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Feb. 4th, 2009 05:38 pmThe Israeli Blogosphere makes the Guardian.
"If bloggers were representative of the mainstream ...", our next elections would be focused on social issues, environmental issues, have a distinctly Socialist-Democratic economic agenda and with a focus on Jewish-Arab co-operation.
Hard to believe that we're most likely going to be electing Bibi and the Hawkes.
Again.
Oh, well...
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It's always nice when your opinions aren't vilifies and de-legitimized by your environment... pity it comes all the way across the channel.
One thing that bothers me about this article, is that it replicates the idea that the Tel-Aviv Bubble is this some kind of un-touched and detached urbanite fantasy land.
Because the 90's and early 2000's were a real hoot with suicide bombers taking themselves out in markets, malls and cafe's - in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Netanya and other Centre (of the country) cities.
Yeah, my father was nearly shot in his shop by a militant and I still hold the opinions that co-operation between Jews and Arabs is the way to go and that negotiations with our enemies will stop the fighting.
I'm not so sure about Peace at this point because surely there's more to Peace than just making sure nobody dies.
"If bloggers were representative of the mainstream ...", our next elections would be focused on social issues, environmental issues, have a distinctly Socialist-Democratic economic agenda and with a focus on Jewish-Arab co-operation.
Hard to believe that we're most likely going to be electing Bibi and the Hawkes.
Again.
Oh, well...
( Body of the article under the cut )
It's always nice when your opinions aren't vilifies and de-legitimized by your environment... pity it comes all the way across the channel.
One thing that bothers me about this article, is that it replicates the idea that the Tel-Aviv Bubble is this some kind of un-touched and detached urbanite fantasy land.
Because the 90's and early 2000's were a real hoot with suicide bombers taking themselves out in markets, malls and cafe's - in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Netanya and other Centre (of the country) cities.
Yeah, my father was nearly shot in his shop by a militant and I still hold the opinions that co-operation between Jews and Arabs is the way to go and that negotiations with our enemies will stop the fighting.
I'm not so sure about Peace at this point because surely there's more to Peace than just making sure nobody dies.
