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u/davidsa35 · 3 pointsr/Israel

>Who/which are the best Israeli musicians/bands in your opinion?

I like Avraham Tal (singer) he has unique and stirring songs

>How much can you understand Arabic (or other Semitic languages) just basing on Hebrew?

While watching "Fauda" last year (an Israeli tv series about Israeli unite disguised as Arabs to collect intelligence and make operations and arrests in the Palestinian authority) I realized that there are many words in Arabic which resemble Hebrew

>How are the relationships between the Mizrachim and the Ashkenazim?

As the time goes by the differences between the two are blurring more

>How are the Ethiopian Jews treated in your opinion?

There is some racism from private people and not from the government which gives them many privileges as scholarships and affirmative actions

>What's the greatest thing about living in Israel? What's the worst thing about living in Israel?

The greatest thing in my opinion (as one who had also lived abroad) is to feel Jewish pride, to see the renascence of the ancient Jewish identity in Israel (Judea) after 2000 years and having our own country and military to take care of ourselves
The most irritating thing in my opinion is the feeling that here is too much corruption, especially on the municipal levels, I've seen many bribery and such stuff that I feel that it's not fair for the law abiding citizens who work their ass off for a decent salary. I also think that some of the public sector is not efficient in that there is much hidden unemployment. People who literally contribute nothing and get large salaries just because they have "connections" with the right people - although those phenomenons here aren't as bad as in 3d world countries and I think there is some improvement and efficiency under Netanyahu's tenures

>Got any good (and translated) Israeli poets or writers to recommend?

Edit: in second thought I remember that Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by prof. Yuval Noah Harrari was a good read

>Why are Israeli girls so cute?

I think that it's because of 2 main causes:

  1. "Intermarriages" between Jews of different backgrounds in Israel (Europeans with North Africans and so) which make some amazing kids with unique facial features - reminds me a little of Brazilians

  2. Military/civil service - this period in their lives is shaping their personalities and make them grown up women in their early 20s

    >I've got to say that your national anthem is sick wicked. Fucking a+ music.

    This is my favorite performance, by the Jewish community in Moscow

    I hope I was informing, take care.
u/FBernadotte · 3 pointsr/Israel

Thanks for finding the source of the quote claiming that "Israel is worth five CIAs". Looks like it originated in Wolf Blitzer's book Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook. Blitzer interviewed Keegan.

The quote itself is a distortion of what Blitzer cites the general as saying. Which was that he could not have gotten the same amount of intelligence about Soviet weapons capabilities "with five CIAs". Only to the logic-challenged does this amount to the blanket generalization that "Israel is worth five CIAs".

As for Keegan's having been the "head of Air Force intelligence", clearly he was not. Unless "assistant chief of staff" equates to "head". For hasbara, anything is possible. To be fair, the NY Times reviewer in your link does use the phrase "Air Force intelligence chief", so perhaps we should blame him, or maybe that is how Blitzer (wrongly) described him. Don't forget Blitzer's origins as a journalist and his time at AIPAC. Blitzer usually does a pretty good job of pretending to be objective.

Ironically, exactly at the time Blitzer's book was published (November 14, 1985) the American Jonathan Pollard was less than a week away from being arrested for perpetrating one of the most damaging security breaches in American history. Of course he was not working for America, he was working as a spy for his favorite country Israel. Israel worth five CIAs? What a joke.

u/getthejpeg · 1 pointr/Israel

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Type-2nd-revised-expanded/dp/1568989695/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1320103677&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Interaction-Color-Expanded-Josef-Albers/dp/0300115954/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320104020&sr=8-1


http://www.amazon.com/Power-Center-Composition-Visual-Anniversary/dp/0520261267/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320103713&sr=8-1 (this one can be a bit esoteric but if you stick with it, its good)

There are also roughly 6 elements to keep in mind when making compositions and you will have to read more about them and seek out examples. they vary depending on where you look but this has some: http://www.wiu.edu/art/courses/handouts/princdesign.html

This also has some good material: http://photoinf.com/General/Robert_Berdan/Composition_and_the_Elements_of_Visual_Design.htm

None of those links are perfect, and they are not quite the way I learned it either, but you should just do exercises to work on them. For example, In a 5x5 square, do compositions using just 10 dots of the same size. Make each composition represent a word such as unity, variety, movement, stillness, and others like that. Thats just a quick example.

u/scisslizz · 6 pointsr/Israel

> What are the main objective arguments for the foundation of Israel on (what was at least thought to be) Palestinian land?

It was never "palestinian" land. It was Jewish, Babylonian, Persian, Jewish, Greek, Roman, Muslim, something about short-lived Crusader states, more Muslims, then the Ottomans, and the Brits, and back to the Jews.

If your question is "why do Jews need to live in Israel, instead of making their country in Uganda," then you should visit Israel, especially the Old City of Jerusalem (and all of its museums), Ir David, and the Kotel. You should visit Abraham (father of Yitzchak and Ishmael), and his grandson Yaakov, who are buried in Hebron. You should visit the archaeological site at Shiloh, where the Tabernacle sat until King Solomon built the First Temple in Jerusalem. Go to the places outside Beit Shemesh, where David fought Goliath, and where Samson is buried. Go to Shechem, where Yosef is buried. Go to Mt. Carmel in Haifa, where the prophet Eliyahu humiliated the idolatrous King Ahab and Queen Jezebel in a public contest.

All of Jewish heritage is in Israel.

> Don't the Israelis agree that the Palestinians have the same claim to the land as them? They also were promised it after the war by the British.

No. The British promised that the Arabs could have Jordan. The Peel Commission came along in 1937, 8 years after the Arabs murdered all of the Jews living between Hebron and Jerusalem, decades before Israel was even established as a country, and drew a map that showed only Arabs lived in those places. The UN Partition Plan in 1947 was based on this.

> How is the occupation of Lebanese territory justified?

> I'm a 20 year old from Lebanon

Israel already tried to save Lebanon from occupation by the PLO. Now, it's your turn to go tell the Ayatollahs in Iran to stop occupying your country with their Hezbollah and IRGC soldiers.

> How much of a theocracy is Israel? Don't take this literally, but more along the lines of "how centered around religion is Israeli politics", do politicians rally the masses under religious flags?

Not much. The importance of religion is a neighborhood-by-neighborhood thing, not a national policy. Some politicians claim to represent the face of Jewish theology, and those politicians tend to be perceived as the greatest disgrace of Jewish theology outside of their respective constituents-- people on both the political "right" and "left" agree on that much.

> To what extent does the average Israeli support his government? Is it a decent loved one? Are the people happy with whom they elected?

It's a coalition system, not a democratic republic. Everyone is upset about something, and happy or at least satisfied with other things.

Finally, here are some books you should read:

Six Days of War by Michael Oren <---- Nothing happens in a vacuum. The first half of the book describes the events leading up to the war, from 1956 to 1967. The author is a former Israeli ambassador to the USA.

The Revolt by Menachem Begin <---- Excellent discussion of the events leading to the War of Independence, and how Israeli politics evolved once the State coalesced. The author led Etz"L during the War for Independence, and served as the first non-Labor-party Prime Minister from 1977 to 1983.

The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog <------- Excellent summary of all of Israel's military actions. The author is a former Israeli president.

Like Dreamers by Yossi Klein HaLevi <---- The different ways that everyone all over the Israeli spectrum believe in Zionism.

The Israelis by Donna Rosenthal <----- snapshot of Israel's diverse population. This book is from 2005, so the description of certain events and especially their outcomes is a bit dated.

Catch the Jew by Tuvia Tenenbom <----- All the different ways that international organizations meddle in Israeli affairs, looking for ways to blame Israel for malfeasance, as well as all the different ways that the Arabs can't keep their story straight.

Voice of Israel by Abba Eban <------ The author was Israel's ambassador to the UN.

Letters from Tel Mond Prison by Era Rapaport <---- The schizophrenia of post-1967 Israeli policy in Yehuda/Shomron, and how Israeli citizens dealt with it.


The Daat Mikra Bible Atlas: A Comprehensive Guide to Biblical Geography and History by Yehuda Elitzur and Yehuda Keel <--- Maps of the Middle East, Africa and Europe, showing the location of events as they unfold in TaNaKh.

u/thepoliticator · 2 pointsr/Israel

Can I suggest you read this very interesting book? It has parts describing the emergence and development of the relationship between the Mossad and the CIA over the years. I found it super interesting.

u/testing_thewaters · 1 pointr/Israel

Yes!

Read My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
I would not be living here in Jerusalem if it weren't for this book.

Read A Tale of Love and Darkness

Listen to Meir Ariel

Watch The Band's Visit

u/evgenetic · -17 pointsr/Israel

jewish israel is a very much militaristic society, so pretty much everything/everyone that somehow contributes to army is viewed very positively.
this is a very good book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Israeli-Militarism-Uri-Ben-Eliezer/dp/0253333873?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

u/unknown_poo · -1 pointsr/Israel

I don't know why you just quoted that part, but the fact that Palestinian newspapers (1911) were using the term Palestinian is enough textual proof that the people of the land called themselves Palestinians, including Jews and Christians. That is fact.


I hope you're not trying to perpetuate the myth behind the slogan "A land without a people for a people without a land." It's a defunct view. There was a civilization already in place on that land, a civilization that endured many significant historical events, such as the Crusades. As the Ottoman census records show Palestine was widely inhabited in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially in the rural areas where agriculture was the main profession. According to Justine McCarthy (p. 26), an authority on the Ottoman Turks, Palestine's population in the early 19th century was 350,000, and in 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000 Muslim Arabs, 81,000 Christian Arabs, and 59,000 Jews (including many European Jews from the first and second Aliyah).


As for common culture, language, and sense of nationality I hope you're joking about that. It really does make me doubt that you have Arab friends or even live in Israel since it demonstrates such a gross ignorance of the Palestinian people. But at the same time, the Israeli educational system is typically weak when it comes to teaching about the history of the land. I could list a hundred distinct Palestinian customs particular to their culture that are not found anywhere else in the Arab world. And I could point out to you a great number of linguistic differences in their Arabic. That doesn't even include the distinct and ancient languages found among Palestinians, although most of them are pretty much dead now.


Why would I ask the Sunni and Shi'a in Iraq about Palestine?


u/nidarus · 2 pointsr/Israel

If you're not just interested in a textbook, I highly recommend Amos Oz's memoirs, a Story of Love and Darkness. It tells the story of his and his family's life, in Europe, Mandatory Palestine, and early Israel.

Do not, I repeat, not watch the movie with Natalie Portman.

u/Inoku · 1 pointr/Israel

IMHO Michael Oren's Six Days of War is the best book on the '67 war.

But then again, Michael Oren is one of my personal heroes, so I'm biased.

u/sockpupet999 · -1 pointsr/Israel

It sounds very much like you're a recent graduate of Alan Derschowitz/ADL School of Middle Eastern "History".

The fact is mainstream Israeli historians have accepted that ethnic cleansing (including massacres) occurred. The main focus of debate is now on the extent to which it was planned and orchestrated by the Israeli leadership.

See for instance Schlomo Ben Ami -Historian and former Israeli foreign minister:-

>reality on the ground [during the 1948 war:] an Arab community in a state of terror facing a ruthless Israeli army whose path to victory was paved not only by its exploits against the regular Arab armies, but also by the intimidation, and at times atrocities and massacres, it perpetrated against the civilian Arab community.

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>philosophy of transfer, [which] had a long pedigree in Zionist thought, provided a legitimate environment for commanders in the field actively to encourage the eviction of the local population.

u/sexymanish · 1 pointr/Israel

It was the Israelis who sought to portray Iran is an implacable threat because they wanted to prevent the US and Iran from getting along

https://www.amazon.com/Treacherous-Alliance-Secret-Dealings-Israel/dp/0300143117

Netanyahu exaggerates the "Iranian threat" because it distracts from his political problems at home

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-27/israeli-government-has-exaggerated-iranian-nuclear-threat-years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11431083/Israels-Netanyahu-exaggerated-Iranian-nuclear-threat.html

u/jesbus · 8 pointsr/Israel

> During the Second Intifada, Dr. David Applebaum invented a special method to treat wounded people transported to the emergency room. In New York, Dr. Applebaum showed slides illustrating how it is possible to treat “44 injured people in 28 minutes,” as he had done after a terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Then he returned to Israel and took his daughter Nava to Cafe Hillel, the day before her wedding was supposed to take place. Both of them were killed by a suicide bomber. Applebaum’s method has been copied around the world.

This was a really sad story, there is a good book that talks about it in greater detail its http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Israel-Coped-America-Learn/dp/0253349184 used for .99 cents

u/[deleted] · 5 pointsr/Israel

I'm sorry for being blunt, but this has been asked before.
You're not going to get strictly unbiased books, just some that are more factual and that deal with opposing views, and some that are less so.
In any case, check out these threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/7si3cq/any_book_recommendations_on_the_history_of_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/7m3ibu/book_recommendation_on_the_israeliarab/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/8adpuj/what_books_do_you_recommend_about_israel_andor/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/8i3mu8/lately_i_found_great_interest_in_the_modern/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/77frgx/looking_for_history_book_recommendations/

My comment from the thread in the last link:

I don't endorse or even know any of the following, I've just aggregated a few from the previous times this was asked:

Recommended by /u/Jiveman7
"The Case for Israel" by Allan Dershowitz

Recommended by /u/scisslizz:
Six Days of War by Michael Oren <---- Nothing happens in a vacuum. The first half of the book describes the events leading up to the war, from 1956 to 1967. The author is a former Israeli ambassador to the USA.

The Revolt by Menachem Begin <---- Excellent discussion of the War of Independence, the events before and after it, and how Israeli politics evolved once the State coalesced. The author led Etz"L during the War for Independence, and served as the first non-Labor-party Prime Minister from 1977 to 1983.

The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog <------- Excellent summary of all of Israel's military actions. The author is a former Israeli president.

Like Dreamers by Yossi Klein HaLevi <---- The different ways that everyone all over the Israeli spectrum believe in Zionism.

The Israelis by Donna Rosenthal <----- snapshot of Israel's diverse population. This book is from 2005, so the description of certain events and especially their outcomes is a bit dated.

Catch the Jew by Tuvia Tenenbom <----- All the different ways that international organizations meddle in Israeli affairs, looking for ways to blame Israel for malfeasance, as well as all the different ways that the Arabs can't keep their story straight.

Voice of Israel by Abba Eban <------ The author was Israel's ambassador to the UN.

Letters from Tel Mond Prison by Era Rapaport <---- The schizophrenia of post-1967 Israeli policy in Yehuda/Shomron, and how Israeli citizens dealt with it.

Recommended by /r/AskHistorians:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/middleeast#wiki_israeli_history
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2a8mnf/i_want_to_know_everything_about_the/