An Israeli man happened to be walking in Tel Aviv with his Basic Instinct t-shirt when..

Awkward!

Via Facebook.

I might not agree that some of Israel’s policies are “crude and cruel”, but at least Neil Tennant recognizes they are based on defense and is modest enough to state it is “his opinion.”  Besides, I sure respect him for speaking out against the BDSholes.

AFP

Ok, perhaps that’s unfair. She atleast did go to the Western Wall right after going to her hotel.

Perhaps the glum look was at the realization she won’t get to meet me, since bloggers are not invited to the Tuesday evening Gala opening event of the Israeli Presidential Conference.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/06/10/golda-meir-black-israelites-would-pollute-israel/

But here’s the thing: when he first posted it, Dickie claimed it was Golda Meir who wrote the letter.

Golda Meir: Black Israelites Would “Pollute” Israel: Golda Meir’s 1972 notes on the Black… http://t.co/5PtiPYO0sv

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 11, 2013

Enter an anti-Israel tweeter, who points out Dickie’s mistake.

@wmadhoun @davidsheen We have to be careful not to inadvertently start legends that Zionists can easily refute.

— Andy Lehrer (@AndyLehrer) June 11, 2013

@AndyLehrer @wmadhoun @davidsheen I was at fault 4 misunderstanding the original tweet. But I've since corrected it.

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 12, 2013

@davidsheen @AndyLehrer @wmadhoun I'd rather call it a 'misunderstanding' than an invention.

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 12, 2013

And here’s the comedy gold..

@davidsheen I freely admit to all, even my enemies that I make mistakes. But of course THEY don't!

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) June 12, 2013

Here’s a list that includes many of your lies and mistakes.

We are all ears, Dickie.

It is enough to have even Justin Beiber ask “Have they no shame?”

Alicia Keys would have none of it.

Walker has now penned a new, rambling letter to Keys, expressing her support of Key’s right to sing – while playing up to her  African-Americans roots – followed by a “P.S” section almost as long as the body of the letter, in which she recommends some anti-Israel reading.

It has been told to me that you will be singing as planned in Tel Aviv next month, by someone who thought I would be concerned. I am concerned, though not perhaps in the way they imagined I would be. Looking back over four to five hundred years of enslavement and brutal oppression of people of color in the United States, both Indigenous and African, I have been reminded of the incredible musicians, especially singers, who have sung down the centuries in the face of incredible, unimaginable challenges.

What this means, ultimately, is that I support your right to choose where you will sing, and to whom. After all, if, after all those centuries of having to sing on demand, or, worse, being refused venues in which to sing, you cannot raise your voice wherever and for whatever you wish, what has our struggle to be fully autonomous humans been for? I do not have to support or admire your choice to recognize it is yours.

So sing. Sing as though every being in your audience represented a repressed or contorted voice that through much suffering and pure love of singing made it through those horrific years. Sing as if singing to the entire constellation of stars and planets in the firmament. Sing with the passion passed on to you by generations of gifted artists whose choices were always hard, whose offerings were frequently mocked, almost always stolen, and who were, for centuries, not even paid.

Sometimes I think Ancestors are all we have. But they are enough, and they are in everything. So sit under trees as you practice your songs. Enjoy the breeze on your face. Swim in the ocean. Sit with small children. If you have a dog, you already know a purity of love humans can learn from dogs. That ready-to-act love might be our aim, as we seek to protect the defenseless and small everywhere.

On a more practical level while you are in the desert climate: Stay hydrated (eat lots of celery). Get plenty of rest. And, finally, do your best. That is all that can be asked of anyone.

With Love,
Moi

P.S. When you have finished your concert and are on your way home, not before, please consider reading two books that have been of great encouragement to me: one by a Palestinian, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, by Saree Makdisi, and the other by an Israeli: The General’s Son, Journey Of An Israeli in Palestine, by Miko Peled. I say not before because these are deeply insightful books and therefore quite disturbing, especially if you are new to almost all of the information.

My own love of music, of singers, is captured here on BBC Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs. A delightful program in which one shares the music most dear to one’s heart. In this interview with a charming English sister named Kirsty Young I got to sing the praises of Stevie Wonder, Archie Roach, Jerry Butler, Imee Ooi, Jennifer Berezan, Tracy Chapman, John Lennon and Beethoven. I regret there was not time to swing into my swooning adoration of B.B. King, Mozart, Eric Bibb and Lester Young, among others! The only blemish was the Ode to Joy piece which I’d hoped would be soaring and ecstatic instead of jagged and stressed.

BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Alice Walker – BBC.com
www.bbc.co.uk › Factual › Life Stories‎

Boy this information was hard to find. Here is a google translate of what’s going on with roads in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday. It’s taken from the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in the basement of the Jerusalem Municipality’s web site. The information was clearly on display down in the basement with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard: there were no stairs and the lights weren’t working. Thanks to my twitter friends who found it.

The formula of a concert Thursday – Friday – F July Tsha”g, 13-14/6/13 closed roads and streets that will affect the daily life and movement to Jerusalem
Roads are closed:
Roads will be closed to traffic on Thursday, Tammuz 13/6 from 12:30 to 20:00 and on Friday, and Tammuz 14/6 from 07:30 until 16:00.

St. St. Sachs paratroopers junction south, IDF Square Tunnel” to both directions, division of Jerusalem, Jaffa Gate, the Hasmonean Hebron Road junction to the north, St. Yitzhak Kariv St., King David, Agron Street from Paris to the east, David Remez Street, Keren Hayesod Street intersection Shalom Aleichem Street to the south, from HaRav ‘Palomar Street to St. Isaac Alhnan, Bethlehem Road between Junction Emek Refaim Street Junction to King David.

Alternate routes:
From the north of the city to the south of the city: Paratroopers – Sachs – prophets – that” H – Agrippa – Bezalel – Ben-Zvi.

The south of the city to the north city of Hebron Road – Miriam the Hasmonean – Bethlehem Road – Emek Refaim – Martin Luther Kinjo – Isaac Alhnan – Shalom Aleichem – Keren Hayesod.
Like a Yes, a demon ‘Menachem Begin (Road 4).

Changes to the parking arrangements:
There will be no car parking Street Hebron Road section between Square wise to Jerusalem Brigade Beginning Tuesday, Tuesday July 11/6 to Friday, and Tammuz 14/6.

David Remez Street starting Thursday, Wed June 12/6 to Friday, and Tammuz 14/6.
King David Street, Liberty Bell Park, part of the train from the parking lot as of Thursday, Tammuz 13/6 to Friday, and Tammuz 14/6.
Word parks and Lot will be closed on Thursday, Tammuz 13/6 from 10:00 am to 20:00 and on Friday, and Tammuz 14/6 starting at 8:00 to 13:00.

Please store the Rcbichm alternative locations. Vehicles to park in these streets will be towed away!
Tow parking: Parking train.
With a parking zones will be allowed during the closure of the store parking lot adjacent parking area.

New audience for the show:
The audience is asked to use and easy to train special shuttles operate to get to the show.

Special shuttle buses will run from the parking lot free parking Teddy and National City to compound the show on Thursday, Tammuz 13/6 from 14:00 until 21:00. On Friday, Friday July 14/6 starting at 09:00 until 16:00.

Audience who will be asked to light rail park and ride car parks shop by place of arrival as follows:
Parking Pisgat Ze’ev – Ammunition Hill Parking – Parking Mount Herzl.

Light rail (extra charge):
The show will be reinforced in favor of the island of train operations, please stay ahead and buy tickets in advance or use a rabbi.

Public transport
Expected disruptions of public transportation all over the city, more focus * Each line 8787.

For more information: focus Urban 106 or 02-5314600, WAZE system and the media.
We apologize for the inconvenience and are making every effort to facilitate routine.
Thank on the understanding and your patience.

And here’s the route the cars will take in handy Google Maps format:

View Formula 1 in Jerusalem Track route in a larger map

And here is the schedule (also from Google Translate and this page).
The performance schedule: Thursday 13 June 2013

לו”ז המופע:יום חמישי 13 ביוני 2013

הקפות חימום F1 Warm up 15:00
Break
פרארי קבריולט + נהגים drivers parade
פרארי צ’לנג’ Ferrari Challenge
מרצדס סופר סטאר Mercedes Super Star
מקס ביאג’י על אופנוע Max Biaggi
מרוסיה פורמולה 1 Marussia Formula 1
פרארי פורמולה 1 Ferrari Formula 1
כריס פייפר על אופנוע Chris Pfeiffer
פרארי צ’לנג’ Ferrari Challenge
מקס ביאג’י על אופנוע Renu Formula 1
מרצדס סופר סטאר Mercedes Super Star
כריס פייפר על אופנוע Chris Pfeiffer
מרוסיה פורמולה 1 Marussia Formula 1
פרארי פורמולה 1 Ferrari Formula 1
תוכן ישראלי Israeli lap 19:00

Friday 14 June 2013
יום שישי 14 ביוני 2013

הקפות חימום F1 Warm up 10:00
Break
פרארי קבריולט + נהגים drivers parade
פרארי צ’לנג’ Ferrari Challenge
מרצדס סופר סטאר Mercedes Super Star
מקס ביאג’י על אופנוע Max Biaggi
מרוסיה פורמולה 1 Marussia Formula 1
פרארי פורמולה 1 Ferrari Formula 1
כריס פייפר על אופנוע Chris Pfeiffer
פרארי צ’לנג’ Ferrari Challenge
מקס ביאג’י על אופנוע Renu Formula 1
מרצדס סופר סטאר Mercedes Super Star
כריס פייפר על אופנוע Chris Pfeiffer
מרוסיה פורמולה 1 Marussia Formula 1
פרארי פורמולה 1 Ferrari Formula 1
תוכן ישראלי Israeli lap 14:00

But, there is a new slander piece decrying how Bedouin buildings are being destroyed by the big and mean Israeli destruction machine.

This is one Bedouin village that popped up outside of Jerusalem.

(And, yes, that is the famous wall in the background.)

But this whole thing makes me so angry,

and when I get angry, I post photos of what is really happening.

First, remember that Bedouins were ALWAYS on the move, that is their lifestyle, duh.

These illegal structures are popping up like mushrooms all over the deserts of Israel,

inside and outside the Green line.

Some of them are taken down, but do not cry, more will spring up immediately nearby.

The Bedouin population is growing and with Israeli health care system,

it is getting healthier every day.

Just take a short visit to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva and you will see for yourself.

These women were visiting the hospital during Operation Pillar of Defense,

while most other Israelis in the area were sheltered in their homes afraid to come out.

The cease fire was called a short time later.

Israel ceased firing,

but Hamas rockets were still falling during our bus ride back to Jerusalem.

No one is forcing Bedouins to live next to garbage dumps,

and if anything their life expectancy has soared thanks to Israeli health care.

But, hey what has the truth got to do with it anyway?

These other things seem to include an Old Spice commercial for Israel.