More controversy rocking the country ... but it's pretty small scale. The fish breeders industry in Jerusalem have been protesting all week because the govt. has marked out their land for development. The breeders are not giving up their fight so easily.
https://www.facebook.com/israel.aquaculture/?pnref=story
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| The Wishing Bridge in Jaffa rebuilt |
Also protesting on Friday were the Women of the Wall ... a group of jewish women who insist on equality at the Wailing Wall; meaning they get to wear prayer shawls and phylacteries and carry and read from the Torah Scrolls (something which mainstream Judaism doesn't allow). The Courts and the rabbis have been battling this out ... and the outcome has been fluctuating between left and right positions. In the end it looks like the ultra-orthodox and rabbis are winning ... yesterday ultra-orthodox women disrupted the prayers. Watch the video at
https://www.facebook.com/neshothakotel/?pnref=story
A strike at Ben Gurion Airport was called off at the last minute on Friday afternoon ... thank goodness as tourist groups would have been stuck ... not that there are many of them anyway. But news is coming out that arab israelis including an actress have been racially profiled and singled out for extra security checks (which includes strip searching if required) at the airport. A cry of racism is sounded throughout the leftist and centrist news media but nothing will come out of it ... the country is too far right to care about anyone else.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/US-reiterates-concern-over-unequal-treatment-of-Arab-Americans-at-Ben-Gurion-Airport-463399
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Photo ftom this year's israeli Unification day coinciding
with arab Nakba day ... 2 groups together ... a rarity |
Well not everything is bad news last weekend. There is a small movement within Israel that recognizes that the 2 State solution is long dead. Instead Jews and Arabs should accept that fact that they must live together as one State ... but that means Israel having to negate its "Jewish State" status. Don't know how feasible that will be ... it'll take more than goodwill to pull this one through.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.735494
And the Wishing Bridge in Jaffa has been rebuilt. It was torn down last year because the wood was rotting, posing a danger to its visitors. Now more solidly built, people can go across the bridge to their zodiac sign (attached along the bridge), look into the Mediterranean Sea ahead ... and make a wish. I wonder if anyone will wish for peace between the jews and arabs, peace in our region.
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