First let me get the IMPORTANT NEWS OUT OF THE WAY.
MOB WIVES IS COMING BACK NEXT YEAR! MOBWIVES IS COMING BACK! I practically cried at the news! Your mileage may vary. I LOVE DRITA. RIP BIG ANG WE LOVE YOU.
Also, I have a Bravo exclusive about RHOA to tuck in here for those of you who read all my drivel. 🙂 RHOA has officially wrapped. Latoya and Kenya vs. Drew and Porsha blowout will be how the season comes to a close.Drew went there with both of them and Porsha had her back. Latoya is a shit starter who is desperate for camera time. Latoya and Kenya vs. Drew and Porsha blowout will be how the season comes to a close. Drew went there with both of them and Porsha had her back. Latoya is a shit starter who is desperate for camera time. LaToya will not be holding a peach in the future. But she thought if she showed out it’ll boost the ratings or maybe get her one. Who knows?So yet another season ended with Love & Hip Hop behavior.
In sad news, Palestinians are struggling to get vaccinated against Covid. I hate that America is grossly uninformed on Palestine. The Trump plant that is our senator is going after the democratic PREACHER for saying that Palestinian live matter. And that he thinks Israel is a terrorist country. The US media holds Israel as some sort of kind country even as most other countries call them out for their random killings and taking over their land and leaving them in poverty. And shooting unarmed kids. It’s religious bigotry and I hope the new administration will address this. But I doubt he will.
I made cinnamon rolls and soft rolls today for Christmas (in freezer so I can bake off day of) and I also made sugar cookies to decorate Christmas Eve. I ordered Venison and Antelope from a ranch on Texas because I was craving it and we haven’t had in 6 years since we moved from West Virginia. Probably make mashed potatoes or crispy smashed potatoes.
I will probably make the toddler chicken nuggets because toddler…
Thanks for the updates! We went super low key with Christmas this year because honestly I am exhausted. I also got rid of some Christmas stuff this year because I have a new goal of moving to SC or a smaller more affordable town in the next year.
Merry Christmas Tamara!
Oh! lol way to show up my cornish hen. LOL. I have never had antelope… I may have had venison… don’t recall. All of that sounds amazing. I am staring now. lol.
I have so much shit to get rid off. And some of it should go to an Embassy I am not sure we have. lol.
My husband use to make venison tenderloin with a molasses garlic rub and I was going to buy beef tenderloin but it cost just as much to order the venison and antelope. It can be gamey tasting but if you cook it right it is like buttah.
Ugh yeah it is hard to figure out where to take things. The sad thing is a lot of places that really need items aren’t allowed to accept used items. I had maternity clothes and baby items that I wanted to donate to a local non profit who help expecting mother’s but they couldn’t accept it so I had to just donate it to Salvation Army.
OMG freakin loved mob wives went to big ang bar when she had one on staten island. Sad what happened to her she really had the heart of the show. We are,having either shrimp scampi or chicken florentine. merry Christmas TT stay safe and well know you are so appreciated.
‘The thought of eating crispy smashed potatoes makes me weak-kneed. Don’t quite know what they are, but DAYUM they sound good. Drooling 😋
Just read about crispy smashed potatoes on different food blogs for the first time today. Want to try them in my new air fryer
They are amazing. The recipe I use is from Fine Cooking titled Crispy Smashed Roasted Potatoes which can be found on their website. I haven’t made them in an air fryer but I heard that way is amazing
American Israeli here.. and I live in Israel.
I too am terrified my govt might stop/block or blackmail the Palestinian leadership from the West Bank and the leadership in Gaza with Covid vaccinations.
It’s inhumane- as is a lot of our policies and actions towards the Palestinians.
Know that there are this of us who feel this way who are Israel. And or Jewish. And or both.
That is good to hear. Believe me the US has learned that we are not our government for the past years. Sadly it is already happening. If I could send money to Palestine, i’d leave all my money to them. #FreePalestine
It is really sad how a vaccine is being politicized in all countries. I am really sorry it is being used as a threat there. I don’t think it should be something we use against or restrict people with, I know there is already a lot of talks of countries not allowing travel if you are not vaccinated. We don’t even require that for vaccines that are routine and readily available…
Australia, and I hope lots of countries will provide free vaccines for other countries that can’t afford it. If the whole world doesn’t get it under control, none of us will have it under control.
👏👏YUP👏👏
Tamara, I tagged along with my husband when he had business in Israel last year. I toured Jerusalem, Masada, Bethlehem, etc. I loved the different quarters in old Jerusalem the best. I was unable to access your websight when I was there, as it was blocked
I am glad to hear someone say not liking Israel’s policies does not mean you are anti-Semitic. I agree with you. I don’t like how they treat the Palestine people.
How do you feel about how the Palestinian people treat Israelis? No problem? Ah.
I think there is a giant financial, land control and power imbalance. And it is not in the Palestinian peoples favor. The Israeli people are not victims in this occurrence. You don’t get to be the oppressors and cry life time victimhood. The stuff that occurred in Europe and through the centuries to the Jewish people was horrid. But it doesn’t give them the right to enact inhumane treatment against the Palestinian people. And I am sure as shit tired of my taxes going to it.
I also think that would be a huge mistake, but I haven’t seen any evidence of it being done. It’s important to trust our news sources and to understand what motivates them, on all sides.
It is important to QUESTION your news sites. Have you learned nothing the past four years?
I feel like Amnesty International is a pretty fair source of information. But your mind seems to be very closed.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
I agree, the biggest lesson this term is that the news sources aren’t reliable and biased with agendas. A lot of time the independent sites and everyday people actually do more due diligence to report fairly and research but they don’t get much respect because they can be easily written off as crockpots or whatever but they tend to do the actual work instead of reporting what they want to advance a larger agenda.
I mean we all come to this site because we know the tea posted has reliable sources and is vetted first plus you know the witty delivery too!
Tamara, I have a question for you – and I am asking because I am genuinely interested in your answer. Do you think there should be a State of Israel in any part of the land now within its borders, or do you think it should cease to exist?
I am not educated enough in that regard. I do think Israel should face consequences of acts of terrorism. I think Palestinians should not have been uprooted from their home and shoved off to a place that they are in peril and often killed. And the US news makes it seem like Israel is defending themselves when Palestinians just want their homes back. I think Israel is wrong for killing children and others who just want their homes back. If I came and took your house, would you be angry with me? Israel has taken their homes and MOST OTHER COUNTRIES have a huge problem with it. I think the first place will go is Palestine. I am looking for a place to leave my inheirtance.
Also, and fun fact, I have been to Israel and remember the “crossing” vividly, as a child. I don’t remember everything but I remember this. I grew up listening to the Muslim call to prayer. It is the most amazing sound. And of course there should be Israel. But I do think that Israel’s policies right now are HORRIFIC. And they could do pretty much ANYTHING to make it better and stop killing kids who are angry that their homes were taken from them.
Israel is a country that needs to stop killing people over religion. Period. Full STOP.
I am so excited bc the things I love all just came together!!!! Reality tv, global politics and food!!!
Love that you have thoughtful answers and insightful opinions. I 100 agree. Nice work!
So I think this is actually a lot more nuanced than is being presented. If you accept that Israel has a right to exist, you will piss off the Palestinian establishment (though not all Palestinians of course, as there is diversity of opinion). The hard line is that there should be no Jewish state in that land at all, regardless of ancestral claims. This dispute is not about intolerance toward other religions. There is freedom of religion in Israel. (There are also more rights for minorities, women and the LGBTQ community than anywhere else in the Middle East). Muslims are elected to office, vote, and participate in society. This is about competing claims to the same land, not about religion. This is why a “two state solution” has been sought for so many years. Unfortunately, agreeing to a permanent Israel on any part of the land is a major stumbling block for some parties. No side in this is evil, no side is blameless.
If you want a black and white situation, check out the plight of the Uighur Muslims in China. They could use your inheritance.
Thank you! I get so emotional every time time TT goes on an anti-Israel rant, or shows how little she knows about Judaism that I cannot respond rationally. I appreciate your post. Israel is far from perfect, and I am not a Netanyahu fan. The fact that trump likes him says enough about how he rules. But this subject is not as one-sided at TT makes it seem for the unknowing. .
BUH BYE, GEM. Posting my personal information in conjunction with with bullshit you know nothing about gets you a plane ride home.
You can’t read this anymore, but telling me I didn’t go to elementary school where I went to elementary school is bizarre and really creepy.
I understand that the US has been conditioned to believe that Israel is always right even as they murder children. But if you ever get a chance to go to another country… You will see that we are in the minority on that belief and it is all about money.
I’m not Tamara but I’m going to speak on this topic anyways.
The very idea of a State of Isreal is religious. Since Isreal was nomatic from the beginning, finding a “home” isn’t a real thing. It was the coming together of people who shared the One God idea even back before Christ. The idea of “coming home” was caused by being uprooted due to slavery in ancient times. Jersulem was and still is the Mecca because it’s the “birth place” of the One God ideology.
All of us who believe in One God; Jewish, Muslim and Christians. It is the same God. It would be nice, a reaching of Nirvana, if we could drop our weapons and learn to share that place. It is a birth right to all of us, spiritually speaking.
Standing ovation.
Amen to all of that! Including the bombs going into Israel.
It breaks my heart that the holy lands aren’t a beautiful mecca of sorts where all faiths meet and celebrate each other’s commonality and beauty. I am having a kind of shitty Christmas because I was just diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which is a kick in the teeth on top of my Multiple Sclerosis. I don’t talk about it here, lest I be cast in with the cat ladies. Since I’m in Australia we will be eating our body weight in orawns and crayfish this Christmas. China won’t buy our seafood because we deigned to accuse them of being the origins of COVID so we are swimming in cheap shelfish. Yum! Max
I forgot to say, I miss Big Ang dearly. She is the only celeb since Lady Diana that I grieved like a loved one. Terrific lady. 😔
same
*prawns, not orawns
Here’s to a shitty Christmas!
Prawns and crayfish!? My American brain automatically thinks of New Orleans! Good eats! What you all need is a gimmic.
Low Country Boil Down Under!
Thanks for the late night ramblings!
I’m facing my first Christmas without my children. They are all grown now. It’s me and my MIL. And my cat, Gloria. Three old ladies. I did put up a tree. After years of groaning about live trees ( they’re messy. We killed a tree) I got really happy when my ex brought us a small live tree. The smell! My Dad moved here last year for the winters, so all of us old folks will get together on Christmas day.
I’m making apple pie. I have a simple, but very yummy recipe.
The Isreal problem has been running in the background of our lives, like some distant hum we just got used to. Yes, they use religion to keep the fires stoked, but it’s really about having “allies” in a region full of strife and oil. They will tell you it’s our dependence on oil ( OUR fault) that causes our own government to make deals with criminals. It’s really about greed of a powerful few. They are making a lot of money off of war by selling weapons and technology. They make more by having some leverage in the oil market. If there are still people who see Trump as some kind of second coming, and you’re wondering still how the heck that’s a thing. Isreal. The 700 Club started talking about the lies of main stream media when I was a small child. We never missed one of Pat Robertson’s shows. He gave us what my family believed was “real and Holy” news. I didn’t hear the bigotry in his speech until I was in my teens. I had Muslim friends. Argued for equality in marriage. Argued for Pro-Choice in school. Argued for religious freedoms and, just as important, respect. I was told I was going to the Lake Of Fire while trying to show my own family scripture that spoke of compassion and nonjudgment… the New Testament. The scripture we should lean on as Christians. I don’t know if it’s possible to wake up a bunch of people who have been conditioned to not even question a “Godly” man. I do know our children have been paying attention. Keep writing. Keep talking.
Thanks for writing about this, TT.
Israel has NO OIL. I wouldn’t want to live there for anything, being surrounded by enemies on all sides, who want to destroy them. I am not suggesting that Israel is always right, but they are not always wrong either. It’s a terrible situation all around. What would Jewish Jesus do? That’s what I’d like to know.
Not kill, hurt, maim or punish innocents. Pretty fucking simple.
In both sides, yes?? The Palestinians bomb Israel not infrequently. I think that sucks equally.
I’m only addressing your oil comment. Isreal doesn’t need oil.
Ok. After reading a few of your responces, I see that you are feeling discriminated. I am sorry. I did not intend to write anything that was critical of any side but my own. I was raised Christian and feel like that is the only side i have a right to scutinize.
. It is hard to have an honest conversation on this topic. The moment you mention wrong doing by Isreal or our own government, you get called a bigot. You tell a certain group of people that Trump is a tyrant, you get called “sheep” or anti-American.
It isn’t that Palestine has not had their own wrongs. This war has been waging for at least my whole life time. You can’t even say, “Palestinians do NOT deserve to die” because you feel like that will diminish your own side.
My point was, No God would cosign that. No side can claim some Holy right. The Republicans drafted the new Covid aide and decided to give money to Isreal because war equals money and our government wants Isreal in their pocket. Many good Christian people refuse to see that. They think that Trump is doing God’s work. They were raised believing that Palestine was committing unholy autrocities on God’s Chosen (Isreal).
That there are people; Jew, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, who do not want to accept propaganda and rhetoric as justification for people suffering makes this old woman feel good. Like maybe we are heading to a better place.
Facts.
What is going on for Christmas is still up in the air. Welcomed grand baby #7 on the 14th, first boy in the family in almost 27 years. The last boy born was #7’s Daddy and my younger son. Little Man is having some health concerns so haven’t met him yet, planned for Christmas day if he isn’t in the hospital. I really hope he’s not, he has a 2 yr old sister who is over the moon for him. My brother generally hosts but he’s having major ear surgery today. As of yesterday he said dinner was still on but will be outside with the heaters like we did Thanksgiving, yeah we’ll see how he feels after a 4 hour surgery today. My older son and his 5 kids, well invited there at noon when he gets his 2 from his ex to watch them all open then who knows what he’s doing. When your a family of 7 staying home for 5 kids to play with their new toys is so much the better option. Right now hubs and I think staying in after seeing the grands and kids and ordering Chinese is THE thing we want most! We are both essential workers. He has been working 6 days a week since March and I have been working 7 days a week. We are tired and just want the “rest and stay home” order to finally apply to us. While I feel horrible for everyone out of work in this pandemic, as a school consultant I’m just tired and want Christmas day with no frantic phone calls and need to work!
my issue is so trivial compared to the ones folks have left in this forum. went to three big grocery stores yesterday and all were sold out of gingerbread cake mix. this isn’t a crisis but i sure act like it is. and i’ve started to cry every time i hear “I’ll be home for Christmas.”
I have not been able to find any gingerbread or gingerbread mix all season even those cheap bag cookie mixes usually have some type of gingerbread and nothing in my part of Texas
my guess is everybody who ever wanted to make a gingerbread house is doing so this year since more folks have more time on their hands. i still remember the year a neighboring father-daughter duo worked out and built frank lloyd wright’s falling water in gingerbread. that was a couple of boxes.
Faithful daily visitor here who rarely comments. I love reading this site❤️ Tamera I’m with you on your Israel comments. I find it appalling our leaders give Israel a pass for every disgusting act against the Palestinians. 60 minutes did a few very informative segments on the history and relationships with Israel they all made me cry.
We have been waiting to make our Xmas day plans as my 18 year old son is in his 3rd residential treatment facility and he needs to “invite” us to visit. Can you imagine, he has shit all over our family for 3+ years and we are waiting on pins and needles for him to make a decision.
Merry Christmas to everyone !
Hey TT, what do you think about NeNe saying to boycott Bravo.
Who? The name rings a bell….
LOL
Making a turkey with “stuffing” and cranberries. repeat of thanksgiving. I don’t even like turkey but hubs loves it. And I’m making everything on Thursday so for once HARK, I don’t have to cook or clean up on a holiday. As for Israel, in my head – it’s a continuation of the muslim vs. jews thing that has been going on since forever. At least that’s how I Dr. Seuss simplify it. Frankly, after these past years I am so sick of all the hatred and division and people refusing to realize that we all can have different opinions and still get along without name calling, verbal attacks, looting, murdering, shooting, etc. For God sake, my cats don’t like each other but they eat meals next to each other 3 times a day. Aren’t we are evolved enough as a species to know that hate breeds more hate? Meanwhile, TT, you make me laugh.
This is a hard Christmas for me. I’m without my new granddaughter due to Covid-19 travel restrictions and meeting my son’s girlfriend on Christmas Eve. I told him he could bring her, and now he is. For some reason this distresses me. It’s so high stakes. I fear a proposal isn’t far off. He is 21 and graduating with his BS in Physics next Spring. His whole life is ahead of him. I think I wanted to keep him to myself— he’s my baby — just one more Christmas before grad school. I’m trying to let go. It’s harder than I ever imagined. I do it ALL for Christmas Eve and day. I’m Santa and the Virgin Mary for a solid month each year. I think I’ll have to channel Jesus on Christmas Eve. Pray for me!
Due to covid, we are celebrating Christmas Day with just our household. Just myself, husband, and our boys. No point making a big ol turkey for just us, chances are the kids would just eat buns and nothing else anyway. We’re doing a ginger food and appetizer feast. Great for us, great for little kids. Looking forward to it! I’ve also loaded up on mimosa and paralyzer ingredients. Mama WILL be partaking in alcohol. Merry Christmas everybody! Be smart this season and be safe.
Due to covid, we are celebrating Christmas Day with just our household. Just myself, husband, and our boys. No point making a big ol turkey for just us, chances are the kids would just eat buns and nothing else anyway. We’re doing a ginger food and appetizer feast. Great for us, great for little kids. Looking forward to it! I’ve also loaded up on mimosa and paralyzer ingredients. Mama WILL be partaking in alcohol. Merry Christmas everybody! Be smart this season and be safe!
Finger food. Not ginger food haha.
Dang I love Ginger and was trying to figure out what you would be cooking
Perhaps ginger food should be a thing. Merry Christmas!
Ginger food. It’s red and fiery!
I hope Drita D’Avanzo returns when Mob Wives does.
Hi TT, can you do a post about Palestine … I don’t understand the struggle and I want to. Can you post about the situation and why we need to free Palestine. Or can you point to reading where us uneducated can become educated?
Please make sure to read both sides of all the conflict, and not just a one-sided diatribe.
While Deb likes to post over and over about being Pro Israel. She is in the minority of the world. Here is what Amnesty International has to say.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
Israeli GOVERNMENT continues to kill Palestinian children, have cut them off from being able to get resources. Currently, they are unable to get the Covid vaccine.
Deb will tell you that there are fine people on both sides. Sound familiar? We give over 3 BILLION dollars of aid to Israel every year. Let’s think about why we do that? #racism.
I love Drita!
When the riots and looting were happening in Miami, the Israeli owned jewelry stores were guarded my machine toting Israelis. No one messed with them.
We usually spend Christmas on the beach but we are expecting a cold front. Hi of 60 Friday. Dinner with friends by the fireplace by the pool!
Love Mob Wives! Wasn’t Drita and her husband arrested and sent to jail for selling drugs? She will def have an interesting story line. Any news from the RHOOC reunion?
I think Drita wasn’t sent to jail but her husband went back again.
1. Thx for the early Christmas present! I love MOB WIVES!! 2. Why did you ever ever leave SSI?!?!
I ask myself that all the time. I lost my teaching job down there and stayed another year trying to buy a florist. Then 9-11 happened and the banks got all freaked out about loans and I just ended up coming back home.
Dinner menu:
Romaine salad with lemon Prosecco vinaigrette
Prime rib roast
Mashed potatoes
Roasted rainbow carrots
Roaster Brussel sprouts with bacon
Thyme buttered rolls
Pumpkin cheesecake
Just me and hubby will sit down together but before we do, we’ll drop off plates for family in the area. Worked well at Thanksgiving.
My lentil season will start 12/26. Must be ready to re-emerge this spring! Happy days will be here again (if your into old, old school and kind of sappy, google Barbara Streisand and Judy Garland singing Happy Days are Here Again/Get Happy duet).
We’ll get through this and be able to hug (selectively) and travel again (if that’s your thing) by late summer. Please.
Happy holidays all!
Can you please share your recipe for the vinaigrette? It sounds delicious!
Happy to if you can hang on until after Christmas… there is no recipe yet. I saw Prosecco vinegar in the grocery store and the idea formed:)
Oh, how wonderful!!! No such fancy ingredient here. I’ll just have the Prosecco 😂🥂
I am making an apple pie and packing care packages to be sent to several family members containing carrot banana nut bread. All of this to avoid cleaning my house! Ha!
I’m cooking a duck and andouille sausage gumbo and drinking lots of wine. This is the 1st Christmas I won’t be spending with my kids as they are in 3 different cities/households. I am grateful that we are all safe, employed and healthy. However, this pandemic still sucks.
We do breakfast at my house and dinner at my parents. Even though it’s usually hot in Australia, we still love a hot dinner. My favourite thing is crackling.
I’m kinda mostly focused on Boxing Day…. I’m getting married. My fiancé is German and we had 11 months apart this year. Very small and we are self catering so I have lots to do but am determined to keep it simple enough to enjoy it.
I really hope next year we are talking about how much better the year has been.
Congrats on the wedding! Will you two finally live together in the same country?
Thank you to you both!
No, long distance for at least 2 more years. I have a son to get through school and he runs a family business. We were going to wait another few years but this year changed our priorities ❤️
👰💒 CONGRATS 💒🤵
Am so very grateful to my Cajun neighbors.
New Orleans was a favorite place my bud and I loved.
They check in on me often/ I adore their generosity/hospitality.
2020 has sucked so much, and then you get a nugget, of kindness & humanity.
Every Saturday, knock on my door to come over glass of wine/shot of tequila.
As a young recent widow, little gestures go a long way.
Will spend Christmas with them – not cooking a damn thing, but will bring booze.
As a Jew, well half – if your mom is Jewish/ you are too. The lobbyist in DC, and I worked there – are heavily funded. Always follow the money.
Thank you for informing us about the issue in Palestine. That is horrible how the citizens are being treated.
On a completely non-important note, YEAH for Mob Wives! How ironic I just mentioned that show in my prior post about the Real Housewives of Potomac fight between Monique and Candiace?
Mobwives will only be good if Drita comes back. Especially since the beloved Big Ang has passed.
Thank you for the update and keeping us informed Tamara!
No Xmas celebration this year! No kids, and we haven’t had a tree in 25+ years cuz our fur kids would either get stuck or topple the tree so we gave up.
No biggie because our wedding anniversary is on 12/30. 37 years. I’m beyond grateful that hubby has listened to me and laughed with me all this time.
Going to order premade holiday dinner that we just stick in oven. I’ve never been June Cleaver and I never will be lol.
Love, (((((hugs))))) and the happiest season’s greetings to all!
Fabulous news! Love Drita,RIP Ang,Renee,Carla & Gravano! Trump & Kushner LARGEST FOREIGN AID $ in US history to criminal Netanyahu 2 yrs back; another $500mil yesterday in the “stimulus”! Beyond outrage! Wonderful you’re improving. It is a gruel. Merry merry..
Religious bigotry is not a one-way street. I frequently feel your bigotry regarding Jews. You lived in Arab countries, I get it. And I know you will deny deny deny, as you have in the past. It’s hard to look in the mirror sometimes, isn’t it?
I love this site, but whenever you mention anything to do with Jews, I cringe and bite my tongue.
Not hard at all. I’m not brainwashed by American media and I have been to Israel and during that time I went to the two Jerusalems. Now Palestinians have been run out of their homes and what Israel is doing is called CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY by many countries. Amnesty International has been trying to help for MANY YEARS.
Trump moved the Embassy a move NO ONE has ever approved of to appease Israel. I’m sure that made him and his family a lot of money.
This is a very easy conflict to know who to side with. And it is not Israel. America is sadly one of the few countries that doesn’t see this as inhumane and disgusting. Also American media is extremely insular. If you actually ventured out in the world, you would see that the American stance on this subject is considered criminal. https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
Educate yourself.
Trying to say I have something against Jews is akin to saying that Americans are racist bigots because of our current president. The people of the country are not liable for the horrific actions of their government.
Touché Tamara. I hope my comment will be allowed to remain.
I am not defending the policies of the Israeli government, especially this government, and what trump did moving the US Embassy was dreadful; l don’t believe it was in Israel’s best interests either. I struggle with non Jews hating on Israel because it feels personal, and anti-Semitic. I don’t know enough about the people behind Amnesty International to know if l trust them to be impartial or not. I used to strongly believe that Israel was never the aggressor, but that they always retaliated. I’m not as sure about that today, but l want Israel to survive. I do feel strongly about that. The Palestinians do not want Israel to survive. They have rejected a two state solution. How can any of that end well?
You don’t know if Amnesty International is a fair source? WOW.
Israel in all their Christian glory has demolished the homes of Palestinians shoved them into a desolate region, killed their children and left them without the ability to go anywhere. And yet you arrive here with your holier than thou attitude while having no idea what you are talking about.
The US and Israel are so in bed with each other that most Jewish Americans are highly uniformed. That needs to change. It can start with you. Do your own research. Eventually, because I have faith in you, you will be as outraged as the rest of the people informed on what is happening.
And the fact that Israel is always screaming about God and religion while slaughtering and holding Arabs prisoner as if they too do not have souls is BEYOND hypocrisy.
I might have just lost my faith in humanity. A person I went to high school with, whose father was a pallbearer at my father’s funeral. Sorry. This person advocated and played a part in getting a sexual predator pardoned from their sentence. It was an awful, disgusting crime. I am blown away that an individual, a politician, can build their platform on protecting victims, and can privately vouch for sexual predators from rich families to be released. I don’t think I will ever let my children out of my sight.
I was going to cook, then I just gave up and ordered some party platters from a local place. I am exhausted from remote learning, I can’t wrap anything, I can’t cook anything, I am about to just throw a sheet on the presents and pull it off and yell “Surprise!”
You may be feeling differently this morning but I love this idea!!! It would be fun and different for your little ones. They will always remember it with smiles if you do it with fanfare. And it gives you a break! I don’t know how you parents are doing this – I stand in awe. Seriously.
Maybe each child has a little (or big) pile and they pull of their own sheet?
I sat next to Big Ang at a restaurant in Chelsea (NYC) near the high line maybe 7 years ago now. I was too scared to say anything to her. Plus I was at a table with Sandra Burnhart and she scared me too much to say anything lmao! I totally forgot about that time in my life until just now. I miss Big Ang.
Has the highline been there for seven years? Wow. It occurs to me I haven’t been to NYC for 15 years or so. AND MY IMAGINARY INTERNET HUSBAND (that I have never met 🙁 ) lives there!
Oh gosh…. I think so I guess don’t remember how long it’s been there. Honestly it’s not worth walking more than once! The one walkway gets very narrow at times it’s almost a single file line. Very very crowded!!! There are much more beautiful walks to see the city, like the Promenade on Brooklyn hights! I can’t wait to be able to get back to New York!! I hope you can get up there and settle in with your internet husband. Although there might be some perks to keeping him internet only 😅
Why are we giving financial aid to Israel at all? Included in the slap heard round the world, that is $600 for every American, is $500 million to Israel while Palestine had their aid cut to $75 million in the most current stimulus check. Both Biden and Pelosi supported this aid, while Americans are facing eviction during the time of COVID. Not to worry, the $600 is gonna come in handy isn’t it? Why have we, the US, paid Israel $142 billion since Israel stole the land that was Palestine, right after WWII up until today? It appears Israel can do no wrong while attempting genocide on the Palestinian people. I’m neither Jewish nor Muslim. I loathe religion because this is the result of it. Innocent people dying. The Jewish state should hang its head in shame.
Israel was not stolen. It was created by the United Nations. There is not has ever been attempted genocide against the Palestinian people. Arab Israelis vote, serve in government and participate in Israeli society. Palestinians, whether citizens or not are treated in Israeli hospitals along side other Israelis, attend universities alongside other Israelis, work in Israel, and live there. This is just blatantly wrong. You may hold whatever views you may on US politics and budgetary priorities, but at least get the facts straight.
It’s exactly that type of hatred and false information by bigots that scares the shit out of me.
More Facts
https://news.un.org/en/tags/israel
It is amazing to me that this all started because I wanted Palestinians to get the Vaccine. And then all the killing Palestinian kids came up.
Oh really? Israel treats Palestinians well, does it?
Here are some actual facts courtesy of Amnesty International: “Israel continues to impose institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians living under its rule in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Israeli forces killed 38 Palestinians, including 11 children, during demonstrations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank; many were unlawfully killed while posing no imminent threat to life. Israel failed to ensure accountability and redress for victims of such grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. Israeli air strikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip killed 28 Palestinian civilians who were not directly participating in hostilities, including 10 children. Israel maintained its illegal blockade on the Gaza Strip, subjecting its residents to collective punishment and deepening the humanitarian crisis there. It continued to restrict freedom of movement of Palestinians in the OPT through checkpoints and roadblocks. Israeli authorities unlawfully detained in Israel thousands of Palestinians from the OPT, holding hundreds in administrative detention without charge or trial. Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, including children, were committed with impunity. Israel displaced over 900 Palestinians in the West Bank as a result of home demolitions. The authorities used a range of measures to target human rights defenders, journalists and others who criticized Israel’s continuing occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Syrian Golan Heights. The authorities denied asylum-seekers access to a fair or prompt refugee status determination process. Conscientious objectors to military service were imprisoned.”
How about you stop spreading propaganda? We can see the truth.
The US is one of a very small handful of people who endorses Israel, sends them shit tons of money, pays for their nuclear defense systems and goes along with their criminal behavior. But you have to read INTERNATIONAL news to know that. And the majority of Americans think Israel is A Okay. They are terrorists. But apparently they are OUR terrorists so that doesn’t matter.
Israel is a total shit show despite the US cash infusion ALL THE TIME. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/middleeast/israel-government-collapses-intl/index.html
Israel has a better defense system than the US and we paid for that “shield.” Sadly the Palestinians that have been displaced and moved to “Occupied Territory” are living in squalor. Pro-Israeli Americans tend to deny the facts that have been stated over and over and downplay the racism. Gee, wonder who they learned that from. The US continues to fund Israel and their horrific behavior because…. well I will let you figure out why Americans feel like Arabs are secondary global citizens.
Critics of Israeli politics are not often reported on in the US. Gee… again I wonder why?
But Facts are Facts.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
People, please get a grip. The US supports Israel because Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East. It is the only country in the Middle East where LGBTQ rights are present, where women have true equal rights, where minorities are protected. The State of Israel was created by a vote of the United Nations. It recognized that there had been a Jewish presence in the land since ancient times. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jews. Palestinians also have an ancestral claim to the land, which is what creates conflict now. It is a fight over land, and how or whether to share it. It is not a fight over religion. There is freedom of religion in Israel, more than the rest of the Middle East. People who die in this conflict (both Israeli and Palestinian) die in conflicts over the border, in military operations (on both sides). There is no organized “slaughter of children”, though I understand that phrase is useful in riling people up. The situation there is not perfect, by any means, but it is a far cry from what is being represented here. The basic conflict is that most of Israel is looking for a two state solution, and the Palestinian establishment wants Israel to be wiped off the map. There can be no peace until both sides agree that the other has the right to exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories
It was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY creepy that some women posted my birthday on the site and proceeded to tell me that I wasn’t raised in Libya, where I was raised, I feel like I should file for a restraining order at this point. She’s creepy. And highly misinformed about Libya, She should Google Oil Company School in Libya, Oh wait, she is IP blocked. Because CREEPY AS FUCK.
She hired Brawnwyn’s PI.
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It was creepy.
LOL It was like Tamara was born in… and I was like WTF? And the Air Base was shut down in.. LIKE REALLY? Tell my Dad that he was the guy in charge of Visas for many years after that… lol. Oil Companies and Lockheed were always there. I really just want to live long enough to go back. Sadly, that may never be possible. I’ve posted many a post here about my longing for Libya. It’s not really something someone makes up. LOL.
Still not over it. It was really weird. I feel like another hate site is being formed as I speak. Because how original. But her claiming I wasn’t raised in Libya is bizarre. I mean who does that? Should I dig out my Girl Scout sash with TOFS on it? (Troops on Foreign Soil). Or take photos of all my Libyan art? The good news is that I found a Facebook site for my school. Maybe I can track down a few people and also there are Libyans there and I have artifacts I need to pass on to someone who will appreciate them.
I am really sorry. It is sad and terrifying what people do now when they don’t agree with someone.
I’m not gonna talk Housewives or Palestine vs Isreal.
EVERYONE needs to get on board and take whatever vaccine is available when they can based on their need.
Globally hospitals are struggling, stretched capacity and care is so hard to understand for many people but it is extremely taxing and exhausting for staff, patient care ultimately is sacrificed.
We (the facility I work in) were literally DAYS from a vaccine. Our contracted provider won’t enter our building to vaccinate because Covid19 entered the building 11/30. I vasulate between angry and sad constantly but that doesn’t matter. I have to care for my sick and now dying residents we’ve tried to protect from the community spread all these months and we did so successfully with so much hard work and care. Now our building is suffering severe loss. We have a lot of sick staff too…between sick staff, scared staff, we have very few staff showing up. It’s beyond ugly.
Please, when you can get this vaccine, do so. Continue to mask and quarantine. If you have a heart attack and the ED is overwhelmed with Covid19 patients? Go!
I was very lucky, had to nag everyone and everyone to get vaccinated. IHS offered a limited supply to our facility staff. I did receive the first part of the Pfizer vaccine last Thursday! I know of one other staff member who received the vaccine the same day is sick and Covid19 pos on Tuesday. I tested negative on Tuesday evening. We have been testing staff for a long time 2 x a week due to to community spread over 10%.
I know there are people that say they don’t know anyone who has been infected with this virus. I can honestly say I have known countless people I know personally and the affected family members is shockingly sad.
We are months away from herd immunity if people take a vaccine and continue to mask and protect each other. Months, like 3 to 6? Is this really that hard now?
So sorry to hear this Kipper. I admire your strength and dedication i this serious time. I do know people who are pos. My niece, her husband and her two sons all had Covid. And I recently found out my nephew and his wife had it too. It is spreading everywhere here. It is terrifying.
I have done some research.
Under the Oslo Accords of 1995, Article 17, powers and responsibilities in the health sector, including for vaccinations, were transferred to the Palestinian side.
The Palestinians have not approached Israel for help in obtaining COVID-19 vaccines and are planning to purchase them on their own with the help of the international community, Palestinian and Israeli officials said as recently as December 20, 2020.
In mainstream media reporting, a senior official with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health said that the Palestinians do not expect Israel to sell them, or purchase on their behalf, the vaccine from any country.
According to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health: “We are working on our own to obtain the vaccine from a number of sources. We are not a department in the Israeli Defense Ministry. We have our own government & Health Ministry, and they are making huge efforts to get the vaccine.”
Even the media reports referred to by Mr. Angus and Ms. Gazan make clear that: “the [Palestinian] Authority has not officially asked for help from Israel. Coordination between the two sides halted last year after the Palestinian president cut off security ties for several months.”
In other words, the Palestinian leadership refused to even talk to Israel when the latter was ordering vaccine doses, let alone coordinate a complex rollout operation. Before that, the United Nations official news site published an article titled: “COVID-19: UN envoy hails strong Israel-Palestine cooperation.”
At the United Nations, as early as April 23, 2020, Israel’s representative stated that COVID-19 does not distinguish across borders, noting that at times of crisis peoples and governments “show their true colours”. Outlining Israel’s work to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 across the region, he said it is providing resources to the United Nations response, facilitating the flow of medical supplies and food into Gaza, and conducting medical trainings for Palestinian health workers. Israel, he said, has also donated health equipment, including testing kits, to the Palestinian Authority.
More recently, Israel’s Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein, told The New York Times it is in Israel’s interest to help stop the virus from spreading among Palestinians, adding that he has “no doubt it will be done.”
Reputable media sources have also noted that “The Palestinians do not expect Israel to sell them, or purchase on their behalf, the vaccine from any country… the Palestinians will soon receive nearly four million Russian-made vaccines against COVID-19. The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources.”
The Palestinian Authority’s own current assessment is that they will begin to receive doses of the Sputnik V and AstraZeneca vaccines in January-February. This is comparable with neighboring countries in the region, including those with major Palestinian populations such as Lebanon and Jordan.
Israel has informed Palestinian prisoners in custody for security offences that they will be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the near future, according to Qadri Abu Baker, Director of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Commission.
A few tips for you. First, doing research doesn’t mean reading some Israeli propaganda and not citing your source.
Israel is saying THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what every other country is saying about them and decrying “fake news!” Guess where they learned that? Before we even get to the vaccine issue, if you really want to do some research you may want to start here. https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
Israel only allows the Palestinians in the OCCUPIED west bank to have power for a few hours a day. This will be a huge obstacle even when they get the vaccine with all the other poverty stricken countries since they have no way to regulate the temperature.
If you are interested in the fact pick basically anything that is not written for Israeli journalism. Not that I think you care, but here are some options. I’m going to assume you are Jewish or Israeli because everyone else in the entire world who is aware of world events is pretty outraged over the West Bank in general, and how they have been killed and tortured for years. But this is beyond heartbreaking.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-vaccine-palestinians-coronavirus/2020/12/18/f1d8d572-4083-11eb-b58b-1623f6267960_story.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/952364150/as-israel-leads-in-covid-19-vaccines-per-capita-palestinians-still-await-shots
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/03/palestinians-excluded-from-israeli-covid-vaccine-rollout-as-jabs-go-to-settlers
I’ve provided several links to educate you if you care to be. Please cease and desist from posting Israeli propaganda on my site in the future.
You posted about politics, and then don’t want to hear opposing ideas. If you don’t want a political debate, maybe you should steer clear of political posts.
What I said was not to paste Israeli propaganda on the site and gave you several links from reputable sites outside Israel to where you could get a more global view. There are no opposing views that I am interested in when it comes to crimes against humanity there are not “good people on both sides.”