Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Monday, April 30, 2018
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Lactating in Ariel University of Samaria
The campus has been enriched with a Lactating Room for students with babies. I have worked years in TAU (Tel Aviv) and never heard about this facility. Ariel is different, in the student body there are many married religious women, with their turbans and long skirts. The management is very PC conscious and the image shows a dark skinned mother and baby. The university website also shows many Africans, and truly, one finds many in the campus.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Iran's Nice Side
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is actively promoting art. Two new works of Iranian veteran artist, Mahmoud Farshchian (right), called Sham-e-Ghariban (The night of
the dispossessed) and Aseman-e-Chaharom (The fourth heaven), were
unveiled in a ceremony attended by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif (left, in a typical gesture) and his wife. There was a time when we had excellent relations with Iran.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Darwin Award Candidate from Palestinian "March of Return" Riots
Interestingly, the Israeli left did not organize counter-protest
demanding the border be opened and the Arabs let in. Imagine those
thousands of angry, violent youth on the streets of Tel Aviv. We would suffer the fate of the Yazidis.
What was the Islamic State? It was the rebellion of the Sunni Muslims of Syria and Iraq to escape the rule of their Shi'ite masters. In the stress of the war, the Assad dynasty was revealed as a tribal Alawite dictatorship over the Sunni majority. The Alawites, while barely Muslim, allied themselves with Iran, the Shi'a patron of the Middle East. ISIS was strangely silent about Israel and never anti-Jewish, possibly exposing the underlying structure of the Middle East conflict: The Sunni peoples vs. isolated Shi'a pockets.
The Sunni are the Palestinians, Syrians, Jordan, Western Iraq, Saudia, the Gulf. The Shi'a are Iran, South Lebanon, the Alawite pocket, the Houthis in Yemen. Paradoxically, the Sunni seem to consider Israel as a not acknowledged ally, and semi-legitimate owner of Palestine. We shall overcome.
What was the Islamic State? It was the rebellion of the Sunni Muslims of Syria and Iraq to escape the rule of their Shi'ite masters. In the stress of the war, the Assad dynasty was revealed as a tribal Alawite dictatorship over the Sunni majority. The Alawites, while barely Muslim, allied themselves with Iran, the Shi'a patron of the Middle East. ISIS was strangely silent about Israel and never anti-Jewish, possibly exposing the underlying structure of the Middle East conflict: The Sunni peoples vs. isolated Shi'a pockets.
The Sunni are the Palestinians, Syrians, Jordan, Western Iraq, Saudia, the Gulf. The Shi'a are Iran, South Lebanon, the Alawite pocket, the Houthis in Yemen. Paradoxically, the Sunni seem to consider Israel as a not acknowledged ally, and semi-legitimate owner of Palestine. We shall overcome.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
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