hodayot [thanksgivings] for today

12:30
My Body, my Partner, my God
I give thanks to the 3 systems in you, which enable us to talk and to sing:
(see Sept.10] and this time I thank you for the Vibratory system
our Voice box (larynx)
and the Vocal folds which vibrate, changing air pressure to sound waves producing "voiced sound," frequently described as a "buzzy sound"
and vary the pitch of sound.

I'm grate-full that the worrying electricity problem (even the UPS stopped)
fixed itself after I had tried all kinds of solutions
I'm grate-full for the fabulous game
the 22 Hebrew letters and the 23 syllables of my grandkids' names-
which have adapted themselves to Arnon's and Yael's duet!
I'm grate-full for the sculpture of my thanksgiving to my children,
the letter itself and the attachments of 3 sounds, 49 images&texts,
and the two links to videos with the Yiddish song which moves me so much.
(1) Oifn Pripetchik - (2) Oifn Pripetchik

I'm grate-full for all the honor, which Renin Bolus received in "Big Brother"!
May she be able to shatter many Jews' prejudices against Israeli Arabs!

-60 YEARS AGO: THE MURDER OF COUNT BERNADOTTE
WAS NO TRIFLING INCIDENT

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The murder of Count Bernadotte
must become as generally well-known to the public
as the murder of Martin Luther King.
Thousands of deaths were the consequence of this fateful murder
– and a state which calls itself 'democratic'
while denying basic democratic rights to millions of inhabitants of the country,
a state economically prosperous
and at the same time refusing to take responsibility for its own history.
Human rights groups around the world
- as well as in Israel/Paleastine -
demand that this must change.
Maria Hoeffling

IN MEMORY OF COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTEE ,
UN mediator,
murdered on 17 September 1948.

On 20 May 1948,
the United Nations appointed as first official mediator in its history
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, of the noble Swedish family of Bernadotte.
He was assigned to Palestine.
Among his activities during the first Palestinian war of 1948
was to pave the way for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
to assist Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.

In negotiations with the Israelis
he worked for recognition of the Palestinian refugees' right of return.
In particular, on 17 June 1948 he requested
that the Israelis enable the
return of 300,000 refugees.
On 17 September 1948,
together with UN observer Colonel André Serot,
he was shot by militant leaders of the Jewish terrorist group Lehi,
the so-called Stern Gang.
The reason for the murder was Bernadotte's public declaration
that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return to their homeland.
His proposals for the solution of the refugee problem
were the basis for Resolution 194,
passed on 11 December 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly,
in which the right of return of refugees on both sides was established.
A few months after the assassination,
despite the overwhelming evidence of their guilt,
the perpetrators were granted general amnesty by the Israeli government.
(from: Wikipedia)

In 1863, when Henri Dunant started the work of the Red Cross,
he used as organizational motto:
Inter arma caritas - amidst weapons (i.e. in war), mercy.
Later events, not least the experience of World War II, revised the motto to:
Post armis caritas – after weapons, mercy.
The time will come when mankind can say:
Pro armis caritas – instead of weapons, mercy.
(from: Folke Bernadotte, An Stelle von Waffen.
Verlagsanstalt Hermann Klemm, Freiburg i.Br., ca. 1950,
translation by Clarissa Hall)