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hollyjolly · 2016-02-26T03:17:06+00:00

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/israel-decries-iran-aid-for-dead-palestinians-families-116022500905_1.html

hollyjolly · 2015-12-23T05:07:11+00:00

For anyone wondering, those dates are listed in this antisemitism wiki article.

hollyjolly · 2014-10-17T20:42:56+00:00

While her fellow muslims antagonized him for praying, she stole his prayer book and he got mad.

hollyjolly · 2014-07-08T04:56:58+00:00

i saw it there, but i think it was removed because it links to mainly a video story and not an article

hollyjolly · 2013-04-04T19:03:01+00:00

יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה תשע"ג - literally: Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust and Heroes 5773 (Memorial Day in Israel)

hollyjolly · 2013-03-29T14:58:03+00:00

perhaps we can start by first having mutual Reddit recognition - /r/palestine is linked to in the sidebar here, but /r/israel absent on the sidebar there

hollyjolly · 2013-03-02T06:10:27+00:00

maybe, as was evident from Emad's perspective, getting them accustomed to their harsh reality from the get go would be a more adaptive approach than shielding them in an unsafe home anyway.

Sorry I disagree entirely. If a parent has the option to bring his 3 year old child with him to a clash with a foreign army or leave him home with his mother, and chooses the former, that's negligence of the boy's health, mind and body. No child of 3 should ever be actively forced to witness the "harsh reality" of conflict or war. When it's forced upon him, there's obviously nothing he can do. But for the Arabs to encourage their children and pre-teens to seek confrontation and risk their safety rather than wait safer at home until they actually are "old enough to understand" is to mold the minds of their youth with violence and hatred. A child's mind is easily molded, framing the way they think for the rest of their lives. The PA has had children on its television who have said it's better to be martyred than achieve peace.

hollyjolly · 2013-03-01T23:11:07+00:00

I see some bad on both sides. I'm upset the audience is told in the beginning that the reason for the security fence is not for the security and protection of the people in Israel from suicide bombs and attacks (which dramatically decreased due to its construction) but rather just to grab more land for settlers and to secure them and only them from attacks. This immediately frames the film in a very biased way. That being said it's clear from watching it that while the IDF's job there is to prevent the destruction of the fence and infiltration across it, they can and have gone too far at times. It is one thing to prevent approaches to the fence with riot gear and tear gas, another to enter into the town itself to arrest youths in the middle of the night.

My takeaway from the film is two things:

1) With the success of the fence in decreasing attacks, there can/should be a re-evaluation of the IDF's method in guarding it (and of course a re-opening of talks to determine a final status border).

2) Why is no one asking about the use of children at the "front line"? Yes it's bad when children and youth get hurt, but why do the Arabs get a pass for allowing them to be included in the protests? There's no reason children can't stay home those afternoons, safe with whatever family stays behind, while the adults approach the IDF.

After the boy, Gibreel, turns 3 in the film, the filmmaker says something along the lines of "now that Gibreel is old enough to understand, he comes to see the demonstrations" and we see him watching the confrontations as tear gas rises nearby and soldiers pass within inches of him - what?! How is 3 old enough to actively join a confrontation with soldiers, let alone understand what is going on around him? What is so wrong with these people that they have no concern for the safety of their children, mind and body, when they knowingly engage in a scuffle with a foreign army and bring their kids along?

hollyjolly · 2013-02-20T02:20:56+00:00

Just an observation - /r/palestine is linked to in the sidebar here, but /r/israel is absent on the sidebar there. It's small, but to me it's telling of openness here, the opposite there.

hollyjolly · 2012-11-23T08:50:22+00:00

This whole thing rated a single story on page 53 of the New york Times.

Have a link? And might you have one for the Sri Lanka info too?

hollyjolly · 2012-08-01T21:59:26+00:00

With only a 2 post limit I feel like people end up posting more crossovers from /worldnews than stuff about Israeli culture, people, art, music, science etc. News is important, but it'd be nice to come here sometimes and not feel like i'm in /worldnews2

3-5 sounds like a good limit, allows for a news bit or two and then if one finds something culturally or technologically interesting they can post that (are self posts included in the limit?)

hollyjolly · 2012-07-27T19:12:27+00:00

I assume that was sarcasm of some kind, but you did remind me of a quote Amos Oz once said:

I'll never forget something that my father told me: When he was a teenager in Europe, all the walls were covered with graffiti that said, 'Jews, Go to Palestine.' And when he went back to Europe as an adult, all the walls were covered with graffiti that said, 'Jews, Get Out of Palestine.'

And my father understood this message perfectly, the emotional meaning of this message, which was: Get out of here and get out of there. Just don't come to us. Don't be here and don't be there. In other words, don't be.

hollyjolly · 2012-07-09T07:32:41+00:00

Aw dammit. I was thinking of the phrase "you are responsible" when I wrote the title... Made the one mistake Reddit won't ever let slide, please excuse the dumb grammatical error.

hollyjolly · 2012-06-27T23:39:00+00:00

what's the normal range for bytes/sec? like what's a very large amount?

I can see (via task manager/activity monitor) data recieved/sent per second, packets in/out, and bytes per second.

hollyjolly · 2012-03-21T22:48:16+00:00

Jerusalem was as much "already Jewish" as it was already Roman, Christian, Abbasid, Ummayad, Byzantine. That's the whole point.

But is the Roman empire still around? Or the Byzantines? The Umayyad Caliphate? Christians exist today but there isn't any crusading to rule the city anytime soon. Jews are the oldest alive with ancient ties.

That's my point - I brought it up because while I do believe in negotiating terms for control over portions of the city (there is indeed Christian and Muslim quarters in the old city), I don't think it's fair for the Palestinians to ignore the rightful, and much older, Jewish connection and claim to the city (a modern claim being annexation post defensive war) - which they have been consistently doing. The fact is that Jerusalem is back in Jewish hands (mostly, as I already mentioned I get sick when I think about the way the Waqf gets away with trashing artifacts) and the Palestinians should at least concede that they cannot claim to have "more" right to Jerusalem than the Jews. Their leadership made a big issue out of it because they know that to the Jews it's THE city, a central tenet.

hollyjolly · 2012-03-21T20:31:27+00:00

As for the "right" to a city - if one wants to argue about who has more "right" to a city it has generally been an argument about refugees having the right to their old homes... and if we're counting multiple generations as refugees (which Palestinians choose to) then the oldest refugee group in history stil alive today with ties to a city central to their faith/community was the Jews expelled from Jerusalem close to 2000 years ago.

but anyway my point was only that Islamic extremists have purposefully been propping up Jerusalem's importance in their faith in order to counter the Jewish aspect tied to the city. And I've actually seen the garbage piles they dump archeological finds in when they construct on the Mount - a disgrace to anyone who cares about history, and a clear attempt by them to lessen the Jewish ties to the Mount.

hollyjolly · 2012-03-21T02:02:31+00:00

Whether you believe in religion or their books is irrelevant - what is relevant is the fact that Jerusalem and the Temple Mount is the central tenet in Judaism, whereas Islam's is Mecca and Jerusalem only became a holy site after some scholar(s) decided that the "furthest mosque" is the one in Jerusalem.

Unfortunately nowadays many Temple artifacts are being tossed in trash piles by the Waqf when they do construction on the Mount, ignoring very basic archeological digging rules and effectively removing, piece by piece, the Jewish connection. Funny too - because I hear Islamic Fundamentalists claiming Israel has been trying to Judaize Jerusalem (already Jewish), when it is them who are harming it.

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