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A sad day. Sadly.

Flavius — Wed, 16 May 2018 12:07:24 +0000

In reply to Israelis kill more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza protests (against U.S. embassy move), health officials say

A sad day. Sadly.

That pointed out, I wonder if

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 21:04:33 +0000

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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?

Nice link; elite cosmpolitan

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 20:54:55 +0000

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Nice link; elite cosmpolitan jewish homosexual as American as Walt Whitman, the real MAGA stuff, i.e., we are the world.

Breitbart wants to be on

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 20:45:12 +0000

In reply to Do you believe the word?

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

Like with Kaddish, God will

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 14 May 2018 19:38:00 +0000

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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

And now a break for this

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 19:02:14 +0000

In reply to Do you believe the word?

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

thanks for that input, as in

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 18:39:48 +0000

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thanks for that input, as in diplo world the seating chart has always been a message in itself

Chuck made his reservation

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 18:31:09 +0000

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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

In a rare moment of agreement with President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday praised the president for moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“In a long overdue move, we have moved our embassy to Jerusalem. Every nation should have the right to choose its capital,” Schumer said in a statement. “I sponsored legislation to do this two decades ago, and I applaud President Trump for doing it.” [....]

We don’t get the full

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 May 2018 18:18:36 +0000

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We don’t get the full features of the Adelsons sitting next to the Treasury Secretary.

good pic @ TheHill:

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 18:12:37 +0000

In reply to Israelis kill more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza protests (against U.S. embassy move), health officials say

good pic @ TheHill: