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One Million Voices for Peace
Written byAmira Al Hussaini
Posted 24 September 2007 10:57 GMT
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What is the One Million Voices campaign all about and could peace in the Middle East be a reality? Also, what role is the internet and blogging playing in this mass movement, which over 500,000 Israelis and Palestinians have signed up for so far?
Global Voices Online caught up with campaign Communications Coordinator Erin Pineda who discusses with us the ambitious project, which aims to amplify the voices of the 'moderate silent majority' caught up in the conflict.
Q – What is the One Million Voices campaign about? How and why was it launched? Who is responsible for it?
A – The One Million Voices Campaign really consists of two parts – the People's Summit on October 18, 2007, and the year-long campaign that will follow it.
The People's Summit is a parallel event held simultaneously in Tel Aviv and Jericho, internationally-linked to solidarity events held worldwide, to give a platform to the moderate majority of Israelis and Palestinians who wish for an end to the conflict, as they propel their elected representatives to sit down and negotiate a two-state solution. The Summit will be free and open to the public; the only "cost" of admission is signing on to the OneVoice Mandate – which calls upon the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to initiate ongoing, immediate, and uninterrupted negotiations, to reach a two-state solution on or before October 18, 2008. There are currently well over 500,000 Israeli and Palestinian signatories to the mandate (in roughly equal numbers on each side), and over 10,000 International supporters – a more detailed and complete breakdown of the numbers is available here.
Thus begins the One Million Voices year-long campaign to make it happen. The process is a two-pronged approach that involves: 1) continuing and intensifying our recruitment process on the ground – we are aiming to get one million Israelis and Palestinians on board through the process – in addition to strengthening the network of youth leaders and activists already in place; and 2) relaying this momentum to the leadership, so that when they sit down to negotiate, they do so knowing that they have a groundswell of support from their constituency – hundreds of thousands of people who are demanding progress and results from them. In the weeks after October 18, 2007, the signed mandates will be physically delivered en masse to the steps of the PLC and the Knesset by delegations of OneVoice volunteers and activists.
One Million Voices is an initiative of the OneVoice Movement, a mainstream nationalist grassroots movement with over half a million signatories in roughly equal numbers both in Israel and in Palestine, and 3,000 highly-trained youth leaders. It aims to amplify the voice of the overwhelming but heretofore silent majority of moderates who wish for peace and prosperity, empowering them to demand accountability from elected representatives and work toward a two-state solution. For One Million Voices, we have been working in conjunction with a world-class Production Team (including Michael Lang of Woodstock and Chris Wangro of Concerts in Central Park) and a host of dignitaries and luminaries who have agreed to be Honorary Co-Chairs and Board Members – such as Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum; Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland; and Stuart Eizenstat, Former Under-Secretary of State.
Q – What do you aim to achieve and are such goals possible?
A – What we aim for is no less than: 1) the broadest, largest simultaneous mass mobilization of citizens in both Israel and Palestine for the sake of ending the conflict; and 2) a two-state solution agreed upon no later than October 18, 2008.
It is an enormously ambitious goal – some might say unrealistic. But the truth of the matter is, we have no other choice but to work for it. The alternative of continued, escalating cycles of violence, terror, occupation, and war is no alternative at all. If the past 40 years of stalemated negotiations have taught us anything, it is that it is not enough for the leaders to be ready to sit down; it is not enough for international diplomats to push for negotiations. For there to be results, the will of both peoples for resolution – both Israelis and Palestinians – has to align, and has to be made manifest. The leaders need to know their people support them and demand results from them; Palestinians need to know Israelis want to end the conflict; Israelis need to know the same of Palestinians. One Million Voices aims to create a shared reality in which Israelis, Palestinians, international supporters, and their leaders clearly see the reality of the moderate majority on both sides, taking an active stand for a two state solution.
Q – Why are you holding a bloggers meet up in New York today (September 24)? What role do you anticipate the bloggers will play? Have you witnessed any positive reconciliation attempts between Palestinian and Israeli bloggers and how vital is building such bridges between bloggers and citizen journalists to your peace initiative?
A – Internet technology and alternative media are making the world an increasingly accessible and interconnected place – allowing international interaction between people on different sides of the globe, or on different sides of a regional conflict. Alternative media like blogs not only create a way for ordinary people to interact, but also to become an active part of 'making the news' – as Blogs and the "blogosphere" gains prominence and popularity, it is also changing the way that we think of media, news, and reporting. Now the people can really take part in that process – in determining what is 'newsworthy'.
Unfortunately, the old adage "if it bleeds, it leads" usually proves true in terms of gaining media attention for positive, non-violent efforts to change the way things are. Blogs are both a compliment and an alternative to traditional media coverage – one that is participatory and user-defined. We hope that bloggers who believe in what we do will use their blogs and their networks to help spread the word – to use their blogs to reach out to other communities and to keep in touch with what we are doing.
Q – How successful has your online campaign been and how much impact is your online activism having on the ground?
A – Well over 500,000 Israelis and Palestinians have signed on. The vast majority of these sign-ups have been on the ground in Israel and Palestine – but with the launch of www.OneMillionVoices.org at the beginning of August, we are beginning to gear up towards a big online push to get people to sign up online. As I mentioned above, the internet provides an incredible opportunity for collaboration between those separated by distance or conflict. A great deal of our International Supporters have come to us through one of our online platforms – which is vital to our programming on the ground. It is critical to demonstrate to Israelis and Palestinians that the international community is with them, is behind them supporting their efforts. And one of the best ways to highlight this is online.
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thanks for this interview and updating about the action. my best wishes for the event.
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On 18 October, One Million Voices, an organization led by Israelis and international figures with the support of some Palestinians, is organizing a public event in Jericho and Tel Aviv, simultaneously. The event will include performances by renowned artists Bryan Adams and Ilham Madfa'i. As stated on the organization's English webpage, the objective of the event is to "mark the first time that massive numbers of Israelis and Palestinians gather simultaneously to unite against violent extremism."
According to the widely accepted boycott criteria advocated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the event falls under the category of normalization projects and violates the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS), endorsed by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions, political parties, and grassroots movements, for the following reasons:
1. Participants are required to join the One Voice Movement and sign a mandate — ostensibly based on a "two-state solution," but without any commitment to international parameters — which assumes equal responsibility of "both sides" for the "conflict," and suspiciously fails to call for Israel's full compliance with its obligations under international law through ending its illegal military occupation, its denial of Palestinian refugee rights (particularly the right of return), and its system of racial discrimination against its own Palestinian citizens.
2. The event is sponsored by Israeli institutions (mostly from the private sector) and endorsed by mainstream Israeli political figures from parties including the Likud, Labour and Shas. These Israeli "partners" are unquestionably complicit in maintaining Israel 's occupation and other forms of oppression.
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How do we start a mindfulness practice?
Before we set up our practice first let's just take a short look at what exactly is mindfulness?
Quite often we mean a 'paying attention to…' or a 'being aware or conscious of…' something.
If we look at what it is to be conscious, well, there is a whole branch of neuroscience devoted to this study. But for our purposes all we need to say is that awareness is always 'of something'.
Just stop for this moment and listen around you. What is being heard right now?
Perhaps the sound of traffic, or water running down a sink, a voice, the TV or some other such thing?
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Once we begin to see things both externally and internally our responses naturally reflect how things really are.
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This completes the formula laid down by the Buddha in the Eightfold Path for meditation and mindfulness practice.
To begin with it is a useful practice to try making this 'Right Effort' in small bursts. If you have a flight of stairs in your house or place of work then make the effort to give yourself into the walking up or down the stairs. This can be done whenever you use them.
This practice can also be used when opening or closing cupboard doors or the drawers of a desk.
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I Find Your Lack of Faith… Well, Prudent.
I couldn't help feeling that the underlying subtext to this week's readings was an embracing of distrust and uncertainty. Distrust in physical media, file formats, third-party cloud services… even the computer's ability to do what many take for granted: create an exact copy. Uncertainty manifested itself in issues such as the future adoption levels of formats, the continuity of tools, and even the motives and competency of our own staff. Rather than being dismayed by this somewhat dour outlook, I found it to be a heartening confirmation of my belief that pessimism can indeed be used as a force for good.
I guess I'm weird like that.
Owens Chapter 6 kicked off this theme of distrust with the recurring phrase "hedge your bets." This one phrase was applied repeatedly to the first of three core processes for bit preservation: 1) creating and managing multiple copies, 2) managing and using fixity information, and 3) establishing information security protocols to keep accidents and attacks from occurring at the hands of staff or users. In the context of the first process – managing multiple copies – the "hedge your bets" approach necessarily results in a proliferation of file types, storage media, and a geographically sprawling network of storage locations. The point of this push for diversity being that no one disaster, bad actor, or system failure is likely to wipe out all copies.
The distrust also extended to seemingly mundane processes like the act of transferring data, and minimizing the number of people capable of accessing the objects. But the issue that interested me most was the emphasis to not put too much faith in any one tool. As Owens notes, vendor lock-in is a real concern that necessitates forming an exit strategy before acquisition is even complete (p. 115). I have seen this happen in my own career and know how dangerous it can be. Indeed, it was one of the catalysts that inspired me to seek this degree.
The theme of distrust continued in the NDSA Storage Report. This survey found that the majority of NDSA members' desire for control over their own holdings tended to dissuade them from embracing commercial cloud services. The perception (or reality) of greater control of their data caused the majority to prefer joining institutional cooperatives where each member shares their data with a member organization in order to establish geographic diversity in their storage plan. Of particular concern among the group was the lack of transparency in the fixity checks performed behind the scenes by commercial cloud services. There was no proof offered that hashes provided at the time of access weren't simply being replayed from the time of upload and thus providing a false sense of safety.
Again, I was struck by how issues of uncertainty and distrust could be harnessed to realize positive and productive ends. Perhaps I've finally found my people?
Not all the readings were gloom and doom. "From Theory to Action" in particular revisited many of the themes we've touched on in previous weeks emphasizing a simple and incremental approach to beginning a preservation program. As the subtitle of the piece indicates, they emphasize embracing the concept of "good enough," and then building on it. Digital preservation is not a binary status requiring that an institution either be moving at light speed or standing completely still. Institutions should focus on near term goals that can immediately improve preservation, however small and simple they might be. But probably the biggest takeaway from this piece was the degree of confidence and self-efficacy the POWRR group members instilled in each other simply by choosing to assess and tackle their collective issues in a cooperative fashion. The creation of communities of practice is particularly effective at helping the entire group identify solutions to common problems.
In Chapter 6, Owens notes the importance of differentiating working files from files that have become static and thus ready for long-term storage. I have found that in practice this is more difficult than it would seem, particularly for video. In our multimedia department the concept of finality has been elusive at best, to the point that our manager gets angry if a file is actually labeled "final", because it becomes untrue almost the moment it's saved. Our company's trend of editing-by-committee basically guarantees at least a few more rounds edits no matter what. Even an extended passage of time is no indication of finality. Customers will come back and ask for changes to a video many years after the first version, usually because they want to remove a staff member that has left, or change someone's job title. Saving an editable version requires saving the non-linear editor project files and all associated source files. This is the most complicated version to save and the first to become obsolete. So, my question for the class is how should we as archivists respond to such a dynamic situation, where the concept of finality is tenuous and fluid?
And lastly, I didn't discuss Dietrich's "Emulation for Everyone" above because it seemed like something of an outlier relative to the others. I find myself fascinated with emulation as a practice, but wondering about its feasibility for all but the most extreme cases. For example, it was mentioned at the end of this piece that researchers looking at the Jeremy Blake Papers actually preferred using the modern OS and were really primarily interested in the informational value of the objects. Authenticity and fidelity were less of a priority. This seems like a lot of effort to have gone to for an experience that no one really needed. So my question for the class is, where do you see emulation fitting into the list of preservation options? Should it require a more rigorous examination of preservation intent to make sure the considerable extra effort is justified?
I'm also curious to what extent an emulated system becomes a digital object in itself, which then becomes exponentially more complicated to preserve? At what point do we decide that these towering platform stacks held together with scotch tape and shoe goo are no longer worth the expense of maintaining?
I formally apologize* for all Star Wars references.
Hi Andy. This question prompted me to think of two scenarios.
I think updates without documented corrections are so much the norm now that newspapers are running the risk of misleading readers. After all, who goes back to reread an article looking for differences? If you look at the source code, you can see the time stamp for when something is published versus modified, but this isn't visible on the web page. An article published yesterday with an update from an hour ago looks like it was just published an hour ago.
All this is to say that, as a subscriber, I would appreciate more transparency in the lifecycle of a digital article once it is made public. However, in the policy statement from above, The Post suggests that this is what subscribers expect from digital content. If this is the expectation, then it encourages rapid reporting and editing that most readers will not be able to keep up with. To me, this is a strong case for having versioning in the articles to document changes as they transpire. To be fair, I understand how that transparency can prompt a lot of questions – some possibly more nitpicky than others – but I still think there should be a user-friendly way to navigate through the changes.
Alternatively, I also thought about library catalogue records that undergo revisions. My only experience with looking at bibliographic records is with Voyager ILS, and while it can document when a change was made and by whom, the details of those changes would need to be recorded by another means. This information would not be available to users, and in theory, could alter search results. So far as I know, this has been the norm and the transparency could end up causing more confusion to the user experience. Some of you more familiar with cataloging may disagree.
Using the old fallback, I guess it depends. I'm not sure of the particulars in your example but I think your scenario would affect a few decisions – the frequency that you update your copies, whether you would want to overwrite older versions or save all of them, whether it would be more cost effective to just redo the video as opposed to saving the project files that you might not be able to open when needed. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to not make the project so open-ended and just indicate to the customer that, after a certain point, a new version is just a new video.
I also just wanted to say that I appreciate your pessimism. I think it's important to look at limitations to put the work in context and to strive to make things better. I think the problem sometimes comes down to selling the value of your department. If you talk about the negatives too much, then people who don't spend all their time thinking about this stuff think you just can't do the work. Alternatively, they don't have time for anything more than a nutshell explanation which can oversimplify the process.
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed all of your Star Wars references. I was actually watching The Empire Strikes Back a few days ago and thought about this class. I still have a VHS copy from 1995 and the tv I have doesn't know how to play it properly so it kept flipping the aspect ratio. It made me think about dependencies in a digital environment. The tape still plays for now but something has already been lost in the viewing and who knows a few years from now it might be completely unwatchable. But I digress.
I agree with your assessment that a certain amount of pessimism is necessary in this line of work. Part of preservation work, for any media I think, means thinking realistically about the worst that can happen so you can build redundancies into your policies and plans to account for disaster. Thus, a certain level of distrust in specific tools or vendors is healthy to avoid complacency. However, I was surprised by the NDSA report and the level of mistrust they had for commercial storage systems. This report was released in 2011 so I wonder if things have changed since then as these services become more mainstream?
In response to your question about emulation, I see it as part of the Access section of that rainbow continuum in the "Good Enough Digital Preservation" article, rather than another type of digital object (though I can almost see how it could be!). Emulation is not completely necessary, but depending on the access required by a repository's designated community, it can be helpful. You were right in that the collection at NYU wasn't really served by the emulation, but that's one collection at one repository. It's entirely possible that they'll have a collection that will require emulation in the future and they already have experience with it. I became disenchanted with emulation after reading the article and seeing all the problems that could happen. I didn't know that emulation existed until this class, so it is really only a matter of time before I realized it was the perfect solution I created in my mind.
@ Gwen: I too wondered about how acceptance levels of cloud services may have changed since 2011. Seven years is a long time. I also wondered if in the interim any cloud services had begun to implement remedies to any of the issues outlined in the NDSA report as points of dissatisfaction. Specifically, the desire for greater insight and control of any built-in fixity checks. Despite my pessimism I want to believe they would eventually address this need… shhh, don't tell anyone I had a happy thought.
@ Margaret Rose: The more I think about it emulation almost feels like building a theme park, similar to New Salem. They are almost a fabrication in a sense, yet the goal is to get as close as possible to the original experience despite the smoke and mirrors. I'm thinking of things like the CRT simulator that attempts to visually degrade a video game that is rendered too perfectly on an LCD. It's just one more tiny lie told for the sake of painting a larger truth.
And I agree that the complexity of them feels a little daunting. One question that popped into my head was what kind of cyber security vulnerabilities might be introduced by resurrecting an operating system that is no longer patched. I'm sure there are remedies to that, but they'd probably require an IT specialist that the "Lone Arranger" at a tiny institution may not have access to. It makes me wonder if emulation is exclusively the realm of large institutions.
@Tina: Not to digress too far, but I absolutely love your idea of tracking change histories to establish transparency in news articles. For as much as people make fun of Wikipedia one of the things I appreciate about it is the level of transparency they attempt to maintain. News organizations could easily use similar mechanisms to make change histories available without hurting the readability of the article. It wouldn't surprise me if many news organizations wouldn't want to. And it wouldn't surprise me if most readers don't even bother to avail themselves of it. But in an age of "alternative facts", when journalists are fighting for every last shred of credibility, I think such a gesture would be a powerful statement that they wish to hold themselves accountable.
I also am a Star Wars fan, so keep the references coming.
It seems like in your last two paragraphs you are arguing that emulators take a lot of time and effort and maybe aren't really worth it except in special cases, but that wasn't the lesson I took from the "How to Party Like It's 1999" article. I thought the most useful part was the Figure 5 table, which gave a list of pre-built emulators that could be used to reproduced "extinct" computer systems like old Macintoshes, DOS, or Commodore Operating Systems. By using pre-built emulators, that eliminates a lot of the work that would go into creating them, and it seems like at least some (possibly all?) are open source and can be updated as needed so that there's won't be a constant need to reinvent the wheel.
Now granted, I am still a little bit unsure of how the emulators mentioned in the article work and what their capabilities are, but I can envision scenarios in which they might be used often. For example, I currently own at least one external hard drive that I purchased over ten years ago, and for whatever reason, it is no longer recognized by the operating system I have now. It would be nice to have a tool that could "turn back the clock" ten years on operating systems and allow me to access the files on that hard drive. I imagine there are probably lots of other media items that could benefit from turning the clock back even further, maybe fifteen, twenty, or twenty five years. If the emulators don't work like that….well, someone should invent ones that do.
Tracee, my apologies for not responding to your comment earlier. For some reason I just now received an email notifying me of your response, but I see you left it two weeks ago… weird.
I'm entirely willing to concede that all the examples we've discussed outlining very complex emulations (video games, iPad apps, etc.) may have colored my view on the feasibility of emulation. But you're absolutely right… those complex situations are the exception, not the rule. There are far more simple and ubiquitous objects to rescue. Enough to make emulation-as-a-service for commonly needed environments a reasonable solution. I'm sure I'll be super grateful for them when I finally get around to migrating all of my Quark files from 1998 (*cries a little on the inside).


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Kommissionens uppgift var att utreda och klargöra de brott mot mänskliga rättigheterna som hade ägt rum under tiden 1980–2000 i hela Peru. I kommissionen deltog företrädare för de mänskliga rättigheterna, religiösa ledare och tidigare militärer.

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Courts have already granted personhood to other non-humans, which is not the same as declaring them people, Wise often notes. Corporations can be legal persons, as can ships. On Wednesday, New Zealand's parliament officially recognized the Whanganui River as a legal person. And so far, courts have been willing to at least listen to Wise's arguments on behalf of chimps, if not rule in their favor.
Despite the defeats, Wise said he was encouraged by a 2015 state Supreme Court ruling that rejected his group's arguments but called the quest "understandable" and acknowledged that the definition of legal personhood has evolved over time. But the judge in that case said she was bound by a higher court's previous ruling that chimpanzees could not be granted legal rights because they're unable to bear "legal responsibilities and societal duties."
No other court has said you have to have the capacity to assume duties and responsibilities in order to be a legal person and have rights.
Wise says that's wrong for a couple of reasons that he plans to present on Thursday. First, he said, he'll argue that legal personhood does not require the ability to assume duties or responsibilities - children cannot do so, for example, nor can some Alzheimer's patients.
"No other court has said you have to have the capacity to assume duties and responsibilities in order to be a legal person and have rights," Wise said. "In fact, millions of people in the state of New York can't assume duties and responsibilities. But I assure you they aren't legal things."
If that argument doesn't work, Wise says he has a backup: Sixty pages of affidavits from six experts on the behavior and cognition of chimpanzees, including the famous primatologist Jane Goodall. They present evidence that these highly intelligent animals can - and do - assume duties and responsibilities in their own societies and in chimp-human "societies" created for research purposes.
"They just give example after example," Wise said of the affidavits. "For example, when a chimpanzee band crosses a road, a male will go to the front and another male will go to the back and allow others to cross. And when they engage in hunts, they each have separate duties. They each have to do their job."
But, unlike most humans, chimps clearly can't be held accountable for not doing their societal duties, which is one reason some legal scholars reject Wise's argument. Critics also warn of a slippery slope that theoretically could make all pet-keeping illegal.
But the Nonhuman Rights Project has plans to see if other American states' courts might be more open to the idea. Wise said the group is preparing a case on behalf of an elephant in a state that is not New York, eyeing the case of some chimpanzees in California, "looking very closely" at orcas owned by SeaWorld.


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You missed one, that station was called " Couleur jazz " at the start and then became "Planète jazz ".
Will this station be able to get the rights to Canadiens, Alouettes, or Impact games, or any other live broadcasts?
No, no, maybe some, and yes.
Do not know about this one. They pulled the trigger real fast on that format of talk radio . There is a place for another opinion radio in MTL other than trash radio but you have to give it time. Their format was not really convincing. At first you felt as if they wanted to keep part of their trash radio identity with a few remaining voices from Quebec city wich did not help them to build their reputation. They had a nice guy in Louis Lemieux in the morning but the format of the show was not clear and sometimes it was confusing as to know who had the leadership .
Actually I'd bet it has absolutely nothing to do with TTP Media, and everything to do with wanting to get everything in place by fall.
Of course it has to do with the fall program grid but since CKAC changed format to traffic radio the all sport format was left open and it was a matter of time before one or the other went for it. I think that it`s a much more promissing format to put in place instead of having to compete with 98.5 on their ground.
I think it may be a bit of both. TTP has in a sense been running a block on anyone else considering the format for the last couple of years, knowing a new player was just about to show up. But since TTP appears to be mostly a paperwork company and not seeming to do much towards actually broadcasting, it leaves an opening. Since Radio Poubelle is not going to work in Montreal, sports is as good a next stop as any.
I don't think it will work out, however. A lack of live sports and a lack of connection to the community is going to make it an uphill struggle. On the plus side for them, it's likely that sports fans would be a more loyal audience than they types who listen to trash-can radio. So maybe they can manage to squeeze up to a 2 rating… one day.
Next stop: Pure talk radio to go against 98.5 directly… and that would be a challenge!
98.5 is radio-poubelle, too. From Dutrizac comparing the PLQ to Nazis to Normand Lester's recent bizzarre comparison of England to ISIS. There are thousands of examples.
Here's a thought. If making a go of it either musically or spoken in French is proving to be a challenge how about looking to flip the license to English. Sure there would be the ususal voices of concern and disapproval but a new English FM would be a breath of fresh air.
If making a go of it either musically or spoken in French is proving to be a challenge how about looking to flip the license to English.
1. It would require CRTC approval. And such an application would probably draw opposition from other broadcasters arguing that it amounts to a new station and that there should be a call for competing proposals.
2. RNC Média has no experience in English-language broadcasting.
3. Montreal's French-language market is still much larger than its English one, so this station would be shrinking its potential audience.
4. The English market already has two private spoken-word radio stations.


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מאוחדת, Arabisch: Al-Qa'imah al-Muwahiddah al-`Arabiyyah li-Taghyir: القائمة الموحدة العربية لتغيير), is een Israëlische politieke partij die opkomt voor de rechten van Arabische Israëliërs. De afkorting van de partij is Ra'am. Bij de parlementsverkiezingen van 23 maart 2021 deed Ra'am met een eigen lijst mee. Mansour Abbas is de huidige partijleider. De partij haalde vier zetels in de 24e Knesset, en trad toe tot het Kabinet–Bennett-Lapid.

De Verenigde Arabische Lijst ontstond in 1996 als unie van twee partijen: De Arabische Democratische Partij (Hezb al-Democraty al-Arabi/ Miflaga Democratit Aravit) en (de zuidelijke factie van de) Islamitische Beweging van Israël. Ook een deel van het Nationaal Verenigd Front trad toe tot Verenigde Arabische Lijst. Ra'am behaalde bij de verkiezingen van dat jaar 4 zetels. Het grootste succes werd echter in 1999 behaald toen de partij 5 zetels behaalde.

In 2001 leed Ra'am een verkiezingsnederlaag: De partij zakte van 5 naar 2 zetels.

Vandaag de dag zijn er vier partijen lid van de Verenigde Arabische Lijst: De reeds genoemde partijen, de Arabische Nationale Partij en de Ta'al Beweging. Tegenwoordig is de zuidelijke factie van de Islamitische Beweging van Israël de dominerende factor binnen de Verenigde Arabische Lijst.

Masud Ghnaim volgde in 2015 Ibrahim Sarsur als partijleider op.

Veel kiezers die op Ra'am stemmen zijn behalve Arabische Israëliërs ook Bedoeïenen.

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Verkiezingsresultaten

De lijst Ra'am-Ta'al haalde in 2013 vier zetels in de Knesset. Drie van hen werden ingenomen door de politici Ibrahim Sarsur (2006-2015), Masud Ghnaim (sinds 2009) en Taleb Abu Arar (sinds 2013) van Ra'am en één door Ahmad Tibi van Ta'al.

In 2015 deden Ra'am, Ta'al, Hadash en Balad bij de verkiezingen voor de 20e Knesset als Gezamenlijke Lijst (in het Engels: Joint List) mee. De Gezamenlijke Lijst haalde 13 zetels, waarvan 3 plaatsen voor politici van Ra'am zijn.

Ra'am nam met een eigen lijst deel aan de verkiezingen van maart 2021 en behaalde vier zetels. De partij kreeg zowel van de eerste formateur Benjamin Netanyahu als van de tweede formateur Yair Lapid een aanbod om deel te nemen aan een regeringscoalitie. Ra'am kwam uiteindelijk in de regering van Naftali Bennett, die door Yair Lapid tot stand gebracht werd. Mansour Abbas werd onderminister van Arabische Zaken. Knessetlid Said al-Harumi overleed op 25 augustus 2021 in Beër Sjeva aan een hartaanval. Hij zette zich met name in voor de Bedoeïenen in de Negev. Zijn plaats in de Knesset werd door Iman Khatib-Yasin overgenomen.

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Ibrahim Sarsur (2006-2015)
Taleb el-Sana (1996–2012)
Abdulmalik Dehamshe (1996–2006)
Muhamad Kanan (1999–2001)
Tawfik Khatib (1996–2001)
Hashem Mahameed (1999–2002)
Masud Ghnaim (2009-2019)
Taleb Abu Arar (2013-2019)
Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya (2015-2019)

Zie ook
 Taleb al-Sana - fractievoorzitter in de Knesset
 Knesset
 Staatsinrichting van Israël

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The Diversity Movement and Multiculturalism Overtakes the Modern University
January 24, 2019 By Richard C. Young
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At The Federalist, Joy Pullmann explains the views of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, who feels that maybe college isn't for everyone. Arnn also laments "the diversity movement and the multicultural movement that has overtaken the modern university." Pullmann writes (abridged):
Even though it's in colleges' financial and reputational interest to try to generate as many students as possible for themselves, Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn says pushing everyone towards college is a big mistake.
"Did you notice, there's an amazing lockstep nature to the diversity movement and the multicultural movement that has overtaken the modern university," Arnn observed.
"It's not permitted to think anything but the short list of things, and they call it multiculturalism, the actual truth of what it does is it reduces all cultures to one common standard and they're all equal."
Yet this deprives our culture of the ability to call evil cultures evil, such as the reigning culture within Germany between 1943 and 1945. Refusing to make judgment calls such as these, or to subject judgment calls to free speech that allows for examining ideas to test their veracity, starves young people and ultimately an entire culture of the intellectual and moral habits that allow humans to live a good life. In other words, it creates an anti-human, antieducation society.
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Angel Di Maria said farewell to his Real Madrid teammates at the weekend and is apparently on his way to Manchester United. There will be time to evaluate where he might fit in at Old Trafford once the deal is done (if it gets done), but in the interim, there are some basic considerations to be made.
First and foremost, Di Maria's departure has been telegraphed all summer. He was offered a new deal, but asked to be moved on, ostensibly because, with James Rodriguez joining Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale (not to mention Isco and, when he returns, Jese), playing time would be tough to come by.
Players fundamentally want two things: money and playing time. You can satisfy some people by giving them one and not the other. Di Maria evidently isn't like that, and it's to his credit: A new, improved deal wasn't going to be enough to keep him around.
Stop and think about it for a second. He has just had a career-defining season and played a key role in a Champions League win. He could easily have sat on his rear end and counted the cash, while telling the world that he was going to fight for his place in the team.
Instead, he's prepared to move to a foreign country, to a team not involved in the Champions League (or even the Europa League). That shows character and a willingness to challenge yourself.
Meanwhile, once the world found out that Di Maria was hell-bent on going, Real Madrid's negotiating position should have weakened considerably. You had a player they needed to sell who wanted to leave. And as the clock counts down to the final hours of the transfer window, it should -- in theory at least -- have depressed Madrid's asking price.
Weirdly, that's not what's happening. And this is where things get mysterious.
Di Maria was on the verge of joining Paris Saint-Germain a month ago, but the deal did not go through because PSG, who have been hit with transfer limitations as a result of their settlement for breaching Financial Fair Play regulations, said the asking price (65 million euros) was too steep.
And what is Di Maria's asking price now?
It's reportedly Cristiano Ronaldo-type money. A base fee of around 75 millions euros, plus another 15 million based on performance.
By all accounts, Manchester United don't want to pay that. They hope to do the deal for a flat fee of around 75 million, with no bonuses.
We will, no doubt, look at whether that kind of money for a 26-year-old makes sense and -- crucially -- whether it makes sense specifically for United. But in the meantime, you have to ask: Why would his price rise?
What transpired in the past month for the player to suddenly be worth so much more? Since the World Cup quarterfinal against Belgium on July 5, he has played just 14 minutes of competitive football (against Atletico in the Spanish Super Cup first leg). We can safely say, I think, that while he played well, that's not what bumped up the price.
The fact of the matter is that Di Maria could have been signed a month ago for the 65 million euros that PSG deemed "too much" (if not less; remember, that was the asking price). Now, United are on the verge of spending far more than that. It feels like the Marouane Fellaini deal all over again: sitting on your hands and eventually being forced to pay more than is necessary.
Maybe Louis van Gaal should have brought a director of football with him to help out Ed Woodward.
So Mario Balotelli's move to Liverpool looked done and dusted on Friday, but it was not rubber-stamped until Monday.
It's been interesting to note the wildly disparate reports regarding his compensation. And the confusion in the media is only multiplied by the fact that, in Italy, numbers are expressed in net (i.e., after-tax) euros per year and in England it's customary to do it in gross (pre-tax) pounds per week. That, and the fact that different sources have an interest in reporting different numbers, and people aren't always truthful when speaking to the media.
If you assume English media talk to Liverpool sources (or, in any case, give more credence to what Liverpool sources tell them) and Italian media speak to Milan sources (and those close to Balotelli's agent, Mino Raiola), then it's not tough to understand why each party might have an interest in inflating or deflating the numbers.
Italian media put the figure at 5.8 million euros a year net, which, if you like your numbers gross, is around 8.84 million pounds (if you're of a British persuasion) or $15.3 million.
Reports in England range from 4.16 million (The Guardian) to 5.2 million pounds (Liverpool Echo), plus a range of bonuses that could earn him an additional 2 million a season. Again, doing the math and turning it back into take-home euros, that's 2.6 to 3.7 million annually.
Or, in gross euro terms, 5.2 million to 6.5 million euros (income tax is higher in Italy) plus bonuses of up to 2.5 million. That adds up, potentially, to a total of 7.7 million to 9 million euros per year. Or, if you want to compare apples to apples, assuming Balotelli gets his full bonus, 6.24 million to 8.32 million pounds or $10.15 million to $11.87 million.
Did you follow that? Apologies if you don't like numbers, but I figured some clarity would be needed.
The numbers may not be clear, but one thing is: Balotelli is a Liverpool player.
Who to believe? I'm not sure. I spoke to one of the parties involved -- one who would know, but who won't mind me describing him as somewhat self-serving -- who simply said that at the end of the day, barring some meltdown, Balotelli will get the equivalent of $10.6 million, more if he does really, really well.
That number, maybe not coincidentally, is roughly what he was earning at Milan in base salary, though he had bonus clauses that could get him an additional $1.1 million a season.
As if all that weren't complicated enough, there are conflicting reports about the bonuses and how difficult it is to earn them. There's obviously a big difference between getting an extra $1 million for winning the Ballon d'Or or scoring 30 goals in the Premier League and getting it for simply showing up to work on time or not getting sent off.
The reason it has taken this long has to do with his contract, which proved to be more complicated than was first thought. And maybe leaking different numbers was also a way of getting the upper hand in negotiations while burnishing your image with fans and media.
At some point soon, Diego Simeone may want to take a deep breath and remind himself who he is: one of the hottest coaching commodities around, after winning La Liga, not to mention the Europa League and Copa del Rey and coming within minutes of conquering the Champions League. One of the reasons is the "controlled fury" he preaches.
Atletico Madrid are as high an intensity team as you'll see, but most of the time, that rage is channelled positively. That's how they overachieved the past few seasons and that's how, incidentally, they won the Spanish Super Cup last week: After taking that early lead at the Vicente Calderon, they didn't sit back and invite pressure, but outworked Real Madrid, especially in the second half, and deservedly beat them for the first time on home soil since the last millennium.
Simeone's fiery temperament saw him fall foul of match officials again.
The blight, though, was Simeone's red card after 25 minutes and the grandstanding that followed. He was sent off because Juanfran wasn't allowed back on to the pitch quickly enough, prompting him to give the fourth official an earful, and then, when he turned away, tapping him on the back of the head.
This was followed by ironic applause after being given his marching orders and then waving his arms frantically, trying to rev up the crowd. And if that wasn't enough, he then took a seat in the crowd but directly behind the Atletico bench.
For that last one, he can get a pass. If the rules don't mandate that he needs to disappear down the tunnel, so be it. But the rest is just foolishness, and he's better than that. Further, if maybe you could understand him getting caught in the moment in the Champions League final -- which also saw him get sent off -- this was 25 minutes into the second leg of the Super Cup. Not quite the same thing.
Some in Spain have said he's turning into Jose Mourinho, which, I guess, they mean in a derogatory way. But Mourinho never came close to the reported eight-game ban Simeone is facing. This isn't him. This isn't what got him where he is. The rage and fury must be channelled. The quicker he realizes this, the quicker he'll be back on track.
Can you be a little too clever for your own good?
That's the impression that Pep Guardiola gave for Bayern's curtain-raiser against Wolfsburg. The desire to find new combinations and formations is commendable; it's what has made him one of the very best managers in the world, after all. At the same time, though, it can blow up in his face.
On Friday, he was without the suspended Jerome Boateng as well as Javi Martinez, Rafinha, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thiago Alcantara and Franck Ribery, who are all injured. Not that Bayern often get sympathy, but it's a big ask for any team to spot the opposition half a dozen players.
After a shaky start, Guardiola's men found form to start their title defence with a win.
Guardiola's solution? An exotic back three -- Philipp Lahm, Dante and Holger Badstuber (making only his second start after nearly two years out through injury) -- with a recycled fullback (David Alaba) partnering a 17-year-old in his debut (Gianluca Gaudino) in midfield. Out wide were Arjen Robben and the newly signed Bernat. Three front men completed a highly unorthodox 3-4-3.
It lasted about 15 minutes for the simple reason that it didn't work. Robben as a theoretical wing-back found his path blocked by Thomas Muller up ahead, while the back three against a Wolfsburg side playing one up front was overkill. Likeliest to push up was Lahm, who couldn't because he was behind Robben AND Muller.
Guardiola made the switch to a more familiar 4-2-3-1, and Bayern went up 2-0. Some jitters came later as Ivica Olic pulled one back and Junior Malanda had an early miss, but still, Bayern held on. It was a deserved win (Robben hit the woodwork and Sebastian Rode's goal was incorrectly disallowed), but it was a bit nervier than you'd expect.
Things should settle down as the starters return. In the meantime, Guardiola can treat those first 15 minutes as a "teachable moment" while taking strength from the realization that he has an extra weapon in Gaudino, the son of former German international Maurizio.
So while Barcelona wait for Neymar to get fit and Luis Suarez to serve his ban, they have the luxury of chucking in kids without missing a beat.
Call it the La Masia effect all over again as Munir El Haddadi, who scored a peach of a goal after a beautiful pass from Ivan Rakitic, and Rafinha, Thiago Alcantara's little brother, joined Lionel Messi up front against Elche and, once the opposition ran out of steam, it was a comfortable 3-0 win.
Munir, who does not turn 19 until Sept. 1, celebrates his goal vs. Elche.
Messi scored two and while we'll wait on the "He's back!" headlines, it was his best performance in months. The only blot on the night was Javier Mascherano's red card at the end of the first half when he clipped Garry Rodrigues from behind as the Cape Verdian cut across him.
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It was vintage Mascherano in the sense that it took an eagle-eye ref to spot the contact and it's the sort of "old dog" trick expert players pull. It just wasn't the right time to do it, not at that stage of the game. But El Jefecito makes very few such mental errors over the course of the season. If he got one of them out of the way early, in a 3-0 win, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Alexis Sanchez didn't have a great time in the 45 minutes he played up front for Arsenal at Goodison Park -- so much so that Arsene Wenger sent on Olivier Giroud at halftime, and the Gunners battled back to 2-2.
But it doesn't definitively mean the Chilean can't play as a lone striker. There are certain games -- perhaps when Wenger opts to play a more counterattacking style, primarily on the road -- where his skills on the break will be invaluable.
Forget the seasons at Barca -- playing alongside Messi is unique and can't be replicated elsewhere -- and think instead of what he was like the last time he played on a counterpunching side. At Udinese, together with Antonio Di Natale, Sanchez was devastating on the counterattack, both as provider and as finisher. I expect it's an experiment we'll see again whenever Wenger wants to give Giroud a breather.
OK, referees make mistakes; they're only human and all that. However, sometimes, they're above all party poopers.
We've all seen the drama of keepers coming up on set pieces late in matches, and we know how rarely it works.
Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz thought he'd scored a dramatic late equalizer against Malaga on Saturday, but alas, it was disallowed, for reasons I can't quite work out. Shame, because it was a sweet header.
I was at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, and it felt weird seeing the No. 8 jersey out of the corner of my eye and not seeing Frank Lampard's frame in it. Retiring numbers is commonplace in U.S. sports but less so in football, though there are examples: Diego Maradona at Napoli, Bobby Moore at West Ham, Johan Cruyff at Ajax, Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi at Milan.
Lampard's shirt now belongs to Oscar. Chelsea haven't officially retired any numbers, though nobody has worn Gianfranco Zola's 25 since he left the club. You wonder if maybe this wasn't a missed opportunity.
Every so often real life intrudes on football. And it's usually distressing.
News that Shakhtar's Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine, was shelled last week served as a reminder that the team have emigrated to Lviv, in the western part of the country, because of unrest in the region.
During times like these, you remember the long list of things that are more important than football. But you also recall that where there's sport -- in the sporting, Corinthian, De Coubertin sense of the word -- there's usually peace.
You hope that when the football returns to Donbass Arena, it will be because peace has returned to that part of the world.


"This past Sunday," writes the historian, Mark Noll, "it is possible that more Christian believers attended church in China than in all of so-called "Christian Europe." Yet in 1970, there were no legally functioning churches in all of China" (The New Shape of World Christianity, 20).
Over the last 50 years, Christianity in Asia has spread rapidly. Tens of millions of people have experienced a new life in Christ and joined a local church or house church. At the same time, the forces of death have targeted tens of millions of their children, as well as those within the general population. Today Asia is plagued by unprecedented levels of abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
In response, PassionLife piloted its first initiative in Asia in 2011, serving as a catalyst for a prolife movement arising from the Church. Currently, we train Christian leaders in major cities and major networks of churches in the gospel of life. The strategy involves teaching biblically-based bioethics in ways that can immediately be reproduced and taught without expertise or special equipment. The result is a multiplying process for calling Christians throughout Asia to stand for life with courage and compassion.
Cuba is the only Latin American country where abortion is legal and free. The result is one of the highest abortion rates per capita in the world and a worldview that stands in contrast to the intrinsic value of all human life created in the image of God. The alienating power of abortion, in the form of guilt and shame, compounds the destruction of human happiness.
The recent realignment between the US and Cuba created an opportunity for PassionLife to bring our prolife trainers to Cuban pastors and leaders for the first time in 2016.
To the glory of God, Cuban lay leaders have risen up and responded to the call to protect the most vulnerable. "Sopla de Vida" is a Cuban-led, Cuban-funded ministry started by lay leaders who were burdened to help women in crisis. Not only are they saving babies, providing education and Bible study classes for expectant mothers, and leading after-abortion recovery retreats, but they are reproducing their own ministry by traveling and mentoring other church groups to imitate them. It is truly a Holy-Spirit inspired work!
PassionLife's newest long-term initiative is in Vietnam. Similar to China's old "One Child Policy," which curbed population growth by restricting family size, Vietnam had a "Two Child Policy" for many years. The resultant demographics imbalance led the country to scrap the measures in 2011. But the Vietnamese people remain leery of large families and some say the abortion rates are the highest in all of Asia.
On the bright side, the Vietnamese Church is courageous and mature, and soon after PassionLife first introduced the Four Questions training, an indigenous group of Christian lay people and medical professionals banded together to start serving women in crisis. Pray for this bold group, that they would experience unity and wisdom as they stand practically for life in a secular culture.
"In 1900, Africa had 10 million Christians, which was about 10 percent of the population. By 2000, the number of Christians was 360 million, about half the population of the continent. This is probably the largest shift in religious affiliation that has ever occurred, anywhere." (Noll, 21).
The prolife cause is also taking root throughout the continent. In Africa, PassionLife serves as a training partner with pro-life training organizations like the Association for Life in Africa (AFLA) and Africa Cares for Life (ACFL). Under their guidance, we provide pastoral training in the gospel of life, and teach emerging leaders in prolife apologetics and pregnancy crisis intervention.
Pastoral leaders in Ghana, Zambia, Nigeria, and Uganda are currently teaching our core curriculum, The Four Questions, throughout their country.
Eastern Europe is one of three "hot zones" in the world for abortion. In these post-Communist and post-Christian countries, an old worldview that sees life as a commodity–or as having "production value" rather than intrinsic value–persists. Romania in particular has the seventh highest abortion rate per capita of any country on earth.
PassionLife teams deployed to Romania and Czech Republic in August of 2017 and worked with pastors and leaders in each of four cities. Pray for continued breakthrough in these cultures.
In 2018 PassionLife made a second trip to teach biblical bio-ethics (the "rights and wrongs" as they pertain to life) in a Reformed seminary in Medellin, and has partnered with a seasoned pro-life Colombian worker to teach in many churches in Bogota, Barranquilla and Cartagena. Pray for the leaders in these institutions to pass on the vision for the value of all human life to Christians all around the country.
The two countries of India and China account for the lion's share of the world's gendercide (choosing one gender for extermination over another). Sadly, little girls are much more likely to be aborted than boys. The more rural the area, the more pronounced this phenomenon is.
The lingering dark power of the caste system is also an affront to the idea of the equal value and dignity of all human life.
Pray that the Christians of India would continue to rise up agains these cultural forces and lead the way in honoring each precious life.
It takes the Church here working together to reach the Church there.
Here are four ways for you to take up the Gospel of Life right where you live and join us in the Great Work.
Host a Gospel of Life training seminar. You'll learn the biblical foundations of prolife bioethics and you'll be equipped in prolife apologetics. This seminar is especially good for teens, college students and those passionate about the prolife cause and eager to know how to make an effective and persuasive case for life in our secular culture.
Arrange to equip the missionaries supported by you and your church to respond to abortion, infanticide and gendercide where they live and serve.
Approach your local pregnancy center leaders about joining us on our overseas training trips, and provide them the resources.
Invite PassionLife's President, John Ensor or our Executive Director, Mark Nicholson to your church or your Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. They have stories to tell that will inform and inspire you and your church to the Great Work.


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CORONAVIRUS: News Updates 12/3/20
Today's news on the global pandemic.
There were 2,777 COVID-related deaths reported Wednesday in the U.S., which is the highest one-day total of the pandemic. (NBC News)
A Hawaiian couple was arrested for boarding a flight in San Francisco after knowingly testing positive for COVID-19. (ABC News)
Former Presidents Barack Obama,George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to take the vaccine live on camera as soon as the FDA approves it. (NY Post)
There are now more than 64.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide with more than 1.4 million deaths. (Johns Hopkins)
In the U.S., there are more than 13.9 million confirmed cases with more than 273,000 deaths. (Johns Hopkins)
U.S. tops "unfathomable" milestone of 100,000 COVID hospitalizations. (CNBC)
Residents in Los Angeles "ordered to remain in their homes" amid COVID-19 surge. (KTLA)
Austin Mayor told community to stay home while he was in Cabo after flying there in private jet. (Fox News)
This spring's New York City Half-Marathon has already been canceled because of COVID-19. (Runner's World)
The CDC has shortened the recommended time of quarantine for people who've been exposed to the coronavirus -- to 10 days, or just seven with a negative test. (USA Today)
Tuesday was the deadliest day of the pandemic since mid-April with more than 2,500 deaths reported.
41 people have tested positive after attending a swingers convention in New Orleans, which drew a crowd of 250 people. (TMZ)
The U.K. is the first country in the world to give emergency approval to Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine and will start the rollout next week. (New York Times)
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