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Mercy (cats of Osaka)
Patrolling [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 3 December 2017
Alley: photo by Masami Yamada, 16 December 2017
today the snow (edge of Heron Pond, Munroe Falls Metro Park, Summit County, Ohio): photo by wood_owl, 26 January 2014
Palestinians throw a molotov cocktail and stones towards Israeli forces on the other side of a barrier at the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Photo @TomCOEX: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 December 2017
Clashes continue in the West Bank between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 December 2017
A knife, a fake bomb belt, a death: Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic describes photographing a Palestinian protester shot by Israeli police on Friday's 'Day of Rage': image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 18 December 2017
Clashes continue in the West Bank between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 December 2017
Clashes continue in the West Bank between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 December 2017
Palestinian demonstrators throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes near a checkpoint in the city centre of the West Bank town of #Hebron #Jerusalem Photo @hazemjbader1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 December 2017
Clashes with Israeli forces near the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank as protests continue following the US president's controversial recognition of #Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Photo @Abbasmomani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 December 2017
Early automotive headlamp equipped with Corning Conaphore lens: photo by Schweinwerfermann, 21 December 2007
In Came Wood, Dorset. The bridleway towards Warren Barn runs for a short way inside Came Wood, a deciduous woodland: photo by Graham Horn, 19 November 2007
Bridleway towards Warren Barn. The northern part of Came Wood is to the left. The bridleway drops to a minor valley before continuing towards Warren Barn. Arable land to the right: photo by Graham Horn, 19 November 2007
Clashes with Israeli forces near the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank as protests continue following the US president's controversial recognition of #Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Photo @Abbasmomani: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 December 2017
Clashes with Israeli forces near the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank as protests continue following the US president's controversial recognition of #Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Photo @Abbasmomani @TomCOEX: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 December 2017
Clashes with Israeli forces near the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank as protests continue following the US president's controversial recognition of #Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Photo @Abbasmomani @TomCOEX: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 December 2017
Son of Salam Rabaa, Palestinian owner of Rabaa restaurant, gestures with hand imitating poster of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, at venue entrance in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza strip on December 17, 2017. #GAZA #NORTHKOREA #ISRAEL Photo by
@mohmdabed/@AFPphoto: image via Amir Makar @amakar, 17 December 2017
So now the #US and #Israeli #UN mouthpiece #NikkiHaley is openly THREATENING sovereign, independent countries! "On Thurs there'll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names," she wrote on #Twitter, following her Führer, #Drumpfs example!: image via Damanda C_Palestine #amanda_damanda, 20 December 2017
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at U.N. Security Council meeting, where she vetoed a resolution seeking to rescind U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. December 18, 2017.: photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images, 18 December 2017
“As you consider your vote, I want you to know that the President and U.S. take this vote personally,” Haley wrote in an email that was obtained by Foreign Policy. “The President will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.”
“What, is she saying, ‘I’m not your friend anymore?’”
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 15 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 15 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a man in a street during a demonstration in east Jerusalem December 9, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad7: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 9 December 2017
Israeli border policemen and a Palestinian youth scuffle after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Israeli border policemen and a Palestinian youth scuffle after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
So now the #US and #Israeli #UN mouthpiece #NikkiHaley is openly THREATENING sovereign, independent countries! "On Thurs there'll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names," she wrote on #Twitter, following her Führer, #Drumpfs example!: image via Damanda C_Palestine #amanda_damanda, 20 December 2017
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at U.N. Security Council meeting, where she vetoed a resolution seeking to rescind U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. December 18, 2017.: photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images, 18 December 2017
Haley Warns Diplomats on Jerusalem: Trump Is Watching You: “We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.”: Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy, 19 December 2017
That was the message U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley emailed to scores of members of the U.N. who are weighing whether to vote Thursday in favor of a General Assembly resolution urging the United States to rescind its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
“As you consider your vote, I want you to know that the President and U.S. take this vote personally,” Haley wrote in an email that was obtained by Foreign Policy. “The President will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.”
Haley said the U.S. is not asking other countries to follow its lead and move their embassies to Jerusalem, “though we think it would be appropriate.”
The U.S. ambassador’s remarks follow President Donald Trump’s Dec. 6 announcement that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing nearly seven decades of U.S. foreign policy and shattering the U.N. consensus that the status of Jerusalem would be settled as part of a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Trump’s decision drew expressions of condemnation from capitals around the world. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said the president’s decision disqualified Washington as a Middle East mediator, saying “a crazy person wouldn’t accept” the United States as a peace broker after Trump’s announcement.
The tough rhetoric hinted that the United States was weighing retaliating against those who defy America’s wishes. But several diplomats said any such threat would likely be empty, as the vast majority of U.N. members, including close allies like Britain and France, are likely to vote yes.
The letter went out a day after the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution, introduced by Egypt, that also urged the United States to reverse course, saying the decision by any government, including the United States, to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would “have no legal effect” and is “null and void and must be rescinded.” The resolutions, which gained the support of all 14 other U.N. Security Council members, left the Americans diplomatically isolated.
The United States portrayed its decision as a purely sovereign matter that merely codified decades of congressional support for moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
“At the UN we’re always asked to do more & give more,” Haley tweeted Tuesday. “So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American ppl, abt where to locate OUR embassy, we don’t expect those we’ve helped to target us. On Thurs there’ll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names.”
In her letter to U.N. states, Haley noted that 22 years ago the U.S. Congress first declared “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of Israel, and that the U.S. Embassy should be located in Jerusalem. President Trump affirmed that declaration by officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”
The president’s decision, she noted, does “not prejudge final status negotiations in any way, including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.”
She also noted that the president still supports “the status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites.”
U.N. diplomats saw Trump’s action as an affront to the United Nations and the rule of law, a blunt repudiation of 10 previous U.N. Security Council resolutions on Jerusalem adopted since 1967, including a 1980 resolution calling on states that had already established diplomatic missions in Jerusalem to withdraw them.
Haley’s letter dominated diplomatic chatter at U.N. receptions at the residences of the Finnish and Japanese ambassadors.
“This is just political theater,” said one ambassador.
“Cowboy diplomacy,” said another diplomat who considers himself a friend of Haley’s.
“What, is she saying, ‘I’m not your friend anymore?’”
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 15 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 15 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 15 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian protestor after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 15, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 15 December 2017
Palestinians scuffle with Israeli police during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 11 December 2017
Palestinians scuffle with Israeli police during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 11 December 2017
Palestinians scuffle with Israeli police during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 11 December 2017
Palestinians scuffle with Israeli police during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 11 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a man in a street during a demonstration in east Jerusalem December 9, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad7: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 9 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a man in a street during a demonstration in east Jerusalem December 9, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad7: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 9 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a man in a street during a demonstration in east Jerusalem December 9, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad7: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 9 December 2017
Israeli policemen detain a man in a street during a demonstration in east Jerusalem December 9, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad7: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 9 December 2017
Israeli border policemen and a Palestinian youth scuffle after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" inresponse to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Israeli border policemen and a Palestinian youth scuffle after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Israeli border policemen and a Palestinian youth scuffle after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians call for a "day of rage" in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
Reuters #AmmarAwad #Jerusalem: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 8 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City December 7, 2017. #REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
#REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 7 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock December 5, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 5 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad: image via Ammar Awad @AmmarAwad7, 4 December 2017
Thomas Hardy: Nobody Comes
Early automotive headlamp equipped with Corning Conaphore lens: photo by Schweinwerfermann, 21 December 2007
.....Tree-leaves labour up and down,
..........And through them the fainting light
..........Succumbs to the crawl of night.
.....Outside in the road the telegraph wire
..........To the town from the darkening land
Intones to travelers like a spectral lyre
..........Swept by a spectral hand.
..........And through them the fainting light
..........Succumbs to the crawl of night.
.....Outside in the road the telegraph wire
..........To the town from the darkening land
Intones to travelers like a spectral lyre
..........Swept by a spectral hand.
.....A car comes up, with lamps full-glare,
..........That flash upon a tree:
..........It has nothing to do with me,
.....And whangs along in a world of its own,
..........Leaving a blacker air;
And mute by the gate I stand again alone,
..... And nobody pulls up there.
..........That flash upon a tree:
..........It has nothing to do with me,
.....And whangs along in a world of its own,
..........Leaving a blacker air;
And mute by the gate I stand again alone,
..... And nobody pulls up there.
.............................
9 October 1924
9 October 1924
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):Nobody Comes, from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles(1925)
In Came Wood, Dorset. The bridleway towards Warren Barn runs for a short way inside Came Wood, a deciduous woodland: photo by Graham Horn, 19 November 2007
Bridleway towards Warren Barn. The northern part of Came Wood is to the left. The bridleway drops to a minor valley before continuing towards Warren Barn. Arable land to the right: photo by Graham Horn, 19 November 2007
Dorset woodland: photo by cjb22, 28 December 2010
Cat's House [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 27 November 2017
Siesta[Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 3 December 2017
Untitled [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 11 December 2017
Untitled [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 11 December 2017
Siesta[Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 3 December 2017
Untitled [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 11 December 2017
Untitled [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 11 December 2017
Blind Cat [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 3 December 2017
Patrolling [Osaka]: photo by Masami Yamada, 3 December 2017
Alley: photo by Masami Yamada, 16 December 2017
Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones
today the snow (edge of Heron Pond, Munroe Falls Metro Park, Summit County, Ohio): photo by wood_owl, 26 January 2014
We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
-- They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing….
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
-- They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing….
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Neutral Tones, 1867, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)