and be the captain that steers our country to its next destination." Well, he said the if vote went against his preference that he would pass the torch, and the good news is we will have another national vote for new leaders to give us a break from the Hillary and Donald catastrophe across the pond. Below is his entire talk from in front of 10 Downing Street to the media. He stated that he would like to see new leadership by October when the Conservative Party is holding their national conference. I can only assume he expects his Conservative Party to continue to lead the nation such that the new Prime Minister will also lead the party; and if they fail, then he can step forward to lead the nation in repealing the Brexit as I doubt he would change his stated view on E. U. membership.
Now we will see the rush for the door. Already France and the Netherlands have had public pressure for their own exit vote on their E. U. As we had stated earlier, with Brexit passing, and not by what should be considered anything but a fairly definitive vote, all right, landslide it wasn't; but any politician would be very happy to have a 4% margin of victory which the media in any election would report that the people had made their decision known as if it was a really definitive vote. One has to further note that initially the "remain" vote was comfortably leading after the early vote count from London and other metropolitan cities where the population is younger and considered more erudite, but the rest of the country was definitively of a different mind. This was sort of reminiscent of the Dewey Defeats Truman headline which proved erroneous as the rural votes came in and Truman won the day. The vote was expected to be close with the older population favoring leaving while the youth desired to remain in the E. U.; so once again it fell to that favorite item of pollsters, the ever unpredictable middle. This time the middle was not the middle between conservatives and liberals but the middle aged people, those who may not have lived or only their childhood witnessed Britain before the E. U. but were raised by people who lived through both before E. U. membership and after joining E. U. From appearances this middle aged voting public really did not want to remain in the E. U. or they really wanted to remove Cameron, whichever, the vote is done and the British are free of the Brussels Bureaucracy and their dictatorial ultimatums.
Dewey Defeats Truman
It will be interesting to see which nations now have similar demands for being allowed to see whether their people desires remaining in the E. U. or demanding their government be empowered and freed from the restrictions and economic directives from Brussels. As noted, France and the Netherlands may already be heading for a vote and if there has been sufficient public outcry, we can expect they too will vote favorably for leaving the E. U. and in many ways the E. U. has brought this upon themselves with their slow but steady suffocation of individual sovereignty. The E. U. was supposedly a mostly economic and trade union and not supposed to replace the individual government's dominion. But as time went the E. U. grew and assumed more and more power taking these decisions from the individual governments and supplanting them with the dictations and ultimatums from Brussels. They took control over immigration erasing borders between the separate nations. Further they began taking from the wealthier nations and giving to those faltering nations which are where the idea of central planning began to fail. There we are again with central planning being the difficulty, the causational problem. This had a dual effect which simply furthered the problems. The wealthier nations were put out for being made to cover these other nations which they regarded as slacker nations where the people did not have the same work ethic of say Germany or Britain and at the other end these faltering nations were being dictated on decisions which they refused to obey which caused further friction. Both the sides found the demands placed upon them by an unelected set of faceless bureaucrats to be onerous and distasteful. The E. U. will press the predictions that leaving their overseeing guidance as resulting in confusion, trade wars, and every problem conceivable as should the E. U. be disbanded these bureaucrats and the governing central planners will all be out of a job and with no prospects for future employment. What will these poor central planners do without the power of the E. U. charter, a document they have stretch beyond all recognition, to empower them and grant them powers, well, some of the powers they wield as some might be beyond the original intents the member nations originally agreed upon. Overreach can really be a downer that can lead to resentment followed by people actually doing something about being so dictated to.
Perhaps the lesson here is that when the representatives that the people elect are slowly but ever so steadily disempowered by an unelected group of central planners who have been overreaching and taking more and more power to themselves, well, you eventually get blowback. The decision to also allow thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and beyond into the E. U. may have been the final straw. Then there were the terror attacks which many blamed on the E. U. and their immigration policies. This was possibly brought to the fore last week with the horrible event where a Labor Party Minister of Parliament, Jo Cox, was murdered by a reportedly mentally unstable fanatic who was anti-refugee and believed to have been a white supremacist. We can only hope he gets treatment and remains incarcerated in a mental health institution or prison for the mentally unstable such that he never again has the opportunity to harm anyone. This crime did bring an end to the discussion a full week before the vote and was thought would suppress the voters favoring Brexit. If that was true then the Brexit was even more favored than the vote may have indicated though it is more likely that this crime had little if any effect.
Late Minister Jo Cox
Refugee Advocate
Killed by Anti-Refugee Fanatic
This crime also deserves some investigation. Jo Cox was both shot and stabbed as was a 77-year-old man, who intervened to help Cox and sustained a serious injury to his abdomen and remains in stable condition in the hospital. Britain had gun laws which are amongst the strictest in the world and yet this unstable individual somehow came to possess and use a firearm in this criminal act of murder. This goes a long way in proving that if a person is determined to murder, there are no laws which will prevent them from attaining a firearm with which to commit their heinous crimes. As long as there are firearms, and that means as long as nations have armies, then people will find a way of attaining weapons. We don't want to get into a gun control vs. gun rights argument beyond the understanding that anyone willing to commit a violent criminal act will never be deterred by laws about weapon possession or any other law as they are already committed to violating far more serious laws than possession laws or crossing the street outside a crosswalk or stalking or anything else on the books, period.
As far as we have been capable of determining, Jo Cox was a refugee advocate and had been quite vocal about the responsibility of the wealthier and peaceful nations of Europe to offer open doors and open arms to the refugees from the war torn areas of the Middle East and Africa. The man who murdered her in cold blood was an adamant and vehement opponent to immigration of those people he saw as from an inferior society and likely incapable of acting and interacting with Europeans and would be a disaster waiting to happen. He had a history of prescribing to white supremacist and apartheid organizations as well as other, according to police and media reports were "right-wing" and "extremist" groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning United States 'human rights and minority rights' organization, has published what it says are documents showing that the suspected murderer, Mr. Mair, had a history of purchasing material from the National Alliance white supremacist organization based in the United States. They released copies of receipts and a 2013 subscription to the National Alliance's publication, National Vanguard, as well as receipts from 1999 showing purchases for neo-Nazi book "Ich Kampfe," the "Improvised Munitions Handbook" and other books and traced his activities back to his having also subscribed to a pro-apartheid group's magazine in the 1980s. Thank you Southern Poverty Law Center for your timely research into this person's history.
This person, Mr. Mair, had definite problems and if law enforcement or public health had known of his problems, it raises questions as to why he was still permitted to be outside of observation and managed care. There was a movement back in the late 1960s and through the 1970s and continuing to this day which operates under the misconception that people with mental difficulties benefit from living in the real world even if this means their missing taking necessary medications. The numbers of homeless living on the streets rose precipitously coinciding with the decisions that mental institutions were harming the people they cared for and that the monies wasted on such institution could be better used in outpatient services for these people. There were studies done subsequently which varied and conflicted with some reporting that many of the former institutionalized individuals were not receiving their medications and has missed appointments with counselors and had been removed from rolls and left on the street without getting the medical attentions they had received previous to being placed out in the world without any real assistance in adjusting. Others reported how many had obviously found a better life as living in the real world had filled them with and through interactions such that they were no longer in need of medication or counseling. One side of these results has to be horrifically missing the mark as they are opposites though their percentages are remarkably similar. So we have to believe that either there are a number of formerly institutionalized individuals who remarkably recovered or that an equal number of these people have fallen through the cracks and nobody really cares. How many of these people will end up on the wrong side of the law or are being abused by others also on the streets as many are likely easy marks. Either way, if there are even half of these people not receiving the medication and help they need, that is a calamity of tragic proportions. One of the victims of this experiment is now Minister of the British Parliament Jo Cox, and that too is a tragic price that British society has paid.
Our final note on Brexit, this is just the beginning and this story is about to take on a whole new and serious proportion as the rest of Europeans force their governments to allow them the same choice and we may soon have a free and independent new Europe free of the dictatorship in Brussels. This might be the start of a healthier Europe when each nation will determine their own trade and future and economically they will now be able to have a free and independent currency as each return to their own currency which then adjusts with their economic strength and needs. The ones who would benefit most from being independent from the E. U. would be Greece, Spain and other areas which have found the Euro to be inhibitive of their economic needs. Time will tell and we can hope that the people will get the freedom to decide for themselves and each nation does what is the best for their economies and people.
The Hard Truth in Action
Filed under: Amalekites,Anti-Israel,Anti-Semitism,Anti-Zionist,Appeasement,Arab Appeasement,Arab Authority,Arab World,Civilization,Conflict Avoidnce,Coverup,Google,Hate,Health Care,Islam,Islam,Israeli Capital City,Israeli Interests,Jerusalem,Jewish State,Jews,Jihad,Leftist Pressures,Mahmoud Abbas,Old City,Omission,Palestinian Authority,Palestinian Pressures,Politics,Promised Land,Promised Land,Stabbing,Terror,Victims,World Opinion — qwertster @ 2:39 AM
Tags: Aharon Banita Bennett, Arab, Arab Clinic, Haas Promenade, Hagai Street, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Israeli Hospitals, Jerusalem, Jews, Magen David Adom, Mahmoud Abbas, Octogenarian, Old City, Palestinian Authority, Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, Refuse Jews Treatment, Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital, Terror Attack, Treat Arabs, Women
We need to establish a small matter for defining what makes a civilized human being. Does a civil human being assist people in distress? How about if it is a group of women? A group of women in their eighties out for a stroll when they are assaulted and two or three are hurt, even bleeding? Do you agree with me that any normal human being with an ounce of human emotions and compassions would jump in and at the very least call for an ambulance if not apply basic first aid? I would hope we are in agreement on at least this much as a true test of humanity and moral humanity. Now we can proceed with the article. We can examine a morning in Jerusalem and a string of events which scream a reality which, until the world wraps their arms around this, are faced in Israel almost daily.
The news I read the other day in this article about a group of five octogenarians, grandmothers or potentially great-grandmothers, but that is simply some additional information which makes these ladies potentially even more deserving of civility, was shocking in its inhumanity. Unfortunately that was quite the case this past week as they set out as they had many times before for their stroll around the Promenade near their assisted care residence. These lively ladies, well, lively for octogenarians of either gender and may we be capable of such a stroll when we reach that fine age, faced a horror purely shocking in its remifications. There was something these ladies had not prepared for, as how does one prepare to be violated walking right next to their residence. That was when they heard one of their company scream out, not in pain but in warning. Marina Fuchs, 86, shouted to her friends: "Girls, run, run!" Further information on this cowardly attack can be read here. The attack was as horrific as it was disgusting, completely disgusting and carried out by some really depraved excuses for human beings as no normal human would ever commit such an assault against women for starters and octogenarian women at that.
So we have an assault of five octogenarian women by a pair of bold, brave, stout, masked terrorists and also unbelievably vicious risk adverse terrorists who had been obviously seeking the easiest prey they could find and who have more to be ashamed over than they have to their credit for drawing blood from a couple of eighty year old plus women. Such boldness should never go unpunished, even by their fellow jihadists. These women who ended up as the targets for these brave soldiers of Allah were walking by the Haas Promenade as has been their habit. Perhaps having their promenade on the promenade take place around the same time day after day made them targets. Who chooses a group of eighty plus year old ladies as their target, we do not care how regular and dependable these ladies walking the promenade happened to be. Eighty year old ladies are far from appropriate targets unless the aim is to murder every last Israeli. That may not be all that far from their target, but that we will reach later. The immediate problem is entirely separate for now. These assailants, terrorists, set upon two of the women, eighty year old women, stabbing them multiple times, one stabbed from behind, and then fled before the remaining three actually knew what had struck their friends. As noted above, one of the stabbed victims shouted out her warning, not necessarily that concerned for her own welfare but thinking of the welfare of her friends. She immediately warned the others with her yelling of, "Girls, run, run!" The rest were taken aback by their friend's scream but turned and saw their friends fallen onto the pavement with one obviously bleeding from her chest. The attackers had run off probably scared defenseless that the remaining three eighty year old women might turn on them and disarm them beating them senseless with their purses. These two brave attackers had seen how vicious old women with purses are capable of becoming when seeing Monty Python.
Seriously, the other women did not flee but instead returned to assist their friends as best as they were able. This was where the story became really sickening. They turned to some construction workers who were taking a break near to the scene for assistance. They did not expect these men to be physicians; they simply requested that they call for an ambulance. The workmen refused to assist initially pretending not to understand Hebrew and then feigning to be having important discussions on their phones making them unable to disconnect and phone for help, or possibly place their all-important call on hold pausing it to call for help. Marina Fuchs revealed that Arab laborers at the scene of the attack refused to help the Jewish victims, even as they bled from their stab wounds. She reported that, "We walked and next to the bathrooms stood Arabs who were cleaning there. We asked them to call an ambulance. They wouldn't agree to do so, and acted as if they were talking on the phone." The assailants were an evil enough representation but this was even a worse representation of the depth of the Arab hatred for the Jews residing amongst them as they desire the Jews not just gone but dead, and that was what this refusal indicates and is what everyone in the world needs to understand. There are far too many who would instead of criticizing the Arabs would claim that if this is so bothersome, then maybe the Jews should heed this hatred and simply leave and return from whence they came. The question then has to be where does the half of the Israeli population, Jewish population, who were spat out by their former Arab nations go? These Jews had never resided in Europe or elsewhere and their families had resided in their Arab homes through thick and thin for, in many cases, over a thousand years. Where do these Jews go, suggestions?
Eventually help was called and the Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics treated the victims and evacuated them to Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital. The MDA senior paramedic spokesperson Shlomi Tedgi reported, "We saw two elderly women, about 80 years old, lying on the dust by the promenade. They were fully conscious and suffered from stab wounds, one in her limbs and her upper body and the other in her upper body. They talked and interacted with us. We gave them field medical treatment an evacuated them to the hospital. They were in moderate but stable condition." Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital reported that the elderly ladies they treated are both in moderate condition with wounds to their backs and limbs.
Octogenarian Women Haas Promenade Terror Scene
Were this refusal be the Arab worker an isolated instance, then perhaps the argument could be made that it was an outlier, an isolated incident and dismissed as a boorish response to fellow human beings in distress. Unfortunately it is simply reminiscent of a more tragic incident just this past October in the Old City sections of Jerusalem. This incident was in many ways even worse scenario as in this attack Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, age forty-one, and Aharon Banita Bennett, age twenty-one, lost their lives while Bennett's wife was seriously wounded and his two-year-old son was lightly wounded. The deadly attack took place on Hagai Street immediately adjacent to a medical clinic. This Arab health clinic was open and fully staffed at the time of the incident yet not a single staff member went to the aid of the injured and dying despite pleadings for assistance. This was not the end of the disgusting behavior as the residents of this Arab neighborhood mocked and laughed at Bennett's wounded wife as she tried to escape the attacker and was seeking assistance, any assistance. This has not always been the response and to be fair there have been Arab families who have taken in Jews in distress hiding them from mobs which would have easily murdered them. These instances are instructive as the Arab families who decide to take such bold actions are often at the behest of the head of household who pleads to never be identified as they fear their governing Palestinian Authority, if not their neighbors, would murder them. Assisting a Jew is almost always punished as it is seen as supporting the Zionist enemy. The unfortunate thing is those willing to risk everything and act humanely are in the minority and often pay the price for their heroic deeds. Still, when physicians refuse to give aid, what may have been life-saving aid, that is a whole new area which can only leave one to wonder how any peace can be reached when the population holds such animosity.
This hatred has been cultivated through the Palestinian Authority and related media, schools, entertainment industry and enforced through laws making interactions such as selling an apartment or land to a Jew or Jewish institution punishable by death. The indoctrination has been instituted for over two generations and has taken such a poisonous affect that even if peace were reached tomorrow it would take numerous generations to undo the damages already inflicted. It is the deep-seated animosity and visceral hatreds which now prevent any peace from being initiated as Mahmoud Abbas, even if he desired peace, which his actions prove he does not, he would be murdered in the most horrific of manners imaginable by his own people for making such an agreement. It would not matter how he would plead that he had tricked the Jews, just the picture of him in a signing ceremony with an Israeli would be sufficient cause for his lynching. The reason Abbas demands ever more ludicrous concessions from the Israelis just to simply meet once, shake hands, and never meet again and end all even motions of negotiating a peace can be traced to the absolute poisoning of the waters separating the Arab Palestinian society from the Jews. The proof of which way the animosity and hatreds flow is easily represented as the above is indicative of Arab refusal to even call an ambulance for an eighty year old woman victim of a terrorist stabbing and the refusal by medical "professionals" to treat Jews stabbed right outside their clinic while the examples of Israeli hospitals treating Arab Palestinians are long and documented well. Here are just a few stand-out examples of Arabs treated by Israeli hospitals, Ismail Haniyeh's daughter's week-long admission to a hospital in Tel Aviv, Mahmoud Abbas's wife treated in Israel, mother-in-law of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Gazan child with severe burns is being treated in an Israeli hospital after a devastating house fire in Gaza and we could continue this for hours as this search in Google proves but one would be beyond hard-pressed to find a single case of an Israeli, Arab, Jew or other, being treated in a Palestinian Hospital. This does not mean to overshadow this terror attack against these elderly women and the refusal to even lift a finger and call an ambulance by nearby Arab workers which itself speaks volumes.


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The Competition will be composed of three stages, during which the participants will be evaluated on the basis of their work with choir ensembles.
Work on two pieces of music chosen by lot drawn from the eight works given in the Stage I programme. For the purposes of the draw, the pieces have been divided into two groups (A ‒ Romantic lieder, B ‒ early sacred music).
Each participant will choose by lot (without returning the drawn lot to the pool) one piece from each group. The draw will take place on 7 December 2016.
Time limit: 45 minutes; the participant will determine themselves how to split the rehearsal.
Work on two pieces of music chosen by lot drawn from the eight works given in the Stage II programme. For the purposes of the draw, the pieces have been divided into two groups (A ‒ songs, B ‒ madrigals).
Each participant will choose by lot (without returning the drawn lot to the pool) one piece from each group. The draw will take place on 8 December 2016.
Work on and a concert performance of the two pieces chosen by lot out of the six listed in the stage programme. The pieces have been divided into two groups (A – traditional notation, B – avant-garde notation).
Each participant will draw one piece from each group.
Each participant will work in two stages: 30 minutes on piece A and – after the lunch break – 30 minutes on piece B. The draw will take place on 9 December 2016.
A maximum of 16 entrants will be admitted to STAGE I, on the basis of the entries submitted by them.
The eight participants with the highest STAGE I scores will be admitted to STAGE II.
The five participants with the highest STAGE II scores will be admitted to STAGE III.


Many couples date over coffee. Consider turning this meet-up on its ear and making a date for breakfast. It's a matter of convenience, flexibility and practicality since everyone's got to eat breakfast anyway. There's also an ulterior motive.
Considering that the old saying goes, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach", this may be one big chance to make inroads in a relationship!
Have you ever been asked out on a date by a random stranger you may never have noticed before? In such cases, you might always just say no even though there may be something very appealing and charming about one guy or the other. So why not agree to meet up for a breakfast date with him?
Breakfast dates will provide a comfortable setting for you. You should find it easy to converse with him over breakfast, meaning that you won't feel any awkwardness on your side. There will be early news headlines to discuss.
Nonetheless, try to hold yourself back from debatable topics like politics. You can also talk about your upcoming plans for the day. If you're the one who's asking a remote acquaintance out on a date, a breakfast date will also work in your favour!
Breakfast dates take place early in the morning when you're looking bright, fresh and vibrant. This means that you look more attractive than you usually would at an afternoon coffee meet-up or on a dinner date.
In fact, it is said that people look cutest in the morning! The best part of a breakfast date is that you can easily cut it short with a plausible excuse if things are not going as well as you had hoped. Just say that there is an emergency at work, and you have to leave early. Restaurants usually offer breakfasts as relatively low-cost combo deals. You won't have to spend a lot of money on a bad date if the situation appears to be going nowhere.
Are you a career woman who's married to her work? If your answer is "Yes", don't worry about a lack of time for your love life. Breakfast dates are totally convenient for people like you who are always on a tight schedule.
Given the minimal leisure time that you have in your busy lifestyle, it is quite natural that you choose to spend it relaxing and focussing on yourself.
You probably have no desire to risk spending it with a stranger with whom you just don't connect. Breakfast dates are often less pressured. They can be arranged very quickly. What a great way to capitalise on your most valuable possession – effective time management skills.
Going on a date that's been organised by your friends or family can be very awkward. In such cases, breakfast dates are a great help. You'll be able to have a normal conversation even when things have the potential to unravel.
If you don't want to reveal any personal details to this unknown individual, you can still find a slew of topics to discuss. If you were on a coffee meet-up instead, wouldn't it feel strange to end the date too soon by getting up and saying that you have to go somewhere?
Breakfast dates can be much more meaningful on special celebratory occasions. In such instances, it's strongly suggested that you arrange these yourself in a private setting, like within your four walls of a home. Did you remember just in time that it's your romantic partner's birthday or even your anniversary?
There's no need to think that it's too late to arrange something special. In fact, organising a breakfast date signals that you value this person so highly that you can't wait to wake up and see him or her first thing in the morning.
It's not so difficult to set this up and moreover, it won't cost you much. If you prepare the breakfast meal yourself rather than going to a restaurant, your pocketbook will also thank you.
Preparing a dish in your kitchen can cost you less than USD 10. Also, your gesture will be highly appreciated as you will be displaying more effort from your side in wanting to make your romantic partner happy.
To cook a simple, romantic dish for your breakfast date, all you need is some creativity and a few basic cooking skills. You'd be surprised at how a simple dish can be made so elegant by adding a variety of fruits, creams and syrups. To prepare an egg in toast dish, cut out the middle of a slice of toast in a heart shape, break an entire egg into the heart and cook the toast/egg in a pan until you have a sunny-side-up egg inside the heart shape of the toast.
Cook bacon strips like you normally would but just shape them into a heart on the plate. You can take fruits like strawberries or bananas, dip the bottom in melted chocolate and let the pieces cool. Make pancakes, mini doughnuts, crepes, biscuits, cupcakes/muffins and French toast as you normally would, but serve them with lots of fruits, creams/yoghurts and flavoured syrup/honey.
Create fruit kebabs with seedless grapes, melon balls, pineapple cubes and berries, serving the final product with a honey yoghurt dip.
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2001 - 2021 – 20 years!
As part of our 20th anniversary celebration, we spoke to our current and former leaders to find out more about the history of the school, how the school was constructed from nothing to where we are today – ranked 33rd worldwide and 6th in the Asia region in Biological Sciences by QS World University Rankings in 2021.
20th Anniversary Messages from Current Leaders
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Prof. Simon Redfern
20th anniversary message
Chair, School of Biological Sciences
Prof. Lars Nordenskiöld
On 17 June 2001, Prof James Tam, the SBS founding Dean arrived at NTU to start the school. A few weeks later, I came to Singapore to be interviewed by him and the late Prof. Lee Sing Kong. The interview took place in the temporary offices at National Institute of Education (NIE). Although NIE is a beautiful campus, the SBS facilities were far from impressive. There were no laboratories, no nothing! But there was something very convincing and passionate in the enthusiasm of James and Sing Kong as well as others I met at NTU. I subsequently arrived in Singapore and at SBS in January 2002 and in July the same year our first batch of undergraduate (UG) and PhD students joined us. It is something of a miracle that it all went so exceptionally well, given the somewhat make-shift UG and research laboratories we had access to, scattered over the NTU campus. Our students from these first years of pioneering cohorts were fantastic; two of the UG students are no
20th Anniversary Messages from Past Leaders
Founding Dean, Year 2001 to 2006 & Chair, Year 2006 to 2007,
The Inception of SBS By Prof. James P Tam
As part of the founding team, I witnessed and played a part in how the school was constructed from nothing to where we are today...
Past Leaders' 20th Anniversary Messages
Let's hear from the former leaders of NTU SBS – Dr Alex Law, Dr Mark Featherstone and Prof. Peter Preiser.
More on Our 20th Anniversary Celebration

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U.S. troops may be gone, but Catholic Relief Services continues to aid desperate Afghans under Taliban rule
Kevin ClarkeNovember 05, 2021
Children attend a Catholic Relief Services school in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Herat. Photo courtesy of Kevin Hartigan/Catholic Relief Services.
America's last days in Afghanistan were a spectacle of sorrow, chaos and heroism as U.S. troops scrambled to extract thousands of U.S. citizens and residents and local support staff and their families desperate to escape Kabul. But not all the Americans in Kabul were preparing to leave during those last desperate days in August as the Taliban swept across the country.
Senior staff for Catholic Relief Services, like officers of other overseas relief and aid agencies, hunkered down at home, determined to wait out the transition to whatever would come next. Just weeks after the former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and other government officials fled the capital, effectively surrendering control of Afghanistan to the Taliban, C.R.S. with its local team members began reopening offices across the country.
Speaking on Nov. 3 from one of those offices in Afghanistan's third-largest city, Herat, Kevin Hartigan, C.R.S. regional director for the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia, explained that having negotiated the reactivation of female staff with local Taliban officials, C.R.S. has been able to revive suspended programs at 10 sites so far. The restoration of its efforts could not have come at a more critical time, he said.
An impending hunger crisis
C.R.S. is beginning an emergency campaign to get food on tables and crops in the field as a hunger catastrophe looms in Afghanistan. "This is maybe the worst, or at least one of the worst, climate-induced droughts in the world," Mr. Hartigan said, describing conditions in Afghanistan's Adraskan district and central highlands. C.R.S. is the only Western aid organization on the ground in Adraskan, and Mr. Hartigan became one of the first Americans to visit the district in years. Ironically, it is only because of the end of the war that the gravity of the crisis in this farming region near Herat has finally become clear.
C.R.S. is beginning an emergency campaign to get food on tables and crops in the field as a hunger catastrophe looms in Afghanistan.
"Now that the war is over, the United Nations and the rest of the world has kind of woken up to the fact that the country is in an extremely dire situation," Mr. Hartigan said. "A lot of these rural areas are essentially emptying out."
Like other regions of Afghanistan, Adraskan has suffered from chronic drought that became especially acute during recent growing seasons, according to Mr. Hartigan. He described bone dry conditions with water sources and rivers completely dried up throughout the district.
The drought's impact has been compounded by economic and political chaos in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover, a financial crisis that has essentially locked up the nation's banking system and the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Now the United Nations warns that as many as 23 million people in Afghanistan are facing life-threatening food insecurity as winter approaches.
"Afghanistan is now among the world's worst humanitarian crises—if not the worst—and food security has all but collapsed," said David Beasley, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, presenting a situation report to the media on Oct. 25. "This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation unless we can step up our life-saving assistance and unless the economy can be resuscitated.
"Hunger is rising and children are dying," he said. As many as one million children in Afghanistan are currently at acute risk.
"We can't feed people on promises—funding commitments must turn into hard cash, and the international community must come together to address this crisis, which is fast spinning out of control," Mr. Beasely said.
Saving the next harvest season
Mr. Hartigan reports that C.R.S. teams are already on the ground doing what they can in Adraskan and elsewhere.
Just weeks after the former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and other government officials fled the capital, Catholic Relief Services with its local team members began reopening offices across the country.
"We've done some food distributions and fodder distributions to help pastoralists keep their herds alive," he said. "But we've also done a lot of extension work with particularly herder communities and with the farmers to try to help them cope long term with the drier conditions." C.R.S.'s short-term response will focus on preventing hunger and supplying farmers with seed and materials to allow them to get a winter crop in the ground so that there is a chance that conditions could improve by the next harvest in June.
"They need to plant now, but many of them don't have any seeds. Their crops didn't germinate last year, and they don't have the resources to plant," he said. "What we are trying to do is inject as much cash assistance into these villages and to these farmer families to basically try to save the farm and make sure people plant a crop this year."
If the overall humanitarian response is not adequate though, he anticipates that more Afghans will become internally displaced, this time not escaping war but hunger and hopelessness. Mr. Hartigan encountered many "half empty" villages during his assessment of Adraskan, abandoned by farmers now on the road to Iran where they hope to find work as day laborers. Others have already returned from the border, turned back by the Iranians
"We're trying to avoid famine next year," Mr. Hartigan said. "We're trying to avoid more rural-urban displacement due to this drought, which is basically a death sentence for food security in this country."
A report released by Human Rights Watch on Nov. 4 suggests that the international response to the various humanitarian emergencies in Afghanistan is being hampered by the Taliban leaders themselves. "The Taliban's severe restrictions on women aid workers are preventing desperately needed lifesaving aid from reaching Afghans, especially women, girls and women-headed households," said Heather Barr, the associate women's rights director at Human Rights Watch.
"Now that the war is over, the United Nations and the rest of the world has kind of woken up to the fact that the country is in an extremely dire situation. A lot of these rural areas are essentially emptying out."
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recently mapped the agreements between aid agencies and the Taliban in each of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, showing where female staff members are permitted to function. The document, reviewed by Human Rights Watch, indicates that, as of Oct. 28, Taliban officials in only three provinces had provided a written agreement unconditionally permitting women aid workers to do their jobs.
According to H.R.W. in over half the country, women aid workers face severe restrictions, like requirements for a male family member to escort them while they do their jobs, making it difficult or impossible for them to do their job effectively.
"Permitting women aid workers to do their jobs unfettered is not a matter of agencies or donors placing conditions on humanitarian assistance but an operational necessity for delivering that assistance," Ms. Barr said.
Continuing the work under the Taliban
According to Mr. Hartigan, C.R.S. has been able to iron out agreements with Taliban officials that allow its local women teachers and other staff members to return to work. Now classrooms are again filling up at C.R.S. education programs in rural communities and camps for people displaced by the war. C.R.S. is educating more than 21,000 children in Afghanistan, including 5,000 inside I.D.P. camps.
"Many of the displaced people in the country have returned home now that the war is over," Mr. Hartigan said. "But these people are not returning because the drought situation is so bad in the areas that they come from."
Mr. Hartigan said the Afghan boys and girls C.R.S. serves would otherwise be bereft of primary education. A school for deaf children has also been reopened.
Many of the C.R.S. contacts in the ministries of agriculture and education are the same people from the pre-Taliban government, according to Mr. Hartigan. He adds that in the past, C.R.S. has been able to operate in provinces and districts controlled by the Taliban and had even received security assurances and messages of support for their efforts from the Taliban.
Some $9.5 billion in Afghanistan's Central Bank reserves are currently frozen in U.S. banks, contributing to the financial crisis in Afghanistan that threatens to exacerbate the suffering this winter.
"They know C.R.S. very well," Mr. Hartigan said, "and they never interfered with our work."
Despite the withdrawal of the United States, C.R.S. remains a trusted commodity in Afghanistan, he explained. It has been active in Afghanistan since 2002.
"Our commitment to Afghanistan is like our commitment to the poor in any country where we work around the world," he said. "Afghanistan is one of the poorest places in the world, and both the need for our assistance in rural areas and the receptivity and the welcome—the hospitality and community participation we've always had for our programs in Afghanistan—are really exceptional."
C.R.S. programs in Afghanistan "are actually some of our highest-impact programs in the world," Mr. Hartigan said, "partly because the need is so great."
"We're providing education in communities that have never had education before," he explained, describing the impact as "transformative...for these communities." Many of the farmers and herders C.R.S. contacts never received outside assistance before, according to Mr. Hartigan. "It's an extremely gratifying place to work and a place where the impact of our work and the return on the investment in terms of that impact is huge."
Despite tension with Afghanistan's new ruling government, the U.S. State Department has continued distributing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan through the United Nations and trusted relief agencies like C.R.S. Mr. Hartigan said U.S. Agency for International Development funds are partly financing his agency's drought response along with private donations and C.R.S. reserves.
The United States could help out more, he suggested, by re-evaluating its posture regarding Afghanistan's national assets. Some $9.5 billion in Afghanistan's Central Bank reserves are currently frozen in U.S. banks, contributing to the financial crisis in Afghanistan that threatens to exacerbate the suffering this winter.
Correction: This story initially reported that Catholic Relief Services' education programs were reaching 35,000 children in Afghanistan. That is the cumulative number reached since 2003. A C.R.S. official clarified that C.R.S. is currently teaching 21,000 children in Afghanistan, including 5,000 children in camps for internally displaced people.
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Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America's chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
@clarkeatamericaclarke@americamagazine.org


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"THE MISANDRISTS"— The Expected Unexpected from Bruce LaBruce
"THE MISANDRISTS"
The Expected Unexpected from Bruce LaBruce
What I have always loved about Bruce Labruce's film is that he surprises us every time and usually by daring to go where others dasn't (it's a good word). The word is out on his new film, "The Misandrists", and we hear that it is a look at feminist rage with lesbian terrorists. The movie is currently being filmed in Berlin with plans to have it ready to be sold at the Cannes Film Festival, one of the biggest and most prestigious markets for new film.
\ stars Susanne Sachsse, who has featured in several of LaBruce's films, including "Raspberry Reich," which I now understand is considered the prequel to "The Misandrists."
"The Misandrists" are a "secret cell of feminist terrorists that is planning to liberate women, overthrow the patriarchy, and usher in a new female world order. The group is led by Big Mother (Sachsse), who operates a school for wayward girls in the countryside as a front for her terrorist cell.
When a young man, a radical leftist, who is running from the police, happens upon this remote female stronghold, one of the girls takes pity on him and hides him in the basement. His presence eventually disrupts the household and reveals a number of unexpected secrets, as the film moves towards its climax".
For those of you keeping count, this is Labruce's10th feature film and is produced by Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion. "Bruce's new film promises to be a fun and important commentary on feminism. In a new teaser trailer, we see that Labruce has been kidnapped and is at the mercy of the ruthless Female Liberation Army, a gang of lesbian feminist terrorists who make up the cast of his latest film. The film is meant to be a companion piece to "The Raspberry Reich", a somewhat pornographic tale inspired by the Baader-Meinhof Gang of German leftists who held businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer captive in 1977.
The movie's plot "sounds like all your softcore, B-movie exploitation dreams come true (a countryside school for wayward girls is actually a front for the FLA terrorist cell, with the film's climax revealing a new style of lesbian propaganda porn". LaBruce is tapping into the rage that women feel every day with this film. "It is something like "Big Momma's House" but with more lesbian terrorism and less Martin Lawrence".
If you have seen his other films, you know that this isn't BLaB's first foray into the eccentric and bizarre. After starting in the queer punk zine scene in the 80s and debuting his first film in 1991, "No Skin Off My Ass", (starring LaBruce himself as a lonely hairdresser who falls for a skinhead) his directorial work has blended pornography and art to cover everything from BDSM and prostitution to amputee fetishism and zombie sex. "The Raspberry Reich" was a satire of the radical left that followed a terrorist group coercing others into joining "the homosexual intifada," which is coincidentally the same way we got recruited by the gay agenda.
This entry was posted in GLBT Film on April 30, 2016 by Amos.
"Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement" edited by Jennifer Patterson— Hearing Our Voices
Patterson, Jennifer, editor. "Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement", Riverdale Avenue Books, 2016.
Hearing Our Voices
Members of the LGBT movement have been working at organizing anti-violence since the very beginning of the unification of the movement. In "Queering Sexual Violence" we learn that they have been creating a space for their voices to be heard. The book takes us beyond dominant narratives and the traditional "violence against women" framework and gives us a multi-gendered, multi-racial and multi-layered look at what has been done and what is being done today.
The volume contains thirty-seven pieces about sexual violence and connects them to "disability justice, sex worker rights, healing justice, racial justice, gender self-determination, queer & trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections, personal narrative, and strategies for resistance and healing". We become very aware that systems, institutions, families, communities and partners have failed them and here we see them looked at carefully and respectfully. We see the radical work that is being done outside mainstream anti-violence and the non-profit industrial complex.
By now, we should know that when there is outrage, we react and here is a look at how that takes place. Editor Jennifer Patterson has worked on this book for six years and it is an important contribution to our canon. It is also an answer to "the non-profit industrial complex," that has continually and consistently overlooked and undervalued the experiences and insights of queer survivors of sexual violence and trauma. The goal here is to challenge reductive narratives that package sexual violence solely as violence against women. This simply reinforces and perpetuates "lessons about who experiences [sexual assault], who perpetrates it and who can heal from it."
Basically, this book is a collection of diverse voices sharing the worst moments of their lives and often doing so with all the horrible details. That is not to say that there are selections without hope and there is some beautiful writing here. We are reminded of the power of being understood alongside descriptions of brutality that explore the honesty and resilience of living life as an "other".
We read of those who are frequently subjected to direct and indirect homophobia in heteronormative social spheres and isolated incidents of violence often become inextricably tied to complex feelings about their outsider status and self-worth. We read the myths about who is and isn't a victim, or what does and doesn't qualify as sexual violence are routinely challenged by LGBT survivors in various stages of grief and healing. Each contributor to the collection offers valuable insight. Patterson makes the strongest case for her thesis that "the unique nature of queer experiences with violence requires a better-developed and more nuanced approach to treatment and support".
"Queering Sexual Violence" allows those who know that queer sexual violence happens everywhere and is killing our community. We see here that speaking up and hearing each other is a way to resist and allows us to do away with shame, silence and isolation.
This entry was posted in GLBT non-fiction on April 30, 2016 by Amos.
"Dark Blood Saga— Book One" by Caleb James— A Secret
James, Caleb. "Dark Blood Saga— Book One", Dreamspinner Press, 2016.
Miles Fox is a twenty-three-year-old medical student who seems to have everything going for him. He is very smart and clever, good-looking and has many friends. However, Miles also has a secret. Usually at this point we would suspect that his secret is that he is gay but that is not the case here. He does have a crush on a straight friend named Luke but Miles has the gift of being able to heal others that came to him through his grandmother. She asked him to never say a word about it or to even use because if he does, terrible things will ensue. She knows this because she used it when Nazis killed her family.
I must say that just this paragraph sure hook everyone into reading this book. If you have read any of my reviews, you know that a Jewish theme pulls me in immediately and secrets are always fun to read about. Caleb James has added one other element that enticed me and that is part of the novel being set in my home town of New Orleans.
While treating a person in New Orleans at a cancer ward, Miles was able to heal someone and then finds himself locked up on the psych ward. News of the miracle that he performed began to spread and Miles soon finds himself the object of a manhunt by those who were aware of this magic ability to heal and those who have had that ability have been searched for so that this ability might be used for other purposes.
There are two people who are aware of Miles' gift— Dr. Gerald Stangl and his teenage son, Calvin ands they are determined to get it at all costs even if it includes criminal activity. As you read, you see that Miles has resolved his feelings for Luke who also becomes targeted because of their relationship and the reader sits on the edge of the chair turning pages as quickly as possible.
I have stated previously that I am not really a reader of books with paranormal themes but this is so skillfully constructed and the characters are developed with such strength that I found myself totally wrapped up in the plot. I refused to stop reading until I finished it and did so in one sitting.
This entry was posted in GLBT fiction on April 30, 2016 by Amos.
"The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips" by Raymond Luczak— A Unified Vision of Love
Luczak, Raymond. "The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips", Squares and Rebels, 2016.
A Unified Vision of Love
In "The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips", Raymond Luczak recounts his unrequited love for a gardener while examining how Walt Whitman (1819-1892) lived as a gay man 150 years before. If you have read Whitman, you are aware of the way his poetry is infused with passion and while it may not come across as the way we see passion today, it provides a jumping off point for Luczak as he writes about how society and social changes have changed in the last century and a half. It is as if Luczak has inherited Whitman's place poetically speaking and this is my opinion based upon what I read here. We read references here to Oscar Wilde who actually said that he still had the kiss of Whitman still on his lips, as well as Boyd Mcdonald, Gavin Arthur, Edward Carpenter and Thomas Eakins.
The poetry here is quite bold as Luczak presents his unified vision of love by incorporating all aspects of his definition of love including "all of its poetic manifestations: sensual, sexual, and textual, a source of electric vistas and voluptuous possibilities of spiritual renewal". He also shares that it is not always possible to find the words necessary to express feelings. Luczak finds a sense of communion by maintaining a kind of communication with Whitman and, in effect, "uses" (for lack of a better word") that communion to speak with his muse and to develop the way he feels about the unrequited love he feels for his gardener. (If I seem to be fumbling for words here, it is because I am…. What Luczak says here is so powerful that I find myself often shaking as I write). I am almost tempted to say that this is a non-poem poem in the way that it captures gay love both historically and in terms of modernity. I am terribly afraid of using the incorrect word to describe what I have read here lest MY interpretation becomes muddled. I find myself feeling as I did the first time I stood in front of a Picasso that reflected everything I ever felt in brushstrokes that I could never achieve.
"What now, Walt, do you think of today's porn stars?
Their humongous cocks are perpetually stiff… They rarely smile at each other. No joy."
"Things were simpler for men like us in your time".
Poetry was also simpler back then when Whitman wrote of nature and instant gratification had not yet replaced love as a way to pass the time. I do not think we can read Luczak openly as we can read Whitman but then we did not have the freedom to love back then as we have today. Each word stuns me here and the best review that I can give is a non-review but an urging to find a copy of this wonderful excursion into gay love and read and savor it. You will not be the same person afterwards.
This entry was posted in GLBT poetry on April 30, 2016 by Amos.
"Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137" by David Stowe— "Yea We Wept"
Stowe, David. "Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137", Oxford University Press, 2016.
"Yea We Wept"
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion" is perhaps one of the most famous verses of the psalms. It has also become something of "a cultural touchstone for music and Christianity across the Atlantic world". It has become a popular song and a top single (Don McLean's folk ballad and Boney M's West Indian disco mix). David Stowe uses a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach that brings together personal interviews, historical overview, and textual analysis to show the psalm's enduring place in popular culture.
Traditionally the first line (the first sentence here) is one of the most lyrical verses in the Hebrew Bible and it has been used to express grief, sadness and mourning. We might say that it is used as a protest of exile, of the displaced and of the marginalized. What it is interesting is that even with its popularity, not much has been written about it in the twenty-five hundred years or so since the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people.
Stowe locates its use in the American Revolution and the Civil Rights movement, and internationally by anti-colonial Jamaican Rastafari and immigrants from Ireland, Korea, and Cuba. He has studied musical references ranging from the Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon" to the score in Kazakh film "Tulpan". Stowe also explores the where the psalm fits in modern culture especially as regards the final words: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Both liturgy and Biblical scholars usually ignore them yet Stowe finds these words being echoed in modern occurrences of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and more generally in the culture of vengeance that has been present in North America from the earliest conflicts with Native Americans.
The work is based on numerous interviews with musicians, theologians, and writers and now Stowe reconstructs the rich and varied reception history of this mysterious, text. This is known as reception history. There is a great deal of information here and we see that this psalm is used for expressing anguish—- we certainly feel its pathos, resolve and desire for vengeance. We follow it is it traverses centuries and places and is present culturally, religiously and musically in both America and Europe providing a powerful testament to curiosity and learning and having a bit to say about vengeance. Stowe presents us with an inquiry about exile and challenges us to think about history, memory, vengeance, forgiveness, and forgetting. This is what this psalm is all about and there are many surprises in Stowe's commentary on 137.
Stowe maintains that this is a psalm with a biography of its own—- after all, it is people that make history and not literature. Psalm 137 is actually about the fifty year period after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchhadnezzar who took many into captivity. We might think that the Hebrew bible does not have much to say about the psalm but Stowe discovered through his research that exile is essential to understanding several important texts— Lamentations, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. It is not enough to stress the importance of these books. Additionally, Psalm 137 is America's longest-running protest song used to show alienation and marginalization.
Stowe has divided his book into three parts—history, memory and forgetting. Each part ingeniously looks at several verses that appear to present the whole. We are to understand that each section is important and dependent on the other two. Believe me when I say that this is a fascinating read that is the result of good research and Stowe's knowing the direction of where he needs to go.
This entry was posted in Judaica on April 29, 2016 by Amos.
"CROCODILE TEARS"— A Deal with the Devil
A Deal with the Devil
"Crocodile Tears" is the story of Simon an outspoken guy who learns that he is HIV positive and makes a deal with the devil to perform three deeds in exchange for becoming HIV negative again. He is an outspoken guy who cannot keep a job. When he learns of his HIV status he writes to the devil for help and sure enough Satan appears and agrees to make him negative again if Simon will do what he says.
Simon's first task was to become a gay bashing comedian delivering jokes written by the devil to overflow homophobic crowds. Simon becomes wildly successful and a national sensation. He marries his best friend, Muse, to complete his cover but this does not work out and in the meantime his ex-lover Carl (Dan Savage) has full blown AIDS. Simon turns his back on him and on everyone he has ever had feelings for.
This is quite a dark comedy that was written bySeattle playwright Ted Sod from his 1990 stage play "Satan and Simon DeSoto". The film was directed by Ann Coppel and Sod also stars as the main character, Simon.
The feared HIV discovery follows years of procrastinating about taking the blood test. It took the suicide of a good friend, Phyllis Steen (Wade Madsen), a drag queen to get Carl to force Simon to get tested. Simon's best friend and former lover, Carl, to force the issue. The film, while grounded in realism goes in another direction when Simon bargains with the devil, Mr. Chesebro (William Salyers), the devil claims that he can make Simon HIV-free in exchange for certain favors. The problem I had with Simon as a stand-up comic was how his act made nasty entertainment out ofnasty, anti-gay jokes. Here the movie navigates tricky waters. It makes foul entertainment out of the twisted hate jokes.
Simon's second task is to renounce his homosexuality but this does not work out well when he gets married and enters into a relationship with terrible emotional consequences. The third task never really matters. This year the film celebrates its 20th anniversary.
"Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World" by Gregory Woods— The Gay Shaping of Western Culture
Woods, Gregory. "Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World", Yale University Press, 2016.
The Gay Shaping of Western Culture
Gregory Woods brings us an ambitious study of the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. This study spans continents, languages, and almost a century from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era and looks at the time of in increased visibility that made acceptance of homosexuality one of the ways that modernity could be measured.
There were diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields that were somewhat hidden from the larger society. These were referred to as "the Homintern" (an echo of Lenin's "Comintern") by those who were suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy and these networks brought together such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. They, to a degree, provided some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion and fostered solidarity, celebrated talent, and, by doing so, invigorated and changed the majority culture. Having worked with gay men who were involved in the arts in the 60s, I was aware of these networks but never saw anything.
Woods introduces us to a large cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of whom operated openly. Woods here looks at "artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination". We get quite a look at twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history. We read stories of interlocking, international gay and lesbian networks that may surprise some and reinforce—- these were places where gay liberation was born and really began to take hold. There were many gay men who "affected, influenced and restructured world culture for over a hundred years and this is the place to look to learn about the rise of gay poetics. I certainly was not expecting this to be a fun read— Woods sprinkles stories, gossip and anecdotes throughout and we see that it was gays and lesbians that actually were responsible for the liberation of the modern world. One reviewer says that the book is both hilarious and horrifying in that we read of the terrible persecution that gay people suffered and the pervasiveness and viciousness of homophobia and also of those gays and lesbians who were totally outrageous.
"You Know Me Well: A Novel" by David Levithan and Nine LaCour— First Love
Levithan, David and Nina LaCour. "You Know Me Well: A Novel", St. Martin's Griffin, 2016.
Are we even aware of who knows us and how well? I think that this is question that we all have spoken about at different times in our lives. Here we hear from Mark and Kate who were classmates who sat next to each other for a year but never exchanged a word. This changed one night when Kate was lost after having run from the chance to meet the girl that she has loved from a distance. Mark, at the same time, is in love with Ryan, his best friend and who possibly might feel the same about him. Neither Mark or Kate realizes how important one will be for the other and over a short period of time, they come to know each other very well, much better in fact than the people that they know very well.
Many times first love comes with pain attached as we never really know how to deal with it early on. This is a heartfelt look at relationships told in alternating chapters that reflect Mark and Nina's points of view and pull us into the emotions that the two young people are dealing with as they deal with relationships. I have long been a fan of Levithan and while this is the first writing by LaCour that I have read, I am very impressed with what she has to say. is a deeply honest story about navigating the joys and heartaches of first love, one truth at a time. We can sense that the authors have had similar experiences by the honesty with which this is written. We are with Mark and Kate during Pride Week in San Francisco and we share their joys, their pain and the revelations they face. First love often means change in lives led and we see just how much the cost of change is.
The novel takes place in just one week and the amount of change that the teens deal with is quite amazing. Their maturity and their immaturity are reflection in the way that they deal with love. The letters back and forth between the two cover two-and-a-half years thus allowing a deeper look at their emotions and thoughts. We often use the word "celebration" to define a piece of literature and that is exactly the word I would use here. We not only celebrate first love but we also celebrate friendship and we do so through wonderful prose and a story that awakens us.
"Romeo and Juliet in Palestine" by Tom Sperlinger— Teaching Under Occupation
Sperlinger, Tom. "Romeo and Juliet in Palestine", Zero Books, 2016.
Teaching Under Occupation
When I moved to Israel way back when, my first job was teaching English at a very fine school in Haifa. Part of the curriculum was teaching Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" to students who were required to learn English as a second language. I really never understood the rationale behind it and I remembered the pains I had being taught the play and I could speak the language. I have since learned that Shakespeare in its native tongue is part of some Palestinian college requirements at the present time. I wonder if anyone stops to think about the choices a Palestinian student has to make when studying a drama that has, say, Jewish protagonists. Then there is also the possibility that a Palestinian student might refuse to read a play that does not speak to him.
In 2013, Tom Sperlinger taught English literature at the Abu Dis campus of Al-Quds University in the Occupied West Bank for five months. This book is about that period. Sperlinger explores his students' encounters with works from 'Hamlet' and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' to Kafka and Malcolm X. He gives us stories from the classroom along with anecdotes about life in the West Bank thus showing how his own ideas about literature and teaching changed during his time in Palestine. He challenges us to think about what this shows about the nature of pedagogy and the role of a university under occupation.
Not only is this a look at a teacher at work in what is called Palestine, it is also an indictment of the systematic constraints young Palestinian men and women experience, as they work to get a university education in difficult times. We see Sperlinger as a gifted, sympathetic, and resourceful classroom teacher who is wonderfully inventive in his approach to his texts and to his students. He is humorous, hard on himself and open to his situation.
He focuses most of his book on his students and shows the difference between students in Palestine and those in the Western world. The political situation of the region is the backdrop that in many cases is used by the students as a reason why they couldn't deliver an assignment on time.
We gain insight about today's Palestinian youth, and the relation between them and the situation in Palestine in general. This is also a fascinating look at academic life within a university that struggles against the odds to maintain its standards and what happens within the context of a specific struggle for self-determination and the preservation of human dignity.
This entry was posted in Israel on April 29, 2016 by Amos.
"RAY HARRYHA– — USEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN"— A Celebration
"Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan"
"Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan" is a celebration of the life and work of special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen. For those who are unfamiliar with Ray Harryhauser, he is an auteur of special effects whose fantastical monsters are the stuff of movie legend. He is now the subject of filmmaker Gilles Penso's latest documentary that celebrates what he has done and how he has influenced some of today's greatest living mainstream directors, including Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson (who all are seen here). We begin in 1949 with "Mighty Joe Young and move forward to 1981 and "Clash of the Titans".
When he was a youngster, Harryhausen studied early SFX movies and the work of Georges Méliès, evolving their processes while he developed his own techniques. Here we have directors sharing the scenes that have been influenced by Harryhausen.
For many, Harryhausen's stop-motion creations that he calls 'creatures' remind us of our youth and the films that are distinctively his. Penso's documentary crucially allows us to see these creatures out of context, often no bigger than a foot tall and we get a chance to appreciate the level of detail and care the artist put into his creations. We go to his London workshop where the beloved characters are now stored – showing off the tremendously prolific out-pouring of clay beings of all kinds and sizes that could be manipulated at a painstaking pace to create the desired effect.
The film puts Harryhausen into proper perspective and we see him as most innovative and important special effects artist. Harryhausen's place in cinema history is richly deserved not only because of his technical skill, imagination and sheer love of creation the man brought to all of the projects he was involved with but also because he has been such a gentleman.
This is a straightforward, talking-head documentary, spliced with film sequences, dailies, test shots and newly released on-set footage but it also an loving, illuminating and constantly entertaining.
Bonus Materials include:
Interviews with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Peter Lord, Rick Baker
12 Interview outtakes with Joe Dante, John Lasseter, Nick Park and more!
A message to Ray
On the set of Sinbad
Paris Cinematheque Q&A
London Gate Theater Q&A
Audio commentary with the filmmakers
Original Trailer
Ray Harryhausen Trailer Reel
This entry was posted in Film on April 28, 2016 by Amos.


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Glad I got it done. I really need to mix it up soon though. maybe a core work out or some weights? I ate a load of crap yesterday so I really need to get that back on track too.


Davis writes with a quiet, terse, instantly recognizable style. She was a MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her six books of stories were recently published together in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
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Paul Alphonse Désiré Rose, né le  à Caen (Calvados) et mort le  au camp de concentration de Dora, est un instituteur et résistant belge.

Biographie
Paul Rose est le fils de Désiré Rose (1881-1958), facteur des postes, et de  Céleste Decarne (1884-1959). Troisième enfant d'une fratrie de quatre, Gérard (1913-1989), prêtre au Congo belge puis en France, Marie-Louise (1915-2002), sous-perceptrice des postes au Bizet et Marie-José (1925-2016), enseignante au Bizet, à l'époque un hameau de Ploegsteert d'où sa famille est originaire et où il passe la plus grande partie de sa vie.

Paul Rose fait ses études primaires à l'école communale de Ploegsteert, puis il perfectionnera son néerlandais à l'école des Frères de Messines. De 1931 à 1936, il se forme à l'Ecole Normale de Braine-le-Comte et effectue son service militaire au 4e régiment de ligne de Bruges : il obtient le grade de Candidat officier de réserve. En 1937, il est nommé instituteur à l'école des garçons du Bizet.

Il s'occupe de théâtre, dessine, peint et écrit de la poésie. Il est aussi un historien amateur. Son Histoire de Ploegsteert paraît pendant treize semaines dans le journal paroissial de la paroisse Saint-André du Bizet en 1965-1966.

Seconde Guerre mondiale
En , lors de la mobilisation de l'armée belge, Paul Rose est affecté au  de ligne. Sous-lieutenant de réserve, il participe avec son unité à la campagne des 18 jours en mai 1940. Fait prisonnier le jour de la capitulation de l'armée belge, il est envoyé en Allemagne (Oflag IV-C à Colditz puis Oflag VII-B à Eichstätt). Il est rapatrié le  et reprend son métier d'instituteur.

En résistance
En 1941, il rentre dans la résistance. Il devient agent de renseignements auprès du réseau Ali-France, puis chef de section au Service de Renseignements et d'Action (réseau Marc VN/U) et enfin membre du groupement de résistance A.S.B. En 1943, son groupe compte  qui contrôlent des deux côtés de la frontière le secteur Ploegsteert - Lille - Comines (Belgique) - Courtrai - Ypres. Il transmet des renseignements sur les mouvements des troupes, sur le trafic fluvial, ferroviaire et routier ainsi que sur les activités aériennes de l'ennemi. Il est également officier de liaison entre les Partisans belges (P.A.) et les F.F.I. d'Armentières.

Le , Paul Rose épouse Esther Vandenberghe de Warneton (Belgique). Il est arrêté par la Gestapo le . Confronté à un soldat anglais qu'il avait tenté d'aider en 1941, il est trahi par celui-ci, subit les pires interrogatoires mais ne parle pas. Son silence permet la survie de son service. Sa femme donne naissance à une fille prénommée Marie-Paule le .

Il passe de prison en prison et arrive le , en provenance de la prison de Strzelce Opolskie, au camp de concentration de Gross-Rosen. Il y est enregistré sous le numéro 82 433.  Le , il fait la connaissance de Léon-Ernest Halkin. Le , c'est ensemble qu'ils sont transférés en train pour le camp de concentration de Dora où ils arrivent le . Paul Rose est enregistré sous le . Totalement épuisé, il meurt de dysenterie le  dans le baraquement infirmerie 17. C'est Léon-Ernest Halkin qui apprendra la mort de Paul à sa famille, après avoir lu l'appel que cette dernière avait fait publier dans un journal pour le retrouver. Léon-Ernest Halkin a gardé le contact toute sa vie avec la famille Rose.

Honneurs

Paul Rose est décoré à titre posthume. Une plaque commémorative est posée en 1946 à l'école où il enseignait. Une stèle plus importante lui est dédiée le . En 1954, une cité qui porte son nom est construite à Le Bizet. Une rue Paul Rose est également tracée.

Sources
 Léon-Ernest  Halkin, « Paul Rose », in: Mémoires de la Société d'histoire de Comines-Warneton et de la région, tome IV, 1974
 À l'ombre de la mort de Léon-Ernest Halkin, document Duculot, , Paul Rose aux , 59, 82, 93, 94, 103, 116, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127, 128.
 Centre de documentation du Mémorial de Dora-Mittelbau
 Marie-José Rose, sa sœur
 Nord Éclair des , , , , , , ,
 Musée de Groos-Rozen

Notes et références

Résistant belge
Naissance en décembre 1917
Naissance à Caen au XXe siècle
Décès en février 1945
Décès au camp de concentration de Dora
Décès à 27 ans
Mort de la dysenterie

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