Where are ALL the Israeli lefties??!! - we're SICK of freaks!! industrialists!!

no caste · 01-14-2010, 11:11 PM

**IMPORTANT!!** Allah! We need a peace process and Netanyahu is an idiot!! a foo'!!

The OSC translation has not been approved for public release, but a copy was obtained by Secrecy News. Republication was permitted by the authors within the text. See “The National Left (First Draft)” by Shmuel Hasfari and Eldad Yaniv, Open Source Center, December 31, 2009.
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A recent book written by two Israeli writers and published in translation (pdf) by the DNI Open Source Center (OSC) traces what the authors see as the decline of Israel’s political left.

“The Left died the day the Six-Day War ended,” wrote Shmuel Hasfari and Eldad Yaniv.

“Until 1967, the Left actually managed some impressive deeds — it took control of the land, ploughed, sowed, harvested, founded the state, built the army, built its industry from scratch, fought Arabs, settled the land, built the nuclear reactor, brought millions of Jews here and absorbed them, and set up kibbutzim, moshavim, and agriculture…. What happened? How come that all that remains of the Zionist Left today is an anarchistic group that harasses the Border Police every Friday near the separation fence or at checkpoints and Women in Black?”

“This is not an academic work,” wrote Hasfari and Yaniv. “There are no footnotes and there is no bibliography. It is not a complete work, either. We have written here about some of the things that bother us a lot, matters that give us no peace of mind. We ask you not to read this in one go since that is likely to be confusing. Taste it as you would a plate of appetizers, tapas. Take a little bit. Digest it and stop to think, argue, get angry, and if you want to, curse — feel free.”

“You can also put it in the bathroom. We will not be offended. On the contrary: There are no cell phones or text messages there, and you can think. Quietly. And read.”

http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israel-left.pdf

(pdf, 48pp)

no caste · 01-14-2010, 11:24 PM

Oh. Kind of SICK of California realtors!!! (too!!)

no caste · 01-15-2010, 05:22 PM

Interesting articles -

Sephardim and Israel today: "The Levantine Option" on shaky ground
Saturday, June 13 2009 @ 01:08 AM By David Shasha
It is not well known that the initial impetus in the nineteenth century for a return to Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel came from two Sephardic rabbis living in the Ottoman Balkans--Judah Alkalai and Judah Bibas. Their Zionism was one that sought to affirm the right of the Jewish people to be secure in their own country and to serve as a proud member of the international community.

While the ideas of these two Sephardic rabbis influenced the Eastern European Jews who became the de facto leaders of the emerging Zionist movement, the core humanistic ideas of the Sephardic tradition were often ignored in the new formulations of the Zionist idea.
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/Da...aeltoday/print

NOTE: Sephardim
The descendants of Jews who left Spain or Portugal after the 1492 expulsion are referred to as Sephardim. The word “Sephardim” comes from the Hebrew word for Spain, Sepharad, that is stated in the Bible. more info

01-14-2010, 11:11 PM	#1
no caste Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,375	Where are ALL the Israeli lefties??!! - we're SICK of freaks!! industrialists!! IMPORTANT!! Allah! We need a peace process and Netanyahu is an idiot!! a foo'!! The OSC translation has not been approved for public release, but a copy was obtained by Secrecy News. Republication was permitted by the authors within the text. See “The National Left (First Draft)” by Shmuel Hasfari and Eldad Yaniv, Open Source Center, December 31, 2009. ---------------------------------------- A recent book written by two Israeli writers and published in translation (pdf) by the DNI Open Source Center (OSC) traces what the authors see as the decline of Israel’s political left. “The Left died the day the Six-Day War ended,” wrote Shmuel Hasfari and Eldad Yaniv. “Until 1967, the Left actually managed some impressive deeds — it took control of the land, ploughed, sowed, harvested, founded the state, built the army, built its industry from scratch, fought Arabs, settled the land, built the nuclear reactor, brought millions of Jews here and absorbed them, and set up kibbutzim, moshavim, and agriculture…. What happened? How come that all that remains of the Zionist Left today is an anarchistic group that harasses the Border Police every Friday near the separation fence or at checkpoints and Women in Black?” “This is not an academic work,” wrote Hasfari and Yaniv. “There are no footnotes and there is no bibliography. It is not a complete work, either. We have written here about some of the things that bother us a lot, matters that give us no peace of mind. We ask you not to read this in one go since that is likely to be confusing. Taste it as you would a plate of appetizers, tapas. Take a little bit. Digest it and stop to think, argue, get angry, and if you want to, curse — feel free.” “You can also put it in the bathroom. We will not be offended. On the contrary: There are no cell phones or text messages there, and you can think. Quietly. And read.” http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israel-left.pdf (pdf, 48pp)

01-14-2010, 11:24 PM	#2
no caste Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,375	Re: Where are ALL the Israeli lefties??!! - we're SICK of freaks!! industrialists!! Oh. Kind of SICK of California realtors!!! (too!!)

01-15-2010, 05:22 PM	#3
no caste Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,375	Re: Where are ALL the Israeli lefties??!! - we're SICK of freaks!! industrialists!! Interesting articles - Sephardim and Israel today: "The Levantine Option" on shaky ground Saturday, June 13 2009 @ 01:08 AM By David Shasha It is not well known that the initial impetus in the nineteenth century for a return to Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel came from two Sephardic rabbis living in the Ottoman Balkans--Judah Alkalai and Judah Bibas. Their Zionism was one that sought to affirm the right of the Jewish people to be secure in their own country and to serve as a proud member of the international community. While the ideas of these two Sephardic rabbis influenced the Eastern European Jews who became the de facto leaders of the emerging Zionist movement, the core humanistic ideas of the Sephardic tradition were often ignored in the new formulations of the Zionist idea. http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/Da...aeltoday/print NOTE: Sephardim The descendants of Jews who left Spain or Portugal after the 1492 expulsion are referred to as Sephardim. The word “Sephardim” comes from the Hebrew word for Spain, Sepharad, that is stated in the Bible. more info