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Truths, facts and facts on the ground
Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as "facts".
Joseph Massad Last Modified: 27 Oct 2011 11:03
President Obama has repeated and endorsed the lies that Israel's government insists are "facts" [GALLO/GETTY]
In 1991, negotiations started officially and unofficially between the Palestine Liberation Organization (and the Palestinians associated with it) and the Israeli government. At the time, Israel had occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip for the previous 24 years.
Today, 20 years later, Israel and President Obama insist that the only way to bring about peace, and presumably end the Occupation, is to continue with negotiations. It is unclear if what Obama and Israel are claiming is that Israel needs 24 years of negotiations in order to end its 24-year occupation of Palestinian land, so that by the time the occupation ends, it will have lasted for 48 years.
This of course is the optimistic reading of the Israeli and US positions; the reality of the negotiations and what they aim to achieve, however, is far more insidious.
The negotiations have been based on specific goals to end certain aspects of the Israeli relationship to the Palestinians, namely some of the parts introduced since the 1967 war and the occupation, and the beginning of exclusive Jewish colonial settlement of these territories.But what always remains outside the purview of negotiations is the very core of the Palestinian-Israeli relationship, which the Palestinians are told cannot be part of any negotiations.
These off-limits core issues include what has happened since 1947-1948, including the expulsion of 760,000 Palestinians, the destruction of their cities and towns, the confiscation and destruction of their property, the introduction of discriminatory laws that legalize Jewish racial, colonial and religious privilege and deny Palestinian citizens of Israel equal rights and reject the right of the expelled refugees to return.
Yet, this core, which the Israelis summarize as Israel's right to be, and to be recognized as, a "Jewish" state, is what is always invoked by the Israelis themselves as central to beginning and ending the negotiations successfully and which the Palestinians, the Israelis insist, refuse to discuss.
But the core issues of the question of the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis have always been based on the agnostic historical, geographic and political claims of the Palestinian people and the Zionist movement.
While the Palestinians have always based their claims on verifiable facts and truths that the international community agreed upon and recognized, Israel has always based its claims on facts on the ground that it created by force and which parts of the international community would only recognize as "legitimate", retroactively.
How is one then to sift through these competing notions of truths and facts on the one hand, and facts on the ground, on the other?
The core issues of the US and Israeli agenda were best articulated in the speeches delivered by Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the United Nations (UN) last month in response to the PLO's bid for statehood at the UN. It is there where both Netanyahu and Obama invoked what they called "truths" and "facts" to assert Israeli facts on the ground. As I will show, their strategy is engineered to convert Israeli facts on the ground from antonyms of truths and facts to synonyms with them.
The first 'fact'
<img src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2011/10/25/2011102513758567734_9.jpg" alt="" border="0" Even Netanyahu has no genealogical connection to the ancient Hebrews [GALLO/GETTY]
Let me begin with what Zionists and the US have defined as the first "fact", which is by definition not open to any doubt or question. Obama insists: "These facts cannot be denied. The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland."
Netanyahu echoes Obama by listing this first "fact" as the first "truth," or rather by making sure that "the light of truth will shine" at the UN through his words: "It was here in 1975 that the age-old yearning of my people to restore our national life in our ancient biblical homeland … was … branded … shamefully, as racism." He added later "and we will know that [the Palestinians are] ready for compromise and for peace … when they stop denying our historical connection to our ancient homeland."
Now, this insistence that the first fact, nay the first truth, that Palestine is the historic homeland of modern European Jews who resided in Europe and not of the Palestinian people who lived in it for millennia, turns out to be neither factual nor truthful, though it indeed remains the primary and first claim made by Zionism and anti-Semitism.
The claim relies on anti-Semitic notions propagated initially by the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century and later by secular anti-Semitism, both of which insisted that modern European Jews were blood and genetic descendants of the ancient Hebrews respectively, which is precisely how eighteenth century European philology's reference to Jews as "Semites" would soon be transformed in the hand of political and racial anti-Semitism by the late nineteenth century from a "linguistic" category into a "racial" and biological one.
It is based on these anti-Semitic claims – that millenarian Protestants, secular anti-Semites, and Zionists called for the "restoration" of European Jews to the alleged homeland of their alleged ancestors.
The uncontroversial academic and historical facts that European Jews are descendants of European converts to Judaism from the centuries before Christianity was adopted as the religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century are unquestionable axioms in academic scholarship, including by Zionist historians.
No respected historian of European Jewry has ever argued that European Jews, or for that matter Moroccan, or Iraqi, or Yemeni Jews, were descendants of the ancient Hebrews. All respected scholars recognize them as descendants of converts to Judaism.
But even if the wildest genetic fantasies of anti-Semites and Zionists of Jews as a "race" were "proven", would this make ancient Palestine, where the ancient Hebrews cohabited with other ancient peoples, the historic land of modern European Jews?
And even if one were to commit oneself to the science-fiction of Christian biblical archaeology which accompanied European colonialism in the nineteenth century and on which Israeli archaeology continues to be based, would that mean that modern Jews, now posited as direct genetic and biological descendants of the ancient Hebrews could claim the land where the ancient Hebrews lived with the Canaanites among other myriad groups as their own exclusive national domain and take it from its inhabitants who lived in it for millennia?
Could anyone today, except genocidal racists, link Germanic populations to an Aryan origin that started in northern India and based on that link, argue that northern India is the ancient homeland of all German-speaking people to which they must return and evict the current inhabitants of the land as nothing but recent interlopers in the land of the White Aryans?
These fantastical scenarios are precisely what Obama and Netanyahu tell us are undeniable facts and truths.
Indeed they both insist on them being the first fact, the very first indubitable principle of Zionism, which they want to impose on the international community and on the Palestinians!
The second "fact"
Obama's second fact is asserted with a rhetorical flourish: "Let's be honest: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it … These facts cannot be denied."
But these also are not facts at all. Not even Israeli historians of Israel's wars agree with them. But Israeli politicians and ideologues of course do. In his UN speech, Netanyahu himself echoes Obama's words by telling us that Israel is threatened by its neighbors, that it is "surrounded by people sworn to its destruction and armed to the teeth by Iran" and enjoins presumably the American part of his audience at least not to "forget that the people who live in Brooklyn and New Jersey are considerably nicer than some of Israel's neighbours."
These racist overtones aside, the academic and historic record shows us however that it was Zionist forces who have waged war against the Palestinians in the wake of the 1947 Partition Plan starting on November 30, 1947.
By May 14, 1948, when Israel declared itself a state, it had expelled 400,000 Palestinians from their homes and was capturing their lands and territories, which were assigned to the Arab state. When three (not five!) Arab armies invaded Zionist-held Palestine on May 15, 1948, they were intervening to stop the expulsion of the Palestinian people and to protect their lands from being taken over by Zionist forces. At the end of the war, they failed miserably at their task. Israel was able to expel another 360,000 Palestinians and to capture half the territories of the Arab state adding them to the Jewish state.
In 1956, Israel invaded Egypt along with Britain and France. This was in addition to intermittent but continuous cross border raids into the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egyptian-held Gaza over the decades to come.
In 1967, Israel invaded Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and occupied their territories and all of the remaining lands of Palestine.
In 1973, Egypt and Syria invaded their own territories (Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights), which Israel had earlier occupied, in an attempt to reclaim them but failed. They did not invade Israel itself.
In 1978, in 1982, and in 2006, Israel invaded Lebanon killing tens of thousands of people.
In 2008-2009, Israel invaded Gaza.
These are the undeniable facts that the international community and historians and the actual documentary record proves. As such, Israel was never invaded by its neighbours, except in 1948 – which was an attempt to stop Israel's invasion of Palestinian territory and the expulsion of Palestinians.
That Israel won the majority of these wars cannot change the facts that it initiated them and that it has been the aggressor on its neighbours since even before its establishment in 1947. Indeed, Israel would launch raids on Iraq in 1981 and on Tunisia in 1985, neither of which was an immediate neighbour and without the slightest military provocation from either.
That Israel and the Zionist movement have been the aggressor in the region for the past century are the undeniable facts.
That Obama wants to assert that Israelis were victims of their neighbours is nothing short of imposing a fact on the ground by sheer American rhetorical and political power unrelated to real events. Obama's invocation of honesty here turns out to be nothing short of a call for outright dishonesty.
But this "fact" for Obama derives from the "first fact", namely, if European Jews have the right to colonise Palestine, expel the Palestinians, confiscate their lands, occupy them and discriminate against them by virtue of the first fact of their bogus historic claim, then any Palestinian or Arab resistance to the Zionists' murderous campaigns is nothing short of aggression on Jews.
Obama proceeds to tell us other "facts", including that "Israel's citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel's children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them."
While a handful of Israelis have been killed over the years by rocket fire, tens of thousands of Palestinians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians, have been killed by Israeli rocket fire during times of war and peace. Perhaps the most recent example can shed some light on this.
During Israel's invasion of Gaza, Israeli rockets killed over 1,400 Palestinians while Hamas rockets against Israel did not kill a single Israeli, though several Israelis were shell-shocked and required psychological counselling. As for the murder of thousands of Arab children since 1948 and through the invasion of Gaza, Israel has killed at a rate of thousands of Arab children to one Jewish child in retaliatory attacks on Israel.
So, while Obama is indeed not lying that rockets have been fired on Israel and that historically Israeli Jewish children have been killed by attacks, he takes it out of the context of the much larger destruction and killings Israel engaged in against its neighbours since it was established, which is after all based on the first fact!
Obama's half-facts, like his alleged full facts, end up being again engineered to impose Israeli facts on the ground. For these claims are being made to assert Israel's need for "security", which is of paramount importance, and which is the reason both Obama and Netanyahu claim that the negotiations have failed.
Let me quote several of Obama's references to Israel's security in his UN speech: "America's commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable"; "Israelis must know that any agreement provides assurances for their security"; "any lasting peace must acknowledge the very real security concerns that Israel faces every single day."
So, basically Israel gets to invade the Palestinians and all its sovereign neighbours, some repeatedly, over the last six decades, and it continues to occupy their territories and invade their airspace and oppress the occupied populations and colonise their lands. However, for negotiations to be successful, Israel wants to ensure that its security be safeguarded from any resistance to Israeli attacks, colonisation, and occupation by those it continues to attack, colonise, and occupy. And this it can demand based on the first fact.
<img src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2011/10/25/20111025131329980734_9.jpg" alt="" border="0" Israel poses a much greater threat to its neighbours than the other way around [GALLO/GETTY]
Obama, it should be noted, never mentioned the security concerns of Israel's neighbours who have been the target of Israel's attacks for over six decades. He did however mention the security of Palestinian children once alongside his several mentions of Israeli children despite the one-to-several-thousands victimisation ratio between them: "The measure of our actions must always be whether they advance the right of Israeli and Palestinian children to live in peace and security, with dignity and opportunity."
Netanyahu picks up where Obama left off: "Our major international airport is a few kilometres away from the West Bank. Without peace, will our planes become targets for anti-aircraft missiles placed in the adjacent Palestinian state?"
What is most interesting about this statement is the fact that Israel's airport has never been attacked by rockets, which is not to say that Israel has not attacked the airports of its neighbours. That, it has done with aplomb. In 1968, Israel bombed the Beirut international airport destroying 13 civilian airliners on the tarmac. It would attack Beirut airport again in 2006 – bombing runways.
As for plane hijackings, Israel was a pioneer in the Middle East, when its first hijacking took place in 1954. The Israeli air force would often seize flying civilian airliners in international skies and divert them to Israel, subject the passengers to inspection, interrogation as well as incarceration.
Indeed, Israel remains the only Middle East country that blew up a civilian airliner when it shot down a Libyan civilian plane in 1973, killing 108 passengers on board.
Negotiations and more negotiations
This takes us back to what Obama believes, the negotiations are and should be about, namely: "It is Israelis and Palestinians – not us – who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them: On borders and security; on refugees and Jerusalem."
The negotiations which started in 1991 in Madrid and continued in earnest after the 1993 Oslo agreement, however, were based on UN resolutions that stipulate that Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories (Resolutions 242 and 338), which would settle the borders question if it were not for Israel's refusal to abide by the resolutions.
Moreover, the main issue that has terminated the negotiations and which both sides do not agree on has been Israeli Jewish colonisation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
As luck would have it, the international community and international law both condemn Israeli colonial settlement in the 1967 territories, which are categorically considered illegal and have been declared as such myriad times by UN resolutions and policy statements.
It is curious that Obama never mentioned the colonial settlements in his speech, even though he had attempted a number of times in the last two years without success to intervene with the Israeli government to stop, or at least slow down, building them.
As for the issues of borders, the 1947 Partition Plan had already specified the borders of the two states, and Resolution 242, on which the negotiations are based, specified where Israel should be withdrawing to after the 1967 war, Israeli casuistry in that matter notwithstanding.
The Palestinian negotiating position echoes that of international law and UN resolutions while the Israeli position violates them. This also relates to the matter of the refugees which has also been settled by UN resolutions and international law while Israel remains adamant in its refusal to implement these resolutions by refusing to repatriate, compensate and return the property of the 760,000 Palestinians it expelled. Neither will it agree to compensate and return the property of the quarter of a million Palestinians (internal refugees and their descendants) who are Israeli citizens whom it expelled from one part of the country to another part of it.
But the so-called historical truths and the first "fact" that Netanyahu marshals to assert facts on the ground are endless.
He adds: "In my office in Jerusalem, there's a … an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. That's my last name …"
"… My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin – Binyamin – the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since."
Netanyahu (a name which Benjamin Netanyahu changed when he lived in the United States to Ben Nitay allegedly because it was easier for Americans to pronounce) is itself an invented Zionist name, which, like all other Zionist names, began to bestow on European Jews an ancient Hebrew lineage.
Indeed Netanyahu's father Benzion Mileikowsky was the son of Polish Jews converted to Zionism, who named their son Benzion based on their ideological commitments and changed their name to "Netanyahu" after they immigrated to colonise Palestine in 1920.
The names of Benzion's father and mother (and Benjamin Netanyahu's grandparents) were Nathan Mileikowsky and Sarah Lurie, common European Jewish pre-Zionist names.
For Benjamin Mileikowsky (Netanyahu), a descendant of Polish Jewish colonists, to claim ancient Jerusalem as his ancestral origin, would be seen as a curious ideological and mythical fabrication during a dinner conversation, but to assert it as a fact-based political and territorial claim to the land of the Palestinians at the United Nations, makes a mockery of international law, which is the basis of UN resolutions that condemn Israel's occupation and colonisation of the city.
While Israel today maintains at least 30 laws that grant Jews racial, religious and colonising privileges over Palestinian citizens of Israel – including the 2002 temporary law banning marriage between Israelis and Palestinians of the Occupied Territories – and more so against the Palestinian non-citizens living under Israeli occupation; Netanyahu claims, against these documented facts, that "The Jewish state of Israel will always protect the rights of all its minorities, including the more than one million Arab citizens of Israel."
He adds a curious statement with regard to illegal Jewish colonial settlers in the Occupied Palestinian territories stating that "I wish I could say the same thing about a future Palestinian state, for as Palestinian officials made clear the other day – in fact, I think they made it right here in New York – they said the Palestinian state won't allow any Jews in it. They'll be Jew-free – Judenrein. That's ethnic cleansing. There are laws today in Ramallah that make the selling of land to Jews punishable by death. That's racism. And you know which laws this evokes."
"Tel Aviv is the only Western city that does not have any Arab or Muslim inhabitants.
While no Palestinian official since the negotiations started has ever dared to state unequivocally that Jewish colonial settlers must be returned to Israel in line with international law, this unverifiable claim by Netanyahu, even if proven true, would not be racist or discriminatory, but rather anti-colonial, refusing to allow Israeli Jews to colonise Palestinian lands against international law by virtue of some Jewish privilege that invokes the "first fact".
It is Israeli laws that restrict access to Israel's lands to its non-Jewish Palestinian citizens, even though 90 per cent of that land was confiscated from the Palestinian people. It is also Israeli cities that remain Araberrein; indeed, as many observers have noted, Tel Aviv is the only Western city that does not have any Arab or Muslim inhabitants.
If any racist laws are being evoked here, they are evoked by Israel's own racist laws and practices, not by Palestinian anti-colonial resistance.
But this statement clarifies where Netanyahu stands on the question of Jewish colonisation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It is not Jewish colonisation of the land of the Palestinians that is racist as the UN defined it in 1975, but rather the application of international law by preventing Jews from colonising the land of the Palestinians that is racist.
For Zionism and Obama, any attempt to reject the Zionist "first fact" is immediate proof of anti-Semitism. This is yet another example of how facts on the ground are transformed by Israel and its US backers into "truths" and "facts".
<img src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2011/10/25/20111025132321819140_9.jpg" alt="" border="0" Israel has many racist and discriminatory laws against its Arab citizens [GALLO/GETTY]
Indeed, Netanyahu (or is it Mileikowsky, or Nitay?) asserts: "I came here to speak the truth. The truth is … that Israel wants peace. The truth is that I want peace. The truth is that in the Middle East at all times, but especially during these turbulent days, peace must be anchored in security. The truth is that we cannot achieve peace through UN resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties. The truth is that so far the Palestinians have refused to negotiate. The truth is that Israel wants peace with a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians want a state without peace. And the truth is you shouldn't let that happen."
For Netanyahu and the Israelis, however, peace can only be achieved if the Palestinians recognise the rights of Jews to occupy their land, to colonise their lands, and to discriminate against them.
To do so, the Israelis offer a simple formula, which Obama has also endorsed and insists on, namely that the Palestinians must recognise Israel's right to be a Jewish state.
Netanyahu does not mince words when he asserts that: "this year in the Knesset and in the US Congress, I laid out my vision for peace in which a demilitarised Palestinian state recognises the Jewish state. Yes, the Jewish state. After all, this is the body that recognised the Jewish state 64 years ago. Now, don't you think it's about time that Palestinians did the same? … Israel has no intention whatsoever to change the democratic character of our state. We just don't want the Palestinians to try to change the Jewish character of our state. We want … them to give up the fantasy of flooding Israel with millions of Palestinians."
Challenging the UN and international law, which has called on Israel to allow the Palestinians it expelled to come back to their homes, is identified as a "flood" that will undermine Israel's raison d'être as a state that extends racial and colonial privileges to Jews, which indeed it would be.
Where Netanyahu is wrong is when he asserts that when the UN General Assembly called for the establishment of a Jewish State in 1947, it, by default, recognised the Jewish State's right to expel the Palestinian people, colonise their lands, and confiscate their property for the exclusive use of Jews and to discriminate against them by law.
Not only did the UN Partition Plan grant no such rights to the Jewish state, it explicitly stated that the establishment of such a Jewish state means that this state cannot expel its non-Jewish population, and that "no discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants on the ground of race, religion, language or sex" (Chapter 2, Article 2) and that "no expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish State … shall be allowed except for public purposes. In all cases of expropriation full compensation as fixed by the Supreme Court shall be said previous to dispossession." (Chapter 2, Article 8).
The fabrications and lies about UN recognition are being asserted by Netanyahu to the very international body that issued the Partition Plan, and are addressed to their face, as truths, when all they are is nothing less than facts on the ground established by Israel, condemned by the UN, and defended by the United States.
While the negotiations that the Palestinian Authority and the Israelis have engaged in have prevented the Palestinians from raising the 1947/1948 crimes of the Israeli state (and those committed in the decades to come) because they would render the "first fact" dubitable indeed, Netanyahu and Obama raise these crimes as a sacrosanct principle of the Jewishness of the state, indeed of the very "first fact" that they affirmed.
Indeed Netanyahu does the same with Israeli crimes post 1967, including the colonisation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Finally, Netanyahu concludes with a call to expel the 1.6 million Palestinians who are Israeli citizens. He instructs PA President Abbas to: "Recognise the Jewish state, and make peace with us. In such a genuine peace, Israel is prepared to make painful compromises. We believe that the Palestinians should be neither the citizens of Israel nor its subjects. They should live in a free state of their own. But they should be ready, like us, for compromise."
"We believe that the Palestinians should neither be the citizens of Israel nor its subjects.– Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister
Netanyahu offers his call for a new expulsion of Palestinian citizens of Israel as a compromise that the Palestinians should accept. In doing so, his logic is impeccable. If Palestinians recognise the "first fact", namely, Israel's right to be a Jewish state based on fabricated historical claims, and that it should guarantee Jewish racial and colonial privilege, then it follows that they must accept another expulsion of Palestinians from that state to ensure that Jewish privilege continues to operate.
It is this formula of peace that the Israelis offer the Palestinians and which the Palestinians, even the collaborating PA, cannot accept.
When Obama asserts that "peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted," he is being at best coy, for the peace that Israel seeks, as Netanyahu's call for the expulsion of Palestinian citizens, rendering Israel finally Araberrein, clarify, will result in Palestinians and Israelis not living together at all.
The Pale of Palestinian settlement
The peace that Israel is proposing for Palestinians in fact evokes another memory, of how another country dealt with Jewish settlement, namely the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great and the creation of the Pale of Settlement in the late eighteenth century for Jews to be confined to, which they were for the most part till the early part of the twentieth century.
The Pale, like the Palestinian Bantustans, was the only territory where Russian Jews were allowed to live by the anti-Jewish czars, though Russian Christians also lived in it to ensure that there was no territorial contiguity for Jews. The Palestinian Bantustans would serve a similar function.
While Israel will become Araberrein, the Palestinian Bantustans carved out of West Bank and East Jerusalem territories would be criss-crossed by Jews-only roads and Jewish-only colonial settlements and cities, and by the Israeli army, which, as Netanyahu himself has proposed, will be stationed indefinitely in the Jordan Valley.
The Pale of Palestinian Settlement will be then called a "Palestinian State" which the Israelis and the Americans will immediately recognise as "sovereign", though it would not even have the formal accoutrements of sovereignty. It is thus that the Palestinian State, whose existence would neither be a fact nor the truth, will be recognised as a fact on the ground, indeed the very last fact that Israel and the US will be asserting.
For the Palestinians to survive the more than a century-long Zionist assault on their society and country, their only option is to resist this Israeli- and American- imposed "peace", and all the so-called facts they impose on them, from the very first "fact" to the very last one.
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.


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Q: How to remove all words from TreeSet ignore care I created two sets:
   public static Set<String> COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS = new TreeSet<>(String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
   public static Set<String> NON_ENGLISH_WORDS = new TreeSet<>(String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);

I kept all my common english words arround 58000 and non english word arround 1700 in two files seperately. And I am loading from file and asigning to above two variables. That assigment is happening properly that I check by debug.
    public static void finalNonEnglishWords(){
        ToolsConstants.COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS = CSVFileUtil.readCSVToTreeSet(ToolsConstants.COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS_FILE);
        ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS = CSVFileUtil.readCSVToTreeSet(ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS_FILE);
        System.out.println(ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.size());
        ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.removeAll(ToolsConstants.COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS);
        System.out.println(ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.size());
}

But it not removing.
I am seeing same number in output.
But I saw both files, there are some common words.
I did the same sample with just 7 elements but it working perfectly. And fallowed the same way only different is number of elements in collection.
public static void removeAllDemo(){
        List<String> list1 = new ArrayList<>(
                Arrays.asList("BOB", "Joe", "john", "MARK","MARk", "dave", "Bill")
        );

        List<String> list2 = Arrays.asList("JOE", "MARK", "DAVE", "Ravi");

// Add all values of list1 in a case insensitive collection
        Set<String> set1 = new TreeSet<>(String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
        set1.addAll(list1);
// Add all values of list2 in a case insensitive collection
        Set<String> set2 = new TreeSet<>(String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
        set2.addAll(list2);
// Remove all common Strings ignoring case
        System.out.println(set1);
        set1.removeAll(set2);
        System.out.println(set1);
// Keep in list1 only the remaining Strings ignoring case
        list1.retainAll(set1);

    }

A: So generally you should apply the same approach as that implemented in the demo method:

*

*appropriate empty sets with the case-insensitive order are already created

*use addAll to populate the sets

*remove duplicates from the set of non-English words

public static void finalNonEnglishWords() {
    ToolsConstants.COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS.addAll(
        CSVFileUtil.readCSVToTreeSet(ToolsConstants.COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS_FILE)
    );
    ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.addAll(
        CSVFileUtil.readCSVToTreeSet(ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS_FILE)
    );
    System.out.println(ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.size());

    ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.removeAll(
        ToolsConstants.COMMON_ENGLISH_WORDS
    );
    System.out.println(ToolsConstants.NON_ENGLISH_WORDS.size());
}

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#include "CCFileUtilsWinRT.h"
#include <regex>
#include "CCWinRTUtils.h"
#include "platform/CCCommon.h"
using namespace std;

NS_CC_BEGIN

static std::string s_pszResourcePath;

// D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\ddd\abc.txt --> D:/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/abc.txt
static inline std::string convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(const std::string& path)
{
    std::string ret = path;
    int len = ret.length();
    for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i)
    {
        if (ret[i] == '\\')
        {
            ret[i] = '/';
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

static std::wstring StringUtf8ToWideChar(const std::string& strUtf8)
{
    std::wstring ret;
    if (!strUtf8.empty())
    {
        int nNum = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, strUtf8.c_str(), -1, nullptr, 0);
        if (nNum)
        {
            WCHAR* wideCharString = new WCHAR[nNum + 1];
            wideCharString[0] = 0;

            nNum = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, strUtf8.c_str(), -1, wideCharString, nNum + 1);

            ret = wideCharString;
            delete[] wideCharString;
        }
        else
        {
            CCLOG("Wrong convert to WideChar code:0x%x", GetLastError());
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

static std::string StringWideCharToUtf8(const std::wstring& strWideChar)
{
    std::string ret;
    if (!strWideChar.empty())
    {
        int nNum = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, strWideChar.c_str(), -1, nullptr, 0, nullptr, FALSE);
        if (nNum)
        {
            char* utf8String = new char[nNum + 1];
            utf8String[0] = 0;

            nNum = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, strWideChar.c_str(), -1, utf8String, nNum + 1, nullptr, FALSE);

            ret = utf8String;
            delete[] utf8String;
        }
        else
        {
            CCLOG("Wrong convert to Utf8 code:0x%x", GetLastError());
        }
    }

    return ret;
}

static std::string UTF8StringToMultiByte(const std::string& strUtf8)
{
    std::string ret;
    if (!strUtf8.empty())
    {
        std::wstring strWideChar = StringUtf8ToWideChar(strUtf8);
        int nNum = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, strWideChar.c_str(), -1, nullptr, 0, nullptr, FALSE);
        if (nNum)
        {
            char* ansiString = new char[nNum + 1];
            ansiString[0] = 0;

            nNum = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, strWideChar.c_str(), -1, ansiString, nNum + 1, nullptr, FALSE);

            ret = ansiString;
            delete[] ansiString;
        }
        else
        {
            CCLOG("Wrong convert to Ansi code:0x%x", GetLastError());
        }
    }

    return ret;
}

static void _checkPath()
{
    if (s_pszResourcePath.empty())
    {
        // TODO: needs to be tested
        s_pszResourcePath = convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(CCFileUtilsWinRT::getAppPath() + '\\' + "Assets\\Resources" + '\\');
    }
}

FileUtils* FileUtils::getInstance()
{
    if (s_sharedFileUtils == NULL)
    {
        s_sharedFileUtils = new CCFileUtilsWinRT();
        if(!s_sharedFileUtils->init())
        {
          delete s_sharedFileUtils;
          s_sharedFileUtils = NULL;
          CCLOG("ERROR: Could not init CCFileUtilsWinRT");
        }
    }
    return s_sharedFileUtils;
}

CCFileUtilsWinRT::CCFileUtilsWinRT()
{
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::init()
{
    _checkPath();
    _defaultResRootPath = s_pszResourcePath;
    return FileUtils::init();
}

std::string CCFileUtilsWinRT::getPathForFilename(const std::string& filename, const std::string& resolutionDirectory, const std::string& searchPath) const
{
    std::string unixFileName = convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(filename);
    std::string unixResolutionDirectory = convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(resolutionDirectory);
    std::string unixSearchPath = convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(searchPath);

    return FileUtils::getPathForFilename(unixFileName, unixResolutionDirectory, unixSearchPath);
}

std::string CCFileUtilsWinRT::getFullPathForDirectoryAndFilename(const std::string& strDirectory, const std::string& strFilename) const
{
    std::string unixDirectory = convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(strDirectory);
    std::string unixFilename = convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(strFilename);
    return FileUtils::getFullPathForDirectoryAndFilename(unixDirectory, unixFilename);
}

std::string CCFileUtilsWinRT::getSuitableFOpen(const std::string& filenameUtf8) const
{
    return UTF8StringToMultiByte(filenameUtf8);
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::isFileExistInternal(const std::string& strFilePath) const
{
    bool ret = false;
    FILE * pf = 0;

    std::string strPath = strFilePath;
    if (!isAbsolutePath(strPath))
    { // Not absolute path, add the default root path at the beginning.
        strPath.insert(0, _defaultResRootPath);
    }

    strPath = getSuitableFOpen(strPath);

    if (!strPath.empty() && (pf = fopen(strPath.c_str(), "rb")))
    {
        ret = true;
        fclose(pf);
    }
    return ret;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::isDirectoryExistInternal(const std::string& dirPath) const
{
    WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA wfad;
    std::wstring wdirPath(dirPath.begin(), dirPath.end());
    if (GetFileAttributesEx(wdirPath.c_str(), GetFileExInfoStandard, &wfad))
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::createDirectory(const std::string& path)
{
    CCASSERT(!path.empty(), "Invalid path");

    if (isDirectoryExist(path))
        return true;

    // Split the path
    size_t start = 0;
    size_t found = path.find_first_of("/\\", start);
    std::string subpath;
    std::vector<std::string> dirs;

    if (found != std::string::npos)
    {
        while (true)
        {
            subpath = path.substr(start, found - start + 1);
            if (!subpath.empty())
                dirs.push_back(subpath);
            start = found + 1;
            found = path.find_first_of("/\\", start);
            if (found == std::string::npos)
            {
                if (start < path.length())
                {
                    dirs.push_back(path.substr(start));
                }
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA wfad;
    std::wstring wpath(path.begin(), path.end());
    if (!(GetFileAttributesEx(wpath.c_str(), GetFileExInfoStandard, &wfad)))
    {
        subpath = "";
        for (unsigned int i = 0; i < dirs.size(); ++i)
        {
            subpath += dirs[i];
            if (i > 0 && !isDirectoryExist(subpath))
            {
                std::wstring wsubpath(subpath.begin(), subpath.end());
                BOOL ret = CreateDirectory(wsubpath.c_str(), NULL);
                if (!ret && ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS != GetLastError())
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return true;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::removeDirectory(const std::string& path)
{
    std::wstring wpath = std::wstring(path.begin(), path.end());
    std::wstring files = wpath + L"*.*";
    WIN32_FIND_DATA wfd;
    HANDLE  search = FindFirstFileEx(files.c_str(), FindExInfoStandard, &wfd, FindExSearchNameMatch, NULL, 0);
    bool ret = true;
    if (search != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
    {
        BOOL find = true;
        while (find)
        {
            //. ..
            if (wfd.cFileName[0] != '.')
            {
                std::wstring temp = wpath + wfd.cFileName;
                if (wfd.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
                {
                    temp += '/';
                    ret = ret && this->removeDirectory(std::string(temp.begin(), temp.end()));
                }
                else
                {
                    SetFileAttributes(temp.c_str(), FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL);
                    ret = ret && DeleteFile(temp.c_str());
                }
            }
            find = FindNextFile(search, &wfd);
        }
        FindClose(search);
    }
    if (ret && RemoveDirectory(wpath.c_str()))
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::isAbsolutePath(const std::string& strPath) const
{
    if (   strPath.length() > 2
        && ( (strPath[0] >= 'a' && strPath[0] <= 'z') || (strPath[0] >= 'A' && strPath[0] <= 'Z') )
        && strPath[1] == ':')
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::removeFile(const std::string &path)
{
    std::wstring wpath(path.begin(), path.end());
    if (DeleteFile(wpath.c_str()))
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::renameFile(const std::string &oldfullpath, const std::string& newfullpath)
{
    CCASSERT(!oldfullpath.empty(), "Invalid path");
    CCASSERT(!newfullpath.empty(), "Invalid path");

    std::wstring oldfile(oldfullpath.begin(), oldfullpath.end());
    std::wstring newfile(newfullpath.begin(), newfullpath.end());

    if (MoveFileEx(oldfile.c_str(), newfile.c_str(),
        MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING | MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH))
    {
        return true;
    }
    CCLOG("Rename failed with error: %d", GetLastError());
    return false;
}

bool CCFileUtilsWinRT::renameFile(const std::string &path, const std::string &oldname, const std::string &name)
{
    CCASSERT(!path.empty(), "Invalid path");
    std::string oldPath = path + oldname;
    std::string newPath = path + name;

    std::regex pat("\\/");
    std::string _old = std::regex_replace(oldPath, pat, "\\");
    std::string _new = std::regex_replace(newPath, pat, "\\");
    return renameFile(_old, _new);
}

static Data getData(const std::string& filename, bool forString)
{
    if (filename.empty())
    {
        CCASSERT(!filename.empty(), "Invalid filename!");
    }

    Data ret;
    unsigned char* buffer = nullptr;
    ssize_t size = 0;
    const char* mode = nullptr;
    mode = "rb";

    do
    {
        // Read the file from hardware
        std::string fullPath = FileUtils::getInstance()->fullPathForFilename(filename);
        FILE *fp = fopen(fullPath.c_str(), mode);
        CC_BREAK_IF(!fp);
        fseek(fp,0,SEEK_END);
        size = ftell(fp);
        fseek(fp,0,SEEK_SET);

        if (forString)
        {
            buffer = (unsigned char*)malloc(sizeof(unsigned char) * (size + 1));
            buffer[size] = '\0';
        }
        else
        {
            buffer = (unsigned char*)malloc(sizeof(unsigned char) * size);
        }

        size = fread(buffer, sizeof(unsigned char), size, fp);
        fclose(fp);
    } while (0);

    if (nullptr == buffer || 0 == size)
    {
        std::string msg = "Get data from file(";
        msg.append(filename).append(") failed!");
        CCLOG("%s", msg.c_str());
    }
    else
    {
        ret.fastSet(buffer, size);
    }

    return ret;
}

std::string CCFileUtilsWinRT::getStringFromFile(const std::string& filename)
{
    Data data = getData(filename, true);
    if (data.isNull())
    {
        return "";
    }
    std::string ret((const char*)data.getBytes());
    return ret;
}

string CCFileUtilsWinRT::getWritablePath() const
{
    auto localFolderPath = Windows::Storage::ApplicationData::Current->LocalFolder->Path;
    return convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(std::string(PlatformStringToString(localFolderPath)) + '\\');
}

string CCFileUtilsWinRT::getAppPath()
{
    Windows::ApplicationModel::Package^ package = Windows::ApplicationModel::Package::Current;
    return convertPathFormatToUnixStyle(std::string(PlatformStringToString(package->InstalledLocation->Path)));
}

NS_CC_END

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The Kahn Lectures were series of lectures that took place from 1929 to 1931 at the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University, sponsored by the New York banker Otto Hermann Kahn (1867–1934). Kahn had funded visits by European scholars to Princeton since 1925, and the new lectures were announced as a continuation of the earlier ones.

In 1923, shortly after Otto Kahn's son had entered Princeton, the banker was approached by the art historian Charles Rufus Morey, described by architectural historian Neil Levine as the prime mover of the Department of Art and Archaeology. Kahn agreed in 1924 to donate $1,500 a year for two years to finance extended visits by European scholars to the university. This was later extended for a third year.

The first of these scholars was the Russian classical scholar Michael Rostovtzeff, who had already settled in the United States in 1918, after the Russian revolution. His lectures were later published as The Animal Style in South Russia and China. The second was the French byzantinist Gabriel Millet, who held the chair for Æsthetics and Art History at the Collège de France. The third was the British archaeologist and hittitologist John Garstang.

After Kahn had become a member of the Visiting Committee of the Department in 1927, he promised to continue supporting lectures there. These were to begin in 1928/29 and would run for five years. The donation was reported on the front page of the New York Times, which quoted Professor Morey's statement that the money would be used for the "continuation of the special lectures in art, archaeology, architecture and criticism which were initiated two years ago with Mr. Kahn's help". The report described the intended plan for "a course of eight lectures on different subjects given each year by a distinguished authority in his own field, while special emphasis will be placed on the selection of subjects not included in the Princeton curriculum."

After considering Arthur Pillans Laurie, Eugénie Sellers Strong and Herbert Joseph Spinden, the Department settled on the Swedish art historian Johnny Roosval, professor at Stockholm University, as the first lecturer. Roosval's lectures on Swedish art, described by Levine as "apparently not very exciting", were published in 1932. According to Levine, Roosval had been asked to extend his lectures to the modern architecture of Sweden, an area outside the expertise of the Swedish scholar, who was known for his studies of medieval art.

For the second round of lectures, Morey originally invited the Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud, "a star in the rising pantheon of younger European architects". Morey had been influenced in this choice by an article on Oud by Henry-Russell Hitchcock in the magazine The Arts in February 1928. Oud accepted, although he would have preferred to hold his lectures later in the spring than was possible, but ultimately he had to cancel because of illness (one of his frequent periods of depression). After once again considering H. J. Spinden, Baldwin Smith, who was acting chair of the Department during Morey's absence in Europe, invited Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright had recently published a number of pieces on architectural theory, but had little to do at the time, and the recent Wall Street Crash had made it look unlikely that he would get any new commissions for the time being. Despite this, Levine suggests that Wright's reason for accepting the offer was not primarily financial, but rather the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him". According to the original donation by Kahn, each series was to consist of eight lectures, but Wright proposed that he would instead hold six lectures and arrange an exhibition of his own recent work "illustrating the ideas and principles involved in the 'course'". According to Levine, Wright's Kahn lectures gave him a new and important experience and even "opened a new career path" for the architect, who continued to lecture extensively at universities and other institutions for the next year. His exhibition toured America in 1930 and Europe for six months in 1931. Wright's lectures were originally published in 1931 in the Princeton monograph series for art and archaeology. They were reprinted in 1987, and a new edition, with an introduction by Harvard professor Neil Levine, was published in 2008. In a contemporary review of the first edition of Wright's lectures, the critic Catherine Bauer described the book as "the very best book on modern architecture that exists".

The next two series of lectures in the series were held in January 1931 by Herbert Joseph Spinden, the expert in pre-Columbian American archaeology who had already been considered twice before, and in the fall of 1931 by Edward Denison Ross, director of (what was still known as) the School of Oriental Studies of the University of London, who talked about Persian art. Neither of these were published. Ross's lectures were described by Baldwin Smith as "rather flat, as the Englishman thought he could chat along pleasantly on most anything to an American audience." For the fifth round of lectures, the Department invited the French architectural historian Marcel Aubert, but he had to cancel after a scheduling conflict appeared with his lectures at Yale. Morey suggested to Kahn that the remaining funds be given to a student in need. Because of the financial losses Kahn had sustained during the preceding years, he could not renew his gift. Otto Kahn died two years later.

Summary list of Kahn lecturers
Johnny Roosval on Swedish art, Spring 1929
Frank Lloyd Wright on Modern architecture, 1930
Herbert Joseph Spinden on Central American Art and Archaeology, January 1931
Edward Denison Ross on Persian art, Fall 1931
Marcel Aubert was booked for 1932, but had to cancel

Notes

Bibliography
Unsigned, "Otto H. Kahn gives funds to Princeton to aid art", The New York Times, 30 April 1928.
Levine, Neil, "Introduction" to: Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930. New edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, p. ix-lxxi.

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Parry ist ein Einschlagkrater auf der Mondvorderseite im Mare Cognitum, südöstlich der Wallebene des Fra Mauro. Sein westlicher Rand überdeckt teilweise den Wall des Kraters Bonpland.
Der Krater ist stark erodiert, das Innere weitgehend eben.

Im Norden, Osten und Süden verlaufen (teilweise durch das Innere von Fra Mauro und Bonpland) die Mondrillen der Rimae Parry.

Der Krater wurde 1935 von der IAU nach dem britischen Forschungsreisenden William Edward Parry offiziell benannt.

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News gaza rockets today, attack missiles on Israel Netanyahu asks for calm
Israeli police say 44 people were arrested and 20 officers were injured during a chaotic night in Jerusalem, where security forces clashed with Palestinians protesting Ramadan restrictions and with Jewish extremists staging an anti-Arab march nearby.
Jerusalem tensions spark a firefight between Israel and Gaza, despite Netanyahu's pleas for calm.
Gaza Strip rocket fires toward Israel Saturday evening, after a day-long pause, amid United Nations appeals for calm and Israeli leaders' threats to retaliate fiercely. Tensions in Jerusalem caused the heaviest cross-border violence between Israel and Gaza in months, as Palestinians clashed with Israeli police and far-right Jewish parties.
Militants launched a missile toward Sderot in southern Israel, the military said, but it was intercepted by air defenses.
Several dozen rockets were fired into Israel early Saturday by militants in the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli military retaliated against Hamas-run targets.
Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in east Jerusalem, prompting the barrage of rocket fire. At least four police officers and six demonstrators have been wounded in the clashes, which have become a nightly occurrence in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and show no signs of abating.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he discussed Gaza and Jerusalem with senior security officials. He said that he instructed officials in Gaza to be prepared for 'any scenario.' In Jerusalem, he declared that Israel would guarantee everyone's 'freedom of worship,' and he pleaded for peace. "We are now pleading with people to follow the law, and I am pleading with both sides to cool their tempers."
Tor Wennesland, the United Nations' envoy to the area, denounced the violence and stated that the United Nations was working with all parties to restore peace.
"The offensive activities occurring in Jerusalem must come to an end. The indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israeli population centers is a violation of international law that must be urgently halted, he said. "I reiterate my appeal to all parties to practice maximum restraint and avoid further escalation, particularly during the Holy month of Ramadan and this politically charged time for everyone."
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said in a statement that its chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, is weighing "a sequence of measures for potential responses" and plans if the situation continued to deteriorate. He also canceled a Sunday trip to the United States.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired some three dozen rockets into Israel overnight Saturday, while the Israeli military struck back at targets operated by the ruling Hamas group. The exchange came as tensions in Jerusalem spilled over into the worst round of cross-border violence in months.
The United States also urged calm, while Jordan, which serves as custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, condemned Israel's actions.
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According to the Israeli military, 36 rockets were fired into Israel during the night. Six rockets were intercepted, while the majority of the remaining missiles landed in open areas. Although there were no reports of casualties or significant damage, the incoming rocket fire triggered air-raid sirens across southern Israel.
The army responded by claiming that fighter jets and helicopters bombed a number of Hamas targets in Gaza, including an underground facility and rocket launchers. While Hamas denied responsibility for the rocket fire, Israel holds the group accountable for all fire emanating from the territory.
The military enforced restrictions on outdoor gatherings in southern Israel early Saturday but later lifted them, allowing residents to resume their daily routines.
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Although neither side appears interested in increasing tensions, Hamas views itself as Jerusalem's defender and may feel compelled to act, or at the very least tacitly promote rocket attacks by other parties, ahead of the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections. The armed wing of Hamas has warned Israel not to "experiment" with its patience.
At dawn, hundreds of Gaza residents defied Hamas's nighttime curfews in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak and took to the streets, burning tires, in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be their future state's capital. The fate has been a source of contention in the peace process, which came to a grinding halt more than a decade ago.
Since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nearly two weeks ago, Palestinians have clashed nightly with Israeli police.
Tensions started when police erected barricades outside the Damascus Gate in the Old City, where Muslims usually meet to celebrate the end of the day's fast.
Thursday evening's clashes erupted as hundreds of Palestinians threw stones and bottles at police, who dispersed them with a water cannon and stun grenades. During the melee, dozens of Palestinians were injured.
Simultaneously, a far-right Jewish party known as Lahava led a march of hundreds of demonstrators toward the Damascus Gate, chanting "Arabs get out!" The community, headed by a disciple of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane, is affiliated with elements of a far-right party recently elected to Israel's parliament.
The outburst was in response to videos circulated on TikTok depicting Palestinians randomly slapping religious Jews. Other videos produced in response tend to depict Jews attacking Arabs. After relocating them a few hundred yards (meters) from Damascus Gate, police used water cannon, stun grenades, and mounted police to reroute far-right demonstrators toward predominantly Jewish west Jerusalem.
Police reported that 44 people were arrested and 20 officers were injured in total.
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"Nearly four decades of ongoing and successful collaboration have strengthened the relationship between thyssenkrupp and LafargeHolcim in Morocco. Both companies share the same vision: we provide state-of-the-art technology and develop tailor-made solutions for our customers", said Frank Ruoss, CEO of the Cement Technologies business unit, thyssenkrupp.
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Merkel 'phone tap' obstacle to business as usual
German defence minister: if allegations are true, it would be difficult for the German and U.S. sides to return to their everyday agenda
Photo EPA/ OLIVIER HOSLET
BERLIN, October 24 (Itar-Tass) - If U.S. secret services had tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile telephone it would be difficult for the German and U.S. sides to return to their everyday agenda, Thomas de Maizier, the German defence minister, declared on ARD television on Thursday.
He admitted that the situation was serious if what they were told was true, realising that his own telephone might have been tapped but unable to imagine that it was the work of the U.S. He branded tapping as "unacceptable".
Peter Schaar, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection in Germany, has demanded resolute measures to prevent "electronic spying" going beyond what was considered reasonable limits.
Parliamentary secretary Michael Grosse-Brömer, from the CDU/CSU faction in the German parliament Bundestag, declared that if the information was confirmed that Merkel's telephone had been tapped, it would have been an outrageous incident of breach of confidence.
Merkel demanded immediate clarification about the reported tapping in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama, spokesman for the German government Steffen Seibert said on Wednesday.
Parliamentarian reaction
Meanwhile, German Bundestag's committee responsible for control of special services announced an extraordinary meeting scheduled on Thursday to look into the suspicion Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone may have been bugged by the US special services, according to the committee's chairman, Thomas Oppermann.
"Those who are tapping the Chancellor's phone may also tapping the phones of the country's other citizens," he said. "The US National Agency's activities have gone out of control and beyond democratic supervision."
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has summoned US ambassador to Berlin earlier today due to the row over rumors Angela Merkel's cell phone conversations may have been tapped by US secret services.
"The Ambassador has been given a clear account of the German government's position on the issue," said the ministry's spokesman.
Discussion on EU summit
French President Franois Hollande and German Chancellor Angel Merkel will discuss the tapping scandal on sidelines of the upcoming EU summit, a French diplomatic source said Thursday.
"The meeting was originally to consider other questions, but the two leaders will obviously talk about this issue as well in order to co-ordinate their response," the source explained. The EU recently saw several high-profile revelations by a former NSA contractor Edward Snowden of US secret services' operations to intercept EU leaders' phone calls. The scandal developed after Berlin followed in Paris's footsteps to demand explanations from the US special services. Earlier on Thursday German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle summoned the US ambassador for explanations concerning the suspicion the US National Security Agency has been tapping Angela Merkel's cell phone.
Earlier this week the French newspaper Le Monde published documents saying that in December 10, 2012 - January 8, 2013 alone the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted tens of millions of calls by French citizens, among them diplomats, outstanding politicians and businessmen. In a phone conversation with US President Barack Obama earlier this week Hollande requested explanations of the disclosed practice.
Amid the scandal Paris expressed skepticism about US National Intelligence Director James Clapper's statement Washington was collecting data with a view to protecting the country from terrorism and from the proliferation of weapon of mass destruction. Experts were not surprised at the news that the US spied even on its long-standing allies.
"The Americans spy on us, we spy on them. All countries, even if they co-operate in fighting terrorism, keep an eye on each other," a former French counter-intelligence chief, Bernard Squarcini told the French newspaper Le Figaro.
U.S. neighbors
U.S. relations with its southern neighbors have also been compromised due to leaks regarding NSA activity.
"The Mexican government strongly condemns the spying practice over communication tools and internet activity of the country's state agencies and its citizens," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It added that such cases were completely unacceptable, unlawful and contrary to international legislation.
Previosuly, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has postponed her official visit to the U.S. which was initially scheduled for October 23, over allegations of American digital espionage.
This Tuesday, Former Guardian newspaper journalist Glenn Greenwald, who released data from U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) fugitive Edward Snowden, told the Inter American Press Association (Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa) in Denver, Colorado that he was preparing new revelations of U.S. surveillance activity.
Snowden says no chance he can win Nobel Peace Prize
In January 2021, Mairead Maguire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner, nominated Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning for the prize


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The Wright Memorial Public Library in Oakwood will host a documentary on what does it mean to be American today? The event will be held at 1 to 3:30 p.m. on March 30. In the film, baseball manager Joe Maddon brings residents of his Pennsylvania hometown together after a controversial immigration ordinance threatens to tear them apart.
Oakwood library to host film, talk on what it means to be an American
Wayne Baker, Staff Writer
OAKWOOD —
The Wright Memorial Public Library in Oakwood will host a documentary on what it means to be American today.
The event will be held at 1 to 3:30 p.m. on March 30.
"This is a chance for people in our community who may have different political views to come together to explore what we have in common as Americans," said Librarian Elizabeth Schmidt, who is organizing the screening and training.
The film tells stories of citizen-activists striving to realize their own visions of America's promise across deepening divides, according to Tracy Staley of the library.
In the documentary film, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy come together from different points of view to investigate the idea of a unifying American creed.
Baseball manager Joe Maddon brings residents of his Pennsylvania hometown together after a controversial immigration ordinance threatens to tear them apart.
In Seattle, civic entrepreneur Eric Liu brings community leaders together in spite of their political differences to solve problems. Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, and Joan Blades, founder of MoveOn.org, meet in her living room and form an unexpected bond.
The screening will be followed by a community conversation facilitated by Miami University history professor Steven Conn.
Wright Library is one of 50 sites receiving grant funding from the American Library Association to host an American Creed screening and community discussion.
In April, the library will offer training to those interested in hosting their own community discussions around the film's topics. ThinkTV will air the documentary in June.
American Creed community conversations are film screenings and scholar-facilitated discussions that mirror the type of conversation Rice and Kennedy have in the film; one designed to engage Americans in reflection and dialogue about their own part in the American story, and in acting to shape that story for the better.
Following the screening and discussion, Wright Library train individuals to host their own community conversations with friends and neighbors. The library will also host some of those conversations.
In June, the library will host a Sworn-Again America ceremony, in which citizens can reaffirm their own civic vows.


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'My mind will not change in six months': In first post-election TV interview, Trump renews baseless claims of voter fraud
President Trump during a brief appearance at the White House on Nov. 24. (Hannah Mckay/Reuters)
November 29, 2020 at 5:24 p.m. UTC
In his first television interview since the Nov. 3 election, President Trump suggested Sunday that he will never accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden and continued to fling baseless accusations of election fraud.
"My mind will not change in six months," Trump told host Maria Bartiromo by telephone on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures." "There was tremendous cheating here."
Biden won the presidential race with 306 electoral votes — the same number Trump had four years ago in what he and his aides described at the time as a landslide.
Biden's victory was further solidified Sunday as the Wisconsin recount confirmed that he had bested Trump in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes. The president and his legal team also have failed in court challenge after court challenge as they have sought to overturn the results in various states.
President Trump on Nov. 26 said that he would leave the White House if the electoral college voted for President-elect Joe Biden next month. (The Washington Post)
In the Sunday interview, Trump said he is "going to use 125 percent of my energy" to continue to contest the results through the courts and signaled that he would be open to having a special counsel investigate the election. Any such appointment would be made by Attorney General William P. Barr.
Trump also voiced disbelief that Biden won more than 80 million votes, by far the most received by a presidential nominee. Barack Obama won in 2008 with nearly 70 million votes, a record he didn't manage to beat in 2012, when he garnered just under 66 million votes. Four years later, Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton failed to surpass Obama's 2008 total, winning 63 million and 66 million votes, respectively.
"Joe Biden did not get 80 million votes," Trump declared Sunday, providing no evidence for his assertion. He claimed that some foreign leaders have been calling and telling him that this was the most "messed-up" election they have ever seen, although he did not name any of the leaders. The White House has not released the details of any such calls, and most U.S. allies have congratulated Biden on his win. Bartiromo did not dispute any of Trump's false claims.
The Post's White House bureau chief Philip Rucker explains what to expect now that the Biden transition is formally underway. (The Washington Post)
Ahead of the runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5 — which will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate — Trump renewed his criticism of Republican officials in the state, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, for not supporting his baseless fraud claims.
"The governor's done nothing. He has done absolutely nothing. I'm ashamed that I endorsed him," Trump said of Kemp. Republicans are aiming to turn out GOP voters to lift Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) to victory in a state that Biden won this month, but those efforts could be made harder by the president's persistent claims that voters should not trust that their votes will be counted.
Colby Itkowitz contributed to this report.


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The nominees for the 2018 Americana Honors & Awards were announced today on May 15, and a familiar name is front and center: Jason Isbell.
Jason, who has won six Americana Awards since 2012, leads the pack with four nominations in 2018, including Album, Artist and Song of the Year, as well as an additional nomination for Duo/Group of the Year with his band the 400 Unit. Other artists with multiple nominations include Margo Price, Brandi Carlile and producer Dave Cobb.
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With Lindholm signed, Ducks GM hopes to keep team together
By Jason BroughOct 27, 2016, 4:04 PM EDT
Just because they got Hampus Lindholm signed doesn't mean the Anaheim Ducks need to make a trade right away.
First of all, the 22-year-old defenseman won't be able to play until he gets a work visa, and that could take a week or two.
Secondly, even when he's back in the lineup, Simon Despres (who's got a suspected concussion, which is a "very sensitive issue") and Nate Thompson (who ruptured his Achilles and may not be back before the trade deadline) will not be.
And with Despres and Thompson on LTIR, GM Bob Murray has some wiggle room, at least for now.
"I wanted to give this group another shot, and I'm going to do everything in my power to keep it that way," Murray told reporters on a conference call, adding that he was thankful for owners who've allowed him to spend to the cap.
Which brings us to Cam Fowler. Here's what the O.C. Register had to say about him:
Cam Fowler has long been seen as a potential cap casualty once Lindholm signed, but the Ducks do not want to trade him, given Fowler's ability and meaning to the team. Fowler, who's off to a hot start with three goals and four assists in eight games, has two years left on his deal at $4 million per season.
The Ducks have gone 3-0-1 since dropping their first four to start the season. Their next game is Friday at home to Columbus.
Related: Fowler surprised he wasn't traded at draft
Tags: Cam Fowler, Hampus Lindholm, Nate Thompson, Simon Despres


Represented by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation Policy Joel Szabat and GPS Directorate commander Col. Bernie Gruber, the U.S. program heralded steady progress in maintaining its constellation while bringing new satellites on line.
Gruber told his Munich audience that the user equivalent range error (UERE) of the signals in space from the first two GPS Block IIF space vehicles (SVs) was 38 centimeters, compared to 86 centimeters for the 31-SV constellation as a whole. Block IIF space vehicles (SVs) 3 and 4 have been built and placed in storage, while numbers 5 through 8 are on the assembly line or undergoing integration and testing.
And, although the schedule for delivery of GPS III spacecraft may be stretched out, the GPS Non-flight Satellite Testbed — a prototype GPS III spacecraft also known as SV0 — had been powered up January 10.
Later, Szabat said that the spread of jamming devices could affect the full implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration's GPS-dependent NextGen program and that the government "can do a better job of detection" of interference sources. Referring to incidents of interference to GPS ground-based augmentation systems at Newark Airport, he admitted that it had taken months to track down the trucker whose "personal privacy device" was causing the problem.
Szabat also said that U.S. agencies were "at the very beginning of the process" of developing backup systems for GPS, which are needed in case of serious jamming or spoofing incidents.


On Sunday the 22nd of January there will be a new tabletop convention in Münster Germany.
The Kiepe will be at the "La Vie" in Münster Gievenbeck, Dieckmannstrasse 127 , 48161 Münster. The convention will run from 10.00 – 6.00. There is no entrance fee and free parking. More on Facebook.
I will be there and do a foto report afterwards. Maybe we can meet there !


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Racconti di Montalbano è un'antologia di racconti scritti, scelti ed ordinati da Andrea Camilleri, pubblicata da Arnoldo Mondadori editore nel 2008.

L'opera ripercorre l'intera carriera del Commissario Salvo Montalbano, da La prima indagine di Montalbano fino a La finestra sul cortile, racconto inedito in volume ma già pubblicato a puntate sul giornale di quartiere capitolino Il nasone di Prati nel 2007. Complessivamente sono contenuti nel libro 19 racconti:

La prima di indagine di Montalbano	(La prima di indagine di Montalbano, 2004)
Cinquanta paia di scarpe chiodate	(Un mese con Montalbano, 1998)
Par condicio	                        (Un mese con Montalbano, 1998)
Il compagno di viaggio	                (Un mese con Montalbano, 1998)
Sette lunedì	                        (La prima di indagine di Montalbano, 2004)
La prova generale	                (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Amore	                                (Un mese con Montalbano, 1998)
Come fece Alice	                (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Il patto	                        (Un mese con Montalbano, 1998)
Ferito a morte	                        (La paura di Montalbano, 2002)
Being here	                        (Un mese con Montalbano, 1998)
La revisione	                        (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Sostiene Pessoa	                (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Il gatto e il cardellino	        (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Montalbano si rifiuta	                (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Sequestro di persona	                (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Gli arancini di Montalbano	        (Gli arancini di Montalbano, 1999)
Meglio lo scuro	                (La paura di Montalbano, 2002)
La finestra sul cortile	        (Inedito)

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Raccolte di racconti con Montalbano
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State Supreme Court upholds closed primaries
This article was written by Rebecca Moss for the Santa Fe New Mexican
The New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday upheld the state's system of closed primary elections, ruling the practice is constitutional and not overly burdensome.
The decision means primary elections can continue to be closed to voters who aren't registered as members of the political parties with candidates on the ballot. That means other voters, including those who decline to state a party affiliation, can vote in only general elections.
The Supreme Court's ruling, however, may not be the last word on the issue. The state Legislature is considering legislation to open primary elections to all voters.
Albuquerque lawyer David Crum, who brought the case before the Supreme Court, had argued closed primaries violate the state constitution's guarantee of free and open elections.
Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Edward Chávez said requiring voters to register with a political party in order to vote in primary elections was not overly taxing and instead helped to preserve the "purity" of the election process and protect against abuses to the system.
The court said the system also does not limit any particular class of residents from voting.
Citing a case from the Missouri Supreme Court, Chávez wrote that requiring elections to be free and open "does not mean that there cannot be reasonable regulations of elections in the interest of good citizenship and honest government."
The court said Crum and other independent voters can choose to register with the party closest to their policy interests solely for a primary election. State law does not limit an individual's ability to shift party registration after a primary election.
The justices left open the door for legislative changes to the closed primary system, saying the ruling did not deem an open primary election unconstitutional.
Crum sued the secretary of state and the Bernalillo County clerk in an attempt to open primary elections to all voters.
He said the Supreme Court is out of step with the general populace, who in increasing numbers are registering as independents or as voters who decline to state a party affiliation.
A 2014 Gallup poll of 18,000 people nationally found 42 percent of voters registered as independents, the largest percentage in years and outweighing registered Democrats or Republicans.
"As a whole I think the county is moving toward that [independent voting system] and wants it, even if the parties themselves don't," Crum said. "It is just another example of these two parties failing in what the overall electorate of the country wants."
Bob Perls, founder of New Mexico Open Primaries, said the Supreme Court failed to show how an open system would pose real danger to the election process.
"Interestingly," he wrote in an email, "the Court adopted one of our primary arguments that the act of voting in a primary is an act of affiliation with a party."
He said "one small ray of hope in this decision" is that the court did not say open primaries would be unconstitutional.
Two measures are pending in the Legislature to allow unaffiliated voters to submit ballots during primary elections and to make it easier for independent candidates to get on the ballot.
Perls said he believes the legislation will be successful, but if it is not, New Mexico Open Primaries will file a lawsuit on the basis that a closed system funded by taxpayer dollars violates a state constitutional provision that generally prohibits the giveaway of government assets.
Crum said he was not yet sure what further legal steps he might take but added, "We are going to get there one way or another, sooner or later."


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SINGAPORE: A highly anticipated summit between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended on Tuesday afternoon (Jun 12).
Both leaders emerged from a bilateral meeting and signed a joint statement. Among the key points in the document was North Korea's commitment to "work towards the complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula."
President Trump said during the signing ceremony that they have "developed a special bond".
Earlier in the day, in a historic moment, the two leaders walked across the aisles towards each other at the Capella Hotel in Singapore's Sentosa island and shook hands as the world watched.
In a news conference later that day, Mr Trump said the two countries were "ready to write a new chapter" and called the day's talks "honest, direct and productive".