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by Paul Oestreicher
The Guardian

The chief rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, is right. His reaction to the Anglican synod's call for sanctions against Israel is understandable. Hatred of Judaism - now commonly called anti-semitism - is a virus that has infected Christendom for two millennia. It continues to stalk the world despite its most virulent outbreak in Nazi Germany. It should not be left untreated. For too many it remains the unlearned lesson of the Holocaust. It should haunt decent Christians for generations to come.
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If I feel all that in my guts and know it in my head, I cannot stand by and watch the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - one of the world's most dangerous outbreaks of collective hatred - as a dispassionate onlooker. I cannot listen calmly when an Iranian president talks of wiping out Israel. Jewish fears go deep. They are not irrational. But I cannot listen calmly either when a great many citizens of Israel think and speak of Palestinians in the way a great many Germans thought and spoke about Jews when I was one of them and had to flee.

From email:

Next Monday, February 27, the Olympia Port Commission will consider changes in its SEPA procedures. Sounds bureaucratic but this could result in a major new impediment to citizen involvement in environmental decisions at the Port. Worse, it could set a precedent for other governments to further restrict the ability of citizens to play a meaningful environmental role.

The meeting will begin at 5:30 at the Commission meeting room on the second floor of the Market Centre Building. The Market Center Building is across from the public market. Entrance to the second floor is in the breezeway between the two buildings that comprise the Market Centre.

Based on materials presented at the last Port Commission meeting, it is highly likely that the Commission will vote to impose significant fees for filing appeals of Port Commission decisions. In other words, they will make it far more difficult for citizens to challenge their recent decisions to ignore the State Environmental Policy Act by declaring several major actions to be "non-significant". These include the Weyerhaeuser contract, the planned dredging of Budd Inlet, and the expansion of the airport.

I have written the Port to request copies of the proposed SEPA regulations. I will send these out if I get them before leaving town on Wednesday for three days.

Otherwise, call the Port to request copies be sent to you by e-mail. The phone is: (360) 528-8000  

Drawn in the early 1980s.

Here it is, Mukey's one and only comic book, from the mid-1990s. There might be some copies at the Danger Room left.

Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project Presents Public Lecture: “The Hamas Victory and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

I won't give away the ending.