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DC and Hollywood: Half-time Report
A s the nation celebrates its 228th birthday we can all heave a collective sigh of relief. The DC/Hollywood connection is going full bore like a Humvee in overdrive on an Iraqi highway. The Bush administration continues to roam the Middle East doing as they please. Forget about CIA-directed Iraqi prison atrocities. We've got more pressing matters to deal with back home. On the domestic front we had to deal with Janet Jackson's right breast, Mel Gibson's Passion, and the Donald. To complicate matters even more we will now have to survive without Friends —and we are only seven months into the year.
Our economy might be falling faster than a watermelon tossed from the top of the Empire State building, but droves of us tuned in to see the Donald say two words each week. Witnessing a guy with a very bad haircut say, "You're fired," gave couch potatoes a vicarious thrill. There's nothing more satisfying after coming home from yet another fruitless day of job hunting than to see some poor schmuck get handed a pink slip in front of millions. Ironically, the winner was already a successful entrepreneur who ended up getting the six-figure position that could have gone to an unemployed American whose job had been outsourced to Bombay, but that would have made reality TV a bit too real.
Friends has faded into the sunset; that's all right, they weren't my friends. Even with sex, marriage, and coffee the show couldn't drum up enough viewers for the final episode to knock MASH off its first-place pedestal. Frasier has also left the building, ostensibly to look for that tossed salad and scrambled eggs. While Fraiser certainly hit some potholes over its 11-year run, the program generally required a certain level of knowledge to understand the jokes. One didn't have to be a member of Mensa to watch Fraiser , but being well read did give the viewer the ability to differentiate between de jour and The Donald.
For those who want tough TV without having to deal with scatter bombs, house demolitions, and fuel shortages, HBO has cornered the market with hard-hitting series like The Sopranos, The Wire , and their latest entry Deadwood . While it may seem a bit incongruous at first to hear cowboy characters shouting lines like, "Saddle up you c_ _ _ suckers," it is nice to see that the western is not dead. What HBO has done is make soap operas for guys. This savvy move was never more evident than on their now defunct series Oz , a program centering on life in the pen whose conflict was based almost entirely on which character would be raped, knifed, or OD that week.
While this may seem a bit brutal, it did make for much better drama than wading through those boring and talky Congressional hearings on 9/11. For the most part members of Capitol Hill aren't as photogenic as some hunk on Survivor or the "bimbos" on Simple Life .
Art is nothing more than a reflection of society. If that maxim is true, then what is coming out on the big screen this summer is pretty scary. Troy is the perfect movie metaphor for the Bush administration's Middle East war. The film has jettisoned the gods, who played a very big part in the original, in favor of a simple revenge tale. Like the president and his generals in Iraq, the Greeks and Trojans talk about the deities, but never seem to follow their teachings. Also like Bush, King Agamemnon goes to war on a false pretext. Instead of bringing democracy to a downtrodden people, this king's lie is saving a "kidnapped" Greek woman, but the realities for waging the war are the similar ignoble traits of control and power. The filmmakers even scaled back the Trojan conflict from its original ten years to just over two weeks. After all, who wants to deal with a war that drags on forever and untold numbers are sacrificed in the name of truth and justice? All that was lacking in this filmic parallel was a scene with Agamemnon standing on the deck of a ship giving his troops a "thumbs up" and saying, "mission accom- plished."
When has Hollywood ever been interested in good writing and sticking to the story? Films featuring well-developed characters facing complex conflicts are flukes for the most part. One has only to look at the studios' summer line-up to the see this. Movies such as Catwoman, Princess Diaries 2 , and A Cinderella Story only confirm this observation. While the current Hollywood mindset might think it is cutting edge for Tom Cruise to trade in his Top Gun grin and play the heavy in Collateral , A-list actors like Lee Marvin, William Holden, and James Cagney did it on a regular basis a generation ago and without the CGI-laden effects that drive nearly every movie coming out these days. Bill Holden delivered more menace with his opening line in the Wild Bunch than any character in any Quentin Tarantino movie. Instead, Hollywood now gives us pretty boys with big guns or, in the case of Brad Pitt, shiny swords, who wouldn't last an hour with Marvin on a deserted Pacific island.
Hollywood purports to give us the true story about King Arthur later this summer. This claim is coming from the producer who gave us such silver screen classics as Flashdance and The Rock . The fact that King A r thur is being marketed as a true story should send up a flag like a scud missile exploding over Baghdad. T.H. White is generally credited as being the author who first put together the various King Arthur legends. King Arthur like Troy will undoubtedly be long on effects and short on sticking to the facts.
George Orwell said it best when he wrote, "He who controls the past commands the future. He who controls the future controls the past." What other reason than to dumb down Americans with yet another season of lame comedies and supercilious dramas? The answer is simple, other countries have revolutions, the U.S. doesn't. As long as we have our six pack of beer, Paris Hilton on the tube, and Brad Pitt kicking butt on the silver screen, most won't bother to ask why National Guardspeople are dying by the dozens each week in a foreign country that was as big a threat to us as Pia Zadora's last recording.
Ted Koppel spends a half hour reading a list of dead Americans and Sinclair Communications pulls the plug on his show with their affiliates. What is Sinclair's agenda? The company owns 62 stations and is the largest broadcaster of its kind in the country. Sinclair has lobbied successfully in Washington to be allowed to grow even bigger. Many of Sinclair's executives are big contributors to the Republican Party. Yet a Sinclair spokesperson accused Koppel of "…doing nothing more than making a political statement." There are reports that Sinclair and other broadcast behemoths required on-air talent to deliver statements that affirmed that company's 100 percent support for President Bush and his policies. This is a broadcasters' prerogative. These rights are protected by the Constitution. It is one thing though to speak one's mind and something entirely different when you use that power to prevent others from presenting theirs. Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, and Ed Morrow used to give nightly editorials. Now the closest any television news program comes to presenting anything other than a lockstep opinion is Andy Rooney.
If one thinks that the 1950s were conservative with witch-hunts or that the 1960s were unenlightened when it came to prosecuting a guy like Lenny Bruce, look again. The current climate in the White House and in Hollywood boardrooms makes one pine for such days. When was the last time an oldies station played Edwin Starr's War ? A film like MASH wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting made today. Michael Moore had trouble finding a distributor for his latest film, Fahrenheit 9/11 . This is the person who won an Academy Award for the best documentary last year and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Clear Channel has put together a list of songs that are banned from their radio stations. John Lennon's Imagine is on that list.
As long as the policymakers in Washington think they can do anything they like, in any country they like, without facing the repercussions and blow-back from such deeds, we are losers. As long as Hollywood thinks they can censor films and put out whatever mindless drivel they choose to, without any repercussions, we are losers.
John Zavesky is a freelance writer based in California.
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LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker's Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/.
PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association's 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year's theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
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MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
ECONOMICS - The Union For Radical Political Economics will hold its 39th annual conference May 9-11 in New York City.
Contact: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
RECLAIM THE DREAM - The 2013 Poor People's Campaign & March from Baltimore to Washington D.C. will be May 11. Communities, schools and unions interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Baltimore People's Assembly.
Contact: 410-500-2168; 410-218-4835; firstname.lastname@example.com; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
MOTHER'S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother's Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests.
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MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
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ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy.
Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
VEGAN FEST - Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 8. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://veganfest.org/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; firstname.lastname@example.com http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.socialismconference.org.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People's College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
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CHILDREN'S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
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ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
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LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: email@example.com; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
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HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti's government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
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FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
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WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.' long history of antimilitarism.
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POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year's theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
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VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year's theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
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MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
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OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
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LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
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Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist
The phrase "right to exist" entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic words were invoked to shut down the conversation with an outraged, "are you saying Israel doesn't have the right to exist??"
Of course you couldn't challenge Israel's right to exist – that was like saying you were negating a fundamental Jewish right to have…rights, with all manner of Holocaust guilt thrown in for effect.
Except of course the Holocaust is not my fault – or that of Palestinians. The cold-blooded program of ethnically cleansing Europe of its Jewish population has been so callously and opportunistically utilized to justify the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Arab nation, that it leaves me utterly unmoved. I have even caught myself – shock - rolling my eyes when I hear Holocaust and Israel in the same sentence.
What moves me instead in this post-two-state era, is the sheer audacity of Israel even existing.
What a fantastical idea, this notion that a bunch of rank outsiders from another continent could appropriate an existing, populated nation for themselves – and convince the "global community" that it was the moral thing to do. I'd laugh at the chutzpah if this wasn't so serious.
Even more brazen is the mass ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population by persecuted Jews, newly arrived from their own experience of being ethnically cleansed.
But what is truly frightening is the psychological manipulation of the masses into believing that Palestinians are somehow dangerous – "terrorists" intent on "driving Jews into the sea." As someone who makes a living through words, I find the use of language in creating perceptions to be intriguing. This practice – often termed "public diplomacy" has become an essential tool in the world of geopolitics. Words, after all, are the building blocks of our psychology.
Take, for example, the way we have come to view the Palestinian-Israeli "dispute" and any resolution of this enduring conflict. And here I borrow liberally from a previous article of mine…
The United States and Israel have created the global discourse on this issue, setting stringent parameters that grow increasingly narrow regarding the content and direction of this debate. Anything discussed outside the set parameters has, until recently, widely been viewed as unrealistic, unproductive and even subversive.
Participation in the debate is limited only to those who prescribe to its main tenets: the acceptance of Israel, its regional hegemony and its qualitative military edge; acceptance of the shaky logic upon which the Jewish state's claim to Palestine is based; and acceptance of the inclusion and exclusion of certain regional parties, movements and governments in any solution to the conflict.
Words like dove, hawk, militant, extremist, moderates, terrorists, Islamo-fascists, rejectionists, existential threat, holocaust-denier, mad mullah determine the participation of solution partners -- and are capable of instantly excluding others.
Then there is the language that preserves "Israel's Right To Exist" unquestioningly: anything that invokes the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the myths about historic Jewish rights to the land bequeathed to them by the Almighty – as though God was in the real-estate business. This language seeks not only to ensure that a Jewish connection to Palestine remains unquestioned, but importantly, seeks to punish and marginalize those who tackle the legitimacy of this modern colonial-settler experiment.
But this group-think has led us nowhere. It has obfuscated, distracted, deflected, ducked, and diminished, and we are no closer to a satisfactory conclusion…because the premise is wrong.
There is no fixing this problem. This is the kind of crisis in which you cut your losses, realize the error of your ways and reverse course. Israel is the problem. It is the last modern-day colonial-settler experiment, conducted at a time when these projects were being unraveled globally.
There is no "Palestinian-Israeli conflict" – that suggests some sort of equality in power, suffering, and negotiable tangibles, and there is no symmetry whatsoever in this equation. Israel is the Occupier and Oppressor; Palestinians are the Occupied and Oppressed. What is there to negotiate? Israel holds all the chips. They can give back some land, property, rights, but even that is an absurdity – what about everything else? What about ALL the land, property and rights? Why do they get to keep anything – how is the appropriation of land and property prior to 1948 fundamentally different from the appropriation of land and property on this arbitrary 1967 date?
Why are the colonial-settlers prior to 1948 any different from those who colonized and settled after 1967?
Let me correct myself. Palestinians do hold one chip that Israel salivates over – the one big demand at the negotiating table that seems to hold up everything else. Israel craves recognition of its "right to exist."
But you do exist - don't you, Israel?
Israel fears "delegitimization" more than anything else. Behind the velvet curtain lies a state built on myths and narratives, protected only by a military behemoth, billions of dollars in US assistance and a lone UN Security Council veto. Nothing else stands between the state and its dismantlement. Without these three things, Israelis would not live in an entity that has come to be known as the "least safe place for Jews in the world."
Strip away the spin and the gloss, and you quickly realize that Israel doesn't even have the basics of a normal state. After 64 years, it doesn't have borders. After six decades, it has never been more isolated. Over half a century later, and it needs a gargantuan military just to stop Palestinians from walking home.
Israel is a failed experiment. It is on life-support – pull those three plugs and it is a cadaver, living only in the minds of some seriously deluded foreigners who thought they could pull off the heist of the century.
The most important thing we can do as we hover on the horizon of One State is to shed the old language rapidly. None of it was real anyway – it was just the parlance of that particular "game." Grow a new vocabulary of possibilities – the new state will be the dawn of humanity's great reconciliation. Muslims, Christians and Jews living together in Palestine as they once did.
Naysayers can take a hike. Our patience is wearing thinner than the walls of the hovels that Palestinian refugees have called "home" for three generations in their purgatory camps.
These universally exploited refugees are entitled to the nice apartments – the ones that have pools downstairs and a grove of palm trees outside the lobby. Because the kind of compensation owed for this failed western experiment will never be enough.
And no, nobody hates Jews. That is the fallback argument screeched in our ears – the one "firewall" remaining to protect this Israeli Frankenstein. I don't even care enough to insert the caveats that are supposed to prove I don't hate Jews. It is not a provable point, and frankly, it is a straw man of an argument. If Jews who didn't live through the Holocaust still feel the pain of it, then take that up with the Germans. Demand a sizeable plot of land in Germany – and good luck to you.
For anti-Semites salivating over an article that slams Israel, ply your trade elsewhere – you are part of the reason this problem exists.
Israelis who don't want to share Palestine as equal citizens with the indigenous Palestinian population – the ones who don't want to relinquish that which they demanded Palestinians relinquish 64 years ago - can take their second passports and go back home. Those remaining had better find a positive attitude – Palestinians have shown themselves to be a forgiving lot. The amount of carnage they have experienced at the hands of their oppressors – without proportional response – shows remarkable restraint and faith.
This is less the death of a Jewish state than it is the demise of the last remnants of modern-day colonialism. It is a rite of passage – we will get through it just fine. At this particular precipice in the 21st century, we are all, universally, Palestinian – undoing this wrong is a test of our collective humanity, and nobody has the right to sit this one out.
Israel has no right to exist. Break that mental barrier and just say it: "Israel has no right to exist." Roll it around your tongue, tweet it, post it as your Facebook status update – do it before you think twice. Delegitimization is here – have no fear. Palestine will be less painful than Israel ever was.
Sharmine Narwani is a commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East. You can follow Sharmine on twitter @snarwani.
Put simply you are an idiot. Israel has every right to their land and the biblical rights are true. Your too bias and don't care, get your mind in shape
I think that to prove your arguement with more conviction some more facts might be needed.I have a few questions.
Who did Palestine elect in their first elections?
Is Hamas declared a terroist group?
This is ho you are defending. I sypathize with the Palestinian people, but both sides have made bad choices. I think that you have a few holes especailly about the history of the Palestinian state. If I was to take your arguement seriously I need more proof.
One of the main non-religious zionist argument seems to be that there were no capital city or literature and so forh and that the place was then for the taking. Well in my opinion that argument (too) does not hold at all. People lived here, had there houses and villages and towns. That is enough. If you want to make an indepandente state there you have to ask the people who live there, that is the only moral way to establish a new state.
As an American, I totally agree. I've seen through the lie of Israel since I knew I was created out of the aftermath of WWII. I agree that dissolving an illegitimate country for the sake of overall peace would be better, and even now the leaders of this so called country are about to attack Iran just because they want clean energy? The USA is the only country ever stupid / ignorant enough to use an atomic weapon... Well Russia tried, but failed horribly like they do at everything.
Arabs have been saying this bull for the last 70 years, and Israel is still there, still prosperous, still democratic, still culturally and scientifically prolific, still militarily strong. It's not going anywhere, no matter how much Arabs fantasize about its allegedly imminent collapse. Nor are Israeli Jews going to consent to live in Lebanon II, with themselves in the role of the Maronites. The fact of the matter is that the Israeli War of Independence was a war in which the Palestinian Arabs proclaimed their intent to commit genocide on their Jewish neighbors and attempted to do just that. They lost, and the result was a pretty much equal exchange of refugee populations - 750,000 Arabs left what became Israel, and 850,000 Jews fled Arab states for Israel. It's hardly Israel's fault that Arab governments chose to hold on to the wealth they confiscated from the fleeing Jews rather than use it to compensate the fleeing Arabs, as should have been done. Nor is it Israel's fault that the neighboring Arab States have seen fit to keep their Palestinian Arab "brothers" festering in refugee camps.
you said; " still democratic"
I dont think you know what that word means.
Isreal is not democratic.
Basic questions about "palestine":
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one "palestinian" leader
before Arafat?
Was "palestine" ever recognized by a country whose
existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of "palestine"?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
Have they left any artifacts behind?
Do you know of a library where one could find a
work of "palestinian" literature produced before 1967?
And, finally, since there is no such country
today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
yes well christians jews and muslims just aint gonna happen in our day and age. the muslims are way too wild as are the aurthodox jews. christians would be ok but even they would get attacked sooner or later. reality is this. isreal will have a war this will lead to a all out middleeastern war. they will not retreat like them or not. yes they have no legitimacy but what can be done otherthen just saying it. they wont be beaten in war so they should just accept they are there and call it a day. expantion however should be stopped
Israel is built and ocupied by those who believe they are "gods chosen race" and their right is superior to all lesser/inferior races/people who are gods second choice. This arrogance along with thousands of years of experience in killing prophets and achieving their own satisfaction regardless of the cost to others is what makes
Israel and its Jews the scums that they are. Polish it as much as you like, the fact remains that you/Jews have been persecuted throughout history for your selfish and evil actions/plans, yet you still have not learnt. That is why I believe you are indeed the "chosen race".... Chosen to be hated and despised by all of humanity because of your selfish and manipulative natures. Palestinians are no real threat to you... Your own despicable greed, arrogance will see you to your predestined fate. Good luck!
Jews don't think they are superior to others. What a fucking generalization. Don't take your anger out on all Jews or all Israelis. What about Muslims and Cristians? They believe that they are superior to Jews. Well some at least. I'm not even Jewish. I'm roman orthodox.
So not even one Jewish state has the right to exist, but 20 Arab, Muslim states DO? Sounds very racist to me!!!!!
Consider that only 3% of Palestine´s population was Jewish; it did NOT ´´always belong to us´´, and NO, your silly biblical prophesies and fairytales do not mean a thing.
No need, there's no such thing as a right to exist' anyway
Having your homes, shops, and churches burend, can't get a job-if there were any- because muslims won't hire Christians, children kidnapped and raped all with the police refusing to do anything is not a conspiracy by Christians. Their reaction is about survival. 100,000 left? That leaves 8 million who can't leave. Read your history of islam. Christians are worried about dying at the hands of state sanctioned mobs.
Aterrific article but a perspective that is generally regarded as anti-semitic in the west. Of course there can never be any discussion over Israel's right to exist without addressing the question of Palestine's right to exist. Presumably since the US support the Israeli ancestral and religious claim that this is the homeland for the jews then they would equally support an uprising of the plains indians in their own country ?
You make a fantastic point here. I work for a Jewish man who is pro- Israel. In 2012 Palestine was given recognition as a state. When I had to present him with a document of every place on the globe to sell our products to, he saw Palestine on my list and went crazy. He tends to be a shouter everyday anyway. He also likes calling a local clamping company to clamp anyone parking in the private block of offices who looks remotely Arab and uses the term 'rag head'. I am handing in my notice on Monday. He loves his trips to America of course.
All this discussion about "I was here First!"
It's not about who was whever first. If that were true we would have committees re-arranging people all over the planet Earth as we re-align the "Rightful heirs" to a piece of dirt.
People have historical documents, biblical references, and antropological documentation to prove a multiple of points.
Israel is here and that's the way it is. Get used to it and the arab world needs to quit acting as the terrorists they claim not to be.
By the way, Muslims are derived from the family of Abraham anyway and so are actually jews..whats that all about?
An excellent article and I agree with every point made. I think it is helpful to question Israel's right to exist from a moral perspective as healthy debate on such a thorny issue can guide a solution. Whereas debating thousands of years old myths and stories (the bible after all is only an interpretation of history and not meant to be taken literally as it is full of fantastical tales that are completely implausible. Noah's Ark for instance. In reality all the animals would have eaten each other. Quite frankly, it seems lunacy that anyone would believe any of it) leads to circular and competing narratives that have little resemblance to the current issue - that of two peoples occupying the same land but with one group having power over the other to the detriment of the other. I believe the only just solution is a state for all of it's citizens. This means Israel gives up the notion of a Jewish only state but shares power with the other inhabitants, who also have a right to shape their own destiny. I genuinely cannot understand why Israeli Jews would reject such a morally just compromise.
All I have to say about this subject is if the few hundred thousand original Arabs and now their descendents who were denied citizenship and had to accept living the life of a permanent refugee in their fellow Arab nations want the land that Israel occupies then take it back by force oh wait you and your kind have tried many times and failed miserably so quit blaming the Jews you need to blame your forefathers for being worthless cowards that failed to kill an enemy who was always outnumbered and strategically on the ropes since they always had their backs to the sea.
So much argument for nothing...Jews occupied the land…the Palestinians angry... so be it. The Jewish people liberated what was belong to them from the Palestinians who invaded the land from Arab countries and even if you all disagree...bad luck. Israel there and none of you can change it with emails or wars. Same as the treatment you gave to Jewish people in Arab countries which you my fellow Arabs expelled from their homes. Do you care about it? NO. Do I care about your winging? NO.
Simply great!!!! Keep up the good work sis, May Allah (swt) be with you!!!!!
I agree with one of the comments submitted below. I do not support Israel, and would even agree that it has no right to exist. But we have to realize that this approach leads to a slippery-slope. Virtually all states (there might, of course, be some exceptions) are founded upon violence and conquest. They are created, and their borders determined, through years of violence, war, genocide, etc. If we are to maintain that Israel has no right to exist, we must also maintain that the US (founded upon genocide and the conquest of half of Mexico), Turkey, China, Russia, etc, have no right to exist. The mere fact that these countries have existed for a significant period of time in no way justifies their right to exist. In short, Israel is no exception when compared to the way in which the majority of states have come into being.
It is not about "violence" and even "conquest". It is about colonialism. Had Rhodesia 'right to exist"?
"Jewish rights to the land bequeathed to them by the Almighty – as though God was in the real-estate business."
LMAO. Nice 1. Yes God's chosen people have a bit of an entitlement complex wouldn't you say, albeit absurd and delusional. Germany should have been annexed into three parts way back when, as they are the true culprits, or so the story goes...
Great Article Sharmine!
Wonder what storming Norman Finkelstein would say....
Israel DOES have a right to exist. Despite you biased views:- RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE. Today Israel suffers from unjustified assaults that aim to isolate, demonize & delegitimize it. However until there is a two-state peace, or at least as long as Israel's citizens remain under constant attacks from the West Bank & Gaza, Israel will see roadblocks & similar measures as necessary for self-defense, because the security barrier was built to stop unrelenting TERRORIST attacks. However there is no apartheid & No definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute: As equal rights for all citizens is enshrined in Israels statutes & Laws. Further Khaleel Mohammed, Professor of Department of Religious Studies at San Diego University. States that the Koran proves Israel belongs to the Jews. Chapter 5: 20-21 states quite clearly: Moses said to his people: O my people! Enter the Holy Land which God has written for you, do not turn tail, otherwise you will be losers." In both Jewish & Islamic understandings of the term "written", the meaning is of finality, decisiveness & immutability. Moreover There were over 1 Million Jews living in British Palestine right up to 1948, which was the Absolute Majority. And when Israel declared statehood a further 850,000 Jews were immediately forcefully expelled from surrounding Arab States which had previously been the remains of the Original anciant land of Israel. Which had consisted of All of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon & Part of Iran & Iraq. Although Rome conquered & renamed it Palestinia in 136AD, the NATIVE Jews remained & have UNBROKEN ownership for over 3500 years.
the verses continue...
They said, "O Moses, indeed we will not enter it, ever, as long as they are within it; so go, you and your Lord, and fight. Indeed, we are remaining right here."[Moses] said, "My Lord, indeed I do not possess except myself and my brother, so part us from the defiantly disobedient people."[5:24-25]
they refuse to enter the Holy Land, then it is forbidden for them to enter the land and they will wander for 40 years...
did the ottomans have the "right" to rule the area for 400 years and modify its demographics? did the Muslims have the "right" to kick the Jews out of Mecca?
the concept of "rights" is great for persons, but for geopolitics it's just very weak. here's the point: regardless of how they were formed, the Jewish state has EARNED the right to exist by respecting the human rights of its Jewish citizens, but the Arab states have LOST the right to exist by not respecting the human rights of their Arab citizens.
How did the Ottomans modify the demographics of Palestine? Was there a Jewish population in Makkah? Did the Zionists have a right to expel hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland, confiscating their land, and did they expect the Palestinians to smile at them when you made them refugees from their own land which they lived on for hundreds of years?
actually the jewish refugees kicked out from arab countries outnumber the palestinian refugees (for your information), and the palestinians only became refugees because the arabs declared war while israel accepted the partition plan. so israel chose peace but the arabs chose war. BUT you avoided my main point: israel respects the rights of its citizens. that's very important. your historical argument may not be 100% wrong or 100% right but there is something really wrong with destroying a state that respects its citizens in a region where the human being is persecuted. it's just against common sense. in syria 12000 have been murdered. in iraq saddam gassed 5000 kurds and killed 200,000 shiites in 1991-92. in egypt they murder the christians. in iraq and iran today they persecute the sunnis. in lebanon they tried to exterminate the christians. so open your eyes. israel is not the problem in the middle east.
So why have your ilk been peddling the line, "a land without a people for a people without a land", for decades in their propaganda and the bogus "partition" plan was a ruse admitted by Ben-Gurion, and it was the Zionists who chose war when they expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, killed thousands of them and razed hundred of their villages, and they have the temerity to wonder why the Palestinians are outraged and to this day, the Zionists are outraged that the Palestinians refused to go quietly into the wind and millions of them clamor to return to their homeland. Also, it was the Zionists who begun with the expulsion, not the Arabs, and the Sephardic Jews aren't interested in returning to those countries, but millions of Palestinians will return to their homeland, because they still have a strong demograpic presence in Palestine and very soon, they will outnumber the Zionists, stewing in their rage like yourself from this bitter reality. Also, your mention of the violence and persecution in the Arab world is a red herring, and Israel has a long history in backing the most brutal regimes for decades in Latin America and Africa like the apartheid regime with nary a word from the same Zionist right-wingers on this point.
Do you have the faintest "knowledge" of Ottoman or Islamic history? Can you name me 1 jew that the Muslims ever kicked out of Mecca?
So your justification of israeli ethnic cleansing and apartheid is the idea that they're "nice" to their jewish citizens? So by that logic, if Israelis invade lebanon and exterminate Maronites out of their neighborhoods, they have a right to whatever authority they establish there, because they're "nice" to their own people right? Obviously the others don't matter... Great argument Mark, as always
I have no problem with the author declaring that israel doesn't have a right to exist as a zionist state. but i will note that the author has lived in studied in the UK and the US. the UK is of course one of the most brutal colonizing states in human history and the US is the product of the most successful genocide in human history, both of which the author has benefited from even if she had not directly participated in these actions. surely both the US and british states also have forfeited their rights to exist because of the millions they have murdered and the tens of millions they've oppressed and horribly exploited. perhaps the author might also spend some energy helping us figure out how successfully to dismantle them while we're dismantling the racist israeli state?
I am so proud to be an Iranian! A citizen of a country whose President boldy says what Ms. Sharwani has said and more - much more. I am proud that my country does not accept this two State crap being peddled by fools as if they're doing a jedi mind-trick on us. We are not being fooled. This is EXACTLY what Dr. Ahmadinejad meant when he said "Israel will be wiped from the pages of time". No one really needs to do it. They are doing it themselves.
I wish I could be a Jew. Even thought I was born in 1971, I could spend all my time bitching about the Holocaust. I could also blame all my problems on "anti-semitism." It certainly would make my life a lot easier.
Who said you had to be Jewish to bitch about the Holocaust? It's a free world. Bitch away.
Strange how you conveniently start the history clock from ticking at your point of interest. Did you forget that the Jews have lived in this land long before the word Palestine ever existed? Strange how you forget about the Balfour Declaration which was approved by the League of Nations long before the holocaust. What convenient memory!!! Get to it. Dream all you want. Israel is there to stay and the Palestinians have their area (which by the way is Jordan or previously known as Transjordan until the KING threw them out). Why didn't the other Arab states create a land for the "Palestinians" before 1948 - because nobody wanted them around.
I am not sure I can even count the number of broken promises countries like Britain made during the first world war - many of which led to causes of the second world war.
If you can simply hold up a letter (which is essentially what the Balfour Declaration was - you want the mandate for Palestine) and say 'it was planned here so therefore it must be alright', you are essentially legitimising countries like Italy and Japan's colonisation before and during the second world war.
Did you also forget, that before the second world war, the jews were the 'scapegoats' of europe, persecuted by all countries until Hitler went overboard in policies amounting to what was latter recognised as genocide?
And that is a pretty rude and racist comment you are making at the end 'because nobody wanted them around'. The situation of the Palestinians is tragic. I am not saying that the situation of the jews is any less tragic, but I guess the saying that 'the victim becomes the bully' fits perfectly here.
Lots of different people lived in the region before it was called Palestine. They later became known as Palestinians -- Get used to it. Did the Balfour Declaration confer the right to expel the Palestinians by force? There is no norm in int'l law which permits forced removal of an unwanted population. The Palestinians who were forced out by Zionist armed groups during 1947-49 did not come from Transjordan; they came from what's now Israel.
I applaud this article. Thank you, sir, for not tiptoeing around the reality or trying to sugarcoat the truth in attempts to somehow pacify the opposition. More people need the chutzpah to articulate their views as you do. Bold and thorough pieces such as these give me hope that we will one day have one state and no longer have to face the insufferable reality that is occupied Palestine.
In solidarity,
Sister Narwani,
I salute You.
I applaud this article. Thank you, sir, for not tiptoeing around the reality or trying to sugarcoat the truth in attempts to somehow pacify the opposition. More people need the chutzpah to articulate their views as you do. Bold and thorough pieces such as these give me hope that we will one day have one state and no longer have to face the insufferable reality that is occupied Palestine.
In solidarity,
Dear Sharmine,
Before you write anything about Israel, please, please learn some history. Learn about the 3 year siege which the Roman army put on Jerusalem between 67 and 70 CE, learn about the two Jewish-Israeli temples in Jerusalem, and learn about the Palestinian history which started no earlier than 1920: There ia not even ONE SINGLE book which was published prior to 1920 CE and mentions the Palestinian-Arab nation. Also not even ONE SINGLE newspaper.
So learn something about history before you show how ignorant you are.
All the best,
Not to mention 'names change'. For example, Myanmar:Burma, Yugoslavia and it's long history of ethnic confusion, Ceylon:Sri Lanka...
And what about countries with very different names in english etc. than in their native language: German:Deutschland:Njemačka, Croatia:Hrvatska, China:Zhongguo, Japan:Nippon...
Those are not disputed as meaning the same thing.
You seem to be arguing that these 'Palestinians' in the year 1920 all of a sudden appeared out of thin air and then started complaining that their homes and rights to land (which had also just appeared in the year 1920) were being taken away.
Being conceited is never a good trait.
Modechai,You helped the author make her point. The people of the world are tired of Jews wailing about things that may have happened 10,000 years ago
and the thousands of alleged injustices since . Do you people ever wonder why you have been so despised by one country after another throughout
history ? Because of the internet and other means of modern day communication the world will not be safe for you as everyone will soon see through your deceit ,lies, treachery and endless greedy ambitions. The establishment of Israel and the theft of Palestine is the worst thing that could have happened to Jews throughout the world.
"learn about the Palestinian history which started no earlier than 1920"
Really!? Is it what the Torah is saying? I know that is what Newt Gingrich and Western Zionist are saying. "Palestinians are an "invented" people?"
So, are you interested in "real" history, not literal one.
"As early as the 10 millennium B.C.E., Palestinians engaged in plant and animal domestication that sprung forth from the transition of shepherding to agriculture. It would highlight the 'Neolithic Revolution' (9000 – 4500 BCE) and the antecedents for the name began to emerge.
The ancient Palestinians were known as the al-Natoofieh. They occupied caves north of Jerusalem, and had a long history as a civilized state.
The al-Natoofieh established the City of Jericho (Tell es-Sultan). It was (and is) the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence, being founded in 8000 BCE. It flourished for one thousand years."
References are provided in the article.
Perhaps, there is no significance in your mind between 1920 and 9000 BCE. Merely, how many: 11.000 years of Palestinian's PROVEN EXISTENCE!? I hate using this "BCE", it is meaningless as how the world is measuring the time, just as meaningless as your comment is.
More questions?
"Authors argue no compelling archaeological evidence exists for many biblical stories."
Excellent piece - spot on.
...it is imperative to dissolve the Jewish state of Israel. Such a state, which has no basis other than a fascistic narrative constructed out of paranoia and mythology, has
no legitimacy in our world. It embodies all of the characteristics that humanity has resoundingly rejected in the last century - settler colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing,
apartheid and genocide. The dehumanization and destruction of a people, along with the dispossession of their land and property, is utterly intolerable. The only feasible
alternative is its replacement by a pluralistic, democratic state that includes the Palestinians as equals. There is no other viable solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
~ Us vs Them: On the Meaning of Fascism, by Roger Tucker
...it is imperative to dissolve the Jewish state of Israel. Such a state, which has no basis other than a fascistic narrative constructed out of paranoia and mythology, has
no legitimacy in our world. It embodies all of the characteristics that humanity has resoundingly rejected in the last century - settler colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing,
apartheid and genocide. The dehumanization and destruction of a people, along with the dispossession of their land and property, is utterly intolerable. The only feasible
alternative is its replacement by a pluralistic, democratic state that includes the Palestinians as equals. There is no other viable solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
~ Us vs Them: On the Meaning of Fascism
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A very tall wind turbine located at the Highland Energy Systems site on Old US 99 just north of Burlington, Washington.
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Die Teloy-Mühle ist eine Holländerwindmühle im Meerbuscher Stadtteil Lank-Latum. Neben Getreide wurden hier auch Ölsaaten und Trass gemahlen. Quelle: wikipedia
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This windmill is located next to the old train depot building in downtown Brudidge, Alabama.
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This late 17th century windmill is of the oldest of the dozen or so "post mills" remaining in the country.
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location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
date approved: 4/11/2013
last visited: 6/5/2012
Moinho de Vento casa 1 de S. Félix - Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
This old Windmill is located in the top of the Mount of S. Félix.
posted by: razalas
location: Porto, Portugal
date approved: 4/9/2013
Moinho de Vento casa 2 de S. Félix - Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
Moinho de Vento Bar de S. Félix - Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
This Windmill is located in the top of the Mount of S. Félix.
date approved: 4/8/2013
John Oldham Park Wind Turbine - Perth, Western Australia
A pair of wind and solar powered lights in a parking area beside a suburban park.
posted by: WanderingAus
location: Western Australia, Australia
date approved: 3/29/2013
last visited: 4/11/2013
Bingham Canyon Open-Pit Copper Mine Visitor Center Vertical Wind Turbine [Removed]
On 4/10/2013 a massive landslide totally destroyed the Mine Visitor Center. Because of advance warning everything at the Visitor Center had been removed to a safe location. A new Visitor Center will probably not be available until after 2014.
posted by: brwhiz
location: Utah
De Ster, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Sawmill "de Ster" is the only completely preserved sawmill in the Netherlands.
posted by: superstein
location: Utrecht, Netherlands
date approved: 3/26/2013
last visited: 7/28/2009


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So what's being said overseas? Here's a survey of reactions drawn from French, German, Spanish, and Chinese publications:
- An Insult to the Protestant Work Ethic, Le Monde blogger Corine Lesnes has an interesting sociological take on the "quasi-general" American reaction of "He has to go win it now." While world reaction is favorable, Lesnes writes, "in a country where Protestant values demand that one work for success, such a reward seems a bit premature."
- 'A Risk that Must Be Saluted' Fabrice Rousselot, writing in the French publication Libération, doesn't deny Obama's troubles in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel-Palestine, but writes that we must commend the "Oslo sages" for "betting on Obama's vision." Rousselot, like many American journalists, acknowledges the prize's downside for the president: "a president-Nobel laureate doesn't really have the right to failure."
- An Anti-Bush Prize and a Sign of Hope "The prize is a bet on a promise and an unknown future," writes German newspaper Die Zeit's Martin Klingst. It is nothing less than a sign that "the world, with [Obama], hopes for a more peaceful, more just, cleaner, cooperative and nuclear-free world." And yes, he says, it is also an "anti-Bush prize." But he sees that differently than do American conservatives: "It is a reminder, after years of devatatation, not to waste this chance. Not only a reminder to Barack Obama, but to the entire world."
- Buys Obama Time To Accomplish Something "Over two years after Barack Obama entered the world stage as the hopebearer of the Democratic party, the public still perceives him as more Messiah than doer," writes the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung's Barbara Vorsamer. "The day will come when it will no longer suffice to be a brand and to have an aura." But, she argues, this Nobel peace prize has pushed that day back a bit.
- A Bribe to Stop Wars? In a satirical cartoon by Wang Qi Feng on Sina.com.cn, a grenade-carrying, gun-toting Obama is presented his peace prize by a Nobel Committee member who says, "Mr. Obama, in giving you this prize, we hope for you to change your current image thoroughly."
- Unjustly Rewarding an Aggressive Nation Perez Esquival, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for defending human rights against Argentina's dictatorship, expressed astonishment that the Nobel Committee would honor the "president of the world's most aggressive nation that imposes itself on other nations with wars and conflicts." Esquival says he hopes that the prize will spur Obama into quickly resolving the conflicts in which the U.S. is involved and their attached human rights violations, but will watch with a skeptical eye for any progress. "[Obama] rose to the head of the [U.S.] government, but not [U.S.] power. It's evident that other sectors control power in the U.S."
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Gurley Pesticide Burial
National Information
Additional Resources
- Site Cleanup Terms - can be found in EPA's glossary
- EPA Guides to Cleanup Technologies
- Superfund Community Involvement (PDF) (17 pp, 130K, About PDF)
Site Summary Profile
EPA ID: NCD986172526Location: Selma, Johnston County, NC
Lat/Long: 35.532453, -078.287191
Congressional District: 02
NPL Status: Superfund Alternative Site
Affected Media: Ground water, Soil
Cleanup Status: Soil removal actions are complete; Assessment of ground water quality improvements are underway.
Site Reuse/Redevelopment: Potential for Commercial/Industrial
Site Manager: Randy Bryant (email@example.com)
Site Background
The 103-acre Gurley Pesticide Burial site, located in Selma, Johnston County, North Carolina, is the location of both a former phosphate fertilizer production facility and an agricultural chemical distribution facility. There are two major areas of interest at the site, designated as the pesticide burial area (PBA) and the acid plant area (APA). The PBA is where approximately 147 drums of pesticides were buried in 1974 and were subsequently removed. The APA primarily consists of metal contamination due to previous discharges of acidic waters containing metals during fertilizer processing operations.
Threats and Contaminants
Past site operations have led to the contamination of soil and ground water with pesticides, organics, inorganics, heavy metals, and volatile organic compounds.
Site Cleanup Plan
The Record of Decision (ROD) for the site was issued in 2006. Major cleanup elements for the site included:
- Excavation of approximately 17,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil from the APA. Excavated soils categorized as hazardous waste will be treated to render the material non-hazardous prior to off-site disposal.
- Addition of lime to the bottom of the excavation as appropriate to reduce the mobility of residual lead in the soil.
- Backfilling the excavation with clean soil and topsoil and seeding with grass.
- Installation of a reactive treatment zone in the path of impacted ground water such that target contaminants are removed or altered by physical, chemical, and/or biological means.
- Monitoring ground water to assess the effectiveness of the reactive treatment zone and compliance with applicable or relevant and appropriate regulations.
- Implementation of institutional controls on the property to limit future use of the site and ground water.
Cleanup Progress
The excavation and off site disposal of contaminated soil began in March 2008 and was completed in mid July 2008. A total of approximately 39,000 tons (about 26,000 cubic yards) of soil were removed and shipped off site for proper disposal. Site restoration tasks were completed in October 2008.
Additional contaminated soil was discovered adjacent to a railroad spur on the Site property during the spring of 2010. An additional 3700 tons of soil were excavated and disposed during July 2010. The soil was handled in the same manner and disposed at the same off-site disposal facility as was used during the 2008 soil cleanup.
Additional groundwater testing is currently underway and the results will aid in the design of the groundwater remedy. A reactive treatment zone and a related injection treatment will be tested on a portion of the Site during late 2011 and continuing into 2012.
Site cleanup activities are being led primarily by potentially responsible parties with oversight by EPA.
Enforcement Activities
April 1997, EPA issued a Unilateral Administrative Order that resulted in a removal action conducted by Mobil Oil Corporation later in 1997.
In September 1998, EPA entered an Administrative Order by Consent with Mobil Oil Corporation and Illinois Cereal Mills to conduct and implement the remedial investigation and feasibility study.
In May 2001, NSEW Corporation, the current owner of the site, entered into a prospective purchaser agreement with EPA, whereby NSEW agreed to reimburse EPA a portion of its response costs incurred at the site.
Community Involvement
EPA has conducted a range of community involvement activities at the Gurley Pesticide Burial site to solicit community input and to ensure that the public remains informed about site activities throughout the site cleanup process. Outreach activities have included public notices, interviews, and public meetings on cleanup activities and updates.
Future Work
The next phase of work at the Site involves the remedial design of the groundwater remedy. The design of the groundwater remedy may be completed in 2012.
Site Administrative Documents
Site Repository
For more information or to view any site-related documents, please visit the site information repository at the following location. As new documents are generated, they will be placed in the information repository for public information.
Selma Public Library
301 N. Pollock Street
Selma, NC 27576-2525
For documents not available on the website, please contact the Region 4 Freedom of Information Office.


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Consider me interested
A super-hero roleplay...
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Hmmm may be interested myself. Would like a few more details too though.
I can provide the antagonist if you wish. I have one in mind.
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