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The title of this song from 1974 became a German saying.
Udo Lindenberg, originally a jazz drummer, was the first German to make authentic German rock and pop music, in the German language, without it being “Schlager”.
Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria (All clear on the Andrea Doria):
Could we offset this against what the West should pay for propping up Netanyahu’s war?
They asked for being written Turkiye especially in English. In Deutschland we can go on calling their country Türkei because out turkey is called Truthahn.
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Although that was definitely part of their ideology I’m not sure if they really did accomplish it. Do you have a source, would be an interesting read.
At least during the war more women than ever did/had to do paid work.
Maybe it would have been better to play the show and turn it into a human rights tribunal of the Georgia government.
Everything we read about “us” and “them” is part of one side’s propaganda. That’s what I wanted to point out.
Every time I read about the “others” fighting against freedom and democracy (usually used as defining characteristics of “us”) I know that the article or video is not worth putting attention to.
To just turn around the post I answered to would make exactly the same amount of sense:
Follow the TRUTH™ as brought to you by capitalism.
If anything, USA and the Western world have shown themselves untrustworthy, belligerent and dangerous to their neighbors and above all geopolitical bullies.
Maybe you should venture a little outside of the ecosystem of mainstream news that are all smelling each other’s farts.
That’s US propaganda
If you want to know more about the Israeli/Palestinian history, you should read beyond Israeli myths and propaganda.
Here is an article on the Nakba. Israel should definitely say I’m sorry for that.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/JVP-Nakba-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Freedom of movement is a human right! Everywhere. For everybody. In every direction!
Recognition of Palestinian state ‘reward for terror,’ says Netanyahu
“Establishment of Israel reward for terror!” would be a more accurate headline. You are not aware of the fact that a lot of Israel’s most respected politicians have been involved in acts of terror against the British and the Palestinians in the years before 1948? Take a history lesson!
The president is a strong supporter of a two-state solution and has been throughout his career
If Biden had ever been a strong supporter of a two state solution, he had put some pressure on Israel a long time ago and that Palestinian state would be in existence for decades now. Biden is a strong supporter of Israel and nobody else! Hypocrites, I hate them!
a Palestinian state should be realized through direct negotiations between the parties, not through unilateral recognition.
Do you know what doesn’t require direct negotiations between the two parties? And what in some cases is happily accepted unilaterally, but if it is too criminal, is simply tolerated for decades?
Germany: Recognition of a Palestinian state only in the course of successful peace negotiations
Israel has been thwarting negotiations on a Palestinian state for decades. It has even supported Hamas for this very purpose! Israel says loud and clear that it does not want a two-state solution but full control over Greater Israel, without Palestinians or with limited rights for Palestinians.
Israel’s Western allies know this very well and lie without blushing. And without wasting a single thought on how many hundreds of thousands of Palestinians died and got injured for this policy, were expelled, dispossessed, terrorized and humiliated by the occupying power.
Yes, the Palestinian narrative is dangerous because it is far more compatible with common sense than the Israeli one. It is also more compatible with historical facts and international law. But who cares about facts?
For those who do, I recommend the following list of outstanding Israeli and Jewish historians, journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and organizations:
Gideon Levy, Breaking the Silence, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Avi Shlaim, Max Blumenthal, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Simone Zimmerman, Jewish Currents, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JJP), IfNotNow, Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Never Again Action, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Neve Gordon, Hiam Bresheeth, Miko Peled, Zach Foster, Andrew Feinstein, Haim Zabner, Miko Peled, Omer Bartov, B’tselem, Rick Perlstein
Each of these names is worth Googling, reading and listening to.
But if there is a genocide going on (which is quite plausible but still without judicial confirmation) then it is to end that genocide, right?
Me myself, I usually don’t need judicial confirmation to make up my opinion. Maybe the official who denied the ship entry, is similarly independent.
I think it is definitely possible that it is to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Sehr interessanter Artikel von einem sehr interessanten Autor. Danke dafür
Sorry: Very interesting article from a very interesting author. Thank you for sharing
Not to forget that Netanyahu supported the Hamas in order to divide the Palestinians and reject further negotiations on the pretext of “There’s noone who could speak for the Palestinians.”
And not to forget that the Hamas won free and democratic elections not only in Gaza but also in the Westbank and East Jerusalem. After that they proposed a ten year ceasefire to negotiate on the future of Israel and Palestine.
Israel and the USA rejected negotiations although they knew from the history of Israel that the best way to transform terrorists to politicians is to negotiate with them. (Many of the early Israeli politicians had been terrorists before the establishment of the state of Israel. Let’s not forget that either.)
Instead they gave weapons to the Fatah to take down Hamas, which led to the Palestinian civil war of 2006/2007. The Fatah only succeeded in the Westbank. One more division which served as just another pretext for Israel to stop thinking about a Palestinian state and just go on building more illegal settlements and a big wall on Palestinian territory, aiming for making a Palestinian state impossible.
Just as they are using the current “war against Hamas” as a pretext to try to get rid of the entire population of the Gaza Strip. That is why Gaza is being destroyed to the point of being completely uninhabitable.
So this GO! network is obviously a total antisemitic organization, right?
Well, if you were to conduct a poll among Palestinians today, there would certainly be a number of people who would prefer that Israeli Jews simply disappear. This does not necessarily mean that they want to expel or murder all Jews in Palestine.
I actually find this wish somewhat understandable, considering the experiences they have had with Israel and Zionism over the last hundred years and are currently having. After all, it was Israel that has so far reduced the Palestinians within its territory to a population share of 20% by expelling them. And it has only not properly annexed the rest of the territory it claims because it can oppress the Palestinian majority there better as an occupying power than if they were citizens.
However, things will look very different once Israel is no longer the invincible bully with the big bodybuilder brother who can simply take what he wants without having to fear any consequences.
Of course, in order to enter into negotiations, Israel would have to apologize for 75 years of expulsion, land theft, disenfranchisement, occupation and oppression. That will certainly not be an easy step for Israel. And they will probably not take it voluntarily. That is precisely why they need loving pressure from their European friends in Europe and especially in America.
Not with violence, of course, but like in South Africa, through political isolation and boycott. I think that nowadays no country, especially not such a small country, can afford to be isolated from the rest of the world. And hopefully that will make the Israeli government more willing to compromise.
We remember that in South Africa there was a right-wing head of government, a convinced racist, under whose leadership apartheid collapsed and the oppression of the black population ended.
Germany and France were also once arch enemies. And today they are the heart of the EU.
No the Naqba started 6 months before the establishment of the state of Israel.
What pro-Palestinians are asking for is a country ‘from the river to the sea’ where every inhabitant has the same rights.
While Israel is working towards a country ‘from the river to the sea’ where Palestinians don’t have the same rights as Israeli Jews.
So what’s the author advocating for?
I’ve read a lot about this topic in the last few years.
Am I the only one who would appreciate to also read about how we (the West) are trying to destabilize other countries, let’s say Russia, China and their allies?
The transformation to green tech cannot come too fast in order to slow down climate change, right?
So wouldn’t it be better the rest of the world starts to subsidize green tech like China does instead of trying to make China stop it.