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what is going on guys Patrick here bringing you a brand new video today we

got another killer video for you guys full of information we're gonna be

talking about the death cross where are the markets headed I don't see a lot of

people talk about this so I'm gonna cover that because so many of you guys

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that let's jump right into the video though first thing first we saw brick

we'll do this yesterday we're seeing oMG and Vitalik also do this today so they

donated $1,000,000 in crypto to charity now this is again a smart marketing move

in my opinion to kind of push the cryptocurrency name and seeing see it

being used for good things other than what's being other than like the

thoughts people have of it now I'm in a bunch of scams that people think that

cryptocurrency is maybe this is going to give them more positive insight on what

cryptocurrency is so more people will take the time in to research it and

figure out what exactly is going on number two I'm gonna run through the

news very quickly cuz that's not the important part of the video that's not

what you guys are here for but number two is the Bank of England is gonna test

blockchain features for new payment system again more people adopting the

blockchain technology realizing that it's significantly better than what we

have going on right now so the Bank of England is going to test that out and

hopefully again they come out with positive results and it's gonna show the

whole world that they're missing out if they're not currently investing and

looking into these you know this new technology so again a good adoption

point and the last article is BitFenix wants to move to Switzerland I like this

because I personally I personally a big fan of Switzerland I think currently

they're in the British Virgin Islands I think moving to Switzer

is a good idea I think they're going to do better there than the fifth-largest

crypto exchange so wanted to shout that out that looks like a very good idea now

let's go to the markets because today isn't a day for news today is a day for

the markets we dropped under 300 billion dollars in market cap I just hit the

refresh button so let's see what it actually comes out to two hundred and

seventy seven billion bitcoins almonds at forty five point six percent so I get

a Bitcoin holding its value pretty up better than other altcoins

that's why the dominance is going up in the week bitcoins only down fourteen

point three percent a lot of all coins are down a lot more you see the likes of

Neil down 23% at fifty three dollars if theory I'm almost under for a hundred

dollars that's a painful because for some reason I have some etherium that I

should have sold into something else I don't know why I didn't I was a dumb

move on my part I should have sold it for some more neo and stuff like that

because I'm just personally don't want to hold too much aetherium I would

rather hold other things but that's a shame however we have coins like Tron

which we're gonna talk a little bit about today up 33 percent in the week

and eight percent in the day so you guys know again don't be fooled by this

because charlie isn't an exception to the market what's going on is that Tron

has their big releases coming up you know Exodus test net beta all that's

coming out and it's a lot of stuff so they're going to increase in price

they're currently have four point eight cents you guys can see Justin is

tweeting about getting them back in the top ten

currently Tron is number 10 so Tron breaks top ten that's crazy

congratulations to Tron they were at 14th for a while now with all the good

news in the 33 percent increase while everyone else is falling they managed to

climb their way back up so good job a Justin's son and the Tron team

congratulations and the test net this was 11 hours ago so - 2 days 50 hours

now it's like 39 hours life's one and a half days until the test net is launched

I'm very excited for that again we're gonna see prices go up these are points

for those of you who got in early let's go to three months chart those who got

in not early feel those you got in here at the low point of the market overall

then you guys are enjoying some nice Tron profit Tron although

up to four point eight cents and hopefully continue this climb now be

careful if you're a long-term holder you're gonna be fine if you're a

short-term trader be careful holding on for too long

because what might happen is after all that occurs and triangles up and a lot

of people make profit people are gonna look some people are gonna look to sell

and Tron is one of those coins that had such a big run-up over here that it's

possible it's very very possible that it's going or it is going to have a

rough time climbing back up simply because a lot of people are gonna sell

one at their break-even point because they're scared that's it the weekends

that haven't sold you know not week they're not as week of the weekends but

they're little stronger than the weekends they are going to sell when

they break even over here now again this is also a typical pattern though I've

seen with a lot of ICO so what happened was Tron had a big run-up right

they have no product long they don't have any product up they don't have

anything they've had a huge run-up correct it back down and this is the

entry point people usually look to get in before the curve the future when

things start actually happening the developing team starts you know

launching stuff and everything starts falling into play now this doesn't

happen every time of course it has to be the right coin and the good coin but a

lot of ICL's follow this this type of thing when people a set a pattern and

it's called the Jaykar but if follow it likes the high coj curve I saw Ian

ballina actually posted about this today so it's kind of why I want to bring it

up but definitely something to keep an eye out just because this happened once

doesn't mean we can classify it as a pump and dump it's definitely possible

that when everything gets released we start seeing some nice movements and

more movements on Tron and seeing some you know higher prices I'm not saying

that's going to happen I'm not a financial advisor this is not financial

advice I'm just saying it wouldn't be out of the question to say that that is

something that could happen we could go back up and test all-time highs once

everything gets launched if people start using it people start seeing it in the

coming years right and this is years down not tomorrow but anyways the moment

you guys have been waiting for let's talk about the Bitcoin Dec death cross

what is the Bitcoin death cross so I actually got a picture for you guys

right here to make it super simple the bitcoin death cross is when

just the death cross is when the 50-day moving average where you guys can see as

the red line it crosses the 200-day moving average the 200 movie day average

is the green the red is this one right here you guys can see they're getting

very close to crossing now and when they cross um when they cross with a 50

50-day moving average from above crosses down

it's a bearish pattern and that's basically all the death cross is that's

why you've been hearing it sounds a lot worse than it actually is if anything if

history shows if people do their research before you know saying a bunch

of fun the death cross is usually the symbol of nearing the end of a bear

market that's usually what happens and following that obviously once it crosses

price may continue to go down Jim simply because people are scared but

after that usually not too long after price is correct and this happened I

believe the last time Bitcoin had a death cross was in 2015 I want to say

September if I remember correctly and what happened moving on to August is it

doubled its price so definitely something to look into it's something to

stay cautious about something to plan now obviously we can't tell where the

where bitcoins going at any time so the best thing you can do is prepare your

portfolio correctly with what you want for the long term I'm a long-term

investor so I don't like too many short-term trades so plan for the

long-term build your portfolio with the coins you think are valuable and you

think are gonna be here in 2 3 4 5 6 years that is step one and number two is

adapt and kind of play with what you're given right so what happens so whatever

happens in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market then you adapt to

that and you play that way because predicting things isn't always going to

work out now you guys can see we actually dipped under the resistance and

the support of the resistance triangle right here that were intersecting here

we actually dipped under that so because of all the news I came out to Twitter

and everything we've actually dipped and it's not great now it depends on where

we end today if we end today here then we very well could be seeing Bitcoin

drop down to $6,000 I'm not saying it's out of the question also with the whole

deathtrap thing that's all people are hearing the name sounds pretty terrible

deathtrap that sounds pretty terrible it's not gonna give people a lot of

confidence in market when they hear word like

deathtrap but now you guys are informed of what death traps are what a death

trap is and kind of what usually tends to follow suit and that's also why I

like to tell you guys I'm personally buying on the way down in pieces like

you guys know I say this all the time I don't take all of my money and chuck

it somewhere I like to buy in pieces especially during the bearish market I

like to just confirm you know maybe it'll go up and I'll buy a little more

expensive next time but I would rather play that risk then putting everything

in at one time and then everything falling and then me having to deal with

that I'd rather buy it in pieces on the way down and then when it goes up and

passes everything that I'm just in pure profit but that's kind of how I like to

play it so this way I bought some big I spot some cryptocurrency here if it

drops I will buy some more cryptocurrency here could taste a job I

will buy some more cryptocurrency here right because I'm not putting all of my

money in at this level so I'm kind of buying it in pieces that's very

important because that way you know you're gonna be safer in your

investments you're gonna invest on the way down dollar cost average then maybe

if I buy some here some here and some here in the same amount then my average

is here so anything past here I'm in profit instead of having to be past here

I'm very simple explaining but that's kind of how I'm doing so guys hopefully

you guys enjoyed this video if you guys did don't forget to leave a thumbs up

hopefully you guys have a little more confidence in everything right now you

understand what's going on you know what the death cross is you know what tends

to follow suit with a death cross so I would recommend not panicking whatsoever

relax positivity in the cryptocurrency markets

it's still so early if you were to stress out over everything we'd all lose

years off of our lives so it's all about being positive be happy have a wonderful

day guys thank you so much for watching I'll see you guys tomorrow for another

video

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( US News ) Should Religious Freedom Advocates Cheer Trump On Pakistan? - Duration: 9:07.

Should Religious Freedom Advocates Cheer Trump On Pakistan?

On Thursday, the U.S.

State Department added Pakistan to a watch list for religious freedom violations.

This follows an angry tweet from Donald Trump about Pakistan, and a more substantive cut-off of U.S.

security assistance.

Pakistan has faced years of criticism for its failure to disrupt terrorist activity within its borders and its persistent violations of religious freedom.

Should those of us worried about the status of religious freedom be heartened by this move? Unfortunately, the answer is no.

There is no indication the Trump Administration will actually follow through with these actions to call for reforms in Pakistan.

Tensions between Trump and Pakistan have been growing for months.

In an August 2016 speech on his Afghanistan strategy, Trump criticized Pakistan, accusing it of "housing the very terrorists we fight." And then on New Year's Day, Trump sent an angry tweet about Pakistan, threatening to cut off U.S.

aid.

This week, he followed through, suspending U.S.

aid.

To the surprise of some, the Administration also called out Pakistan for human rights abuses, placing it on a watch list for religious freedom violations.  The Trump administration's actions may appear abrupt, but they reflect long-standing concerns.

Pakistan and the United States have had a tense relationship on counterterrorism since the 1990s.

The United States was initially critical of Pakistan's support for Kashmiri militant groups.

This expanded to concerns about al-Qaeda due to Pakistan's ties to the Taliban — which hosted Osama bin Ladin — and blind eye towards al-Qaeda operatives.

As I discussed in my book, while Pakistan did cooperate with America in some very important ways after 9/11, it continued to allow terrorists to operate in its territory.  Pakistan's religious freedom record is also a problem.

The country's blasphemy laws have enabled vigilante violence against religious minorities — particularly Christians — and the authorities have done little to stop this violence.

Additionally, Ahmadi Muslims face both social and governmental discrimination and harassment.

The government also has favored hard-line Islamist groups for decades, giving these groups significant sway over the society to the detriment of Muslims and non-Muslims.

When I ran the Pew Research Center's work on religious freedom, Pakistan was consistently among the most repressive countries in the world.  So I should be happy with the Trump administration's actions.

It is taking steps to pressure Pakistan on counterterrorism while also clearly condemning its religious freedom violations.

But as with other aspects of its foreign policy, this administration is doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

It is also unlikely to follow through.

First, there is no indication this administration is committed to religious freedom.

While Trump has made a big show of domestic religious freedom debates, international human rights promotion is not a priority.

Secretary of State Tillerson announced that advancing U.S.

values can be "an obstacle" for U.S.

interests.

In this case, condemning Pakistan is in line with Trump's security priorities, but religious freedom is clearly the secondary issue here.

Advancing religious freedom requires not just cutting off aid, but working with states to reform their policies.

I don't see that happening under Trump.

Second, even if Trump was serious on increasing religious freedom in Pakistan, how would he do it? Under Tillerson, the State Department has been gutted.

State Department employees — including its religious freedom office — appear to be valiantly attempting to continue their mission despite Tillerson's cuts.

But actually advancing religious freedom will require engagement on religious issues and close monitoring to ensure compliance.

As with Trump's declaration on ISIL's genocide, rhetoric will not translate into actions without a fully-staffed, well-supported State Department.

Moreover, Trump's belligerent, confrontational style will undermine existing initiatives; Pakistani political figures are calling on their government to "remove" U.S.

diplomatic personnel in response to Trump's actions.

Some may accuse me of being cranky, or biased against Trump.

But religious freedom advocates need to be very careful.

Trump is saying the right things, but there is little indication he will actually act on international religious freedom.

We have seen this repeatedly over the past year.

Besides Tillerson's dismissal of "values," there is also Vice President Pence's trip to the Middle East, meant to show solidarity with Middle East Christians; it was postponed after the furor over Trump's statements on Jerusalem, and there is no indication it will be rescheduled.  If religious freedom advocates cheer nice-sounding words from Trump but don't pressure him to follow through, we undermine our cause.

In response to critics of his human rights policies, the Administration can point to support from religious freedom advocates for cover.

Meanwhile, countries around the world will intensify limits on religious freedom, as they know the United States will do little to pressure them.

Instead of cheering, the response to every action like this from Trump should be, "ok, great; so what are you going to do about it?"    .

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Roseanne Barr Got INSANE News 12Hrs After Supporting Trump - So insane! - Duration: 7:08.

Roseanne Barr Got INSANE News 12Hrs After Supporting Trump - So insane!

The numbers are in, and just like November of 2016, we discover that it's Trump supporters for the win. Tuesday night's highly anticipated Roseanne reboot was a smashing success, according to Yahoo, who reports that the ratings are breaking records.

The first episode in the double episode opener is reported to have drawn 17.7 million pairs of eyes and have a 4.9 rating in adults 18-49. The second episode at 8:30 PM rose even higher to 18.6 million viewers and a 5.3 in 18-49. For the 8 PM hour, Roseanne averaged a 5.1 in 18-49 and 18.2 million viewers.

To make the success even more impressive is the fact that this broadcast shows an audience that was up 10% from the May 1997 finale telecast 21 years ago and topped the viewership of the final 12 telecasts of the original run's 1996-97 season. Despite the obviously pro-Trump main character, Roseanne scored as the highest rated show on entertainment television in 6 years among adults 18-49 and TV's highest-rated comedy telecast on any night in 3-1/2 years– since 9/22/14. It is the top scripted telecast this season only behind the post-Super Bowl episode of This Is Us.

The question on many TV executives minds right now is no doubt "why?" Why did this simple, revamp of classic break records and bring in more viewers than the other, more politically correct re-boots (i.e. Will and Grace)? According to Breitbart News, it's their approach to the modern day problems that families face being politically divided and the fact that they don't shy away from showing both sides of the issue:

'Tuesday night's two-episode revival of Roseanne launched with the same emotional flare that made the original Conner family working-class comedy a 90s cult classic, updated for the millennial age and set in the Trump era.

After a 20-year hiatus, the magnanimous matriarch Roseanne Barr is reunited with her on-screen husband Dan (John Goodman) and the pair face new family challenges — Roseanne's unemployed daughter Darlene (Sara Gilbert) has moved in with her two children, Becky, (Alicia Goranson) widowed, struggles to become a surrogate, and Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) clashes with Roseanne over the election of Donald Trump.

One emotional moment manufactures a rare TV siting: a flyover state denizen offering an honest and raw, reason-based rationale for supporting Trump.

'He talked about jobs, Jackie!' Roseanne says to her 'Nasty Woman' T-shirt-clad sister, who vocally supported Hillary Clinton but walked into the booth and voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. 'He said he'd shake things up! I mean, this might come as a complete shock to you, but we almost lost our house, the way things are going.'.

Moments later, just before the family eats dinner, Roseanne says a prayer — she asks Jackie, 'Would you like to take a knee?' — in which she thanks God for her son D. 's (Michael Fishman) safe return home from his military service in Syria and 'most of all Lord, thank you, for making America great again.

Though the reboot is not steeped in political party politics, Roseanne admits, to the New York Times, that she wanted 'to have that dialogue about families torn apart by the election and their political differences of opinion and how we handle it. I thought that this was an important thing to say at this time.'.

Roseanne Barr told the Times, it's about 'How families are still struggling and what they do about it.

'There's an arc in this season, and it's the closest I've been to doing what I want to do,' the 65-year-old said. 'It's about everything in our country. It's about opioids and health care. How we deal with whole new issues that we didn't even have before, like gender-fluid kids. How working class people — how and why they elected Trump.'.

'It's an accurate portrayal of these people and people like them,' Roseanne said of Trump voters. 'In terms of what they think, and how they feel when they are the ones who send their kids over to fight. We've been in wars for a long, long time, which everybody seems to forget — but working class people don't forget it because their kids are in it.'.

The second episode, 'Dress to Impress,' follows Darlene's gender fluid son Mark, who enjoys wearing girls clothing.

The episode is dominated by familiar fare: school bullies, the pain of unfulfilled like goals, and a parent's penchant for fixing their children's (or grandchildren's) problems.

The cast (and the couch) is the same as the original award-winning show but the sharp punchlines still land, and family values remain real.

Hollywood has consistently produced liberal television for our consumption and actors and actresses for our children to look up to, and America is over it. That was proven by the ratings that this anti-liberal narrative show brought with it. While it's fully within the rights of each studio or executive to decide to produce whatever programming they feel like making, if it's really about the money, and not about brainwashing, we should start to see a lot more conservative-inclusive content.

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The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino 03/29/18 2PM | March 29, 2018 Breaking News - Duration: 41:38.

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( US News ) North Korea Accepts Offer For Dialogue From South Korea - Duration: 6:10.

North Korea Accepts Offer For Dialogue From South Korea

SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul's offer for dialogue, just hours after the United States and South Korea delayed a joint military exercise.

The South's unification ministry said North Korea had sent its consent for the talks to be held on Jan.

9 in a statement at 0116 GMT.

The last time the two Koreas engaged in official talks was in December 2015.

The talks will be held at the border truce village of Panmunjom and officials from both sides are expected to discuss the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the improvement of inter-Korean relations, ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun told a regular briefing.

North Korea asked for further negotiations regarding the meeting to be carried out via documented exchanges, Baik said.

The officials to represent the two Koreas have yet to be confirmed.

The spokesman added there was no change to South Korea's stance that efforts aimed at the denuclearization of North Korea should be continued, while Seoul would engage Pyongyang as it keeps close communications with the United States and allies.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un opened the way for talks with South Korea in a New Year's Day speech in which he called for reduced tensions on the Korean peninsula and flagged the North's possible participation in the Winter Olympics.

But Kim remained steadfast on the issue of nuclear weapons, saying the North would mass produce nuclear missiles for operational deployment and again warned he would launch a nuclear strike if his country was threatened.

U.S.

President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in announced late on Thursday that annual large-scale military drills usually held in spring would now take place after the Winter Olympics scheduled for February in Pyeongchang.

The North sees these drills as exercises for a possible invasion. South Korea and the United States are technically still at war with North Korea after the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce, not a peace treaty.

Trump had called the proposed inter-Korean talks a "good thing" and that he would send a high-level delegation, including members of his family, to the Winter Olympics, according to South Korea's presidential office.

In a tweet, Trump, who hurled fresh insults at the North Korean leader this week, took credit for any dialogue.

"Does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and SouthKorea right now if I wasn't firm, strong and willing to commit our total 'might' against the North," Trump tweeted.

The ramped-up momentum for inter-Korean dialogue follows a year of missile and nuclear tests by North Korea as well as an exchange of bellicose comments from Trump and Kim, which raised alarm across the world.

Earlier this week, Nikki Haley, the U.S.

ambassador to the United Nations said Washington was hearing reports that Pyongyang might be preparing to fire another missile.

South Korea's defense ministry said on Thursday they had yet to see any evidence of an imminent missile launch but there was always a chance North Korea could test missiles at any time.

Analysts with the website 38 North, which tracks North Korea, reported Pyongyang may be preparing to test a rocket engine at a facility in Sohae, North Pyongan Province where all of the North's satellite launches have taken place since 2012.

Commercial satellite imagery from Dec.

25 showed a rail-mounted environment shelter had been moved away from a test stand, indicating that an engine test may be in the near future, the website said.

Despite recent media reports that North Korea could soon fire a new rocket, the imagery showed no indications of preparations for such a launch, the analysts found.

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Yoon Shi Yoon To Release Special Song For Fans(News) - Duration: 1:13.

Yoon Shi Yoon To Release Special Song For Fans

Yoon Shi Yoon is revealing a special gift for fans!. On March 29, a source from the actors agency revealed that he will release a digital single called You Who Resembles Spring (literal title) in April.

Soompi. Display. News. English. 300x250. Mobile. English. 300x250. ATF. The agency representative explained, Previously, he mentioned, Should I sing for fans? It is being released with the hope that fans will enjoy it.

Yoon Shi Yoon participated in writing lyrics for the song, which was composed by Buzzs Son Sung Hee. Currently, Yoon Shi Yoon is starring in historical drama Grand Prince. If you havent yet, watch the first episode of Grand Prince below:.

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( US News ) 32 Missing As Tanker Collides With Cargo Ship In Fireball Off China - Duration: 3:04.

32 Missing As Tanker Collides With Cargo Ship In Fireball Off China

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Rescue workers were searching the waters off the east coast of China in a desperate hunt for 32 missing sailors after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship on Saturday.

The Iranian tanker, Sanchi, flying under a Panamanian flag, was a wall of flames and thick black smoke as rescuers hunted for survivors 160 miles off the coast.

The tanker was carrying about a million barrels of natural gas condensate, or light oil, Bloomberg reported.

All of the missing 32 men ― 30 Iranians and two Bengalese ― were from the tanker, reported the China Global Television Network.

All 21 Chinese aboard the Hong Kong cargo ship were rescued, said the TV network.

Search and rescue operation under way as 32 went missing after two vessels collided off the east coast of China; A Panama registered oil tanker is on fire pic.twitter.com/RslNE08cyd — CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) January 7, 2018 "Sanchi is floating and burning as of now," said a statement from China's Ministry of Transport, the BBC reported.

"There is an oil slick and we are pushing forward with rescue efforts." Eight Chinese ships and a South Korean coast guard ship and helicopter were mobilized in the search for survivors.

The tanker had been sailing to Daesan, South Korea, from Kharg Island, Iran.

 It's owned by the state-run National Iranian Tanker Co.

The cargo ship, the CF Crystal,  was transporting grain from the U.S.

to Guangdong province in southern China, the BBC reported.

It wasn't clear what caused the accident.

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( US News ) Why I Accused Israel Of Cultural Genocide - Duration: 11:07.

Why I Accused Israel Of Cultural Genocide

Between Christmas and New Year's Day, I became embroiled in what The Jerusalem Post termed a "Twitter war" which they claimed "raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic." What started the heated exchange was my response to a tweet by celebrity chef Rachael Ray in which she called "Israeli"—"meze, stuffed grape leaves, hummus, beet dip, eggplant and sun-dried tomato dip, walnut and red pepper dip, and tabouli." I hadn't intended a war, but my blood boiled when I saw Ray's tweet and so I tweeted a response—"Damn it! This is cultural genocide.

It's not Israeli food.

It's Arab (Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian, etc).

First, the Israelis take the land and ethnically cleanse it of Arabs.

Now they take their food and culture and claim it's theirs too! Shame." (I should note that this wasn't the first time that Ray became embroiled in a situation that involved a negation of Palestinian/Arab culture.

Back in 2008, she appeared in a TV ad for Dunkin' Donuts sporting what appeared to be a keffiyeh.

After a barrage of attacks by right-wing Islamophobes who said the scarf was a symbol of "murderous Palestinian jihad", Dunkin' Donuts cancelled the ad.

Because that entire affair evolved so rapidly and the company reacted so quickly, we were unable to offer a rejoinder.

The recent flap, however, "cut to the quick." I had to reply.

And so I did.

The responses to my tweet were immediate involving attacks by prominent American and Israeli columnists and the head of an American Jewish organization.

Most criticisms were downright silly, some were threatening (demanding that I be expelled from the Democratic Party), while others were just crude insults ("ludicrous","anti-Semitic bigot").

All of them missed the point.

The silly ones either wanted to reduce the entire brouhaha to "who invented hummus" or confused cultural exchange and sharing with outright appropriation.

No, I noted, making pizza or spaghetti in the U.S.

is not cultural genocide, unless the U.S.

were to occupy Italy and then claim these foods as "American." And, I responded to the foolish tweet by New York Times columnist, Bret Stephens, that if I used Instant Messaging or Waze (both of which were invented in Israel) I would not be engaging in cultural appropriation, unless I used them, then claimed these tools as my own, and started referring to them as Lebanese inventions.

Of course, I recognize that a significant number of Israelis come from Arab countries and I realize that they brought their cuisine with them from Yemen, Iraq, Morocco, Egypt, etc.

But that doesn't make Yemeni, Iraqi, Moroccan, or Egyptian dishes "Israeli", any more than pizza, tacos, sushi and fried rice can be called "American" simply because Italians, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese brought them to the US.

And no, my argument is not anti-Semitic, nor does it imply a rejection of the existence of Israel.

In fact, what prompted my reaction was Israel's denial of a Palestinian people, appropriation of their land and now of their culture.

With the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled and denied the right to return to their homes and properties.

The new state then confiscated their businesses and lands and demolished 385 Palestinian villages.

As Yousef Munayyer noted, it was Israel that sought to systematically erase Palestinian history—"Place names, street names, historical markers were changed.

Forests have literally been planted above the ruins of our villages, obfuscating the very remnants of our history and the grave of our ancestors." So this "Twitter war" was never about the denial of Israel's existence.

It was about Israel's denial of Palestinian existence—a process that continues today within Israel and, in an increasingly aggressive way, in the occupied West Bank.

For example, Bethlehem's Jabal Abul Ghneim, a once green hill to the north of the town, has been confiscated by Israel and walled off from Bethlehem's residents.

It is now the site of the illegally built Jewish-only colony of Har Homa (that houses almost 20,000 Israeli settlers), and has been incorporated into what Israel refers to "Greater Jerusalem".

It was, therefore, not "who invented hummus" that caused me to react.

Rather, it was Israel's appropriation of Palestinian land, eradication of their presence, and now the effort to be the sole claimants of their culture that prompted my response to Ray's "Israeli food" tweet.

This was cultural appropriation by conquest.

I have long connected this Palestinian reality to my experience growing up in Central New York State.

Once the home of the tribes of the Iroquois Nation, traces of their history and culture were always with us.

Some towns bore Indian names.

Families would vacation at the fashionable Mohawk resort.

As children, we would dress up as "Indians" at Halloween.

And as Boy Scouts we learned "Indian dances" and competed to achieve the status of the "Order of the Arrow".

All the while, the remnants of that once powerful people were locked in poverty on a nearby reservation.

Their children were taught to deny their heritage and customs and learned the lesson that when they asserted their rights, they were reviled with epithets like "damn Redskins".

Another personal experience comes to mind: Four decades ago, my children went to a Halloween party at the elementary school they were attending in suburban Washington.

I remember how upset they were that other children were dressed as "Arabs", some carrying oil cans or toy guns.

A few weeks later, the school hosted an "ethnic festival" and asked the children to dress in their ethnic attire and to bring food representing their heritage.

Because of their Halloween experience and the taunting they sometimes endured, my children said they would go to the event, but were hesitant to dress up or bring anything that would associate them as being of Arab descent.

At the event we noted a table set up with a card saying that it was "Israeli" featuring hummus, baba ghanouj, and tabouli.

Behind the table was a young girl in a lovely embroidered dress—the pattern of which was unique to Ramallah.

And so what troubled me then, and still troubles me, are the parallels with the Native American experience.

Their land had been taken, their history and rights were denied, and now their culture was claimed by the very people who dispossessed them.

This according to Article 8 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is termed "genocide".

If Israelis and Palestinians are to coexist in peace—and I pray they will—it must be based on respect.

That means that efforts to eliminate the Palestinian reality must end, their rights must be recognized and restored, and respect must be shown to all of the cultures that now mix in the Holy Land—Israeli Jewish (from lands East and West) and Palestinian Arab.

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Israel Tells African Migrants, Asylum-Seekers To Leave Or Go To Jail

Almost 40,000 undocumented African migrants in Israel will soon face a grim choice: uproot their lives and leave now, or risk going to jail indefinitely.

The Israeli cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan that would see the government give $3,500 to undocumented African migrants who agree to leave before the end of March.

Those who remain in Israel by that deadline would face indefinite detention.  Israel's interior minister and public security minister described the agreement as "two options: voluntary deportation or sitting in prison." An estimated 38,000 undocumented migrants currently live in Israel, many who are asylum-seekers that fled war and persecution in Sudan and Eritrea.

The country has granted asylum to less than 1 percent of applicants since since signing the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called African migrants "a threat to the social fabric of society, our national security, our national identity … [and] our existence as a Jewish and democratic state." Israel's Population and Immigration Authority last week called on undocumented migrants from those two countries to leave "to their country or to a third country." The United Nations Refugee Agency expressed concern over the announcement when Israel's Interior Ministry proposed it in November, noting that returning refugees in need would be a violation of international refugee law.

"As party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Israel has legal obligations to protect refugees and other persons in need of international protection," Volker Türk, UNHCR's assistant high commissioner for protection, said at the time.  Human rights groups in Israel said that they believe those "third countries" could be Rwanda and Uganda.

Israel had previously engaged in negotiations with those countries to take in some of the Sudanese and Eritreans from Israel.

But on Friday, Uganda's state minister for international relations, Henry Okello Oryem, called those reports "fake news." "We don't know where that story is coming from.

We don't know why it keeps coming up," he told The Associated Press on Friday.

"There were negotiations like three or four years ago between the two countries, but we never concluded on the matter," Olivier Nduhungirehe, a Rwanda deputy foreign minister, echoed.  The plan, officially proposed months ago, has received significant pushback from human rights groups and international organizations alike.  The contested plan is akin to "human trafficking and smuggling," Teklit Michael, an asylum-seeker from Eritrea living in Tel Aviv, told the AP. "We don't know what is waiting for us [in Rwanda and Uganda]," he added.  Another asylum-seeker living in Israel, 38-year-old Anwar Suleiman Arbab, crossed into the country via Egypt in 2008 after fleeing Sudan.

He told the New York Times that he's already been temporarily detained twice.

"If it's between going back to Africa or to jail in Israel, I'll go to jail," he said.  The contested plan is akin to "human trafficking and smuggling." Teklit Michael, an asylum-seeker from Eritrea living in Tel Aviv Some 1,420 migrants in Israel are currently being held in detention centers, Reuters reports.

The government has announced that it will soon close its Holot detention facility, where it houses many migrants. The Israeli Supreme Court placed limits on how long migrants could be incarcerated there, the Times reported, and authorities found it was not effective in encouraging them to leave Israel.

Filippo Grandi, the U.N.'s high commissioner for refugees, reminded Israel of its "painful history of migration and exile" in a statement last month.

"The majority of Africans who arrive in Israel have lived through extremely difficult conditions, violence and even forms of modern slavery," he continued.

"New generations must not forget that refugees do not flee out of choice, but because they don't have any other choice." More than 60,000 African migrants arrived in Israel between 2005 and the end of 2012. In 2013, Israel completed construction of a 150-mile steel fence along its border with Egypt, designed to curb illegal immigration through the Sinai Peninsula.

It quickly succeeded in a drastic reduction of border crossings.

Netanyahu later boasted its effectiveness while praising U.S.

President Donald Trump's internationally condemned plan to erect a multibillion dollar wall along the Mexican border for purported security reasons.

"The infiltrators have a clear choice — cooperate with us and leave voluntarily, respectably, humanely and legally, or we will have to use other tools at our disposal, which are also according to the law," Netanyahu said Wednesday, using the derogatory term "infiltrators" to refer to African asylum-seekers.

He reportedly asked officials about the possibility of deporting them forcibly, according to a report from the Guardian this week.

Public protests demanding migrant deportations have been happening for years in Tel Aviv and beyond.

In 2012, more than half of Jewish Israelis reportedly agreed with a statement that African migrants are "a cancer in the body" of the nation, and over a third condoned anti-migrant violence, according to the Times of Israel.

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