show. Harold Perry as Honest Harold the Homemaker. Well there's a lot of excitement in Melrose Springs for its almost election time. The talk of the town is who will be the next mayor. So far there are two candidates for the office. Honest Harold's boss Stanley Peabody, manager of the local radio station and Honest Harold himself who has been drafted by his listeners. It's morning now and we find the people's choice at home. Shaving. Just can't believe it. I'm really running for mayor. Kind of scared though.  Let's see when they call on me I'll say thank you Mr. Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen where did I put that shaving brush? Oh I mean ladies and gentlemen well I really know you too well to call you that. That doesn't sound right. Better start over here. Fellow citizens first I'd like to explain to you why I'm running for office. There's a group in power now there's pocketed too much of your money. Now I want a chance. Better rehearse this. Now let's see. If I'm elected I promised to work in the best of my ability and if my opponent sucks the shaving brush in my mouth.  Think I'll keep that in. Good morning station K. H. J. P. Mr. Peabody I'll ring his office. There you are. Good morning Laurie. Good morning Mr. Mayor. I'm not mayor yet. Well you will be. I think you're just the kind of mayor we need you're honest a plain man of the people while you're another Abraham Lincoln. No he was taller. Besides you have awful cute dimples. Gloria campaigning for mayor is a very serious thing. The only reason I'm running is that so many of my listeners wrote in and asked me to the people of Melrose Springs want an honest city government and if I'm elected that's what I intend to give. Thank you. Last night I thought of some wonderful slogans for your campaign. You did. Yes listen to this one honest Harold is awfully nice if I can get away with it I'll perform twice. Gloria that's not honest and he'll pass out cigars kissed babies with them I'd like to be the baby kissed by him. Oh my goodness here's another one Stanley Peabody is great he thinks but confidentially I think he's. And Harold you know what else I'm doing what whenever I answer the phone if Mr. Peabody isn't around I always say don't vote for Stanley Peabody he's a drip.  Oh that's wonderful.   Gee I guess I'm an X PBX. Gloria yes sir if you don't stop that campaigning on the phone I'm going to make a switch at the switchboard. Yes boss I want a few words with you in my office kindly walk this way nobody could walk that way.  Why you have absolutely no experience while I come from a political family why before he came to America my grandfather had a seat in the British Parliament. He did and after he moved over here he still kept his seat in England. Must have been an awful spain on a suspender. Very fun. Well I like it and have you any idea of what it takes to become mayor certainly the most votes precisely and in order to get those votes you have to have an organization do you know what's behind me. Sure the water cooler. No a political machine and I have news for you my uncle is supporting me. He's been doing it for years. My uncle has a lot of influence in this town and I have a lot of others working for me. Do you have a machine. Well just my 36 Essex. Oh you mean a machine. I'll bet you don't even have a campaign manager. Well I don't need a campaign manager the people know that I'm honest and that's all is necessary. Why don't you give up and you haven't a chance.  I don't know Stanley will see how many votes you can get. Just trying to scare me out of running that's all. I don't need any. What's that on the telephone pole. A poster with Peabody's picture. There's one in the next telephone pole in the next one. What's that poster say. Vote for Stanley Peabody.  That's pretty clever. I do need a campaign manager. Maybe old doc yak yak the veterinarian can suggest somebody. I'll go see him right away. Soon as I draw a mustache on Peabody's picture. So you think you need a campaign manager. I sure do doc can you suggest anybody. I think I know just the father for the job he's intelligent hardworking and he's the shrewdest man I know. I'm afraid to ask you this doc but who. Me. No. Doc I appreciate your offer but I think I'd better try to get somebody else. Excuse me now I've got some work to do. Oh no I've heard his feelings. I'm just offering my services as an old friend but if I'm not good enough. I didn't. All right. Nobody just an old horse doctor. Doc all horse. Love me why there's not a cock a spaniel in town that wouldn't share his last can of red heart with me. Doc I do anything for you you know that you can be my campaign manager. Okay Harold if you insist. Candidate let's get down to business and got to campaign speech well sort of.  I want my animals. What best way to tell if your speech sounds sincere the animals can spot a phony a mile away but doc on I'll take you into your audience. Fellow citizens I want to introduce our next mayor on this.  Ladies and gentlemen. Doc what's the matter with that baby goat.  Ladies and gentlemen Oh and young goats never have I seen such intelligent face. You're not sincere. And with your support fellow voters I'll defeat my opponent Stanley Peabody while be like leading a lamb to the slaughter. I'm sorry. There's a phone. I'll be right back.  I love animals honest you can ask my cat I got some bad news that was a glory at the station what Stanley Peabody has hired a big sound truck he's going to campaign around town in it this afternoon. Oh that's going to cost me a lot of votes. Not while I'm your manager. I've got an idea. What's that. My brain's ticking away every second. Stop taking bows doc tell me your idea.  A float. I'll paint some signs on it and hit you to my horse it'll remove then we'll follow Peabody sound truck all over town. That'll be a good idea. I think you got something there doc sure now we've only got an hour you better go to the marshal's office and get a parade permit. All right doc and you'd better hurry. Mayor. That sounds pretty good. Thank you doc. Thank you voters. Better hurry parade starts in an hour. Pete the Marshal is so slow it'll probably take him that long just to make out the permit. Oh my goodness Pete's old father Cleat is here today slower than Pete. Cleat I want you to do something for me right away. Now just a minute have we've got a new system here. What. Take a number there. I'll call you when it's your turn. Oh all right. Take a seat over there. That's it. Now what's your number. 65. Number 65. What a system. Now look here Cleat I'm in a hurry I want to permit for a float this afternoon. Now just a minute have to fill out a form. Name please. Margaret O'Brien. Margaret O'Brien. Let me write that down.  Very funny. How old are you Harold. Well I'm nearing 40. Nearing 40. I must be on your second time around. Come on Cleat I've got to have that permit. All right. What year do you want it for. This year this afternoon. This afternoon. Let me write that down. Get a move on Cleat. Where are you going to use the permit. Right here in Melrose Springs. Melrose Springs. Let me write that down. Oh there's no lake around here. What do I need a lake for. For the boat. Oh my goodness is not a boat it's a float. Oh I thought you wanted to float a boat. Well we have to start all over again. Take another number Harold. Pete there's something I'd like to call you. But I know what it is. But I ain't going to write that down. I had to play bingo with Cleat but I finally got the permit. Oh good good. Well the float call finished. Ain't she a beauty. Yes Doc and we better hurry. But there's my master touch. That picture on the side there. Where. Miss Rhyngold of 1950. She isn't running for mayor. No but she looks better in a bathing suit than you do. Come on Doc. Peabody sound truck goes out at any minute. And doesn't my horse Silver Moon look cute with that bow on her. Doc. There goes Peabody sound truck. Oh OK. Let's get a board for you. Oh this will fix Peabody all right. Trudest thing you ever did Harold making me your campaign. Yeah all right come on. I'd hold on here. Here we go. Giddy up Silver Moon. Come on there. Now what's the matter Doc. I guess I built the float too wide. Won't go through the barn door. Oh my goodness.  Here Miss Rhyngold. Pretty good in that bathing suit. Doc you're fired. What are you laughing at. You're fired too. We'll return for the second act of our story. Honest Harold in just a moment. Are you interested in going into the perfume business. Then you won't want to miss Bing Crosby tonight when he tries his sales pitch on his guest Claudette Colbert. Yes be sure to join Bing Crosby and Claudette Colbert later tonight over most of these same stations. And by the way listen for Harold Perry's important announcement at the end of our show. And now back to honest Harold the homemaker. Well honest Harold's campaign for mayor isn't going too well. He fell out with Doc Yancey as campaign manager when he fell out of the float. It's the following morning now. Our unhappy candidate is just eating breakfast when. What is it my day. Look what's in the morning paper. Let me see. Stanley Peabody candidate for mayor will speak at the high school tonight. His subject will be what is good city government. Shall I read the rest of it Harold. Mr Peabody challenges his opponent Harold Hemp to meet him there and speak on the same subject. If he dares. I suppose he thinks you're afraid to get up there and speak. And he wouldn't dare say that if it wasn't true. Now Harold you're a fine public speaker. I remember the time in the eighth grade when you delivered that recitation a message to Garsha. Yes mother the time I delivered the message Garsha was gone. Mother I can't do it. You mustn't be afraid. Now why don't you sit down right now and write that speech. Mother I don't know anything about city government. I thought I'd find out about that after I got elected. I know you could go to the public library. They must have books on city government. I bet they do. But now the library right now. That's the spirit my boy. Goodbye mother. As long as you're going to the library you might as well return that book you've been reading. Oh good idea. And here it is to the Bobsy twins in Florida. I wonder where they'll go next. Like a Morgan this library. This is where they probably buried Carnegie. And there's dear Miss Witherspoon behind the desk. Good morning Miss Witherspoon I'd like. Excuse me. I'll be with you in a minute. All right. I want to get it. I want to get a book. The children section is right over there. You see I'm going to run for mayor and I want to read a book on city government. We just have one book on that city government by Timothy Hargrove. It's on that shelf right over there. Thank you. Do you think I am a ballet dancer. All right. Here's the shelf. Let's see here. What's that. Somebody's got a slow leak. I get elected mayor I'll demote her to the nonfiction section. Yes Miss Witherspoon. I just remembered I checked out that book on city government this morning. You did. Who got it. Maybe I can borrow it from him. Stanley Peabody Stanley Peabody Oh my God. What am I going to do. Can't show up tonight with no speech. I don't know why I wanted to run for mayor anyway. Pardon me sir. But have I the honor of addressing for chance honest Harold Hemp. Why yes the candidate for mayor of this fair city. That's right. Well it is a lucky lucky day. I happened to be in this facility a few days or your photograph paper and remark to myself I'd like to help that man get elected in the interests of good government. Well thank you. Are you in the political game Mr. A very astute question. I have been a political adviser for years. My card. Oh thanks. Careful the ink isn't dry. J.P. Cameroy political consultant headquarters over Jimmy's pool room. Just temporary court. Now if there's any advice I could give your campaign manager. Well I don't have one right now. You don't have a campaign manager is a lucky lucky day. It is. J.P. Cameroy have I tend to do his services as campaign manager in the interests of good government. But Mr. Cameroy. Now my first official duty is to prove your speech for tonight. We've got to look out for dangling partisan. You see I haven't prepared my speech yet. You haven't prepared your speech. Which is a lucky lucky day. I just happen to have a speech with me that is suitable for the occasion. And I am going to let you have it in the interests of good government. Oh well thank you very much. The only cost to you will be a slight typing fee. Well I don't have much money on me just nine dollars and sixty cents. That is the typing fee. But a coincidence. May I see the speech first. Certainly. And it is. Let's see here. Ladies and gentlemen we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created to say. This is pretty good. Now was I. But they are endowed with certain unalienable rights. And among those are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Wait a minute. This is the Declaration of Independence. You guessed it. And what a speech. But this hasn't got anything to do with city government. Exactly. You let your opponent put the audience to sleep with the dry stuff taxes the budget. Then you give them the Declaration of Independence. You're in. I am. And look who wrote your speech. Thomas Jefferson Ben Franklin. Yeah. Where can you get writers like that for nine dollars. Well I guess you got a point there. A thing like this could sweep you into office. You know J.P. I believe you're right. Thank you very much. Don't forget the typing. Excuse me. Here you are nine dollars and sixty cents. Thank you. Lucky lucky. It sure is. Sure was a lucky lucky day when I ran into J.P. Pretty clever to him thinking that Declaration of Independence. I got a cheap two only nine dollars and sixty cents. Yes I'm a real politician now. Sweater vest. Got a pocket full of cigars and everything. Hey Harold. Hello doc have a cigar. Yeah thanks. I don't smoke myself but my goat likes him. Kind of a T zone. Good Harold. And when I heard about you getting trapped into that speech tonight I thought I'd let bygones be bygones. I may not be your campaign manager anymore but doc Yancey isn't one to desert a friend in me. Well thank you a lot doc but I don't really need any help. Aren't you worried about making that speech. Worried. What kind of a speech is it. Well it's a sort of a declaration of Independence who wrote it. Oh a couple of ghost writers. Sometimes I wonder about Harold honest boy though. Have a cigar. I mean how are you. Fine. I thought you'd be home writing your speech. It's all written Gloria. Did you write it all by yourself. Well a couple of fellows helped me be Franklin and T Jefferson. Local boys look well. They're from out of town. Philadelphia. What are you doing out here. Well Peabody old body have a cigar. No thank you. Can't stand a rope from him. So you're going to show up tonight. Well I'm warning you you don't know what this is going to cost you or I do nine dollars and sixty cents. Skip it Stanley. Yes sir you're in for a big surprise. There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight and you're going to be the one that's burning. A lot of people here tonight. Stanley sitting on the other side of that stage with his long legs crossed. He's wearing tartan garters. The dude. Well there's mother down the audience. Hello mother. How does he be proud of me tonight. The meeting will please come to order. Mr. Honeycutt hope he cuts it short. Thank you. As chairman of the Melmore Springs Civic League I want to welcome you all to the school auditorium. Night we're going to hear our two candidates from mayor speak on the subject of good city government. That's what he thinks. Incidentally that reminds me of a little withersism. Brother he's going to tell one of his rotary club jokes. Why should some of our politicians go back to school. So they get to know some principles. Oh brother Thomas Jefferson didn't write that. First speaker will be Mr. Stanley Peabody. We must have all his relatives here. Thank you. Thank you. Come on. Let's get that title speech over with. Ladies and gentlemen I prepared a speech on city government for tonight. We know that. But at the last moment I decided that no words of mine could be as eloquent as the great American document I'm going to read to you. What's this. These truths to be self evidence. That all men are created equal. They are involved with certain unalienable rights. I've been framed that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I'm sunk. I wonder if I could sneak out of here that to secure these rights. What's that. All those dogs. Thank you little doggies.  I can see all very good old. All right now quiet. The meeting is going to the dog. Thanks old friend that was a pretty clever idea letting the dogs out of the pond to save me wasn't thinking of you Harold you thought it was time those dogs got out for a little constitution. Oh sure. Look here.  You have just heard the Harold Perry show honest Harold who returns in just a moment with an important announcement. The supporting players tonight included Catherine Card can Peter's Leo Cleary Ruth Parrott and John McIntyre and featured Gloria Holiday is Gloria and Joseph Kearns as old Doc Yak Yak Norman McDonald directed and the music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin honest Harold created by Harold Perry was written by Jean Stone Jack Robinson and Bill Danch now back to Harold Perry. Oh that's me. Well Bob for the people who missed it I'm hunting for a laughing lady someone we can invite to appear on our show her laugh will enter her in the honest Harold laugh contest and it begins right in her hometown. So ladies if the laugh contest is being conducted in your city please enter and you may be here with us some Wednesday night. Stay tuned now for the big cross the show which follows immediately over most of the same CBS station. Bob Lamont speaking this is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.


It's 6.30 so we're really hungry, but we made it to the hut the last bit was a bit sketchy, but really cool Yeah, I didn't think it was cool Good morning. I think it's seven o'clock. Yes something like that And we saw beautiful sunrise between the mountains so sky was orange and pink And it was really beautiful And now I have to get up Out of my sleeping bag, which is way too comfortable and go to breakfast Day three. Good morning. Good morning. We're on our way again Yesterday arrived at the Falkenut at four o'clock in the afternoon. So we were pretty early, but we were really exhausted Yeah, the hut is 1848 meters high So it was a pretty steep climb at the end and when we arrived at the hut We were like, okay, we need food and we need sleep and a hot shower and that's what we did And now we refreshed and start again and today we're going to the Lambsje-Joghutten Yeah, it's about 11 kilometers and we have to walk that way You can see the big mountains over there We're not going up, but we're going just past it and it should take about eight hours again Let's go Yeah, so we're five kilometers in now and the first part was quite flat and now we're going on a Crazy downhill and on the end of the day, we have to walk all the way up towards the valley over there I think that's where the hut is, but I'm not sure How are your legs feeling today? They're feeling completely fun. Yeah, I think I have my Heike legs back Nice So this is our path and there's a little village down there Where we're going to take a break and then we have to hike like in between these mountains This is the Lambsen-Spitze Lambsen-Kuppspitze And behind that is our hut We just had a little pit stop at a Alm-Eng-Alm The Eng-Alm Eng-Alm if I'm correct Yeah, this is a little village called Eng and it's in the middle of huge mountains and it looks amazing Yeah, absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, it's a bit touristy And Yeah, so we're really looking forward to the climb we have 700 meters to climb and then we're at the Lambsen-Joghütte Where we're gonna spend the night. A little break before our climb with Apfelstrudel, really recommend it There's Jacuzzi at this Alm, look at it. It's just like a water top with like wood underneath it so you can Build a fire. Build a fire We just had some amazing Apfelstrudel At the Bins Alm, which is at 1500 meters The Lambsen-Joghütte was it? 1900 so we have 400 meters to climb. We already have 100 Climbed, so 300 left so it won't be that long anymore But we just met a girl we saw in the other Alm as well and she said that it's still like two hours walk So yeah, and we hike like really slow to really enjoy the scenery because look It's crazy the weather is beautiful We have all the time and we know we have some nice dinner waiting for us So what I really like about this trail is that like every Hike you do every day is true another valley So like when I look back, I even can't see the place where I'm from because all the mountains are there So every section is like a surprise. Right over there is the hut. It's the wall of the mountains So I was like Where is it? And we just saw mountain goats. Oh my god all the way along. I was like I want to see more mud But mountain goats are even better It's 6.30, so we're really hungry, but we made it to the hut. The last bit was a bit sketchy, but really cool So if you look here, that's where we got to the top. Now we had to walk all the way over this little edge Cross towards here, but it was really cool Yeah, I didn't think it was cool. Oh My god, it triggered literally every fear of me. I have a fear of falling Especially when I'm walking on like loose rocks With like a steep decline next to me. So I don't know I'm proud that I did it, but I'm like She did it. Oh My gosh Now I'm gonna sit and I won't be moving anymore Yes, okay, so we're gonna end this video for today. We'll see you tomorrow for day four of our hike. Tomorrow will be a big day 21 kilometers. So we're getting up early for an early breakfast. So we get an early start as well Bye. See ya


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Hey everyone, I just went to Mepps recently and I wanted to share a few tips with you to help you have a better Mepps experience. So my first tip is going to be pack lightly.  Then you have an overnight at the hotel, you're wearing another outfit the next day and you go home. So you don't need more than what you're wearing for two days. I honestly would suggest wearing the same pair of jeans both days. If you're gonna take two jeans, that's fine, but make sure they work with the same pair of shoes because there's no reason to pack more than one pair of shoes. Do not bring your ASVAB or study guide with you because it is way too bulky and it just gets in the way. Hopefully you have set aside a few weeks to study and prepare before. The next thing with the jeans or the pants that you are wearing, make sure that they have deep pockets because we cannot carry anything around with us, not our purse. Guys, you might be able to take your wallet. I think you can. Our backpacks get left. They all get left in a locked closet when we very first enter the MEP station. So we have to carry around our driver's license and our social security card. And ladies, if we don't have our purse, we don't have anywhere else to put it. A lot of times our pockets are more shallow. So make sure before you go, you have deep pockets that you're social and driver's license can fit in because you don't just wanna carry it around all day. You're gonna set it down.  You wanna be able to fit it in your pockets, not have to worry about it, but then have access to it when you need it. The next part of this is bring a light jacket. You don't know what the weather is gonna be like and even if the weather might be nice, it might be really cold inside the MEP station. So you wanna be able to have a jacket. Yes, we can wear our jackets throughout the day. Even when we put our stuff in the locked closet, you can still keep a jacket on you. You want it to be light because obviously you don't wanna be carrying around a bulky jacket if you end up taking it off.  This next tip is for my glasses and contact wearers. I am just gonna give you some information and you can choose what the best option is for you. So typically I wear contacts like I am right now, but when we go to MEPs, we have to do a vision test and they're gonna have you do the test with your contacts or glasses on and then a second one with your contacts or glasses off. It only takes like 30 seconds to do the test because you just look in the machine and you read the letters and you read down to the line that you can't see anymore and then you do the same thing with your glasses on, with your glasses off. So typically I wear contacts and I'm like, well, I don't wanna have to take contacts in solution and take my contacts out to do that. I'm just gonna wear glasses because it's easier to take on and off. But something to think about right now is it's during the COVID time. So we're having to wear a mask over our mouth and our nose. Glasses wears, you already know where I'm going with this. You have glasses on and it is going to fog up all day. I would suggest taking your contact case with solution and just keeping that in your pocket. They're gonna let you do that. Tip number three is do not bring any weapons at all. Don't have any weapons on your person. Don't have them in your purse. Don't have them in your backpack. Guns, pepper spray or mace, tasers and pocket knives. Even the little credit card knives, I hadn't even heard of anything like that before but my recruiter and the guy giving the briefing, both mentioned those because I guess there have been a lot of people coming in with those or forgetting to mention it before they go in because it's just like a little credit card, right? But that still counts as a weapon. Look over all the stuff you have. If you're someone who typically has one, take everything out before you even leave to go to your recruiter's office to go to meps because if you get all the way there and it might be close to you, it might be far away.  So don't bring any weapons. The next tip seems like common sense but I feel like people still need to be told. Listen when you're at meps. It doesn't seem like it's that hard but there were so many people who didn't and it blows my mind.  We all have to go through this process because we're trying to join the military, right? And if you can't listen to simple rules at the very beginning of your journey, this is not the right career path for you. And if you want to make your meps experience as easy as possible, follow the rules. One of the rules being listen. Not that hard, keep it in mind if you're somebody who has trouble with it. And the last tip that I have for you guys today is designate someone to take pictures and videos when you are going to swear in at meps because they don't have anybody there to do that. Unfortunately, I wish they did because this is a really special moment for us, you know? Like we want to share this with our friends and family because now again during COVID times you can't bring friends and family in because typically they would be the ones who would be able to record for you but now nobody can come in to watch us, it's just us. So I actually had trouble getting somebody to do this for me, I asked people at the front desk and they said, talk to the Air Force people. So I go talk to the Air Force people. I said, hey, can we get somebody to record me whenever I go to swear in later? And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get someone. Okay, great. So then it got closer to time to swear in. I talked to the front desk people again. I was like, hey, I talked to the Air Force people. They said they'd get someone but they didn't like, can you guys get someone?  I go into the room to go swear in and I had my phone in my pocket and the lady was teaching us how to stand at attention and parade rest. And then when she was done, she's like, and stand like that, do not move till the commander comes in. And I had to be like, and I like pointed at my phone. She's like, why do you have your phone in here? And I was like, they said they'd get someone to record. Who said it? I'm like, everyone, who's gonna record? I don't know. Everyone just keeps telling me they'll get someone but no one did. I should have gone to the Air Force guys and specifically said, can you record for me?  And then when I went to go swear in I almost didn't have anybody record. So, thankfully, one of the Air Force guys came in and recorded for me. Maybe you could even mention it to your branch whenever you're checking in with them earlier that day saying, hey, I need to make sure I have somebody to record today. I've heard of people who have had issues getting someone to do it, like can you do it for me? Something like that. Just keep asking until you get someone to do it because it really sucks to not have it. Because I was hoping he was gonna record me and there were two other guys swearing in with me at the same time. I was gonna send them that video but then he ended up only recording me and I felt bad. I couldn't give those guys that video but designate someone to take pictures and videos for you whenever you were going to swear in. And I hope these tips helped you guys. Good luck to those of you who are getting ready to go into meps. It is really not that bad. I've made videos of my experience so if you guys haven't seen them yet, be sure to check them out. I've talked about my day one and day two experience and the medical experience and the exercises that you do and everything like that. But if you have any further questions about anything about joining the Air Force process, ask me in the comment section below because I am documenting everything as I go through this and if you have any specific questions, just feel free to ask.


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Mae'n fawr o'r digwydd ymdweud ymdweud... ..y'n meddwl â'r llwyddiad... however we think from countries around the world than practically any other university. Our students come from over 130 countries, our staff from over 90 countries. And we pride ourselves on being very special. Not just because of our diversity but because we're a school with subject language and regional expertise and a unique global perspective. Soas is an important place for debate and for discussion around many of the very challenging issues that are facing our world today. And that is why in this our centenary year we have launched our SOAS fundraising campaign Questions Worth Asking. We want our students and our academic staff to keep on asking and answering today's most pressing questions. And if you go on the website you'll see that the questions range from things like is there a solution to the world's refugee crisis, to what happens after war, should we all speak the same language, what makes a global citizen. Through that campaign we're seeking further support for our work for example in relation to scholarship support and we're very proud that with the support of our students this year we launched our student sanctuary scheme. A scheme which provides six undergraduates fee waivers and one postgraduate fee waiver for people displaced from their home country and who do not have access to student finance. And we're very keen to continue that work but also to endow academic posts and to make sure that we do everything we can to get the student experience right. So let me now turn to this evening and before our introductions two housekeeping points if I may. Can I first all ask you to check that your phones are on silent? And secondly if you're tweeting which I very much hope that some of you will do that you will use the hashtag SOAS100. So now I'd like to invite Professor Gilbert Atchard who is the Chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies to introduce our very special guest lecturer this evening. Gilbert, good to you. Thank you Director Ramos and good evening to all friends of SOAS100. This is the Centre for Palestine Studies. This is the fourth annual lecture of our centre which is now five years old. We started with our first annual lecture with Professor Walid Khalidi four years ago and this year happens to be a special occasion. One good occasion if you want or one happy occasion the SOAS100 so we could combine the occasion of the annual lecture with the occasion of the centenary. And another half centenary much less happy the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank. 50 years already since this happened in 1967. And on this occasion I mean it is difficult to find a better speaker, a better guest, a better lecturer than Rajash Hadi whom we will have the pleasure to see and to listen to. Rajash Hadi studied law in the city in London and he belongs to a family very much law related family. His grandfather was a judge in the courts in the British Mandate Palestine and his father was a lawyer. Of course he himself is a lawyer and he is a founder of the pioneering Al Haq which means the right and the loads in Arabic and independent Palestinian human rights organisation founded in 1979 and based in Ramallah in the West Bank. Al Haq monitors and documents human rights violations by all parties and I stress emphasize all parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict both on the Palestinian side and of course on the Israeli side. It has been an affiliate of the Geneva based international commission of juries for over 20 years and is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights and Habitat International Coalition as well as the World Organization Against Torture. It is also part of the Executive Committee of the Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network and of the Steering Committee of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organisations Network. Rajash Hadi is also a writer, a well-known writer who authored several acclaiming books including, I won't read the door list, but including some of the prominent titles, Strangers in the House in 2002. Palestinian walks notes on a vanishing landscape which won the 2008 Orwell Prize, Occupation Diaries which came out in 2012 and Language of War, Language of Peace which came out two years ago in 2015. His latest book which will be on display outside which you could be able to buy outside after the talk is where the line is drawn, Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine, just came out absolutely first time here. The title of the lecture is here, very appropriate to the occasion as I said. Rajash Hadi will speak for about one hour after which there will be a reception. We don't have time for any questions or answers we would have liked but he planned for a relatively long lecture so we'll have the pleasure of listening to him for this whole lecture. I will now further delay, join me in welcoming Rajash Hadi. Thank you very much. The plan had its core, the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, following the lines of the 1947 partition scheme with East Jerusalem as its capital. The question of refugees and refugee compensation to be resolved according to the principles laid down in the UN Resolution 194 regarding the right of return. The plan had the support of some 50 Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However, it was neither accepted nor even considered by the Israeli government which had since the start of the occupation been dodging one peace offer by the Palestinians and the Arab states after another. In the words of historian Aviraaz, practicing a policy of deception. The PLO which was just emerging and finding its feet did not respond to this initiative. As time passed, most of the PLO supporters of the plan were assassinated by Israel. Amongst whom were my father, Isam Sartawi, Saeed Hamami, Naeem Khadir and Ezid Din Qalaq. Now, 50 years later, it is what the PLO and most countries of the world are calling for. How much suffering we would all have been spared had it gone through then. A quarter of a century after my determined if type of strewn typing of my father's proposal, there was a time of hope in the world and hope looked like it would pay us a visit. David Bowie sang at the Berlin Wall in the summer of 1987 and contributed to bringing it down. Then, on November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw, the wall finally fell and the citizens of the German Democratic Republic were free to cross the country's borders. Meanwhile, in apartheid South Africa, positive developments were taking place which culminated in elections being held on April 27, 1994, where all citizens of whatever colour were given the vote. The hateful apartheid regime of South Africa ended. The great demographic fear of the black majority if the vote is given to every citizen of the country proved unfounded. The question I want to pose here is why didn't these two hopeful events that resulted in the resolution of long lasting endemic injustices inspire the Israeli government to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories, resolve outstanding issues between Palestinians and Israelis, and usher in a lasting peace. After all, in the midst of the Palestinian intifada, there was new thinking on the part of the PLO which declared its commitment to an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. A related question that I want to ask is why didn't the world put its weight to make this happen? There might not be a single answer to these two questions, but I shall try to propose some pointers. When I asked Israeli leftist friends why wasn't the end of apartheid in South Africa an inspiring event to Israelis, I got two different responses. The first was that the whites in South Africa had lost whereas we Israelis have not. The second, more convincing answer, was that the Israelis do not see their situation as a kin in any way to apartheid and so they do not consider it would have a similar resolution. Some of you might already be wondering why I ask these questions when the answer is obvious. Did the world not make an effort to get the parties together in 1991 with the convening of the International Peace Conference in Madrid in the presence of Arab states and Israel? And did this effort not eventually end in 1993 with the signing of the Oslo Accords celebrated by the famous handshake at the White House Sloan by Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat repeatedly shown on TV screens the world over? But before I elaborate why I believe these were illusory hopes, I want to go back to the second answer given by Israelis where they explain the lack of a positive inspiration by distinguishing between apartheid regime in South Africa and the situation in Israel-Palestine. To understand how the Israelis see the history of their state and how different this is from the way Palestinians see it, I want to go back to the formative event of 1948, the year of the establishment of Israel and reflect on the word necbi. The Arabic word for defeat is hazime, but this was not the word chosen to describe what happened in Palestine in 1948, so why is that? A defeat usually means that the society or nation is set back, its values put in question. It might take it many years to collect itself and rebuild what it lost and rise again. This is what happened in 1945 to Germany and to Japan after the Second World War. To different extents, both had either all or part of their territories occupied by the victorious nation or nations, and both soon made it into first straight powerful nations. But the cause of Palestine was different. The case of Palestine was different. Palestinians experienced an utter dissolution of their nation which was forced out of its homeland and fragmented into parts, one part in the Gaza Strip under Egypt, another part in the West Bank and East Jerusalem under Jordan, and the rest scattered in refugee camps in surrounding countries. Yet they were not defined within the UN Refugee Convention as refugees. Palestine seized to exist. To describe what we felt the Palestinian nation a word stronger than defeat was needed. That word was necbi, catastrophe. In Hebrew, there is still no word for the greatest catastrophe that the establishment of Israel caused the Palestinians, and recently its commemoration was made illegal by law. Israel described the war in 1948 as its war of independence, and this was long before the culture of post truth had emerged. By doing so, the country is claiming that it got its independence from the British. Yet it was the British who in the Belford declaration of 1917 100 years ago promised the land that had a majority of Palestinian Arabs to the Jews, and it was the British who worked throughout the British mandate over Palestine from 1922 to 1948 to facilitate the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in accordance with the terms of the mandate. The real reason why Israel makes this claim, I propose, is because the new country wanted to position itself within the group of decolonized nations. Without delay, the newly established country proceeded to reinvent a history that excluded any recognition of the presence of the indigenous non-Jewish inhabitants of the country, forcing out most of them and erasing any sign of the former presence and history in the land. As has often been noted, the conceit goes that prior to the return quote-unquote of the exiled Jews, there was nothing there. The Palestinians who happened to be on the land had only come when the first Zionist colonization began because it created economic opportunities for them. Otherwise, the land was fellow, empty, desert, waiting for 3,000 years for the return of its original and true owners, the Jews, to arrive and populate it. It is no coincidence that this terra nullius is the exact justification given by colonists throughout history the world over. In other words, in 1948 there was an attempt at rewriting the entire history of Palestine. It was akin to year zero, after which a new history begins with the ingathering of the Jews into the historic homeland Israel. The conceit of an empty land did not only apply to 1948. Consider the words of the famous song Jerusalem of Gold written by the Israeli national poet Nomi Shamer shortly before the liberation quote-unquote of East Jerusalem. Where she describes East Jerusalem in June 1967 as I quote, an empty place without residence. The water wells ran dry. The market square is empty unquote. In her eyes the Arabs were merely transparent figures. But this view is not exclusive to Israel. Many in the world go along with the belief that Israel is not a historical country established 69 years ago by a UN resolution, but rather a biblical state that was not established by historical or legal events rooted in the modern 20th century. Much derived from this ahistorical view of Israel. If it is 3000 years old then it has not taken anyone's land. It did not need to empty the land of its Palestinian inhabitants and take over their place. The destruction of the landscape and memories of a whole nation after 1948 in Israel is well documented. I did not experience it first hand as did my parents and their generation. But I see it happening now in the West Bank where public land and places with significance and meaning to those of us living there, hills, springs and wadis, as well as archaeological sites that do not show any evidence of Jewish settlement are being systematically destroyed or renamed. Because our memories and attachment to the place is not recognized by the Jewish settlers who are intent on transforming the land to reflect only their own. It all derives from the refusal to recognize the neck bay. That is why in a more protracted manner the neck bay continues until today driven by the same attitudes and ideology. Sometimes the refusal to recognize Palestine is so outrageous. It is almost funny. As when member of Kineset Annat Berco said, Palestine does not exist because there is no letter P in Arabic, forgetting that the Arabic name is Philistine. The Israeli version of what happened in 1948 is the dominant narrative of the events of that year. It was against this story supported by the most popular of books of the Bible and with the sympathy from one of the worst atrocities in modern history, the Holocaust, that the Palestinians had to tell the world their version of what befell them in 1948. To this day, alas, we are still not successful in getting this across. We have no voice. This first neck bay was a more central and formative experience of my life. I was born after it occurred in Ramallah to which my family was exiled from their coastal home in Jaffa. All the talk I grew up, as I grew up, was of the lost land and the shock and horror of what happened to them. As I was growing up evidence of the impoverishment and suffering was all around me. The second Palestinian neck bay started soon after 1967 with the occupation by Israel of the rest of Palestine. From the early 80s, when I began following what Israel was doing with the establishment of settlements in the occupied territories and bringing its people to live there, I could not imagine that it could end in any other way than as apartheid. I was not alone in thinking this. In 1976, Yitzhak Rabin, who served as Israel's defense minister during the first Intifada and as its prime minister during the negotiations and signing of the Oslo Accords, gave an interview in which he compared the 60 settlements in existence at that time as, quote, a cancer in the social and democratic tissue of the state of Israel, unquote. He was critical of the Israeli settler organization Gush Omonim, block of the faithful, who initially spearheaded the settlement movement in Israel, describing it as, quote, a group that takes the law into its own hands. Because he said because of the Arab population, I don't think it would be possible to settle over time unless we want to get to apartheid with a million and half Arabs inside the state of Israel, unquote. Israel's Minister of Defense, Ariel Sharon, appointed in 1981 by Prime Minister Minahim Beigun, had other thoughts and a very different attitude to settlements than Rabin. He was not worried about the presence of Palestinians in the occupied territories and was planning to deal with us similarly to how the apartheid regime dealt with the black majority. Indeed, that year, Sharon secretly visited South Africa. While he was being briefed about the country, he told his aide that what he most wanted to know about was the ban to stands, how they are structured and administered. He was obviously planning for a similar fate for the Palestinians, those of us who were living in the West Bank and Gaza. He invited one of the ban to stand presidents to visit Israel where he was met with great pomp and ceremony. This president also visited one of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and in his speech called this a historic day. It was then that I realized that Israel was learning from the apartheid regime and that the future they planned for us was similar to the homelands which apartheid South Africa designated for the black population. In time, I was proven right. When Israel's ally, the South African regime of racial discrimination fell, Israel did not get the more optimistic message that it was possible for Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews to live together as the blacks and whites now do in the democratic regime whatever its problems. Instead, it learned to avoid the mistakes of the white regime that they figured had led to the failure of the system of apartheid, that is the dependence of the economy on black labor. Thus, in the early 90s Israel proceeded to reduce the country's dependence on the Palestinian labor by closing the borders between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza for Palestinians and importing workers from abroad even though it was more expensive for them to do so. Through the Oslo Accords, Israel managed to further the implementation of the apartheid model. This it did by repackaging the occupation without ending it, transferring civilian matters to a newly created Palestinian authority while keeping the majority of the land under Israeli de facto sovereignty, controlling the borders, and creating banter stands for the Palestinians with a security fence subcontracting certain powers to leaders it did not choose and yet in some way it did by assassinating those whom it did not like. But why was Israel so unprepared for peace and why did it not use the opportunity of negotiations with the PLO to arrive at a real peace with its neighbors who at that time were willing to make peace with it. After Israel's victory in 1967 in the 1967 war, the Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Diane declared, we are now an empire and proceeded to act with imperious arrogance. Some might say Israel is still drunk with victory. Rather than use the Oslo negotiations to make real peace with its enemy, the PLO, Israel prepared and managed to get its adversary to sign a surrender document. The PLO on its part was unprepared for the negotiations, was feeling vulnerable and was determined to re-establish itself in Palestine whatever the cost. An Israeli professor of law and a friend pointed out to me that Israeli legal advisor to Rabin conducted these negotiations as if he was a lawyer doing a real estate deal when after the land is sold and the deal completed the two sides are unlikely to meet to ever meet. How inappropriate this approach was to Israel and Palestine who are fated to live side by side. The failure to seek a real peace in Oslo is not the only reason why Israel was not and remains unprepared to make peace. Peace would mean a restructuring of the myth on which the Israeli state has been established and possibly large amounts in compensation for the dispossessed Palestinians and of course sharing the land with them. There is also the possible loss in the event of peace of some of their most lucrative export of weapons and weapons systems. Beyond this commercial consideration there is another matter. The war footing that Israel is continuously fostering perpetuates the fear that acts as a glue that holds the various contradictory strands of Israeli society together. In this Israel is different from apartheid South Africa where in South Africa the master race was homogeneous in Israel it is polarized politically economically and socially. On August 30th 2016 the former Mossad Israel's external security service chief Tamir Pardu said that quote the greatest danger Israel faces isn't external but rather the divisions within Israeli society. He continues, if a divided society crosses a certain threshold you can reach phenomena such as civil war in extreme cases. The distance between the present day situation in Israel and the civil war is growing smaller, he said. Uri Avneri the veteran journalist and former member of the Israeli parliament commented on this statement by explaining that quote in Israel we have a lot of socio economic problems but the division between left and right almost solely concerns peace and the occupation. If one wants an end of the occupation and peace with the Palestinians one is a leftist. If one wants the annexation of the occupied territories and the enlargement of the settlements one is a rightist. He then added a lot of Israelis have begun to talk of two Jewish societies in Israel. Some even talk about two Jewish peoples within the Israeli Jewish nation. What holds them together he believes is the conflict, the occupation, the perpetual state of war. Others have pointed out that it is not that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been forced on Israel rather it's the other way around. Israel keeps up the conflict because it needs the conflict for its very existence. I tried to show why the end of apartheid in South Africa and the fall of the Berlin Wall did not inspire the Israelis. The second question I want to try to answer is why did the world not put pressure on the country to make peace such as by imposing sanctions on Israel. I have been involved in the struggle for Palestinian human rights since 1979 and have witnessed a change to the worst in the reporting of the Palestinian reality. The establishment media seems to favour a distorted view of balance rather than pursue a search for truth and exploration of the facts that could illuminate the situation. I will give only one example. During the Gaza War of 2014, I was interviewed by the BBC Today programme. I noted that Gaza is still occupied by Israel, which is an incontrovertible fact under international law. Instead of asking what are the implications of this, the programme brought in Dore Gold, whose words in denial of this fact concluded the programme. Rather than expose the deception, the BBC was propagating it, and in my naivete, I thought its mission was to educate the public. As a consequence, after ten years of blockade, there is hardly any international pressure on Israel to lift its siege on the Gaza Strip. Here is how one recent visitor to the Strip describes conditions there. Gaza is cloaked in desperation. You feel it the minute you cross the border. It's like travelling to another world. Already at the crossing, you see seriously ill people, mainly cancer patients, waiting in line in a hall. They are hoping for some compassion and permission to cross the border and receive treatment. By the way, the treatment they seek is not only in Israeli hospitals but in Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem. You go by car and see ruins, thousands of destroyed houses, factories in ruins, sewage flowing through the streets. More than 60% of the inhabitants are unemployed. There's terrible poverty. There is simply no money, not for food or for medication and not for warm clothes for children. People light fires in order to stay warm. It's quite common in Gaza to see a fire outside a tent standing next to a ruined house. Water sources are contaminated. Gaza is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. This failure by the establishment media to educate the public about the prevailing situation in Palestine is unlikely to change. Nor is the government's bias or even infatuation with Israel, whether in the United Kingdom or in the United States. The present Palestinian Authority's strategy is to abandon the armed struggle in favour of international diplomacy, including suing Israel for war crimes at the international criminal court. Instead of encouraging this, the United States has warned Palestinian leaders that suing Israel in the international court would trigger severe steps by the US administration, including the closure of the PLO offices in the American capital, and an end to economic aid to the Palestinian Authority. During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump ditched decades of diplomacy and solid principles of international law when he told his guest, I'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. And yet despite the power of the Israeli Empire and its 50-year-old attempt at imposing on the world its status in the occupied territories, is not that of a occupier, but the fulfilment of the wish of the Almighty, the world continues to refer to it by its correct name, occupation. UN Security Council Resolution 2334 reaffirmed quote that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law, and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and the just, lasting and comprehensive peace, unquote. The resolution also called upon all states to distinguish in the relevant dealings between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied in 1967. A most bizarre situation has arisen, whereby the gulf between the reality on the ground with more creeping annexation into the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the global recognition of the Palestinian State, which has 90 embassies around the world and denunciation of settlements as illegal, this gulf is forever growing wider. Those who claim that realities on the ground are making the Palestinian State unviable are not taking into consideration that as time passes, the State of Palestine, legally speaking, is becoming a reality. How will these two parallel realities be reconciled? Could Israel be betting on the collapse of international law? It might well be so. Daniel Reisner, who served as head of the Israeli Army's International Law Department, proposed that, quote, if you do something for long enough, the world will accept it. An action that is forbidden today becomes permissible if executed by enough countries, unquote. As proof, Reisner cited the targeted killings Israel conducted continually until the practice was, in his words, in the center of the bounds of legitimacy, unquote. The Israeli government's latest attempt at legitimization takes the form of a new law passed by the Knesset. The law retroactively legalizes government expropriation of privately owned Palestinian land on which settlements or outposts were built, quote, in good faith or at the state's instructions. In effect, it makes the illegal legal. This situation interests and worries me greatly as a lawyer and a believer in the role of international law in helping preserve peace in the world. As a writer, what engages me is the extent to which the present reality brings the worst in all of us and turns us, Israelis and Palestinians into racists and killers. The disparity in the power of both sides make Israel the greater violator by a magnitude. The majority of these violations are well reported. What I find most unpalatable is the extent of the meanness and utter Kafkaesque absurdity that is so often displayed by Israel. I will give only a few examples. The Israeli authorities refused to allow children from Gaza, however young they are, to come for cancer treatment at the hospital accompanied by their mother or any other relative, unless they are over 55 years of age. These children are in a particularly difficult condition and desperately need their mothers.  A new Israeli regulation now allows visitors to security prisoners to bring in five photographs to give to relatives in prison. One of the photos that one relative brought was of five members of his family. Upon inspection the visitor was told he could only take in that one. Asked why he was told because it counts for five photos since it shows five figures. A 32 year old Palestinian who lived with his ailing mother in a West Bank refugee camp wakes up in the middle of the night as soldiers burst into the house.   You wake up and see that your son is gone. The head of the finance ministry department that enforces planning and construction laws, Avi Cohen, lives in an illegal West Bank settlement outpost. Cohen's job includes issuing demolition orders for illegal construction inside Israel. The recently appointed Israeli high court judge, British born David Mintz, lives nearby Ramallah in the illegal settlement of Dolev. While Palestinians in Israel have to build illegally in one sweep on 22 January 2017, the Jerusalem municipality approved permits for 566 homes for the settlement. The land of Pescadzeev, Ramot and Ramot Shlomo on Palestinian lands. About half a million Arab citizens in Israel live in about 100,000 buildings erected without permits in Arab locales throughout the country. But then there is a method in that if Palestinians live in unlicensed homes, the family will constantly live in fear that its home will be demolished. This is how Israel rules by keeping people feeling they're in violation of the law and so feeling guilty and under threat. This way we Palestinians are easier to manipulate and govern. These are but few examples of the inhumanity Palestinians living under occupation and in Israel experience. I can attest that after living for 50 years under Israeli occupation, the level of anger, frustration and anxiety has only been on the increase. And this is how I, an older man with a plenty of occupation experience feels. How would it be for the young and vulnerable? I could go on and give many more examples of much worse atrocities, cruelty and violence. But what is the point? Suffice it to say that the situation we live under brings the worst in all of us. The sad fact is that Israel did not want peace, not in 1967, not in 1978 at the time of the Sedat's visit, not in 1993 at the time of the Oslo and not in 2016 when, as revealed last month, Secretary of State John Kerry presented a plan for a regional peace initiative including recognition of Israel as a Jewish state that had the support of Arab countries because Israel does not want to give up the territories it occupied in 1967 or recognize Palestine as a nation. This continuation of the conflict has brought the worst elements in their society and in ours to be in control, a heavy price to pay. Had Israel wanted to live with its neighbors in peace, they would have used the occasion of their control over a significant segment of Palestinian society that extended for 50 years, a quarter, half a century to show how it could have been between the two sides, how they could live together and benefit from each other and prosper. Had Israel wanted peace, it could have taught its own people Arabic, the language of the people in the region to which it ostensibly wants to belong rather than hone its expertise in recruiting collaborators who helped to kill more Palestinians or assassinate Palestinians inside and outside the territories who called for peace with Israel, it could have encouraged those calling for peace and coexistence. Instead, it was greedy for land and its leaders were full of hubris. Their policies ended up encouraging violence and ever more increasing violence, extreme violence as Amos Gilad, the director of the political military affairs bureau of Israel's defense minister once told American officials, we do not do Gandhi very well. When I was close to the end of writing my new book where the line is drawn crossing boundaries in occupied Palestine, I came upon what the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu said and I quote, In the end, in the state of Israel, as I see it, there will be a fence that spans it all. I'll be told, this is what you want to protect the villa? The answer is yes. Will we surround all of the state of Israel with fences and barriers? The answer is yes. In the area that we live in, we must defend ourselves against the wild beasts, unquote. As I read this, I was confronted with the recent events of the ever more common killings and brutality. I went into despair about our future in Palestine, Israel. But as a writer, I felt I should not allow myself to be swept by the worst emotions and instead look to the future and hope to influence it. I asked myself the question, how should I react? Should I succumb to anger and despair at being compared to a wild beast and respond by thrusting similarly disparaging epitaphs at my enemy? I decided against all this. I recalled what Raymond Williams has said that quote to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. I also found myself in agreement with Rebecca Solnit wrote that quote, the time when you don't need hope is when your hopes have been fulfilled, unquote. And ours, alas, haven't been. We are in desperate need of hope. And bringing about change and hope, writers and thinkers surely have a role to play. Not only by analyzing what is taking place as I just did, but also by imagining how it could be different. In this way, writers can ultimately tilt the balance and encourage the victory of those with positive, creative energy rather than the negative energy of terror, violence and hatred. In my book, I wrote about a long-term friendship with Henry, a Canadian Jewish immigrant to Israel. A friendship that despite many trying times of anger and alienation continues to be a source of pride for me. Our friendship has extended over 40 years. In its course were many ups and downs, anger, expectations that were not met, jealousies and disappointments. But despite all these, our friendship held up. In the book, it isn't put forward as a model nor as representative. Yet the description of the challenges and prevails that we went through in the course of our long relationship that extended over most of the occupation might help bring out the varied phases that the occupation itself went through and negate the belief that the way it now is between the two nations is how it always has been and will be. The truth is that it has not always been so bad between Jews and Arabs in Palestine, Israel, nor has it always seemed so hopeless. When the prospect of Arabs and Jews ever living together in peace is discussed, many despair that after all what has happened between the two sides, they can never come to renounce their hatred of each other. Others point out to the time before Zionism when Arabs and Jews did live together in peace in Palestine. Yet it is not as though a time will ever come when there will be no prejudice or that there ever was at such a time. There need not be love and there will always be prejudice. We do not have to follow President Trump who says we will only allow into our country those who love us. Even when two religious communities like the Palestinian Christians and Muslims live together as we do in Palestine today, there is prejudice. But this does not mean that we cannot live together and live very well together with mutual benefit and excellent coexistence. Likewise, there is prejudice between Jews and Christians in the UK and between the Mormons and other Christians in the US and between the blacks and whites in South Africa. And yet these different religious communities and races live together and their coexistence is not premised or conditional upon the removal of the prejudice. Life simply has to be organised around it. The problem arises when there is fear of the other, which is what we have in Palestine Israel between Jews and Arabs. It is this feeling of insecurity that causes tensions and eruptions. But people are capable of learning to live together while keeping the prejudices under control. This leads me to think that the belief that the two sides can never live together in Palestine and Israel and therefore solutions of exclusion and high walls as proposed by Mr Netanyahu are the only answer is total rubbish. What we do need is to find practical arrangements for Palestine, Israel and Jordan to cooperate as many states in a region that should not be geographically divided. Israeli Jews, among others, are adept and skilled at devising practical arrangements to organise society. They have long had to deal with this in their own fractured society. The options are many, but only if there is a will to find them. At present there is no incentive. The occupation is beneficial to Israel and the country continues to be unconditionally accepted throughout the world even while it oppresses another nation. The continuation of the occupation has to become a liability before this can change. That is why the boycott, divestment and sanctions strategy is a source of hope. At the end of my book I wrote that quote in our small way the friendship between Henry and me exposed the lie paddled by Netanyahu and his followers to Israeli people and the world. That the Arab is the fulfilment, is the fundamental and eternal enemy of the Jew. That the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews cannot be resolved diplomatically and that Israeli people have to live forever by the sword. As if to confirm that the writers can indeed play a role in ushering change, I received the following letter while I was writing the book from an Israeli high school teacher in Tel Aviv. I want to end by reading to you from this letter. I read all your books that are available in Hebrew, it goes. A strong feeling of loss awakened in me while reading them. I believe that not only the Palestinians lost their homes, lands and collective life and culture during the 1948 but also the Jews lost partners for a better life and most of all our humanity. The 1967 war was a second disaster on both of us. 49 years of despicable occupation. You are of course the main victims of it. But we are also paying the price of violating your basic human rights. We have lost our humanity once more. This is why I teach the history of the Nakbe and about the occupation. I believe we the Israelis must take responsibility for what we have done and continue doing. We must find a just solution and to do that we must acknowledge our wrongdoings. As you probably imagine, it's not an easy task to achieve in Israel but it is possible. For me the most effective way to do so is to work with youth. Most of them keep an open mind because they still haven't been drafted to the army. For an Israeli soldier acknowledging our crimes might mean a total breakdown of his identity. After all, looking at the mirror and recognizing a perpetrator can bring an identity crisis. But the effect of this acknowledgement on high school students is different. They are free of personal guilt although they do feel collective guilt because they never served in the army and they never expropriated land. They blame the older generation, us the grown ups for lying and deceiving them, for sentencing them to hatred and war and for turning them into perpetrators. It is pretty amazing to watch how it's possible to open their eyes to reality and help them deal with this process courageously. All the best. Adwa, thank you Adwa and thank you all for listening.


The Appalachian Advantage plan is the simpler, better way to get the phone you actually want instead of paying hundreds of dollars up front.  It's called the Appalachian Advantage available at Appalachian Wireless. The fraternal order of police will be hosting a boys junior high basketball tournament November 26th to fundraise for their Cops and Kids Christmas program. The tournament will host six local schools from across Pike County and 100% of the proceeds will go towards their Christmas shopping program. The fraternal order of police every year we try to fundraise for a fundraiser for the Cops and Kids shopping program for less fortunate children and we basically was just spearheading this trying to get a community to get together to try to fund this program for kids and I just figured a better way is to have a basketball tournament because everyone in this region loves basketball so you know people can enjoy, come and enjoy a program and plus you know it's for a good cause. The tournament will be held at Elkhorn City School Gym at 11 a.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for kids. It's you know 100% of the proceeds go to the program and it's basically just for less fortunate kids it's not going to get, I'm not going to say not get anything but not get much for Christmas that they have just as good a Christmas as any other kid you know a fortunate kid so you know we basically we take 100% of the proceeds you know nobody gets to keep any of this money if we make $100 some kid gets a $100 gift you know so that's that's what it's basically for it's just for all the kids in the community to have a good Christmas. If you would like to donate to the Cops and Kids Christmas program or volunteer contact Joey Collins at<PHONE_NUMBER>. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brandon Robinson.


And we're live I think we live can I share this while I'm live oh I can I'm gonna share it to Facebook Well, there you go Hey guys We're in here How's it going? My camera is Boy oh boy boy. Oh boy need to hang out with people.  I just haven't edited it yet So don't worry. We'll probably do another live stream tomorrow Seems that there's a lot to talk about going on around the world Uh, brit and I are healthy. We're doing good. We have no symptoms whatsoever. Our families are all healthy Uh, so far. I don't know anybody personally who has gotten this new virus I believe there's only four cases can four cases And no deaths in manitoba. Yeah, so we're uh, we're a pretty low risk area of the country all of the flights coming back to canada now None of them are landing in winnipeg winnipeg has been shut down to international flights So we're not going to be getting any new cases added to the mix from people coming from abroad So that's good. Uh, we do have to keep calgary, vancouver, toronto and montreal in our prayers because that's where all the Canadians are returning to because uh, canada has shut down. We are closed The well, we haven't totally shut down like I don't freak you out. Our bulls are shut down No one will be allowed entry or we're denying entry to all non-citizens The canadian citizens and irkan citizens and permanent residents only will be allowed into canada Until I guess further notice So, uh, yeah, we closed, uh They did not close the border between canada and the us. No, they didn't uh, that has remained open Us truck drivers were not affected if you do cross from canada to the us and a personal vehicle for a trip You'll be required to go into a 14-day quarantine self-quarantine truck drivers are exempt from that because I have got extra disinfectant and I have been disinfecting my dash and all the surfaces that I touch So I've got that I got lots of paper towel And I've got the most important thing that you need in a pandemic vanilla wafers So we're good. I've got uh, but the only thing is hand sanitizer guys are hogging all the hand sanitizer Look at this This is all I got left. That's all I got left. That's all the hand sanitizer I could find like I bought this a long time ago already till I had this with me But that's all I have And I've stopped at grocery store after grocery store gas station after gas station stop after stop after stop Every Come out. I'm gonna start making my own But I got lots of disinfecting from the truck here Uh, this is That's plenty. I got lots of paper towel in here. Uh, yeah, we got toilet paper at home I'm in canada right now. Yep Yeah, we have toilet paper at home Uh, but what weird thing fly off the shelves toilet paper. Why are you guys hoarding toilet paper? Of all things I could see people hoarding Hand sanitizer and disinfecting. I can understand that. I would like one, please. I need some hand sanitizer I'm gonna run out in like a week. So I got time. I'm not panicking or anything, but I'm gonna need more hand sanitizer Can't find any But uh, so yeah, we're good. We're good. If you're just tuning in my my family brit's family, we're all good Uh, there's no one that we know Uh, I haven't even heard of anyone or spoken to anyone in person that has contracted the virus We're all good, but the border between the us and canada is still open Americans are still allowed to come visit canada We're allowed to go visit the us But when you do cross the border, you're gonna have to go into a 14 day isolation self-quaranty Except for truckers because we carry in central essential things that if we didn't bring it to you guys Things would get a lot worse really quickly People leave food They still need water. They still need essential supplies. They still need us to bring it to them And the reason why truckers are exempt as far as I've heard that's changed Yeah, things seem to change every 10 minutes Uh, we're self-quarantined in here. I don't talk to anybody all day. I interact with Hopefully, uh, hopefully this live stream is working. My phone keeps acting up. I got full lte service weird but uh Yeah, the the only people I would really have to interact with would be uh, my shippers and receivers and that's just A brief like 30 seconds just to give them paperwork tired I take the paperwork from them. I put it in an envelope. I bring it. I put it into my truck I sanitize my hands That's the only human contact I have and that's only every couple of days usually I have a multi-drop load right now. So I'm dealing with a little bit more receivers than usual But it's the same thing I unload the truck by myself I go inside with the paperwork. I give the paperwork to them. They sign it. I stay away from them. No handshaking No close contact. No hugs.  So really we we're at very low risk Truckers are at very low risk to contract it or to spread it. Uh, bricht is the same way We live way out in the middle of nowhere. Thank god in manitoba Uh, she's She's restricting herself from going out visiting and stuff too. So she's not Getting out in the public at all Where she works, she's sort of on her own around very few people as it is and she's a clean freak So she's always already sanitizing her hands and uh cleaning everything obsessively because that's how she is I've only just caught up to her in this now and now I understand the whole germ Your comments go are you guys just being quiet and listening to me or Is something wrong no one's commenting anymore Did I lose you did you all have to oh there it is. Okay. I got your comments back here now No, this was I read these comments already What's going on? Can someone let me know if you guys Let me a comment down below We know if you guys can Hear me or not. I'm assuming you can because you're all still in here But I'm not getting any of your comments for some reason Well, that's weird That's really weird. I hope I'm still Call true to you guys Yeah, I'm not getting any comments here. What if I go like this rotate device? What if I don't want to rotate the device? Okay, the last comment I got from scott god god god god down Sorry, I pronounced your last name wrong there. I'm sorry He says some guy here in the states hoarded nearly 18 000 bottles of hand sanitizer and tried to sell them Yeah, I heard about that. I heard about that And no one's letting him sell it. So now he has all this hand sanitizer I don't know what's going on with my phone here. Maybe I should restart Can't see any of your comments here I'm going to end this live stream and I'm going to start a new one right away So if you're watching if you can hear me Be right back click the link. I'll be right back


I was a voice actor for about 25 years and I was gluten intolerant so I love baked goods but 20 years ago 15 years ago there was no gluten-free to be found or at least any good gluten-free baked goods to be found so you know I always love baking so I would just take recipes that I loved started with a banana chocolate banana bread recipe of a friend that was so unhealthy I mean it had like two sticks of butter two cups of sugar I was like whoa and I modified it oh I know right I mean it's delicious for sure right that's why I took the recipe and I just modified it over dozens and dozens of times trying to get it as healthy as possible but keeping that deliciousness so that you couldn't tell the difference took two sticks of butter down to three tablespoons of coconut oil took the flour from white flour to almond flour and rice flour and when was this how many years ago was this this was about 15 years ago okay so at that point like almond flour is not as good as it is now it was okay yeah almond and rice flour were okay yep and then I took yeah I took the sugar down to three tablespoons of sugar from two cups by letting the bananas ripen really well and I called it been antsy bread and I sold it at the farmers market and that's kind of how phone nuts was born didn't think anybody would buy the loaf through some of the batter into the donut mold called them phone nuts and that was it flew off the shelves so you were solely at the farmers market that's it just at the farmers market so let me get the straight banana bread first and then while still at the farmers market you started incorporating that into phonuts as well right yeah I didn't think anybody would buy the whole loaf of bread the banana bread loaf for me so I put it in donut pans and called them phone nuts and sold them for a couple bucks people could have the option I put out samplers and they fool in the pouring rain flew off the shelves like 65 loaves in a couple hours and a friend of mine at the time came by and she was a pastry chef she fell in love with the phone nuts she quit her job as a pastry chef we opened up phone nuts and I started formulating a bunch more recipes gluten-free and so that's how it was born since then she stepped out and my husband has stepped in I just opened this and it smells amazing what was the moment for you when you said okay the farmers markets going really well we're on to something it's time to do like a retail strategy it was that day when my friend came to see him the very first farmers market she was texting me saying I'm gonna come and see you she was with her boyfriend who was a fine dining executive chef they were both fine dining executive chefs I said don't even bother coming I have nothing left and went by the time she got there I had two phone that's left her boyfriend of the times idea was like you guys need to open a phone at shop but okay and that was it I did the farmers market a couple more times we found a space and that's when phone us was born what was the first space the one on Beverly yeah it was that West third yep so you've been there the entire time we've been there the whole time ten years okay okay ten years ago and at that point did you feel early to the market like really we were the first gourmet donut shop in LA and we're one of very few gluten-free bakeries in LA there there aren't very there's a maybe three couple more now yeah but you dedicated yeah dedicated gluten-free bakery and I know at some point you guys run out like yes we do so we used to go every morning because my wife would like we have to go early right like before running before the hike after the hike because after the hike they're right it's unpredictable yeah


Hey Psych2Goers, thanks so much for your support, and let's begin the video. What do you think depression looks like? Like many others, you may think of people who always look sad, cry a lot, or who are never happy. But the truth is, there are a lot more layers to depression than you think. The American Psychiatric Association lists many different presentations of depression, each with its own symptoms and differences. Concealed or hidden depression is just one of them, and those who have it may be conditioned to act in protection of their symptoms. So to help you learn a little more about it, here are 11 things hidden depression makes you do. Before we begin, we would like to mention that this video is created for educational purposes only and is not intended to substitute a professional diagnosis. If you suspect you may have depression or any mental health condition, we highly advise you to seek help from a qualified mental health professional. With that said, let's begin. Number one, your sleeping pattern has changed. What time do you usually go to bed? A good and consistent sleeping pattern is very important and healthy for your mental and physical well-being. So having constant problems with sleep may point to a sign that something greater is wrong. A lack of sleep or constant oversleep can be a possible symptom of depression. These changes to your sleeping pattern can affect how you feel during the day, perhaps making you feel exhausted or tired all the time. Number two, your eating habits changed. Are you noticing that your eating habits have changed drastically compared to a little while ago? Oftentimes, food can act as a coping mechanism for those hiding their depression. Over-eating may help distract you from your own emotional emptiness and losing your appetite can also be indicative of a larger problem. There's a strong link between eating disorders and depression. And while there are two separate illnesses, having a sudden and large change in eating habits can be a cause for concern and point to a larger issue such as having hidden depression. Number three, you become self-critical. While perfectionism can cut the best of anyone, those struggling with hidden depression may take it to the next level and feel the need to do everything perfectly. This can lead to an excess of self-imposed pressure and standards that if missed or not met lead to self-deprecating thoughts and feelings of shame. These feelings might end up governing your internal choices and leave you unable to do simple activities or pursue casual relationships. Number four, you experience intense emotions. While people often assume that those with depression are always sad or upset, that's not always the case. While melancholy is a common feeling described, people with depression may also project or express how they feel in anger or irritability. These feelings may come from a frustration with needing to put up a good impression for everyone to see or from feeling confused and overwhelmed by the complex emotions they're experiencing. Number five, you struggle to express painful emotions. In contrast to the previous point, some people with hidden depression may form the habit to avoid or stand denial about their feelings. Instead, they may choose to find distractions to divert their mind elsewhere. According to Dr. Margaret R. Rutherford, people may actually end up finding it difficult and struggle to express how they feel because they avoid their emotions so often. Number six, you become obsessed with philosophy and purpose. Have you ever wondered what the meaning of life is? Sometimes, being depressed can make you feel like you're floating through life without direction. It might lead you to question what your purpose is or what you're meant to accomplish here on Earth. These questions about life and meaning can make you become more introspective and cause you to dive into studying big questions and philosophies to help you find meaning and purpose for your life. Number seven, you become uninterested in activities you used to enjoy. Another possible sign of depression is if you suddenly lose interest and joy in the things you used to like. Depression is not only mentally draining but physically as well. It can make it much more difficult and tiring to find the motivation or enthusiasm to accomplish tasks or do activities. Even if they were something you used to really enjoy. Number eight, you cry out for help and then make cover-up excuses. People who hide their depression often hide what they're feeling because they may struggle to admit that they have a problem. However, sometimes these feelings can become so overwhelming that you may turn to a friend or even reach out to a doctor for help. Unfortunately, like many others, you might then realize that taking these steps would mean admitting that you have depression, which is an extremely hard realization to come to. So instead, you might find yourself making up excuses and pulling yourself away from the help you wanted. Number nine, you struggle with intimacy. Similarly, with the previous viewpoints, feelings associated with care and intimacy may also be difficult for you if you are depressed. If you're hiding depression, the vulnerability that is associated with intimacy may be difficult for you to express. While you may find it easy to care for others, it can become much more overwhelming and tense when it comes to yourself and the relationships you have. There may be a fear of sharing your deepest feelings and emotions or the fear of having someone invalidate your feelings and proving your worst fear is correct. Number 10, you focus too much on having gratitude. Many people often mistake the idea of having gratitude to mean that you ignore the negative emotions you feel and only focus and appreciate the good things. This type of thinking can become harmful because you may end up invalidating, ignoring or feeling guilty about any negative emotions you feel. Instead, practicing gratitude involves reflecting, noting and appreciating the things that you may overlook in your daily life. It doesn't mean that you have to look at the good side of everything, especially if those things make you upset. And number 11, you compartmentalize your feelings. Lastly, having depression can make you form the habit of compartmentalizing your feelings. This means you rigidly sort them into boxes and push them away to deal with for later or maybe even never. By locking away your own negative feelings, you avoid ever addressing the pain or sadness you may be feeling. However, while it may bring temporary relief, it may also build up and become overwhelming later. Did you learn something new about hidden depression? Let us know in the comments below. If you found this video helpful, be sure to like and subscribe and share this video with those who might benefit from it. And don't forget to hit the notification bell icon to get notified whenever Psych2Go posts a new video. The references and studies used in this video are added in the description below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in our next video.


So what grade are you in? Second. Tenth grade? First grade. I was in eighth grade when I learned to program. I got my first computer when I was in sixth grade. What gets me excited is being able to fix people's problems. You can express yourself. You can build things from an idea. Computer science is the basis for a lot of the things that college students and professionals will do for the next 20 or 30 years. I like programming because I like helping people. I get the opportunity to build something that's going to make people's life easier. I think it's the closest thing we have to a superpower. Getting started is the most important part. I'm a beginner myself and I want you to learn with me. Do you have a favorite video game that you've always wanted to make? Well, we're going to get started creating games just like using PlayLab. You see, good games have a story and every story has actors. Actors that do things like speak, move, interact with each other, maybe even score points based on the rules of that game. Today, we'll be learning how to do all of these things one by one with fun actors like witches, zombies, aliens, and animals, and then build a game from scratch that can be shared and played on a phone. Your screen is split into three main parts. On the left is the game space where your program will run. The instructions for each level are written below. This middle area is the toolbox and each of these blocks is a piece of code. The white space on the right is called the workspace and this is where we'll build our program. To start off, you'll need to link your blocks to the orange when run block. Then you can link multiple blocks together by dragging them out until you see the yellow line and then they'll snap together. In this first puzzle, our actor is a penguin and we'll be making it say hello by dragging the say block out, linking it to the when run block and typing in hello. We can also make the penguin move by using the move right and move left blocks. Once you have your blocks in place, hit the run button to see what you programmed. Get started and by the end, you'll be able to create your own game with all kinds of players that can interact, turn happy or sad, score points and throw fireballs and even vanish each other. It's all up to you and the game you want to make.