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What I’ve Been Up To Lately
- mazel tov to @bluenatic and @grandstreet on the birth of their baby girl 2 weeks ago
- RT @JTownCrier: Tropper? Kolko? Margulies? Balkany? Dwek? Rubashkin? NO. Moetzes Gedolei Torah condemn AVI WEISS as more offensive. 2 weeks ago
- Rorschach from Watchmen is the new Freddy Krueger http://bit.ly/7s61Cj 2 weeks ago
- More updates...
12/11/06
So close, yet so far away
The red line is The Green Line. The square in the center is al Aqsa. To the right of that, Occupied Palestine, where, among other things, my family is buried. The distance between my apartment and al Aqsa is about 20 minutes, walking.
I still don’t understand why you call it Occupied Palestine. Imho, the fact that your family is buried there stresses that it’s Eretz Israel.
By the way, what do you think of Rav Kook and his philosophy of orthodox modernisation? I found this ideas very similar on what you think is right about judaism (who said judaism is sacred e.t.c). We now are going to launch a first russian language youth live judaism blog (focus on zionism, human rights, modern orthodox, tikkun olam, actuality of torah e.t.c). Can I ask you to help us with design?
Sholomanarchy defines a border as “an imaginary line that some authoritarian pissed, which is then used as a justification for forces of the state to perpetuate unprovoked violence against innocent people.”
Lines Divide
Notes are our only hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1z-aVdpTI
PS22 in NYC sings Carlebach for Hanukah.
The only way to tolerance may be through culture and art. its the only thing that may be able to circumcize these hearts of ours
Happy Kislev to the world!
yasha– just because something is part of eretz yisrael, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s possible/morally defensible to include said area in modern state of israel.
and that’s before you start talking anarchism
An interesting article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_and_Judaism
“Occupied Palestine” really rankles me. That said, I enjoy your reference to the red line being the Green Line.
The red line in that satellite photo is pretty far from the 1949 armistice line. The whole Old City was under Jordanian control from 1949 to 1967, for example, while Mt. Scopus was under Israeli control.
Here are some better Jerusalem Green Line maps (although two of the three don’t show Mt. Scopus):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared.....nd_now.stm
http://www.mideastweb.org/jerusun.htm
http://www.israelipalestinianp.....salem.html
Dude,
Just wanted to be the lone voice out there reminding you, Mobius, that “al aqsa square” you refer to is a square precisely because a thousand years prior to “al aqsa,” there was a holy Jewish temple there. Destroyed by the Pagans (ie- what Marc Gafni might call– the “holy pagans”).
It wouldnt KILL you to at least give a dual reference to the site. Heres an example:
MOBIUS: The square in the center is al Aqsa, now an Islamic Mosque built in roughly the 1500s by the Turks. It is alsothe location where the remnants of the Jewish Beit Hamikdash, or holy temple, destroyed a thousand years prior, still stand.
READERS: Oh. I see.
Bleeding-hearts who buy into the dishonest narrative of Palestinianism really piss me off. Dan points out the revisionism inherent in descriptions “al_Aqsa” square.
Consider the history of the Arab village of Silwan in East Jerusalem, claimed to be part of the Palestinian patrimony occupied by the racist, colonialist, Zionist oppressor. Silwan overlooks the Shiloah Pool from which it takes its Hebrew name that only later became “Silwan.” It was settled in the 19th Century, long before the Zionist conferences, by Yemenite olim who came overland to Yerushalayim. Sadly, they weren’t accepted by the Jews in Jerusalem, so they took up residence in ancient burial caves and named their community Shiloah. They were the first living inhabitants, at least in modern times. They, their children and new arrivals built the first buildings. The Yememite Jewish community of Shiloah became a center of silversmiths and jewelry makers, which ended when the Jews were driven out during the Independence War.
Shiloah/Silwan belongs to the “Palestinians”? Yeah, right.