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Politics & OpinionsBy IsraelMatzav
5 weeks ago
 Remember the sex tape that Fatah whistleblower Fahmi Shebaneh (pictured) threatened to release last week? Well, he released it, and it was shown on cable television's Channel 10 here on Wednesday night. That's shaken up the 'Palestinians' a little bit. Palestinian officials on Friday rallied around a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after a video surfaced showing him in the nude in an alleged attempt to trade his influence for sex.
The footage of Rafiq Husseini, shot by a former Palestinian intelligence officer, has raised an uproar in conservative Palestinian society.
In the video, broadcast by Israeli TV earlier this week, Husseini is shown undressing in a bedroom and calling out to an unseen woman, heard speaking off camera, to join him. "Do I turn off the light or do you? What is the procedure?" Husseini is heard asking the woman.
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
7 weeks ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA
Here's the typical narrative: If we would just sign on the dotted line
creating a sovereign Palestinian State and leaving the West Bank and eastern
Jerusalem then life would be grand.
But then comes a warning from a Palestinian on the inside track that Hamas
would take over.
Quick. Put on the blinders.
I know.
Its the "occupation" that has corrupted Fatah and the rest of the PA
leadership.
The moment we pull out the corruption will instantly come to an end.
OK. Carry on.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Dabar
2 months ago
It seems that the death toll will be high from this earthquake. But earthquakes don't kill, not unless the ground opens up near people, or part of a mountain slips down on them. Very few people have died this way.
But people die in earthquakes because of the mass of falling buildings. Concrete as a roof, can be deadly.
Anyone in the construction industry in caring nations knows that they are liable (within reason) for the lives (indeed for injury) of the people who occupy any building they are involved with. Capable engineers are even required to have insurance. The process is intended to ensure all is built to the standard it was designed to. Even where I live, we now build to meet earthquake standards, though earthquake is uncommon. In Haiti, earthquakes are known to be common, as are strong winds (a sideways force akin to earthquake). The foundation of this understanding is quite simple: the principle of 'making good' due to our actions which is the foundation of every justice system.
Anyone should ask when they see the lives lost in a collapsed building, "who's responsible?"
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Chuck
6 months ago
Ask what the most commonly held human failing would be, and
most folks would give you some variation on the ol’ seven deadly’s. Not being
Catholic, I couldn’t tell you exactly which ones those are; other than I know
that Rudolph isn’t one of them. I do
however, know what the proper answer to the question is. Our, and by that I
mean humanity, greatest failing is that we are all hypocrites. There is no “black and white” on this
question. It is only a matter of how grey the area we inhabit. As an illustration, here in the South we often use the
phrase “bless their heart” as a precursor to a tirade of defamation. Its’ other use, and our second favorite, is
as our moral disclaimer for schadenfreude.
For my Rightwing Deathsquad Softball
league brethren that would be “the pleasure derived from the misfortune of
others”. When someone that we dislike has a stroke of ill luck, we precede our
recounting with “Bless their heart”.
Lately I have been
able to employ both usages in a single sentence. Thanks to Mr. O’Keefe
and Ms. Giles, I can say “Bless ACORN and the Democrats’ heart , but I’m
tickled to see them twist in the wind”.There is nothing quite like exposing both glaring hypocrisy and
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy JudgeRight
6 months ago
: to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect.
I don't find any humor in the shape changing character of extremist liberals running our country. Barack Obama's speech before the Congress 2 days ago had the conservatives in the house fuming. The press, still being in the tank for the Obama administration even after their bias was wholly exposed for all to see through the election cycle, are not explaining what you see when they showed you video of the president's speech. The backdrop of so many conservatives waiving white papers after Obama's grandiose proclaimation "My door is always open" was the story for the evening. In the first weeks of Barack's presidency the Republicans were complaining they had no opportunity to meet with him. Finally, a big show was made of bringing them in for a discussion. During the first meeting, the Republicans were communicating their vision and ideas and Obama's reaction to their complaints and/or plans was, "I won |
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Tzedek-Tzedek
7 months ago
"Today," Netanyahu said, "is the day Israel uprooted approximately 10,000 Israelis - men, women and children - from their homes. To our regret, Gaza has become a base for Hamas-led, Iran-sponsored terrorism. Thousands of rockets and missiles have been fired at us." (Binyamin Netanyahu, August 2009, who voted in favor of the "Disengagement" from Gaza in 2005)http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1248277950920 I did not imagine that we would leave Gaza and they would fire Qassams from there; I did not imagine that Hamas would show so strongly in the elections. (Shimon Peres, President of Israel, 5/7/2008) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/981392.html Olmert has already said that his convergence plan, which called for a unilateral pullout from most of the West Bank, has been shelved, and he has described the withdrawals from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as failures. (9/1/07) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/811319.html To this day, the architects of the Oslo Accords (chiefly Peres & Beilin) between the State of Israel and Yasser Arafat's PLO, have not admited the disaster they directly brought upon Israel, nor have they publicly asknowledged that over 1000 Israeli civilians died in the terror which resulted from their bad leadership. -------------------- |
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy limberwulf
9 months ago
Amendment VI of the US Constitution states,”In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.” In our current court system, however, speed has taken precedence over rights, with many court decisions being left up to a single judge. This is particularly the case with minor drug offenses and traffic violations. Traffic violations I can possibly understand providing there are no criminal attachments to violations. Currently, it is considered a crime to break the speed limit. It is a minor crime, but a crime none the less. For this to be able to be an offense tried without jury, traffic violations would have to be changed to a class of violations which only affect the right to operate a vehicle on public roads, no reference to crime could be made, and no criminal record could include such policy violations. Thus, there is a violation of Amendment VI of the constitution. |
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