But let’s get back to talking about Corrie!

I hear the nurse bragging about the babies she didn’t drop

Mebosa,

Do you understand the fallacy present here? If you do, you are a sophist but your ad hominem is so unfortunately typical that I think you don’t understand. It doesn’t matter who says the truth, it’s still the truth and not dependent upon the one speaking. What you did serves to initiate a response from the man defending the changed subject whether it’s him or your new qualifier. It’s also well poisoning because you too have to live up to the illogical qualifier were it actually a legitimate line of reasoning as you think you’d like it to be.

This isn’t just an opinion…it’s as true as 1+1 =2

thus, it seems, you are hunting for the snark. which is the usual practise of all those who defend the first tsunami and later ones [and fruits thereof] while pushing after all these crimes for an understanding.
well, there isn’t one available except in minds or wishfulness of the mini-, maxi-, and medi-zionists.

there may be only a few dozens [OK!, may bea few thousands?] ‘jews’ who do not reward ashk’c criminals; i.e., they are for one state and that state wld be palestina.
i have never recognized the ‘jewish’ [more accurate/adequate wld be "ashk'c] state. if i wld, i too wld be a criminal. tnx

“barry, as a man of principle get yourself down to gaza to help the “oppressed” . corrie may have been a useful idiot employed by ism and hamas,but at least she went to gaza.
if you hate israel that much,go and take direct action.
hamas always welcome useful western idiots”

Mebosa,

Do you understand the fallacy present here? If you do, you are a sophist but your ad hominem is so unfortunately typical that I think you don’t understand. It doesn’t matter who says the truth, it’s still the truth and not dependent upon the one speaking. What you did serves to initiate a response from the man defending the changed subject whether it’s him or your new qualifier. It’s also well poisoning because you too have to live up to the illogical qualifier were it actually a legitimate line of reasoning as you think you’d like it to be.

This isn’t just an opinion…it’s as true as 1+1 =2

Charles – Many of those 1.5 million ‘non-ethnically cleansed Palestinians’ are internally displaced – or their descendants. They come from the 400 or so villages in Israel that they are not permitted to return to. Which is to say nothing of the 700,000 Palestinians chased out of the country by the Jews. But the fact that Tel Aviv was founded on sand dunes (as is quasi-evidenced from the name itself) provides us with no information re the ethnic cleansing of ’47 – ’49.

The facts are the facts, your feelings are your feelings.

Rehovot doctors save Palestinian’s hand

A 21-year-old Palestinian student’s left hand, which was accidentally amputated this week at a building site when a metal disk flew in his direction, has been successfully reattached at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot.

University of Hebron student Fadel Badarin was at a nearby building site to get a lift with his father, who works in construction there.

“Suddenly a metal disk that was meant for cutting walls flew and cut my hand off. I was terribly scared and was sure that I would be left without it,” he said in the hospital.

He was rushed to Kaplan, where Dr. Amir Oron of the hand microsurgery department said that only his skin was still connecting the hand to his wrist.

“He was bleeding terribly and begged for us to save it,” said Oron.

Hand surgeons and vascular surgeons cooperated and reconnected the blood vessels, nerves, muscles, ligaments, bone and skin. Badarin will need several months of rehabilitation, but the hand will be able to function.

“I don’t know how to thank the doctors who fought for hours to save me and succeeded,” the grateful patient said.

Oron said Badarin’s speedy arrival after the accident had improved his chances. He added that in such cases of accidental amputation, one should put the limb in moist gauze or clean cloth, put that in a bag and put the bag on ordinary ice. The limb should not come in direct contact with the ice, he added, and dry ice should never be used. The faster the patient and the limb reach the hospital, the more likely it can be saved.

And you know the Hebrews did not run any marathons – they didn’t even build their own temple.

New York has one, and so do the cities of Chicago, and Boston. The one in Berlin is the most popular. Running enthusiasts will be happy to know that the Tel Aviv Marathon, after being retired for 15 years, is back on track this year.

The occasion: Tel Aviv, the first modern Hebrew city to be built, is celebrating its 100 year birthday, and participants — experienced and amateur, or those just cheering their friends on from the sidelines — will find the event a perfect way to get to know the Mediterranean city that never sleeps.

On April 4 the run will start and end at an historic spot, the Charles Clore Garden on the beach of Tel Aviv, where the city was founded on April 11, 1909. With a 42 kilometer, 10 kilometer and a possible five kilometer run set, organizers are making sure that participants will run through some of Tel Aviv’s most important landmarks.

Run a ring around the White City

An annual marathon in Tiberius already takes place around the Sea of Galilee, and a half marathon finds runners sweating it out around the Dead Sea. Now, the re-inaugurated Tel Aviv Marathon, run by the company Marathon Israel, will prove to be more accessible to locals and tourists alike. Tel Aviv is a flat and long city, which offers splendid views, and a breeze from the sea.

Sponsored by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the major sports brand Adidas, Aviv Stein, a director at Marathon Israel, and a founder of the Tiberias Marathon in 1977, says he will be sitting this one out, making sure that all the complicated logistics are set for the day.

“It will be special,” says Stein, whose last marathon was five years ago at age 50: “This is the first time a marathon in Tel Aviv starts in the south close to the ancient Port of Jaffa.” The spot, he says, is where the founders of Tel Aviv cast lots to decide how the city’s land will be divided up.

Racing around the beach

At 6:45am after the starting gun is fired, runners will pass through the closed streets of Rothschild Boulevard, also established in 1909, and run by Independence Hall, where Israel?s Declaration of Independence is kept. Moving through Allenby Street, runners will see Tel Aviv’s old commercial heart, before they pass through the avenues of north Tel Aviv and the city?s Central Park, Park HaYarkon.

Runners on the full marathon — about 800 to 1,000 are expected — will head back to the finish line by way of Tel Aviv’s glorious beaches, on the road beside the Mediterranean Sea. “Everyone will have a fantastic finish line about 10 meters from the waves,” says Stein. “Their final view will be the ancient city of Jaffa.”

This will impress some of the foreign guests: applications from marathon runners have already come in from around the world, including the United States, Ireland, Sweden, Ethiopia and Kenya.

The first run at an annual event

Prize payouts for winners will be $2,000, $1,500 and $1,000 in women’s and men’s categories, with other prizes for everyone who participates. Local schools will send out groups of younger runners to take part in a leg of the run.

Because it’s the first marathon that’s been in Tel Aviv in 15 years, Stein says the city doesn’t wasn’t to push the marathon “too hard” to marathon tourists and celebrities from the US and elsewhere this year.

Taking place on a Friday morning, police will shut down the streets to ensure that the estimated 15,000 runners — in the full and half marathon — will stay safe. A party will be waiting for the finishers at the end of the race.

Ancient Hebrews, first marathon runners?

The run, points out Stein, is a good opportunity for lovers of the Bible to learn about Israel’s first marathon, one that happened years before the first celebrated marathon took place on a battlefield between Marathon and Athens in Greece.

“We can find some mention of marathons connected to the ancient Israeli people,” says Stein, referring to the Book of Samuel, where a bearer of bad news ran from the town of Rosh Ayn to Shilo, to announce that the High Priests had lost the battle against the Philistines.

“After the Six Day War, we measured the route and it was exactly 42 km long. From the matter of fact, Israel invented the marathon race,” says Stein, half-jokingly.

Parties and events, Tel Aviv style

But even if you are not into biblical lore, or a running freak, and are planning to visit the White City this spring and summer, you won?t be disappointed. A plethora of events will be focused on the city’s streets. These include the all night White Nights party on May 27, where visitors will experience old-style Tel Aviv with stage coaches, tea and strudel.

On June 17, an event called Blue will offer tribute to the city?s Eastern heritage, and on July 16, enjoy a free La Scala opera, as the opera group performs Verdi’s Requiem in an open-air theater in the park.

The official kick-off of Tel Aviv’s months-long birthday bash will be on April 4, with celebrations continuing throughout 2009. Between operas, marathon races, White Nights, and historic tours, gallery showings and parties, Tel Aviv — the economic, cultural and academic capital of Israel — is living up to its reputation of being a city that keeps running, and one that never really sleeps.

I think it’s high time Israel recognized Palestine – and stopped killing just so it could be bigger. You’ve seen the numbers have you not? Or should we review them again?

Speaking on Palestinian Authority-controlled television, former Gaza strongman and senior advisor to Abbas, Mohammed Dahlan stated:

“I want to say for the thousandth time, in my own name and in the name of all of my fellow members of the Fatah movement: We do not demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel. On the contrary, we demand of the Hamas movement not to recognize Israel, because the Fatah movement does not recognize Israel even today.”

Dahlan said that only the shell of the Palestinian Authority government pretends to “recognize” Israel in order to receive international financial aid. But the parties themselves do not and are under no obligation to recognize the Jewish state.

While the international community demands that Hamas recognize Israel if it wants to be an official party to the peace process, whether or not Abbas and his Fatah faction actually meet that requirement has long been ignored, despite officials like Dahlan repeatedly trying to make their position clear.

what is an anti-dissident???

Well, there you have it – the only party that rejects peace is the perp itself – Israel. So it brainwashes its population into going to war every year and a half or so. It’s such a fake country.