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In Bangladesh and Cambodia, the shocking loss of life by garment factory workers, many of them women, sparked global debate on how to secure safe and decent jobs in our globalised economy. In Europe, the disproportionate impact on women of austerity cuts, and the use of quotas to get more women on corporate boards continue to make headlines.&lt;/div&gt;
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Even though women have made real gains, we are constantly reminded how far we have to go to realise equality between men and women.&lt;/div&gt;
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World leaders recognised the pervasiveness of discrimination and violence against women and girls when they signed onto the visionary Millennium Declaration in 2000. Amongst the eight Millennium Development Goals, they included a goal to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.&lt;/div&gt;
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With these goals set to expire in 2015, we are now in a race to achieve them. We are also in the midst a global conversation about what should replace them. It’s time for women to move from the sidelines to the centre.&lt;/div&gt;
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Des femmes ont été victimes d'essais médicaux illégaux d'utérus artificiel. &lt;br /&gt;
Ces femmes ont subi une césarienne abusive sans connaitre les risques qu'elle encourraient. Leur enfant a été placé dans un utérus artificiel permettant une gestation extra-corporelle. Leur enfant est décédé. Il s'agit d'une technique qui n'est pas au point. Ces expériences médicales sont interdites.</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/iMZd6_GRK2Q/essai-illegal-uterus-artificiel-sur.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/r_nDqEznE7o/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/essai-illegal-uterus-artificiel-sur.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-4728710495695582558</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T20:11:33.804-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sephardic Jews</category><title>The Jewish Connection to Israel: Sephardic Aliyot</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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The anti-Israel community often attempts delegitimize the State of Israel by using the rhetorical argument that the Jewish people left Israel following the Bar Kokhba Revolt, were absent from the area for 2000 years, and didn’t return to their ancestral homeland until the rise of the Zionist movement.&amp;nbsp;The reality is that the Jewish people were never absent from the Land of Israel, for Jews continued to live in as well as settle the Land of Israel despite all of the hardships associated with it since ancient times.&lt;/div&gt;
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For example,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/the-jewish-connection-to-the-golan-heights/" style="color: #205099; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Jewish Connection to the Golan Heights"&gt;34 synagogues were found in the Golan Heights&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;dating from the late Roman era up until the Arab conquest. There was also a strong Jewish community present in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/discovering-history-nature-at-ein-gedi/" style="color: #205099; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Discovering History &amp;amp; Nature At Ein Gedi"&gt;Ein Gedi that continued to flourish up through the sixth century&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;until Byzantine persecutions brought that community to an end. Additionally, a Jewish community found in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/a-visit-to-the-ancient-synagogue-of-baram/" style="color: #205099; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="A Visit to the Ancient Synagogue of Bara"&gt;Baram existed up through the Crusader period&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/eretz-israel-the-indigenous-home-of-the-jewish-people/" style="color: #205099; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Eretz Israel: The Indigenous Home of the Jewish People"&gt;population estimates from the seventh century as well as from 1517&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;following the Crusades and Black Plague also indicate a Jewish presence in the land of Israel.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Sephardic Aliyah to Israel - &lt;a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/united-with-israel/the-jewish-connection-to-israel-sephardic-aliyot/2013/05/23/"&gt;continued&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/sSphXjom1z0/the-jewish-connection-to-israel.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-jewish-connection-to-israel.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-3655840863066860499</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:59:50.637-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arab Women</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">violence</category><title>76 victims</title><description>&lt;iframe width="320" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AIMCEdN1jA0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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76 Arab women were murdered in the last decade. The Committee for struggle women murder in Arab society initiated an event in order to Protest the murder and violence against Arab women. Families of the victims demand justice since most of the murderers are still free due to Incompetence of the Israeli police.</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/sMpsnIBi2JM/76-victims.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/AIMCEdN1jA0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/76-victims.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-6084015112524529101</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:57:30.420-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">racism</category><title>Us and Them: Breeding racism in the Jewish Establishment</title><description>&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
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Demonstrations in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah have come alive again as of this past Friday, aiming to show solidarity with the Shamasneh family who have appealed the impending eviction from their home. Unbeknownst to many, the struggle in Sheikh Jarrah reaches far beyond the borders of Jerusalem. In fact, it affects ethnic tensions half a world away by influencing how American Jewish youth internalize the separation between “us” and “them.”&lt;br /&gt;
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“I was just having a really hard time,” one Jewish student at UC Berkeley told me, speaking of her experience at a Sheikh Jarrah protest she was invited to attend while traveling through Israel. “It was the first time I’d ever talked to a real Palestinian,” she explained, “… [he] doesn’t want to kill me, he tells me he likes some Israelis, it was just crazy.” She would later explain to me that upon reflection, she was “raised, not explicitly but at least very implicitly, with racism towards Arabs, and Palestinians in particular.” I asked whether she meant that she had never explicitly said the words: “I hate Arabs.” “Frankly,” she admitted to my surprise, “I probably did say that.” The Palestinian man she encountered at Sheikh Jarrah was evidently not at all whom she was expecting, but the question remains – how did she imagine her first encounter with a Palestinian and where did this conception come from? &lt;a href="http://972mag.com/us-and-them-breeding-racism-in-the-jewish-establishment/71973/"&gt;continued&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/Bezg3kvZFIQ/us-and-them-breeding-racism-in-jewish.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/us-and-them-breeding-racism-in-jewish.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-39295099741801358</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:54:58.315-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Film Festival</category><title>Des techniciens racontent le tournage difficile de "La Vie d'Adèle"</title><description>&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1058bd" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1058bd_la-vie-d-adele-les-mots-bleus-de-kechiche_shortfilms" target="_blank"&gt;"La Vie d'Adèle" : les mots bleus de Kechiche&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/lemondefr" target="_blank"&gt;lemondefr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/USIf2yIpjog/des-techniciens-racontent-le-tournage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Cannes, France</georss:featurename><georss:point>43.552847 7.017369000000031</georss:point><georss:box>43.46076 6.856007500000031 43.644934 7.1787305000000305</georss:box><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/des-techniciens-racontent-le-tournage.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-8708611487323624159</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:51:12.257-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">anti-zionism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Al Jazeera</category><title> Qatar: cafouillage d'al-Jazira autour de la publication d'une tribune antisioniste</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Par&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="tags-item-tag-auteur" href="http://www.rfi.fr/auteur/rfi" style="color: #333366; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;RFI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Un article d'opinion publié sur le site internet d'al-Jazira en anglais a suscité beaucoup de réactions. De sorte qu'il a été rapidement retiré du site. Mais à la suite de nombreuses protestations de la part d'internautes, il a été depuis remis en ligne. Le billet porte sur Israël et relie le sionisme à l’antisémitisme.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Avec notre correspondant Doha,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Laxmi Lota&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Replaçons l'article dans son contexte. Il s'agit d'un&lt;a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/2013521184814703958.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333366; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;texte publié le 14 mai dernier&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;dans l'onglet&lt;em&gt;Opinion&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;du site internet de la chaîne satellitaire qatarienne. Les intervenants de ces pages ne sont donc pas forcément des journalistes. En l'occurence, l'auteur, Joseph Massad, est un professeur d'origine palestinienne qui est associé à l’université américaine de Columbia. Il avait déjà publié d'autres textes sur le sujet au même endroit.&lt;br /&gt;
Ses thèses ont été vivement critiquées sur Twitter par des personnalités pro-israéliennes. Le soir de sa publication, l'article disparaît alors du site internet. &lt;a href="http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20130523-qatar-cafouillages-al-jazeera-autour-publication-une-tribune-antisioniste?"&gt;suite&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A lively argument is heard coming from inside; Adel Sakr against his three daughters. The daughters make a good case and eventually the father gives in. Sakr may be a legendary luthier in the city’s music scene but he is a family man first and foremost. “You can never win with them,” he says smiling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Perhaps not, but according to Sakr, with a good work ethic you can win other battles. Sakr’s musical vocation began when he was a child: “these things are always noticeable. I was just drawn to it.” Sakr’s inclination toward music was so strong that he created an improvised instrument by pulling strings from different fishing rods over wood. “I had no idea what the different notes were but I experimented with different lengths and thicknesses to produce different sounds.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Searching the Mizrahi Soul*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  By: Oudeh Basharat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  *There are a number of ways to understand this provocative article:*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;*It is most definitely true that Arab Jews in **Israel** are at the&lt;br /&gt;  forefront of nationalist racism and chauvinism.  For many years we have&lt;br /&gt;  chosen to see this repugnant fact as a product of the racism that Israeli&lt;br /&gt;  Mizrahim have experienced.  We must start to wonder at what point this&lt;br /&gt;  excuse loses its meaning given that Mizrahim have made a complete&lt;br /&gt;  transition as proud Israelis to anti-Arab hatred and show few actual signs&lt;br /&gt;  of acknowledging that this racism is a form of Sephardic self-hatred.   The&lt;br /&gt;  dissolution of our Arab Jewish culture is now nearly complete and it is not&lt;br /&gt;  likely to magically return.  *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *But we can also see the article as disingenuous.  Once Mizrahi leadership&lt;br /&gt;  like SHAS is put into question, we must ask ourselves whether or not the&lt;br /&gt;  Palestinian Arab leadership is also riddled with racism and religious&lt;br /&gt;  fanaticism.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *It is always a dangerous thing to set up any form of moral equivalence.&lt;br /&gt;  In this case it is important to note that both the Arab Muslims and the&lt;br /&gt;  Arab Jews have chosen to ignore their common history in the region and&lt;br /&gt;  adopt a strictly Zionist viewpoint where each side is the primordial enemy&lt;br /&gt;  of the other.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *While the article makes a brief – very brief – allusion to the "glorious&lt;br /&gt;  history" of Jews in the Arab world, this is not the primary focus of the&lt;br /&gt;  discussion.  The demands being made of SHAS – all of which I agree with in&lt;br /&gt;  principle – are ones that HAMAS itself would fail: Gay rights, freedom to&lt;br /&gt;  dissent, adherence to democratic norms, equality of all citizens under the&lt;br /&gt;  rule of Law, etc.  It is but a pipe dream in a region where no one lives&lt;br /&gt;  freely.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *Zionism was responsible for ushering in a new era of racism and&lt;br /&gt;  intolerance in the **Middle East**.  It is not that Arab nationalism was&lt;br /&gt;  free of the taint of anti-democratic sentiment and prejudice, but it was&lt;br /&gt;  the emergence of the Jewish state which required religious separation and&lt;br /&gt;  made it a normal part of life in the region after centuries of co-existence&lt;br /&gt;  under Islamic rule.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *Arab governments have matched this religious apartheid and over time have&lt;br /&gt;  forgotten that Jews once lived in their countries.  The less said about the&lt;br /&gt;  pitiful state of Christians in today's Muslim world the better.  There are&lt;br /&gt;  no heroes here, no one to point to who could show us the way to provide&lt;br /&gt;  democracy and equal rights.  The model simply does not exist in the region&lt;br /&gt;  at all.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *I am in sympathy with Mr. Basharat when he pleads with the Mizrahim for&lt;br /&gt;  equity and justice.  It is not proper for those who have tasted the bitter&lt;br /&gt;  fruit of Ashkenazi oppression to then dole out that oppression to others in&lt;br /&gt;  return.  But it is also quite true that older Mizrahim would rightly claim&lt;br /&gt;  that the oppression of the Palestinians led to persecution of native Arab&lt;br /&gt;  Jews in the Muslim **Middle East**.  We must dole out responsibility and&lt;br /&gt;  culpability in an equal manner.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *But in the end we must find a way to break the crippling certainties of&lt;br /&gt;  the discourse on both sides.  The only way to do this is to restore our&lt;br /&gt;  knowledge of the culture and history of the region from Umayyad&lt;br /&gt;  **Spain**in the West to the Abbasid caliphate in the East.&lt;br /&gt;  Inhabitants of the&lt;br /&gt;  **Middle East** – whether in **Israel** or the Muslim Arab states – know&lt;br /&gt;  almost nothing about the other religious communities other than the&lt;br /&gt;  divisive hatred that is spewed on a regular basis in the media and official&lt;br /&gt;  institutional discourse.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *Discussions such as this one should point to the problems we are facing,&lt;br /&gt;  but must equally raise the issue of our common cultural heritage and the&lt;br /&gt;  fruitful interaction of Jews and Muslims over the course of many centuries.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *An article like the one written in 1967 by Trude Weiss-Rosmarin would be&lt;br /&gt;  of great help in allowing us to better understand our current situation and&lt;br /&gt;  enable us to achieve a moral humane way of social living:  *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href="https://groups.google.com/group/Davidshasha/msg/64747cd23ec88353" target="_blank"&gt;https://groups.google.com/group/Davidshasha/msg/64747cd23ec88353&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *This history is not – as the article states in its final line – predicated&lt;br /&gt;  on "universal humanism" but on the synthesis common to the monotheistic&lt;br /&gt;  faiths of the **Middle East** known as Religious Humanism.  The concepts we&lt;br /&gt;  use and how we identify them linguistically are central to any attempt to&lt;br /&gt;  bring the warring sides back together.  It is in this way that we can&lt;br /&gt;  ultimately repudiate the shared racism of Zionism and Arab nationalism.*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  * *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *DS  *&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &amp;nbsp;The press has reported that the leadership of Shas chased after Labor&lt;br /&gt;  chairwoman Shelly Yacimovich in a desperate attempt to create an&lt;br /&gt;  alternative coalition to the one being formed with the parties of Naftali&lt;br /&gt;  Bennett and Yair Lapid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  In their desperation to sit in the coalition, Shas leaders said they would&lt;br /&gt;  even vote to dismantle illegal outposts.&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;  Only a few weeks of being hung out to dry were needed for Shas to begin&lt;br /&gt;  courting those who "have forgotten what it is to be Jewish," as Prime&lt;br /&gt;  Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously whispered about a decade and a half&lt;br /&gt;  ago to the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kaddouri, who has since died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  If the drought continues, Shas could start eyeing Meretz leader Zahava&lt;br /&gt;  Gal-On, and we might even get to see the slogan "Enough of the Occupation"&lt;br /&gt;  worn on the lapels of Shas MKs. So congratulations - a new party has joined&lt;br /&gt;  the left and Shas is its name. Mabruk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  This type of behavior is not unique to our Jewish brethren. After all,&lt;br /&gt;  these are the ways of so-called religious movements, which are as distant&lt;br /&gt;  from true belief as heaven is from earth. Egyptian President Mohammed&lt;br /&gt;  Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who has not held back his&lt;br /&gt;  criticism of the Jews, to the extent that his comments embarrass the&lt;br /&gt;  screens that convey them, had only just taken office when he immediately&lt;br /&gt;  sent President Shimon Peres a heartwarming love letter.&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;  Back in Israel, this is the time for soul-searching. Not on the part of the&lt;br /&gt;  leadership of Shas, but on the part of its 286,300 voters, who brought to&lt;br /&gt;  power a Mizrahi leader who became the point man in the horrifying operation&lt;br /&gt;  to expel refugees, even though the UN refugee agency had determined that&lt;br /&gt;  returning them to their homeland was a crime. A victim who throws away the&lt;br /&gt;  life of another victim - and all in the name of the Torah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Search your souls, brothers! How has a movement of victims of&lt;br /&gt;  discrimination turned into a symbol of darkness? The party of Mizrahim&lt;br /&gt;  tells us that gay people are "sick" and says Israel must bomb thousands of&lt;br /&gt;  houses in Gaza; these Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin have&lt;br /&gt;  surpassed the "white" Jews of European ancestry in discriminating against&lt;br /&gt;  Israel's Arab population.&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;  Search your souls, brothers! How has the Housing and Construction Ministry&lt;br /&gt;  become a subcontractor of the settlements, the biggest theft enterprise of&lt;br /&gt;  our time, under Shas leadership? Instead of proposing housing solutions for&lt;br /&gt;  distressed families, Shas is building separate housing for ultra-Orthodox&lt;br /&gt;  Jews of non-Ashkenazi descent. This is how the Mizrahim have become the&lt;br /&gt;  spearhead for the force keeping their Arab brothers down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  The Haifa-area town of Harish was built with the goal of blocking Arab&lt;br /&gt;  development in Wadi Ara, historian Gadi Algazi has said. In Upper Nazareth,&lt;br /&gt;  Shas uses Mayor Shimon Gabso to fight what he considers to be the excessive&lt;br /&gt;  presence of Arabs. The masters above will once again enjoy the battle among&lt;br /&gt;  the weaker groups at the bottom of the ladder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  The hundreds of thousands of enlightened Mizrahim must also do their own&lt;br /&gt;  soul-searching.&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;  How has the leadership of Shas managed to "revive its past glory," as it&lt;br /&gt;  puts it, when the party has faithfully served a distorted social agenda and&lt;br /&gt;  piggish capitalism, while at the same time its voters live on welfare&lt;br /&gt;  allowances?&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;  With all its glorious history among the Arab peoples, Israel's Eastern&lt;br /&gt;  Jewry does not deserve leaders who crawl through the corridors of power in&lt;br /&gt;  an attempt to gather a few crumbs from the masters' tables, even as they&lt;br /&gt;  serve as a whip against the country's other socioeconomically weak&lt;br /&gt;  populations.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Israel's Eastern Jewry deserves an enlightened leadership enhanced with&lt;br /&gt;  universal humanistic values.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *From Haaretz, March 11, 2013*&lt;/ul&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/rBOGI_8VtQ4/oudeh-basharat-searching-mizrahi-soul.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/oudeh-basharat-searching-mizrahi-soul.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-7441752394368234350</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:38:50.377-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mangoubi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poetry</category><title>Elie Mangoubi: la plume du poète</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Alexandrie a bien  changé.©&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(Écrit le 8 mai 2013)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Monsieur Miro Pharmacien d'Industrie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Est tout fier d'être né à Alexandrie,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;En son temps ville cosmopolite, vantée&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Par L. Durrell; aujourd'hui détournée&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;De sa passion méditerranéene, elle a perdu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Son charme d'antan et est devenue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Voilée et intolérante. Les étrangers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Tous les juifs, les chrétiens ont été forcés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;De s'en aller et mon ami Miro se désole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A voir sa ville natale négligée, mais se console&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;En songeant à la gloire passée de sa ville&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Tout en fumant sa cigarette avec ses filles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Qui ont grandi loin de cette ville idéalisée&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Par leur papa et présente dans ses pensées.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Monsieur Miro Pharmacien d'Industrie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Reconnaît avec humour que sa nostalgie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Est pour un temps révolu où la diversité&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Culturelle et la tolérance étaient appréciées.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Et que lui, l'enfant du Nil ne pourrait &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Plus vivre à Alexandrie sans sa dose de liberté&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #2444f9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Chère à sa famille et nécessaire à son bonheur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/Tf1qfPdmZN0/elie-mangoubi-la-plume-du-poete_24.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/elie-mangoubi-la-plume-du-poete_24.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-5394172714565445410</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:37:23.112-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">humor</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">French</category><title>Sans rire on ne peut pas vivre....</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Un matin, un homme pinça les fesses de sa femme en lui disant :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Si tu raffermissais un peu ça, on pourrait&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;se débarrasser de ta gaine et de tes bas de contention.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;C'était au seuil de l'intolérable mais elle ne dit mot.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Le lendemain matin, il la réveilla en lui pinçant les seins et lui dit :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Tu sais que si tu raffermissais ça, on pourrait se débarrasser de ton soutien-gorge.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Là, c'en était trop. Elle se retourna, l'agrippa par le zizi et lui dit :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Tu sais que si tu raffermissais un peu ça, on pourrait se débarrasser du jardinier,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;du facteur, du laveur de piscine, et de ton frère...&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #336699;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;2/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #336699;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;C'est une jeune fille, en mini-jupe trop serrée, qui fait la queue pour monter dans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;l'autobus.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Voyant qu'elle n'y arrive pas car la jupe est vraiment très serrée elle passe ses&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;mains derrière pour ouvrir un peu la fermeture éclair.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Elle essaye à nouveau mais, rien à faire, la jupe est encore trop serrée.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Elle recommence à passer ses mains derrière pour ouvrir plus la fermeture éclair et&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;retente de monter dans le bus.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Alors qu'elle n'y arrive toujours pas, un mec, derrière elle, la prend soudainement&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;par les fesses d'une façon très explicite et la monter dans le bus.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La fille, outrée, insulte copieusement le mec, le prenant pour un obsédé sexuel.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Il lui répond : Cela fait deux fois que vous me descendez ma braguette ! Alors, je&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;pense que l'on se connaît suffisamment.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;C'est Thierry qui rentre à 4h du mat', tout doucement, et se fait surprendre par son&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;père:&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Nom de Dieu, Thierry, tu as vu l'heure qu'il est !!!&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Oui, je sais Papa, mais euh ... j'ai eu ma première expérience sexuelle, cette&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;nuit.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Alors, le Père regarde fièrement son fils et&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;lui dit :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Mon fils, je suis fier de toi ! Allons nous asseoir avec deux bières et tu me&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;racontes !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Et le fils lui répond :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- J'aurais bien voulu, mais je peux pas encore m'asseoir...&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #cc3333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Un "ex" va au mariage de son ancienne femme.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Durant la soirée, l'ex va voir le nouveau marié et lui demande d'un air arrogant :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Comment tu trouves ça, de rentrer dans du stock usagé ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Le nouveau marié le regarde droit dans les yeux et, inébranlable lui répond :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;C'est stupéfiant !!! ... Passé les 6 premiers centimètres, c'est flambant neuf !!!&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Trois sœurs se préparent pour sortir. Au moment de franchir la porte, leur mère leur&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;demande :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Où allez-vous ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Nous sortons avec nos fiancés, maman !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Qu'allez-vous faire ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La première répond :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Moi, quand je sors avec Henri, on rit ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La seconde dit :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Moi, quand je sors avec Charles, on parle !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Et la troisième annonce :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Moi, quand je sors avec Blaise ...&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Sa mère ne lui laisse pas terminer sa phrase :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Non ! Toi, tu restes ici !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Un homme et une femme sont en train de faire l'amour et, tout d'un coup, il demande:&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Dis donc, chérie, ton mari va rentrer à quelle heure? Parce que je n'aimerais pas&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;le croiser. C'est quand même mon meilleur ami...&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Ne t'inquiète pas, il ne rentre pas avant une heure.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Le téléphone sonne.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La femme répond :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Oui, bonjour mon chéri ... Bien mon chéri&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;... D'accord mon chéri ... A tout à l'heure mon chéri.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Puis, elle se tourne vers son amant :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- C'était mon mari. On a une heure de plus.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Ah oui, comment ça?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Il est en train de jouer au tennis avec toi.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #336699;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;7/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #336699;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Un taxi, avec une mère et son fils, passe dans une rue avec des prostituées, et&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;l'enfant demande :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Maman, maman, les dames elles font quoi là ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La mère répond :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Elles attendent leur mari qui rentre du travail...&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Alors, le chauffeur de taxi intervient bruyamment :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Y'en a marre, il faut appeler les choses par leur nom, les dames sont des putes,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;hein, des putes, t'as compris !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Silence de mort dans le taxi pendant un petit moment.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Ensuite, l'enfant continue et demande :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Mais, maman, ces dames, elles peuvent avoir des enfants ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Et la mère :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Bien sûr, comment tu crois qu'ils naissent les chauffeurs de taxi ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Une dame et un bébé attendent patiemment le docteur pour le premier examen du bébé.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Le docteur arrive, examine le bébé, vérifie son poids et, d'un air un peu préoccupé,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;demande à la dame s'il était nourri au sein ou au biberon.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Au sein ... répond-elle.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Hé bien, déshabillez-vous jusqu'à la taille lui dit-il.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Elle s'empresse de le faire.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Puis, il lui pince les mamelons, les presse, les palpe et lui frotte les seins dans&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;tous les sens dans le cadre d'un examen très minutieux.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;en lui demandant de se rhabiller, il lui dit :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Pas surprenant que le bébé ait un poids si faible. Vous n'avez pas de lait !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Je sais, dit-elle, je suis la grand-mère, mais je suis quand même contente d'être&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;venue !&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #336600; font: 24.0px Times New Roman;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; Une femme de ménage demande une augmentation à madame.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La maîtresse de maison, très énervée par cette requête, lui demande :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Et pourquoi voulez-vous une augmentation ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Eh bien, Madame, pour 3 raisons :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- La 1ère, c'est parce que je repasse mieux que Madame.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Et qui vous dit ça ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- C'est Monsieur qui me dit ça.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Oh !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- La 2ème, c'est que je cuisine mieux que Madame.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Madame (bouleversée) : - Et qui dit que vous cuisinez mieux que moi ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- C'est Monsieur qui dit que je cuisine mieux que Madame.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Oh !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Ma 3ème raison, c'est que je fais mieux l'amour que Madame&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Madame (hors d'elle) :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Et c'est Monsieur qui vous dit que vous faites mieux l'amour que moi ?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Non, Madame. C'est ...le jardinier, Madame...!&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;La femme de ménage a eu son augmentation !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Comment se fait-il que, quand votre épouse apprend qu'elle est enceinte, toutes ses&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;amies femmes lui caressent le ventre en lui disant:&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Toutes mes félicitations !&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Mais il n'y en a pas une seule pour vous caresser les couilles en déclarant:&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Beau travail ! ???&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #336699;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bonus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Allo, mon cœur, c'est papa au téléphone. Tu peux me passer maman?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Ze peux pas, elle est à l'étaze, dans sa chambre, avec oncle David.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Bref silence..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Mais, ma chérie, tu n'as pas d'oncle David.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Si, si, il est dans la chambre avec maman !&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Bien, OK, bon, alors, voilà ce que je veux que tu fasses :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Pose le téléphone, cours en haut, frappe à la porte de la chambre, et crie à maman et&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;oncle David que la voiture de Papa vient d'entrer dans le garage...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- D'accord papa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Quelques secondes plus tard, la fillette revient au téléphone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Z'ai fait ce que tu m'as dit, papa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Et qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- Ben, maman s'est mise à crier, à sauter hors du lit, toute nue, elle s'est mise à&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;courir partout, elle a glissé sur le tapis, elle est tombée par la fenêtre, et,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;maintenant, elle est toute morte. - Oh mon Dieu ! mon Dieu ! mon Dieu !... Et oncle David ? "&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #336600; font: 24.0px Times New Roman;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ben il s'est mis à courir, s'est précipité&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;par la fenêtre de derrière, dans la piscine, mais il a oublié que le week-end dernier&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;tu avais vidé la piscine pour la nettoyer et maintenant il est tout mort lui aussi...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Long silence..&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #333366;"&gt;…………&lt;/span&gt;Puis papa dit :&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;- La piscine&lt;span style="color: #333366;"&gt;?&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Quelle piscine ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #333366;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Je suis bien au&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #333366;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;05.28.82.96.00 ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #333366;"&gt;? ? ? ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;envoyé par Elie Mangoubi__._,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: white;"&gt;_.___&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/ncpos9lM_as/sans-rire-on-ne-peut-pas-vivre.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/sans-rire-on-ne-peut-pas-vivre.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-7387191536622595188</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-24T19:35:52.246-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslim  Brotherhood</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">government</category><title> Did Muslim Brotherhood  Frame Salma Sabahi?</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;Former Egyptian president candidate Hamdeen Sabahi (C) talks to the media after attending the funeral of killed Egyptian activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi outside Omar Makram Mosque in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 4, 2013. (photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;For the past few days,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/morsi-new-mubarak-opposition-leader-hamdeen-sabahi.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Hamdeen Sabahi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;, former presidential candidate and founder of the Egyptian Popular Current, has been the target of severe criticism —&amp;nbsp;not for his politics, but for his daughter Salma's alleged misconduct.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"&gt;
Salma Sabahi turned herself in to authorities on May 22, after a prosecutor charged her with fraud and issued a warrant for her arrest. More than 20 plaintiffs accused her of soliciting at least $23,000, promising them quick and easy profits through investment in an online company called&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/05/15/controversy-over-globaladmart/"&gt;Global Ad Mart&lt;/a&gt;, which supposedly pays hundreds of dollars to people who agree to watch five advertisement videos every week.&lt;/div&gt;
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Salma's lawyer, Mohamed Moneib,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://gate.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/13/87/348225/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83-%D8%B4%D9%88/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%89-%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;described the charges&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as a "political game and revenge on Hamdeen Sabahi.” The Nasserist figure's supporters politicized the case, accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of attacking its most powerful opponent by framing his daughter, who they say is innocent or, at the least, naive.&amp;nbsp;Mohamed Salmawy,&amp;nbsp;president of the Writers' Union of Egypt, charged in an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/node/1755446" target="_blank"&gt;op-ed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that Salma's arrest is "shifting the political dispute to an unprecedented level of inhumanity."&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The political stalemate in Palestine and Israel over the two-state solution has finally provoked Palestinians from the occupied territories to declare a strategic change in direction of the one-state solution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"&gt;
Palestinian activists from different political persuasions and careers paths have&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%89-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A6%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;made a declaration&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for a democratic state for all its citizens on the 65th anniversary of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/palestinians-mark-nakba-weak-showing.html" target="_blank"&gt;Nakba&lt;/a&gt;. One of the founders of the new Popular Movement for One Democratic State, a veteran leader of Fatah, said that it is much different than the PLO’s call for a secular democratic state which Israel has often attacked as an attempt to negate the existence of Israel and the Jewish people.&lt;/div&gt;
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In an exclusive interview with&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Al-Monitor&lt;/em&gt;, Radi Jarai&amp;nbsp;said that this democratic movement has absolutely no limitations on its citizens between Jews and Palestinians. “We will respect the&lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/10/law-of-return.html" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Israel law of return 1951&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and will also defend the Palestinians’ right of return.” Jarai, who spent years in an Israel prison, said that the democratic state that he and his friends are calling for can be “a refuge for Jews and Palestinians.”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;On   April 26, 1654, the last Jewish residents of the Brazilian town of Recife   departed the Portuguese colony after being given an order of   expulsion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;When   the Inquisition was initially implemented in Portugal in 1497, all Jews were   forced to undergo baptism, and were forbidden from emigrating. Many continued to   practice their Judaism clandestinely, and when they were able to leave, one   favored destination was Brazil. There, they made up a good percentage of the   50,000 Europeans who had settled there by 1624, working in commerce and other   professions (even as priests), and setting up sugar plantations and   mills.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;During   the 17th century, the combined Spanish-Portuguese monarchy was involved in an   ongoing conflict – the Eighty Years War -- with the Netherlands. The war   extended to the New World, where the forces of the Dutch East and West India   Companies battled with the Portuguese and for a period took possession of   Portuguese colonial outposts. By 1630, the Portuguese colony in Recife,   Pernambuco, on the Atlantic coast, was among the parts of northeastern Brazil   conquered by Dutch forces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Under   the brief period of Dutch rule, converso Jews were permitted to openly practice   their faith. During this time, Jews were involved in building infrastructure   (roads, bridges, sewerage system) in the colony, in slave trade, and also in the   profitable sugar production industry. By 1645, according to Dutch historian   Franz Leonard Schalkwijk, there were 1,630 Jews living in Recife, a number equal   to the Jewish population of Amsterdam at the time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;The   prominence and economic success of Brazil's Jews stirred up resentment among the   colony's Christians, who participated in the ongoing Portuguese campaign to push   out the Dutch. That campaign went from 1645 until January 26, 1654, the date the   Dutch capitulated to Portuguese liberation forces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;In   the interim, probably in 1636, the Jews had established a synagogue – Kahal Zur   Yisrael – in Recife, the first in the New World. The Jewish community supported   a primary Talmud Torah school and a more advanced Gemara school, and a   charitable fund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;A   book of records that survived provides evidence of all of the services provided   by the community, and outlines the customs and regulations by which it   functioned. For example, the synagogue had assigned seats, which no one was   permitted to change, and on Shabbat Nahamu, the first Sabbath after Tisha Be'Av,   funds were collected for the Jewish community in the Land of Israel. This   "minute book" lists signatures of 171 members, providing a valuable source of   the names of some of the Jewish residents of Brazil. Many of the families   involved in the founding of the Shearith Israel Sephardi synagogue in New York   could trace their roots back to Recife by way of the minute book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;The   transition back to Portuguese rule in 1654 was orderly, and gave Dutch and   Jewish residents three months to liquidate their assets (they were permitted to   take property with them) and leave. Most Jews went to Amsterdam, some settled on   other islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Curacao, and another 23 famously   made it to New Amsterdam, later known as New York. Those New Christians who   dared to remain in Brazil found themselves pursued by the Inquisition and were   sometimes shipped back to Portugal for trial before the Inquisition   there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial;"&gt;The   two-story building that housed the Kahal Zur synagogue, in the Street of the   Jews, was torn down early in the 20th century. Later, it was reconstructed and   reopened as a museum of Jewish history in Brazil in   2001.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Je suis né en France. Durant la guerre, ma famille et moi vivions dans un petit village sous une identité d’emprunt et avec de faux papiers. Nous étions persuadés que personne ne savait. Un jour, un voisin est arrivé en courant et nous a dit&amp;nbsp;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;“Attention, les Allemands arrivent&amp;nbsp;!”&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Et nous avons appris que tout le monde savait.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les Français savaient et ils n’ont rien dit&amp;nbsp;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oui. Je viens de raconter cette histoire à la cérémonie de l’hôpital [où Rafi Walden est chirurgien et dont il est le directeur adjoint]. En chemin, j’ai entendu l’ancien ministre de la Défense Moshe Arens déclarer à la radio&amp;nbsp;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;“La leçon de l’Holocauste, c’est que nous devons être forts.”&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Pour moi, cette leçon a déjà été assimilée. La vraie leçon, c’est que nous devons être compatissants.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;L’Holocauste a enseigné à votre famille la compassion et la solidarité. Ces valeurs sont ancrées en vous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elles sont ancrées en moi, mais elles ne se limitent pas à mon histoire personnelle&amp;nbsp;: ce sont des valeurs juives. Les devoirs à l’égard des étrangers sont mentionnés trente-six fois dans la Torah, beaucoup plus que l’observance du shabbat, le respect des règles casher, etc. Pourtant, aujourd’hui, on voit des gens qui se disent les gardiens du judaïsme s’opposer radicalement à l’humanisme juif. Cela m’attriste beaucoup. &lt;a href="http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/05/24/les-juifs-ont-oublie-la-compassion"&gt;suite&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Georges Moustaki, dont l'entourage vient&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.francetvinfo.fr/video-mort-de-georges-moustaki-chanteur-a-la-gueule-de-meteque_330460.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0e51d1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"&gt;d'annoncer&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;la mort à Nice à 79 ans, était né en 1934 à Alexandrie, dans cette Egypte cosmopolite dont sont issus tant d'artistes et d'écrivains français.&lt;br /&gt;
S'ils n'oublient ni l'injustice ni les fastes indécents et la corruption du&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_Ier_d'%C3%89gypte" style="border: 0px; color: #0e51d1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"&gt;roi Farouk&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(1920-1965), l'animatrice de France Inter Paula Jacques&amp;nbsp;ou le journaliste du&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Monde&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Robert Solé, parmi d'autres, ont raconté avec truculence et nostalgie cette société exubérante et corsetée&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;(La Mamelouka, Les femmes avec leur amour...).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Société si douce aux Européens, avant l'arrivée au pouvoir de Gamal Abdel Nasser, la&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crise_du_canal_de_Suez#cite_note-12" style="border: 0px; color: #0e51d1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"&gt;crise du canal de Suez&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;et le départ forcé des juifs d'Egypte après 1956 (il&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2013/04/13/97001-20130413FILWWW00368-la-communaute-juive-d-egypte-orpheline.php" style="border: 0px; color: #0e51d1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"&gt;en reste 200&lt;/a&gt;, ils étaient 80.000). Parmi ces familles établies sous le soleil égyptien, celle de Joseph Mustacchi, futur Moustaki, dont les parents étaient originaires de l'île grecque de Corfou. &lt;a href="http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/livres-actualite/2013/05/23/moustaki-lalexandrin.html"&gt;suite&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/wp2R4tDFa1c/moustaki-lalexandrin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/moustaki-lalexandrin.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-6844021649724010068</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-23T13:24:53.135-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><title>Mort de Georges Moustaki, le chanteur du "Métèque"</title><description>&lt;figure class="illustration_haut" style="background-color: white; color: #16212c; font-family: arial, freeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Georges Moustaki, en 1970." class="lazy-retina" data-lazyload="false" src="http://s1.lemde.fr/image/2013/05/23/534x0/3415877_4_bffd_georges-moustaki-en-1970_9b5373827b86c787d66ea6931ff6c9c1.jpg" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" title="Georges Moustaki, en 1970. | AFP" width="534" /&gt;&lt;figcaption data-caption="Georges Moustaki, en 1970. | AFP" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65098); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; left: 0px; padding: 5px 10px; position: absolute; width: 534px;"&gt;Georges Moustaki, en 1970. | AFP&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;&lt;div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; background-color: white; color: #16212c; font-family: arial, freeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;C'était un homme en blanc, barbe assortie, longs cheveux idoines. Il faisait de la&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/moto/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;moto&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;et parlait avec une voix sucrée, comme il chantait. Masculin-féminin,&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/sujet/2e24/georges-moustaki.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Georges Moustaki&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;était un homme à femmes, qui l'adoraient. Il en avait épousé une, Yannick, dont il eut une fille, Pia, née en 1956. Il en avait aimé certaines, il en avait adulé au moins deux : des femmes en noir, Piaf, le moineau, qui l'asservit pour mieux le révéler, et Barbara, l'exigeante, la&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;"longue dame brune"&lt;/em&gt;raccompagnée tard dans la nuit à la sortie des cabarets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Moustaki était à la fois profondément méditerranéen et superbement atlantique. Mais le secret était ailleurs :&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;"Si je suis autant connu à l'étranger, c'est que je suis très français"&lt;/em&gt;, disait l'inventeur d'une tour de Babel dont la clé de compréhension serait l'amour du&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;voyage&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;et de l'humanité. L'auteur-compositeur&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;"à la gueule de pâtre grec"&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;est mort le jeudi 23 mai, à Nice, des suites d'une longue maladie. Né le 3 mai 1934 à Alexandrie (&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/egypte/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: text; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Egypte&lt;/a&gt;),&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/sujet/02ec/yussef-mustacchi.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: text; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Yussef Mustacchi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Georges Moustaki) était âgé de 79 ans. &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/05/23/georges-moustaki-est-mort_3415872_3246.html"&gt;suite&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/bIIiNLq7CKc/mort-de-georges-moustaki-le-chanteur-du.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/mort-de-georges-moustaki-le-chanteur-du.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-2058453213097307440</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-22T12:25:33.857-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sexual harassment</category><title>Fwd: Le harcèlement sexuel, la onzième plaie d'Egypte</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;
&lt;img alt="Image extraite du film «Les Femmes du bus 678», de Mohamed Diab.
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Pharmacienne et romancière,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/sujet/2cae/ghada-abdel.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: text; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Ghada Abdel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Aal habite à&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/sujet/f62e/mahalla-al-qobra.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Mahalla Al-Qobra&lt;/a&gt;, ville industrielle du delta égyptien. Pour se&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://conjugaison.lemonde.fr/conjugaison/troisieme-groupe/rendre" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;rendre&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;au Caire, elle emprunte l'un des innombrables minibus qui sillonnent l'&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/egypte/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Egypte&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;"J'achète toujours deux places, pour être sûre de ne pas être harcelée par un voisin",&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;dit cette femme de 35 ans. Auteure d'un roman savoureux (&lt;em&gt;La Ronde des prétendants,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Editions de l'Aube, 2012), Ghada Abdel Aal n'a pourtant rien d'une allumeuse. Elle porte le hijab, qui s'est quasiment généralisé dans son entourage, sans&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://conjugaison.lemonde.fr/conjugaison/premier-groupe/chercher" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;chercher&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;à le "compenser" - comme tant d'autres - par un pantalon moulant ou un maquillage outrancier.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;"Le harcèlement sexuel, je l'ai intégré depuis l'enfance,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;précise-t-elle.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Dès l'âge de 10 ou 11 ans, quand j'apercevais un groupe de garçons ou que je devais&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://conjugaison.lemonde.fr/conjugaison/premier-groupe/passer" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;passer&lt;/a&gt;devant un café, je changeais spontanément de trottoir."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ztsKOAGy8&amp;amp;list=PLSexaZboI13B2T45oeD8k2HY3EOOMV8Hg&amp;amp;index=7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(116, 123, 131); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #003366; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Le harcèlement peut être qualifié de onzième plaie d'Egypte&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;(&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://conjugaison.lemonde.fr/conjugaison/premier-groupe/regarder" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;regarder&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;vers la 4&lt;sup style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: 0.5em; vertical-align: text-top;"&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt;minute de la vidéo)&lt;/em&gt;. En effet, la situation prend une tournure inquiétante : les institutions sont discréditées, la&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="lien_interne" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/police/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; color: #16212c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;police&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;est absente, l'insécurité augmente, les agressions contre les chrétiens se multiplient, alors que la hausse du chômage, la hausse des prix et la pénurie de gaz ou d'essence provoquent des drames. &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/04/25/harcelement-sexuel-la-onzieme-plaie-d-egypte_3166607_3224.html"&gt;suite&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/du2m1Wl8CVo/fwd-le-harcelement-sexuel-la-onzieme.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/fwd-le-harcelement-sexuel-la-onzieme.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-5435727553732995363</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-22T12:22:33.229-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Zionism</category><title>Seth Frantzman,"Zionism: Of the Jews, or For the Jews?"</title><description>&lt;div dir="ltr"&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;        *Zionism: Of the Jews, or For the Jews?*&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  By: Seth J. Frantzman&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  In February of last year, the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute,&lt;br /&gt;  Rabbi Donniel Hartman, wrote, "In truth, we have no desire to share our&lt;br /&gt;  country with them [the Haredim] and prefer that their integration be&lt;br /&gt;  limited, all the while hoping for their religious assimilation." In&lt;br /&gt;  February of 2013 the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute published a&lt;br /&gt;  paper called "the Haredi challenge" which proposed several solutions,&lt;br /&gt;  including "integration of the Haredim by coercion."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  March 7 saw the publication of Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin's The War&lt;br /&gt;  Within: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Threat to Democracy and the Nation.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  The way Israeli society and its constituent Zionist supporters abroad talk&lt;br /&gt;  about the Haredi problem is reminiscent of the way Americans once spoke of&lt;br /&gt;  Manifest Destiny, or Europeans of the "White Man's Burden." This debate&lt;br /&gt;  about how best to win the "war" against this minority, which must be&lt;br /&gt;  "assimilated" and "integrated," goes to the heart of the definition of&lt;br /&gt;  Zionism itself. Is Zionism for the Jews, or of the Jews? If it is for the&lt;br /&gt;  Jews it is coercive and exclusive, if it is of the Jews then it is&lt;br /&gt;  inclusive, whether those Jews speak Arabic, Ladino or Yiddish.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  To understand the roots of the current "war" elite society is encouraging&lt;br /&gt;  people to wage against the Haredim one has to look at the roots of Zionism.&lt;br /&gt;  In 1898 Max Nordau spoke at the Second Zionist Congress of the need for&lt;br /&gt;  Jews to embrace physical labor and strength: "Let us once more become&lt;br /&gt;  deepchested, sturdy, sharp-eyed men...For no other people will gymnastics&lt;br /&gt;  fulfill a more educational purpose than for us Jews. It shall straighten us&lt;br /&gt;  in body and in character...Our new, muscle Jews have not yet regained the&lt;br /&gt;  heroism of our forefathers who in large numbers eagerly entered the sports&lt;br /&gt;  arenas in order to take part in competition."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  This call to his fellow Jews was not coercive, but rather based on&lt;br /&gt;  consensus building and the logic found in his language. However, the&lt;br /&gt;  Zionist call for the "Conquest of Labor" in Ottoman Palestine quickly&lt;br /&gt;  became coercive.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Haim Arlosoroff noted in 1927: "There is almost no example of an effort by&lt;br /&gt;  a people engaged in settlement (am mityashev) with a European standard of&lt;br /&gt;  needs to transform a country with a low wage level that is made even lower&lt;br /&gt;  by the immigration of cheap labor into a site for mass immigration and mass&lt;br /&gt;  settlement without using coercive means."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  In only a quarter of a century part of the Zionist movement progressed from&lt;br /&gt;  seeking consensus to forcing a "coercive" paradigm on people. Most of this&lt;br /&gt;  was due to the shock of having to live in the Land of Israel. The Zionist&lt;br /&gt;  leaders from Europe sought to import a "European standard" into the&lt;br /&gt;  country. The models they found in the country, such as Rothschild's&lt;br /&gt;  plantation settlements, were unacceptable and had to be brushed aside.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  This had catastrophic affects on the existing Jewish structures in the land.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Much of Palestine's economy at that time was dominated by important&lt;br /&gt;  Sephardic families, such as the Amzalaks, Abulafias, Navons, Bechars,&lt;br /&gt;  Valeros and others. Sephardic Jewish workers, such as the Yemenites who had&lt;br /&gt;  settled at Ben Shemen, were not welcome on the new "European" kibbutzim&lt;br /&gt;  that were established.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Strict "acceptance committees" were set up by the European Jewish&lt;br /&gt;  immigrants to weed out the wrong "human material." This was the beginning&lt;br /&gt;  of the imposition of Zionism for the Jews, and the abandonment of Zionism&lt;br /&gt;  of the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  It is interesting that it is in this period that we see a vociferous&lt;br /&gt;  rejection of Zionism by Orthodox and Reform Jews. The Orthodox understood&lt;br /&gt;  that this new European model was not inclusive. Today the pundits speak of&lt;br /&gt;  the Orthodox not "assimilating into Israel," when in fact it was the&lt;br /&gt;  Zionist European immigrants who themselves never sought to integrate or&lt;br /&gt;  assimilate into the economy of Ottoman or British Palestine. An Orthodox or&lt;br /&gt;  Sephardic family resident in Palestine for 13 generations is today ordered&lt;br /&gt;  to "integrate" by those whose time in the Land of Israel might not stretch&lt;br /&gt;  back more than a decade.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  A more tragic episode followed Israel's War of Independence. Despite the&lt;br /&gt;  government's desire to ingather the exiles, a deep-seated racism existed&lt;br /&gt;  against Jewish immigrants who came from Muslim countries. Vienneseborn&lt;br /&gt;  Labor Zionist elitist Amos Elon was sent by Haaretz to visit potential&lt;br /&gt;  Jewish immigrants in 1953, but "portrayed the mellah [Jewish quarter] of&lt;br /&gt;  Casablanca as a place of stench, degeneracy, disease and perversity."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  According to scholar Orit Rozen, he worried about what effect "uncontrolled&lt;br /&gt;  fertility would have on the Jewish people's genetic robustness," and&lt;br /&gt;  another Israeli claimed the immigrants "could spread disease from transit&lt;br /&gt;  camps to kibbutzim."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Other European-born Zionists who had only become "Israelis" several years&lt;br /&gt;  prior claimed that the new immigrants were like a "foreign country."&lt;br /&gt;  Ironically, these Jewish immigrants spoke Arabic, which was the language of&lt;br /&gt;  the Middle East, rather than the German and Yiddish those like Elon spoke,&lt;br /&gt;  and yet they were the "foreigners" with "degenerate genetic material."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  When the Yemenite Jews arrived author Anita Shapira relates how "the&lt;br /&gt;  teachers did not hesitate to tell students to cut off their [traditional]&lt;br /&gt;  sidelocks, throw away their hats and turn their backs on religious&lt;br /&gt;  tradition."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Where the Sephardic Chelouche family had once welcomed European moshavniks&lt;br /&gt;  into their home in Jaffa, now the Sephardim were subjected to the full&lt;br /&gt;  weight of a racist bureaucracy intended to destroy their culture.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Yemenite girls who wore long dresses were ordered to undress and wear&lt;br /&gt;  shorts – everything "native" had to go.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Sassoon Somekh, a Baghdadi Jew from an intellectual family who became a&lt;br /&gt;  scholar in Israel recalls arriving in Israel and being ordered by a&lt;br /&gt;  Yiddish-speaking Jewish Agency official into a barbed wire encircled&lt;br /&gt;  transit camp. He remembers it "created a feeling, for the first time among&lt;br /&gt;  many of the Iraqis, that they were second-class citizens."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Indeed, they were second class citizens.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  They could never be admitted into kibbutzim by the "acceptance committees"&lt;br /&gt;  that Labor Zionism had set up. Their fate was to be sent to "development&lt;br /&gt;  towns" to work as cheap labor in the place of the Arabs who had fled the&lt;br /&gt;  country during the war.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  There were many in the General Zionist and Herut parties who objected to&lt;br /&gt;  this mistreatment.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Revisionist Zionists had incorporated Sephardic Jews into the ranks. When&lt;br /&gt;  Menachem Begin – who the Labor Zionists called a "fascist" – toured the&lt;br /&gt;  transit camps, he brought along an Arabic-speaking Jew to translate. Who&lt;br /&gt;  were the real fascists, those like Elon who worried about "genetic&lt;br /&gt;  robustness," or those like Begin who sought to meet the Jewish immigrants&lt;br /&gt;  who he believed deserved an equal place in the state? While the kibbutzniks&lt;br /&gt;  were sealing the Mizrahim in transit camps and development towns another&lt;br /&gt;  group of zealots set out to defeat the Orthodox. Yitzhak Laor recalls, "in&lt;br /&gt;  the 1960s, when the ultra-Orthodox of Mea She'arim closed off its streets&lt;br /&gt;  on the Sabbath, kibbutzniks came to Jerusalem wielding sticks to fight 'the&lt;br /&gt;  sons of darkness.'" Thus, even though almost 10 percent of the country's&lt;br /&gt;  land had been distributed to the kibbutzim – that put up fences to keep the&lt;br /&gt;  rest of Israel's citizens off their property – the kibbutzniks still felt&lt;br /&gt;  they had to colonize through violence the remaining congested urban areas&lt;br /&gt;  where Haredim lived.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Not all Jewish immigrants were wanted by the elites, who believed that&lt;br /&gt;  Zionism was for the Jews, and not of the Jews. Although Yitzhak Ben-Zvi,&lt;br /&gt;  the second president of Israel, had written about the Ethiopian Jews, and&lt;br /&gt;  even though Ethiopian Jewish leaders had sought to provide shelter for&lt;br /&gt;  European Jews fleeing Nazism, the nascent state of Israel rejected&lt;br /&gt;  Ethiopian Jews who wanted to make aliyah. In 1959 Ma'ariv journalist Yuval&lt;br /&gt;  Elizur wrote that "it is an ostrich-like policy to ignore the skin color...&lt;br /&gt;  we must consider that bringing all the 'Falashas' in a short period of time&lt;br /&gt;  will create a racial problem in Israel."&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Of course, bringing as many light-skinned European Jews to a Middle Eastern&lt;br /&gt;  country would not create a "racial problem." It was the Africans that had&lt;br /&gt;  to be kept out; they were not right for Israel. Is it a surprise that Mr.&lt;br /&gt;  Elizur is also the co-author of The War Within? There are post-Zionists who&lt;br /&gt;  have sought to dismantle Zionism. Amos Elon, the same journalist who&lt;br /&gt;  worried in 1953 that the Sephardim would bring "bad genetics" to pollute&lt;br /&gt;  Israel, became a post-Zionist in 2004 and moved to Italy, claiming&lt;br /&gt;  Sephardim had ruined "his" country. Ironically, some of the leaders of&lt;br /&gt;  post-Zionism were from kibbutzim and many initially preached an exclusivist&lt;br /&gt;  Zionism.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  But for those who are Zionist, there remains the existential issue of&lt;br /&gt;  whether Zionism is for the Jews or of the Jews. When people start claiming&lt;br /&gt;  Jews must "assimilate" or "integrate" into Israel, it is important to ask&lt;br /&gt;  what that means. When people assert that "Boris is not an Israeli name," we&lt;br /&gt;  need to ask who defines what an "Israeli" name is. When they claim that&lt;br /&gt;  Israel has a "war within," we have to wonder: what kind of Zionism is it&lt;br /&gt;  that fights a "war" with other Jews? When textbooks produced in&lt;br /&gt;  Israeldescribe Ethiopian Jews as moving to&lt;br /&gt;  Israel "for the money," or, as Anita Shapira claimed, that Sephardim had to&lt;br /&gt;  be "compelled to get used to physical work," we need to demand an answer:&lt;br /&gt;  what kind of Zionism is it that views non-European Jews in such a bigoted&lt;br /&gt;  light? FOR SOME leaders and intellectuals, Zionism was never meant to be a&lt;br /&gt;  movement of all the Jews. The "bad genetics" meant the Moroccans had to be&lt;br /&gt;  kept out, the "darkness" meant the Orthodox could not be members, and the&lt;br /&gt;  lack of knowledge of "physical work" or prevalence of "diseases" meant&lt;br /&gt;  Iraqi, Yemenite and Indian Jews were not wanted.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  But one cannot "integrate" into a Zionism predicated on the superiority of&lt;br /&gt;  one Jew over another.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Even today Israel is haunted by the discrimination of the 1950s; we have&lt;br /&gt;  never sufficiently confronted these statements because for many these&lt;br /&gt;  exclusivist intellectuals are still heroes of the state. Jews abroad still&lt;br /&gt;  buy into the rhetoric of the "war within", so that Zionism can triumph. But&lt;br /&gt;  Zionism cannot triumph over the Jews; it is either a movement of the Jews,&lt;br /&gt;  or it is a disgrace to its goals.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  *From The **Jerusalem** Post, **April 24, 2013***&lt;br /&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;
sent by David Shasha&lt;/ul&gt;
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</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomensLens/~3/EftLw3gOkrU/seth-frantzmanzionism-of-jews-or-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aimee Kligman)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2013/05/seth-frantzmanzionism-of-jews-or-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588675615681061429.post-5792421797773770137</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-22T12:06:42.764-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jews from Arab Countries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">propaganda</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Palestinians</category><title>Throw Away That Rusty Key</title><description>by Lyn Julius &lt;br /&gt;
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Dear Maysoon,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was moved to read&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/15/no-place-like-home.html" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt;your piece commemorating the flight of your husband from a village near Jerusalem in 1948&lt;/a&gt;. He has kept the rusty iron key to his home. Yours was one of hundreds of articles in the global media, together with demonstrations and marches,&amp;nbsp;marking your Nakba—the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs in 1948.&lt;/div&gt;
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A picture dated February 10, 2009 shows the entrance of an abandoned Jewish synagogue with a removed Star of David from the wall in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. (Saddam Hussein / AFP / Getty Images)&lt;/div&gt;
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But let me tell you a little known-fact: as your husband's family was fleeing their village, a greater number of Jewish refugees were streaming out of the Arab world with one suitcase—in the opposite direction.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Over 800,000 Jewish refugees fled in the years immediately following 1948. This is the Jewish Nakba—a forgotten tragedy shrouded in silence. One of those refugee families was mine. We lived in a comfortable house in a riverside Jewish neighbourhood in Baghdad. &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/20/throw-away-that-rusty-key.html"&gt;continued&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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sent by David Shasha&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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who provided the following link for context&lt;/div&gt;
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as some context for open zion and arab jews -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://groups.google.com/group/Davidshasha/browse_thread/thread/33a4b6501ac20b4d/a13899ef1dd45af4?lnk=gst&amp;amp;q=arab+jews#a13899ef1dd45af4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"&gt;https://groups.google.com/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;group/Davidshasha/browse_&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;thread/thread/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;33a4b6501ac20b4d/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;a13899ef1dd45af4?lnk=gst&amp;amp;q=&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;arab+jews#a13899ef1dd45af4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;An extended sequence of excerpts from the 70-minute film produced by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), "Jihad in America: The Grand Deception". This particular set of clips (almost 8 minutes in length, total) reflects key moments from the film, a film that everyone should see.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mohamed Zaki sits behind the machine that he has been using for the past 50 years&lt;br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /&gt;(Photo by Abdel-Rahman Sherief)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;The winding, narrow streets of Old Cairo behind Khan El-Khalili have traditionally been bustling with an array of economic activity. Today, nestled among the ancient houses and mosques of the Fatimid era, many traditional workshops still remain, defying modern trends and contemporary production practices alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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These little holes-in-the-wall, and the streets where they make their home, are filled with the rattling, clunking music of the work within, accompanied by recitation of the Quran from a nearby radio.&lt;/div&gt;
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Known as the Khan Abo-Ta’ya or Haret El-Yahoud, (the Jewish Quarter), the area is among Khan El-Khalili’s primary providers of the glittering souvenirs (necklaces, pendants, etc.) which fill its boutiques and draw in tourists.&lt;/div&gt;
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“We can work with any type of core material, be it gold, silver, copper or anything else,” said Mohamed Zaki, a 64 year old craftsman who has been in his profession for 50 years. “We even used to work with ivory imported from African countries before it was banned many years ago.”&lt;/div&gt;
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Zaki and his fellow workers provide the bazaars with the little silver or painted parts which are integrated in ornaments and souvenirs. “These tiny objects cannot be manufactured by modern industrial devices; we are their only makers,” he said.&lt;/div&gt;
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The work is always customised; traders come to Zaki’s workshop and provide him with an image of what they need or give him general guidelines so he can produce the item in question. &lt;a href="http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/05/21/time-has-stood-still-in-the-workshops-of-old-cairo/?"&gt;more&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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by David Shasha&lt;/div&gt;
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The pro-Palestine blogosphere has&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/al-jazeera-management-orders-joseph-massad-article-pulled-act-pro-israel" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 51, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;been&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/prophetic-disappearing-palestine.html" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 51, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;abuzz&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with the deletion of an article on Zionism by Columbia University professor Joseph Massad from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Al-Jazeera&lt;/em&gt;website (you can read the Massad article&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/05/38684last-of-the-semites-joseph-massad/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 51, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). What is interesting about the article is that it – as is usual – identifies Jews as Ashkenazim only.&lt;/div&gt;
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For all that Massad has relationships with Mizrahi Jews, his thinking remains monocausal and racist.&amp;nbsp; Jews never lived in the Middle East and all discussion of Jewish identity and Zionism must be tied exclusively to Europe.&lt;/div&gt;
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Now there is no question that this is very much what the Ashkenazi Jews have demanded.&amp;nbsp; They have usurped Jewish identity for themselves and made Jewish nationalism a matter of European provenance.&amp;nbsp; The details of this discussion then become very contentious given the deep ambivalence and outright confusion of European Christian and Jewish identity and how that plays into Zionism as an exclusionary form of Jewish identity which seeks to isolate Jews from the Gentile world.&lt;/div&gt;
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It is this view of Jewish identity that creates a bizarre linkage to Anti-Semites.&lt;/div&gt;
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And yet the invisible Arab Jews with their roots in the ancient Near East, Medieval Iberia, and the polyglot Ottoman Empire do not match this Eurocentric pattern.&amp;nbsp; Eliminated from Zionist history, the despised Sephardim are equally absent from pro-Palestinian discourse where their claims to Middle Eastern nativity would potentially serve to upset the neat categories that have been established by the Zionists.&lt;/div&gt;
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It is therefore ironic that Massad, in seeking to counter Zionism, affirms its basic dogma that Jews are Europeans and not Middle Easterners. &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/experience-middle-eastern.html?utm_source=feedly"&gt;continued&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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