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Actually – those portrayed in the picture in prison uniforms are GoI officials, not NIF leaders.
Apparently, Mark, you’ve missed the point, the idea being that an evil and treacherous NIF has imprisoned three good loyal souls who fight for a Greater Israel. How dare it!, etc.
Shifting gears a bit, I’d like to say that my wife and I for years contributed to NIF along with Peace Now, The Abraham Fund, Brit Tzdek v’Shalom, and such organizations that we hoped might inject a morally diseased Israel with a modicum of honest self-examination as a first step toward becoming a healthy society addicted to something other than a Manifest Destiny underwritten by various harmful fantasies, including portions of the Bible itself. We became discouraged with each day’s news, these well-meaning organizations apparently buried by right-wing militarists, apartheidists and theocratic, land-grabbing reactionaries. We stayed with Americans for Peace Now, but dropped several others. Now, all of a sudden, does the New Israel Fund seems to rise up from the ashes, deeply disturbing those we are very happy to disturb. Thanks, Richard, for all the information. We’ll resume our contributions, sadly modest though they must be, to NIF.
“..we hoped might inject a morally diseased Israel with a modicum of honest self-examination as a first step toward becoming a healthy society addicted to something other than a Manifest Destiny underwritten by various harmful fantasies, including portions of the Bible itself.”
This really blew me away.
Yes, you’re right. In the rush of writing blog posts yesterday, I got the info in the body of the post right & the blog title was not corrected. Apologies, now it is. My mistake.
I “get the point” Norman – the headline “missed the point.”
OOPS! Right you are, Mark. It was too obvious so I missed it. Sorry.
Yup, Mark was right to catch that. Thanks again.
I just stumbled across an article referencing Peace Now and Americans for Peace Now and the attack(s) you have described, Richard. The piece begins:
“Washington, DC – Israel’s Peace Now movement and Americans for Peace Now strongly condemn the vicious attacks on the New Israel Fund, on its Chair, Naomi Chazan, and on the NIF’s grantee organizations who are quoted in the United Nations’ fact-finding mission’s report on last year’s Gaza war.”
A link to the entire article is as follows: http://peacenow.org/entries/apn_and_peace_now_condemn_attacks_on_nif.