MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Loveday Morris & Hazem Balousha @ WashingtonPost.com, May 14
ZEITOUN, Gaza Strip — Israeli soldiers on Monday killed 52 Palestinians demonstrating along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip and wounded more than 2,400 in the bloodiest day in the enclave since the 2014 war with Israel, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
An estimated 35,000 Palestinians gathered on the edges of Gaza as the U.S. Embassy opened in Jerusalem, fanning out along the fence in the largest demonstrations yet.
At a gathering point east of Gaza City, organizers urged demonstrators to burst through the fence, telling them Israeli soldiers were fleeing their positions, even as they were reinforcing them [....]
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Sunday:
Most foreign envoys absent as Israel, U.S. launch embassy festivities
By Ori Lewis @ Reuters.com, May 13
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:40pm
New York Times:
Israel Kills at Least 41 as Palestinians Try to Cross Border
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, ISABEL KERSHNER and DECLAN WALSH 47 minutes ago
RELATED COVERAGE
As Embassy Opens, 9 Things to Know About Jerusalem
What a Times Reporter Saw at the Gaza-Israel Fence: Raw Nerves and Shots Fired
As U.S. Moves Embassy, Israel Feels Pride
but Senses Peril
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER 10:26 AM ET
The U.S. Embassy is moving to Jerusalem today, Israel’s 70th anniversary. But it comes at a fraught moment.
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:44pm
Illustration from the above:
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 12:52pm
#MAGA?
41 deaths and 128 angry countries: The true cost of Trump’s bargain embassy in Jerusalem
By Annalisa Merelli @ Quartz.com, 2 hrs. ago
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:02pm
Why doesn't she take a walk there without guards this eve - will discover what lasting piece means.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:19pm
The Jvanka probably in a Secret Service bunker now.
Ghandi probably rolling over in grave for the umpteenth time over two-state "solutions"....
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:29pm
Did US Embassy invocation Pastor Jeffress in MAGA tell it like it is Trump style mention to the Jews present they all will go to hell...?
"God sends good people to Hell. Not only do religions like Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism — not only do they lead people away from God, they lead people to an eternity of separation from God in Hell.”
RAPTURE is so close now!!! Thank god Killary wasn't elected.....
by NCD on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:47pm
That well pointed out, I wonder if Bibi takes any religion seriously. Don't you think he'd invite Muhammad himself to preach if it served his cause?
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 5:04pm
At TheGuardian.com, much coverage, including this tidbit:
Pastor who prayed at embassy opening is 'a religious bigot', says Mitt Romney
Robert Jeffress has made offensive remarks on Judaism and Islam
The Guardian is also doing:
Israeli troops kill Palestinians protesting US embassy – LIVE UPDATES
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:08pm
Al Qaeda rises from the dead (al-Zawahiri knows a fellow traveler in Jeffries when he sees one?):
Al-Qaida leader calls for jihad on eve of US embassy moving to Jerusalem
Ayman al-Zawahiri says ‘appeasement’ has failed Palestinians and Trump has revealed ‘the true face of the modern Crusade’
@ Agence France Presse via TheGuardian.com, May 13
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:15pm
Do you believe the word?
by NCD on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 1:50pm
What I am curious about is where Trump actually fits in Rapture theology. Do they have like a "Righteous Heathen" category for the catalyst people? Jvanka goes in "Righteous Jews"? Etc. There's got to be a place for them on the spaceship? Maybe separate class sections? Is it addressed somewhere in Revelations? Maybe check the Kabbalah? Quote amongst yourselves....
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 2:04pm
Chuck made his reservation long ago:
Schumer applauds Trump on moving US Embassy to Jerusalem
By Mallory Shelbourne @ TheHill.com - 05/14/18 10:56 AM EDT
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 2:31pm
And now a break for this ironical pre-Crusades history note:
The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them
by JUAN COLE @ Informed Comment, May 14
For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was completely devoid of Jews, at least by law
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 3:02pm
Like with Kaddish, God will not be mocked. To sing of God's praise is not to sing of man's vanity. God is not so easily fooled. A temple is yet another graven image to divide his children. Divided in dust, divided in mourning. Thus is your "Holy City" adorned in foolscap. Let the politicians rise up and eat the cancerous proverbs they've proferred, the heartless creed they've adopted. The real work will carry forth in the silence of the soul, not in the screams and heckles of the ego, as if God were a marketplace to be haggled over 5 shekels, to be bought with contempt and hatred. No house or wall or city can sustain itself on such flawed beginnings, such wicked moorings. Better to sing his praise in the fields or hipster havens than try to seduce with some urban-political landscape. The goals of man are not the goals of God, and mixing them is to invite his temper. These people, these non-believers, have reduced God to a quest for things, status, markers in time. God needs no signal for a rapture, no signpost for an Apocalypse, no legislation to enact judgment day. The conceit that God needs to play with numerology and superstitious coincidences is a manmade one. If man created a refuge for Jews, good enough. If 15 million Jews have made their mark in a world of billions, not just survival, not just to endure but prevail - miraculous. But to fritter away these achievements on mean spirited horse trading and deceitful alliances, to think that God has shackled himself to these petty events and comings and goings of man like some divine helicopter parent with no sense and nothing better to do ... sing Kaddish, the greatness of God. There is nothing to be gained from dwelling on these follies of men without asharing in the folly. God works in mysterious ways, not absurd. Sing... of death and life. And hope.
https://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kaddish-part-i
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 3:38pm
Nice link; elite cosmpolitan jewish homosexual as American as Walt Whitman, the real MAGA stuff, i.e., we are the world.
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 4:54pm
Breitbart wants to be on board, too; their headline right now:
Klein: Journalists Take Hamas Terrorists’ Word as Fact in Gaza Riot Coverage
by Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Hamas, desperate over their increasingly precarious situation in Gaza and eager to please Iranian paymasters, has escalated the premeditated, openly violent campaign aimed at breaching the Israel-Gaza border and attacking nearby Israeli communities....
and lots of other stories like
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Jerusalem Residents Celebrate Trump Outside New U.S. Embassy
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 4:45pm
good pic @ TheHill:
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 2:12pm
We don’t get the full features of the Adelsons sitting next to the Treasury Secretary.
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 2:18pm
thanks for that input, as in diplo world the seating chart has always been a message in itself
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/14/2018 - 2:39pm
A sad day. Sadly.
by Flavius on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 8:07am