Comments on: On Israel’s choices https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758827 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:46:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758827 Douglas Murray, Brit writer and journalist, has a lot on youtube. Worth watching for his take on Islam and Europe, so forth.
WRT the current war and Oct 7, he refers to “Me Too” and “Believe All Women”, except, apparently, if they’re Jews.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758819 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:36:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758819 Apparently we have to ask Uncle Tonoose!

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758801 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:31:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758801 Stop defending yourselves you stupid Jews, says the UN boss. Just die, why don’t you!: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/uns-guterres-calls-for-idf-to-cease-military-operations-in-the-west-bank-after-counterterrorism-op/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758785 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:35:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758785 Related?
Via Bari Weiss:
“A Palestinian Dissident’s Remarkable Story”—
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2024/08/a-palestinian-dissidents-remarkable-story/
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-price-of-speaking-out-a-palestinian-72c

Immediately after learning of the October 7 attacks, a young Palestinian living in the West Bank took to social media to convey his horror at what had occurred. He now fears for his life and rarely leaves his family home….

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Other recent links from Mosaic, which is a remarkable “clearing house” on a wide range of topics focusing on Jews, Judaism and Israel:
https://mosaicmagazine.com/about-us/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/politics-current-affairs/2024/08/podcast-adam-kirsch-on-settler-colonialism/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2023/09/the-perennial-power-of-the-nakba/

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758758 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:39:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758758 neo
That’s some Christians. Not wanting to name denominations, but I’ve been in discussion groups among various churches in town. One, sometimes described as Presbyterians who can afford shoes. No, it’s Presbyterians who can live on their means. Anyway…..if I wore a tee shirt which said, “I STAND WITH ISRAEL” to that church, the prosecutor would probably say I was looking for a fight.

Nope. The Presbyterians are warning against Christian Zionism and pretty much take Palestinian “news” as, you should excuse the term, gospel.

The Jews’ safe spaces will be, as I’ve said before, NASCAR events and Baptist churches.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758749 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:36:04 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758749 Ramzy baroud the one who employed the hamas kidnapper

]]> By: T J https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758744 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:08:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758744 Neo to Richard. Exactly. This is my understanding, too.

Karmi. Quoting a classic very Gandhi-esque line by Golda Meir, has anyone else seen “Golda”? The biopic out just over a year ago?

Compellingly played by Helen Mirren, “the film depicts the actions of Golda Meir, the 4th Prime Minister of Israel, during the Yom Kippur War, writes Wiki.

In a positive review, Matt Goldberg describes the film as “an acknowledgment of sacrifice” and “cold pragmatism leading to the warmth of peace.” [-Times of Israel] In a negative review, the film was described as “typical Israeli propaganda,” by Ramzy Baroud, published in Arab News and Middle East Monitor.

Critics were, Wiki reports, evenly divided. But at IMDB, the vox popoli vote it virtually a 6 out of 10. I think it’s better than that.

I’ve only seen half of it on cable TV, the last half. I found it riveting. All the more so because it’s so effective on a small budget. A drama of that historic point and place in time, and the toughest decision-making. And PM Golda, becoming a legend.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZLQhuEI-o

]]> By: SCOTTtheBADGER https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758741 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:51:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758741 Thank you, Neo, I stand corrected.

]]> By: Karmi https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758728 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:25:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758728

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.

Heavy…

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2024/08/28/on-israels-choices/#comment-2758727 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:20:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=136489#comment-2758727 I regret to say that I met some Arabic-speaking Christians who were reflexively anti-semitic. It seems to come from the culture and the language.

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