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Author barred from Jewish book festival
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1. pathetic
alex ,
such bans have the result of equating the Jewish side with the "other" side. deplorable...
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2. Alex #1 right
Gee ,
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If it were Turkey - he would be in jail for the rest of his life instead.
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3. Atlanta Jewish Community
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The Atlanta Jewish Community has somehow never managed to come out of the Old South Jewish mentality of worrying about "not making waves". It is truly sad. "The People of the Book" becomes quite an ironic title in this case.
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4. Beinart's Babble.
Astronaut ,
I Googled you,Beinart: You "keep kosher" and "attend Orthodox shul" while you bash the very Tribe of your origin. Nudnik.
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5. Just because someone is a writer and a
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professor does not make him or her right or even intelligent.
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6. Is Finkelstein invited?
Tayfun_Turkey ,
He is my favorite author with The Holocaust Industry
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7. The right to be a Jew should not be given
Shlomo ,
To those,even born in a Jewish family, who conspire against his own people.
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8. AP is a US propaganda organ.
Miron ,
Infamous for its Anti - Semitism. Scumbags should stay away from Israeli press.
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9. Beinart is a fly
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Miami, USA
He is a nobody in mainstream Jewish circles, and only supported by the far-leftists, mainly non-Jewish, as yet another voice to attack Israel. Ignore him. His book was roundly dismissed as facile and largely false.
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10. Beinart
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" these conservative Jewish leaders, not the Palestinians, who are the primary obstacles to peace"... Is he serious? How is it the world conveniently ignores the many missles shot at Sderot and other cities? "The 200 seats allotted for his talk quickly sold out. " There is no shortage of people in this world (America is no exception) that want to deny Israel it's right to exist.
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11. About Time!!!
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Its time that we as jews stopped pandering to world pressure. The anti Israel Boycott is alive and well - its time we did some of our own boycotting especially when it is so offensive and self-destructive. Well done!!
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We have always been a people of diverse opinions. We should never be afraid of hearing what is said by and within Am Yisroel, whether its from a vegan LGBT Havurah or Satmar shul. We are a people of ideas. These ideas have changed the world. If those ideas gain traction, or not, it should be because of the value of what is said or not said. I am not afraid of listening to someone or something I disagree with. I am confident in my own knowledge of history, culture, philosophy, current events, faith, and ritual, that I don't feel threatened. Nor do I feel that shouting down or shutting out a fellow member of the tribe should be acceptable to any of us. I know that it is more a shanda for the goyim for us to censor ourselves within our own community like kappos, then it is to speak discordantly within and without Am Yisroel. Alechem Shalom lanzman
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13. #12 We should not census our own Arthors
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Rick - you comments I agree with.
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Rewarding Nepotism
September 23, 2003
Nepotism -- unfair preferential treatment of relatives over better unrelated candidates -- is not only a historically persistent phenomenon but a "natural, wholesome and socially useful" one as well, according to a new book by Adam Bellow, entitled, In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History.
Nepotism has played a large role in regimes ranging from the Roman Empire to Communist China, writes Bellow, and even today, dozens of nations are governed by large networks of families and tribes:
- In Libya, under the monarchy, so many of the ruling family were involved in politics that King Idris had to open a special concentration camp for his relatives.
- Dictatorships in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran have been based upon family and tribal pyramids.
- Of the 50 or so countries of Africa, more than 40 are ruled by particular tribes or family connections.
The United States has traditionally opposed nepotism, and today there are countless cumbersome regulations to enforce a sense of fairness in business relations. But Bellow argues that family talent plays an important role in public and business life. Asian immigrants in Britain, for example, have improved the country's newsstands, dry cleaners, and grocery stores by turning them into "family-run" operations.
Heredity skills, says Bellow, should be rewarded, not regulated.
Source: Paul Johnson, "Thicker than Water," National Review, August 11, 2003; based upon Adam Bellow, "In Praise of Nepotism" (Doubleday, July 15, 2003).
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Washington, Jan 16 (IANS) India and the US have agreed to work on a road show of potential long-term investors having interest in India's infrastructure sector as also promote cooperation in railway safety and capacity building.
Visiting Indian Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu and US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx discussed enhanced bilateral engagement in the transportation sector under the Memorandum of Cooperation signed during Foxx's visit to India last April.
At the end of a three-day visit on Friday, he noted the immense possibilities for knowledge sharing, technology tie-ups and business cooperation between the two countries in the transportation sector.
In his meeting with the Chairman and President of the US EXIM Bank Fred P. Hochberg, Prabhu discussed the possibility of structuring an India specific financing model to take advantage of upcoming investment and business opportunities in India's rail sector.
Both sides agreed to work on a road show of potential long-term investors having interest in India's infrastructure sector, according to a media release.
Prabhu also met with President and Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Elizabeth L. Littlefield to explore the possibility of OPIC's financing for the Indian Railways.
Speaking at the World Bank Conference on Transforming Transportation, Prabhu highlighted the vital role of the Indian railways in providing low cost sustainable transportation.
The Indian Railways, he said, has embarked on transforming its energy mix by using renewal energy sources like solar and wind energy, and is undertaking energy audits to improve efficiency to meet its sustainability targets.
In his meetings with the World Bank and IFC officials, Prabhu discussed the Indian Railways' efforts to expand, modernise, decentralise decision making, improve efficiency and meet customer expectations.
He made a presentation on the railway sector to the senior leadership of the World Bank Group separately on the new initiatives of his ministry and how the World Bank could partner with the Indian railways.
Both the World Bank and IFC are working closely with Indian Railways to help it achieve its formidable targets.
During a roundtable organised by the US India Business Council Prabhu highlighted the Indian Railways' plans to invest $142 billion in the coming five years and hope to double this investment figure in the next five-year cycle.
Prabhu also discussed with the senior leadership of the World Resource Institute (WRI) the Indian Railways drive to transform its energy mix by promoting the use of clean energy and various initiatives to make railways an eco-friendly organization.


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Dozens of young offenders face death penalty in Iran for crimes when they were teens
DOZENS of young offenders arrested in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18 are at risk of the death penalty.
A new report by Amnesty International identifies the names and locations of 49 juvenile offenders who face the death penalty despite recent reforms.
But the group fears the official numbers could be higher after a UN report in 2014 claimed the number of juvenile offenders at risk of execution at more than 160.
The London-based group also found that Iran has executed at least 73 juvenile offenders between 2005 and 2015.
At least four were put to death last year alone.
The majority of them were convicted of murder, according to the 110-page document.
Others were executed for crimes including rape, drug-related crimes and national security offences such as "enmity" against God.
It comes as Tehran tries to rebuild relations with the West following last year's landmark nuclear deal.
The agreement came into force this month after Iran took steps to curb its nuclear programme, which lead to international sanctions being lifted.
Amnesty noted that reforms introduced in 2013 give judges more discretion to take into account young offenders' mental maturity and potentially impose softer punishments.
"Iran continues to lag behind the rest of the world, maintaining laws that permit girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to death"Amnesty International
The Supreme Court has since said juvenile offenders facing execution could have their cases retried.
Additional reforms introduced last year also require cases involving juveniles to be heard in special juvenile courts.
However the group called for more to be done.
It said in a statement: "Despite some juvenile justice reforms, Iran continues to lag behind the rest of the world, maintaining laws that permit girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to death."
Last October, the UN's special investigator on the human rights situation in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, warned that executions in Iran have risen at an "exponential rate" since 2005 and could top 1,000 in 2015.
He said Iran puts more people to death per capita than any other country, adding that the majority of executions do not conform to international laws banning the death penalty for juveniles and non-violent offenders.
But head of Iran's Human Rights Council, Mohammad Javad Larijani, dismissed the UN report as "a collection of baseless accusations".
Iran is one of the world's largest users of the death penalty, ranking second behind China in 2014, according to the most recent figures from Amnesty.
Most executions overall in Iran are carried out for drug smuggling.
The country straddles a major narcotics trafficking route linking opium-producing fields in Afghanistan to Europe.


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Jakarta (AFP) Aug 29, 2010
A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years Sunday, spewing a vast cloud of smoke and ash into the air and sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes.
Indonesia issued a red alert after the Sinabung volcano erupted, blanketing the area in thick and acrid black smoke, disaster officials said, although no casualties have yet been reported.
"It's clearly dangerous so we've raised the warning to the highest level, or red level," said Surono, head of the nation's volcano disaster alert centre.
"From the crater, it shot smoke and volcanic ash 1,500 metres (5,000 feet) into the sky," he told AFP.
The 2,460-metre (8,100-foot) Sinabung in northern Sumatra has not erupted for more than 400 years but had shown "some volcanic activity" since Friday, Surono said, adding that they were monitoring the situation.
Villagers said they saw lava emerge from the crater around midnight, about 15 minutes before the eruption.
"I saw flames flickering, very red right at the top. Previously there was only smoke," Terkilin Sembiring was quoted as saying by Detikcom news website.
"At the time, we heard a sound like an aircraft flying past. We thought it was a government official's plane but it turned out that the sound came from the volcano," another villager Maslin Pandia was quoted as saying by Kompas.com news website.
Television footage showed black smoke shooting up into the sky and lava overflowing from the crater as residents fled the area in pickup trucks and cars.
More than 18,000 people have been evacuated from several affected villages to towns outside a six-kilometre "danger zone", officials said.
"The ash has spread to a distance of 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the volcano. Many of the villagers evacuated were farmers and they said the ash had settled on their vegetable farms," search and rescue team official Mohammad Agus Wibisono told AFP.
There were however no flight disruptions, Wibisono said.
Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono told AFP that many residents in four affected villages at the foot of the volcano had fled immediately after the eruption.
"Many had left their homes even before they were evacuated. They said the volcano was spewing thick black smoke, small stones and sulphur. They were so scared they decided to leave their homes and go to the city," Kardono said, adding that a rescue team had been sent to survey the area.
"The area is blanketed with thick smoke and there's a strong smell of sulphur," he added.
Kardono said while there were no reports yet of any deaths or injuries, "many" had reported breathing difficulties.
"We have anticipated that people may have respiratory problems from inhaling dust. So we've given them face masks and are preparing to send in medicines for respiratory infections," he added.
The red alert would likely remain for "at least a week" as vulcanologists monitor the situation, Kardono said.
"There's little data on Mount Sinabung. The eruption took the experts by surprise. We don't know when it might erupt again so, it's best for people to stay away until the experts can determine when it's safe to go home," he added.
Antara news agency quoted local police as saying that two people had died from heart attacks. Karo district official Andes Mbaga earlier said one of them had "breathing problems which could have been worsened by the ash and dust floating around".
Evacuees from 18 affected villages were "all doing well" and those who complained of breathing problems were receiving medical help.
"Villagers are too traumatised to go home but the situation is under control, we have enough tents, food and water," he said, although volcanic activity had reduced significantly.
"We're going to stay put here. Mount Sinabung has never spouted so much smoke and at such a high level. We're so scared that it might erupt," villager Edi Ginting told Jawa Pos news website.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity. It has more active volcanoes than any other country.
Earlier this month, four people went missing after the 1,784-metre Mount Karangetang, on the remote island of Siau in North Sulawesi province, erupted.
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Gun control and the District of Columbia
The Supreme Court should be deciding in the next couple of weeks whether to grant cert in the case challenging the District of Columbia's law in essence banning residents from possessing handguns. (Michael O'Shea has done an admirable job over at Prawfs collecting various materials related to the cert petition). As a former assistant U.S. attorney in D.C., I've been following the case with interest, and I do expect that the Court will grant cert. I think it's worth acknowledging the primary functions of the law as it's used by prosecutors in DC: the gun ban is both a preventive detention statute and an intelligence-gathering tool. At one time when I was a prosecutor, we were prohibited from extending a plea offer in gun cases unless the defendant agreed to come into the office (with his attorney, of course) and be "debriefed" about his knowledge of criminal activity in the city. The statute was also a mechanism for locking up individuals perceived as violent, but against whom other cases could not be brought for whatever reason. It's pretty simple to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an individual was in possession of a gun without a license and a lot tougher to prove that he committed a violent crime. These functions may not be relevant to the question whether the statute is constitutional, but it's worth acknowledging that invalidating the gun ban will surely have a tremendous impact on crime-fighting in the District.


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December 9, 2009
Artichokes for the Holidays
We're all about Artichokes at Ocean Mist Farms, and that means we're always looking for ways to share our excitement for the healthful veggie with you. From grilling Artichokes to cooking them in a crock pot, Artichokes are versatile in how you can serve them, but did you know they also serve as the perfect decoration for holiday get togethers and formal dinner parties?
Artichokes are a great vegetable to include in your holiday party plans because they can be used in many ways. The following ideas can help you get creative and get decorating with Artichokes:
|Floral Arrangements — Artichokes are a great addition to holiday floral arrangements because they mix well with all types of flowers. Try adding them to floral arrangements using holly and roses or stacking Baby Artichokes in a tall vase with long stem flowers for added color.
|On the Table — Make Artichoke centerpiece by adding the veggie to a holiday bowl or wicker basket along with green pears, red grapes and pinecones. Place cards can be made by cutting out rectangular pieces of heavy stock paper and including each guest's name before slipping them between an Artichoke's leaves.
|Candle Holders — Artichoke candleholders are beautiful and offer a lot of variety, as you can opt to use different candle shapes, sizes and colors. Turn your Artichoke into a candleholder by pulling open the Artichoke from the center and removing the correct amount of center leaves, placing the candle inside and lighting.
|Around the House — To keep the Artichoke theme going even after guests leave the table, be sure to incorporate Artichokes in other areas of your house, like the guest bathroom and living room. Artichokes look great on their own, so in these rooms, simply displaying three or four Artichokes on a table or countertop will work.
Have extra Artichokes you didn't use as part of your holiday decorations? Put them to use by adding them to your holiday menu! Artichokes can be made ahead of time so you can cut down on some of the stress of preparing for holiday entertaining. Simply cook Artichokes by yourpreferred method, let them cool and store in an airtight plastic bag before placing them in your refrigerator. Cooked Artichokes can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week and re-heated in the microwave or oven before using in your favorite holiday recipe.
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Give Thanks With Menu Ideas from Ocean Mist Farms
Believe it or not, Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and that means it's time to get cooking! From making the perfect turkey to baking delicious pies, if you're hosting Thanksgiving this year, you've definitely got your work cut out. If you're already feeling the pressure of holiday cooking, the good news is with Thanksgiving about two weeks away, you still have plenty of time to get prepared.
The following tips will help you stay on top of your holiday cooking and cut down on the stress by planning ahead:
Plan Now – If you're not big into planning ahead, now is the perfect time to change your tune. Not only can you cut down on last-minute stress by having a simple to-do list, but planning ahead could also save you time and money by helping you purchase only what you need and minimizing trips to the store. Just be sure to get a final head count before you make your list.
Shop Early – Holiday shopping can be anything but fun, especially if you wait until the last minute. By planning your menu ahead of time, you'll know exactly what you need and what you can purchase now. Shopping early for the staple, non-perishable items gives you access to the best selection and inventory that tends to shrink as Thanksgiving approaches. Retailers generally start their promotions for traditional holiday ingredients the first week of November, so you can get shopping on many items now.
Cook & Prep Ahead – As fun as holiday cooking can be, no one wants to spend the entire time in the kitchen on a holiday, especially when family and friends are in town. By cooking and preparing food ahead of time, you can cut down on your kitchen time the day of Thanksgiving.
- Cook Ahead – Of course cooking menu items ahead of time is the ultimate time saver. Choose your menu items wisely and you could possibly have half of the meal cooked the day before! If you're working with Artichokes, try cooking them ahead of time and storing in your refrigerator for up to one-week, reheating them on the day of serving. Some of our favorite cook ahead recipes that keep well in the fridge include:
- Prep Ahead – Items such as the turkey and ingredients for stuffing that can be cleaned, peeled, chopped and diced the day before are always good options for saving time. Go beyond the kitchen and tackle these steps the day before too:
- Choose and place table centerpieces and wine choices on the dinner table;
- Set your table with place settings and name plates, as well as appetizer serving ware;
- Decide which dishes you will use to serve the special menu items in, including the turkey platter and gravy boat;
- Set aside enough serving ware for desert; and
- Empty out your dishwasher and make room for dirty dishes.
These tips should help you get started, but if you're still wondering how to plan for Thanksgiving, we have put together the perfect holiday menu. Make it all or add a few recipes to your family favorites this year, just don't forget the turkey!
- Baked Artichokes with Roasted Artichoke & Red Pepper Dip
- Hearts of Romaine Chopped Salad with Melon, Prosciuto and Cranberries
- Balsamic Roasted Beets with Goat Cheese, Toasted Pecans On a bed of Fresh Baby Spinach
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- Italian Sausage-Artichoke and Fennel Stuffing
- Cauliflower Stuffed Twice Baked Potatoes
- Tuscan Breaded Chicken Cutlet with Mushroom Leek Ragu
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Cryogenics and digital editing have enabled teen sensation Miley Cyrus, to star in a $200 dollar remake of 'On the Buses'. The sexy teen who bears no resemblence to Hilary Duff will replace Ana Karen as Olive.
Producers state "While age has been unkinder to Olive, than her genes. We simply didn't want a comedy ugly old boot. We wanted to pull in a young crowd and so decided to go with Miley. She has been instructed not to wash her hair for two months, in order to replicate Olive's greasy lank hair-don't".
Fans of slap-stick and British smut will not be disappointed, as Olive Hardy and Stan Laurel are to be ressurected from the dead and will be playing Stan Butler and Jack Harper, respectively.
Producer, Bernie Finklestein said "As this pair have been dead for so long, it would be impossible to dig them up and to simply stick a couple of Bus uniforms on their corpses. We tried this anyhoo and it was more scary than funny. So they will be digitally edited onto the screen. Benny Hill is a lot easier as he died in the 1990's and he was frozen, then kept in an industrial freezer alongside two tonnes of fish fingers, 'Walt Disney's head', and a packet of Aunt Bessies 'luxury' Yorkshire puds"
Benny will be thawed out in two weeks and then given the script, after Doctors explain to him, how they have desecrated and exploited his body. He will be playing 'Blakey.' However, the peak of his cap will be turned to the side. He will delve deeper into the psychology of Blakey, than Stephen Lewis's potrayal of 'Blakey'. He will do this by constant blinking, saluting everyone who walks past, and talking in a funny voice."
Ana Karen, the original 'Olive', is tipped to play 'Mum' as a consolation and sympathy role. Madonna is tipped to play Arthur, due to her masculine appearance, arrogance and 'authentic,' Dick Van Dyke British accent.
Author's Disclaimer: Monkey Woods is taking complete responsibility for this story. I was merely a vehicle for his hatred, sarcasm and bitterness. I am aware that Laurel and Hardy fans are as tough as nails. I therefore would never do anything to denigrate their memory, as I love them. Monkey Woods, however has used foul language about them! Effin and Blindin he was! Go after him!


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Mandela: "The South African revolution will not have achieved its goals as long as the Palestinians are not free."
This posting has these items:
1) The National: Palestinians remember Mandela as 'most courageous who supported us';
2) Times of Israel: Nelson Mandela was close to Jews, resolutely loyal to Palestinians, the Jews who were, and weren't, on his side;
3) Informed Comment: United States, Israel opposed Mandela, supported Apartheid, Juan Cole on the hypocrisy of some eulogisers;
4) JPost: Mandela and Israel, Mandela had 'an ambivalent relationship with Israel';
5) PBB: Marwan Barghouti to Nelson Mandela: "Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours", letter from prison;
6) Al Ray: 'The Elders' strongly oppose Israel's new settlement plans, November 2013;
Yasser Arafat and Nelson Mandela, Cape Town 1998. Mandela praised Arafat as 'a fellow freedom fighter'. Photo by AP.
Palestinians remember Mandela as 'most courageous who supported us'
By Hugh Naylor, The National
December 06, 2013
RAMALLAH–To Palestinians, he was nothing short of a beloved icon.
Nelson Mandela was an outspoken critic of Israeli policies who notably proclaimed in a 1997 speech that his people's "freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians".
In their struggle to end Israeli occupation, Palestinians draw inspiration from Mandela's efforts to bring down the apartheid regime that ruthlessly repressed black South Africans for 46 years.
He spent 27 years in white-run jails, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been subjected to Israeli ones. His example has encouraged a growing Palestinian embrace of boycotts and sanctions against Israel that also were used to end white-rule rule in South Africa.
To many here, Mandela's message will endure long after his death.
The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday praised Mandela as a "symbol of freedom from colonialism and occupation".
Calling him the "most courageous and important of those who supported us", Mr Abbas said the Palestinian people would never forget his "historic statement that the South African revolution will not have achieved its goals as long as the Palestinians are not free."
"His name means so much to us on so many levels, as a man who led a successful revolution against Apartheid and as someone who spent many, many years in jail for his beliefs — just as Palestinians have," said Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian Legislative Council representative and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is part of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
"Every Palestinian knows who Nelson Mandela is."
Like the other national liberation movements that emerged in the post-colonial era, the PLO leadership under the late Yasser Arafat espoused similar ideals as Mandela's African National Congress (ANC), which waged a decades-long struggle to end white domination in South Africa.
One of the first foreign leaders Mandela met after being released from prison in 1990 was Arafat. Meeting in Zambia, the South African leader praised the PLO chairman as "a fellow freedom fighter".
When Arafat died in 2004, Mandela called him "one of the outstanding freedom fighters of this generation, one who gave his entire life to the cause of the Palestinian people".
His embrace of Arafat — and the Palestinian cause in general — did not earn him much applause in Israel.
Arthur Goldreich, 1929-2011. South African Jew, moved to Israel as a young man and back to South Africa c. 1962 where he engaged in anti anti-apartheid activism. He became an outspoken critic of Israel, whose foundation he had fought for, comparing its treatment of Palestinians to apartheid in South Africa and claiming that successive "Zionist" governments had become more interested in territory than in peace. He spoke before his death of "the abhorrent racism in Israeli society".
If anything, Israel and South Africa's apartheid leaders had found common cause against the struggles championed by Mandela and the Palestinians. As a result, those two governments developed especially close diplomatic and military relations during the Cold War.
In 1976, Israel invited the then apartheid prime minister, John Vorster, a known Nazi sympathiser, on a state visit. During that tour, Israel's then premier, Yitzhak Rabin, toasted Vorster at a banquet and praised "the ideals shared by Israel and South Africa: the hopes for justice and peaceful coexistence".
Vorster also happened to be justice minister during the infamous 1963-1964 Rivonia Trial that sentenced Mandela to life in prison.
"I think that among Israelis, there's a wilful ignorance about the depth of the ties between the apartheid regime and Israel," said Noam Sheizaf, editor of Israel's left-leaning +972 online magazine.
"These issues are not discussed."
But if he held any grudges against Israel, Mandela, who in 1994 was elected South Africa's first black president, did his best not to show them.
In the 1997 address in which he lent his people's support to the Palestinian cause, he called for their self-determination and statehood and spoke about how Palestinians experienced the sort of "injustice and gross human-rights violations" that blacks endured under apartheid rule.
But, he also praised Yitzhak Rabin — who in 1995 was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli who opposed his decision to sign the Oslo peace accords with Arafat two years earlier — as someone "who paid the supreme sacrifice in pursuit of peace".
That sort of magnanimity helped Mandela achieve the seemingly impossible task of ushering in democracy for South Africans of all creeds and colours.
But for Palestinians, his success also is a painful reminder of their inability to forge a similar path to freedom despite a peace process with Israel that has repeatedly failed over the past two decades.
Fadi Quran, a Palestinian activist in the West Bank who supports non-violent measures to end Israel's occupation, said the failure of the Oslo peace process was a failure to "stick to principles".
He credited Mandela and the ANC for refusing compromises with apartheid leaders that were anything short of equal rights for blacks and whites.
"The most intelligent thing they did was that they understood dynamics of power. They did not allow the racial apartheid system to continue in any form — that wasn't open to negotiations," he said.
The Palestinian leadership under Arafat, however, signed onto the Oslo process without any concrete agreement to end Israel's occupation. Instead, negotiations over so-called final-status issues — borders, Jerusalem, settlements, Palestinian refugees — were supposed to take places after a five-year time period.
That never happened, and Israel's settler population ballooned.
"Under Oslo, the principled stance would have been to not conclude an agreement with the occupation still standing and with the settlements still there," Mr Quran said.
Oslo's failure helped hasten the rise of militancy, such as the Hamas movement, which calls for Israel's destruction and carried out scores of suicide attacks on Israeli buses and cafes.
But perhaps the most significant legacy of the accord's demise is the rising popularity of comparing Israel's Palestinian policies to apartheid South Africa.
That has helped rally Palestinians and international activists to the non-violent tactics of internationally backed boycotts, divestment and sanctions that were brought to bear against South Africa's apartheid regime and its enablers.
"In South Africa, it was not the economic boycott that brought apartheid down. It was the fear of this movement that made white elites reflect and begin to change, and I see the same pattern developing in Israel," said Mazin Qumsiyeh, a writer and activists in Bethlehem who promotes such non-violent measures against Israel.
But missing from this equation is a unifying figure such as Mandela, said Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist from Hebron.
"There's just not the level of support internationally and inside Israel for Palestinian human-rights defenders like there was in South Africa."
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Israeli president Ezer Weizman shakes hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Johannesburg, while South African president Nelson Mandela looks on, May 9, 1994. Photo by Yaacov Sa'ar/GPO.
Nelson Mandela was close to Jews, resolutely loyal to Palestinians
Late South African leader had strong friendships with many in the Jewish world, but never forgot his allegiance to the PLO — or Israel's support for the apartheid regime
By Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel
December 06, 2013
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela had close friendships and alliances with many Jews, but his relationship with the Jewish state was complicated. While always courteous and never hate-filled, the South African icon's dealings with Israel were overshadowed by Jerusalem's staunch support for his tormentors and, even more so, his ironclad loyalty to the Palestinian cause.
In the name of reconciliation, he made no ongoing issue of Jerusalem's strong long-term partnership with the apartheid regime after he was released from a lengthy prison sentence and became South Africa's first black president in 1994. He professed the legitimacy of Zionism as Jewish nationalism and, upon receiving the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, he said Yitzhak Rabin deserved it more (Rabin was co-honored the following year). But his primary concern in dealings with Israel's government was the advancement of the peace process and the well-being of the Palestinian people.
"Mandela always strove to be scrupulously fair to both sides, even though his inclination was very much towards the Palestinian side," said David Saks, the associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. "He was deeply supportive of the Palestinian struggle for independence, but never deviated from his view that this could only be attained through all parties recognizing Israel's legitimate right to exist within secure borders."
Jews played a crucial role in various stages of Mandela's life, especially in his early decades. Indeed, the only white person he ever called "my boss" was Lazer Sidelsky, a Jewish lawyer from Johannesburg, who in the 1940s hired him as a legal clerk.
"It was a Jewish firm, and in my experience I have found Jews to be more broadminded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice," Mandela wrote in his 1994 autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom." "The fact that Lazer Sidelsky, one of the firm's partners, would take on a young African as an articled clerk — something almost unheard-of in those days — was evidence of that liberalism."
In 1995, a year after Mandela became president, he gave a signed copy of his book to "my former boss Laz," calling him "a man who trained me to serve our country." Mandela reportedly attended the bar mitzva of Sidelsky's son Barry (Dov) Sidelsky, who now lives in Jerusalem. "When I was a boy, I met Mandela and what etched an indelible impression on me was that when he got married the wedding procession passed by our house in Johannesburg as a sign of tribute to and respect for my father," Barry recalled during a 1999 television interview he gave in honor of Mandela's first and only visit to Israel.
Joe Slovo, 1926-95, Jew, communist, anti-apartheid activist, friend of Nelson Mandela.
Countless other Jews had close relationships with Madiba, as Mandela was called by friends and supporters. People such as Isie Maisels, Harry Schwarz, Joe Slovo, Lionel Bernstein and many others helped him during various stages of his decades-long struggle against apartheid. Some of Mandela's former associates later relocated to Israel.
Arthur Goldreich, for instance, helped hide Mandela and the African National Congress in the 1960s. Born in Johannesburg, Goldreich came to Israel in the 1940s to fight in the pre-state Jewish underground, yet moved back to South Africa in 1954 to fight apartheid. In the 1960s, he pretended to operate a farm outside Johannesburg, which really served as the underground headquarters of the ANC and its leaders, including Mandela, who posed as a worker on the farm. In 1963, South African authorities raided the farm and Goldreich was imprisoned. He escaped to Britain but immediately decided to move to Israel, where he died in 2011 at an old-age home in Herzliya.
Cape Town-born journalist and social activist Benjamin Pogrund is another close associate of Mandela's who has since moved to Israel. The former deputy editor of the Rand Daily Mail, the country's leading newspaper, Pogrund was among the pioneers who reported about black politics in South Africa.
In 1961, Pogrund helped Madiba organize an illegal strike. "Mandela and I met secretly and regularly," Pogrund recalled in Saks's 2011 book "Jewish Memories of Mandela." "We had a system of sending messages to arrange to meet, which would either be at a friend's house in Fordsburg, or when I would drive to a street corner at night, pick up Mandela — his worker's overalls disguise did little to hide his tall, imposing figure — and we would sit in my car in a dark street and talk about the strike campaign."
Some 25 years later, Pogrund and his wife were the first non-family members to visit Mandela in his prison cell on Robben Island, where he was serving a life sentence for sabotage and conspiracy to violently overthrow the government.
"During the nearly two hours of the visit, we mentioned that our youngest son, Gideon, was having his bar mitzva at the end of the month," Pogrund, who today lives in Jerusalem, remembered. "A few days after our visit, Gideon received a letter from Mandela at our home in Johannesburg: It conveyed best wishes for his bar mitzva and for his future life. If getting a message like that from inside prison wasn't surreal enough, it was written neatly on a whiteboard, which Mandela must have told his warders to buy for him. From a man serving a life sentence — and at that stage with no idea when he might be released — it was a kind and thoughtful action for a youngster he had not even met."
A free Nelson Mandela gesturing to Percy Yutar, the former state prosecutor who sent him to jail for life for plotting sabotage against the apartheid state. Yutar pressed for the death penalty. "The deceit of the accused is amazing," said Yutar as he led evidence in Pretoria's Place of Justice. "They took it on themselves to tell the world that the Africans in South Africa are suppressed, oppressed and depressed. It is a great pity the Bantu (blacks) in the country, who are peaceful, law-abiding, faithful and loyal, should have been duped by false promises." He was South Africa's first Jewish Attorney General and president of South Africa's largest Orthodox synagogue.
But in his fight against apartheid, Mandela also had Jewish adversaries. Percy Yutar, for example, was the chief prosecutor in the 1960s Rivonia trial in which the future president was sentenced to a lifelong prison sentence. Yutar served for many years as the head of a group of Orthodox synagogues in Johannesburg.
South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general, Yutar is remembered by anti-apartheid activists for the "unnecessarily abrasive, indeed often vindictive, manner in which he carried out his duties," writes Saks. "Even Mandela, generally so ready to acknowledge the good in even his avowed enemies, cannot bring himself to recall Yutar with anything more than disdain," Saks wrote. However, Mandela later had lunch with Yutar, reportedly offering him a kosher meal.
Today's Jewish community in South Africa likes to highlight the Jews fighting side by side with Mandela to marginalize the role of those who supported the regime.
"South Africans of Jewish descent have historically been disproportionately represented among our white compatriots in the liberation struggle," Mandela said at a congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies in 1993.
Yet the South African Jewish community's relationship with the apartheid regime is a "very mixed picture," according to Gideon Shimoni, the former head of The Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry, who was born and brought up in Johannesburg. While certain individuals were openly opposed to apartheid, as a collective the Jewish community adopted an "attitude of neutrality" to the racist rule in their country, he said.
"Even Mandela kind of bought the line that those individuals who were active in the opposition kind of saved the record of the Jewish community. But it's a much more complicated situation than that," said Shimoni, who examined the issue in depth in his 2003 book "Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa."
The Jews fighting the racist regime were in most cases very critical of the organized Jewish community, he said. "They believed that the Jewish community has to throw its lot in with the struggle against apartheid, irrespective of what happens to the Jewish community." They also rejected the Jewish community's allegiance to the Zionist cause, according to Shimoni.
'His whole attitude — to everything — was not to look for vengeance but rather to work for a reconciliation and to look forward. The last thing he would do is raise Israel's record'.
Madiba himself was no declared enemy of Zionism. Although he was a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause — and of Palestinian and other Islamist leaders — he believed that both Jews and Palestinians had legitimate national ambitions.
"As a movement, we recognize the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism just as we recognize the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism," he said in 1993. "We insist on the right of the State of Israel to exist within secure borders, but with equal vigor support the Palestinian right to national self-determination."
As a statesman, Mandela's relationship with Israel was businesslike and at times cordial, but never truly warm. When he became president in 1994, he maintained diplomatic relations and tried to focus on the hope for a better future rather than dwell on the disagreements of the past. Yet he never forgot Jerusalem's strong alliance with the apartheid state. Israel and South Africa upheld very extensive military cooperation over decades, and Jerusalem was one of the last to join the international campaign to isolate the racist regime.
"The ANC, in common with the international community, was extremely unhappy about the military cooperation between the State of Israel and the apartheid regime in South Africa. The refusal of Israel, over many years, to honor its international obligations to isolate the apartheid regime did influence our attitude towards that government," Mandela said few months before being elected president.
"He certainly was very sympathetic to Zionism in the sense of being a movement for freedom and self-determination of the Jewish people," The Hebrew University's Shimoni said. "But at the same time he had very strong loyalties to those who assisted him, whether it was [late Libyan leader Muammar] Gaddafi on the one hand, or Arafat, on the other. And he made it clear that those who are the enemies of the Jews are not necessarily his enemies."
Indeed, one of Mandela's first acts as a free man was to visit Yasser Arafat. The photos of the two men embracing — taken at a time before the Oslo Accords, when the PLO was officially still devoted to Israel's destruction — raised concerns in Jewish communities around the globe.
"Mandela's initially dismissive response to Jewish concerns exacerbated the situation," Saks wrote. However, the future president acted quickly and, in a meeting with Jewish leaders, alleviated fears by stating that his movement recognized Israel's right to exist in secure borders.
While Mandela was very critical of Israel's support for the apartheid regime, "he didn't make a big issue of it," Shimoni said. "His whole attitude — to everything — was not to look for vengeance and not to dig up the records in the past, but rather to work for a reconciliation and to look forward. So the last thing he would do would is to raise the whole question of the record of Israel. Other people in the African National Congress have done it, up to this day. But not Mandela. It was a characteristic of Mandela to work for reconciliation, and not to dig up old hatreds and anger."
Saks, who remembers Mandela as an "extremely warm" person, said Mandela's attitude "was never to brood over past wrongs, but to acknowledge what had been done wrong and go forward." While Israel's close relationship with South Africa after 1973 did inevitably have a negative impact on his attitude towards the Jewish state, "he was not bitter about it. I think he understood, at some level at least, that the relationship had been one of convenience — realpolitik."
Alon Liel, who became Israel's ambassador in 1992, met Madiba merely a few days after taking up his new post in Pretoria. He had told Mandela's associates that Jerusalem had dramatically changed its South Africa policies in favor of the black community.
"The message [Mandela] sent us was that they will never forget what we did," Liel recalled. "The main message was this: 'We care a lot about the Palestinians. We are on the verge of achieving our freedom, it will not really be complete until our brothers the Palestinians, who fought with us and supported us, will achieve their freedom.'" If Rabin, who had just been elected prime minister, makes peace with the Palestinians, then "we will judge Israel on that merit," Madiba told Liel.
"He was extremely warm," recalled Liel about his first meeting with Mandela. "He was cold only in the parts of the conversation in which he spoke about the fact that the previous ambassador didn't invite him to visit [Israel]." Since his release, he had received invitations from every country in the world — except Israel. He was "very, very offended," Liel said. Since that first meeting, Liel spoke to Mandela on many occasions, saying he almost never brought up Israel's support for the apartheid regime, mostly talking about his desire to visit the country.
A few months later, Liel was attending an event for diplomats during which Mandela was scheduled to give an address, when a clerk told him that Madiba wanted to speak to him.
"He was sitting in a very small room, preparing his speech," the Israeli diplomat recalled. "He said: 'Mister Ambassador, I had a call this morning from Stockholm and they told me that [former South African president F.W.] de Klerk and myself won the Nobel Peace Prize. I want you to send a cable to your prime minister Rabin telling him that Mandela told you that he, Rabin, deserves the prize and not me.'"
Mandela was, of course, referring to the historic handshake between the Israeli leader and Arafat, which had taken place on September 13, 1993. If this momentous event had taken place a bit earlier, surely they would have gotten the nod, Mandela mused. Rabin, Arafat and Shimon Peres received the prize the following year.
On April 27, 1994, Mandela won South Africa's first free multiracial elections. On the first weekend following his victory, the president-elect decided to visit a church, a mosque and a synagogue. In his address to the Green and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation in Cape Town, he called on Jewish expatriates to return to South Africa, albeit with the exception of "those Jews who left for their homeland" — Israel.
In May that year, both Arafat and Israeli president Ezer Weizman were invited to Mandela's inauguration ceremony. Since the two leaders had never met, Mandela decided soon afterward to invite them to participate in his first official working meeting as president. After a short discussion, he took them to a separate room and asked them to "sit here and talk until you finalize everything," according to Liel, who accompanied Weizman to the meeting. (Arafat came with his adviser Ahmed Tibi, now a member of Knesset.)
Mandela didn't visit Israel during his presidency but agreed to receive, in South Africa, an honorary doctorate from Beersheba's Ben-Gurion University in 1997.
"The significance of Mandela's acceptance of the honor should be seen in the context of how viscerally opposed many people even within his own party were to maintaining any kinds of friendly ties with Israel," Saks wrote.
In October 1999, a few months after he concluded his presidency, Madiba finally came to Israel. He visited Rabin's grave and Yad Vashem and met with newly elected prime minister Ehud Barak. Most of the hour-long meeting was devoted to the conflict with the Palestinians, with Mandela voicing his frustration about the failure of the Oslo process, according to Liel, who was present. Mandela offered to mediate between the two parties but Barak rejected that idea, arguing that because of Madiba's close ties to Arafat, he could not serve as an honest broker.
After the meeting, Barak introduced Mandela to Barry Sidelsky — the son of his former boss — whom he had last seen decades ago. Sidelsky junior (who had since become an Israeli) and his close connection to Mandela naturally piqued the curiosity of the local media. "What do you think is Mandela's greatness?" Channel 1's anchorman asked Sidelsky during an interview. "In my opinion, the secret of his greatness is being considerate of all and remaining a humble person," Sidelsky responded.
"These attributes have accompanied him along the long road he has taken."
United States, Israel opposed Mandela, supported Apartheid
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog
December 06, 2013
The attempt to make Nelson Mandela respectable is an ongoing effort of Western government spokesmen and the Western media.
He wasn't respectable in the business circles of twentieth-century New York or Atlanta, or inside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. He wasn't respectable for many of the allies of the United States in the Cold War, including Britain and Israel.
I visited Soweto in 2012 and went to Mandela's old house. It was a moving experience. I don't want him to be reduced to a commercialized icon on this day of all days.
We should remember that for much of the West in the Cold War, South Africa's thriving capitalist economy was what was important. Its resources were important. Its government, solely staffed by Afrikaners and solely for Afrikaners, was seen as a counter-weight to Soviet and Communist influence in Africa. Washington in the 1980s obsessed about Cuba's relationship to Angola (yes).
That the Afrikaners treated black Africans like dirt and discriminated against them viciously, denying them the franchise or any hint of equality, was considered in Western capitals at most an unfortunate idiosyncrasy that could not be allowed to interfere with the West's dependence on Pretoria in fighting the international Left.
The African National Congress had attempted nonviolent protest in the 1950s, but the white Afrikaaner government outlawed all those techniques and replied with deadly force. In the early 1960s when Nelson Mandela turned to sabotage, the United States was a nakedly capitalist country engaged in an attempt to ensure that peasants and workers did not come to power. It was a deeply racist society that practiced Apartheid, a.k.a. Jim Crow in its own South.
The US considered the African National Congress to be a form of Communism, and sided with the racist Prime Ministers Hendrik Verwoerd and P.W. Botha against Mandela.
Decades later, in the 1980s, the United States was still supporting the white Apartheid government of South Africa, where a tiny minority of Afrikaaners dominated the economy and refused to allow black Africans to shop in their shops or fraternize with them, though they were happy to employ them in the mines. Ronald Reagan declared Nelson Mandela, then still in jail, a terrorist, and the US did not get around to removing him from the list until 2008! Reagan, while delivering pro forma denunciations of Apartheid or enforced black separation and subjugation, nevertheless opposed sanctions with teeth on Pretoria. Reagan let the racist authoritarian P.W. Botha come to Washington and met with him.
Likewise British PM Margaret Thatcher befriended Botha and castigated Mandela's ANC as terrorists. As if the Afrikaners weren't terrorizing the black majority! She may have suggested to Botha that he release Mandela for PR purposes, but there is not any doubt on whose side she stood.
The Israeli government had extremely warm relations with Apartheid South Africa, to the point where Tel Aviv offered the Afrikaners a nuclear weapon (presumably for brandishing at the leftist states of black Africa). That the Israelis accuse Iran of being a nuclear proliferator is actually hilarious if you know the history. Iran doesn't appear ever to have attempted to construct a nuclear weapon, whereas Israel has hundreds and seems entirely willing to share.
In the US, the vehemently anti-Palestinian Anti-Defamation League in San Francisco spied on American anti-Apartheid activists on behalf of the Apartheid state. If the ADL ever calls you a racist, you can revel in the irony.
Ronald Reagan imagined that there were "moderates" in the Botha government. There weren't. He wanted "constructive engagement" with them. It failed. The Afrikaners imposed martial law. Reagan tried to veto Congressional sanctions on Pretoria in 1986 but Congress over-rode him.
Nelson Mandela was a socialist who believed in the ideal of economic equality or at least of a decent life for everyone in society. He was also a believer in parliamentary government. So, he was a democratic socialist.
The current Republican Party is implementing Apartheid policies of making it difficult for minorities to exercise their right to vote. And they are changing tax laws to throw ever more of society's wealth to the top 1%. And they just threw millions of Americans off food stamps, including children and Veterans. The US House of Representatives still stands against everything Mandela stood for.
President Obama first became interested in politics at Occidental College in California and attended anti-Apartheid demonstrations. It was then that fellow activists informed him that Barack would be a better name for such an activist than "Barry." In many ways Mandela's cause started Obama on his path to the White House.
In the meantime the UK also has a right wing government that is punishing students and the poor on behalf of the rich. And the Likud Foreign Minister in Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, wants to take away the citizenship of Palestinian-Israelis (20% of the population) just as the Afrikaners took citizenship away from blacks and pushed them into Bantustans. Mandela said, ""We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
The world will celebrate Nelson Mandela. But for most of those global leaders, it is only lip service. With the partial exception of President Obama, they don't share his actual ideals and wouldn't approve of him when he was at his most active, in the early 1960s, trying to figure out how to sabotage the Afrikaner establishment. (I say partial in Obama's case because obviously he admires the struggle against Apartheid, but on economic issues he is an Eisenhower Republican and Mandela wouldn't approve). In the 1990s on his release from prison Mandela did stand out for his belief in peace and reconciliation. But that was only because the Afrikaners had lost and he could afford to be magnanimous in victory. He was not a pacifist. He did not believe in taking lives as part of his struggle, but he was willing to resort to violence. He was not a capitalist. He wanted uplift for the workers. He could not overlook racism the way Reagan, Thatcher and Shamir did.
South Africa itself, for all its economic and social dynamism, has also not fully attained Mandela's ideals. Its poor are becoming worse off. Labor relations are roiled. And the ANC leadership is in disarray.
Mandela is not a birthday cake to be celebrated. The funeral with its hypocritical heads of state won't honor him. He is a pioneer to be emulated. We honor him by standing up for justice even in the face of enormous opposition from the rich and powerful, by taking risks for high ideals. We won't meet his standards. But if all of us tried, we'd make the world better. As he did.
Mandela and Israel
By Steve Linde, Op-Ed JPost
December 06, 2013
The iconic South African leader had an ambivalent relationship with the Jewish state.
As I introduced myself, feeling the strength in his large hand, he smiled and said, "Shalom!" I was dumbstruck by the powerful presence of Nelson Mandela, the legendary leader of the country in which I had grown up, the man credited with ending the brutal apartheid regime.
But there he was, his large frame cutting a regal figure, choosing his words carefully in his distinct African accent, sitting opposite me and several other journalists and photographers around a table at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on October 19, 1999.
Holding hands as he walked out of a meeting with foreign minister David Levy, Mandela agreed to answer a few questions, and – as a reporter for Israel Radio's English News - I recorded his answers.
Asked why he had finally decided to visit Israel, he replied, "To the many people who have questioned why I came, I say: Israel worked very closely with the apartheid regime. I say: I've made peace with many men who slaughtered our people like animals. Israel cooperated with the apartheid regime, but it did not participate in any atrocities."
Mandela voiced his vehement opposition to Israel's control of the territories it had "occupied" in the Six Day War, and he urged it to concede land to the Palestinians and Syrians, just as it had done with the Egyptians, for the sake of peace.
"My view is that talk of peace remains hollow if Israel continues to occupy Arab lands," he said. "I understand completely well why Israel occupies these lands. There was a war. But if there is going to be peace, there must be complete withdrawal from all of these areas."
He did, however, acknowledge Israel¹s legitimate security concerns, declaring: "I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel within secure borders."
One of Mandela's greatest strengths was his ability to bury but not forget the bitterness of the past, and actively work for a fairer future.
He did so when, upon his release from 27 years in jail, he emerged without exhibiting any signs of anger, reconciling with president F.W. de Klerk (earning them both Nobel peace prizes) and even sipping tea with Betsie Verwoerd, the 94-year-old widow of apartheid's architect, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd.
He did so when he became president of the new democratic South Africa in 1994 and set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, pitting perpetrators of apartheid crimes against its victims and their families.
He did so when he went to watch the Springbok team beat the All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup in 1995, depicted in the Clint Eastwood film, Invictus.
And he did so when, at the age of 81, he paid what was termed "a private visit" to Israel for two days after completing his five-year term as president and handing over the reins to his deputy, Thabo Mbeki, in June, and choosing to fly first to Iran, Syria and Jordan.
The peace overtures of then-prime minister Ehud Barak had paved the way for Mandela - a devout Christian - to make his first and only pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After taking a jab at the Jewish state for being the only nation not to invite him when he was appointed president, and then refusing several invitations to travel here, this trip was aimed at burying the hatchet or, in his words, "to heal old wounds" both with Israel and South African Jews.
Mandela had an ambivalent, almost love-hate relationship with Jews and Israel. Like Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi before him, his first job had been with a Jewish law firm in Johannesburg, and some of his closest friends, political advisers and business associates were Jewish. When he needed advice or money, they were the first people he called upon.
Many South African Jews had supported him, but others had openly backed or implicitly endorsed apartheid. One of his close Jewish friends, Arthur Goldreich, provided refuge to Mandela and other ANC leaders at his farm in Rivonia, later made aliya and became a professor at the Bezalel Art School.
On the other hand, Percy Yutar, the chief prosector at the infamous Rivonia treason trial at the end of which Mandela was given a life sentence, was Jewish too.
Mandela resented Israel's military relationship with apartheid South Africa, and passionately supported the PLO, which he saw as a liberation movement similar to his own ANC.
He supported Israel's right to exist as a democratic Jewish state, yet felt closer to its enemies: the PLO's Yasser Arafat, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Iran¹s Mohammed Khatami and Syria's Hafez Assad. Nevertheless, he praised his Israeli hosts for their warm reception and peace-making efforts. Mandela received a red-carpet welcome at the King David Hotel, where South African chief rabbi Cyril Harris, together with leaders of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and Israel's ambassador to South Africa, Uri Oren, greeted him.
Hugging Harris, a good friend, he quipped: "Now I feel at home - my rabbi is here." At a luncheon hosted by president Ezer Weizman and attended by cabinet ministers and other dignitaries, Mandela chose to thank the South African Jewish community: "One of the reasons I am so pleased to be in Israel is as a tribute to the enormous contribution of the Jewish community of South Africa. I am so proud of them."
After a guided tour of Jerusalem's Old City and Yad Vashem, he wrote in the Holocaust museum's visitors' book: "A painful but enriching experience." After an upbeat meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, he described Ehud Barak as "a man of courage and vision."
"The people of the world and Israel should support Barak. He has aroused our hopes," Mandela said. "What has emerged from all my conversations is that the yearning for peace is very intense."
During the meeting, Mandela was thrilled to see Rabbi Dov Sidelsky, a South African immigrant and the son of Lazar Sidelsky, who had given Mandela his first job as a law clerk. Whites hiring black professionals was "almost unheard of in those days," said Mandela, who remembered Dov as a young boy in Johannesburg.
"I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice," he wrote in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.
In his talks with Levy at the Foreign Ministry, Mandela shared his impression during his visit to Iran that the country had become more "moderate" under then-president Khatami. He said he had received assurances that the trial of 13 Iranians Jews arrested earlier that year on charges of spying for "the Zionist regime," which was of great concern then, would be "free and fair." Levy protested politely against Mandela¹s reading of the situation, telling him that Iran, which backed terrorist groups targeting Jews and the Jewish state, was certainly not giving the 13 Jews a fair hearing.
In July 2000, after a closed trial that violated international legal norms, 10 were given harsh sentences, while three others were acquitted. Levy had been right, Mandela wrong.
Following his visit to Israel, Mandela flew to Gaza, where he enthusiastically embraced Arafat and endorsed Palestinian statehood, but made a point of urging Arab acceptance of Israel.
"The Arab leaders must make an unequivocal statement that they recognize the existence of Israel with secure borders," he stressed.
Mandela was undoubtedly one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, and an iconic symbol of hope and freedom in his beloved South Africa.
While he supported Zionism in principle, he believed that if there was to be peace in the Middle East, Israel must negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians and avoid becoming a binational "apartheid state" or risk becoming an international pariah like apartheid South Africa.
A humble hero, Mandela was the first to acknowledge that he wasn't always right, but as an advocate of justice for all, he was always ready to stand up and fight for what he believed was right, even when his views were not popular.
During my youth in South Africa, Mandela was portrayed by the "white media" as the enemy, the jailed leader of a terrorist insurrection against the Afrikaner government. They labelled him "the Black Pimpernel" before he was arrested. But the seemingly impossible occurred: the Black Pimpernel became the beloved leader of "the Rainbow Nation," affectionately called "Madiba" (the name of his Xhosa clan) by South Africans of all colors and creeds.
Mandela once said, "It always seems impossible until it's done."
May you rest in peace, Madiba. Shalom!
Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, stands in front of a big poster with her husband's portrait at the offices of the "Campaign to free Marwan Barghouti" in Ramallah. Photo by James Hill/The New York Times
Marwan Barghouti to Nelson Mandela: "Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours"
Letter from prisoner Marwan Barghouthi to remembered former prisoner Nelson Mandela
From PNN
December 06, 2013
Marwan Barghouthi, a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for "murder" by an Israeli court, sent a message from Hadarim Israeli jail following the announcement of Nelson Mandela's death, as follows:
"During the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. Even more since my arrest in 2002. I think of a man who spent 27 years in a prison cell, only to demonstrate that freedom was within him before becoming a reality his people could enjoy. I think of his capacity to defy oppression and apartheid, but also to defy hatred and to choose justice over vengeance.
"How many times did you doubt the outcome of this struggle? How many times did you ask yourself if justice will prevail? How many times did you wonder why is the world so silent? How many times did you wonder whether your enemy could ever become your partner? At the end, your will proved unbreakable making your name one of the most shining names of freedom.
"You are much more than an inspiration. You must have known, the day you came out of prison, that you were not only writing history, but contributing to the triumph of light over darkness, and yet you remained humble. And you carried a promise far beyond the limits of your countries' borders, a promise that oppression and injustice will be vanquished, paving the way to freedom and peace. In my prison cell, I remind myself daily of this quest, and all sacrifices become bearable by the sole prospect that one day the Palestinian people will also be able to enjoy freedom, return and independence, and this land will finally enjoy peace.
"You became an icon to allow your cause to shine and to impose itself on the international stage. Universality to counter isolation. You became a symbol around which all those who believe in the universal values that found your struggle could rally, mobilise and act. Unity is the law of victory for oppressed people. The tiny cell and the hours of forced labor, the solitude and the darkness, did not prevent you from seeing the horizon and sharing your vision. Your country has become a lighthouse and we, as Palestinians, are setting sails to reach its shores.
"You said "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians". And from within my prison cell, I tell you our freedom seems possible because you reached yours. Apartheid did not prevail in South Africa, and Apartheid shall not prevail in Palestine. We had the great privilege to welcome in Palestine a few months ago, your comrade and companion in struggle Ahmed Kathrada, who launched, following this visit, the International Campaign for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners from your own cell, where an important part of universal history was shaped, demonstrating that the ties between our struggles are everlasting.
"Your capacity to be a unifying figure, and to lead from within the prison cell, and to be entrusted with the future of your people while being deprived of your ability to choose your own, are the marks of a great and exceptional leader and of a truly historical figure. I salute the freedom fighter and the peace negotiator and maker, the military commander and the inspirer of peaceful resistance, the relentless militant and the statesman.
"You have dedicated your life to ensure freedom and dignity, justice and reconciliation, peace and coexistence can prevail. Many now honour your struggle in their speeches. In Palestine, we promise to pursue the quest for our common values, and to honour your struggle not only through words, but by dedicating our lives to the same goals. Freedom dear Madiba, shall prevail, and you contributed tremendously in making this belief a certainty. Rest in Peace, and may God bless your unconquerable soul."
Marwan Barghouthi
Hadarim prison
Cell n°28
'The Elders' strongly oppose Israel's new settlement plans
By Alray news agency
November 12, 2013
Gaza, ALRAY – The Elders strongly opposed Israel's newly announced construction plans for East Jerusalem, warning that they seriously undermine the current peace negotiations.
Speaking on behalf of the group, the Chair of The Elders, Nobel Peace Laureate Kofi Annan stated:
Continued settlement building is deeply unhelpful at this critical moment in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Such settlements are illegal under international law and pose a serious threat to the realisation of the two-state solution to the conflict, based on a viable and contiguous Palestinian territory.
About The Elders
The Elders are independent leaders using their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human rights worldwide. The group was founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007.
The Elders are now Martti Ahtisaari, Kofi Annan (Chair), Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland (Deputy Chair), Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Hina Jilani, Graça Machel, Mary Robinson and Ernesto Zedillo.
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu are honorary Elders.
Personal tributes
The Nelson Mandela I knew, Activists, politicians, friends and former foes remember South Africa's first black president; Amina Cachalia, anti-apartheid activist, Albie Sachs, South African judge and activist, Benjamin Pogrund, South African journalist, Mac Maharaj, politician, friend and fellow prisoner, Helen Suzman, veteran politician who opposed apartheid, Zackie Achmat, anti-apartheid and HIV campaigner, FW de Klerk, last president of apartheid-era South Africa, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, founder of Inkatha Freedom party, Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician, Douglas Hurd, foreign secretary 1989-1995, Jessie Duarte, anti-apartheid activist and assistant to Mandela, Gillian Slovo, novelist and daughter of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, Alan Titchmarsh, gardener and broadcaster, Justice Malala, political analyst and journalist.
My friend Mandela, by Benjamin Pogrund, Ha'aretz. Benjamin Pogrund was deputy editor of the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and moved to Israel in 1997. He has just finished writing a book about Israel and apartheid.
Some of the obituaries for Arthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich Telegraph June 2011
Arthur Goldreich obituary South African freedom fighter, he bribed his way out of jail, Denis Herbstein, June 2011
Arthur Goldreich, a Leader of the Armed Fight to End Apartheid, Dies at 82, NY Times, May 2011
Obituaries for Joe Slovo
Joe Slovo, Anti-Apartheid Stalinist, Dies at 68, NY Times, January 1995
Joe Slovo, The Independent, January 1995
Obituaries for Percy Yutar
Percy Yutar The Telegraph, July 2002
Breaking the Palestinian people into little bits Percy Yutar, The Scotsman, July 2002
Breaking the Palestinian people into little bits
How to tell Israeli and South African apartheid apart, May 2013.
Only bantustans will realise the Greater Israel ambition


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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn't merely say Tea Party candidates challenging him and other established Republicans in the 2014 midterm elections don't pose much of a threat.
McConnell's prediction is arguably more along the lines of fighting words.
"I think we are going to crush them everywhere," McConnell told the New York Times. "I don't think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country."
As TheBlaze has extensively reported, McConnell's most notable opponent is Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin, who is contrasting himself as a true conservative and blasting McConnell's conservative credentials.
"Mitch McConnell is clearly in trouble in this primary or he wouldn't be attacking Matt Bevin and declaring war on conservatives," the Senate Conservatives Fund's Matt Hoskins said in the Times' Saturday story.
But a survey released last month by GOP firm Wenzel Strategies found McConnell with a 42 point lead over Bevin, while a Bluegrass Poll pinned McConnell's lead at 26 points, the Huffington Post noted.
The Kentucky primary will be held May 20.
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No money? No lunch for you.
That's the new procedure put in place by the Willingboro Board of Education. If a student comes through the lunch line and their parents haven't kept their lunch account funded, and they have no cash on hand, their lunch will be taken away and thrown in the trash.
The Willingboro Board of Education has instructed its food service vendor to follow that new procedure when kids can't pay for lunch. The only exception is students from low-income families who have already been deemed eligible for free meals.
"This is dumb. If they are going to throw out the food anyway, you might as well come up with an alternative policy or program to entice parents to enroll," said Dr. Sean Duffy, of the Rutgers-Camden Department of Psychology. He worries about how this will impact the students who get their lunches taken away.
"It can be psychologically damaging and self-esteem can be impacted by not having a lunch. It marks one as being unique and is an easy target for bullying."
School business administrator and board secretary Kelvin Smith outlined the new policy in an August 26 letter to parents. The new lunch procedure went into effect Sept. 5.
A portion of the letter states: "In the past the Willingboro School District, has provided humanitarian meals to students who have been unable to pay for them. . .If a students goes through the food service line and it is discovered that the student does not have the required funds for a meal, the Chartwells Food service representative has been instructed by the Willingboro Board of Education to withhold the meal from the student, with the understanding that such meal cannot be re-served and must be discarded."
Humanitarian meals are defined as "meals served to students who are unable or unwilling to pay for such meal(s)."
"It is surprising the district would take this kind of step. It's unfortunate and dangerous," said Duffy.
"The fact that kids are not having a lunch can have a devastating effect on their performance. Hungry kids act out. Proper nutrition is extremely important."
The Willingboro Board of Education released a statement Tuesday addressing the issue, pointing out that both the Passaic Public School District and the East Orange Public School District have also eliminated and/or limited humanitarian meals.
During 2013, the cost to Willingboro taxpayers for the humanitarian meals was $46,261.
The board statement said that money "could have been used in a variety of other ways to enrich the students' learning experience."
The board wrote: "The procedure does not apply to students who are entitled to receive free lunch through the National School Lunch Program. The District's new procedure was adopted after much deliberation and recognition of the rising cost of providing humanitarian meals to students. The procedure in no way was meant to demean any student or parent. While the new procedure contemplates the discarding of meals, this measure was required to comply with state health regulations that prohibit the re-serving of meals."
Tuesday's lunch for Willingboro, N.J. elementary school students consisted of whole grain chicken nuggets, breadstick, chilled canned peaches, assorted fresh fruit, mexican corn, buttermilk coleslaw and milk at a price of $2.05 or a reduced price for those that federally qualify for $.40.
The Willingboro Board of Education hopes more families that are eligible for the free federal lunch program will sign up so students are not left without a lunch if their parents can't pay.
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This Citrus-Scented Wine Cake with Fresh Berries is light and amazingly simple, both in its preparation and its presentation. The olive oil, citrus and wine combine to make it a Mediterranean delight.
Pile it on
I love magazines and I read a lot of them. They're piled all around my house in just about every room. I don't have an eReader but if I did, I don't think I could give up my glossy magazines for its convenience. The other day, two magazines came in the mail, and neither my husband nor I subscribe to either. One was a beer magazine (husband) and the other was Vegetarian Times (me).
A perfect match
It's still a mystery why we received these magazines that seemed perfectly matched to each of our tastes (the magic of marketing, I'm sure), but in the meantime, I'm enjoying my gratuitous issue of Vegetarian Times! Flipping through its pages I saw an article about baking with olive oil. One of my all-time favorite recipes that never fails is Rosemary Olive Oil Bread. It's so easy to make, moist and I love the rosemary in this quick bread.
Baking with olive oil
The article in my magazine noted that using olive oil instead of butter to bake with "produces lighter-tasting baked goods." Also, the vitamin E in the olive oil helps baked goods stay fresh and moist. As if my success with Rosemary Olive Oil bread and the good information in the article weren't enough to convince me to try more baking with olive oil, the beautiful photo of what looked like a simple, rustic cake garnished with powdered sugar and berries, certainly was.
There really wasn't anything I wanted to change in this recipe, so all credit is given to Vegetarian Times for the lovely Citrus-Scented Wine Cake with Fresh Berries. It includes many things I love: olive oil, citrus, wine, and fresh fruit. The cake is simple in its ingredients, preparation and presentation. Nothing over-the-top or too rich. Just basic, Mediterranean-inspired goodness.
Recipe for Citrus-Scented Wine Cake with Fresh Berries
From June 2012 Vegetarian Times magazine
Serves 10
- 2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plush more to brush the pan
- 1-1/2 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup sweet wine like Muscato or Marsala (I used white wine from a bottle I had open, which the recipe suggests as an option)
- 1/3 cup fresh orange juice
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar for dusting the cake
- 2 pints of fresh berries
- Parchment paper
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Brush a 9x3-inch springform pan with some of the olive oil. Cut out a circle of parchment paper the size of the bottom of the pan, and line it.
- In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the orange juice, orange and lemon zest, wine and olive oil. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, use a hand mixer to combine the eggs and sugar. Beat for about 4 minutes or until the amount has tripled in volume.
- Add about half the flour mixture to the egg mixture and mix on a low speed until it's combined. Then add half the olive oil mixture and mix on a low speed until it's combined. Repeat again with the flour and olive oil mixture.
- Place the springform pan on a baking sheet and add the batter to the pan.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until a toothpick or knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cook for about 10 minutes, then remove the sides of the pan.
- Continue to allow the cake to cool completely, then garnish with confectioners' sugar and fresh berries.


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Elsewhere's non-commercial space is a constantly reflexive environment where artwork becomes the medium of expression between other members of the living installation. Located in Greensboro, NC's small town, historical district, the experience of southern America offers a backdrop to Elsewhere's conceptual, artistic and intellectual realm, which houses a gallery, orientation center, press office, studio, kitchen, performance venue, library, closet, lounge. Artists are encouraged to redesign space and its accompaniments (objects) for a contextual artistic experiment that can be as powerful as the works created within. Elsewhere seeks writers, musicians, painters, designers, and others to make-up the living art installation piece.
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Econo Lodge Statesman Ararat
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About the hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Econo Lodge Statesman Ararat in Ararat, you'll be connected to a shopping center and minutes from Gum San Chinese Heritage Center, and close to Alexandra Gardens Park. This motel is within close proximity of Ararat Former Town Hall and Chalambar Golf Club.
Make yourself at home in one of the 19 air-conditioned rooms featuring fireplaces and LED televisions. Kitchenettes are outfitted with refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access and barbecue grills.
Grab a bite to eat at the motel's restaurant, which features a bar and a garden view. You can also stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Year Built 1975
- Free WiFi
- Free parking nearby
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Number of floors - 1
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Garden
- Free self parking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 19
- Front desk (limited hours)
Room Facilities
- Free WiFi
- Climate control
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Hair dryer
- Partially open bathroom
- Microwave
- Fireplace
- Room service
- Iron/ironing board
- Premium bedding
- Free bottled water
- Coffee/tea maker
- Kitchenette
- Free toiletries
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Daily housekeeping
- Shower/tub combination
- Free local calls
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
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This property has been awarded a star rating from the Australian Star Ratings Agency, Star Ratings Australia.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: AUD 16.00 for adults and AUD 16.00 for children (approximately)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: AUD 10.00 per night
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