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sylvarAccording to a radio news story I just heard, the World Health Organization is estimating that there will be 900,000 Lebanese people displaced by the end of the day due to Israel's dirty little war.
Israel is considering an invasion by massive ground forces, and refuses to stop until Hezbollah is completely disarmed.
I grew up learning about the history of the people of Israel (Am Yisrael) and the country of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), and I was led to believe that they were one and the same. But groups like Neturei Karta (Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism) seem to offer a different view -- that there should be no country of Israel until the Messiah shall establish it.
Perhaps Jews do deserve a country after the Holocaust. But I think Germany would have been a more appropriate choice than Palestine. And I think that Israel has lost any claim on the world's sympathy.
I don't have any solutions. I don't know what I want. But I think that GWB's advice to others would be a pretty good idea for the Israeli government and military: Stop doing that shit. And maybe we shouldn't have sold them all those weapons.
Israel is considering an invasion by massive ground forces, and refuses to stop until Hezbollah is completely disarmed.
I grew up learning about the history of the people of Israel (Am Yisrael) and the country of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), and I was led to believe that they were one and the same. But groups like Neturei Karta (Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism) seem to offer a different view -- that there should be no country of Israel until the Messiah shall establish it.
Perhaps Jews do deserve a country after the Holocaust. But I think Germany would have been a more appropriate choice than Palestine. And I think that Israel has lost any claim on the world's sympathy.
I don't have any solutions. I don't know what I want. But I think that GWB's advice to others would be a pretty good idea for the Israeli government and military: Stop doing that shit. And maybe we shouldn't have sold them all those weapons.
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:58 am (UTC)I stopped getting upset about war in the middle-east a loooooong time ago. Israel isn't doing anything fundamentally different than they've done before. Scale may be different, that's all.
I'd much rather see America pull out of the middle-east all together, stop buying foreign fuel sources and focus on assuring long-term survival of our nation in the face of the fact that it will cease to be a number one world power sometime this century.