The Keepmoat Stadium hosts the 2015 Crown Hotel Bawtry Doncaster Business Cup this Saturday (3pm) - with five local charities set to be the big winners.
Two teams of local businessmen, captained by Alexander Van Steen and David Plant, have been training for almost three months in preparation for the game after stumping up £250 each for the privilege of playing at the home of Doncaster Rovers.
All the money raised will be donated to Bluebell Wood, Aurora, Firefly, Club Doncaster Foundation and North Ridge Community School.
Rotherham-born referee Howard Webb, who officiated the World Cup and Champions League finals in 2010, will be in charge of the game.
Star and Free Press sports writer Paul Goodwin is in the Team Van Steen squad as they bid to get one over Team Plant.
The event is now in its fifth year and organisers are hoping to raise £15,000 for the chosen charities.
Actor-environmentalist Dia Mirza, who could soon pen a new book on the “unsung” foot soldiers of conservation in India, said here that her literary tastes have evolved over the past years.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday put on hold a trial court order allowing former IAF chief SP Tyagi, an accused in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case, to travel abroad.
Justice IS Mehta stayed the trial court's May 24 order that permitted Tyagi to travel to Indonesia, while hearing CBI's plea against the order.
Tyagi – the first chief of any wing of the armed forces to be arrested in the country- and two others were allegedly involved in irregularities in the procurement of 12 AW-101 VVIP helicopters from Britain-based AgustaWestland.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged that Tyagi, who headed the Indian Air Force from 2004 to 2007, and the other accused received kickbacks from AgustaWestland and helped the manufacturer win the $530-million contract.
The 12 choppers were for the Communication Squadron of the Indian Air Force for ferrying the President, the Prime Minister and other VVIPs.
The CBI had earlier also moved the high court against trial court's order granting bail to Tyagi, his cousin and a lawyer in the case.
I don't have the money, actually ppl come here to earn a living and send money home so ppl in Pakistan can have food on table. I hope to do that in the future, to go aound poor places and help poverty
im not saying Pakistan is bad don't go there. its a wicked place for a holiday, but not to live there im proud to be Pakistani, and if all countries were the same, i'd pick Pakistan to live in. im not hating on pakistan just telling how it is.
like their was this rich girl on here,i showed her videos of what it's like to live in the hood, and she was shook, like didn't believe things like that happened in her own country.
If you have a horse you need to keep it in a suitable place, preferably at the stables. They charge monthly where they keep the horse, they feed them, but you'll have to look after the horse yourself. It's hard work taking care of a horse.
Hi everyone, Im due to get a new laptop / portable computing device at some point this year (waiting for my vaio to completely die, albeit very slowly
I have stumbled across affinity designer, which looks like a very interesting piece of design software (I have experience using adobe programme, albeit 2007 spec) and the price of it seems a bargain vs adobe CC.
For broad spectrum use, the only part of the suite which isn't worse than CC is Photo, but it's got an astronomically higher skill prequisite, and has limited relevance to the aforementioned fields.
The tools used by professionals are almost always paid for, so free ones will probably be a compromise. How high level are you looking to design? A UX design might work with Invision, Sketch, Balsamiq or Axure whereas someone working more with graphics is much more likely to be using Photoshop/Illustrator in their toolkit.
Last little boymousey had a little bit of blood in his jaw which made me feel really SAD as I flushed him away.
I asked my teacher to fill a form out for me and he's written in cursive instead of printing clearly. Do you think this matters? It's for a competition. I've not filled my section in yet but I'm going to do it in block capitals. Should I get my teacher to write it again?
No. Unless you were supposed to fill that in, in which case you could rewrite it. I doubt anyone cares, really.
LOVE the idea of Spain but not the reality of crowded beaches? Fancy a sunny, hassle-free holiday away from sandy flesh-pots?
Headwater, the walking and cycling specialist, does the hard work of getting you there and moving your gear around, leaving you to enjoy the scenery — in my case, the Parc Natural del Cap de Creus.
The coast here, just south of the Pyrenees, is pristine and staggeringly beautiful. The headlands are impressive, broken by lovely, relatively unspoilt fishing villages.
The adventure starts in Barcelona, which is handy because you can add a few nights on either side of the walking if you fancy seeing the city.
But I couldn’t wait to get outdoors so I was straight on a train to the first hotel, the Vilamont Spa in the village of Garriguella.
The owners sent me along to their restaurant in the village for dinner. Catalonian cold cut meats, duck and the local soft red wine soon heal travel weariness.
The holiday began properly early next morning. Because Headwater moves your luggage from one hotel to the next, all you need during the day is a small, light rucksack for essentials.
Headwater also supplies maps and detailed descriptions of each day’s walk. Once out of the door, though, you’re on your own.
He dropped me in another small village and pointed to the towering slopes ahead. “Up there,” he said. And drove off.
The path was clearly marked but, wow, it was steep. The first two hours were unrelenting hard work. But the views from the top were immensely rewarding.
That set the format for the whole holiday. You walk for six or seven hours on the harder days, with easier days in between to get your breath back.
A few miles away is the atmospheric medieval village of La Selva de Mar, an absolute must for a spot of lunch.
The next couple of days proved the highlight of the trip. The walk over the Cap Creus wilderness and along to Cadaques was lovely.
It passes Port Lligat, once the home of Salvador Dali, who lived there for six months of every year, from 1930 to 1982.
Stepping inside was like wandering into a Dali painting — magical. Only ten people are allowed at a time so you have to book. It costs 11 Euros and is worth every cent.
The walk from Cadaques to the town of Roses features the most spectacular section of coastline because the path winds round all the coves on the approach to it.
The Hotel Almadraba Park was also my favourite, perched on a cliff overlooking two bays a few miles from the centre of sprawling Roses.
It was pretty much flattened in World War Two but a little area in its heart survived and makes for a lovely stop-off.
The last of the days’ walks returned me to Garriguella in around five hours, then it was back to Barcelona by train again.
GETTING/STAYING THERE: Headwater’s eight-night self-guided Catalan Coastal Walk is from £897 (tour only) or from £1,088 with BA flights from Heathrow and rail transfers.
Prices include B&B at a mix of hotels, six evening meals, detailed walking maps and luggage transfers.
Video: Russia’s Olympic synchronised swimmers groove out to Justin Timberlake after winning gold in Rio
RUSSIA'S Olympic synchronised swimmers may be the most choreographed team in the pool - but they are all over the shop when it comes to dancing.
A video has emerged of the victorious women grooving out on a Brazilian beach after taking gold in Rio.
The clip shows the stunning athletes boogying down to Justin Timberlake's hit Can't Stop the Feeling.
Like fish out of water, some of the team cannot help but pull off moves which depict their love of swimming.
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Elena Topilina wrote: "We did it! We became Olympic champions! Thanks to everyone who supported us throughout the process. I can’t explain how important it was to us."
The Russian team of synchronised swimmers won gold at the Rio Olympics on August 19. China came second and Japan third.
Actress Emma Stone on her new musical La La Land, the Oscars Buzz and how snogging Ryan Gosling is a great job
Actress Emma Stone on Baftas hit La La Land, the Oscars buzz and how snogging Ryan Gosling ‘is a great job’ – but dancing is harder
Fresh from her Golden Globes haul, Emma reckons she deserves another one for keeping her toes intact
STILL reeling from winning a Golden Globe, Emma Stone reckons she deserves another gong – for making it through La La Land with all her toes intact.
The 28-year-old American scooped Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her enthralling turn in the modern-day musical, with the odds on her picking up an Oscar next month.
From the sound of it, she and co-star Ryan Gosling took chunks out of one another during rehearsals.
In an exclusive chat, Emma reveals: “Kissing Ryan Gosling is part of my job — dancing with Ryan Gosling was the harder part of my job.
“We were always insisting to our dance teachers that we were ready to dance together, then we would and everyone would be like, ‘Um . . . ’ So we’d have to start again.
It swept the board at the Golden Globes last Sunday, winning seven awards, and has 11 nominations for the upcoming EE Baftas.
It is the story of aspiring actress Mia (Emma), and jazz musician Sebastian (Ryan) as they meet and fall in love in Los Angeles.
It has been compared to 1952 classic Singin’ In The Rain — but the smiley ending of so many golden age musicals is not guaranteed with this romance.
Emma, who has had an on/off relationship with her The Amazing Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield, 33, thinks this makes the film’s romance far more believable.
She says: “There is no happily ever after, there isn’t always the kiss at the end and it’s not always perfect.
“That’s why it makes me so crazy to look at social media, when you see people like, ‘It’s just the best life ever. I couldn’t be happier’. You’re like, ‘Shut up, that is not true’.
“Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. Happily ever after . . . that’s not the reality of life, but you can be happy in a different way than maybe you originally hoped or expected. I love that.”
Her ex Andrew gave Emma a standing ovation when she received her Golden Globe. He recently told how there was still “so much love between us and so much respect”.
Emma has said that 2015 — the year they broke up — had been “sad”, adding of Andrew: “He’s someone I still love very much.” She has not been romantically linked with anyone since they split.
Despite her heartbreak both on and off the big screen, she does not believe having a Hollywood career will mean sacrificing her chance of meeting The One.
“Meryl Streep seems very in love with her husband. That’s a very great family and she’s the best there is. "So people can find a way to do both, it’s just about prioritising.”
Director Damien Chazelle — who shot to fame with the adrenaline-fuelled drummer movie Whiplash in 2014 — encouraged his leading stars to share their stories of being a jobbing actor.
It brought back many memories for Emma, who moved to Hollywood aged 15 and spent the first three years being rejected “by every Disney movie and sitcom daughter role there was”.
She had a job cooking in a dog bakery (yes, really), but was desperate for acting to conquer the anxiety she has had since a child.
She said recently: “My brain was naturally zooming 30 steps ahead to the worst-case scenario. My anxiety was constant. Acting really helps with that as I have to be present.”
Her big break finally came in 2007 movie Superbad, where she had a supporting role as love interest to Jonah Hill. Looking back on all her failed auditions made her realise just how far she has come.
Who's on The Graham Norton Show tonight? Guests Ben Affleck, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone join Graham on the sofa
The awkward moment Emma Stone leans in for a kiss with her La La Land director but he turns his back
“But I now have the benefit of hindsight and a lot of gratitude for the things I didn’t get, and the way those things all led to me being here.
"So in a way it was nice to revisit those times and remember what changed and how something that feels like a disaster in the moment ultimately creates this bigger picture that makes you who you are.
“An audition at the beginning was Ryan’s story. He had been in one when he was a teenager and was crying in the middle of some scene.
"The casting director answered the phone and was talking to someone in the middle of him crying. She hung up and was like, ‘Continue’.”
La La Land is the third time she has been cast alongside Ryan. They have previously smouldered on screen in 2011’s Crazy Stupid Love and 2013’s Gangster Squad.
In Crazy Stupid Love they recreated the iconic Dirty Dancing lift. It looked picture perfect in the movie but was far from smooth in real life.
Ryan revealed they had to use a body double for the wide shot of the move after Emma had a “meltdown”.
“When we did the film I knew Ryan was going to lift me but what I didn’t know was that I had an internalised phobia about being lifted six feet in the air and it all went horribly wrong.
Ryan, 36, added: “I’ve never had this experience but I can only imagine if a possum fell out of a tree, landed on my head and tried to scratch my eyes out, it would be something similar.”
She might already have a Golden Globe under her belt for La La Land but Emma refuses to have her head turned by all the industry talk that she is in line to add an Oscar statuette.
“Depending on what emotional state I’m in sometimes I’m like, ‘All right kid, you did the best job you could’, then at other times I’m like, ‘You are literally the worst actor that ever lived. How is anyone ever going to think anything other than that?!’
“I used to be really like a mean mum to myself. I used to be really hard on myself in a cruel way — and now the cruelty has gone.”
A La Land is wowing critics and audiences alike, including Len, who thinks it’s the best musical since Grease.
He says: “That first dance routine in particular is a real blockbuster. Dozens of drivers jump out of their cars and join in a six-minute choreographed extravaganza.
“It really makes you sit up. I’d go so far as to say that it’s the first scene to capture the vibe of the classic MGM musicals since Grease in 1978.
“Like La La Land, that was a film that simply made you feel happy. Of course, there are some cynics who will never like musicals.
“For them – and I include my wife – the moment an actor bursts into song is too unrealistic. But these cynics are looking at musicals in the wrong way and I feel sorry for them.”
Len, speaking to The Telegraph this week, added: “La La Land also benefits from terrific performances from Gosling and Stone, especially when you consider they’re not professional dancers.
They have a naturalness to their moves that reminded me of Ore Oduba, the BBC sports presenter who won last year’s Strictly.
“Their chemistry is great. They could be the closest thing we have to a golden Hollywood couple at the moment.”
Married At First Sight's Ben admits he DID kiss woman behind wife Steph's back - and now he's desperate for divorce
In his first interview since announcing his split, millionaire heartbreaker Ben insists he’s NOT a love rat and reveals the truth behind his doomed marriage to a stranger
IT was the only Married At First Sight wedding to survive the show, but just weeks after the cameras stopped rolling, Ben and Stephanie shocked fans with the news that they’d split.
The pair were plunged into further controversy when, just one day after Ben, 36, announced the marriage was over, a 20-year-old named Lucy accused him of cheating on Steph with her throughout the entire duration of the show.
Married At First Sight's Ben Jardine has admitted that he DID kiss a woman behind wife Steph's back - but insists he's no love rat
Speaking for the first time since the scandal and split, Ben Jardine talks exclusively to The Sun Online insisting he always wanted his marriage to a stranger to work.
The property tycoon says: “I did kiss someone but Steph knew it was all over before that. I'm sorry, I just didn't love her."
“At the time I was completely committed to my marriage but I was being pursued all the time and I just thought, ‘I don’t need this.’
“Yes we did have a kiss and a cuddle, but then I thought, ‘No, this is wrong,’ I completely called time on it. It was only a friendship to me and people are reading too much into it.
And while he acknowledges that the kiss did happen before he told wife Steph, 32, he wanted a divorce, Ben insists it was clear to both of them that the marriage was over after cameras had stopped rolling.
He says: “It happened in December and I was still married to Steph, we were meant to be seeing how things went but we both knew [it was over].
The pair married on September 30 and after six weeks together told show bosses they were committed to making the marriage work. But by December Ben knew the relationship was over
The couple married on September 30 and after a rocky three months, Ben told Steph he wanted a divorce in December.
By law the couple will have to remain married a year before they can officially divorce but he is desperate for them both to move on with their lives.
He said: “Steph’s a wonderful woman with a heart of gold and we were both 110 per cent in it to make it work. I never got into this to get divorced so didn’t ever consider that we’d be have to stay together for a year if it didn’t work.
“Over Christmas I had an operation for a boxing injury so I couldn’t end it then as I was in hospital and she was so supportive but we were sleeping in separate rooms by then - but in the New Year I finished it.
The property millionaire says in the final weeks of their marriage he and Steph were sleeping in separate beds
“Now I just want closure. That’s why I revealed we’d split, I was sick of lying and everyone burying their heads in the sand thinking we'd sort it out.
Ben speaks glowingly of police officer Steph, but says the cracks in their marriage were clear as their personalities just clashed too much.
“We were scientifically the perfect match, but we clashed behind the scenes as we’re two very dominant people and someone was always trying to take the centre of the ring.
“When she was upset I didn’t know whether to hug her or leave the room. It was clear we didn’t know each other at all.”
Scenes showed the pair locked in a series of conflicts which ranged from tearful arguments to petty bickers. Then there was the moment Ben left his wedding ring at home and viewers saw Steph distraught in scenes on the show, but he explains that his fingers were so swollen after injuring his hand he couldn’t wear the ring.
Ben said: “There were lots of silly arguments like arguing over a cup of tea one day, as I’d put the wrong milk in, and it didn’t go well.
“Suddenly then old things from relationships came in as I remember my ex moaning about that, it was silly little arguments like that.”
Ben reveals another massive factor in the breakdown of their marriage was his cheating ex who haunted their entire marriage and he admits many times that he was still harbouring many deep-rooted insecurities from the 12-year relationship.
“I tried and I gave it my everything but suddenly things from my past relationship were coming up, it was like living with someone started to bring up all the memories.
The couple endured a string of arguments which left Steph in tears and Ben admits his hang-ups over his cheating ex were partly to blame
“In my past relationship I was deeply in love and I thought that was my forever and suddenly she left me for someone else one day, and I tried to save it for two years.
“This time I thought, I’m not doing that again, I’m not wasting Steph’s time like someone wasted mine. I had all these scars on my heart that I thought had healed, but it had been smashed to pieces.
“When my ex left me she took my best years, and there was no way I would ever take Steph’s best years from her.”
He said: “I need to concentrate on myself but I’m not going to go looking for love, this day and age everything’s so fast, but I’m hoping something will happen when you least expect it.
“Hurting someone hurt even more than having my heart broken, but it’s taught me a lesson - you can’t go looking for something.
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Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Nasr City district, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Egyptian security forces, backed by armored cars and bulldozers, moved on Wednesday to clear two sit-in camps by supporters of the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out at both sites. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)
BETHALTO - School Board members have dropped from consideration a superintendent candidate who once sued a previous employer.
The Bethalto School Board made the decision to cancel an interview with Natalie Thomas scheduled for Wednesday and has added a new contender to the schedule for Friday, Board President Tom Beiermann said.
The new candidate is Randy Davis, director of human resources at Community High School District 155, which includes four comprehensive high schools and one alternate education campus. The district serves more than 7,000 students from communities located approximately 45 miles northwest of Chicago, in McHenry County.
Since July 2007, Davis has coordinated employment of the district's more than 650 employees. Prior to becoming director of human resources, Davis spent 10 years in administration as a high school principal, associate principal and dean of students. He also has coached both football and track at the high school level, serving as both an assistant and head coach in track and assistant in football.
Davis received his bachelor's in communication studies from Northwestern University, his master's in educational administration from Northern Illinois University and his doctorate in educational leadership from National-Louis University.
Lawrenceville School District Superintendent Charles Stegall visited the campuses Monday and met with the board Monday night for dinner. Following the same schedule as set for Stegall, Triad School District Director of Human Resources Dale Sauer visited the district on Tuesday and was to meet with the board Tuesday night for dinner.
Thomas, who was to meet with district officials today, Wednesday, was dropped from consideration. Beierman did not say why she was dropped.
Thomas is superintendent of the Farmington (Mo.) School District and was set to retire at the end of the school year.
Prior to that appointment, she served as co-superintendent of the Riverview Gardens School District in North St. Louis County, Mo. In July 2011, Thomas filed a lawsuit against the Riverview Gardens district over a vacation pay dispute. In November 2012, she asked to dismiss the case, according to court records.
On a note related to the superintendent search, Board President Beiermann said he mistakenly had reported the fee paid to McPherson and Jacobson on Monday as $15,000 plus expenses.
The board still is planning to meet on Saturday for a working session to review the information gathered this week during the interview process.
Israel is making its final moves to eradicate Palestine in cahoots with USA, ensuring that whatever semblance remains of Palestine, will be subject to the Apartheid governance of the Jewish State.
It has long been recognized that the three major issues at the core of peace between Israel and the Palestinians are: Borders, Jerusalem and refugees.
Israel has been flexing the 1967 lines (which are actually 1949 Armistice lines) with its settlements, as well as its ‘security barrier’ which has been applied to de-facto annex Palestinian territory and is wholly illegal according to the International Court of Justice.
Israel is also preparing for annexation of territory under its control. There are various plans of how to do this without compromising an overwhelming Jewish political majority. They all, naturally, spell Apartheid in one way or another.
The recently passed Nation-State law is also a preparation towards such annexation, ensuring that whatever happens, Israel will not risk becoming a state representing all of its citizens – especially if non-Jews happen to make up its actual majority.
Israel is preparing for a final de-Jura takeover of historical Palestine, which it generally calls ‘Eretz Israel’, the ‘land of Israel’. American officials such as US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman are inculcating a new discourse concerning Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, calling it an “alleged” occupation, following Prime Minister Netanyahu’s notion of “disputed territories”, as well as right-wing pundits such as Alan Baker who claim that there is simply “no occupation”.
US President Trump has supposedly ‘taken Jerusalem off the negotiating table’ in his unilateral move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s, and Israel’s alone.
Jerusalem was meant to be a central issue for peace negotiations. Even the UN in 1947 was aware that Jerusalem would be a sensitive political issue, which is why it was designated as a Corpus Separatum (separate entity under international auspices) in its ‘partition plan’.
Jerusalem was partially overtaken by Israel in 1948, and fully overtaken in 1967. Israel de-facto annexed it and later cemented its annexation in a 1980 quasi-constitutional ‘basic law’, the central clause of which is repeated in the recently passed Nation-State law.
It has been recognized that both Israelis and Palestinians seek Jerusalem as a capital in a prospective two-state solution. Trump’s administration has definitively put that away, claiming it is all Israel’s.
So what’s left of these critical, ‘final status’ issues, to be arrived at in any prospective peace agreement? Refugees.
Refugees and the Palestinian Right of Return is the most central issue for Palestinians in general, as it relates to their actual dispossession, which was a necessary part of the Zionist endeavour. As Israeli historian Benny Morris ominously concludes, “transfer was inevitable and inbuilt in Zionism – because it sought to transform a land which was ‘Arab’ into a Jewish state and a Jewish state could not have arisen without a major displacement of Arab population”.
This continues to be the case – Israel continues to displace Arab Palestinians in order to consolidate its “Jewish state”, even inside what is considered ‘Israel proper’ (within 1949 Armistice lines), as we have for example seen in last year’s case of Umm al-Hiran, to be replaced with a an exclusively Jewish town named Hiran.
The US now seeks to eradicate the issue of Palestinians altogether, not only by defunding its central UN relief agency UNRWA, but by re-defining the Palestinian refugee status as a whole, so as to let it die with the generation of 1948.
As Marilyn Garson includes in her recent piece on Mondoweiss, “If there are no refugees, there will be no one to return – Understanding Trump’s war on UNRWA and Palestinian refugees”:
“[T]heir case rests on the belief that the descendants of first-generation refugees cannot qualify for refugee status. Palestinians, they claim, are the only refugees in the world who pass on their refugee status through the generations. The view is not shared by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the [US] State Department, which maintain that multiple generations of Afghan, Bhutanese, Burmese, Nepalese, Thai, Tibetan, and Somali people have been recognized as refugees”.
This point has long been one that Israel has been trying to push through, that UNRWA is supposedly creating fake refugees. But this is fake news.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has suggested that UNRWA does not hold “accurate accounts”, as part of the overall incitement campaign against UNRWA for being a “flawed organization”. And Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat can’t wait to kick UNRWA out of East Jerusalem. As Alison Deger reports on Mondoweiss, there have been reports about Netanyahu specifically asking Trump to close the tap on UNRWA a couple of weeks ago.
“Only the UN relief agency for the Palestinians is improperly run. The leader of the free world, the greatest warmonger since World War II, cuts flour for Yarmouk and cooking oil for Bureij, because the Palestinians overestimate refugee numbers. Behind all this, of course, is a much broader truth. UNRWA could hire Eliad Shraga, head of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, and comply with Scandinavian management standards, but nothing would make a difference. Israel long ago declared war on the agency, America followed it as usual, all with the aim of removing the refugee issue from the agenda”.
This is really what it is all about – it is not only about wishing the Palestinian refugee issue away (to borrow the expression from UNRWA head Pierre Krähenbühl), but about wishing away every single central aspect that could relate to Palestinian statehood in any way or form – over the whole of historical Palestine. At the same time, Israel is securing that wherever this leads territorially, it will never-ever lead to freedom, equality or justice for Palestinians. In other words, Israel is making its final moves to eradicate Palestine in cahoots with USA, ensuring that whatever semblance remains of Palestine, will be subject to the Apartheid governance of the Jewish State.
Zionists have been attempting to wish Palestine away since the start. First they imagined it was a “land without a people”, then Golda Meir said that Palestinians “didn’t exist” (1969), then Moshe Dayan said that “there is no more Palestine, finished” (1973).
Wishing something away is one thing, reality is another. We could wish that Israel wasn’t an Apartheid state – but it is.
Jonathan Ofir is an Israeli-Danish conductor, musician, writer and blogger, writing regularly for Mondoweiss.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the writer’s only and do not necessarily represent those of The Turban Times.