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Weather: Mostly sunny with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Father’s Day Barbecue Bash: noon to 4 p.m., Palm Coast United Methodist Church, 6500 Belle Terre Pkwy. It’s time to fire up the grill, enjoy some mouth-watering BBQ, and celebrate all the amazing dads out there. Bring your family and friends for a day filled with delicious food and great company. If you’re short on time, no worries-takeout is available so you can savor our delicious BBQ on the go. Plus, a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Palm Coast United Methodist Church, supporting their wonderful community programs. Don’t miss out on this fantastic Father’s Day celebration.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy quality. |
Editorial Notebook: A few days ago the Israeli army released a few of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, and massacred a few hundred more Palestinians, mostly civilians, along the way. The press’ reflection of the two facts tells a story of its own. The Jerusalem Post, Israel’s Fox News, bannered the rescue with a bit of an insulting headline that qualifies “dozens of Palestinians killed” with “but numbers are disputed.” The picture is of a reunion between hostage and family. By whom? Haaretz, the left-wing Israeli daily (where you’ll find a much more vigorous debate about Palestinian-Israeli conflicts than anywhere in the American press, and brutal criticism of Israeli policy or the Israeli military without fear of being termed anti-Semitic) follows the same approach, bannering the rescue and the death of Israeli soldiers but citing the reported number of Palestinians killed (210) without qualifier, other than “Hamas’s health ministry,” itself now a dog whistle among those in Israel and the West who think anything reported by Hamas is subhuman (as if anything reported by the Israeli government or, worse, the genocidal Israeli military, were better). Arab News, the Saudi mouthpiece, reverses the order. It banners with “Israel Kills 210 in Gaza” and subheads “4 hostages rescued,” noting the killing of a few Israeli soldiers. The front-page picture is of a man carrying a bloodied victim, child or adult, it’s difficult to tell, though if you’re betting the macabre odds, it’s probably a child. The Miami Herald ignores both events, as does the Vegas paper: Americans have tired of the war. So has China: the Morning Post in Hong Kong is entirely China-centered, though Algeria’s Al Watan, a sort of Daily Mail of the Arab world, headlines “Massacre in Nuseira,” ignoring the hostage rescue and showing dead bodies, as that paper likes to do (there’s an odd facility with images of death in the Arab world). It looks like only the Toronto Star hits the right note, combining both elements in one headline: “Hundreds killed in hostage rescue.” So it’s always been with Israel: killing a few hundred Palestinians or Arabs in exchange for the life of a few Israelis is not only acceptable, it is desired. It is the message Israel likes to send to Palestinians and Arabs: your lives don’t matter. They’re not even lives. They’re numbers, and even those are doubtful. The Israeli’s bottom-line message to Palestinians: You don’t exist. You have no right to exist.
—P.T.
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A1A Super Scenic 150 Mile Garage Sale
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler County Public Library Book Club
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
The casualties were rising in 2007. Three hundred people were killed in the Gaza Strip, dozens of them children. However, during the George W. Bush administration and definitely after, the myth of fighting the world Jihad in Gaza had started to lose credibility. So a new mythology was proposed in 2007: the Strip was a terrorist base determined to destroy Israel. The only way the Palestinians could be ‘de-terrorized’, so to speak, was eliciting from them a consent to live in a Strip encircled by barbed wire and walls. Supply, as well as movement, in and out of the Strip depended on the political choice made by the Gazans. Should they persist in supporting Hamas, they would be effectively strangled and starved until they changed their ideological inclination. Should they succumb to the kind of politics Israel wished them to adopt, they would suffer the same fate as those on the West Bank: life without basic civil and human rights. They could either be inmates in the open prison of the West Bank or incarcerated in the maximum security one of the Gaza Strip. If they resisted they were likely to be imprisoned without trial, or killed. This was Israel’s message in 2007 and the people of the Gaza Strip were given a year, 2008, to make up their minds.
—From Ilan Papé’s The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories (2019)
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What should president Trump do first?