|
|
Saturday, June 19th, 2004
|
|
|
i've decided to leave lj for the time being. i suppose i'd been gone for four or five months already, but whatever.
i have, however, started a new blog. eitan helped me start it up. it can be found at www.outlawblues.blogspot.com. i'll be the main poster, but i plan on having lots of guest posters. so let me know if you're interested. it's mainly about music and politics, though i'm reserving some comedy space for j-dawg.
anyway, please visit the blog and let me know what you think.
|
|
|
freedenberg: email me now about the wilco show or i will eat everyone in your family. distance has a way of making getting wilco tickets understandable, fool! (stupid wilco reference if you didn´t catch it)
¡hasta el tiempo cuando estoy jodiendo su madre! (es ahora, puta)
|
|
Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
|
| Time: | 9:29 am. |
| Music: | nick drake - place to be. |
|
|
well, i'm gonna be gone for a damn long time. europe awaits. i will be back on may 16. listen to dylan and tap roff.
|
|
Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
|
|
Monday, February 16th, 2004
|
|
|
The writing on the fence
By Akiva Eldar
Ha'aretz Newspaper
This is not the first time the High Court of Justice has heard petitions from human rights organizations and by West Bank residents on the separation fence. They claim it separates Palestinians from their centers of production and sources of water. And now, as in the hundreds of previous petitions relating to the territories that named state agencies as respondents, this time too the magic words "security needs" star in the state's responses.
In the past, this magic phrase left petitioners with no chance. In a previous petition relating to the fence, an affidavit by the army's GOC Central Command stated that "the route was chosen following accelerated staff work, including an examination of alternatives." This was good enough for the court to permit the army to seize lands, uproot plantations, and embitter the lives of residents of A-Ras and Kafr Zur, two villages in the northern West Bank.
On August 20, 2002, a week after the cabinet discussed the route of the fence in that region, the GOC Central Command signed a new expropriation order that showed a different route. Various other changes in the route, sometimes in response to pressure from the settlers and sometimes in response to pressure from the Americans, ought to remind the public - including those members of it who sit on the Supreme Court - that security is much more closely related to politics than to mathematics.
Colonel (reserve) Shaul Arieli, who headed the peace administration in the days of Ehud Barak's government and coordinated preparation of the maps, drafted an alternative to the route of the fence approved by the cabinet. His route, based on pure security considerations, puts the same number of Israelis in the protected area west of the fence as does the current route.
But instead of biting 900 square kilometers out of the West Bank, it seizes less than 300 sq.km. - and this includes putting Ma'aleh Adumim, with its 30,000 residents, west of the fence.
This route also reduces the number of Palestinians who are imprisoned between the fence, including the "Jerusalem envelope, and Israel, the Green Line, and therefore distanced from their service providers in the territories, from 400,000 to 56,000. Arieli's route does not separate Palestinian farmers from their lands and wells, nor does it divide students from their schools.
Anyone who was truly worried about the security of Israel's citizens would not leave tens of thousands of hostile Palestinians hungry for vengeance west of the fence. Only a plot to turn security into a tool to undermine itself in order to annex territory de facto could explain why a fence that devours time, money and diplomatic assets is preferable to a shorter, cheaper fence that does not arouse hatred.
The politics of the fence do not revolve around security, nor even around the moral and legal issues that arise from Israeli control over additional square kilometers of territory along the Green Line. The concept of the fence, just like the disengagement plan, conceals a much deeper political agenda.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon discovered that the fear of terror attacks gave him a magical tool that would enable him to draw the country's permanent borders unilaterally. The public is so eager for a defensive wall that would once and for all distance it from the terrorists and suicide bombers that it has paid no attention to the fact that unilateral solutions distance it from the strategic goal of an end to the conflict.
The only solution with the power to put the parties on the long road to reconciliation was and remains an agreement that enjoys international legitimacy - meaning one based on UN Resolution 242 and the 1967 lines.
The "little plan" of disengagement from Gaza, accompanied by the screams of the settlers, is meant to win America's heart so that it will stop complaining about the fence and allow Sharon to complete "the grand plan" of annexing territory in the West Bank. If, along with enabling this annexation, disengagement also frees the Israel Defense Forces of the burden of controlling 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip, that is merely a bonus for the government.
After three years of a hope-destroying stalemate, the disengagement plan is so tempting that it has blinded the eyes of members of the Israeli "peace camp." Many have become too bleary-eyed to see the enormous political slogan inscribed on both sides of the fence. It says that there is no partner for an agreement, and that we have been sentenced to live with fences and swords for all eternity.
|
|
|
for my own records - setlist today (in incorrect order):
cars can't escape (tweedy)
you witch (bradlow)
not for the season (tweedy)
girl from the north country (dylan)
stay awhile (bradlow)
see that my grave is kept clean (jefferson/bradlow)
untitled (bradlow)
meet me in the morning (dylan)
buckets of rain (dylan)
|
|
Monday, February 9th, 2004
|
| Time: | 12:17 am. |
| Music: | the band - i shall be released (live). |
|
so i'll be starting a real journal this week. lj in its current form is somewhat over. i'll use it to check other people's ljs and to post mp3s and shit as i make them. maybe an update or two from halfway around the world. i'll see.
anyway, graduation was very fun. i was happy that me and j-dawg got to play together on the last song. everything was great. i have an incredible amount of cool stuff to look forward to in the next four years. poland will be awesome. amsterdam will be awesome. barcelona will be awesome. swarthmore will be awesome.
good times.
with that i leave you with the patzers creed: "gotta patz"
|
|
Thursday, February 5th, 2004
|
|
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
|
|
|
israeli parties are fun.
in other news i'm contemplating getting an ipod. is it worth the money? how many gigs should i get? please help a brotha out.
|
|
Saturday, January 31st, 2004
|
| Time: | 3:44 pm. |
| Music: | shawn colvin - satin sheets (live). |
|
|
hallelujah. what's it to ya. praise the lord and pass the mescaline.
|
|
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
|
| Time: | 9:53 am. |
| Music: | billy bragg and wilco - all you fascists. |
|
in light of an article published in the most recent edition of the atlantic and the last 3 years in general, i'd like to give a message to the bush administration courtesy of woody guthrie:
all you fascists are bound to lose
you fascists are bound to lose
you fascists are bound to lose
you fascists are bound to lose
you're bound to lose
you're bound to lose
all you fascists are bound to lose
|
|
Monday, January 26th, 2004
|
| Time: | 12:32 am. |
| Music: | lucinda williams - drunken angel. |
|
this livejournal has almost exactly 2 weeks left of existence in its current form.
in other news, lately i've decided that i really want to be a musician. i honestly think i could do it. every song i write nowadays is better than the previous one. perhaps spain will bring on some unexpected muses.
as i was studying for english final i honestly thought about never going to college or any formal school. that's probably normal.
|
|
Sunday, January 25th, 2004
|
| Time: | 12:16 am. |
| Music: | bob dylan - tell me that it isn't true. |
|
i honestly like my life. yay.
i saw so many kids i used to know back in high school tonight. it was weird, but cool.
damn this song is sexy. i want to have sex to this album. john cusack and lisa bonet do in high fidelity and i want to one day.
"i have heard rumors / from all over town"
my car is fucked up and has really lewd messages written all over it.
|
|
Friday, January 23rd, 2004
|
| Time: | 11:42 pm. |
| Music: | wilco - won't let you down. |
|
woah. i just saw a picture of the seniors on someone's lj. and then i was like, "fuck yeah, i'm done with this shit."
my real life's ambition is to be a rock star. from something like age 5 until 17 (almost 18) it's the exact same thing. though at one point i wanted to be a baseball player. but yeah. i'll probably end up on the street. and i just don't care. as long as i'm happy.
god the roff so needs to be tapped at this exact second.
p.s. the whole grade chanted "bob dylan." my high school career can be deemed a success from that single moment
|
|
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004
|
| Time: | 10:12 pm. |
| Music: | belle and sebastian - boy in the arab strap. |
|
i don't understand how i'm supposed to do work anymore. i have never patzed so much in my life. but it's than unfulfilling kind of patz. after i graduate i better be able to do the kind of patzing.
patzing 4 lyfe.
by the way, is "snaps for ____" a queer eye thing?
|
|
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
|
| Time: | 8:06 pm. |
| Music: | ryan adams - firecracker. |
|
oh man i had this weird drink from taiwan called bubble tea. i had mango flavor. it was good. i think i'll go there again.
everybody wants to go forever
i just wanna burn up hard and bright
i just wanna be your firecracker
and maybe be your baby tonight
maybe be your baby tonight
|
|
Monday, January 19th, 2004
|
|
|
this livejournal is nearing its end in its current capacity. i think after graduation, i'm gonna start a real journal. i figure that's a pretty good endpoint to one part of my life.
i feel stupid cause i was a jackass yesterday. i haven't been that malicious in years. well hopefully people didn't take me too seriously.
|
|
|
this livejournal is nearing its end in its current capacity. i think after graduation, i'm gonna start a real journal. i figure that's a pretty good endpoint to one part of my life.
i feel stupid cause i was a jackass yesterday. i haven't been that malicious in years. well hopefully people didn't take me too seriously.
|
|
Saturday, January 17th, 2004
|
| Time: | 10:42 pm. |
| Music: | cody chestnutt - thinking it over. |
|
ah well. i ended up not going out in the freezing rain/snow/sleet/all around shit and instead stayed home. i feel bad. i wanted to see the play and also it was the last play the seniors did. i was kinda pissed mcps didn't cancel everything so then i could still see it.
instead i saw the first half of giant, which was pretty awesome. james dean is the coolest motherfucker on the face of the earth ever and liz taylor was a lot cooler than i thought she would be.
|
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
outlawblues's journal