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SOME PEOPLE don't know that the PICTURES for each GUITAR
are inside that little guitar 
to the
left of each listing, so just click it!
**** Just In Friday April 19th 2024 ***
*TELECASTER, 1972, Blonde, Maple neck, good refret, Lindy
rewinds, big neck, plays great, vgc, ohsc.....$4700
*GIBSON Les Paul Goldtop Deluxe, c 1971, 2 Mini Humbuckers,
all original, near mint front, some superficial
scratches on the back, 9.45 lbs, shaped hard case
with orange lining, exc+.....
*GIBSON Les Paul Standard, 2005, "50s neck", cherry sunburst,
some flame on top, ohsc..$2150
*NATIONAL Tricone #2, 1930, Wild Rose pattern, Square neck,
exc,. ohsc.....$4500
**** Updated Sunday April 14th 2024 ***
*GRETSCH 6120, c 1958, vibrant Orange, 2 original DeArmonde pickups,
Ebony board with 1/2 moon in lays, neck is detached and
probably needs a new board ( which we can supply) and be
re-assembled, all origina parts are included other than
a pickguard, ohsc...$3500
*GIBSON L-00 Standard, 2016, sunburst, sunburst spruce top,
Mahogany back & sides, exc, ohsc.....$1750
*GIBSON L-00 Studio Rosewood, 2023, light sunburst, Spruce top
Rosewood back & sides, near mint, ohsc...$1550
*REPUBLIC Parlor guitar, recent, exc, hsc....$295
*B&D Peerless 5 String Banjo, '30s, all original but new
tailpiece, ohsc....$1250
* SX 6 String Banjo, used, imprt, with Resonator, hsc....$275
*GIBSON ES-347, 1979, Natural, Gold hardware with fine
tuning tailpiece and tunomatic, ebony board with pearl block
inlays, original coil tap switch, exc, gigbag....$3500
**** Updated Wednesday April 10th 2024 ***
*GIBSON Les Paul/SG style, 1962, Cherry, Sideways Vibrola,
2 original PAFs, once had Grovers and now has original
tuners, pro refret, no breaks, or cracks, vibrant cherry,
vgc++, hsc....$19,500
*GIBSON Les Paul Special, 1959, faded Cherry, double cutaway, 2 P-90s,
some wear and tear on the finish but still looks great,
no cracks or repairs, vgc, hsc.......$12,900
*GIBSON Les Paul Custom 1977, Limited edition with 2 P-90s,
back of neck pro refin because of small peghead crack,
pro refret, exc-, ohsc......$3950
*GIBSON ES-330 Re-issue, 2016, Sunburst, original Bigsby,
flamed Mahogany back, exc+, cert, hsc.....$3950
*GIBSON EB-2, ca 1959, Refinished natural, 1 pickup at the neck,
Banjo tuners with metal (replaced) Grover buttons, red Baritone
push button, original brown case with new handle, vgc++....$2900
**** Updated Monday April 8th 2024 ***
*FENDER Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano, new pro tolex, 73 keys,
complete with cover, legs, pedal and fine tuned, exc...$2695
*GIBSON ES-335, 2022, 2-tone sunburst, Dot-neck, made in
Nashville, $3495 new, ohsc, like new...$2350
*FENDER '68 Vibro Champ Reverb-Amp, recent, re-issue of
a '68 silver Panel but with added Reverb, Celestion
1030 Speaker, dual button footswitch,exc...$750
*MARTIN 00-42SC John Meyer, 2011, near mint
*D'AQUISTO Custom Electric, c 1978, amberburst,
semi-solid body electric with curly Maple body, top, and neck,
2 humbuckers, Ebony board with pearl block inlays,
binding was starting to go so it's been professionally
rebound by Trenier, mostly Jimmie put Dimarzio humbuckers
in his electrics and we have 2 in the case but right
now it has Duncans, 7.4 lbs, 25 1/4" scale, Ebony pickguard,
bridge, and tailpiece, Finial at peak of peghead,
obtained from a friend of the original owner who requested
to have the pickup selector switch under the pickguard,
only about 19 of these exquisite guitars were
made by Jimmy D'Aquisto, the heir to John D'Angelico, who
became the pre-eminant guitar builder from the '60s thru
1995 the year that he passed on, vgc+, hsc..$37,500
*COLLINGS Eastside LC Deluxe, 2011, Merlot, cutaway archtop,
flamed Maple top and back, Rosewood board with 'broken glass'
fingerboard and Peghead inlays, Ebony tailpiece, bridge,
pickguard and knobs, original Lollar pickup and humbucker
in case, 5.6 lbs, original Ameritage case...$5500
*FENDER Custom Shop Relic '59 Strat, Fiesta Red, 2018,
heavy relic, Rosewood board, Anodized guard, 7.75 lbs,
"C" neck, exc, cert & build sheet, brown case...$3500
*LES PAUL Custom '57 Historic re-issue, 2007, Black,
2 humbuckers, Gold hardware, some minor marks, exc, ohsc...$3900
*LES PAUL Florentine Custom, Cherry Sunburst, 2006,
Flamed Maple top with 2 ƒ holes, 2 double black humbuckers,
8.2 lbs, exc, ohsc..$5250
**** Updated Friday March 29th 2024 ***
*FENDER Jazz Bass, 1970, Sunburst, bound Rosewood board
with pearl block inlays, 9.6 lbs, all original except the neck
pickup was rewound, vgc, hsc.....$5950
*MARTIN 000-18, 1943, light weight and beautiful, some usual wear
on the finiash, bridge is slighytly cut down, original bridge
plate, original tuners, refretted, scalloped bracing,
vgc+, hsc.....$18,500
*GIBSON Victory MVX, 1982, cherry red finish, two hums
and a single single coil, the bridge pickup may not be original, the other
humbucker is a Tim Shaw Gibson, slight rash on peg head from being on stand,
otherwise excellent condition, hsc.....$1650
*GIBSON Les Paul Standard 1978, Tobacco Sunburst, tuners changed to
Grovers, bridge pickup is a double white Dimarzio, neck pickup
is a Gibson Bill Lawrence tarback, pro refret, ohsc...$3500
*GURIAN SM3, c 1978, Grand concert flat top with Spruce top,
Mahogany back & sides, herringbone trim, Ebony board and
bridge, Rosewood binding, 25.5" scale, 1 10/16" at the nut,
plays great, vgc++, hsc....$2450
**** Just In Tuesday March 26th 2024 ***
*GIBSON L-7, 1940, Natural, 17" archtop, non-cutaway, carved
Spruce top, solid curly Maple back & sides, dark Brazilian
Rosewood board, straight-across script "Gibson' pearl logo,
original pickguard starting to go, DeArmond 1000 Rhythm Chief
pickup with maroon middle, with volume, tone and push switch
vgc++, original redline case...$5500
*GIBSON ES-175D, ca 1970, Sunburst, repaired headstock crack,
2 Gibson "Pat No" stickered humbuckers, no volute,
1 11/16" at the nut, vgc+, hsc...$2900
*KAY K310 Electric guitar, ca 1960s, Red, 1 pickup
*VEGA Style M Tubaphone Irish Tenor Banjo, 1925, 17 frets, all
original, 11" head, exc, ohsc.....$895
*BACON Emperor Tenor Banjo, ca 1930, 19 fret Tenor with resonator,
19 frets, exc, ohsc...$750
*NEW Electro Harmonix Pedals Just Arrived-
360 Looper....125.20
Flatiron Fuzz.... $85.30
Lizard Queen.......$99
Triangle Big Muff.... $112.50
Rams Head Big Muff....$131
Op-Amp Big Muff....$96
Soul Food........ $101.60
Deluxe Memory Boy...$149.10
Synth 9......$259
B-9......$259
Holy Grail.....$137.90
Deep Freeze $190.10
* a BOB DYLAN Hohner MArine Band Harmonica, Key of E,
Hohner Harmonica in the key of E, with approximately a 1” square of
textured opaque white tape in the middle of the top of the
harmonica with the Key inked on in magic marker formerly owned by
Bob Dylan. This is how Bob had his harps marked so that he could
readily see the key he needed while on stage, or in the studio as
Hohner identifies the key of each harp with only a tiny
1/8” impression of the key into the end of the harp, extremely difficult to
see in normal circumstances let alone during a session or a concert.
This one was purchased by me from a friend, who was given it as a
gift by one of Dylan's techs both of whom I know personally.
A similar one written in the same hand, on the exact same
textured tape and was sold at auction for $4886 including the buyer’s premium:
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/343653105965280
The harmonica is in excellent condition, with case......$3500
Books-
*Greig Hutton's Guide to MARTIN Guitars 1833-1969,
426 pages of insider info, New...$70
BACK IN STOCK! *Palm Trees, Senoritas... and Rocket Ships" - the illustrated History of National, Dobro,
Supro, Valco and OMI Guitars
A 423 page tour-de-force that explores the
fascinating design world of the musical instruments produced by the Dopyera
Brothers from 1923 to 1993. Famous for their 'National' guitars, they went
on to pioneer electric pickups, fiberglass construction, amplifiers etc, and
influenced the sound of Country Music, Bluegrass, Blues and Hawaiian music
through most of the 20th Century.
Entirely and lavishly illustrated with over 1100 musical instruments and
amplifiers and more than 100 artists who used them - this is THE
DEFINITIVE COLLECTION of all the various developments, designs, colours
and engraving patterns of everything produced by the Dopyera Brothers
in their various companies throughout the 20th century - National, Dobro,
Supro, Valco, Mosrite, Regal and OMI. It has them ALL! It also features lap steels, amplifiers
and various National and Valco manufactured items for other Trade houses.
The book is concluded with an updated list of the serial numbers of known
and re-discovered instruments - now in excess of 4200. A MUST HAVE for
anyone interested in these guitars. Leaves other books on the subject
in the dust....$140
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*STORE PANORAMIC VIEW- OF SORTS
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To see Lark Street Music's Wall click here
Duke Levine w/ the Roy Sludge Trio in the store the day between
the Bowery and the Bell House gigs in NY last week - click here for a clip.
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********* PICTURES from the EXHIBIT *************
These are fairly large prints and are here in the store for purchase, all signed by Jonathan Singer-
check his site www.botanicamagnifica for his story.
Prices were from $500-$1000. On sale, 30-40% off
SG and Marshall
Defying logic- 3 Explorers, courtesy J. Menza
Two '59 Les Pauls, courtesy J. Menza
Two Airlines
Three Strats, courtesy Lark Street Music
Old Golds-ES-295 & '54 Les Paul, courtesy Lark Street Music
The '60 Cherry Les Paul, courtesy J. Menza
Moserite Double & Selmer Zodiac, courtesy Lark Street Music
Bacon & Days anyday, courtesy Lark Street Music
Firebirds, courtesy Lark Street Music
EPI EMPEROR & AMP
2 Centuries of Progress!
more to come....
OUR FIRST, AND SO FAR ONLY, TV COMMERCIAL----
featuring Buck Malen, Johnny Rabb, Kevin Maul, unknown banjo phenom & Frances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1DrFtoJAe0
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Before After .....
We often get asked "where do these guitars come from" ??? or "who buys these things" ??
So here's an interesting picture of the quite rare White ES-345 (that we had for sale for about a year)
with both it's original ( c. 1964), and current (April'06) owners.
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IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE VIEWING THESE PHOTOS, SEE BELOW
Some have complained about bad pictures. If this is happening to you or your PC, let me know. We have Macs
and the pictures are large and clear, so we'd like to know figure out why this problem is happening
An answer from my brother Rick-
By default, Internet Explorer will shrink pictures to fit onto one screen.
That's probably what people are complaining about. Usually, if they hold the
cursor over the picture for a few seconds, a button will appear and they can
click it to restore the pic to full size. I hate the feature, so I just turn
it off and always see the photos full-size:
From the IE menu bar, click Tools | Internet Options
Click the Advanced tab
Scroll down to the Multimedia section
Remove the check from "Enable Automatic Image Resizing"
Click OK to save settings
REPAIRS
For you who don't know, we do all manner of guitar repair and restoration. We do most of it here but
also give some work to Dom Ramos -repairing and building since working in Dan Armstrong's shop in
the '60s. We've also been a Martin Warrantee Center since 1985 before Martin closed down all 5 NJ Centers
because of a tax dispute between NJ and Martin
COMMENTARY-
DON'T SCROLL DOWN - Feelings below
Political sentiments
Turn back before it's too late!\
FROM HONEST REPORTING- 11/27/23
During the tense four days that have passed since the start of the Israel-Hamas truce on November 24, media have created a false moral equivalence between the release of Israeli hostages held by the terrorist group and Palestinian prisoners who have been jailed in Israel. Such coverage, which implicitly equates Israel to Hamas and validates the latter’s strategy, may have far-reaching ramifications on the continuation of the war.
In order to achieve that distorted equation between innocent women and children who were abducted from their homes and prisoners who have been charged with acts of violence or terror, media have used three parallel strategies: Sanitizing the Palestinian prisoners, referring to the Israeli hostages as “prisoners” and creating textual and visual symmetry regarding the joyful family reunions of each side.
AP and Reuters Set the Narrative
The Associated Press has managed to incorporate the first two strategies in one headline: “Palestinian families rejoice over release of minors and women in wartime prisoner swap.”
The rest of AP’s story, while including some background on the released Palestinian “minors and women” (but none on the Israeli “prisoners”) carries an empathetic tone that borders on justification for Hamas’ kidnappings. For example, it quotes an official referring to “prisoner exchanges” as “the only hope” for prisoners’ families, without mentioning that she works for a group with terror links:
“These kinds of prisoner exchanges are often the only hope families have to see their sons or fathers released before many years go by,” said Amira Khader, international advocacy officer at Addameer, a group supporting Palestinian prisoners. “It’s what they live for, it’s like a miracle from God.”
The story ends with an emotional quote from a released Palestinian prisoner, who was jailed in Israel for throwing stones:
It was his first glimpse of the world after a year in prison for throwing stones in the northern town of Qalqilya. He was freed even though he had eight months of his sentence left to serve.He turned toward his father, wrapping him into a hug. “Look, I’m almost bigger than you now,” he said.
The hurling of rocks can kill, and it has killed Israelis in the past. It is most certainly not a harmless pastime activity as some media have intimated. The story also does not detail the various charges against most of the released Palestinians, which range from attempted murder and violent assault to terror affiliations.
The same distorted patterns appear in Reuters coverage. A mind-boggling headline refers to Israel and Hamas “prisoners,” including a four-year-old whose parents were brutally murdered in front of her eyes before she was kidnapped to Gaza.
An earlier version of the story included a video featuring a split-screen showing 9-year-old Emily Hand, an Israeli girl released from Hamas captivity, reunited with her father, next to the family reunion of released Palestinian bomber Israa Jaabis:
A textual symmetry followed the visual one: After detailing Hand’s family’s plight, the story ends with a quote from Shorouk Dwayyat. Nowhere does it mention that Dwayyat is a PFLP member who tried to stab Israelis to death:
In comments to Al Jazeera TV from her home, freed prisoner Shorouk Dwayyat, who had served half of her 16-year prison term, said she felt joy mixed with pain. “I feel like I am in a dream, but I hope that the war on Gaza will stop as soon as possible.”
When one of the world’s largest news agencies fails to mention such details, instead presenting terrorists on the same moral level as a 9-year-old who’s been abducted from her home, it violates journalistic and human values alike.
US, UK Media Sanitize and Equate
The New York Times also featured Israa Jaabis, sanitizing her attempted murder by passively blaming her vehicle:
She was arrested that year after her car exploded at a checkpoint near Jerusalem in the West Bank, leaving her disfigured and an Israeli police officer seriously injured.
National Public Radio didn’t even bother checking the facts. It simply published a photo gallery presenting the release of Israeli hostages amid pictures of Palestinians celebrating their prisoners’ release.
The Washington Post, meanwhile, included the following paragraph about the Palestinian prisoners release after a description and photos of the family reunions of freed Israeli children:
Videos posted on social media showed similarly joyful scenes in the West Bank, where Palestinian women and children freed by Israel were reunited with their families. A bus carrying Red Cross staff and the prisoners as part of the second day’s releases arrived to a crowd of supporters holding flags in the occupied West Bank early Sunday.
But the “similarly joyful scenes” were not similar at all. As German magazine Bild has pointed out: “The Israelis celebrate the return of the hostages, the Palestinians the release of prisoners. The difference couldn’t be greater: Israeli parents peacefully hug their released children. Palestinian ex-prisoners are cheered at terror marches”.
The Washington Post also does not say a word about why the Palestinian women and “children” (most of whom were minors) were arrested in the first place.
Israel spokesperson Mark Regev confronted a Sky News anchor about this issue, exposing the fact she was not even aware of the charges against the released Palestinians:
Some media have created an abysmal narrative that whitewashes terrorists by comparing them to innocent toddlers.
Some have minimized the kidnappings that took place on October 7 by equating the suffering of Israeli hostages to that of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
And by doing so, they have created a false moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. They have also implicitly validated Hamas’ strategy of kidnapping Israelis and undermined Israel’s justification to continue fighting against the terror organization.
In a week that may be decisive for the course of the war as the agreed-upon truce between Israel and Hamas comes to an end, media have a responsibility to report the facts, not to create them.
END OF ARTICLE
Bruria Efune ·A LONG READ, BUT IT'S FAST AND TRUE-
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I’m not writing this for the antisemites or closeted Jew-haters. They will always think and believe what they want to think and believe.
But for the Jews who are confused; for our friends who want to support us but are being bombarded with false information; and for the youth on college campus and even high school who are pressured to stay quiet and hide—this is for you.
We are one people, and when one of us bleeds, we all bleed. I know that you are also hurting inside, ever since the day you saw 1,400 of our people slaughtered in the most vicious way. And our friends worldwide who want a world of good, you also feel the pain of 200 kidnapped people—babies, children, and grandmas being held by terrorists.
Let’s take a moment to understand what is really going on, and address the claims you may have been hearing.
For perspective, let’s first look at what happened on Tuesday night, when suddenly every news outlet across the globe headlined that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza and killed 500 people.
The news outlets all published these headlines based on word they received from Hamas—a recognized terror organization that had just slaughtered 1,400 Israelis. None of them took a moment to consider that it was impossible for Hamas to know the death toll within mere minutes of the blast. None of them listened when Israel said that it does not target hospitals. It took until the next day when President Biden confirmed evidence that the blast was in fact from a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that these outlets changed their headlines only slightly.
But the ridiculousness of it all came glaringly obvious in the morning, when photos and video footage showed that the blast had been in the hospital parking lot, where there was nothing but damaged cars. Realizing they were caught in a huge lie, Hamas dropped their death toll estimate to “10-40.”
Take a moment to consider how eager everyone was to share word from a terror organization when it would make Israel look bad—even with significant evidence that it was false. Think how reluctant they were to correct the error, if they did at all. Now have this in mind whenever you hear any anti-Israel headlines. Consider how comfortable people feel with a lie when it’s to prosecute Israel.
With that in mind, let’s look at some popular anti-Israel catchphrases going around these days:
*”Israel’s response is disproportionate.”*
After decades of firing tens of thousands missiles and mortars at Israeli civilians, on October 7th, terrorists from Gaza launched a full war on Israel. An estimated 2,900 Hamas terrorists broke through the Israeli border and tortured, raped, and murdered 1,400 Israelis, and kidnapped 200 more. The vast majority of those killed were civilians, including babies, children, and elderly Holocaust survivors.
To quote one of the terrorists describing their cruelty, “we behaved like animals.”
The terrorists chose October 7th in order to target a music and peace festival being held in the forest near Gaza, which was full of teens and young adults. They stormed the festival and turned it into a bloodbath.
Since October 7th, terrorist faction in Gaza fired 7,000 rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians, adding an entire Bedouin family to the death toll amongst others, displacing 500,000 Israeli civilians, and destroying homes, schools, playgrounds, and even a wing of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
The only proportionate response is the complete eradication of Hamas, and a guarantee of safety to all Israeli citizens.
*“Israelis are European colonizers!”*
This one is disgusting and blatant antisemitism. It’s shameful that we even need to respond to it.
Israel is and always was home to the Jewish people. For 3,377 years there has never been a time when Jews did not live in Israel. Most Jews were forcefully exiled by foreign conquers and occupiers, but never once stopped praying for the return to Zion and Jerusalem, and attempting to return when possible.
My husband and I can both personally trace our lineage to when our families were expelled from Israel, and when we returned, as can most Jews from both Europe and the Middle East. We are the indigenous people here, and it is racist to call us the occupiers or colonizers of our own land.
In addition, not all Israelis are Jewish. Many are Muslim, Druze, Christian, or others, and they serve in the military too, and are also being killed by Hamas terrorists.
*“The Palestinians just want a State!”*
In 1947 the Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine were offered more than half the land in a partition plan. They refused it and chose instead to attempt the annihilation of all the Jews. They failed.
Notably, when the land from the partition plan was mostly taken by Jordan and Egypt, no one called for them to make it into a Palestinian state.
The Palestinians were again offered a state in the 1993 Oslo Accords, but Hamas opposed it, and instead chose to launch terror attacks on Israel.
In 2000, at the Camp David Summit, the Palestinians refused an offer that included even more territory, and instead launched the Second Intifada.
In 2005, Israel evacuated all 8,000 Jewish citizens from their homes Gaza, and gave the Palestinians a state with beautiful beaches and infrastructure. Countries worldwide poured in billions of dollars, hoping that the Palestinians would make it into a paradise. Instead, they elected Hamas as the government, and spent all the money on terror.
The Hamas Covenant is very clear in what they actually want:
“Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious... The Islamic Resistance Movement is but one squadron that should be supported...until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realized. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine...”
*“Israel maintained a siege on Gaza.”*
That’s literally impossible, since Gaza also has a border with Egypt.
Israel maintained security borders like any other country. Due to Hamas’s tendency to import rockets which are used on Israeli citizens, Israel inspects all imports at the border, and in non-war times, allows all safe materials through.
To enter Israel, you must have a visa or work permit, which plenty of people from Gaza had. Many of the small Israeli communities near Gaza are made up of people who dreamed of peace with Gaza, and therefore hired many Gaza workers. In a horrific turn of events, several of those permit-holding workers assisted in planning the terror attack, and stormed Israel on October 7th to murder and kidnap the very people they worked with.
This pulls into question whether Israel should ever have given work permits to Gaza citizens at all.
*”Israel stopped supplying water and electricity to Gaza!”*
This sounds ridiculous when you think about it. What country supplies electricity and water to a people that declared war on them and slaughtered their civilians?
Gaza had its own power plant and water supply, but Hamas plundered the equipment to make rockets which they fired into Israel. Despite this, Israel had been supplying them with electricity, gas, and water. All three were turned off at the start of the war, but the water was turned back on shortly after.
If Gaza can’t produce their own electricity now, they can turn to their other neighbor, Egypt, who they did not declare war on.
*”Israel is killing civilians in Gaza!”*
Sadly, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists hide in between civilians and use them as human shields. Historically, Israel has made a huge effort to minimize civilian casualties, by giving warnings before bombing any building, and using precision targeting.
This time Israel has a moral obligation to the safety of its citizens to eradicate Hamas. Therefore the IDF gave Gaza civilians a safe evacuation route away from areas which will be under heavy fire, with two weeks notice to evacuate. Hamas has been making an effort to block civilian evacuation, though most have thus far succeeded in moving to safer locations.
In addition, since October 7th, 1 in 5 rockets fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fell short—that adds up to 550 rockets that they fired on their own people, contributing to an unknown but high number of civilian deaths in Gaza.
*”Israel is committing an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians!”*
The Palestinian population has been growing at the same rate as the Jewish population in Israel. That’s not how ethnic cleansing or genocide works. This is a bigger lie than the Gaza hospital bombing, and reeks of antisemitic undertones.
*“Israel is apartheid.”*
All Israelis have equal rights, at every level. There are even Muslim parties in the Knesset (parliament), holding 10 of 120 seats. A quick stroll through any major Israeli city will show you Israelis of all religions getting about their day together, happily. My dentist and my husband’s primary physician are both Arab, and that’s the norm!
Often when people cry apartheid, they are referring to Palestinians. They are not Israeli, they live in either Gaza, which is under Hamas rule, or parts of the West Bank, which are under governance of the Palestinian Authority. They are treated like any other visitor to Israel - they can apply for a work or tourist visa to enter, and then work or tour like any other visa-holding visitor.
*“Zionism is evil. Not all Jews are Zionists.”*
Zionism is a longing for Zion - Jerusalem, and Israel. Jews are from Zion. For over 2,000 years Jews have been praying three times a day, and after every time we eat bread, for the return of all Jews to Zion. You cannot separate Jerusalem from Judaism.
Stand strong. The world has become a frightening place for the Jewish people. We remember those who stayed silent enablers during the Holocaust, and those who managed to resist the pressure and become heroes. We see you, and we respect you for making the right choice.
Pictured: In between collecting mutilated bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas, and seeing the torture inflicted on families with small children before they were murdered, a ZAKA worker breaks down in tears.
A friend wrote this. I take no credit, but it's food for thought.
"I'm not asking anyone to take my side, or the side of Israel, but I am asking you to think critically about the news you get from CNN and the BBC and AlJazeera or whatever station you watch
If we were colonizers, we would be actively planning wars, and TAKING land, not giving it away for PEACE. ( SINAI, Lebanon, Gaza strip...all relinquished, after being won, fairly, in a war, which we did not start. And yet still given away, in the promise of PEACE, which we have not gotten in return)
If we were committing genocide, then the population of Gaza and the West Bank would not have GROWN since 1967, but rather gotten smaller..no? Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank 1967: less than 1 million. Arabs in those areas today: 5 million)
That is not GENOCIDE! You cannot have 500% population growth in a genocide.
The definition of genocide is:
" The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group"
Does it look like we've destroyed anyone or are aiming to?
Point of fact, we do not engage unless engaged with. And even then, our engagements are military, warnings in advance to clear the area and no civilian engagement whenever possible.
Which brings me to the next part:
War Crimes. Do you see in Israel rocket launchers on residential streets, missiles hidden under hospitals and schools (yes, even UNWRA schools got in on the deal)? Do you see 5 year old martyrs with hand grenades, and children trained with automatic weapons, and calls to behead all arabs, wherever we can find them? No, you do not.
That is what our army faces against daily. And our CIVILIAN population is faced with daily, hourly....the WAR CRIMES of HAMAS and the Palestinian Authority.
If we wanted to flatten all of Gaza and turn it into a parking lot, we have the weapon power to do it in 3 minutes. Why in the world do you think we haven't? After 10,000's of rockets and missiles have been fired indiscriminately at our cities and schools and homes, after Israelis have been killed and maimed and attacked....the reason is because we value HUMAN LIFE. Because we are trying to save the lives of the people of Gaza and the West Bank. We introduced water and power infrastructure to their villages. Before Israel, they had none.
Next, the claims that Gaza is an open air prison, or a death camp etc. Ask yourself, how poor Gaza, that the BBC and NYT likes to claim is cut off from the world, and has no access to supplies...can import or import the materials to make thousands of rockets and missiles and rocket launchers --but can't import food, or medicine? Ask yourself where all of the cement and supplies to build schools and hospitals went...when instead there are hundreds of miles of cement and steel reinforced underground terror tunnels built every year.
Finally, ask yourself how the leaders and government of poor Gaza have enough money to have a Billionaires Gaza Yacht Club with multi-million dollar yachts, and facilities, luxurious 5 star hotels, shopping malls filled with Gucci and Chanel and Polo shirts -- while their people literally starve and beg for help.
And that is the main point. Israel does not govern GAZA. Israel is not in GAZA. Israel does not control GAZA. Gaza controls GAZA. So whatever the War Crime is for shelling your own population (430 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel have actually fallen within Gaza hurting and killing their own people), for putting rockets and missiles under their homes, for stealing their food and international aid -- you should know who to blame. The same Gazan leadership the Free Palestine movement funds and supports.
And now, think again critically about this situation. Do you honestly think that "Free-ing Palestine", and turning Israel over to these same folks that currently run GAZA or Ramallah so well is the solution to anything? Will provide more food or medicine or opportunity or freedom to ANYONE? Free Palestine hangs gay men from the tops of buildings and drags their bodies through the streets. Free Palestine supports honor killings of young women who have been raped or abused or shamed. Free Palestine calls for the elimination of all Jews. Free Palestine is in reality, nothing more than a thuggish, brutal, facist military regime, dressed up like a woke, liberal western project with nice slogans and catchy protest tunes.
Like with most things, just follow the money and see what Free Palestine is really all about before lending your voice or your funds or support.
Again, you don't have to wave an Israeli flag from your flagpole, but if you care about justice, real justice, and peace, freedom and security, think critically about the information you receive and then ask yourself what rings true."
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