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"The present political balance of power has created a Knesset that has become an assembly line of legislation that is dragging Israel down to the bottom of the list of civilized countries."
Human Development is a development paradigm that is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests. People are the real wealth of nations. Development is thus about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value. And it is thus about much more than economic growth, which is only a means if a very important one of enlarging peoples choices.
Fundamental to enlarging these choices is building human capabilities the range of things that people can do or be in life. The most basic capabilities for human development are to lead long and healthy lives, to be knowledgeable, to have access to the resources needed for a decent standard of living and to be able to participate in the life of the community. Without these, many choices are simply not available, and many opportunities in life remain inaccessible.
Ironically, the Arab citizens of Israel enjoy more rights in the Jewish state than their Palestinian brothers do in any Arab country.
And is it not ironic that the government of Binyamin Netanyahu is doing more to boost the Palestinian economy in the West Bank than any Arab country? .
Perhaps the time has come to start paying attention to the plight of the Palestinians in the Arab world.
What about the Arab apartheid? by Khaled Abu Toameh Israel, belegerd volk, cultuur en natieHow come the Lebanese students who recently talked about Israel's "war crimes" in the Gaza Strip during Israel Apartheid Week on many North American college campuses had nothing to say about the fact that tens of thousands of Palestinians have been massacred in Lebanon over the past four decades? Dozens of refugees were killed and hundreds wounded in the three-month offensive that also destroyed thousands of houses inside the refugee camp. Reporters said it was the worst internal violence in Lebanon since the civil war that hit the country between 1975-1990. And just three years ago, the Lebanese Army used heavy artillery to bomb the Nahr-al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon.
Yet who has ever heard of a United Nations resolution condemning Syria or Lebanon for committing horrific atrocities or discriminating against the Palestinians? The Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian students and professors who took part in the anti-Israel events on campuses have clearly "forgotten" that their regimes probably have more Palestinian blood on their hands than Israel. In the early 1970s, the Jordanians slaughtered thousands of Palestinians in what has become known as Black September. Can somebody point to one United Nations resolution condemning that massacre?
And where was the United Nations when Kuwait and several Gulf countries expelled more than 400,000 Palestinians in one week? The exodus took place in March 1991, after Kuwait was liberated from Iraqi occupation. Ironically, the first week of March is being celebrated on university campuses as Israel Apartheid Week with no reference to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the Gulf. Although there are more than 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon in twelve refugee camps -- which human rights organizations and Palestinians say have the worst living conditions of all the refugee camps in the Middle East -- as in most of the Arab countries, these Palestinians have been assigned the status of "foreigners," a fact which has deprived them of health care, social services, property ownership and education.
Even worse, Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in many jobs. This means that Palestinians cannot work in the public services and institutions run by the government such as schools and hospitals. Unlike Israel, Lebanese public hospitals do not admit Palestinians for medical treatment or surgery. Can somebody imagine the outcry of the international community if Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed a law today prohibiting Arabs from working in certain professions or receiving medical treatment? The same applies to Palestinians living in most of the Arab countries. While Israel has never stripped its Arab citizens of their citizenship, Jordan has begun revoking the Jordanian citizenship of thousands of its citizens who are of Palestinian descent. Jordan was the only Arab country that has ever granted Palestinian Jordanian citizenship. In recent years, however, the Jordanians appear to have regretted that decision. As for the rest of the Arab countries, Palestinians can only dream of obtaining citizenship. It is almost impossible to find a Palestinian with Egyptian or Moroccan or Kuwaiti citizenship.
The Tyranny of Israel
"That is why Israeli society is incapable of producing the moral and intellectual strength required to put an end to the occupation.
Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688123635/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0688123627&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0HX00TRZAFXPP1PG6MNR]Amazon.com: Israel: A History (9780688123635): Martin Gilbert: Books[/ame]Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.
Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.
A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.
Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people.
Funny anyone would want to cite that leftist Haaretz piece in view that, Mister Obama also referred to the majority of the United States as a bible-thumping gun-hugging backward unpalatable something. Well, my dears, if judophobia calls for it, anyone will hug the lefto-marxist line."The present political balance of power has created a Knesset that has become an assembly line of legislation that is dragging Israel down to the bottom of the list of civilized countries."
Funny anyone would want to cite that leftist Haaretz piece in view that, Mister Obama also referred to the majority of the United States as a bible-thumping gun-hugging backward unpalatable something. Well, my dears, if judophobia calls for it, anyone will hug the lefto-marxist line."The present political balance of power has created a Knesset that has become an assembly line of legislation that is dragging Israel down to the bottom of the list of civilized countries."
Funny anyone would want to cite that leftist Haaretz piece in view that, Mister Obama also referred to the majority of the United States as a bible-thumping gun-hugging backward unpalatable something. Well, my dears, if judophobia calls for it, anyone will hug the lefto-marxist line."The present political balance of power has created a Knesset that has become an assembly line of legislation that is dragging Israel down to the bottom of the list of civilized countries."
Obama is a fascist tool. A mere puppet of the NWO.
It's curiously funny that, arab agitprop doesn't like Obama, while sharing very much common ideas - total control, suppression of dissent, redistribution of other people's property, etc.. Although, one plausible explanation of it may be that arabs, initially, placed high hopes on him, like, expecting he would shower arabs with money, cut aid to Israel and aid and abet that arab orgasmic longing for murdering and driving joos out and plundering of their property.Obama is a fascist tool.Funny anyone would want to cite that leftist Haaretz piece in view that, Mister Obama also referred to the majority of the United States as a bible-thumping gun-hugging backward unpalatable something. Well, my dears, if judophobia calls for it, anyone will hug the lefto-marxist line.
Of course! Joos run the sharks out of the Montauk base, using mind-bending rays and planet Venus.A mere puppet of the NWO.
It's curiously funny that, arab agitprop doesn't like Obama, while sharing very much common ideas - total control, suppression of dissent, redistribution of other people's property, etc.. Although, one plausible explanation of it may be that arabs, initially, placed high hopes on him, like, expecting he would shower arabs with money, cut aid to Israel and aid and abet that arab orgasmic longing for murdering and driving joos out and plundering of their property.Obama is a fascist tool.Funny anyone would want to cite that leftist Haaretz piece in view that, Mister Obama also referred to the majority of the United States as a bible-thumping gun-hugging backward unpalatable something. Well, my dears, if judophobia calls for it, anyone will hug the lefto-marxist line.Of course! Joos run the sharks out of the Montauk base, using mind-bending rays and planet Venus.A mere puppet of the NWO.
Arabs never run out of "grievances", of course.When the corporate media started pimping Obama before he threw his hat in the ring, I knew there was something wrong with him. And it turned out to be so.It's curiously funny that, arab agitprop doesn't like Obama, while sharing very much common ideas - total control, suppression of dissent, redistribution of other people's property, etc.. Although, one plausible explanation of it may be that arabs, initially, placed high hopes on him, like, expecting he would shower arabs with money, cut aid to Israel and aid and abet that arab orgasmic longing for murdering and driving joos out and plundering of their property.Obama is a fascist tool.Of course! Joos run the sharks out of the Montauk base, using mind-bending rays and planet Venus.A mere puppet of the NWO.
It's curiously funny that, arab agitprop doesn't like Obama, while sharing very much common ideas - total control, suppression of dissent, redistribution of other people's property, etc.. Although, one plausible explanation of it may be that arabs, initially, placed high hopes on him, like, expecting he would shower arabs with money, cut aid to Israel and aid and abet that arab orgasmic longing for murdering and driving joos out and plundering of their property.Obama is a fascist tool.Of course! Joos run the sharks out of the Montauk base, using mind-bending rays and planet Venus.A mere puppet of the NWO.
When the corporate media started pimping Obama before he threw his hat in the ring, I knew there was something wrong with him.
And it turned out to be so.
"Like President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in their time (see the article by Aluf Benn, 'Better than Wikileaks,' December 15 ), President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton know that Israel will not budge from its positions unless it feels that it is being bulldozed.
Ohhh! As authoritative as quran, of course.counterpunch
Like the allies in Germany? Jooz are learning, ain't'em?On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the inhabitants were Arabs.
Nah, the definition of judophobic "assholyness", of course.The definition of "Jewish Democracy?"