Riverdance defies Israel boycott calls - Israel Culture, Ynetnews

Riverdance defies Israel boycott calls - Israel Culture, Ynetnews: "Riverdance defies Israel boycott calls
Pro-Palestinian protestors urge Irish dancing phenomenon not to 'dance for Israeli apartheid state'
Itamar Eichner
Published:  09.13.11, 08:50 / Israel Culture

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Irish dancing phenomenon Riverdance sparked a row in Ireland recently over its first-ever Israel tour this month.
 
Since learning of the group's planned performances in the Jewish state in early August, pro-Palestinian activists have been holding loud protests on Dublin's main street on a daily basis"

Turkey assures safety of Israeli club - Israel Culture, Ynetnews

Turkey assures safety of Israeli club - Israel Culture, Ynetnews: "Turkey has since expelled top Israeli diplomats, cut military ties with the country, pledged to lobby other nations in support of the Palestinians' statehood bid and promised increased Turkish naval patrols in the Mediterranean.
 
Israel has expressed regret for the loss of lives aboard the flotilla, but it has refused to apologize, saying its forces acted in self-defense.
 
Turkey took strict security measures during last year's European Volleyball League tournament and closed a game between Turkey and Israel to the public."

Turkey assures safety of Israeli club - Israel Culture, Ynetnews

Turkey assures safety of Israeli club - Israel Culture, Ynetnews: "The game comes amid heightened tensions between the two nations over Israel's refusal to apologize for the death of eight Turks and a Turkish-American in a raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship last year.
 
Turkish-Israeli relations hit a low last week after a UN report on the incident said Israel's naval blockade of Gaza was a "legitimate security measure," but also called the raid on the flotilla that tried to break the blockade "excessive and unreasonable.""

Police to Protesters: Move to Migron

Police to Protesters: Move to Migron: "THE UNMAKING OF ISRAEL: HOW IT BROKE. HOW TO FIX IT.

"Until I read The Unmaking of Israel, I didn’t think it could be possible to feel more despairing, and then more terribly hopeful, about Israel, a place that I began at last, under the spell of Gershom Gorenberg’s lucid and dispassionate yet intensely personal writing, to understand."
--Michael Chabon

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South Jerusalem — A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature

South Jerusalem — A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature: "The Palestinian owners of the land on which Migron stands went to court in 2006, with the help of Peace Now, to demand that the government remove the squatters on their property.  Before the Court, the state admitted that the outpost was an egregious violation of the law but said it wanted to build a new neighborhood in a different settlement for the lawbreakers to enable a peaceful evacuation. The outpost settlers rejected that deal. If the Migron ruling achieved only moderate headlines, it was partly because March is a long way off and no one really believes the state will carry out the orders, and partly because the top acreage on newspaper and website front pages had already been seized by the growing economic protests of the July 14 movement."

South Jerusalem — A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature

South Jerusalem — A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature: " Israeli Supreme Court woke up from a deep slumber and issued an order to the government to evacuate the illegal outpost of Migron on the bypass road between Jerusalem and the Israeli settlements north of Ramallah. Migron, according to founder Itay Harel, was originally established on the hilltop in 1999. The settlers claim to have bought part of the land in 2004 from a Palestinian owner – but as Matti Friedman reported for AP in 2008,the claim rests on a document that the man purportedly signed and had notarized in California over 40 years after he died."

FrumFind.org » Blog Archive » Our Flawed Understanding of Parsha Chukas

FrumFind.org » Blog Archive » Our Flawed Understanding of Parsha Chukas: "The prophetic vision of our all kind and loving G-d exercises both his element of Judgement and loving kindness to his chosen people, the Jewish nation. We are clearly given principles regarding how when negotiations fail we may turn and not fight, however we will not tolerate a nation which takes captives from us. We prayed to Hashem and the enemy who’s name we were not certain of in the Parsha, was given into our hand by Hashem.
When peaceful relations are sought as in the Parsha when we simply were interested in taking a short cut through foreign territory to get to where we wanted to go, even when met with an armed resistance bearing arms, we did not initiate war because we were not being attacked"