For me it is a great present. I am very happy for that. I think that in a very short dialogue we succeeded to build some kind of belief between each other. Maybe we don't achieve peace in the Middle East, but we achieved a little peace zone between us. This is also very important. It's my opinion. I would like to emphasize that maybe just the UPF now gives the chance for people like us to build this type of relations between people who came from the conflict -- and unfortunately will return to the conflict.
I would like to emphasize in these words of mine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because this is the heart of the conflict in the Middle East. I really believe that in case we solve the problem between us and the Palestinians, all the roads to peace with other countries and other regimes will be much, much easier.
It would like to make it very, very clear that both in Israel and in Palestine, the current situation does not signal a breakthrough in the peace process: In Israel we just a month ago held an election that did not result in an optimistic option for peace. In the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, there will probably be a re-shaping of governance -- I don't know when -- either through elections or some other way. Regardless, one cannot find either in Israel or in Palestine any optimism for a massive strengthening of the power of peace. This is unfortunately the fact.
First, in a place of conflict and argument there isn't any vacuum. There is either a peace process or a war process. There is no vacuum. In the absence of a peace process, violent conflict will appear, sooner or later. Therefore, since no peace process is taking place, we are surely walking on the track toward violence that would soon explode and cause the loss of many lives, both in the Israeli side as well as the Palestinian side, and maybe -- unfortunately -- even in other Arab countries from the region. I am sorry. It is very sad, but it is a fact. I can only say the truth.
The second phenomenon I would like to emphasize is that 75 percent -- the middle 75 percent -- of both the Palestinian and Israeli people support a two-state solution. Yet at election time, the people on both sides elect leaders who oppose such a solution: Hamas in the Palestinian side and Netanyahu in our side. In connection to the visit of Obama to Israel, Netanyahu is talking about a two-state solution, but he has not any intention of implementing it. He will not do it. He is Prime Minister and is going to be next time -- unfortunately, in my opinion.
Yet, the only real solution that remains is two states for two nations. The recognition by the United Nations of the Palestinian state, even though Palestine is not a member of the UN, is perhaps a small but an important step forward.
This is indeed the only true solution: a dialogue needs to be created between the two leaderships, despite the fact that they oppose a two-state solution. The enlightened world should make a dialogue between the two leaderships happen. The leaders on both sides might not be nice, and might not be honest in their intentions, but if -- with the support of the enlightened world -- they reach a route of agreement which includes mutual recognition, security arrangements, and economic cooperation for the benefit of both sides, that can be the track to prevent the expected war and create a base to establish a stable peace.
Another two points I would like to emphasize after I came here to this lovely meeting: peace is not just between nations. Peace is between people. I would like to emphasize, first of all, that I have met here Professor Abdel Rahman Abbad. Please stand. [applause] May I say, Abbad, my friend after two days, I really find you a friend. He is living in East Jerusalem; I am living in West Jerusalem. Believe me, it is about a 10-minute, maximum 12-minute drive apart. Now we are living in a condition of war. But believe me, if a two-state solution is adopted, his home would be open to my family and children to come, and my home will be open to his family and children. [applause] Why not? Why not?
The second point I would like to add. I have not prepared to speak about the Israeli-Iranian conflict, which is also a horrible thing, a terrible thing for us -- for all. I have to tell you that I have met here an Iranian man -- a very good man, I have to say -- Nasir. Nasir is here? [applause] Nasir was born in Iran, grew up in Iran, and escaped from Iran to the United States. I was born in Baghdad, and I escaped from Baghdad through Iran. The Iranian people saved my life and the lives of many Jews. So now, in this horrible conflict with the Iranian leadership and the Israeli leadership, I have to emphasize, Nasir, that the Iranian people and Israeli people can be a loving two people. Why not? [applause] I don't like to have any Iranian bomb over Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. I don't like to have any Israeli or other bomb over Iran. [applause] Let's make peace even between Israel and Iran. Thank you very much.


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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Fights North Dakota Oil Pipeline
Chairman Dave Archambault says it's simply a matter of time before the Dakota Access pipeline leaks, ruining their way of life forever
Environment Ethics
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Why Is Obama Shoving The TPP Down Our Throats?
The Ring of Fire
President Obama is off on his TPP sales tour, trying to convince Americans that the corporate trade deal is good for all of us. The only question is why is he so hellbent on passing this disastrous deal before he leaves office? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08…
China and Africa – The Fruits of Cooperation
CCTV Africa
The history between China and Africa dates back as far as the 14th Century. It's a relationship that above all, has stood the test of time. Over the next few days we'll be taking a look back at the fascinating history between the two, in our special new series: China and Africa – The Fruits of Cooperation. Here is the first installment
Haitians demand reparation from France over slavery
The French government is under increasing pressure to pay compensation for what happened more than two hundred years ago in Haiti.
A revolt by slaves led to independence.
But freedom was expensive – a massive financial burden imposed from Paris.
The legacy of history has been remembered on the anniversary of the slave trade and its worldwide abolition.
Al Jazeera's Daniel Schweimler reports from Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Al Gore: If You Care About The Climate Crisis, Don't Vote For A Third Party
https://thinkprogress.org/al-gore-dont-vote-third-party-15711ce062e7#.rhl41zia5
"In my experience, it matters a lot."
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Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush in part because of votes lost to third-party candidates. He has a simple message for fellow climate hawks who are contemplating a third-party vote in 2016: Please don't.
In an exclusive interview last week, I asked Gore what he would say to voters concerned about climate change but dissatisfied with both major candidates and considering voting for a third party, such as the Green Party. He replied:
First of all I understand their feelings and misgivings. But if they are interested in my personal advice. I am voting for Hillary Clinton. I urge everyone else to do the same.
I particularly urge anyone who is concerned about the climate crisis, sees it as the kind of priority that I see it as, to look at the sharp contrast between the solar plan that Secretary Clinton has put forward, and her stated commitment to support the Clean Power Plan, and the contrast between what she has said and is proposing with the statements of the Republican nominee, which give me great concern.
We have written at length about the statements of Republican nominee Donald Trump at ClimateProgress. He has called global warming a hoax, denied the reality of California's devastating drought, promised he would kill all domestic climate-related regulations (like the EPA's Clean Power Plan), and vowed "We're going to cancel the Paris climate agreement" — humanity's last best chance to avoid catastrophic climate change lasting centuries.
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Al Gore Warns Of 3rd Party "Dangers", Ignores Democrats' Lack Of Climate Action
Al Gore understands just how dangerous 3rd party candidates can be in a tight election, but you can't justify that by claiming the Democrats are any better on issues like climate change. There's little indication that the Democrats currently in power – and the ones who could be in power in just a few months – have any real intentions of acting on climate change. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://thinkprogress.org/al-gore-don…
WFP in NIGERIA
Violence in north-east Nigeria, fueled by Boko Haram, has led to one of the most acute – and sorely neglected – humanitarian crises in the world. As areas become accessible, the scale of the human tragedy is becoming apparent. The World Food Programme is scaling up its assistance to reach more than 700,000 people in desperate need, including nutrition support for 150,000 children under the age of five who are at risk of malnutrition. To find out more, visit www.wfp.org/emergencies/nigeria
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DEF LEPPARD Fan Pays $8,000 For Chance To Sing With Band
Mark Zack from San Jose, California paid £5,007 (more than $8,000) to sing and play "Pour Some Sugar On Me" with DEF LEPPARD during the band's soundcheck in their home town of Sheffield, U.K. All proceeds of the auction will go to Help A Hallam Child, helping sick and needy children from South Yorkshire and the North Midlands.
"When I heard I won the auction, I called one of my co-workers who knew about this and said, 'You are not going to believe where I'm going, I just won a gig WITH DEF LEPPARD!'" said Mark, who's been a fan of the band for 20 years. On the day of the event, Feb. 20, Mark was in Sheffield becoming more and more nervous every minute: "At 3:30 AM, I woke up and I couldn't sleep anymore. I got up, grabbed my guitar, went down to the lobby and chatted with the hotel staff about everything that was happening. Later, I put on my wool coat, strapped on my guitar and went walking through Sheffield's City Center 'till about 5:30 AM!"
When Mark finally met the band at the HallamFM Arena later that afternoon, it was "euphoric": "I had goose-bumps, my hair standing on end all over my body, feeling this shrill running up my spine and out my limbs. So happy, that I couldn't stop smiling, almost like being hypnotized into excitement! I was being interviewed inside the HallamFM Arena and Joe Elliott shows up. My smile went from cheek to cheek! I spent time with Sav and Phil — Sav noticed my Gibson Les Paul and asked me about it, I felt honored! Phil was so cool, I spoke to him about my second guitar I ever owned and how it was being specially refinished and designed by me, taking two and a half years to be completed."
Mark actually planned to bring another guitar, but unfortunately, it was still in the U.S.: "I tried so hard and stressed so much to get that guitar to Sheffield. I really wanted Viv to take it for a ride! I know he's a Les Paul player and he would have absolutely loved this guitar. It would have been great to watch him wail on it through the arena PA system. I remember when Viv was withDIO and WHITESNAKE. He's a great guitar player." During the performance, Mark used Vivian's black Les Paul custom.
About the performance (during which Joe and Viv took care of backing vocals), Mark recalls: "I was, well, kinda bad..... I failed once at being a lead singer in a rock band and I think this was a little reminder! I messed up a few lines on the lyrics, but Joe, Sav and Viv helped in when I got a little lost. I look back and see me stage front center, how my heart was beating 200 times a minute, shaking, and a bit lost, then next thing you know, we're right into it. It was like the first time you ever had sex — it's not the greatest, you really don't know everything you are doing, but you'll never forget it!" Watch a video of Mark's performance (320 x 240, .WMV format, 0:55) here (if you have trouble watching the video, download the ZIPped file, unzip and play the video directly from your local hard drive using the latest Windows Media Player).
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Glenn Tilbrook – 9 December 2001, Picture Playhouse, Beverley
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Glenn Tilbrook – 9 December 2001, Picture Playhouse, Beverley – Solo acoustic show
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Helen Burns wrote:
"Beverley is Wal, my husband's home town and we always said we'd make the trip from Wales to see Glenn there if he ever went to the Picture Playhouse. Here we met up with Rona and Maggie sporting 'Caring, sharing and lovely' T shirts. The venue is a former corn exchange turned cinema turned music venue and is rather beautiful, old and atmospheric. But has no bar. Lorks! We had to ship booze in from the pub next door and range the bottles in an embarrassing line along the stage. Because it's a cinema there isn't any 'milling' space at the front, but we managed to get front row seats as due compensation for queuing outside in freezing fog with no coats on. There were maybe 300 seats and happily they were all filled, plus some of the standing room down the sides. Lots of lovely lucre for our boy.
Glenn was late, caught in the fog. The venue manager gave us regular progress reports to say where he was, so we all lived every mile of the journey with him. Consequently when he eventually bounced in through the front door (no stage door!) he was met full on by a full-to-capacity applauding audience.
GIRLIE BIT: Black T shirt, grey (once black?) jeans, blue trainer type shoes that looked a bit like those slippers old ladies wear with a zip up the front. By his own estimation he was 'deeply fashionable'. Hair was..well..optimum – plenty of curls yet not too long. He's most definitely a slimmer Glenn with perhaps a touch of sunburn. He also had a bit of a cold
which affected his voice very slightly from time to time, but he was nonetheless on dazzling form – happy and chatty and belting the songs out with gusto.
SONGS: The Truth, Tough Love, Vanity Fair, TIWYA, Voodoo Chile (broke a string with an impressive twang and then switched to 12 string……) Maidstone (ahhhhhhhhh!), UTJ, Wine Spodee Odee, Cash Machine, Observatory (back to 6…) Vicky Verky, Piccadilly (unimpressive audience participation), Take Me, Always on my Mind (audience practically in tears), SFP (dedicated to George
Harrison tonight as he finds it hard to otherwise express his appreciation of George and his influence), Tempted, Parallel World (like all middle aged folk it's become his lot to rant at the telly when some bad kiddie band is on, but concedes that Chris Braide will make far more money from the recent S Club 7 single than he ever will from Parallel World), Other World,
Hangover, Goodbye Girl, Annie (Wal requested this and said 'please' twice – grovelling may be a good way of getting requests played) and Hourglass.
THE ANECDOTES: The motor home saga and how the sponsorship deal fell through. How he then acquired his own second hand 1988 RV with 10,000 miles on the clock and 'Jesus Saves' stickers on the inside. He realises that RVs are usually the province of elderly retired folk but he's into the outdoors and camping in a big way so it seemed like a good idea. He managed to add
another 5030 miles to it and it's now somewhere south of LA where it's being repaired after breaking down.
The Andy Williams show and how, as a kid, he would enjoy the audience 'spontaneously' breaking into applause every week after the first 2 lines of the closing song. He asked us to indulge him by doing the same to his songs, and so it was duly done….not without a little irony.
Glenn DNA – offered free to anyone who bought the album so that in future years we could grow our own Glenn – make him do the sweeping up, or whatever.
The option of going to the pub next door, as he was conscious of our personal comfort and happiness. The vote came back a resounding 'no', probably due to the freezing fog and the rather insalubrious nature of said pub.
SYNOPSIS AND POST-SHOW: The audience was very appreciative and well behaved (apart from Wal and Rona , who were frankly raucous) but some of us were shifting about in our trousers itching to get to our feet – not really possible in an all-seater venue like this. Everyone left at great speed at the end so there were only the usual suspects hanging around for a chat afterwards.
Glenn was in high spirits after having seen Charlton beat Spurs 3-1 the previous day, especially as they'd been on a bit of a losing streak while he 'd been in America. We asked him about a tour with the Party and the answer was fairly vague and cagey but the gist of it was that if he tours with them he wants to keep some continuity going by doing all the dates in one block.
He'd felt that the couple of odd dates he did with the band this summer had been disappointing (you're telling me – I was at Greenwich) so it would have to be a full-on tour or nothing. And as he'd like to tour with them in America it was looking as though it would be summer before he could get anything organised. Which would depend on finances. He was going over to the
US in January, and I think he said he was unlikely to tour over here again before Easter.
Wal also asked him if he could do Up the Creek solo and acoustic – "don't know, never tried"…..er….basically "no" then!
It was so good to see him on such good form, and he didn't seem at all tired as I'd expected him to be after so many months of incessant touring. The question is, can I last out until Easter without another fix?
I've uploaded a couple of my photos from the gig onto the List website if anyone's interested by the way – http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glenn_List/lst "
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Jim on Difford & Tilbrook – 30 July 1984 – live at Park West, ChicagoI was at that show...my band, Something American (from Detroit), were the opening act. It was amazing, as I idolized Squeeze...so it was a night I'll never forget. We had a good show, too.
Stephen Altobello on Squeeze – 27 July 1988 – live at Mann Music Centre, PhiladelphiaThis was the first time I saw Squeeze. I only knew "Tempted" and "Black Coffee." I had so much fun. I jumped up and down for the whole show. The melodies and hooks were so memorable I was able to...
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Hugo on Squeeze and Me – Stacy – "Happy Days"I was talking to my old roommate, and reminiscing about squeeze. I mentioned that I had actually seen them, back in 1987. And that I have had a T-shirt for an album that never actually happened. Then I did a...
Geoff Gaisford on Squeeze and Me – Stacy – "Happy Days"I stumbled across this post while searching for the shirt that Stacy is wearing in the photo. I am a bit younger than you but I inherited this shirt from my older sister - along with her appreciation for the...
Daniel on Squeeze – Access All Areas – new CD / DVD and… Picture Disc LP?!Really weirdly, a streaming version of this has now appeared on YouTube Music (replacement for Google Play Music). It's not uncommon for a bootleg to turn up on there, they don't always hang around for very long! Listening to Pulling...
Steve on Squeeze Discographywhere is album discography?
Steve Pocock on Squeeze – 19 March 1978 – live at Reading Top RankI was there too - month before my 16th birthday. Went for the hot rods who were great. Remember Chris introducing one song and saying it was all about smearing jam all over his girlfriend - cant remenber the song...
packetofthree on Squeeze and Me – Stacy – "Happy Days"Wow - welcome Richard and thanks so much for leaving your comment. It's a pleasure to have your company. So sorry for your loss.
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Q: wp set object terms vs wp set post terms Examining the following sample code snippet from the WP codex,
$post = array(
  'ID' => [ <post id> ] //Are you updating an existing post?
  'post_author' => [ <user ID> ] //The user ID number of the author.
  'post_category' => [ array(<category id>, <...>) ] //Add some categories.
  'post_content' => [ <the text of the post> ] //The full text of the post.
  'post_date' => [ Y-m-d H:i:s ] //The time post was made.
  'post_title' => [ <the title> ] //The title of your post.
  'post_type' => 'post'
  'tags_input' => [ '<tag>, <tag>, <...>' ] //For tags.
  'tax_input' => [ array( 'taxonomy_name' => array( 'term', 'term2', 'term3' ) )
);

I see that only the categories take their input by IDs.
For some reason, ( which I'd like to know the history behind it as to why), tags and custom taxonomies takes their input differently.
Here, we are looking at 3 different ways to set the taxonomy terms;
For cats, use
'post_category' => [ array(<category id>, <...>) ]

for tags, use,
'tags_input' => [ '<tag>, <tag>, <...>' ]

and finally for CT's, use
'tax_input' => [ array( 'taxonomy_name' => array( 'term', 'term2', 'term3' ) )

With this 3 different ways, I think things are getting complicated. It's not that it cannot be done but programmatically, it seems more complicated than it should be.
I thought why don't I just use the Uncategorized Cat ID of 1 here ( within the post wp_insert_post ) just to get the post in, and then take care of the proper cats , tags and custom taxonomies, all using the same function call.
With that in mind, I have 2 choices;
wp set object terms and wp set post terms
I'd like to know if one is better than the other and why we have two different but very similar ( almost like a subset vs superset ) type situation here.
Which one is recommended to use when managing thousands of posts, and cats, tags  programmatically - especially in a migration phase?

A: Right there is no big difference between them, actually wp_set_post_terms() uses wp_set_object_terms() but does few extra check for you. That's also noted on wp_set_object_terms() Codex page:

Perhaps the wp_set_post_terms() is a more useful function, since it
checks the values, converting taxonomies separated by commas and
validating hierarchical terms in integers.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_set_object_terms/

A:
I'd like to know if one is better than the other

No matter what happens you will be using wp_set_object_terms either directly or indirectly. The final line of wp_set_post_terms is:
return wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, $tags, $taxonomy, $append );

In this case it would be best to prefer wp_set_post_terms due to the additional checks and processing it performs, but it will have a negligible impact on performance for large migrations, and is a micro-optimisation.

why we have two different but very similar ( almost like a subset vs superset ) type situation here.

As for why there are 2 separate functions, it may be useful to know that not all terms and taxonomies are for posts. It is possible to create taxonomies and terms for other objects too, such as user taxonomies, comment taxonomies, etc. Much like how you can have user meta, comment meta etc. WP Admin may not provide UI for these or take advantage of them out of the box, but it is still possible. The only rule is that you can't use the same taxonomy for multiple object types e.g. posts and users at the same time, because the object ID is just a number, and there'd be no way to distinguish between user 1 and post 1.
Likewise there are similar APIs and functions for meta that are not post specific, e.g. get_metadata( 'post', $post_id, 'key-name', true )

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