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I grew up on the South and North Shores of Massachusetts, and taught in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City. I was a successful Labor and Gay rights activist, and cartoonist in the places where I taught. I even won an award or two for my teaching, activism, and cartooning on the local and national levels. In 2012 I received the Angie Debo Award from the ACLU of Oklahoma for working for the protection of GLBT students in the Oklahoma City Public Schools, and getting the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” added to that school district’s policies on Nondiscrimination, Bullying, and Harassment. Wherever I lived and worked I had and continue to have many friends involved in local and national politics who keep me informed of what is going on. I am an unabashed liberal.

Something a little too ghoulish

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Apparently, Israel takes more than just Palestinian land.

According to Sabbah Report, a pro-Peace international news website that is a source for news with content related to Middle East conflict, and is highly regarded as an outlet and alternative to conservative news websites, Israel Knesset member, Ahmed Teibi, insists that the new evidence incriminates the Israeli army and government in stealing Palestinian body parts for transplant in Jewish patients.

This verifies what has been claimed by rights groups for years.

Pathologist, Yehuda Hiss has admitted that, “We started to harvest corneas…whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family”, and he is the former head of the Abu Akbar Center, also known as the L. Greenberg Institute for Forensic Medicine.

At first, they did not limit the harvesting to Palestinians as beginning in the 1990’s forensic specialists harvested corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians, and foreign workers.

They did this often without getting permission from relatives.

Hiss said, “We’d glue the eyelid shut. We wouldn’t take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids.”

I am not a fan of Nazi comparisons, but he also said, “The skins were taken from the bodies and transmitted to Hadasah hospital in West Jerusalem on the request of the Israeli army to be transplanted to wounded soldiers and in case of disaster”.

I read this and thought “lamp shades”.

This skin removal was also done without the deceased person’s family’s consent.

Although this information has been known since 2000, a Swedish daily paper was motivated to publish the information last month because of complaints that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians to trade their organs.

According to Knesset member,  Teibi, “If such is what they are willing to admit, imagine how much they are concealing”.

Some people I have communicated with during this whole Gaza Strip business, who are also upset with recent Israeli land grabs, and who have not been fans of the treatment of Palestinians by Israel, see this as further evidence of racism, as Palestinians have no worth, while their body parts do.

(Loosely similar to Gays and their money when companies and organizations discriminate against GLBT people, but will gladly take their money for business purposes.)

When asked directly about this a few years ago, former Israeli Health Minister Nessim Dahan could only respond, “I couldn’t say for sure that something like that didn’t happen”.

Not a very strong denial.

Meanwhile, even as the Israeli military has admitted that harvesting the organs of Palestinian youth and children did take place in the 1990’s, while insisting that this practice ended about 10 years ago, Palestinians are still reporting that when they have received the remains of loved ones killed by the Israeli army, they are often returned with stitches from the stomach to the neck, and with organs missing.

How convenient

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For verification purposes it is always good to have more than one narrative or record of an event.

If you have only one, then it simply becomes a story that has no real value in a discussion.

It just becomes a matter of “It’s true because I said it’s true”.

Not the best of arguments. It isn’t even he said/she said. It’s just I said.

A lot of what Israel is doing these days is justified because the Bible says that God gave them the Promised Land. But it is in a book they wrote, and no one else heard this being said.

The Egyptians, whose society kept copious records on events for centuries, would certainly have noted somewhere, and in more than one set of records, that at one time all its Hebrew slaves suddenly just up and left one day. Certainly this would have been of something of note to them.

The same with the mysterious deaths of all its first born males.

But nary a word.

No matter what atrocity the Hebrews committed, mass murder, rape, infanticide, you name it, it is all justified in their book as having been commanded or sanctioned by God.

God is the mysterious man who sneaked in the room at night and broke the lamp, and Israel is believed because they said that that is what happened.

What a racket.

Now they can take other people’s land. God okays that.

They can kill women and children in vast numbers. God okays that.

They can get exaggerated vengeance because God said “an eye for an eye”, but He apparently implied there was no need for balance.

It has become “an eye for as many eyes as you can get”.

Hey, it’s in the book they wrote.

Arranging for the death of a woman’s husband so you can continue the affair without interference?

Okay in their book.

Throw mother and child out in the desert so they can die without the inconvenience of being guilty of murder, as, after all, if God wanted them to survive He would have arranged for that, and if they died, well, his fault again?

Okay in their book.

Conquer an army that is protecting their land because God said you could have it, and then cut off the end of their penises as somehow God likes circumcision?

Okay in their book.

You have to wonder how much stuff was justified after the fact by including the justification in the book.

And in modern times, they just keep it up.

Some Palestinian individuals with no official standing kill three kids, so destroy olive groves that belong to others so you can build settlements after bombing homes, schools and hospitals, and shooting at children playing on a building’s roof?

Hey, God gave you the land. It’s in their book.

Makes me wonder if there actually was a different story to David killing a giant Philistine with a little rock.

Mission accomplished

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Not so clear cut

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Whenever I brought up the topic of equal or civil rights in a blog on my previous web outlet, my former trolls, a certain number of them anyway, would ignore real history and condemn Democrats because the party was supposed to have opposed these in the past.

So I thought it might be good to analyze things.

The Republican Party really did not come into its own until Abraham Lincoln’s time.

Hence, “The Party of Lincoln”.

It appears one of the first major actions the party got involved in was to save the Union, and this morphed into freeing the slaves.

It is not hard to understand that in a two party system, after the Civil War when the Confederate States came back into the Union,  the South certainly was not going to join the “Party of Lincoln”.

They maintained power in congress because of the sudden increase in population as former slaves became whole people, but it did not mean that the whole Democratic Party was of one mind with them.

More states were entering the Union, and this watered down the South’s representational advantage, and slowly the Southern Democrats, still not being able to see joining the Republican Party as anything more than treason to their Confederate roots, became the Dixie-crats.

Not Republican, and not totally Democrat either.

I know from local history that the Democratic Party was involved in making living conditions better for the Irish in such places as Boston, New York, and Chicago as it was during this time that Irish politicians rose to where they could get rid of their people’s second class status, and, while not being Republican, also were not the same party as the Dixie-crats.

Slowly, as the Republican Party began to accept more of the Dixie-crats’ ideology, and as the Democrats seemed to get more open minded, especially when it came to race relations and equality for women, being a third party would have been self-defeating, so Dixie-crats began to gravitate toward the Republican Party, as it began to become closer to them in ideology and action.

The Democrat/Republican division was not as clear cut for quite some time as those whose only argument in a discussion on politics is “Yeah, but” would like people to accept it was.

What was finally responsible for the South turning Republican was that the Republican Part became closer to the Confederate South.

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Can you tell the difference?

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It appears there is little difference between those who claim to be true Christians and those who claim to be true Muslims.

Many scoff when Muslims say theirs is a religion of peace.

They emphasize any Qu’ran verse that might contradict that it is a religion of peace, while ignoring those that support it.

In Matthew 5:9 Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”

And yet on Sean Hannity’s show recently, the paragon of Christianity, Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty, seems more in tune with the religion most Americans fear.

The convert’em, or kill’em approach to religion seems not to be the sole purview of Islam.

Is it acceptable for one and not the other?

 

 

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Matthew 25:23

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Or, as Ken Moelis, founder of Wall Street firm Moelis & Co. put it,

“Eric has proven himself to be a pro-business advocate and one who will enhance our boardroom discussions with CEOs and senior management as we help them navigate their most important strategic decisions”.

That is what Eric Cantor was doing in Congress when he was supposed to be representing the people.

Ironically, while having a track record that is now clear to anyone who thought he was representing them, Eric Cantor explained his choice for this new career:

“When I considered options for the next chapter of my career, I knew I wanted to join a firm with a great entrepreneurial spirit that focused on its clients”.

The two big things he did that made him attractive to those who hired him for this position?

His efforts to lower taxes and eliminate excessive regulation.

That explains the screw in the people’s backs.

 

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