Dr. Lustick is at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the spring and early summer of 2018, Israeli forces shot or gassed more than 16,000 people. The ferocity of this response to the massing of Palestinians near the barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip is striking but not astonishing. It reflects a fundamental truth and springs from a deep fear. The truth is that the essential aspiration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century architects of the Zionist movement was to ensure that somewhere in the world — and that place came to be Palestine — there would be a majority of Jews. The fear is of Jews losing the majority they achieved.
For centuries, said the founders of Zionism, Jews lived as a minority everywhere and as a majority nowhere; everywhere as guests, nowhere as hosts. This unnatural condition they identified as the taproot of anti-Semitism. Gentile fear and hatred of Jews would end, or at least diminish, to safe levels once Jews could point to a land where they, like other "normal" peoples, were a majority and among whom lived others as minorities and as guests.
Demographic predominance in Palestine thus became Zionism's categorical imperative. The contradiction between this objective and other Zionist goals (including settling and ruling the "whole Land of Israel") explains much about the history of Zionism and Israel. It also explains Israel's unblinking use of violence against thousands of men, women and children and why Israel's inability to sustain a Jewish majority is accelerating its adoption of less and less deniable forms of apartheid.
Demographic considerations weighed heavily in Ben-Gurion's decision to accept a truncated and divided Jewish state, as outlined in the UN partition resolution of November 1947. But as it stood, the state would still have as many Arabs as Jews living in it. Having judged that his forces would prevail in the fighting that engulfed the country, that international intervention would not occur, and that a Jewish state would emerge, what became crucial was to ensure that the "liberation" of additional territories did not threaten the imperative of Jewish demographic predominance. Under Ben-Gurion's direction, the Haganah (the Zionist movement's main underground army) and its strike force, the Palmach, then acted to systematically reduce the Arab population of the areas the state came to control. This was accomplished by expulsions and by refusing to allow refugees to return to their homes. The same demographic imperative also helps to explain Ben-Gurion's decision to overrule his commanders and refuse permission to extend the war by conquering the West Bank. Ben-Gurion wanted the territory, but he feared the demographic implications of its large Arab population more.
In the decade prior to the June War of 1967, Labor Party governments, whether under Ben-Gurion's leadership or not, deemphasized irredentism, characterized the West Bank as "foreign territory," and more or less accepted a small Arab minority as a permanent feature of the State of Israel. But the question of balancing the rule of more of the Land of Israel against increasing the country's non-Jewish population reasserted itself with a vengeance after the June War. Not only did the "Revisionist" Zionist right wing — founded by Vladimir Jabotinsky and led by Menachem Begin — find new public excitement and support for its traditional irredentism, so also did radical fundamentalist elements within Jewish orthodox circles and groups within the "activist" wing of the Socialist Zionist movement affiliated with the powerful Hameuchad kibbutz movement and a variety of land-development and settlement-building institutions. From 1967 to 1977, Labor Party-led coalition governments found themselves paralyzed by the conflict between those who wanted the occupied territories (especially the West Bank and Gaza Strip) more than they were concerned about the Arabs who lived there, and those who were so opposed to the possibility of absorbing more non-Jews into the state that they favored quickly relinquishing the "administered areas" — or at least the most densely inhabited regions within them. This paralysis appeared very quickly, resulting in the Eshkol government's famous "decision not to decide" and the dominance of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's approach of tightening Israel's control of and presence on the land while holding the Arabs living there at arm's length.


Evaluating pitchers is tricky. You might be able to spot a trend with ease, but it is often extremely difficult to know whether that trend is backed by substance or just plain luck.
If a guy is doing everything the same way but somehow getting dramatically better results, it's likely a fluke. By everything, I mean throwing the same pitches in the same locations the same amount of times and coming from the same arm angle at the same velocity.
Daniel Mengden was a world-beater through May of last season. During that same span, Kenley Jansen seemingly couldn't buy an out. Things happen, players adjust. Water usually finds its level (see Mengden and Jansen's second half), but anticipating when it won't is crucial to identifying genuine, honest improvement.
Pitchers, the good ones at least, are constantly evolving and adapting to stay one step ahead of their competition. Jameson Taillon always struck me as one of the 'good ones'. The former 2nd overall pick, sandwiched between two unknowns named Harper and Machado in the 2010 draft, struggled to establish himself early in his career due to health issues rather than performance. Tommy John cost him two seasons and testicular cancer cost him most of another.
A high level of mental fortitude, great pedigree and solid minor league results propelled Taillon to the majors, but something was missing. He won more games than he lost and his ERA hovered in the mid threes, but he struggled to put hitters away. His Z-contact rate was 90.2% and SwSt rate only 8.2% in 2017, neither anywhere close to the top ten percent of the league. Taillon just wasn't finishing at-bats the way a top-of-the-rotation pitcher should be able to.
Last season started out with more of the same. His April featured a mixture of hot (CGSO vs the Reds) and cold (7 ER in 3.2 vs the Tigers), but everything changed on May 11th when he introduced a slider to his arsenal. After a few starts, he was regularly throwing it 20% of the time and the results were extremely positive.
Once the slider came into play, Taillon was finally putting hitters away with ease. His swinging strike rate and K/9 increased drastically in correlation with his slider use. Taillon finished with a 12-7 record, 2.70 ERA and 1.14 WHIP across 140 innings post-slider implementation. A full season with it at his disposal could lead to another step forward.
Marco Gonzales enjoyed a similar renaissance last season after hardships of his own. A first round pick out of Gonzaga and highly-rated prospect (52nd on Baseball America in 2015, one spot behind Luis Severino), the southpaw lost all of 2016 to arm issues that eventually led to Tommy John. He started well in 2017, but was then traded mid-season to the Mariners for then outfield prospect Tyler O'Neill.
Seattle's pitching coach, Mel Stottlemyre Jr., is an advocate of adjusting his pitchers' arm slots in order to coerce another MPH or two on their fastballs (see James Paxton). Gonzales lowered his arm slot slightly once he arrived in Seattle, and we just witnessed the adjustment pay huge dividends in his first full season with the club. His fastball and curveball velocities jumped from 89.4 and 74.6 mph in 2015 with the Cardinals to 92.2 and 79.1 (!!) mph in 2018 with Seattle. The top photo was from a start in 2014 with the Cardinals while the bottom occurred last season during a road trip in Tampa. It's subtle, but the change in arm slot is certainly noticeable.
To expound on Gonzales's curveball, Stottlemyre and the Mariners committed to developing the pitch to the level of his already-plus changeup. The organization saw potential in the pitch, a lot of which had to do with the fact Gonzales hadn't added the offering to his repertoire until college (which is late in the process for a pitcher with his talent). Growing up in Colorado, where the thin air makes the movement of breaking balls tough to predict and the pitch itself more difficult to grip, his dad taught him to throw two different changeups in lieu of a curve.
This new emphasis on the hook was pronounced as he threw curveballs 17.4% of the time in 2017 with the Mariners compared to 5.4% during his lone start in St. Louis. His fastball rate also dropped significantly, from 69% to 51.3%.
Changing your mechanics on the fly is very hard, especially while you're consciously trying to throw a pitch you aren't totally comfortable with. Gonzales had an ERA over 6.00, a 2.9 K/BB and a whopping 18.0% HR/FB% during his first cup of coffee with the Mariners. A late-season, 10 game stint should never mean too much, but these results were alarming nonetheless.
After a full offseason with the team, everything coalesced in last season. He again modified his pitch mix to introduce a cutter while continuing to throw less fastballs and more curves. This made his repertoire astoundingly versatile and, consequently, far more unpredictable to opposing batters. It undoubtedly played a huge role in Gonzales's breakout season.
Gonzales went 13-9 with a 1.22 WHIP and 4.00 ERA for the M's. Additionally, his HR/FB improved dramatically to 11.3%, good for 23rd in the league and better than Luis Severino and Corey Kluber. Increased control was also evident given his 16.5 K-BB%, which also fell inside the top 30 amongst starting pitchers.
More of the same in 2019 could lead to another legitimate step forward for the young lefty. The changes that Gonzales and Taillon utilized last season could also help you identify other pitchers around the league making changes to their arm slot or usage this season and beyond.


A holiday can be ridiculously expensive. Whether you're a sun-loving beach enthusiast or you prefer something a little cooler – say a Swiss Alps ski trip – you've got to think about airfares, accommodation costs, car hire, baby sitters, shopping expenses and more.
Don't fret though. The first step to any undertaking is picking an end goal – so you're already on your way to enjoying mojitos in Honolulu or learning how to snowboard in Zurich. Following the next nine steps will ensure that all you have to worry about during your trip is if you've got room in your luggage for a shopping spree.
A holiday is a great savings goal – you can easily look into how much the base cost of a holiday would be, i.e. the price of plane tickets and accommodation, and then estimate how much you'll be spending over your stay.
Once you've got a definite savings goal, you'll be able to track your progress towards it quite easily, and using that as a measurement, determine if your efforts will get you to your destination or if you've got to pick up your game a bit.
You know how much you'll need, but you'll also have to know when you'll need it by. You'll have to plan your holiday around a time that will suit your work schedule. You should also consider discounts for off peak travel and early-bird ticket sales too.
Putting up a poster and colouring in your progress is a great motivator and will help you stay focused on your goal.
You're going to have to take a good hard look at your current spending habits. Take your monthly earnings and categorise where that money goes – you might find that there are certain things you're spending way too much money on and that's where you should cut back.
A percentage of every paycheck should automatically go into your savings account. You can set it up so that your bank will do it for you without you needing to manually handle each transfer.
You'll need to look at your budget to see how much you can afford to pay yourself, but this should be a set amount that you're saving each pay cycle, regardless of your other spending activities.
A handy way to do this is with your phone – you take it with you everywhere anyway and can note down purchases quickly and easily. You should be logging all purchases you make with cash especially, as they're often the ones that are forgotten when it comes time to analyse your bank statements.
Make sure you note down even the small expenses. If you buy a cup of coffee every day at work, that could be around $20 a week!
Credit cards can be very useful, but you really shouldn't be relying on one while you're trying to save. If you pay off your balance each month, that's ok – maybe you're just using it to get reward points – but if you can't afford to buy something now, maybe you shouldn't buy it at all.
Most credit cards will charge you a higher interest rate than what you're earning on your savings – meaning that an unpaid credit card balance will accrue a debt greater than the interest earned on your savings, leaving you, overall, in the red for that payment period.
You're saving for something, so any money you take out of that means you'll wait longer before getting what you want. Plan your budget so that you don't have to touch your savings account at all and implement some sort of penalty for doing so – like giving up your daily coffee for each $10 you take out.
This goes hand in hand with points 6 and 7 – don't draw on resources that you don't have. If you can't afford to pay for petrol every month, swap to bus/train rides to work instead. If you're paying too much for your phone/internet, swap to a smaller plan and limit your usage.
Coffee is the best example here – keep that $20 a week in your pocket and invest in a good thermos. Bring your own coffee to work with you and you'll find you're saving a fair amount.
It's a classic for a reason – if you want to save money, you're going to have to cut it from somewhere. The easiest way to do this is to cut back on the small things. Make regular Fridays 'Coffee-Free Fridays'. Saving one dollar here and five there can really make a difference in the long run.
Don't let your frugal habits die after you get back all relaxed and tanned from your week in the Maldives – you could start saving for a month in Europe next!
Kelly Vieira works at Finder.com.au – comparing savings accounts, credit cards and home loans. You can follow her on Twitter, LinkedIn or on the Finder Blog, where she writes about saving.


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'The General Synod is heading for a weekend of debates which will help to shape the future of the Church.' This is how I started last year's report on the July Synod. No change there then.
Metropolitan John of Pergamon was invited to address Synod on the subject of Anglican-Orthodox Relations. This was followed by a debate on the singularly uninspiring 'Cyprus Agreed Statement of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue 2006'. A group has been meeting on and off since 1973 and came up with the statement as a result of a renewed effort started in 1989. They have been trying to understand their differences for longer than our Lord was alive!
In typical uncritical style we commended the statement for study in the Church of England. Presumably this will mean that a few more theologians out of touch with reality will be kept off the streets for a bit longer.
Bishop Nigel (Manchester ) presented to us the challenge of looking at the potential options for Women Bishops as part of a series of Group Work sessions on Saturday morning.
Single Clause with no national provision to protect opponents. Under this option all existing restrictions would be swept away. This option is not likely to be accepted by opponents.
New structure for those opposed.
In the grand scheme of things 1 and 3 are diametrically opposed and are unlikely to gain Synod approval on the grounds of divisiveness.
It will be interesting to see whether 2a and 2b become the front runners.
The debate on the Women Bishops Report of the Legislative Drafting Group was very gracious. Much of the reason for this was the fact that the substantive disagreement was likely to be on the debate on Monday.
The media have been crawling all over us since early on Friday. Before Synod started I had been interviewed by the York Press - although nothing was attributed as I wasn't from the right province. During the afternoon of Saturday BBC Radio 4 were out and about gathering soundbites for their Broadcasting House programme on Sunday and I was interviewed live on Five Live during their news coverage, by John Pienaar no less, on Saturday evening.
Single Clause which sweeps away existing legislation.
The first appeals to those who have a real desire for Women's' Episcopate. The latter appeals to those who are fearful of it and want to build an alternative universe without Women's' episcopacy.
The Church of England has always had a sweet tooth and was appearing to test this out during the debate. In reality there were two scenarios emerging.
First there was a scenario where 1 and 3 were in evidence. This was epitomised by the groups who felt that the centre ground was genuine fudge.
The other camp feels that 1 and 3 are so unlikely to be chosen by "right minded folk" that they feel the only way forward was to adopt one of 2(a - d) mentioned above.
There is a massive hearts and minds activity needed required here because it is clear that human intervention cannot square this circle.
In his Presidential Address Archbishop Sentamu gave us five building blocks for mission. These were putting God's Kingdom first, an imperative for change, an emphasis to outreach and an undergirding of the whole by Love and Prayer.
He illustrated the idea of outreach by the mathematical conundrum of trying to divide 17 camels into three portions of 1/2, 1/3 and 1/9 of the whole. It can't be done without severing limbs. However, if an 18th camel is added voluntarily the portions amounting to 9, 6 and 2 becomes possible and the 18th camel is released for further service. We are all being called to be the 18th Camel.
Our first dose of Legislative Business covered the final stages of the Terms of Service Measure. This has been a six year struggle and its end is reached with great relief. There is still some tidying up to do but we are now in a position to offer real protection to those clergy who are not of incumbent status.
Other items included the Pensions Measure which allows for the Church Commissioners to spend capital in support of the funding of pensions.
A report on Reader Ministry was debated in the evening and commended to dioceses, deaneries and parishes for further study. Full of fairly obvious recommendations it was accepted but not universally acclaimed. Many members of Synod felt that it wasn't a quality production although the spotlight being placed on Reader Ministry was welcome. There was an impassioned plea from the Chief Executive of the Church Army to make sure that other accredited Lay Ministry wasn't forgotten in the clamour for a changed focus on this one aspect.
After the last debate, the Open Synod Group hosted a quiz which was part pub quiz style but also had a bit of a comedy style. We started with "I'm sorry, I haven't a Pew" with a number of the "favourites" being adapted to Synodical themes. We even had a Samantha, albeit in the form of an inflatable doll.
Throughout the weekend the debates around the meal tables have been about the Women's issue. This has meant to some extent that Synod has had a relatively relaxed attitude about the rest of the business - however important.
Having said that, the Church Tourism debate engendered an enormous amount of press coverage. This imaginative idea of promoting our churches in a coherent way came through as a Private Members Motion from Roy Thompson of York Diocese. There is a Church Tourism Association which has a Sacred Britain strategy. We are being invited to support their aims and to ask dioceses to resource appropriately to enable partnerships to be formed at regional and local level.
After a spot more Legislative Business we contemplated a very useful report into Climate Change & Human Security. Sharpened up to reflect the need for a bit more urgency the proposal to engage more actively to help to understand and respond to the threat of Climate Change was passed.
A new Chair of Pension Board - Dr Jonathan Spencer - was appointed from 1 January 2009 for a period of 5 years.
A selection of Audit Issues and Governance reports was discussed.
Before the next substantive debate we were advised that there were going to be 14 amendments tabled to the next debate on Women Bishops due to take place on Monday afternoon. This meant a serious restructuring of the agenda for the next day.
In February we had discussed a report on parochial fees called Four Funerals & a Wedding. The review group had been advised to rethink its strategy a touch and this resulted in an addition report which outlined the short term legislative requirements and the medium to long term regulations.
The report calls for legislation to be put in place to revise the current fees framework. The process we are going through is broken and is in desperate need of repair. There are doubts about the validity of some practices and there is some unease about the way in which funeral fees, in particular, are collected and disbursed.
The level of fees, what they include, how they are justified - amongst other things - all need to be addressed. Although the Synod is always a bit unhappy about change it received this report well.
A number of people challenged the prospective changes but the proposal was passed by a very large majority.
At the end of the session it was a retreat to one of the bars on the campus to continue the dialogue on ... Women Bishops.
Although we had a very valuable report on the Anglican Methodist Covenant and a debate on the Parochial Fees Order 2008 and even a debate on Faith Work & Economic Life which was immensely worthwhile, everyone was so tense about the coming debate on Women's' Episcopacy that very few of us were able to concentrate during the morning.
Where did we think we were at this time? Some of us naïvely thought that we were going through a process that everyone would accept when the final whistle was blown and the fat lady sang - to mix my metaphors!!!! How wrong we were.
The options described previously are graded in terms of generosity towards opponents. When the debate started there were a few wrecking amendments that were despatched summarily by significant majorities. Option 1 was defeated by 65% and the Option 3 amendments were likewise dismissed by 67% and 62% respectively.
So what were seen to be the extremes had been seen off by the respective parties. This was where the proponents of the consecration of women had underestimated the rigidity and single-mindedness of the opponents.
Each variation of option 2 was an attempt to be generous to the opposition. However, it became abundantly clear through the debate and conversations that took place during any breaks, that this would not appease any of the hardliners who had been holding out for a separate diocese or for some form of statutory transfer/delegation of Episcopal power.
The Archbishop of Canterbury set the expectations early on that we should seek to have more rather than less robust solutions. This was to overcome any misunderstandings of what he described as "local autonomy".
Bishop Peter Price, Bath & Wells went on to say that "justice lay at the heart of our theology" and that we must not create a framework that discriminates.
The Bishop of Chichester endorsed the need for Women Bishops to be seen as no different to Male Bishops but cautioned that that didn't stop some bishops denying the validity of their orders.
The debate started at 2:30 in the afternoon and finished at 10:15 at night. We were allowed time off for good behaviour for 1½ hours for an evening meal. By the end we were all knackered and some were in tears.
There was one moment of irony that was not lost on all members of Synod. Each debate or amendment has a number and this was tabled as item 20. Each member likewise has a number and the two numbers are displayed on electronic notice boards all around the chamber. It was the opportunity for the Bishop of Gloucester to open the debate on Women Bishops. As his number was also 20 the display showing 20/20 was considered by some to be a hopeful sign that we would have a perfect vision for the future.
In the end the result was 68% in favour of taking the proposals back to the legislative drafting group for work on a simple measure with a statutory code of practice. This will be brought back in February 2009.
This was a bruising debate in which both sides were robust. The ascendant side doesn't know what more they could have done to be more accommodating without ending up with a discriminatory solution. The other side doesn't wish to compromise in any way - even though their preferred solution was unlikely to get through Parliament in the long term.
From my viewpoint the stubbornness exercised by the opposition was noticeable but the opposition and the outside world may judge differently.
A very different day started with a very poignant Eucharist presided over by one of the so-called 'flying bishops'. With ironic choices for readings which spoke darkly of heretics the bishop led us through to the beginning of the final session by talking about how the church will always be there to be missionaries to a messy world.
One of those messes is the proliferation of bodies that claims to direct or govern our ways of thinking. General Synod, The Anglican Communion and The Archbishops' Council etc all appear to be part of Anglican Governance. But no-one has a clear route map which shows the relationship. In a sense it is because of this vacuum that things like GAFCON can contemplate creating other structures.
In a very good debate (which had a lot of good humoured speeches) we asked for the House of Bishops - itself a part of the mess - to draw up a relationship chart.
The rest of the morning was spent on approving the 2009 Budget and its Apportionment, a report from the Church Commissioners and farewells.
On a light-hearted note it was a good weekend for fraternal relations (with the slight local difficulty of the Women Bishops debate). Eight brothers, including the Bishops of Carlisle, Chichester & Leicester, were conjoined with the Bishop of Burnley and his wife and with Maggie Swinson and her daughter Becky to form an exclusive group called FROGS (Families and Relatives on General Synod). Our inauguration was marked by a breakfast on Sunday Morning and special badges.
The Bath & Wells grouping on this elite band of 12 (rather biblical) consists of Jonathan Lloyd and me.
I would like to continue to think that our group which has a broad range of churchmanship will be a beacon for the principle of communion within our church.
Tim Hind lives in Somerset and is a General Synod representative for the Diocese of Bath and Wells.


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Despite the introduction of Pension Freedom, new research has revealed that millions of people will only have a financially comfortable retirement if they receive an inheritance.
The research, which surveyed 2,000 people, of which 25% have already retired, was conducted for the pension provider, LV=. It found that 35% of working people are reliant on receiving an inheritance to secure a financially stable retirement.
At the same time 20% of people surveyed, who are still working, won't be able to comfortably retire without receiving an inheritance.
However, results also show that many of those people still in work may well be disappointed with what they receive. A quarter of those people who have already retired said they plan to leave nothing to their heirs, whilst 28% of people don't expect to leave much to their children.
Whilst only 16% of people said that they would directly use an inheritance to fund their retirement, for example by making a pension contribution, others said they would repay their mortgage or unsecured debt, thereby reducing their outgoings and increasing their ability to retire.


I learned a new expression recently.
Some business solutions are like that too.
My first exposure to this phenomenon was early in my career when I worked at a bank. We had a massive old Telex machine that actually printed out a punched tape. The tape was fed into a reader that then caused the message to be printed out. To send a message you used a keyboard to create a tape, then fed the tape into the reader in "send" mode. Here is a photo of such a device. Ours was even older and larger than this one. It must have been at least 20 years old.
One day the machine stopped working and I was charged with getting it repaired. At first I just tried to do what I was asked to do, but I was spinning my wheels trying to find a company that could make the repair. The fact was that Telex machines had already been replaced with desktop computers. The solution was not to repair it, but to replace it with a completely different solution. This important lesson has stuck with me.
"If it is broken fix it" seems logical. However, it is better to first ask "Is this still a solution to our problem?" and "Has our reality changed?" It is pretty hard to specify solutions that we haven't yet imagined. Likewise, when we write a technology RFP, we need to be aware that our specifications could be backward looking and unimaginative. We could be clinging to a way of doing something that has long outlived its usefulness.
It is thus necessary to stay current with the latest thinking in our fields (and related fields as well). Let's not spend public funds on fads, but also let's make sure that we always question our assumptions so we are open to entirely new solutions.
Whenever I hear the words "this is the way we have always done it" I think of that Telex machine. I admit I get irritated by that phrase and become pretty judgmental as well. It is useful to remember that often these words come from someone who has been disempowered. They are required to adhere to set procedures and are discouraged from asking questions. I am now thinking that a better reaction would be to ask "If you could do this differently, what might that look like?" Their enthusiasm as well as their solution may surprise you.


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W czasie interwencji radzieckiej w Afganistanie było oblegane przez mudżahedinów a w celu jego odblokowania Armia Czerwona przeprowadziła operację Magistrala.

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Q: Why Embedded C++ compilers not support exceptions? I was writing a library to embedded systems and I bumped into no STL standard library easy found.
But the worst news I receive is no exception support by compiler.
Atmel reference manual show this
Why not support exceptions on embedded environment?
It's simple make impossible to use a lot of libraries written in C++.
C++ is closely linked with exceptions, like with the new operator!

A: The 8 bit AtmelAVR with its limited ROM and RAM resources is not suited to the use of the STL which imposes a considerable load on both.  Moreover C++ exceptions are intrinsically non-deterministic and therefore unsuited to many real-time applications.
A compiler may implement the EC++ (Embedded C++) "standard".  The aim of EC++ was two fold:

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*to support the use of C++ in embedded systems at a time before ISO standardisation of the language, by restricting the language to a common subset available on all compilers.

*to avoid non-deterministic (in both memory and timing) language/library features unsuited to hard-real-time applications.

Things missing from EC++ include:

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*namespace

*templates

*RTTI

*exceptions

The omission of namespaces is entirely down to the first aim of EC++ and now essentially obsolete.  The omission of the others are justified by both aims, and preclude the use of the STL and std::string libraries.
EC++ itself is now largely obsolete, but the subset it defines is nonetheless applicable to severely resource constrained targets, and many compilers support whole or partial EC++ enforcement.
Note that perhaps not all compilers for AVR impose these restrictions, but if you attempt to use these features extensively you will probably soon discover whey they are ill advised in most cases on targets very limited CPU and memory resources.
With respect to the use of the new operator, default dynamic memory allocation (as opposed to placement new or an override), is intrinsically non-deterministic and often best avoided in real-time embedded systems, and especially so where minimal heap is available.  To use new without the assumption of exception handling, use new (std::nothrow) (#include <new>) which will not throw an exception but return a null pointer like malloc().  In EC++ new and new (std::nothrow) are essentially the same thing, but the latter is portable and explicit.
Lack of support for C++ in Atmel's maintained open-source library for GCC-AVR does not mean that there is no support for embedded systems in general, or indeed for AVR.    IAR's AVR compiler supports what it refers to as Extended Embedded C++ (EEC++) as well as EC++. EEC++ does support a C++ library including STL  with some modifications - no RTTI, no exceptions, and not in std:: namespace (although namespaces are supported).  Support for ISO C++ as opposed to EC++ on most 32 bit targets is generally more comprehensive.

A: Obviously, nobody but the people that produce that compiler can really answer that question.
My best guess is that exceptions are both space- and time-consuming (time is only a real problem when the code throws, but space is needed for the unwind tables always, and can easily be about the same size as the overall code) for the compiled code, coupled with "rather difficult to implement", it's perhaps not the highest item on the list for the compiler developers, and thus not yet implemented. Whether it WILL be at some point in the future is obviously up to Atmel or whoever they subcontract to make their compiler.
I'm not an expert on Atmel C++ implementation, but I would be VERY surprised if the compiler supports throw, but not try/catch - since that would be about as useful as a screwdriver made from chocolate, when trying to fix the heater in a sauna that is stuck on full heat.
If you use the -fno-exceptions, the compiler should error if you have any throw in the code. And the STL can be compiled with -fno-exceptions - as that's how I compile my compiler code.

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Q: Python : Spécial char in path name I'm having a problem with python's script in eventghost: eg.globals.test is an external variable
eg.globals.test = "test♥.png"

My script :
Import Image

print eg.globals.test

#test♥.png

picture = Image.open(eg.globals.test)

# IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: test \u2665.png'

Python converts ♥ to \u2665.png. I've tried encode, decode, unicode functions but no effect.