Israel Thrives

Friday, May 16, 2014

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JayinPhiladelphiaMay 17, 2014 at 6:43 AM
Beautiful weather for a busy weekend.

Trenton Avenue Arts Festival / Kensington Kinetic Derby today, as well as the Italian Market Festival down South Philly, if I can squeeze that in.

Tomorrow is our Israel66 festival at Penn's Landing. Good to hear Stand With Us and CAMERA will be attending in an official capacity for the first time.

Now if only these Ford guys could finish up this work so I can get the hell out of the sprawling nightmare horror show that is Northeast Philadelphia, and get back home to my humble rowhouse neighborhood to get the weekend started right with a good brunch, I'll be very pleased! ;)
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JayinPhiladelphiaMay 17, 2014 at 7:08 AM
Well okay, this Sherlock Holmes guy who just showed up wearing an awesome hat and smoking a pipe is providing some decent entertainment in my final few (hopefully!) minutes waiting here at Chapman...
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Mike L.May 17, 2014 at 8:33 AM
I think that I am just going to hunker down today and take it easy.

Maybe take in a few old episodes of the Sopranos.

btw, does Tony get whacked in the end or no?
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JayinPhiladelphiaMay 17, 2014 at 1:56 PM
Btw, last week's two-alarm fire down the street was a couple doors over from one of the luncheonettes under the York-Dauphin El on Front Street. Ben's appears to have been spared, at least on the outside, but I don't know if they're still open.

I guess I'll find out when I begin my luncheonette project in a few weeks...
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JayinPhiladelphiaMay 18, 2014 at 12:37 PM
Heading home from Israel66, to drop off my cool swag (the pair of Israel sunglasses, courtesy of StandWithUs Philadelphia, is my favorite item), and pick up a jacket (it got unexpectedly chilly and windy here today!) before heading back down Center City to meet up with author David Harris-Gershon for a chat and a couple of beers.

Couldn't help but notice J Street's booth was extremely lonely. Admittedly, it's an unscientific observation, a brief 'grab sample,' if you will, of just one moment in time, but yeah, I think this speaks a bit as to what people who actively support and celebrate Israel, think of J Street anymore.

Perhaps their booth would be more popular at a 'Nakba Day' event?
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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