Nivsch

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  1. All those things seemed very bad and not honest to my eyes as an Israeli when I saw and heard about them. This is the intuitive feeling I remember. And yes, boycott is exactly what will make the second side to soften and agree, very smart. They have rejected couple of serious offers including actual Israeli withdrawals in the 90s and 00s.
  2. The Facebook feed is full of posts on oct7 due to the memorial day. I'll add to here one of them: " On October 7, 2023, I understood for the first time what true shock is. Not the kind that lasts a moment — but the kind that strikes the soul. I felt the air of the world change. Suddenly, every story I had ever heard as a child about the surprise of the Yom Kippur War came alive. It was no longer a distant tale with dates and black-and-white photos, but a living, breathing, screaming reality. In an instant, I understood what it means for a person to lose the sense of safety in their own home — when an iron shelter door or a guard at the kibbutz gate no longer promise anything. When words like pogrom, massacre, Black Sabbath, and Holocaust stop belonging to history lessons and become words in one’s personal diary. That morning — which was still night in the United States, where I was staying — I grew up. I aged. Something cracked inside me. Something in the smile, the innocence, the faith that “it won’t happen again” — simply fell away. Suddenly, even the simplest routines — making coffee, turning on the radio, smiling at a child on the way to school, or writing a few lines in the next book — carried a different weight. Two years have passed since. Time, they say, heals everything. But it’s not true. Time doesn’t heal — it only teaches us how to walk with our scars. In these two years I’ve been asking myself what home really is. Is it the walls? The address? Or perhaps home is the people we choose to keep in our hearts. Maybe it’s the memory of a scent, a hug, a gaze that says, “I’m here.” I’ve come to understand that home is both what we’ve lost and what we rebuild — brick by brick, hope by hope. And perhaps that is the essence of life itself: to realize how fragile it all is. How temporary. How quickly everything can fall apart — and how amazing it is that a human being, time and again, chooses to gather the pieces, place them one upon another, and create a new shape out of them. On October 7, I learned what pain is. But since then, slowly, I am also learning what rebirth means. It doesn’t happen in a single day, nor with a cry. It begins with a breath. A look. A decision to get up in the morning and say: I’m still here. And I still believe in good. In memory of Dvir Karp Yuval Abramovitz https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Zs4NiDm2j/
  3. The Opposition was unanimously against this law, written by Netanyahu's Coalition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People
  4. About 26% of the Palestinians are integrated in Israeli society in many high status professions in medicine (+10-20% above their % in the population which is quite impressive) and academia (-4%, almost normal), though underrepresented in law (-9%), academic lecturers, security (-20%), high-tech (-17%) and senior public positions (-17%). Still can reach senior positions but in smaller numbers.
  5. What is "italic"? For a moment I thought you are Italian
  6. " My beloved friend, Livne Shalev, was killed today during a trip in the Golan Heights by a wasp sting, to which he was allergic. Livne — a man of the outdoors and of education — was a true pioneer in deepening the public’s familiarity with the landscapes of the Golan and the Bashan. This was one of the great missions of his life (just two days ago, he was still recommending sites in the Golan to me and my team). And of course, it was second only to his most important mission — being a devoted and loving family man, so rare and special. I was fortunate that Livne was the one who guided me through the desert trails of the Eilat Mountains and the southern Negev — always with extraordinary warmth, kindness, and a love for people and the land that is hard to find today. I receive this message as I serve in the reserves in the buffer zone between the Bashan and the Golan — an area that Livne loved deeply. Livne returned his soul on the trails of the Golan, where he grew up from childhood until his passing. The soil of the Golan, and the countless people whose lives you touched, will never forget you. Dear Hodayah and the children — I share your deep pain. "
  7. Another way to say Integrated (🌼🌻) Palestinians. Great one. We need more like him in both sides.
  8. Things that will be seen as medieval 🛖🪨 Animal industry Relying solely on elections as the democratic influence tool Unregulated and unlabeled AI media Widespread use of psychiatric medications Classic exposure and response preventions (erp) therapy as the main CBT tool Relying on medications as first-line treatment to physical non-emergency problems Driving 1:30 hours in traffic jams to work Um this is for that moment
  9. About 26% of the Palestinians are well integrated in Israeli society in many high status professions such as medicine (+10-20% above their % in the population which is quite impressive), academia (-4%, almost normal), though underrepresented in law (-9%), academic lecturers, security (-20%), high-tech (-17%) and senior public positions (-17%). Still can reach senior positions but in smaller numbers.
  10. In the past he went through severe Benzodiazepine withdrawal which can leave the biological system more sensitive to triggers even years later.
  11. @zazen Ok, maybe Trump's deal will be the political solstice.
  12. What would you do otherwise? Say you are the Israeli PM in August 2005 and for the next couple of years.
  13. I get you, far from ideal. And still, an independent state. Honestly, and I don't care at all and have no sentiment to the settlements, I think that it is between very difficult to impossible to evacuate them. When Israel evacuated forcefully 8,000 Israeli citizens from Gaza in 2005 it caused a lot of uprising and in part of our society it was like a open wound emotionally to many, as I hear from people in the right-wing sector until these days.
  14. I always add posts of Israelis just to be clear
  15. @zazen Israel has offered to the Palestinians ~96% of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. If Israel was the way you describe it, it wouldn't withdraw.
  16. @zazen But Israel did withdraw. Withdrawal exposes intentions and willingness you choose to not see. Without the intention to coexist and to go towards agreement and peace, there is no point in withdrawal.
  17. If it was that simple Israel wouldn't withdraw from Gaza in 2005, Lebanon in 2000, Hebron (80% of it) in 1997, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Qalqilia and Betlehem in 1995.