Array Here are some of my ruminations on this discussion.Journey of a (“Self-Hating”) JewDavid RovicsThere are few issues more divisive in US society, including on the left, than the issue of Israel and Palestine. When people are thus threatened, oppressed, and ultimately slaughtered in their millions, this sort of thing tends to bring people together to attempt to defend themselves. There is no oppression to speak of in the US or Europe directed at people based on their Jewish or Christian identity, any more than there is still oppression against people of Irish or Italian descent. Regardless of the definition, there is plenty of common history for Jews anywhere, but like Catholics, Poles or whoever else in the modern US, Jews do not have a common identity in terms of their politics, professions, geography, etc. Three people came to hand out literature about my alleged anti-Semititic views to people coming to the show. These three people were in a group that called itself The Jewish Community, as I recall. But in the civilized discussion that followed my concert, it turned out that there were more than three people of Jewish lineage in the crowd who were not members of The Jewish Community and didn’t share their views on Israel. It didn’t seem to me that these Jews were any less Jewish than The Jewish Community — they just weren’t in a group that called itself The Jewish Community.This also, it seems to me, is the distinction between groups like AIPAC and the rest of the Jewish population. category has expanded to include light-skinned Jews and other historically-oppressed ethnic and religious groups such as Irish and Italian Catholics.This is not to say that white people don’t suffer from discrimination. As a youthful, long-haired hippie driving an old beat-up car, I was pulled over by the cops many times more than most other white people, probably for all of those offenses – He also told me that he had found out during the last year or so of her life that she was not from England — she was a German Jew. For whatever reason, she had hidden her identity from everyone, her friends, her family. She told her son on her deathbed about how her society, Germany, had rejected her. Perhaps the rejection was too much to bear, and she had to try to forget about her past, her German and Jewish identity. could in some measure apply to this wonderful, vibrant, but apparently troubled woman, although the term seems far too simplistic to fit such a complex person so full of love for humanity.Perhaps it was experiences she had after arriving in the US that strengthened her resolve to keep her ethnic and national identity hidden. Her mother died soon after the war, and I don’t know how much Diane tried to get back in touch with her relatives across the ocean, but she said she never heard from any of them, and presumed them all to be dead.Grandma Diane’s Jewish identity was always terribly complex for her. In every community she visited there were either too many Jews or not enough Jews. She was traumatized by her family history and by the Nazi holocaust, but she wanted to put it behind her. We haven’t spoken in years, but from what I understand, for her and her synogogue in New Jersey, criticism of Israel is completely unacceptable, there is no room for debate.For people like Judy, “never again” People like Judy invent all kinds of outrageous theories to justify the fundamentally racist movement that has led to the state of Israel. There are no Palestinians, they’re all Arabs, and the 800 million Arabs in the world all hate Jews and want to “drive the Jews into the sea.” These people have decided that the solution to their perceived problems lies in the oppression of another people. Other times the oppression of a people leads to an ongoing struggle for justice that goes on for decades, such as the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. Of course, such people have existed since long before the Nazi holocaust, but the holocaust also was responsible for creating lots more of them. People who believe oppression should be opposed in all it’s forms, and those struggling for their lives and liberty should be supported. The biggest contingents of people ready to die in the fight against fascism came from Germany and Italy. Yes, he was Jewish, and like so many Jews and so many other people of his generation, he was a communist first and foremost.Bob was a very stoic man, by his own admission. Whether they are being killed, doing the killing, or giving the orders to fire.I was uncertain what to do when in 1999 I received an invitation from the Israeli Folk Music Society to do a tour of Israel that they would set up. It was after 1973 that he had an awakening, and came to recognize the brutal reality of the Israeli occupation.I met some other fairly decent folks there, but most people I encountered seemed to be right out of a Klan rally in 1950’s Alabama. As long as I sang about oppression elsewhere in the world people loved it. A handful of Israelis were killed by the Scud missiles, a few years after Israel had itself bombed Iraq, and the Israelis had to sleep in bomb shelters, all emerging safely the next morning, unlike the Iraqis who were being killed in their hundreds of thousands, including those incinerated by the US Air Force while hiding in their bomb shelters.But for these people, the suffering of the Iraqis simply was irrelevant. The Iraqis didn’t matter, they all wanted to kill the Jews, even the Iraqi children, I was told there to my unbelieving face.My German girlfriend was with me on that tour. Palestinians inside and outside Israel traumatized by ongoing oppression of so many sorts, and Jews traumatized by living in the war zone they created when they declared their “independence” From most of the presenters there, and then from other supporters of Israel from the US and elsewhere, I started receiving emails regularly calling me a self-hating Jew, a neofascist, a fascist, a Nazi, etc. This is a place under occupation by a massive, fundamentally racist military power.Most people in the world with a knowledge of world events recognize the situation for what it is. Most people in Europe do not have any problems with Jews. As much as German society suffered from the Allied bombardments, from a generation of young men being sent off to kill and be killed in battle, from so many non-Jewish Germans also being killed in the camps, Germans as a whole are even more paralyzed with an unbearable guilt about the genocide of their Jewish brethren. Whereas the left throughout almost the entire world is critical of Israel and supports Palestinian sovereignty, the German left is largely quiet about it, or actively and uncritically supporting Israel.I remember one guy in the neighborhood in Hamburg where I spent quite a bit of time, who had a radio show at the local free radio station (equivalent of what we’d call community radio in the US). To dare to have a Palestinian doctor with no Israeli to somehow balance out his views was unacceptable.Many Germans on the left who have dared to try to be consistent internationalists in solidarity with oppressed people around the world, and have included Palestinians within that worldview, have suffered similar fates. And, consistent with the rest of their principles around anti-racism and Third World liberation, at the top of their flagship squat in Hamburg, Haffenstrasse, were two words that shocked German society probably more than anything else coming from the Autonomen: “free Palestine.”But with the decline of the Autonomen has come, among other things, the rise of a uniquely German organization known as the Anti-Deutsche.I’ll be returning to Germany for the G8 protests this summer, but the last time I was there was several years ago, and the last concert I did there was in the town of Marburg. Some people didn’t go to the show as a result, I don’t know how many.The flyers claimed I was an anti-Semite. Also, since I opposed the war in Iraq, I was an anti-Semite, since the war in Iraq was being waged to benefit Israel, and therefore it was good, and therefore the US should be supported most of the time, and Israel all of the time. It’s convoluted logic that most people outside of Germany can see through, but in Germany this logic plays pretty well. We are traumatized because our people killed millions of Jews, therefore we must support the traumatized victims of the Nazi holocaust as they act out their displaced feelings of aggression towards us and focus them against the Palestinians, slaughtering thousands of them annually and making sure the rest live in a state of squalor.Jews like my aunt or like so many Israelis say “never again to us,” The thing that allows people like me to sleep well at night, though, is having the knowledge that not only is this the moral view, the view that is easier to live with as a human being with a conscience, but it is also the sensible understanding of history and reality. Blinded by rage, trauma, or guilt, what the pro-Israel people apparently don’t see is that no matter what you do, a subjugated people will fight back.
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Of course, we already know that Peter Roskam is going to tow the party line on this one and vote to support the surge without reservation, and it is the without reservation that is the problem.But, given that congress is doing so little, perhaps this is a good time to look at some national news that relates to some issues that congress SHOULD be addressing. Now, not to idealize places like London by denying that there is violence, the level of violence is far less, and the level of gun violence in way less. Of course, when you also see how he has voted as far as gay rights, or fudning for supporting programs that serve the poor (and the children of the poor - the most vulnerable in our society), it might be fair to say that what Peter values is equally opportunity and protection for all fetuses and stem cells, but when it comes to a walking, talking and breathing human, it’s ok to deny rights, opportunities, and protections.
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So, Now 11 points for a win and 5 for a loss in the Super Bowl.I have been asked why no points are given for wins in the Wildcard round, but I decided that would not make sense with the idea that the playoffs have grown over the years and there is no way to equalize a smaller field to a larger one. #3 - The San Francisco 49ersTotal Points: 85Total Playoff Years: 70C, 71C, 72, 81S, 83C, 84S, 85, 86, 87, 88S, 89S, 90C, 92C, 93C, 94S, 95, 96, 97C, 98, 01, 02The first team to win 5 Super Bowls, and still undefeated in the Super Bowl at 5-0, the 49ers resume is solid. But, with the two titles in the 1980’s with Tom Flores, the point total vaulted them into the top group.#5 - The Denver BroncosTotal Points: 57Total Playoff Years: 77SL, 78, 79, 83, 84, 86SL, 87SL, 89SL, 91C, 93, 96, 97S, 98S, 00, 03, 04, 05CThe Broncos have certainly had many quality teams, mostly due to the John Elway era. They get the tie-breaker with the Rams for #9 due to the total number of Super Bowl wins (3) to the Rams (1).#10 - The St Louis/Los Angeles RamsTotal Points: 50Total Playoff Years: 67, 69, 73, 74C, 75C, 76C, 77, 78C, 79SL, 80, 83, 84, 85C, 86, 88, 89C, 99S, 00, 01SL, 03, 04 There is no question that the Rams and the Vikings have some of the best consistent quality over the course of the last 40 years. Snakebit is an understatement.#12 - Indianapolis/Baltimore ColtsTotal Points: 47Total Playoff Years: 68SL, 70S, 71C, 75, 76, 77, 87, 95C, 96, 99, 00, 02, 03C, 04, 05, 06S With 11 big points in 2007, the Colts are fresh off their First Super Bowl win in 36 years. And with him in his prime, they will be higher up this list in no time.#13 - The New York GiantsTotal Points: 36Total Playoff Years: 81, 84, 85, 86S, 89, 90S, 93, 97, 00SL, 02, 05, 06The Giants won two Super Bowls in 5 years (lest we forget) and compiled many points during the Parcells years. All Hail, Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden as the uniform change has changed the fortune of this floor mat of the 1980’s.#22 The San Diego ChargersTotal Points: 17Total Playoff Years: 79, 80C, 81C, 82, 92, 94SL, 95, 04, 06With many years of decent teams that never did much in the playoffs, the Chargers have scored some points - just not as many as they would have liked. But they always had nice uniforms.#23 - The Cincinnati BengalsTotal Points: 16Total Playoff Years: 70, 73, 75, 81SL, 82, 88SL, 90, 05Despite 15 seasons between playoff years from 1990-2005, the Bengals used two Super Bowl losses in the 1980’s to grab a decent position. The Super Bowl Loss in SB33 and the Championship Game Loss in 2004 are the high water marks for them.#27 - Carolina PanthersTotal Points: 11Total Playoff Years: 96C, 03SL, 05CEvery time that the Panthers have made the playoffs, they have won at least one game. And, given that they are only a decade old and have somehow been to three NFC Championship games points to the horrid histories of Arizona and Detroit.#28 - Detroit LionsTotal Points: 11Total Playoff Years: 70, 82, 83, 91C, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99Detroit has managed to make the playoffs a few times, especially in the Barry Sanders era. Maybe the saddest franchise in all of sports.#32 â The Houston TexansTotal Points: 0Total Playoff Years: NoneKind of unfair since the Texans have not existed for very long, but 0 points means they have never made the playoffs, so it is tough to make that sound any better than it is. Year followed by âCâ means they lost in the Conference Championship Game (3 points), Year followed by âSLâ means they lost the Super Bowl (5 points), and Year followed by âSâ means they won the Super Bowl (11 points).
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oggi lunedì 12 febbraio 2007..piove////////////////////sophia-paolo-matteo-marco-davide-melissa on regiaoggi è stata una bella puntata, visto il ritorno di paolo e sophia..poi i nostri tosi dell’itissi parla della base dal molin e delle manifestazioni che ci sono state da parte dei cittadini e che ci saranno da parte di parecchi gruppi che raggiungeranno il piazzale della stazione di vicenza sabato 17 alle ore 14.30per ribadire un NO all’ampliamento della base americanasophia con paolo mettono in luce vari aspetti che si collegano con mille altri fatti, tenendo presente anche la partecipazione che vari e diversissimi gruppi avevano dato al NO ALLA BASE, vedi gruppi di destra e gruppi di sinistra.
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El trimaran vuela literalmente a más de 47 nudos, pero lo más increible es que lleva un rizo en la mayor!!!
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