#Menachem Begin

[the-morose-musings-of-mewaddlee]

I think it says a lot about how Zionism is so deeply entrenched in American culture that Chris Claremont’s model for the politics of Professor X and Magento was not Martin Luther King and el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, respectively, but rather David Ben-Gurion for Professor X and Menachem Begin and Meir Kahane for Magneto. The fact that people claim that MLK and Malcolm X were the inspirations almost feels like a way to cover up that Zionist inspiration, but it’s an ugly truth.

#Zionism #Anti Zionism #Chris Claremont #martin luther king jr #MLK #el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz #Malcolm X #David Ben-Gurion #Menachem Begin #Meir Kahane #Marvel #Marvel Comics #X-Men #Charles Xavier #Professor X #Max Eisenhardt #Erik Lehnsherr #Magneto #Israel #Palestine #Free Palestine #Mewaddlee’s Posts

[girlactionfigure]

45 years ago today: On September 17th, 1978, the Camp David Accords, a pair of political agreements between Israel and Egypt, were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The following year, this led to a peace treaty between the two countries.

This was a significant moment in the history of the region.

StandWithUs 

#OTD #Camp David Accords #Anwar Sadat #Menachem Begin #🇮🇱🤝🇪🇬

[indizombie]

In 1937, Winston Churchill said of the Palestinians, I quote, “I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” That set the trend for the Israeli State’s attitude towards the Palestinians. In 1969, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said, “Palestinians do not exist.” Her successor, Prime Minister Levi Eschol said, “What are Palestinians? When I came here (to Palestine), there were 250,000 non-Jews, mainly Arabs and Bedouins. It was a desert, more than underdeveloped. Nothing.” Prime Minister Menachem Begin called Palestinians “two-legged beasts”. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir called them “grasshoppers” who could be crushed. This is the language of Heads of State, not the words of ordinary people.

Arundhati Roy, ‘Our country has lost its moral compass’, Hindu

#Hindu #Arundhati Roy #Winston Churchill #Palestine #Native Americans #USA #Australia #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people #Golda Meir #Levi Eschol #Menachem Begin #Yitzhak Shamir

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

PSA: This is not the first slaughter Biden has supported.

I'll admit that this was news to me. I wasn't alive in 1982. I wasn't taught this in school. And while I try to educate myself about history, my knowledge is hodgepodge.

For everyone saying to vote for Biden, he's better than Trump: No. He's just gotten better at hiding his depravity.

Biden would have been about 39 here, soon to be 40. And he openly admitted that he would support murdering innocent women and children.

Now that he's older, he still supports this. He just realizes it looks better to at least pay lip service to the idea of protecting innocents.

Who's more dangerous? The psychopath who raves openly about his plans, or the one who hides them behind "thoughts and prayers" and tossing out the occassional crumb? I don't know. I think they are both equally dangerous, but in different ways.

#palestine #israel #gaza #Lebanon #Joe Biden #vote blue #menachem begin #Instagram

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Peace on TV, 1977

#vintage #television #anwar sadat #menachem begin #egypt #israel #smith

[jackoshadows]

This 2020 article from the Times of Israel is really eye opening into how bloodthirsty and racist Joe Biden really is.

Biden a veteran friend of Israel, settlement critic, may be at odds over Iran

In June 1982, a few days after the start of the Lebanon War, known as Operation Peace for the Galilee, Begin met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington. Several lawmakers grilled him over Israel's alleged disproportionate use of force. "A young senator rose and delivered a very impassioned speech — I must say that it's been a while since I've heard such a talented speaker — and he actually supported Operation Peace for the Galilee," Begin told Israeli reporters after he returned to Jerusalem. The senator — Biden — said he would go even further than Israel, adding that he'd forcefully fend off anyone who sought to invade his country, even if that meant killing women or children. "I disassociated myself from these remarks," Begin said. "I said to him: No, sir; attention must be paid. According to our values, it is forbidden to hurt women and children, even in war… Sometimes there are casualties among the civilian population as well. But it is forbidden to aspire to this. This is a yardstick of human civilization, not to hurt civilians."

#Joe Biden #Menachem Begin #Palestine #Israel #US politics #This is whom US liberals describe as the 'lesser evil'. #Lebanon #Imagine being to the right of the founder of the Likud party.

[pedroam-bang]

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)

#2020 #gif #gaming #military #history #Call Of Duty #Black Ops Cold War #Black Ops #Cold War #Richard Milhous Nixon #Richard Nixon #Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat #Anwar Sadat #James Earl Carter Jr. #Jimmy Carter #Menahem Volfovics Begin #Menachem Begin #Ronald Wilson Reagan #Ronald Reagan #Bell #Perseus #CIA #KGB #spy

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

CELEBRITY journalist Barbara Walters, who died last Friday at the age of 93, owed much of her fame to her interviews with Middle Eastern leaders. These included the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Mu‘ammar Qaddhafi, King Hussein of Jordan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, and Yasir Arafat.

But none of these interviews made a splash like the one she conducted on November 20, 1977, in a room at the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem. The interviewees: Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.

She interviewed them together, in the tumult of Sadat’s surprise visit to Jerusalem and just after they delivered their addresses to the Knesset. The joint interview was a breakthrough, and Walters later gave a riveting account of how it came about. (Begin told her he had asked Sadat to do it “for the sake of our good friend Barbara,” and Sadat agreed.)

Walters had scored a scoop. In her memoirs, she called this “the most important interview of my career.” But the answers she got didn’t advance Israel and Egypt toward an agreement by one iota. Walters tried her best, probing for possible concessions from both leaders. “You are always like this, Barbara,” Sadat gently chided her. “Politics cannot be conducted like this.” Her reply: “I have to keep trying.”

The bonhomie in the room failed to conceal the deep differences between Begin and Sadat, in those earliest days of a negotiation that would last years. Journalism isn’t diplomacy: divergent interests can’t be reconciled by media celebrities operating in the glare of lights. Sadat used Walters, and before her Walter Cronkite (who’d spliced together interviews with Sadat and Begin) to push a distracted Carter administration into action. Once U.S. diplomacy kicked in, the news blackout went up, and even Walters found herself prowling the perimeter of Camp David.

#barbara walters #celebrity journalist #interviews #menachem begin #anwar sadat

[eretzyisrael]

#OTD #Israel #Menachem Begin

[girlactionfigure]

#OTD #Israel #Menachem Begin #Prime Minister

[deadpresidents]

Did you read any of those three Carter biographies ("His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life", "President Carter: The White House Years", and "The Outlier: The Life and Presidency of Jimmy Carter") that came out within the last few years? If so, which was your favorite/which do you recommend? I have usually heard Jonathan Atler's is the definitive Carter biography these days.

I still have not gotten around to reading Kai Bird's The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter (BOOK | KINDLE), but I've been meaning to do so. Kai Bird does great work and his biographies of J. Robert Oppenheimer (American Prometheus -- the basis of Christopher Nolan's next film) about and Robert Ames (The Good Spy) are both must-reads.

I have read the other two books that you mentioned and they are both excellent. I'd agree that Jonathan Alter's book, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life (BOOK | KINDLE), is the best biography of Carter that I've come across. It's also a true biography that covers Carter's entire life.

Stuart E Eizenstat's President Carter: The White House Years (BOOK | KINDLE) is also very good. While Alter's book might be the definitive biography of Carter's full life, Eizenstat's book is arguably the definitive book on Carter's Presidency. Eizenstat focuses strictly on Carter's 1976 election, single term as President, and unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1980. Eizenstat goes deep inside the Carter White House and spends 1,024 pages covering no more than a five-year period of Carter's political life, so there's a remarkable level of insider knowledge, extensive research and impressive detail in his book.

One other book that I'd suggest checking out if you're interested in Jimmy Carter's time as President is Lawrence Wright's 2014 book, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (BOOK | KINDLE). It's not solely about President Carter, but he's obviously one of the main characters as he hosted Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and helped negotiate the historic Camp David Accords. Lawrence Wright is one of my all-time favorite writers and this book is packed with high stakes, tons of drama, and extremely fascinating characters, particularly Sadat. It's also an interesting look at the little-known but highly significant role that First Lady Rosalynn Carter played in helping hold the negotiations together when things got tense between the principals. Like I said, Carter is not the main focus of the book, but it's such an incredible read and it is the story of one of the most important and lasting accomplishments of Carter's Presidency.

#Books #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #Carter Administration #1976 Election #1980 Election #History #Presidential Politics #Presidents #White House #Kai Bird #The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter #Jonathan Alter #His Very Best: Jimmy Carter A Life #Stuart E. Eizenstat #President Carter: The White House Years #Thirteen Days in September #Camp David Accords #Lawrence Wright #Menachem Begin #Anwar el-Sadat #Rosalynn Carter #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #Books About Presidents #Presidential Biographies

[phantom-at-the-library]

#benjamin netanyahu #ben shapiro #lonerbox #palestine #israel #middle eastern history #palestinian history #isreali history #terrorism #genocide #menachem begin #ariel sharon #yasser arafat #george bush #bill clinton #lebanon #critical #politics #politics history

[mounadiloun]

Masha Gessen et le ghetto de Gaza

Cette affaire a quelque peu agité le monde intellectuel, en particulier outre Rhin. Masha Gessen, une intellectuelle russo-américaine, et juive, récipiendaire du prix Hanah Arendt qui récompense les penseurs de la démocratie, s’est hasardée à comparer la situation à Gaza avec celle des ghettos juifs pendant la seconde guerre mondiale. Une mauvaise pensée qui a failli entraîner l’annulation de la…

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#Allemagne #Brême #Brit Shalom #Gaza #Ghetto #Hannah Arendt #Likoud #Masha Gessen #Menachem Begin #Palestine #Russie #Tnuat Haherut #Ukraine

[istandwithrussiaandpalestine30]

Begin authorized the bombing of the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq and the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to fight PLO strongholds there, igniting the 1982 Lebanon War. As Israeli military involvement in Lebanon deepened, and the Sabra and Shatila massacre, carried out by Christian Phalangist militia allies of the Israelis.

Jews aren't always the victims of Muslims. It goes both ways. Western governments aren't counteracting terrorism as they claim.

#menachem begin #irgun #israel government #israel #israel lebanon war #politics #muslims #jews #christians

[thevardblr]

Was the King David Hotel bombing an example of 'Jewish terror?'

#israel #menachem begin #jews #british