The phenomena of Israel bashing, sometimes combined with old fashioned antisemitism, seems to be gaining strength in the daily world written and cyber media. The reasons for these unfavorable reactions might be blamed on extremist proclamations by the current democratic elected Israeli government, however, I doubt that, as the anti Israel feelings seems to increase with the time, and not with a sudden jump, due to the new rightist coalition in Israel.
Some claim that Israel becomes un-popular because its successful campaign against terrorism, others say that its un-compromising harsh handling of the Palestinians, makes Israel the culprit of the media, but that does not make too much sense, as at the same time, but in other regions, terrible things happen, like in China, Sudan, Iran and Iraq, however, those happenings get only a few lines in the press, while Israel conducts a reprisal action against continues terrorism, Israel is blamed with war crimes, and look who is writing this, correspondents from countries deeply involved with murky and bloody handling of terrorists in far away countries such as Afghanistan, and don't forget the innocent victims, but that doesn't reach thefront page.. The honest reports of Israeli soldiers admitting sometimes not to adhere precisely to the Geneva convention in their fight against terrorists hiding and shooting from behind civilians, is blown out of proportion, but 8 years of bombardment of innocent civilians by those Islamic crooks, and terrible terrorist acts of blowing up airplanes, buses and people, is accepted as normal, as Israel stole their land.
Arguments explaining and repeating the origin and development of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, including repeating that there was never in history a Palestinian entity, and the region was ruled by conquering nations such as Romans, Greek Ottoman Turkish, British and French, until the Israeli nation was proclaimed backed and approved by the UN, and after numerous wars against Arab nations trying to drive the Jews into the sea (a strife which can still be seen in their Manifesto).
But the anti-Israeli feeling might be caused by an entirely different reason, which is based on “loving the underdog”, as the Israeli actions are generally successful, and being a Palestinian kept virtually prisoners in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Gaza, conserved for a later day, in order to over run Israel, based on right of return as demanded by the Arabs. Those Palestinians in the refugee camps have no rights, no nationality and are living in deplorable conditions, fed by the UN. Funny enough the Palestinian on the West Bank (Palestinian Authority with Israeli supervision) have a much higher standard of living than their unfortunate brothers in the Arab countries. Not to mention the Israeli Arabs who are complaining but are not prepared to give up their Israeli citizenship and immigrate to future Palestine. But those facts and figures never reach the Western media, as nobody wants to know the truth, and when somebody occasionally write about the conditions of Arab Israeli population, this is shouted down as Israeli propaganda.
But let us look at still another point of few, millions of Arabs have immigrated in the last 3 decades to Europe and the US, and in number they start gaining political strength, but not only in democratic ways but also by terror acts and riots (Paris, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, etc.). The crime world is run by these groups, they are openly against integration, but remember, most of them are not Palestinians, but from Morocco, Turkey, from the African continent, who adopted an Anti-Israel and Anti Jewish hatred as combining Islamic force, but the number of Palestinians participants are minimal. But these large numbers of Islamic people in the European society, is somehow and unjustly blamed on the Israel Palestine conflict, while it in reality, did have nothing to do with the Islamic invasion of Europe.
Another reason might be a peculiar hand out from the Nazi Period, a type of reverse guilt feeling, which is expressed in “why should I feel guilty what has happened to the Jews during the second World War, most likely they deserve this treatment, look how they treat the Arabs”.
In actual fact, the reason of Anti Israel-ism is not very important, it does not bother too much in the daily life of the average Israeli, we regret it, we don't understand and deserve it, but accept it as a fact of live. But we have to remember that we can not let down our guard, we have to maintain at all cost the upper hand, as loosing means drowning, as the other side won't have any mercy.
We will survive, if we continue to lead in technology, (which is our main export article), and articles writing about our so called land theft, and war crimes will not influence the commercial relations between the EU and USA, it is regretful, but we can live without your love, we have overcome bigger problems and survived. Fairness and objectivity are not part of the modern society, but remember, we will assist you, when the dark forces overtake your democracies, and the Islam will take over.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
de dag dat ik allochtoon werd
De dag dat ik allochtoon werd
Door David Verveer
Ik ben in Nederland geboren, zoon van Nederlandse Joden, een half jaar voor de tweede wereld oorlog, en volgens de Nederlandse opinie ben ik dus volbloed Autochtoon van geboorte, want mijn familie leeft al 350 jaar in Den Haag, en voordien in Amsterdam.
Mijn huidskleur en accent zijn typisch Haags, mijn ogen staan ongeveer in de zelfde plaats als onze Hollandse jongens, Jan, Piet of Henk, dus zoals het gezegde gaat, als het kwakt als een eend, er uit ziet als een eend, en loopt als een eend, dan zal het wel een eend zijn. Maar moet ik jullie teleur stellen, ik ben geen autochtoon, des ondanks mijn vader als verzet strijder het leven heeft gegeven voor zijn vaderland, ik zijn zoon, ben op een zekere dag ineens allochtoon geworden. Ik moet bekennen dat Allochtoon te zijn, op zich zelf, heel weinig uit maakt, speciaal als je net als ik, in het buitenland woont, als ik om mij heen kijkt, zie ik alleen maar allochtonen, en de (Nederlandse) autochtonen hier in Israël zijn erg schaars.
Toen tijdens mijn werk in Iran, in de tijd van de Sjah, mijn vrouw een baan kreeg als secretaresse van de toenmalige vertegenwoordiger van Israël (er was geen Ambassadeur), was de eis dat de echtgenoot van de potentiaal secretaresse van de pseudo Ambassadeur ook de Israëlische paspoort zou hebben, anders kon ze de geheime dossiers niet behandelen. Daar ik niets tegen de Israëlische nationaliteit heb, integendeel ik er tamelijk trots op ben, kreeg ik dus een Israëlische paspoort.
Een jaar later, toen ik mijn Nederlandse paspoort wou verlengen, kwamen ze op de Nederlandse Ambassadee in Tel Aviv, tot de ontdekking dat ik ook eenIsraëlischh paspoort had, direct werd mijn Nederlandse paspoort ongeldig verklaart, en sinds die dag ben ik dus volbloed allochtoon.
Volgens de Nederlandse wet, mag men geen dubbele Nationaliteit hebben, alleen maar als de plaatselijke wet het afzeggen van de lokale nationaliteit verbied, zoals bijvoorbeeld de Amerikaanse regering, dan mag je je Nederlandse paspoort behouden.
Opmerkelijk is het feit dat toen ik een jonge jongen was direct na de oorlog en natuurlijk in de oorlog, toen was ik ook iets anders, ik was toen een Joden jongetje, die tijdens de Moffen geen recht op leven had, en daarna, nooit als vol werd herkent, daar de kinderen van mijn leeftijd geen idee hadden wat Joden waren, of waarom we dus opgejaagd en vermoord werden tijdens het bezet, en thuis bij hun geen uitleg wed gegeven, bleven wij vreemde eendjes (wat is het vandaag met eenden).
Ik weet dat een keer door een stelletje kwajongens als Rot Jood ben uit gemaakt, en toen ik niet reageerde, zijn ze iemand anders gaan uitschelden. Ik begreep het gedeelte van Jood, maar waarom rot jood, brillejood, voddenjood zou ik begrijpen,maar rot jood.
Ik moet bekennen dat na de oorlog was er bijna geen openlijke antisemitisme, want als ik eerder heb geschreven,mijn mislukte afkomst kan niet uit mijn gezicht te lezen zijn, en werd ik als gewoon geaccepteerd. Mijn beste vrienden waren katholiek, en gingen net als ik naar Zondag school, ik om Joodse en hun om Katholieke dingen te leren, en middags waren we alles vergeten, en speelde we ridders of cowboys.
Ik ben benieuwd dat als ik (en maken jullie geen zorgen, want dat gebeurt niet, naar Nederland zou willen emigreren, zou ik dan bang moeten zijn voor Meneer Wilders, en zijn partij, of zou ik kunnen onderduiken als pseudo autochtoon,
Door David Verveer
Ik ben in Nederland geboren, zoon van Nederlandse Joden, een half jaar voor de tweede wereld oorlog, en volgens de Nederlandse opinie ben ik dus volbloed Autochtoon van geboorte, want mijn familie leeft al 350 jaar in Den Haag, en voordien in Amsterdam.
Mijn huidskleur en accent zijn typisch Haags, mijn ogen staan ongeveer in de zelfde plaats als onze Hollandse jongens, Jan, Piet of Henk, dus zoals het gezegde gaat, als het kwakt als een eend, er uit ziet als een eend, en loopt als een eend, dan zal het wel een eend zijn. Maar moet ik jullie teleur stellen, ik ben geen autochtoon, des ondanks mijn vader als verzet strijder het leven heeft gegeven voor zijn vaderland, ik zijn zoon, ben op een zekere dag ineens allochtoon geworden. Ik moet bekennen dat Allochtoon te zijn, op zich zelf, heel weinig uit maakt, speciaal als je net als ik, in het buitenland woont, als ik om mij heen kijkt, zie ik alleen maar allochtonen, en de (Nederlandse) autochtonen hier in Israël zijn erg schaars.
Toen tijdens mijn werk in Iran, in de tijd van de Sjah, mijn vrouw een baan kreeg als secretaresse van de toenmalige vertegenwoordiger van Israël (er was geen Ambassadeur), was de eis dat de echtgenoot van de potentiaal secretaresse van de pseudo Ambassadeur ook de Israëlische paspoort zou hebben, anders kon ze de geheime dossiers niet behandelen. Daar ik niets tegen de Israëlische nationaliteit heb, integendeel ik er tamelijk trots op ben, kreeg ik dus een Israëlische paspoort.
Een jaar later, toen ik mijn Nederlandse paspoort wou verlengen, kwamen ze op de Nederlandse Ambassadee in Tel Aviv, tot de ontdekking dat ik ook eenIsraëlischh paspoort had, direct werd mijn Nederlandse paspoort ongeldig verklaart, en sinds die dag ben ik dus volbloed allochtoon.
Volgens de Nederlandse wet, mag men geen dubbele Nationaliteit hebben, alleen maar als de plaatselijke wet het afzeggen van de lokale nationaliteit verbied, zoals bijvoorbeeld de Amerikaanse regering, dan mag je je Nederlandse paspoort behouden.
Opmerkelijk is het feit dat toen ik een jonge jongen was direct na de oorlog en natuurlijk in de oorlog, toen was ik ook iets anders, ik was toen een Joden jongetje, die tijdens de Moffen geen recht op leven had, en daarna, nooit als vol werd herkent, daar de kinderen van mijn leeftijd geen idee hadden wat Joden waren, of waarom we dus opgejaagd en vermoord werden tijdens het bezet, en thuis bij hun geen uitleg wed gegeven, bleven wij vreemde eendjes (wat is het vandaag met eenden).
Ik weet dat een keer door een stelletje kwajongens als Rot Jood ben uit gemaakt, en toen ik niet reageerde, zijn ze iemand anders gaan uitschelden. Ik begreep het gedeelte van Jood, maar waarom rot jood, brillejood, voddenjood zou ik begrijpen,maar rot jood.
Ik moet bekennen dat na de oorlog was er bijna geen openlijke antisemitisme, want als ik eerder heb geschreven,mijn mislukte afkomst kan niet uit mijn gezicht te lezen zijn, en werd ik als gewoon geaccepteerd. Mijn beste vrienden waren katholiek, en gingen net als ik naar Zondag school, ik om Joodse en hun om Katholieke dingen te leren, en middags waren we alles vergeten, en speelde we ridders of cowboys.
Ik ben benieuwd dat als ik (en maken jullie geen zorgen, want dat gebeurt niet, naar Nederland zou willen emigreren, zou ik dan bang moeten zijn voor Meneer Wilders, en zijn partij, of zou ik kunnen onderduiken als pseudo autochtoon,
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Didn't Shakespeare ask, what is in a name?
Didn't Shakespeare ask, what is in a name?
By David Verveer
Finally the first wise decision, in the 100 day old Bibi's coalition government, now that Don Katz de la Mancha instructed to erase all road signs of Arab place names. You realize the terrible confusion of the Arab visitors and tourists, following road signs, seeing El Kotz has just disappeared and a new site of Jerusalem has been build by those Zionists.
Let us ignore the minor problems of the Israeli road system, like the great number of casualties due to bad roads and lack in funds, can you imagine something more worthy that changing road signs. I hope when they are going to execute this urgent task, they will also change the signs stating Herzliyya, (Herzlia), Ranannah, (Raanana) etc., as they are looking ridiculous in the eyes of the English readers, but remember the signage makers are paid by the number of letters.
Another samples are Akko (Accra), Ceasariah (Keasariah), I wonder what will be decided on Haifa (Chaifa) or Kfar Saba (Kefar Sava), it will be interesting, confusing and costly, but well worth it, money well spend, we will show them who is the boss, Jabotinski would have been proud of his disciple.
I read somewhere that Minister Katz decided also to continue the railway to Elath, even though, financially this is considered a waste of money, but like a great leader before him, Herod the Great, he will be remembered for his great construction works.
Why in actual fact we do not call Katz, Mr Cohen Tsedek, or Potz when he disagrees that Jerusalem is named by Arabs el Kotz.
By David Verveer
Finally the first wise decision, in the 100 day old Bibi's coalition government, now that Don Katz de la Mancha instructed to erase all road signs of Arab place names. You realize the terrible confusion of the Arab visitors and tourists, following road signs, seeing El Kotz has just disappeared and a new site of Jerusalem has been build by those Zionists.
Let us ignore the minor problems of the Israeli road system, like the great number of casualties due to bad roads and lack in funds, can you imagine something more worthy that changing road signs. I hope when they are going to execute this urgent task, they will also change the signs stating Herzliyya, (Herzlia), Ranannah, (Raanana) etc., as they are looking ridiculous in the eyes of the English readers, but remember the signage makers are paid by the number of letters.
Another samples are Akko (Accra), Ceasariah (Keasariah), I wonder what will be decided on Haifa (Chaifa) or Kfar Saba (Kefar Sava), it will be interesting, confusing and costly, but well worth it, money well spend, we will show them who is the boss, Jabotinski would have been proud of his disciple.
I read somewhere that Minister Katz decided also to continue the railway to Elath, even though, financially this is considered a waste of money, but like a great leader before him, Herod the Great, he will be remembered for his great construction works.
Why in actual fact we do not call Katz, Mr Cohen Tsedek, or Potz when he disagrees that Jerusalem is named by Arabs el Kotz.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
the world and grandfather's village
The World and my Grandfather's village
By David Verveer
The title of this post might indicate something entirely different than what it really means. I live in a town (about 90.000 inhabitants) in the Israeli coastal Sharon plain, with the romantic name of Kfar Saba (Grandfather's village). The real origin of the name is unknown, but it was already mentioned with this name during the Roman and Byzantine periods, some historians claim that it originates from a Saba clan which lived in the area, but according my grandchildren, Kfar Saba is named Grandfather's village because their grandfather lives there, and whom am I to argue with them.
The site of our town has strategic value, as it was one of the caravan stops on the ancient Spice road to the Far East. The traders would arrive in Egypt and follow the coastal road, and turn inland taking the Salt Valley road, where now the towns of Zichron Yaacov / Furadis are. This coastal road was a small passable strip between the coastal swamps and the Shomron hills. Not only traders use this road but also armies conquering and fighting forces of the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Arabs, Romans, Crusaders and anybody involved in the region.
A Chan - ruins of a hostel from the Byzantine period can be seen, just outside Kfar Saba in an Arab village name Jaljuliah, apparently using the caravans for refreshing horses and getting fresh provisions.
This ancient trader's road became also the green border, after Israel's war of independence, and today is the border between the Palestinian West Bank and Israel.
The towns Qualquilia and Kfar Saba are and were neighbors, today divided by a high wall, as during the second Intifada, Kfar Saba suffered severely from terror acts by Qualquilians.
Kfar Saba is neighboring in the west with Jewish Raanana, and in the north with the Israeli Arab Triangle of a cluster of Arabic villages and towns. To the south we find Jaljuliah, mentioned before, which is the Biblical Gilgal haSharon and the Jewish town Hod hasharon. Kfar Saba is only 15 kilometers from the sea, and the area can be considered the smallest strip of Israel. The distance to Tel Aviv, the commercial capital of Israel is also around 15 Km, this explains the main function of Kfar Saba, as middle class home for people working in the Tel Aviv region.
As I mentioned before, Kfar Saba is nearly surrounded by Arab towns and villages, and provides services (administrative, health, educational and of course shopping) to a wide region of central Israel. Even though, we do not talk about it too much, integration of Israeli Arabs is complete, they sell in shops and malls, and they work at the post office or any other service in town, they work at the Meir hospital as doctors, nurses and medical staff, without any discrimination or racist problems, even not during hectic war times, such as the Gaza offensive, a few months back. I failed to mention that the Palestinian Arabs from the region do most of their shopping in Kfar Saba, and many Kfar Saba citizens go to the Arab towns in order to buy cheaper vegetable and fruits, get their cars fixed or go to dentists, who charge much less than their Jewish counterparts in Kfar Saba.
I don't claim, Kfar Saba is trouble free, we suffer still from car thefts from West Bank criminals, however since the border dividing wall, and it is less often.
In actual fact, even though, a border and wall divide us from Qualquiliah, there is much cooperation between the two towns, with its mayors meeting often in order to discuss neighborhood problems and actions.
Please note, the town Kfar Saba is not built on Arab owned land but was bought during the Ottoman and Mandate period by the Lord Rothschild foundation. The Arabs in the area mostly remained there during the War of Independence, and still live at the same place in relative prosperity, (not withstanding local financial municipal problems, due to failure in getting their citizens to pay their taxes).
When I read in foreign newspapers about the problems and discrimination between Arabs and Jews in Israel, I wonder if we live on another planet and the Israel mentioned in their reports is another place, dark and cruel. As I have lived in many places on our globe, I dare to claim that discrimination in Israel is much less than for example London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin or Paris.
I think that the foreign press is confusing the environment in Gaza or the West Bank with that of Israel, indeed, there is still a conflict going on, 5 minutes away from Kfar Saba, were Hamas and Fatah fighters kill each other and attack Israeli troops in name of Allah, which you might call occupation, true that extremists settlers behave as dictators in the territories, which we try, not always very successfully, to curb, but that is a temporary situation, as I hope and presume that both forced agreements and pressure from the U.S. and E.U. will solve these disputes. I don't try to white wash the deeds of some of my country men, I am against colonizing, but European opinions claiming massacre and land theft and other war crimes is far from the truth and unfair to the Israeli, remember all wars in the region were instigated by the Arab countries or terrorists organizations, please take in account, Israel can not afford to lose a war, we have nowhere to go, other than drowning in the sea, as some of our enemies still have written in their manifest.
By David Verveer
The title of this post might indicate something entirely different than what it really means. I live in a town (about 90.000 inhabitants) in the Israeli coastal Sharon plain, with the romantic name of Kfar Saba (Grandfather's village). The real origin of the name is unknown, but it was already mentioned with this name during the Roman and Byzantine periods, some historians claim that it originates from a Saba clan which lived in the area, but according my grandchildren, Kfar Saba is named Grandfather's village because their grandfather lives there, and whom am I to argue with them.
The site of our town has strategic value, as it was one of the caravan stops on the ancient Spice road to the Far East. The traders would arrive in Egypt and follow the coastal road, and turn inland taking the Salt Valley road, where now the towns of Zichron Yaacov / Furadis are. This coastal road was a small passable strip between the coastal swamps and the Shomron hills. Not only traders use this road but also armies conquering and fighting forces of the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Arabs, Romans, Crusaders and anybody involved in the region.
A Chan - ruins of a hostel from the Byzantine period can be seen, just outside Kfar Saba in an Arab village name Jaljuliah, apparently using the caravans for refreshing horses and getting fresh provisions.
This ancient trader's road became also the green border, after Israel's war of independence, and today is the border between the Palestinian West Bank and Israel.
The towns Qualquilia and Kfar Saba are and were neighbors, today divided by a high wall, as during the second Intifada, Kfar Saba suffered severely from terror acts by Qualquilians.
Kfar Saba is neighboring in the west with Jewish Raanana, and in the north with the Israeli Arab Triangle of a cluster of Arabic villages and towns. To the south we find Jaljuliah, mentioned before, which is the Biblical Gilgal haSharon and the Jewish town Hod hasharon. Kfar Saba is only 15 kilometers from the sea, and the area can be considered the smallest strip of Israel. The distance to Tel Aviv, the commercial capital of Israel is also around 15 Km, this explains the main function of Kfar Saba, as middle class home for people working in the Tel Aviv region.
As I mentioned before, Kfar Saba is nearly surrounded by Arab towns and villages, and provides services (administrative, health, educational and of course shopping) to a wide region of central Israel. Even though, we do not talk about it too much, integration of Israeli Arabs is complete, they sell in shops and malls, and they work at the post office or any other service in town, they work at the Meir hospital as doctors, nurses and medical staff, without any discrimination or racist problems, even not during hectic war times, such as the Gaza offensive, a few months back. I failed to mention that the Palestinian Arabs from the region do most of their shopping in Kfar Saba, and many Kfar Saba citizens go to the Arab towns in order to buy cheaper vegetable and fruits, get their cars fixed or go to dentists, who charge much less than their Jewish counterparts in Kfar Saba.
I don't claim, Kfar Saba is trouble free, we suffer still from car thefts from West Bank criminals, however since the border dividing wall, and it is less often.
In actual fact, even though, a border and wall divide us from Qualquiliah, there is much cooperation between the two towns, with its mayors meeting often in order to discuss neighborhood problems and actions.
Please note, the town Kfar Saba is not built on Arab owned land but was bought during the Ottoman and Mandate period by the Lord Rothschild foundation. The Arabs in the area mostly remained there during the War of Independence, and still live at the same place in relative prosperity, (not withstanding local financial municipal problems, due to failure in getting their citizens to pay their taxes).
When I read in foreign newspapers about the problems and discrimination between Arabs and Jews in Israel, I wonder if we live on another planet and the Israel mentioned in their reports is another place, dark and cruel. As I have lived in many places on our globe, I dare to claim that discrimination in Israel is much less than for example London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin or Paris.
I think that the foreign press is confusing the environment in Gaza or the West Bank with that of Israel, indeed, there is still a conflict going on, 5 minutes away from Kfar Saba, were Hamas and Fatah fighters kill each other and attack Israeli troops in name of Allah, which you might call occupation, true that extremists settlers behave as dictators in the territories, which we try, not always very successfully, to curb, but that is a temporary situation, as I hope and presume that both forced agreements and pressure from the U.S. and E.U. will solve these disputes. I don't try to white wash the deeds of some of my country men, I am against colonizing, but European opinions claiming massacre and land theft and other war crimes is far from the truth and unfair to the Israeli, remember all wars in the region were instigated by the Arab countries or terrorists organizations, please take in account, Israel can not afford to lose a war, we have nowhere to go, other than drowning in the sea, as some of our enemies still have written in their manifest.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The world and my Grandfather's village
The title of this post might indicate something entirely different than what it really means. I live in a town (about 90.000 inhabitants) in the Israeli coastal Sharon plain, with the romantic name of Kfar Saba (Grandfather's village). The real origin of the name is unknown, but it was already mentioned with this name during the Roman and Byzantine periods, some historians claim that it originates from a Saba clan which lived in the area, but according my grandchildren, Kfar Saba is named Grandfather's village because their grandfather lives there, and whom am I to argue with them.
The site of our town has strategic value, as it was one of the caravan stops on the ancient Spice road to the Far East. The traders would arrive in Egypt and follow the coastal road, and turn inland taking the Salt Valley road, where now the towns of Zichron Yaacov / Furadis are. This coastal road was a small passable strip between the coastal swamps and the Shomron hills. Not only traders use this road but also armies conquering and fighting forces of the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Arabs, Romans, Crusaders and anybody involved in the region.
A Chan - ruins of a hostel from the Byzantine period can be seen, just outside Kfar Saba in an Arab village name Jaljuliah, apparently using the caravans for refreshing horses and getting fresh provisions.
This ancient trader's road became also the green border, after Israel's war of independence, and today is the border between the Palestinian West Bank and Israel.
The towns Qualquilia and Kfar Saba are and were neighbors, today divided by a high wall, as during the second Intifada, Kfar Saba suffered severely from terror acts by Qualquilians.
Kfar Saba is neighboring in the west with Jewish Raanana, and in the north with the Israeli Arab Triangle of a cluster of Arabic villages and towns. To the south we find Jaljuliah, mentioned before, which is the Biblical Gilgal haSharon and the Jewish town Hod hasharon. Kfar Saba is only 15 kilometers from the sea, and the area can be considered the smallest strip of Israel. The distance to Tel Aviv, the commercial capital of Israel is also around 15 Km, this explains the main function of Kfar Saba, as middle class home for people working in the Tel Aviv region.
As I mentioned before, Kfar Saba is nearly surrounded by Arab towns and villages, and provides services (administrative, health, educational and of course shopping) to a wide region of central Israel. Even though, we do not talk about it too much, integration of Israeli Arabs is complete, they sell in shops and malls, and they work at the post office or any other service in town, they work at the Meir hospital as doctors, nurses and medical staff, without any discrimination or racist problems, even not during hectic war times, such as the Gaza offensive, a few months back. I failed to mention that the Palestinian Arabs from the region do most of their shopping in Kfar Saba, and many Kfar Saba citizens go to the Arab towns in order to buy cheaper vegetable and fruits, get their cars fixed or go to dentists, who charge much less than their Jewish counterparts in Kfar Saba.
I don't claim, Kfar Saba is trouble free, we suffer still from car thefts from West Bank criminals, however since the border dividing wall, and it is less often.
In actual fact, even though, a border and wall divide us from Qualquiliah, there is much cooperation between the two towns, with its mayors meeting often in order to discuss neighborhood problems and actions.
Please note, the town Kfar Saba is not built on Arab owned land but was bought during the Ottoman and Mandate period by the Lord Rothschild foundation. The Arabs in the area mostly remained there during the War of Independence, and still live at the same place in relative prosperity, (not withstanding local financial municipal problems, due to failure in getting their citizens to pay their taxes).
When I read in foreign newspapers about the problems and discrimination between Arabs and Jews in Israel, I wonder if we live on another planet and the Israel mentioned in their reports is another place, dark and cruel. As I have lived in many places on our globe, I dare to claim that discrimination in Israel is much less than for example London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin or Paris.
I think that the foreign press is confusing the environment in Gaza or the West Bank with that of Israel, indeed, there is still a conflict going on, 5 minutes away from Kfar Saba, were Hamas and Fatah fighters kill each other and attack Israeli troops in name of Allah, which you might call occupation, true that extremists settlers behave as dictators in the territories, which we try, not always very successfully, to curb, but that is a temporary situation, as I hope and presume that both forced agreements and pressure from the U.S. and E.U. will solve these disputes. I don't try to white wash the deeds of some of my country men, I am against colonizing, but European opinions claiming massacre and land theft and other war crimes is far from the truth and unfair to the Israeli, remember all wars in the region were instigated by the Arab countries or terrorists organizations, please take in account, Israel can not afford to lose a war, we have nowhere to go, other than drowning in the sea, as some of our enemies still have written in their manifest.
The site of our town has strategic value, as it was one of the caravan stops on the ancient Spice road to the Far East. The traders would arrive in Egypt and follow the coastal road, and turn inland taking the Salt Valley road, where now the towns of Zichron Yaacov / Furadis are. This coastal road was a small passable strip between the coastal swamps and the Shomron hills. Not only traders use this road but also armies conquering and fighting forces of the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Arabs, Romans, Crusaders and anybody involved in the region.
A Chan - ruins of a hostel from the Byzantine period can be seen, just outside Kfar Saba in an Arab village name Jaljuliah, apparently using the caravans for refreshing horses and getting fresh provisions.
This ancient trader's road became also the green border, after Israel's war of independence, and today is the border between the Palestinian West Bank and Israel.
The towns Qualquilia and Kfar Saba are and were neighbors, today divided by a high wall, as during the second Intifada, Kfar Saba suffered severely from terror acts by Qualquilians.
Kfar Saba is neighboring in the west with Jewish Raanana, and in the north with the Israeli Arab Triangle of a cluster of Arabic villages and towns. To the south we find Jaljuliah, mentioned before, which is the Biblical Gilgal haSharon and the Jewish town Hod hasharon. Kfar Saba is only 15 kilometers from the sea, and the area can be considered the smallest strip of Israel. The distance to Tel Aviv, the commercial capital of Israel is also around 15 Km, this explains the main function of Kfar Saba, as middle class home for people working in the Tel Aviv region.
As I mentioned before, Kfar Saba is nearly surrounded by Arab towns and villages, and provides services (administrative, health, educational and of course shopping) to a wide region of central Israel. Even though, we do not talk about it too much, integration of Israeli Arabs is complete, they sell in shops and malls, and they work at the post office or any other service in town, they work at the Meir hospital as doctors, nurses and medical staff, without any discrimination or racist problems, even not during hectic war times, such as the Gaza offensive, a few months back. I failed to mention that the Palestinian Arabs from the region do most of their shopping in Kfar Saba, and many Kfar Saba citizens go to the Arab towns in order to buy cheaper vegetable and fruits, get their cars fixed or go to dentists, who charge much less than their Jewish counterparts in Kfar Saba.
I don't claim, Kfar Saba is trouble free, we suffer still from car thefts from West Bank criminals, however since the border dividing wall, and it is less often.
In actual fact, even though, a border and wall divide us from Qualquiliah, there is much cooperation between the two towns, with its mayors meeting often in order to discuss neighborhood problems and actions.
Please note, the town Kfar Saba is not built on Arab owned land but was bought during the Ottoman and Mandate period by the Lord Rothschild foundation. The Arabs in the area mostly remained there during the War of Independence, and still live at the same place in relative prosperity, (not withstanding local financial municipal problems, due to failure in getting their citizens to pay their taxes).
When I read in foreign newspapers about the problems and discrimination between Arabs and Jews in Israel, I wonder if we live on another planet and the Israel mentioned in their reports is another place, dark and cruel. As I have lived in many places on our globe, I dare to claim that discrimination in Israel is much less than for example London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin or Paris.
I think that the foreign press is confusing the environment in Gaza or the West Bank with that of Israel, indeed, there is still a conflict going on, 5 minutes away from Kfar Saba, were Hamas and Fatah fighters kill each other and attack Israeli troops in name of Allah, which you might call occupation, true that extremists settlers behave as dictators in the territories, which we try, not always very successfully, to curb, but that is a temporary situation, as I hope and presume that both forced agreements and pressure from the U.S. and E.U. will solve these disputes. I don't try to white wash the deeds of some of my country men, I am against colonizing, but European opinions claiming massacre and land theft and other war crimes is far from the truth and unfair to the Israeli, remember all wars in the region were instigated by the Arab countries or terrorists organizations, please take in account, Israel can not afford to lose a war, we have nowhere to go, other than drowning in the sea, as some of our enemies still have written in their manifest.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Israeli Luftgescheft multipurpose patch
The Israeli luftgescheft multipurpose patch
By David Verveer
I like to make from the beginning, I am not talking about the invention of the 21st century, the heart attack prevention patch that indicates that the wearer will get a heart-attack 30 minutes before it happens, I hope it doesn't work, as who wants a heart attack? No I am dealing with a multipurpose plaster, which has an USB outlet, which one can connect to the PC on one side, and the plaster on the other side.
This multi-purpose patch is glued to the upper belly, and will report the blood flow of the patient, heart speed, and other medical facts of the wearer. This invention was developed by a team of scientists, and financed by several inventors. A company was formed called "luftgescheft" and soon can de traded at the Tel Aviv bourse.
The inventor Dr. Chan Tarish, at a meeting with the press told the audience about the invention, how it operates and who will benefit from it. The multipurpose-patch is still in development stage, and the expected date of reaching the market will depend on getting the O.K. from the ministry of Health. The inventor warned that sudden breakdown of the system could mean two main reasons, or power failure on one side, or death of the patient., when this happens, one should not panic, but check if the PC gets it power supply, if of course the power supply is working, Hevrat Kedisha's phone number is written on the patch.
On a question of the audience, if the multipurpose patch also helps to stop smoking, the inventor showed his patch on his breast, and told the press that for reasons not clear yet, the patch gets un-comfortable hot when smoking, which made him stop, around two weeks after starting wearing the patch.
Another journalist asked if the patch works on Microsoft software or Linux, and if failing health won't interfere with the proper operation of the PC. The Inventor thought it would not affect software or hardware, but further investigation would be required.
However, he said the company is working on a disk-on-key type of device, which would be attached to the plaster, and could provide all the software of the P.C.
One of the share holders is Ezekiel the private butcher of the prime minister, who was found guilty on selling kosher meat in a non-kosher zone, and by the way, his wife Jackeline runs a beauty parlor in Jerusalem's Merhavia neighborhood, where many of the wives and partners of the MKs go for their weekly make-up.
The prime minister, when asked, told us that he does not handle the meat provision of the Prime ministers household, and that he never had laid eye on the butcher, nor was aware of his problems with the law. The police was asked to investigate these rumors, which might be related to the Dudu Topaz case.
Last news: The Albanian financing firm "the upside-down Pyramid" indicated their interest in buying 30% of Ezekiel's stock, no further information is available yet.
Monday, July 6, 2009
De Volkskrant Opinie Reacties
De Volkskrant Internet Opinie Reacties
Opinie van het publiek is erg belangrijk als toets materiaal voor de regeerders, maar ook voor de journalist, die aan de hand van de reacties kan peilen hoe de publieke opinies zijn over het onderwerp onder discussie.
Theoretisch is dit dus de beste manier om een democratische politieke opinie te formuleren, maar in mijn opinie, deze theorie werkt niet in de Nederlandse Volkskrant Opinie sectie, daar de deelnemers (een zeer beperkt groepje van schrijvers), alle opinie stukken verteren en omdraaien om over sommige hobby paaltjes te spreken, bij voorbeeld, Israël / Palestijnen, Islam in Nederland. De 2de wereld oorlog / nazie, Wilders, enz.
Of het onderwerp van het opinie stuk gaat over de kwaliteit van de verse groene haring, na ongeveer 20 to 30 reacties hebben we het weer over de bezetten gebieden van Palestina) misschien is dit een beetje overdreven, maar kijk de laatste 10 onderwerpen die behandeld zijn in de Volkskrant, en je zal zien dat men niet ge-interesseerd is op Unix Gelderse Worsten als onderwerp, maar een aanloop nodig heeft voor zijn stokpaardje. In een artikel dat heet `waar blijft Koran kritiek, de reacties gingen over, zonder enige reden naar de inhoud van de Talmoed (Joodse uitleg van de Bijbel), die ten eerste heiligste boek van de Joden werd genoemd, wat ik, zo ver ik weet, onjuist acht, daar we maar een heilig boek hebben (en de heiligheid is dubieus) en dat is de bijbel (oude testament).
Maar het artikeltje ging niet over de Talmoed of de Mishna (uitleg van de Talmoed) maar over de Koran.
Dan hebben we van die echte wijzen, die een tekst aanhalen, die door een of ander persoon is gepubliceerd met feiten die ongegrond zijn en niets hebben te maken met de werkelijkheid, maar als ze dus aangehaald worden in de reactie zijn er al twee mensen overtuigd dat dit de waarheid is, zoals bijvoorbeeld, een Washington expert in de seksualiteit van sprinkhanen schreef dat de stad Qalqiliah, in het Palestijnse gebied is omringt door een discriminatie muur, en de arme inwoners moeten door poorten om naar buiten te gaan, een verhaal, dat als ik niet in een stadje naast Qalqiliah zou wonen, 15 kilometer van de zee van daan, me tot huilen zou dwingen, maar ik ben naar mijn balkon gegaan, en heb gezien dat de schrijfster dus dubbel zag van teveel wijn, en de grens muur (die gaat op een eeuwen oude karavaan weg, die de laatste 60 jaar de groene grens was' ongeveer 5 kilometer lang is en Palestina van Israël buffers.
De leugen op zich zelf is niet erg, maar dat de persoon die dat herhaalt om een punt te maken, het kon controleren op Google Wold, of Google Search, om te weten dat dit verhaaltje is gefantaseerd, maar inderdaad helpt in de argumenten, van de ene tegen de andere.
Na drie honderd reacties, op en neer, de schrijvers gaan over naar een nieuw opinie stuk, deze keer over Wilders, zo ver ik weet een Nederlandse politicus, maar ja, dat drukt de gijn niet in, hij is anti Islam, dus gaan we weer de joden, Israël en de Holocaust er bij halen, en als ik het goed begrijp, dat Wilders een Zionistische spion is (hij is een half jaartje in Israël geweest, en zijn apartheid politiek, heeft hij in Israël geleerd).
Er zijn 4 groepen van opinies:
1 – anti Joods – Israël (von der Dunk, en aanhang) ander Joods geluid, calvinisten
2 - pro Israëli (extremisten en anti/extremisten)
3 - kofie stoel idealisten met principe
4 – niet behoren tot de drie groeperingen, maar even proberen om te laten zien dat ze het artikeltje hebben begrepen / of niet natuurlijk..
Wat ik niet begrijp is dat niemand over de Somali piraten schrijft, of over de Darfur crisis, moord en doodslag in Iran en Irak, niet te vergeten Pakistan en Afghanistan, en jongens Korea wil Japan en de USA aanvallen met nucleair wapens, de hoeren worden verdreven van de wallen, waar moeten de toeristen nu naar toe. Is het enige onderwerp interessant genoeg, Israël en de Palestijnen?
Als jullie het nog niet begrepen hebben uit de tekst, ik ben een Israëliër van oorsprong Nederlander, (naar van daag de dag Allochtoon van nationaliteit, die op zijn ouwe dag, Nederlandse kranten leest, en elke keer verbijsterd istaat, hoe de tolerante Nederlanders zijn uit gegroeid in een discriminerend volk, die zijn verleden heeft vergeten.
Mijn excuses aan mijn oud leraares, jufrouw de Vries, die probeerde mij goed Nederlands te leren, maar helaas, droevig mislukt is.
Opinie van het publiek is erg belangrijk als toets materiaal voor de regeerders, maar ook voor de journalist, die aan de hand van de reacties kan peilen hoe de publieke opinies zijn over het onderwerp onder discussie.
Theoretisch is dit dus de beste manier om een democratische politieke opinie te formuleren, maar in mijn opinie, deze theorie werkt niet in de Nederlandse Volkskrant Opinie sectie, daar de deelnemers (een zeer beperkt groepje van schrijvers), alle opinie stukken verteren en omdraaien om over sommige hobby paaltjes te spreken, bij voorbeeld, Israël / Palestijnen, Islam in Nederland. De 2de wereld oorlog / nazie, Wilders, enz.
Of het onderwerp van het opinie stuk gaat over de kwaliteit van de verse groene haring, na ongeveer 20 to 30 reacties hebben we het weer over de bezetten gebieden van Palestina) misschien is dit een beetje overdreven, maar kijk de laatste 10 onderwerpen die behandeld zijn in de Volkskrant, en je zal zien dat men niet ge-interesseerd is op Unix Gelderse Worsten als onderwerp, maar een aanloop nodig heeft voor zijn stokpaardje. In een artikel dat heet `waar blijft Koran kritiek, de reacties gingen over, zonder enige reden naar de inhoud van de Talmoed (Joodse uitleg van de Bijbel), die ten eerste heiligste boek van de Joden werd genoemd, wat ik, zo ver ik weet, onjuist acht, daar we maar een heilig boek hebben (en de heiligheid is dubieus) en dat is de bijbel (oude testament).
Maar het artikeltje ging niet over de Talmoed of de Mishna (uitleg van de Talmoed) maar over de Koran.
Dan hebben we van die echte wijzen, die een tekst aanhalen, die door een of ander persoon is gepubliceerd met feiten die ongegrond zijn en niets hebben te maken met de werkelijkheid, maar als ze dus aangehaald worden in de reactie zijn er al twee mensen overtuigd dat dit de waarheid is, zoals bijvoorbeeld, een Washington expert in de seksualiteit van sprinkhanen schreef dat de stad Qalqiliah, in het Palestijnse gebied is omringt door een discriminatie muur, en de arme inwoners moeten door poorten om naar buiten te gaan, een verhaal, dat als ik niet in een stadje naast Qalqiliah zou wonen, 15 kilometer van de zee van daan, me tot huilen zou dwingen, maar ik ben naar mijn balkon gegaan, en heb gezien dat de schrijfster dus dubbel zag van teveel wijn, en de grens muur (die gaat op een eeuwen oude karavaan weg, die de laatste 60 jaar de groene grens was' ongeveer 5 kilometer lang is en Palestina van Israël buffers.
De leugen op zich zelf is niet erg, maar dat de persoon die dat herhaalt om een punt te maken, het kon controleren op Google Wold, of Google Search, om te weten dat dit verhaaltje is gefantaseerd, maar inderdaad helpt in de argumenten, van de ene tegen de andere.
Na drie honderd reacties, op en neer, de schrijvers gaan over naar een nieuw opinie stuk, deze keer over Wilders, zo ver ik weet een Nederlandse politicus, maar ja, dat drukt de gijn niet in, hij is anti Islam, dus gaan we weer de joden, Israël en de Holocaust er bij halen, en als ik het goed begrijp, dat Wilders een Zionistische spion is (hij is een half jaartje in Israël geweest, en zijn apartheid politiek, heeft hij in Israël geleerd).
Er zijn 4 groepen van opinies:
1 – anti Joods – Israël (von der Dunk, en aanhang) ander Joods geluid, calvinisten
2 - pro Israëli (extremisten en anti/extremisten)
3 - kofie stoel idealisten met principe
4 – niet behoren tot de drie groeperingen, maar even proberen om te laten zien dat ze het artikeltje hebben begrepen / of niet natuurlijk..
Wat ik niet begrijp is dat niemand over de Somali piraten schrijft, of over de Darfur crisis, moord en doodslag in Iran en Irak, niet te vergeten Pakistan en Afghanistan, en jongens Korea wil Japan en de USA aanvallen met nucleair wapens, de hoeren worden verdreven van de wallen, waar moeten de toeristen nu naar toe. Is het enige onderwerp interessant genoeg, Israël en de Palestijnen?
Als jullie het nog niet begrepen hebben uit de tekst, ik ben een Israëliër van oorsprong Nederlander, (naar van daag de dag Allochtoon van nationaliteit, die op zijn ouwe dag, Nederlandse kranten leest, en elke keer verbijsterd istaat, hoe de tolerante Nederlanders zijn uit gegroeid in een discriminerend volk, die zijn verleden heeft vergeten.
Mijn excuses aan mijn oud leraares, jufrouw de Vries, die probeerde mij goed Nederlands te leren, maar helaas, droevig mislukt is.
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