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Author's Note: This article containsspoilers for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR.
While last year's ANT-MAN didn't necessarily set the world on fire, it was a nice palate cleanse following AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. It took the Marvel films back to a much smaller scale (pun not intended), and managed to make a film surrounding one of the most potentially laughable characters into a fun ride in the theater. The character went on to appear in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, where there was an amazing Giant Man reveal.
In an interview with Modern Myth Media, ANT-MAN director Peyton Reed discussed the envy he had that the Russos were the ones who got to make the reveal to audiences, as well as how good this will be for the character going forward.
"Well I was super jealous about a year and change or whenever I knew that that was happening. I was like. 'Oh my God, they get to do the Giant Man reveal!' I had a little bit of a professional envy going on. But I'm thrilled! I love the Giant Man stuff in the movie. And so many people saw CIVIL WAR, I think it's gonna be great for us. And Paul [Rudd] is so good. I was actually with Paul today, we're in the writing phase right now. He's so good as that character and we have so much more in store for our movie."
Now all of a sudden, that ANT-MAN AND THE WASP sequel announcement from Marvel is sounding like a much better idea, one that can be quite the profitable endeavor for the studio. But what can we expect to see in that film? Sure, we know it'll be an adventure with Scott Lang returning as Ant-Man and Hope Van Dyne making her debut as the Wasp, but what else can we expect? After all, when last we saw the character, he was set to get freed by Cap from the underwater prison in CIVIL WAR.
"Well he's a fugitive in most of the first ANT-MAN movie. He's just a bigger fugitive now. I think that's one of the fun things and challenges about the Marvel movies for us, for the directors and for the writers, is you do have to sort of consider what happened in the previous movies in terms of your jumping-off point for those characters. It's something we talked a lot about early on and we definitely have stuff figured out, so there will be some big leaps forward."
And what about the Wasp's involvement? This flick is a huge deal for Marvel, considering it'll be the studio's first film with a female name in the title. Reed very much understands the importance of this.
"It's something we're excited about. For me as a comic nerd, I always thought of Ant-Man and Wasp as a team and that's a lot of what the second movie is really about is how they work together, what their personal and professional relationships are like. To show her finally fully formed in this movie is really exciting. We really get to introduce this character into that universe. I mean we've introduced the character, but we haven't seen her with her full power set and everything, so to me she's not a supporting character in this movie. It's every bit as much her movie as it is Scott Lang's."
Given that her name is half the movie's title, we'd expect nothing less.
Finally, Reed discussed the research he did for the sequel, which is currently being written:
"I'm cutting a wide swath on that stuff. I go back to early, early Avengers stuff and all the way up to the Nick Spencer stuff now. I just sort of devour it all. And really in terms of maybe even more than story stuff, just looking at imagery and for me what were iconic images and how we can squeeze those into the movie."
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP hits theaters on July 6, 2018.
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Make Do And Mend
Okay. World War II's ended, the bunting's been taken down, the street parties packed up and the cost is finally being counted.
Top of the list of jobs to do is to build housing for all the people displaced by the Blitz. Thing is, the stuff you have in your warehouses isn't always quite right for the job…
For example – you're really short on railings to go round these new homes for heroes. All you've got in the stores are thousands of old stretchers hurriedly fashioned from tubular metal and wire mesh as standard issue for ARP wardens. They'd always been bloody uncomfortable if you had the misfortune to have to lie on one, but they did the job – and it seems a shame to throw them away. Waste not, want not…
I first read about Wartime Stretcher Railings in Peter Ashley's fascinating More London Peculiars (English Heritage, 2007) but he was only talking about them as being around one block of flats – just outside Oval cricket ground. I actually made a pilgrimage to see them – and they are fab.
You honestly wouldn't know they weren't actually built as railings if it weren't for the four little kinks – one in each corner – bent into the supporter bars to keep the stretcher off the ambulance floor, and the weld-marks every six feet or so where the handles have been bonded together.
Thing is – the picture above isn't from the Oval.
I actually took this picture in Watergate Street in Deptford. I hadn't noticed the railings – I was too busy looking at the ancient piece of wood embedded in the giant dock wall opposite and they had to be pointed out to me – but there's no doubt about it – these are wartime stretcher railings.
Which begs the question – how many more are there? I was under the impression that the ones at Oval were unique – it would seem not. South and East London copped most of the bombs – so presumably they also had most stretchers. I'm beginning to think there must be more of these recycled pieces of Home Guardery – anyone know any?
Next time you happen to be walking down Watergate Street (if nothing else, to see the watergate itself, slid in between that poor old Borthwick warehouse that only has its facade left and doesn't appear to have been touched for years, and the giant dock wall, down a nasty scaffolding passage) take a moment to look at those railings and allow yourself to be transported to the Blitz.
To the rubble and smoke, fires and blood – and the poor sods who were carried to hospital on a set of garden railings…


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PITTSBURGH — Reliever George Kontos has been designated for assignment by the Pittsburgh Pirates to clear a roster spot for right-hander Joe Musgrove from the disabled list.
Kontos was removed from his role as the primary setup man for closer Felipe Vazquez last week. In 21 games, Kontos was 2-3 with one save and a 5.03 ERA.
Kontos says he has a "lot left to give" and hopes "someone out there needs a pitcher who has experience and has had success."
The 32-year-old spent his first seven seasons with San Francisco and was on their World Series-winning teams in 2012 and 2014. He was claimed off waivers by the Pirates last Aug. 5. He has made 343 career appearances with an 18-18 record, two saves and a 3.11 ERA.
Musgrove was set to make his Pirates' debut Friday night with a start against St. Louis. He was acquired from Houston as part of a package for Gerrit Cole in January. Musgrove had been on the DL all season with a shoulder strain.


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Shot after shot now came from the front. There were shoutings and confusion, hoof-beats and desultory cheers. Away to the rear, in the sleeping camp, were a singing of bugles and grumble of drums. Pushing through the thickets on either side the roads came the Federal pickets, in full retreat, firing backward at random as they ran. A straggling group that had followed back one of the roads, as instructed, suddenly sprang away into the bushes as half a hundred horsemen thundered by them, striking wildly with their sabres as they passed. At headlong speed these mounted madmen shot past the spot where Byring had sat, and vanished round an angle of the road, shouting and firing their pistols. A moment later there was a roar of musketry, followed by dropping shots—they had encountered the reserve-guard in line; and back they came in dire confusion, with here and there an empty saddle and many a maddened horse, bullet-stung, snorting and plunging with pain. It was all over—"an affair of outposts."
The line was reestablished with fresh men, the roll called, the stragglers were reformed. The Federal commander with a part of his staff, imperfectly clad, appeared upon the scene, asked a few questions, looked exceedingly wise and retired. After standing at arms for an hour the brigade in camp "swore a prayer or two" and went to bed.
Early the next morning a fatigue-party, commanded by a captain and accompanied by a surgeon, searched the ground for dead and wounded. At the fork of the road, a little to one side, they found two bodies lying close together—that of a Federal officer and that of a Confederate private. The officer had died of a sword-thrust through the heart, but not, apparently, until he had inflicted upon his enemy no fewer than five dreadful wounds. The dead officer lay on his face in a pool of blood, the weapon still in his breast. They turned him on his back and the surgeon removed it.
"Gad!" said the captain—"It is Byring!"—adding, with a glance at the other, "They had a tough tussle."
The surgeon was examining the sword. It was that of a line officer of Federal infantry—exactly like the one worn by the captain. It was, in fact, Byring's own. The only other weapon discovered was an undischarged revolver in the dead officer's belt.
The surgeon laid down the sword and approached the other body. It was frightfully gashed and stabbed, but there was no blood. He took hold of the left foot and tried to straighten the leg. In the effort the body was displaced. The dead do not wish to be moved—it protested with a faint, sickening odor. Where it had lain were a few maggots, manifesting an imbecile activity.
The surgeon looked at the captain. The captain looked at the surgeon.
You ask me if in my experience as one of a pair of twins I ever observed anything unaccountable by the natural laws with which we have acquaintance. As to that you shall judge; perhaps we have not all acquaintance with the same natural laws. You may know some that I do not, and what is to me unaccountable may be very clear to you.


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U.S. silver prices closed September with a final day loss, but still scored significant monthly and quarterly gains.
On Friday, silver prices for December delivery settled to $34.58 an ounce on the Comex in New York, dipping 8.9 cents or 0.3%. Silver traded from an intraday low of $34.33 an ounce to a high of $34.93 an ounce. Losses were attributed to a stronger U.S. dollar and profit-taking.
For September, silver prices traded up $3.14, or 10.0%, extending a monthly winning streak to three after for straight monthly losses. Running through the months, silver advanced 12.6% in August and 1.1% in July, then fell 0.5% in June, 10.5% in May, 4.5% in April and 6.2% in March. Before then, silver prices rallied in February by 4.2% and jumped 19.2% in January.
The most recent monthly increases secured silver's quarterly gain of $6.97, or 25.2%. The white metal has advanced in two of three quarters, with Q1 2012 up 16.4%. Silver prices declined 15.0% during the April-June period.
Silver has outperformed all other precious metals for September, the quarter and year-to-date — the latter logging in at 23.9%.
Silver's direction has tracked gold, which registered its best quarterly gain in over two years and has benefitted from easing monetary policy from world central banks that excite inflation expectations. Precious metals rallied after the Fed said earlier this month that it would stimulate the economy with $40 billion each month in mortgage-backed securities. Stimulus signals have also come out of the European Central Bank and the People's Bank of China.
In other New York bullion prices on Friday and for the month:
- December gold prices settled at $1,773.90 an ounce for a 5.1% gain in September,
- January platinum prices closed to $1,669.30 an ounce for a 8.6% monthly pick-up, and
- December palladium prices settled at $640.80 an ounce for a 1.8% gain in September
Also on Friday, the London silver Fix was $34.65 an ounce, advancing 70.0 cents or 2.1%. London silver prices shot up 13.5% in September. As for quarterly and year-to-date figures, London silver has respectively gained 28.0% and 23.0%.
In other London fixings for the day and September, gold at $1,776.00 an ounce advanced 7.7% for the month, palladium at $642.00 an ounce added 3.0% in September and platinum at $1,668.00 an ounce surged 10.0% for the month.
Quarterly improvements for London precious metals were 11.1% for gold and palladium and 16.8% for platinum. They are all higher this year with gains so far of 12.8% for gold, 0.9% for palladium and 20.8% for platinum.
Bullion American Eagle Silver Coins and ATB Five Ounce Silver Coins
Sales stats for U.S. Mint bullion silver coins have not been finalized for September, although available figures are unlikely to change.
As they stand now, bullion American Eagle silver coins are at 3,255,000 — the best monthly sales total since January when U.S. Mint distributors ordered more than 6.1 million. Additionally, buyers have snapped up 14,700 America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Coins, which is the third best monthly amount this year after the 19,400 coins sold in August and the 18,700 silver coins delivered in July. The newest silver bullion coin released, on September 10, honors Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. 10,400 have sold, accounting for the biggest portion of the overall five-ounce coin sales in September.


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Last weeks coolest gadget and winner of the Sansa Fuze are…
We had some great entries in last weeks coolest gadgets contest but one entry stood out with the voters, taking 34% of the votes, the Working Jet Pack.
I can imagine that machine-assisted flight is probably one of the greatest thrills technology has to offer. It does cost about $250,000, though.
I hope we will soon come to an era when everybody is flying around on jet packs that are not so expensive. Maybe the skies will be filled with jet packers, and I wonder how long it will take for us to cease to be impressed by it.
There were only 4 votes between second and third place, with the new essential kitchen appliance, Pizza Scissors, managing to grab the runner up spot.
Pizza lovers rejoice: serving slices is easier than ever! Slice and serve pizza easily with this new invention. It combines kitchen shears with a wedge-shaped spatula so you can slice and serve with one hand without ever losing toppings.
Finally in third place we have the very useful Stealth Switch.
This desktop cloaking device instantly hides applications of a dubious nature just at the press of a covert foot switch. Your offending browser/application isn't just minimised but is completely hidden from view. Save your job and that eBay bid at the same time!
Thanks again to all entrants, voters and commentators. The next weekly coolest gadgets will be up for voting this Friday (write about gadgets and want to enter, here's how), see you there.
Oh nearly forgot, this weeks randomly drawn voter who wins the Sansa Fuze MP3 Player is Jabberwock, congratulations we'll be in touch to sort out shipping details.


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When the Big East was reorganized in 2012 following a toxic tug of war between the football and basketball schools, the northeast collegiate rivalries that defined the conference were no more.
In December 2012 "The Catholic Seven" consisting of DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's, and Villanova broke away from the football schools. For a short time thereafter, there technically wasn't a Big East conference.
After much negotiating, "The Catholic Seven" were awarded the rights to the Big East name and logo. And they were allowed to continue the tradition of the basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden.
In the aftermath, two more Catholic schools, Creighton and Xavier, and the lone non-Catholic school, Butler, joined to fill out the field. The conference had been salvaged, but with changes.
Fast forward four years and the new season marks a milestone for the new conference: for the first time in its history, all undergraduate students have come in with the new conference model.
Gone and graduated are the last students who experienced the Big East of Cincinnati, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, Connecticut, and West Virginia.
Those days will never be forgotten, nor should they be, but it bears mentioning that current seniors have no memory of seeing any of those teams play in a yearly, conference setting.
Instead they have cheered on The Hall as they faced familiar faces in "The Catholic Seven", but some very unfamiliar faces in Butler, Creighton, and Xavier. Although strange at first, this new incarnation of the Big East now is the new normal.
Rivalries are forming between the schools, new and old, and the new schools are adding their own flavor.
Butler, from Indianapolis, Ind. comes into the conference with a long sports history and an emphasis on basketball, a match made in heaven for the new Big East. The Bulldogs have found mixed success in the Big East through three years, but may soon be a stronge contender in the Big East on the court.
Creighton, coming all the way from Omaha, Neb. has found success in baseball and men's soccer where they have regular season titles, to women's volleyball where they boast repeat seasons of regular season and tournament titles.
Although basketball has not been as successful for Creighton as they would like, they have proven their potential to be a danger on the court.
Finally Xavier, from Cincinnati, Ohio is another well-rounded program with an excellent basketball program. Their men's basketball team qualified for the tournament each of the last three seasons, but beyond that, the Musketeers have claimed two tournament titles in baseball, with a runner's up title in men's soccer.
It may not be the conference it was, but the Big East is beginning to thrive with its new members. The new identity of the conference is still forming, but the athletes and students who now walk Seton Hall's campus have more memories of match days against Creighton, than Rutgers. That is the new reality.
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An era was coming to an end, and a new one was beginning. America was changing, and socialism was taking its hold. The 1920's social life was split mostly between traditionalists and modernists. Traditionalists believed everything with value was coming to an end, and the behavior of the modernists began to fall upon one's intellect, instead of society's approval. Jazz flowed through the veins of the young as fluently as did alcohol. Prohibition was questioned, contemporary art was abstract, as was the thoughts of the young(Hanson, Linder).
They argued mainstream concepts, and searched for new ideas. One such person was John Thomas Scopes, a high school science teacher who was substituting for a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee(Hanson, Linder, Menton). He assigned readings on evolution for a review. Wanting to get publicity for their town, a group of conspirators, including George Rappaylea, a friend of Scopes, concocted a lynching lawsuit against him.
Rappaylea fed words to Scopes to create an image of criminal act by Scopes' teaching of evolution. His teaching came from the state approved textbook, that Scopes had assigned work from. Thus, Scopes had broken the law. Scopes was taken to court, and the trial of the 20's had begun. At court Scopes was tried(Hanson, Linder).
Originally, Rappaylea wanted to have science fiction writer H.G. Wells to head the defense. Wells had no interest in the case, but a law school dean from Knoxville, John Neal, volunteered. Willeam Jennings Bryan, accompanied by Clarence Darrow, offered to join the prosecution team, despite the fact he had not practiced law in over thirty years. Dudley Field Malone, an international divorce attorney, took up the last spot of the defense team. The rest of the prosecution team consisted of A. T. Stewart, Ben B. McKenzie, and Bryan's son William Jennings...


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Hi Bees!!
So with less than 5 months to go im rethinking my "colors." I dont really have a theme and i need to get my bridesmaids dresses asap. So here is a little detail about the venue its a big room with wooden floor, light pink walls and includes all black chiavari chairs.
Originally i wanted the infamous burlap and lace so i bought 40 yards of burlap and 50 of lace, before I even reserved the venue, and im planning on doing a tall clear vase with a pomander on top. Now since the venue has black accents im thinking its going to be too many colors all mixed around!!
Just the other day I picked white plates with silver lining on them so I think that i made a mistake in the burlap and lace. So NOW im thinking i should do silver table linens, with the black chairs, and white and black accents. I just dont want too much black since the venues ceiling is already a bit low i dont want to make it seem any smaller. Oh yes and add glitter to many of the things because I just love glitter and i feel like with the burlap and lace I cant really make it ME. I really like the rustic look but it might just not be me. Im just so confuesd and undecisive any advice or ideas??
Here are my two inspiration pictures, my centerpieces will be tall clear vases with white flower pomanders.
I plan to add lace in the middle of the burlap.
The table linen would be white and the runner would be probably a shimmery/glittery silver.
Thanks in advance bees!!


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Admit it, you don't often think of accessories whenever in the market for a new smartphone or tablet. But if you're wise, you remember to save a couple hundred bucks for a decent power bank, nice external speaker and especially a Bluetooth headset.
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You don't want to be pulled over and get a ticket just because you "forgot" to tell the wife you're going fishing with the guys. Besides, talking on the phone while driving with only one hand on the wheel can be extremely dangerous.
Then there are those times when your multitasking abilities are pushed to the limit, and you simply cannot afford to occupy one hand with a device that can niftily sit in your trouser pocket. Finally, while you're at it, why not grab a stereo headset capable of doubling as a crisp music listening contraption? That way, you'll save on expensive headphones and kill two birds with one stone.
Bottom line, everybody needs a Bluetooth headset, be it mono, stereo, ultra-cheap and simplistic or slightly pricier and adept at more than one task. And here we have the best options available on Amazon today, ordered from the costliest to the most affordable:
Motorola Moto Hint – $104
We could go on and on about this little guy's controversial quality-price ratio, but at the end of the day, the equation is simple. If you own a Moto X phone, the Hint is a must-buy. If not, don't bother. When paired with any other Bluetooth-enabled handheld, it's "beautifully out of sight", aka really tiny, but sketchy as far as call quality is concerned.
When used with an X, it's a lot more than a wireless earbud, delivering notifications directly to your ear, and sending text messages via voice.
Plantronics Voyager Legend – $69.99
The name is fitting, as this long-lasting, ergonomic, retro-looking, water-resistant appliance achieved legendary status and racked up a cool four-star review average from 3,000+ Amazon customers.
Granted, it's nowhere near as subtle as the Moto Hint, but triple mic tech can separate the user's voice from 80 dBs of background noise, ensuring the cleanest conversations you've ever heard.
Jawbone Era – $69 and up
The masters of low-cost activity trackers ironically charge more for their "smallest, lightest headset" yet. But Era's design is a winner, its range above-average (33 feet), and battery life respectable (up to 4 hours of talk time).
Obviously, it's not meant for stereo music playing functions, however what it does it does exquisitely, eliminating background noise courtesy of NoiseAssassin 4.0 technology.
Plantronics BackBeat Go 2 – $59.99
Plantronics again? You betcha, and this time, they have a relatively inexpensive pair of wireless Hi-Fi earbud headphones for you, which you can hook up to literally any Android through thin air. The Go 2 is comfortable, compact, fairly stylish and, above all, a waterproof bluetooth headphone.
It goes without saying you won't get Beats Studio-matching audio excellence at 60 bucks, yet Go 2's versatility makes it an uber-smart purchase.
Jawbone Icon HD+ The Nerd – $59.97
No, the name isn't particularly inspired, but the part Bluetooth headset, part USB audio adapter stands out with killer noise reduction abilities, HD sound, solid battery life you can easily keep tabs on via your phone, plus seven different earbuds guaranteeing perfect placement in your ear.
BlueAnt Q2 – $50.89
It's perhaps not as resourceful and convenient as the Moto Hint, but the Q2 also relies on voice control for a slew of basic operations. Just wirelessly connect it to your phone, slip it in your ear and, whenever a voice call comes through, you can say the magic words "answer" or "ignore", and the headset will oblige.
Of course, if you don't know who's ringing, voice commands are useless, so that's where the integrated Text to Speech engine comes in. If the number reaching you is stored in your phonebook, the Q2 shall announce the name before letting you decide if you're too "busy". Quite nifty, don't you think?
LG Tone Pro – $44.89 and up
Here's another stereo headset that aims to help you not just by diverting calls away from your phone. It's good for casual audiophiles too, and it can go on for up to 15 hours in continuous use while looking swanky and sophisticated. It's (almost) the best of both worlds.
Motorola H720 – $39.99
The H720 may strike you as old-fashioned at a first glance (and not in a good way), and it's certainly not a Moto Hint rival. Still, it provides up to eight hours of uninterrupted conversation, as per the manufacturer's claims, it boasts noise reduction and echo cancellation, and works with Samsungs, LGs, HTCs and even iPhones, not only Motorolas.
Jabra Clipper – starting at $32.65
Probably the cheapest half-decent Bluetooth stereo headset these days used to cost $150, and that tells you everything you need to know about Clipper's premium features. This bad boy can automatically switch between calls and music mode, it's rain and shock-resistant, it alerts you of incoming caller and mobile distance, and even facilitates remote music control.
The accompanying earbuds are, according to a fair share of customer reviews, "dreadful", but on the bright side, they're very easy to replace.
Plantronics M50 Bluetooth Headset – $29.99
This is basically the poor man's Voyager Legend, looking far less glamorous, renouncing water protection and easing up on the advanced noise cancelling technologies. Then again, the low price, 11-hour battery and 33 feet range have helped it cross the 6,000 customer review mark on Amazon and still keep a near-spotless four-star track record.
Mpow Swift – $29.99 and up
Wait a minute, it seems you can actually find an even cheaper pair of stereo headphones than the Jabra Clipper. Alas, the Swift isn't extremely "complex", plus it's a little awkward from an aesthetical standpoint.
It's ergonomic, comfortable and "stable" nonetheless, delivers an appropriate signal… for its price range, and lasts up to five hours of talk/playing time. Overall, it's not the best, it's not the worst product in the world.
Kinivo BTH240 – $24.99
Oh, come on, a 25 bucks set of large, sleek, foldable stereo headphones?!? What's the catch? Incredibly enough, we can't find one, other than the BTH240 isn't waterproof, which isn't surprising looking at the design.
Call and sound quality is reported as average at worst, the battery runs for a whopping 10 hours even in music playing, and you also get a built-in noise canceling microphone. No wonder 3,350 buyers gave Kinivo's stellar item a weighted 4.2 star evaluation.
No-name black wireless Bluetooth 4.0 universal headset – $7.94
Forget big industry names like Motorola, LG, Jawbone or Plantronics. Amazon's number one best seller in Bluetooth cell phone headsets is a product assembled by an obscure Chinese company probably headquartered in Shenzhen.
Worried for the possible shoddy quality of this thing? Then why not buy a couple? Half a dozen. A full dozen. At 8 bucks a pop, you can afford to replace them every other month. Funnily enough, you're even promised "noise reduction", "echo cancellation" and the design ain't as bad as you'd expect. The final choice is entirely yours.
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Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
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Samuel Smiles was one of Murray's most prolific, popular and profitable 19th century authors. As well as hundreds of articles, some for Murray's 'Quarterly Review' and 'Murray's Magazine', he wrote over 20 books. The most famous of these was 'Self-Help' (1859).
'Self-Help' sought to encourage working class and lower-middle-class men to climb the ladder of social and economic success through self-improvement. It promoted the virtues of hard work, thrift, sobriety and perseverance. It did so through biographical sketches, anecdotes and quotes from a wide range of men who for Smiles displayed the necessary qualities of character to inspire working men.
The success of 'Self-Help' encouraged similar works: 'Character' (1871), 'Thrift' (1875), 'Duty' (1880) and 'Life and Labour' (1887).
In addition to Smiles' biographies on industrial and railway figures, John Murray III published biographies of John Murray II and naturalist Thomas Edward.
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Aaron grew up in the Bay, but took some prime time off from skating. Now that he's all in again, he's been a consistently great homie for a session. Now, he's heading to Portland.
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The EU condemned the recent escalation of violence near Mariupol on Monday (17 August), a Ukrainian city located on the Azov Sea, between the Russian border and the Crimea peninsula, illegally annexed by Moscow in March 2014.
Media correspondents said today's fighting was between Ukrainian government forces in Mariupol and artillery positioned to the east of the city in territory under the control of pro-Russian separatists.
Reports say houses were destroyed in the government-controlled village of Sartana, about 20 kilometres east of Mariupol, and that an oil depot had also been damaged.
Regional police in Mariupol said that two civilians – a man and a woman – were killed by separatist shells that landed in Sartana.
Separatists said at least three people were killed by government shelling of Horlivka, a hot spot northeast of Donetsk.
There also were reports of heavy shelling by government forces into separatist-controlled Donetsk earlier on Monday.
In recent weeks, Western diplomats have warned Russia that Mariupol was a "red line" not to be crossed.
>>Read: EU, allies alarmed by recent escalation in eastern Ukraine
Asked by EURACTIV to comment, Commission spokesperson Catherine Ray said the EU condemned the recent escalation of fighting.
"It is of the utmost importance that the sides fully observe the ceasefire and take all appropriate measures to protect civilians in full respect of international humanitarian law," Ray said, implying that the Ukrainian authorities bore their share of responsibility for the situation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow today that recent developments in eastern Ukraine suggest Kyiv may be preparing to renew large-scale fighting.
Germany calls the situation 'explosive'
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned on 16 August that the situation in eastern Ukraine is "explosive," saying urgent talks are needed to prevent "a new military escalation spiral".
Steinmeier made the comments in an interview published in Bild am Sonntag.
He said he has proposed that representatives of Kyiv and the Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine meet immediately with representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for talks on reducing tension.
>>Read: How far should Europe go for the security of Ukraine?
In the meantime, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko criticised Russian leader Vladimir Putin for visiting Russia-annexed Crimea on Monday, saying his action was part of a plan to whip up tensions in eastern Ukraine.
"This is a challenge to the civilised world and a continuation of the plan to escalate the situation which is being carried out by Russian troops and their mercenaries in the Donbass (east Ukraine)," Poroshenko said in a Facebook post.
Putin visited Yalta in Crimea today to promote tourism on the peninsula, according to the Kremlin's website. Referring directly to that, Poroshenko said Crimea had a future only as part of Ukraine and that included its "tourist" future.


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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
In the midst of the war, the World Pride events were taking place in Jerusalem the last week. They had been postponed from the last year because of the disengagement. This year the March was cancelled because of the war. But all the other events were taking place. There was an overwhelming religious reaction to the march which was a product of Jewish-Muslim-Christian fundamentalist unity. Why don't they find this unity for creating a process of justice, reconciliation and peace for all? Why do they unite in hating lesbians, gay, bisexuals and transgender? Of course, there are inter-religious meetings of different Muslim, Jewish and Christian groups in search of peace. But the power is not in the hands of people who would like real change in basic values and the end of every oppression and suffering.
In my worst dreams I did not imagine that the war will be so long and painful. Today they declared a cease fire. We, in the radical left were out on the streets from the first days confronting feelings of hate and racism. We are regarded traitors more than ever. The Zionist parts of the peace movement started to wake up last week. Our historic role is to be catalysts of the mainstream peace movement. But it is important to mention that from the beginning of the war also individual Zionist peace activists took part in our demonstrations.
In the first 2 weeks I went to the anti-war vigils in Jerusalem everyday. Jerusalem is not part of the current war zone which means that here it is possible to continue our regular lives. But the sorrow and pain because of the widespread suffering is tremendous. I hardly can concentrate on my work. I am taking part in the feminist organizing concerning the war. We who work with women from disenfranchised communities – who disagree with us politically – are looking for ways to discuss the issue of security and war from feminist perspectives based on their experiences. We also plan a gathering of activists for our own political discussion besides the constant demonstrations and activities that are taken place, though marginalized and hardly represented in the media.
Every Saturday, Jews and Palestinians in Israel march in Tel Aviv against the war. Among other slogans we also shout that we refuse to be enemies. Asking a Palestinian friend what sustains her in this horrible situation, she immediately said that the Jewish-Arab demonstrations in Tel Aviv. Although our voices are hardly heard in the public. We insist on marching together. We insist on being together and saying among other things that: We are against the war, We don't want to kill and be killed in the service of the US, Both in Haifa and Beirut children want to live, We refuse to be enemies. I go out the street to express my views publicly. I go out to express my opposition to solving conflict with arms. I go out to express solidarity, I go out on the streets to be with my Palestinian friends.
So much pain and suffering on both sides. The suffering and destruction in Lebanon is greater and I feel horrible about it. It is done in my name. It is done in our name. But also here there is destruction on many levels of life. I mourn the suffering of the wounded, the dead and their families, the refugees in Lebanon, the ones whose houses were destroyed, women, men and children in the war zone who were thrown into destruction, anxieties and greater poverty. Two friends of mine have old parents in Haifa who are survivors of the Holocaust. They didn't want to leave their homes and their children were really worried. Lately we started to hear about the experiences of old and sick people who cannot go to the shelters. The horrible situation in Gaza and the west bank is not at the centre of public attention. This is also done in our name.
Feminist organizations in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other places organize around women's needs like single mothers with children and poor women. Finally the media mentions also feminist critique of the war. Nevertheless our world view is still marginalized. The critique was there from the beginning, but the media did not respond to it till now. The stickers in the streets claiming Israel is going to win the war are around everywhere. What does it mean to win a war? The division between Jews and Arabs or Israelis and Palestinian is growing. We are creating more hate towards us. We are going to face even worse economic and social problems. Many are killed. Many are injured. More money will be given to the army and less and less for health, education and welfare. I think we still cannot imagine the inner social destruction that Israeli society is going to face. The chances of a real peace process between Israel and Palestine look less and less possible already for a few years. We lost hope to witness and take part in a process of justice, reconciliation and living in peace for Jewish and Palestinian people in the Middle East. No matter how important is the struggle against any kind of religious fundamentalism the core of the problem here is the national conflict.
As I already mentioned, we witness the racist attitudes, dehumanization and hate toward the enemy. One dimensional attitude towards a large community, this time here towards the Muslim Arabs. This is a widespread phenomenon everywhere. As feminists we should discuss this concept of the enemy in depth and oppose it. Only through the deep notion that all humans in the universe are connected can we really create change. It won't be easy for us because Patriarchy, Militarism, Fundamentalism, Capitalism and every oppressive system is regarded by us as the enemy. We witness the ruins and destruction of those oppressive systems everywhere. We know that men in power or men in the arms industry are part of those systems and benefit from them. How do we relate as feminists to those enemies? Do we have a unique contribution to the concept of the enemy?
I hope that the cease fire will help me to get back also to my everyday work with women directors. Those are women who by being directors within the welfare office and of social change organizations will have to deal with the new social and economic challenges that people from disenfranchised communities will have to meet. This tremendous responsibility puts a special burden on them. In our project we also want to expose them to feminist critique of social rights and change.
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
(Title: "War No!" in Russian and Arabic. Translated from Ha'aretz, 10 August 2006)
At the vanguard of the radical left protest against the war are two women – an Arab and an immigrant from the former Soviet Union – leading the demonstrations with "End the War" chants in Arabic and Russian.
The evening before we met, Khulood Badawi escaped the horrors of war to go to the al-Hakawati Theater in East Jerusalem. But even escapism is not what it used to be. She was watching the Lebanese movie "The Kite", directed by a friend's sister, in which a young Lebanese woman falls in love with a Druze soldier from Israel during the first Lebanon War. At the height of the story, her cell phones began to ring. The news that Katyusha rockets had fallen on Haifa quickly moved through the theater. Badawi, who had lived in Haifa for several years, fled the theater to watch the TV news, where she recognized the offices of al-Ittihad, the newspaper of Hadash, Badawi's political party. Among the ruins she saw many offices she knew, and began calling her friends. [photo from Ha'aretz by Guy Ravitz]
At that same moment, Yana Knopova [photo, left], who immigrated to Israel from the Ukraine 11 years ago as a young Zionist activist, was fielding phone calls to and from friends and colleagues. The rockets had fallen not far from the Haifa apartment she shares with Abir Kopty, the spokeswoman for the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, and in the heart of the neighborhood of many Arabs and Jews who share her uncommon political path.
The two met the next day in what they call "the Tel Aviv bubble", where they have been orchestrating the key protests against the war on behalf of the Coalition of Women for Peace and Ta'ayush. An Arab and a Russian. Another of the strange phenomena to emerge from this war.
The 30-year-old Badawi has a long history of political activism: The former militant chair of the Association of Arab University Students in Israel, Badawi is today a field worker for the Association of Civil Rights in Israel. The 25-year-old Knopova, a student of psychology at Haifa University [and coordinator of the Coalition of Women for Peace], strayed far from the Zionist dream though she had worked five years for the Jewish Agency,
In those years, she believed that "the left was only the Meretz Party", as she put it, and then she discovered what she calls the lies and arrogance on which Israel is based, which not only create primitive men in Israel, but undermine the judgment of the entire country. Thus she found her way to a political and social home in the radical left.
The Bomb and the Hope
Clearly the sense of marginalization in Israeli society – which views Arabs as the enemy and ignores immigrants – strengthened the solidarity between them. "The police see Khulood as a natural enemy," says Knopova with a bitter smile; "while in the exact same situation, the police refuse to see me as an enemy. They also live with the stereotype that there are no Russians in the left. Khulood is always dangerous, I am never dangerous; Khulood is a demographic time-bomb, I am a demographic hope. This is an approach that regards the wombs of us both as in the service of the state, and we will not give them this pleasure." [photo left of Knopova by Yair Gil]
Over the past month, they have orchestrated all the demonstrations of the left, and held them in three languages – Hebrew, Arabic and Russian. Based on the number of calls coming in to Badawi's three cell phones, one would think that opposition to the war is the new consensus; based on the calls to Knopova in Russian throughout our conversation, one would think that a million Russian speakers in Israel changed their political views.
This is not true, of course, but there is no doubt that something different and new is happening. Much has already been said about the uniqueness of this war; the fact that at the vanguard of protest are two women – an Arab and an immigrant from the former Soviet Union – is without a doubt another unique element. Everything is new about this: Most of the protest in Israel, including that of the more left-wing activists, used to spring from the pool of Ashkenazi Jewish men. Not anymore. Today the protest of this war is being led to a large extent by women.
And that is not the only difference. In the past, Arab citizens of Israel refrained from going to demonstrations in Tel Aviv during a war. At most, they would make do with token representation in the later stages of protest. They would also generally hold their demonstrations in Arab towns. Not any more. From the very first week, the Arabs became equal partners to the demonstrations in Tel Aviv. Thousands of Katyusha rockets falling on them erased the reluctance of the past. In their eyes, this is no longer a Jewish war, but a civilian war in which they have an equal right to make themselves heard. Badawi says that they deliberately bring their voices to Tel Aviv, which is seen as the capital of Israel. [photo left of Badawi by GS]
Another kind of change is transpiring among Russian speakers, considered the hard core of the Israeli right. Once, bringing a few Russian speakers to demonstrations of the Zionist left was considered a big achievement. Today there is a small, but visible and consistent participation of Russian speakers in the protest movement of the radical left. Thus, the Arabs are learning to chant "Vynya Nyet!" (no war), while Russian and Hebrew speakers are chanting "Salaam Na'am, Harb La" (peace yes, war no). It looks like this connection will last long after the voices of war subside.
The Old Left Failed
To Badawi and Knopova, all this seems quite natural. Above all, they feel that the role of women in this protest is obvious. "All the elements of this war bring the issues together – feminism, social justice, class distinctions, environment, and the occupation," they say; "Women make this connection in a natural way. The Old Left, even Gush Shalom, has not managed to connect these struggles. We do. Even the social justice and political networks of women are stronger. This war is taking place on our social turf, in our homes. As women and citizens, we create an alternative voice of women facing the militant voice of men."
"This is a male war about honor, both that of the Israel Defense Forces and the Hizbullah," says Knopova. "Women are less into matters of honor. Russian women instinctively understand that this war is a man's game. We grew up in that kind of society, and it's obvious to us." Perhaps this is why the group of Russian-speaking women in the radical left in Israel grew over a short period from 3 to 200 activists who are now involved in protest.
Knopova explains that even her father now visiting in Israel, a profoundly non-political person, "understood the lie" from watching the Israeli TV channel in Russian. Even he, reports Knopova, noted in amazement that one Israeli soldier seems to be worth the lives of ten Israeli civilians and a hundred Lebanese. "He feels instinctively that something is wrong," she says, "but the Russians in Israel get brainwashed."
"Human life is valued in Israel only when it is in uniform," contends Badawi. "From our perspective, the struggle now is for the dignity of everyone in Israel. Every human being. Arab women have a common socio-economic interest with Russian and Mizrahi women. Our parents will have nothing left to eat after the war. When we speak from the stage – Yana in Russian, I in Arabic – that in itself is a political message. It also conveys to the Arab world that the claims by Israel and the U.S. that Jews and Arabs cannot live together is a false message."
It is easy to elicit endless criticism from them about Israel, but harder to pry from them statements against the Hizbullah. "Clearly we as feminists cannot support a fundamentalist religious organization," they agree, "but we do not want our statements to be used manipulatively against our views. Israel gave the Hizbullah reasons to attack, but our struggle is waged on behalf of our own society, to prevent a regional war that would hurt us all."
Badawi says that this is also the beginning of a way to repair the fractured relations from the events of 2000 [when 13 Arab citizens were killed by the Israeli police], after which it was practically impossible to find Arab partners for political protest. "The age is over when we would accept Jewish partnership at any price," she says. "Today the connection is genuine, with Jewish activists paying the price of their participation by demonstrations against the wall in Bil'in, refusal to serve in the military, activism at the checkpoints. We have a common fate, but it is different than in the past. These demonstrations can help us out of the severed relations of October 200. Now the Arab-Jewish partnership is egalitarian."
Only one area remains outside the joint space: the emotional memories. When Badawi talks about the evils of the Separation Fence, her personal baggage takes her back to 1948. Knopova agrees to every word, but has other associations from the collective Jewish memory. "I do not want Germans guarding us within the ghetto that we created for ourselves with the Separation Walls and security zones," she says. "In the tragic evolution of Zionism, Israel has become the final solution of itself." Perhaps this is not the text that will accompany the official lighting of torches on Independence Day in Israel, but it is the only moment when the thoughts of the two good friends part ways.
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
A war is being waged in the north and south of Israel – a war that invades our private as well as public space. Our homes are no longer protected, but exposed to risk on many levels – national, economic, social, family, and emotional. In this war, hundreds of thousands of civilians including children are under attack in Israel, Lebanon and Gaza.
This war mixes a 'military' with a 'civilian' reality, breaking down the distinctions between army and society, political and personal, strength and weakness, military and social allocations. In this war, the home front is being asked to show strength, but not asked its opinion. In the media, the masculine-military discourse is the only one heard. This language does not express our lives.
As activists in feminist organizations, we call attention to the population that has been abandoned in the home front – many of them women and children – who lack all protection. These include Mizrahi, Arab, and immigrant women with no resources and support networks, many of them single mothers, some whose lives were already troubled by violence. This war has had a special impact on women.
Decisions are being made about military and political measures that bring massive harm to the civilian population, but there is no real examination of non-military alternatives, no representation of women, no attention to the civilian and gender considerations, and no discussion of the ethical and humanitarian implications of war policies on civilians in Israel and beyond its borders.
We call upon the government of Israel:
• To prefer political channels to resolving this conflict, avoid harm to the civilian population, and promote a diplomatic solution.
• To implement the amendment to the Law of Equality for Women in the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. This law mandates the inclusion of women in all political decision-making, whether formulating domestic policies or policies regarding the continuation or discontinuation of the war, including ad hoc task forces to promote a diplomatic solution through negotiations.
We call upon the Israeli authorities:
Regarding compensation for loss of income: To recognize that most women who remain in the war zone are those lacking the means to leave, and struggling with difficult circumstances. These women need immediate and ongoing assistance, and should be included in all decisions regarding compensation for their loss of income as a direct and indirect result of the war. This compensation must be accomplished rapidly, without undue bureaucracy, and with dignity.
Regarding violence against women during war: To recognize that war situations increase the incidence of gender violence against women and girls, and to undertake to prevent and deal with this violence. The security of women is jeopardized by a discourse of national security that fails to include the security of women.
Regarding assistance to families: To provide material and emotional support to women and families in their shelters and homes – food, medical attention, emotional support, communication tools, police responsiveness.
Regarding Arab citizens of Israel: The state of Israel must provide equal services to its Arab citizens – accessible help, infrastructure, and information – to create physical, social and economic security to all its citizens. Arab women are particularly vulnerable to the economic and social repercussions of war, which should be addressed.
We call upon the Israeli media:
To include women in every program and deliberation regarding military, political, social, and economic issues, and to bring a gendered and civil society perspective to these programs.
Isha L'Isha: Haifa Feminist Center
Mahut Center: Information, Guidance and Employment for Women
Amuta for Economic Empowerment of Women
Itach – Ma'aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice
Kol Ha-Isha: Jerusalem Feminist Center
Feminist House, Tel Aviv
Feminist College for Empowerment of Women
Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel
Women's Parliament
Ahoti: For Women in Israel
Coalition of Women for Peace
Monday, August 7th, 2006
(Address by Yali Hashash to a mass rally for peace in Copenhagen on 7 August 2006)
My name is Yali Hashash. I represent today the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) in Israel, in which the feminist organization I belong to is a member. My organization is called Ahoti – Sister, and it stands for social justice, peace, and ethnic equality for women.
Women from CWP were the first to protest the Second Lebanon War. A few weeks into the war, thousands in Israel are joining the women's initiative. And indeed women have much to lose and little to gain from any war situation in the region. While we can all agree that Hizbullah's threats and actions against the civilian population are intolerable, we cannot understand why Lebanese civilians should pay the price of the conflict, or how massive bombing on a civilian population and infrastructure can promote any attempts to achieve a long lasting peace.
Previous attempts to achieve stability in the region, whether in the north through peace negotiations with Syria and Lebanon, or whether through peace settlements with the Palestinians, have all failed so far. It is my belief that one of the main reasons for that failure is that these attempts have failed to take into account any considerations of economic security for the vast population on all sides of the conflict. In Ahoti – my organization – we strongly believe that any discussion of peace in the Middle East is futile unless it gives people a sense of future prospects, both of physical safety, but also of economic stability.
Peace agreement attempts seem to fail in gaining large supporters with all sides partly because they seem to deteriorate rather better the economic security of large populations. Factories in the periphery in israel have been shut and moved to Jordan and Egypt for low cost labor, making the periphery pay for the peace costs. The Oslo agreement suggested solving most territorial issues, yet offered no economic future prospects for Palestinians. Thus, support for militaristic action at least gives a sense of belonging and solidarity, and perhaps a hope for social mobility to people, which peace, as practiced so far has failed to do.
So today, while opposing the aggression against civilians in northern Israel and southern Lebanon, and Israel's disproportionate retaliation against the civilian population, I wish to remind you that a temporary ceasefire or even a peace agreement is not enough. Only massive investments in local economy throughout the middle east, while opposing a neoliberal economy, can recruit people once again into believing that peace holds any future for them and their children. Indeed, only a strong alternative to the American "new order" policy, an alternative that promotes coexistence rather than constant forcing of a neocolonial order, can bring true peace to the region.
Unfortunately, some leaders in my country have adopted the "evil axis" rhetoric promoted by Bush. It is a rhetoric that leads to a dead end, and goes against all that we know about true negotiation. Jews and Arabs have long rich traditions of negotiating. Both have been the carriers of goods, knowledge and culture to the whole world, using negotiation as a skill that is crucial for survival in a heterogenous reality, and developed it to an art. Given the right economic terms, I am confident that negotiating peace in the middle east is not beyond us.
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Abarjel, Co-founder of the Black Panthers, and Lavie, a Mizrachi Feminist activist, discuss the reasons for Mizrachi (Arab Jewish) compliance with the present atrocities inflicted on Lebanon and and Palestine by the Ashkenazi-Zionist regime.
Operations "Summer Rains" and "Adequate Pay": Another Act in the Mizrachi-Palestinian Tragedy
On January 25, 2006, Hammas won a landslide victory in the democratic Palestinian legislative elections. The elections were conducted under tight U.S. supervision. Immediately thereafter, Israel's general attorney, Menny Mazouz, started exploring the legal procedures to jail the movement's leadership. Soon the IDF started executing the Gazan leadership of the movement by air strikes. Several dozen innocent Palestinian civilians were casualties in the process. On June 24 the IDF land forces entered the Gaza strip and kidnapped two Hammas men. As a response, on June 25 Hammas captured Gilad Shalit, an IDF soldier. The IDF immediately launched "Operation Summer Rains," to inflict large-scale destruction and to press for Shalit's release. On 12 July, Hizbollah captured two more Israeli soldiers–Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser–in the Lebanese border zone. From then on, IDF's "Operation Adequate Pay" has been inflicting heinous carnage and destruction all over Lebanon.
And now here we are, in front of the Israeli TV screen, bombarded by the discourse of experts. The channels are broadcasting live from studios and battlefields. Commercial interludes are part of the show. By default the majority of experts are Ashkenazi (European Jewish) males. They are flanked by a handful of Mizrachi men (Oriental Jews who immigrated to Israel mainly from the Arab World). These men climbed the public service ladder within the nationalist hegemonic confines. Together, they are Israel's knowledge mercenaries. Through the tube – Israel's tribal campfire — they dictate the national agenda. The viewers are convinced it must be humanistic, because it is calmly narrated by handsome necktied men. They use professional lingo and have the standardized, de-Semitized Hebrew accent. These talking heads say this war is not only for our own good, but is also for the civic betterment of Palestinians and Lebanese. Their sober discourse facilitates public compliance with IDF's shift of tactics–from warplane "surgical killings" to a combination of marine, air and land forces, to destroy the Hizbollah using the massive weaponry that the U.S. allocates to the IDF.
The three Israeli TV channels bombard us with metaphors like "crushing Hizbollah," "the return of Israeli deterrence," and "the rehabilitation of the Israeli soldier's fighter image." Such imagery enables us to peer into the blood, smoke and devastation the IDF sows. Veiled by the fuss over Lebanon, Israel concurrently continues to plan and execute the socio-cide of both public and intimate spheres of the West Bank and Gaza. The present results: reaping the temporary unity of the Jewish victim-turned-warrior nation-state.
When the cannons roar, the Mizrachi communities fall silent. Like servants before the master, the Mizrachim habitually comply. They are the generations flowing from the Jews who were in Palestine from time immemorial, as well as descendants of those brought here from the Arab World and other non-European countries during the previous century. They are the local hosts for those fleeing the New European anti-Semitism. Mizrachim provide the demographic majority on whose civic docility the Eurocentric Israeli regime rests. Mizrachim have been the Jewish labor turning the cogs of the European-Zionist colonial project ever since its inception, with the Yemeni-Jewish labor migration of 1882. Mizrachim freed Zionism from its total dependency on indigenous Palestinian labor. Mizrachim were the Zionists' "natural laborers," employed in near-slavery conditions. In order for Mizrachim to work with efficacy, the Zionist hegemonic patriarchy ruptured Mizrachi extended families. For themselves, they used the appellation "ideological laborers," and went on to found Israel's socialist-liberal Left. It is this very Left that is now fighting yet another self-righteous Israeli war. The Zionist movement's leadership has always conducted itself, in front of the Mizrachim, the Palestinians, and the citizens of the Arab World, through the tools of occupation, oppression and humiliation. Yet Mizrachi communities keep silent. Along the way, the US-European minority has co-opted the Mizrachi moral, economic and cultural power to resist.
Israel has always compartmentalized its occupation into different categories, as if Gaza, the West Bank, the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the Palestinian Diaspora were not all consequences of the 1948 Nakba and 1967 Naqsa. Yet even such a divisive strategy has failed to diminish the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle for a homeland. Despite the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, this strategy has nevertheless resulted in an almost across-the-board refusal of the Arab body of citizenry to normalize Israel into the region. The Ashkenazi leadership has repeatedly evoked the image that Israel is a European villa, planted in the midst of the regional jungle, from Bible times to the present day.
Mizrahci communities are intricately positioned along the Israel/Palestine divide as a result of the hegemonic sophistication of the Ashkenazim. Historically, under Menachem Begin, it was the Right who offered the Mizrachim a political home of sorts by not forcing them to secularize in imitation of the Labor party regime. Mizrachim are situated between the rock of economic-cultural oppression caused by the US-European capitalist Israeli rule, and the hard place of Palestine's war of independence. Zionism was superimposed on Mizrachi communities, yet they welcomed it with open arms. Many still believe in its deceitful vision of an integrationalist inter-racial utopia, even though they are systematically excluded from the centers of power due to Zionism's intra-Jewish racism. Those few who succeeded in securing high-ranking positions in the Ashkenazi regime have long since erased their own past, as they adopted their masters' worldview. Rebuilding the ruptured Mizrachi families was difficult, because they were denied access to the financial and cultural resources necessary to facilitate an equal participation in the Zionist patriarchy. Mizrachi men's feminism is epitomized in their struggle to mimic handsomely crested Sabra masculinity, hoping it might provide them with equal opportunities. Even with the arrival of South Asian maids in the 1990s, Mizrachi women continue to occupy the lowest-paying scale of the Israeli job market. Having lost their production line and house cleaning jobs to Filipinas, they work as lower level secretaries and service providers, and they constitute the majority of the unemployed.
Most of the Palestinian suicide attacks have occurred in the public spaces of the economically deprived and legally disenfranchised Mizrachi communities: bus rides taken by people who can't afford to have a private car, markets frequented by those who can't afford to shop in air conditioned malls and supermarkets, and 'hoods too poor to afford to purchase the patrol services of private security companies, and where the police avoid entering except during drug raids. The majority of the dead and wounded have been Mizrachim, destitute immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and foreign guest workers.
The majority IDF casualties of the al-Aqsa intifada since October 2000 have been Mizrachim, Druze, Russian immigrants, and Ethiopians – the marginal groups that comprise the majority of Israel's social fabric. Since the 1982 Lebanon war, frontline military service is out of fashion among the Ashkenazi elite, who no longer find it necessary for upward mobility. Due to the historical conjunction of ethnicity and poverty typical of Mizrachi communities, young Mizrachi men are excluded from avenues of upward mobility that would require a major capital investment. Alas, combat zone service is one of the few routes for socio-economic mobility — an integrationist phantom of sorts.
Sderot, a borderzone Mizrachi town often bombarded by Qassam missiles, has a high percentage of Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, and high unemployment rates. It is the Israeli town closest to Gaza. The same demography is true of the development towns and agricultural co-ops on the Lebanese border, and even of some of the Haifa 'hoods hit by the Hizbollah Katiushas.
Mizrachi communities were pushed into the West Bank and Gaza post-1967 settlements through the back door. Both the Right and Left wing Israeli governments prevented any reasonably priced housing solutions for residents of Mizrachi slums. The mass Soviet immigration of the 1990s transformed Israel's center, the source of most decently paying jobs, into a real estate bubble. This prohibited Mizrachi families from leaving the ghettos, unless for subsidized houses in the settlements. These were built by the housing ministry on the pristine West Bank hills and virgin Gaza beaches. They made the Israeli dream of a single-family dwelling come true. The superior public school system was an additional benefit. The Judaization of the Galilee project was designed for Ashkenazim who could not afford single-family dwellings in central Israel – gated communities with strict admission committees, whose majestic mansions overlook Palestinian villages situated within the 1949 Rhodes armistice agreement.
In the mid 1980s, when the welfare state disappeared from Mizrachi communities' lives (if it had ever been there), ultra-orthodox Sephardic Judaism entered the scene in the form of the SHAS party. At its height, during the 1999 elections, SHAS won 17 seats in the Knesset. Four of them were ministers of influential government offices, and four were deputy ministers. SHAS offered an apparatus of education and food to rehab Mizrachi honor, either by preaching the return to the forefathers' pious morality or by exposing the racism in the disenfranchisement and poverty. Eventually, such an intrusion was destructive. In fact, the ultra-orthodox Mizrachi new sages adopted the old Ashkenazi method of discipline: a controlled dispensation of charity so that the very act of dispensing becomes a shock absorber against any possible social upheaval. Since SHAS's entry into the public sphere, even the feeble resistance of Mizrachi ghettos has ceased to exist.
The centrist walls of the Arab nation-state cracked during the Infitah with Anwar Saadat's Opening-to-the-West policy. Multinational cultural and market globalization forces entered the Arab World's civic sphere. Forming alternative societal institutions, the Islamist movements started substituting for the state. Like SHAS, these institutions were constructed on the premise of injecting pious morality into the civic sphere. The communalist power of both SHAS and the Islamist movements rested in part on a reformulation of strict religious familial patriarchy as a liberating feminist praxis. Concurrently, the Islamist movements, as in the cases of Egypt and the Occupied Territories, have integrated women into all spheres of their public activism but fighting.
We do not wish here to judge Arab society. Yet to the best of our understanding, the impact of Islamist movements in the Arab public sphere has been diametrically opposite to that of SHAS in the Mizrachi ghettos. With a middle class professional core, the Islamists presented the Arab world with a new agenda. All the while, the Mizrachi ultra-orthodoxy imposed the forefathers' morality as yet another strategy for integrating the Mizrachim into the bosom of the Zionist lived reality. But how could they not? SHAS sensed it had no other option. Its middle class emerged from the rank and file of party apparatchiks. The Question of Palestine was one of the unifying themes of the Islamist movements. During the 1980s, Sabra and Shatila reverberated into the First Intifada. Palestinian nationalism gathered constituencies in the West. Hoping to counter Palestine's secular nationalism, the worried Israeli regime nurtured the Islamist movements in Lebanon and the Occupied Territories. Assuming that these movements would be nothing but SHAS-style charities, the Israeli regime hoped they might also serve as its tools to deny yet again the Question of Palestine. As the PLO welfare apparatus relocated from Lebanon to Tunis, the Islamist movements patched the cracks and flowered forth. The 2006 democratic elections in the Palestinian authority ended in a sweeping Hammas victory, which of course disappointed Israel's expectations. This time around, the Zionist regime preferred the necktied and conventionally handsome Mahmoud Abu Ma'azan over hennaed and long-bearded Muhammad abu-Tir. Henceforth Israel, backed by the US, sweepingly refused to recognize and negotiate with the legitimate government of the Palestinian people.
These days the Mizrachim are the ones who pay the high price required to join Israel's "family of blood," a key concept in the Zionist discourse of national honor. They fall like ripe fruit into Ashkenazi-Zionist militant adventurism. The Western pro-Israeli lobby, with its Israeli branches, does not pay the price. On the contrary, it shares the profits with the G-8 superpowers. This axis of evil will come to an end only if Mizrachi communities are able to conjoin the memories of their Arab past with a vision for a future that will be shared with the people of this region—not just the Palestinians, but the rest of the Arab World as well.
As long as the Arab World's public discourse does not differentiate between Yahud (Jews), Sahyoniyin (Zionists), and Yahud-Arab (Arab Jews), and as long as all Israelis are considered Yahud-wa-bas ( just Jews ), such a process is impossible. As long as the Western peace discourse does not designate separate categories for Mizrachi Jewry, the majority of Israel's Jewry, for the Ashkenazi peace movements, and for Zionism, Mizrachi communities' processual reworking into the region will lack the transnational aura necessary to render it possible. As long as the Arab leadership, not to mention the Palestinians, prefers talking peace with the ruling Ashkenazi minority — be it Zionists, post-Zionists, even anti-Zionists – Mizrachi communities will continue to view the peace discourse as part of the repertoire of exotic antics that the Ashkenazi cosmopolitan elite perform for the West. At the same time, they will continue to conceive of the Arabs, particularly Palestinians, only as lethal enemies.
Those who present themselves as seekers of peace — Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin — are actually supporting the present destruction of civil society in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. They are the spokesmen explaining the necessity for the atrocious measures taken by the Israeli government. Mizrachim remember them mainly as those who started the move to privatize and outsource labor from their community into the globalized economic wonderland that the peace dons termed "the New Middle East." For Mizrachi communities, unemployment and debt were the most immediate results of the Oslo agreement's peace festival. These days the peace dons also brandish a Moroccan defense minister, Amir Peretz, to execute their policies, even though they are the ones who publicly dissed him and failed him along his political career. No wonder this discourse of peace is so alien to Mizrachi communities.
The experts on TV tell us that the purpose of the present destruction is to secure the release of the "kidnapped" soldiers. If this were indeed the purpose of operations "Summer Rains" and "Adequate Pay," the release of all Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners from Israeli jails would be far more cost effective, whether in blood or money. But, alas, when the canons stop roaring, when we finish counting our dead and cleaning up our ruins, we are likely to return to point zero–1882. The Mizrachim, Palestinians and foreign guest workers will resurrect Lebanon, Palestine and Israel from under the rubble, at near-slavery wages and with no social benefits. The US will provide the funding. As long as Mizrachi communities fail to understand that these wars commemorate their disenfranchised poverty, as long as there is no insistence on organized, popular Mizrachi resistance, no just peace will be achieved in our region.
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
What a stroke of luck – 10 days before a war breaks out in Lebanon, we buy an apartment in Nahariya.
We had been looking for a place for about a year. We went to Cyprus to check out the beautiful new communities on the northern shore – it's quite a bargain, if you don't mind settling in occupied territory. We thought about Mauritius, but the savings on real estate would be offset by the costs of flights there. So finally we settled on an apartment under construction in Israel's sweetest little town on the Mediterranean coast – just 5 miles south of the border with Lebanon.
We were looking for a sea view. Had the balcony already been built, we would have been able to watch the Israeli navy array itself along the coast, laying siege to Lebanon. We wanted to be close to Kibbutz Sa'ar, just north of Nahariya, where one of my grown daughters lives, except when she evacuates herself to safer points south. And we wanted a getaway from turbulent Jerusalem, somewhere we could spend long quiet weekends and eventually a serene retirement. Several dozen rockets dropped into her kibbutz and our serene neighborhood this weekend.
In listening to the media, to my neighbors, to the gas station attendant, I am amazed by the lack of comprehension: "We leave Gaza, they shoot missiles at us from there. We leave Lebanon, they kidnap our boys. How do they expect us to leave the West Bank? Fuggedaboudit!"
These views, expressed by most Israelis these days, can only fill me with awe at how the Big Lie works: Repeat it often enough, publicly enough, by political and spiritual leaders, and the whole country/world will begin to believe that Israel is innocent of all wrongdoing and that these attacks emerged from a political vacuum:
As if there is no occupation. As if there is no siege on Gaza. As if there are no 39 years (and counting) of military and political oppression with all the killing, maiming, home destruction, and livelihood wrecking that this entails. What is it about "end the occupation" that they don't understand?
No, I do not justify Qassam missiles or Katyusha rockets hurled at Israeli towns or the kidnapping of anyone (even armed soldiers in tanks). I do not justify any attacks by missile or suicide bomber or remotely detonated device.
Nor do I justify the endless shelling of Gaza and Lebanon – land, sea, and air – for any reason at all, let alone for purposes more related to posturing and domestic public opinion than with accomplishing any political objective. "How could we not respond when they kill and kidnap our soldiers?" asked Yuli Tamir, our Education Minister (for goodness sakes!) and a former Peace Now activist. As if shelling is sure to make the Hizbullah leaders remorseful and let our boys come home.
So, as usual in wars, we have an alliance of the jingoistic decision-makers on both sides, whipping up patriotism while they watch the fighting on-screen from bunkers deep in the earth. In Israel, this war absolutely thrills the right wing: The escalation keeps up the militaristic approach to problem solving, discredits the view that Israel must leave the occupied territories, and distances the current warfare from its roots in the ongoing occupation. What's not to love about this war?
And as usual in Israel, a few cantankerous peace organizations – the Coalition of Women for Peace, Gush Shalom, Ta'ayush, and a few others – increase their presence on the streets. At Women in Black last Friday, we carried our regular "End the Occupation" signs and buttressed them with signs saying, "Stop the Killing – Negotiate!" (and "It's the Occupation, Stupid!"). But when the cannons roar, so do the bystanders, and a dozen police were there to prevent anything worse than words and gestures.
A day will come when this small corner of the Mediterranean will again hold sailboats and waterskiers, and I'm looking forward to that view from the balcony. I still think it was a good investment.
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Frying Pan Pizza recipe:
8oz (225g) plain flour half teaspoon salt herbs
4-5 tablespoons oil
4 tablespoons tomato puree 14 oz (400g) tinned tomatoes 4oz (100g) topping (see below) 5 slices cheese or grated Cheese
(topping: you could use ham, cooked bacon pepperoni, tuna, pineapple, onions, peppers, mushrooms etc on top)!
1. Put flour, salt, pinch of herbs in bowl - add 2 tablespoons of oil and 4 tablespoons of water
2. Mix together gently and knead well
3. Turn onto floured board and roll out to fit frying pan - or make them in to mini ones
4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in frying pan, add base and cook until golden brown underneath. Turn over, spread top with tomato puree, add tomatoes, topping and then cheese.
5. Cook for 5 minutes until cheese has melted.
This will fit a 12-14" frying pan - patrols/six of 4/5 usually make 1 or 2 each!!!
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