Sunshine & Rain: up 8am, drove Jun to station then house: diray, 9:30 breakfast, old newspapers, & managed to lead water away from the house, 2:30? home: emails to topics then this diary, now 6:40 giving up bath, soon to o.h. Just replied 3 times on ""American Tragedy & Human Future #1000 [Freedom: the Ultimate Value]". So now 7:57pm. Going soon hopefully!
0) Animal-Human Hybrids:
"Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy", Maryann Mott, National Geographic News, January 25, 2005
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html
1) For Peace: UFPJ:United for Peace and Justice:
"Conference Proposals: HANDLING PROPOSALS FOR THE UFPJ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, Deadline: February 10, 2005":
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2677
"" United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. ""
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=16
2) Jews for Peace:
(1) RighteousJews.org, Updated 17 January 2005:
http://righteousjews.org/
"" RighteousJews.org was begun in 2003 as a way to commemorate the memory of those Palestinians who have been, and continue to be depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism and its quest to create a Jewish state in the lands between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. From its founding in 1897 the Zionist endeavors to "pump in" Jews and "pump out" Palestinians from this land have been the root cause of bloodshed and conflict. These racist endeavors have also been deeply problematic for those who believe in the basic tenets of Judaism of the prophets, namely justice and a duty to heal the world.
RighteousJews.org was created to honor those who consider themselves to be Jewish and who have worked for the human rights of non-Jewish Palestinians.RighteousJews.org was inspired by the website of the most famous Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem, located on Mt. Herzl on the lands of the Palestinian village of Ein Karem 1,400 meters south of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Yad Vashem lists the names of over 19,000 non-Jews who risked their "lives, freedom, and safety in order to rescue one or several Jews from the threat of death or deportation to death camps without exacting in advance monetary compensation." For many years this list was referred to as the list of "Righteous Gentiles." Today it is more politically correct to refer to those who have made the list as the Righteous Among the Nations." ""
(2) Related Organizations: http://righteousjews.org/links.html
Holocaust Heroes
Israel Policy Forum
Americans for Peace Now
Jews for Peace in Palestine
Jewish Voice for Peace
Movement for One Democratic Secular State
Not in My Name
(3) "Jewish Power",
By Paul Eisen, UK Director of Deir Yassin Remembered - (August 19, 2004)
Paul Eisen is a director of Deir Yassin Remembered, dyr@eisen.demon.co.uk
http://righteousjews.org/article10.html
"" The crime against the Palestinian people is being committed by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons displaying Jewish religious symbols, and with the full support and complicity of the overwhelming mass of organised Jews worldwide. But to name Jews as responsible for this crime seems impossible to do.
The future is always open and nothing can ever be ruled out; but, for now, it's hard to see how Israel can be stopped. After over fifty years, it is clear that Israel will only relinquish its eliminationist attitude to Palestinians and Palestinian life when it has to. This need not be through military action but it is hard to see how anything else will do. The conventional wisdom - that if America turned off the tap, Israel would be brought to its knees - is far from proven. First, it's not going to happen. Second, those who believe it may well be underestimating both the cohesiveness of Israeli society and the force of Jewish history which permeates it. Even more unlikely is the military option. The only force on earth which could possibly confront Israel is the American military, and, again, that is not going to happen.
Palestinian resistance has been astonishing. After over fifty years of brutal assault by what may well one day be seen as one of the most ruthless and irrational powers of modern times, and with just about every power on earth ranged against them, Palestinians are still with us, still steadfast, still knowing who they are and where they come from. Nonetheless, for the time being effective resistance may be over (though the possibility of organised non-violent resistance can never be ruled out), and, for now, the only strategy open may be no more than one for survival.
For us it is so much easier to deny this reality than to accept it, and doubtless the struggle will continue. How fruitful this will be no-one can say. Although the present seems hopeless, survival is still vital and no-one knows when new opportunities may arise. Anyway, to struggle against injustice is always worth doing. But what if the struggle becomes so delusional that it inhibits rather than advances resistance? What if the struggle becomes a way of avoiding rather than confronting reality? Those slogans "End the Occupation!" and "Two States for Two Peoples!" are now joined by a new slogan, "The One-State Solution!" This is every bit as fantastic as its predecessors because, just as there never was going to be an end to the occupation, nor a real Palestinian state, so, for now, there is no possibility of any "one state" other than the state of Israel which now stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and the only "solution" is a final solution and even that cannot be ruled out.
"Zionism is not Judaism;
Judaism is not Zionism?"
The crime against the Palestinian people is being committed by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons with Jewish religious symbols all over them, and with the full support and complicity of the overwhelming mass of organised Jews worldwide. But to name Jews as responsible for this crime seems impossible to do. The past is just too terrible. All of us know of the hatred and violence to which accusations against Jews have led in the past. Also, if we were to examine critically the role of Jews in this conflict, what would become of us and of our struggle? Would we be labelled anti-Semites and lose much of the support that we have worked so hard to gain? ""
3) Over Iran:
"USAF playing cat and mouse game over Iran", By Richard Sale, UPI Intelligence Correspondent, Published January 26, 2005:
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050126-045615-4690r
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