One of my Marine friends, Brandon Strassler, sent me this account of an air traveler. It does provide some food for thought about how we all get caught up in our own little day to day concerns, but that sometimes we should stop to consider the larger picture, and the sacrifices made by others so that all we DO have to worry about is our own little petty stuff.
I sat in my seat of the Boeing 767 waiting foreveryone to hurry and stow their carry-ons and grab a seat so we could start what I was sure to be a
long , uneventful flight home. With the huge capacity and slow moving people taking their time to stuff luggage far too big for the overhead and never paying much attention to holding up the growing line behind them, I simply shook my head knowing that this flight was not starting out very well.
I was anxious to get home to see my loved ones so I was focused on
"my" issues and just felt like standing up and yelling for some of these clowns to
get their act together. I knew I couldn't say a word so I just thumbed thru the "Sky Mall" magazine from the seat pocket in front of me. You know it's really
getting rough when you resort to the over priced,useless sky mall crap to break the monotony.
With everyone finally seated, we just sat there with the cabin door open and no one in any hurry to get us going although we were well past the scheduled take off time. No wonder the airline industry is in trouble I told myself. Just then, the
attendant came on the intercom to inform us all that we were being delayed.
The entire plane let out a collective groan. She resumed speaking to say
"We are holding the aircraft for some very special people who are on
their way to the plane and the delay shouldn't be more than 5 minutes."
The word came after waiting six times as long as we were promised that "I" was finally going to be on my way home. Why the hoopla over "these" folks?
I was expecting some celebrity or sport figure to be the reason for the
hold up.........Just get their butts in a seat and lets hit the gas I thought.
The attendant came back on the speaker to announce in a loud and
excited voice that we were being joined by several U. S. Marines returning
home from Iraq!!! Just as they walked on board, the entire plane erupted
into applause. The men were a bit taken by surprise by the 340 people
cheering for them as they searched for their seats. They were
having their hands shook and touched by almost everyone who was within an arm's distance of them as they passed down the aisle.
One elderly woman kissed the hand of one of the Marines as he passed
by her. The applause, whistles and cheering didn't stop for a long time.
When we were finally airborne, "I" was not the only civilian checking his conscience as to the delays in "me" getting home, finding my easy chair, a cold
beverage and the remote in my hand. These men had done for all of us
and I had been complaining silently about "me" and "my" issues. I took for
granted the everyday freedoms I enjoy and the conveniences of the American way of life.
I took for granted others paid the price for my ability to moan and complain about a few minutes delay to "me" those Heroes going home to their loved ones.
I attempted to get my selfish outlook back in order and minutes before we landed I suggested to the attendant that she announce over the speaker a
request for everyone to remain in their seats until our hero's were allowed to gather their things and be first off the plane.
The cheers and applause continued until the last Marine stepped off and we
all rose to go about our too often taken for granted everyday freedoms......... I felt proud of them. I felt it an honor and a privilege to be among the first to welcome them home and say Thank You for a job well done. I vowed that I will never forget that flight nor the lesson learned. I can't say it enough, THANK YOU to those Veterans and active servicemen and women who may read this and a prayer for those who cannot because they are no longer with us.
GOD BLESS AMERICA! WELCOME HOME!
AND THANKS FOR A JOB WELL DONE !!!!!
This is a ribbon for soldiers fighting in Iraq.
Pass it on to everyone and pray.
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Everytime I read about this kind of thing I cry. Its heartwarming and truly awesome that Americans are so vocal and public with their displays of support for our Warriors. In your face liberal dumocrats!!!!! God Bless America, our troops, Mr. Bush and a FREE IRAQ!!!!
Posted by: Theresa at February 16, 2005 05:48 PM (nDaxF)
In pharmacology, all drugs have two names - a trade name and a
generic name. For example, the trade name Tylenol is acetaminophen.
For instance, Aleve is known as naproxen, Amoxil is amoxicillin, and Advil is
ibuprophen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After
consideration by a team of experts, it recently announced it has settled on the generic name of mycoxafloppin. Also considered were mycoxafailin, mydixadrupin, mydixarizin, mydixadud, dixafix, and of course ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp. is making an announcement today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. Pepsi's proposed ad campaign claims it will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one.
Obviously, we can no longer call this a soft drink. This additive
gives new meaning to the names of cocktails and highballs. Pepsi will market the new formula by the name, Mount & Do.
The long term implications of drugs and medical procedures must be fully considered. Over the past five years, Americans have spent more money on breast implants and Viagra than was spent on Alzheimer's research. It is believed that by the year 2030, there will be a large number of people wandering around with perky breasts and erections who can't remember what to do with them.
Sorry for the light posting, but things here have been a little strange....ever since the Big Rat Escape, in fact! I guess having a rat wake you up by crawling across your face just does something to your mind... I guess I could just attribute my writers block to P.T.R.S.* Syndromes of all sorts seem to work for Democrats, might as well join the bandwagon!
The one on the left was just getting off my face when I woke up...and those are just "the girls". Dumpling and Cecelie.
Here are "the boys", Misha and Slagle:
I'm ALMOST used to Misha:
If you EVER go to a pet store and your wife looks at rats and starts cooing "aren't they soooo Cuuuute"? RUN like hell!
*Post Traumatic Rat Syndrome....
Why Men Are Just Happier People -
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can be president.
You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO T-shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental -- $100.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them
The occasional well-rendered belch is practical! ly expec ted.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood-all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
Your belly usually hides your big hips.
One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can "do" your nails with a pocketknife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes. No wonder men are happier!
Posted by: SlagleRock at February 13, 2005 01:20 AM (AtSju)
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hehehe... gosh it's so true. Because of you I think I'm starting to feel sorry for all the women. Thanks Buddy!
Posted by: bAbOOn at February 13, 2005 02:39 PM (MZvvN)
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That's great Delfts, love the animations too, of course the better half doesn't appreciate the humor. It's her birthday, 40 years ago she was 18, 20 years from now she'll be the same age as her mother, maybe tomorrow she'll feel better.
Posted by: Jack at February 13, 2005 05:58 PM (DQgDQ)
I was unable to sleep last night and while listening to the Michael Medved show to pass some time; I found someone else who agrees with me about the situation vis a vis the Arab/Israeli conflict.
Here's some quotes:
“The occupation is in the minds of Children who are taught hatred.”
“The Israeli Arab conflict is not about geography but about Jew hatred; the 1400 year history of Islam proves it.”
“The Arab refugees are being used as pawns' to create a terror breeding ground, as a form of aggression against Israel”
"No one (Arab or Jew) has a "right of return". Jews who fled Arab persecution from 1948 to 1956 should have no right of return to Arab lands, and Arabs who ran away in 1948 and 1967 should have no right of return either. This should end all argument. Yet the Jews accept this judgment, while the Arabs reject EVERYTHING."
And my personal favorite:
“Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?”
Sounds like a Zionist, hate filled, racist Jew doesn't it?
Those statements were made by a "Palistinian" named Walid Shoebat that threw his first rocks at Israeli soldiers at the age of eight...Joined the PLO by twenty and bombed an Israeli bank during which an Israeli policeman was killed.
His great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel.
He came to the United States and worked with the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago to further the Palistinian cause.
Then he studied the Tanash (Jewish bible) in an effort to convert his wife to Islam, and he discovered that everything he had been taught about Jews his entire life was a lie. He then studied the history of all the groups involved in the conflicts and had the revelation that EVERYTHING he had been taught about why there should be conflict between Arabs and Jews and Muslims and everyone else was a lie, in fact, he feels that Islam is the main problem in most of the conflicts in the world today. He converted to Christianity and has worked ever since to try to educate people about Israels right to exist and protect itself.
One who was on the inside of the PLO, and within the higher echalons of same by his heritage puts the lie to every meme that the Palistinian movement has promulgated, most of which I have heard our Pro-Palistinian/Anti-Israeli Moonbats repeat as "facts" in their opposition to Israel
Here's one of those memes, regarding the Arab "right of return to Israel:
"They (arabs) were born there but somehow don't belong there."
And my response, in line with what I learned from Mr. Shoebat:
The people that stayed in Israel in 1948 and 1967 became Israeli citizens,with full rights and privileges thereof. Those that fled, or were living on the land that the Arabs lost in the 1967 war became the "palistinians".
They fled to Jordan, Egypt, and Syria..the problem was that those countries didn't want anything to do with their Islamic brethren. Furthurmore they saw in the refugees a way to continue their fight against the Jews with "plausible deniability", using them as the pawns who would bear the task of doing the dirty work and the dying.
Mr. Shoebat isn't a lone "self-hating" Arab voice in the wilderness.
Zachariah Anani was a troop leader in a Islamofacist group on Lebanon, with over 223 confirmed kills of "enemies" of the sect he belonged to. The perfect example of a Fanatical Muslim. Untill the day a Christian missionary said to him: "Jesus Christ will give you hope and a new life." He was somehow struck by these words. He had further discussions with the missionary, and and after opening the Bible for the first time, he read, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." That afternoon he submitted his life to Christ. His conversion made him fair game for any of his old comrads to kill, in fact, his own father hired assassins to kill him. He fled to Canada as a refugee to escape the danger both to himself and the Christian church he belonged to. When he debated a Muslim scholar in the U.S., his family left in Lebanon were attacked.
Here's a quote:
"A lot of people think that Islam is okay," says Anani, and "that those who are making these terrorist attacks are not from Islam. It's actually the other way around. The people who are nice are not really true Muslims—all you have to do is read the doctrine. Chapter (9) of the Qur'an is nothing but a declaration of war."
He also tells Christians that most Muslims are secular and don't know the Qur'an. "They believe anything the sheikh tells them," says Anani, referring to Middle Eastern Muslims. "If you show genuine friendship to them, they will listen to you and God will open the door."
Two ex-Muslims with similar backgrounds..opening an insight into the minds of the world of fanatic Islam.
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"No one (Arab or Jew) has a "right of return". Jews who fled Arab persecution from 1948 to 1956 should have no right of return to Arab lands, and Arabs who ran away in 1948 and 1967 should have no right of return either. This should end all argument. Yet the Jews accept this judgment, while the Arabs reject EVERYTHING."
What fantasy world did this guy come from? The Jews claim that not only those Jews who left from 1948 to 1956 but even those who have no connection with the country whatsoever have the right to emigrate to Isreal! Palestinians who were born and raised there, on the other hand, who leave to study abroad, are regularly denied re-entry since they aren't considered citizens. Doesn't it strike you as odd that someone born and raised in a place doesn't belong there whereas someone born and raised in Russia or some other place and who doesn't speak a word of Hebrew is welcomed with open arms (even provided with initial funding)?
Tomorrow if we told every person who didn't have a great-great grandparent who had lived in Isreal to leave the place, it would be 99% Muslim. (The fact that a good portion of "Isrealis" are somehow blue-eyed with blonde hair might just tell us something don't you think?) Listening to the completely groundless and inaccurate stuff you quote, I get the feeling that U.S. Christians are still fighting the last crusade in an attempt to drive the Muslim infidels out of the "holy land."
Posted by: Karlo at February 09, 2005 02:04 PM (HoLw7)
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Reread Karlo, Shoebat was referring to the jews that left the surrounding Arab states (unlike your prior assertion, there WERE jews living throughout the ME at the time) at the creation of Israel as a modern state. Those Jews living in, say Syria, were frightened at the consequences should they remain with the tensions that arose from the creation of Israel. He states that those jews had no "right of return" to those states at the cessation of hostilities, even though they were BORN in Syria., likewise, those Arabs that fled Israel proper at the creation of Israel in 1948 have NO RIGHT OF RETURN, likewise those Arabs that fled the lands that Israel took in winning a war that was STARTED by the Arabs in 1967. The Arabs that stayed in Israel proper in 1948, BECAME FULL CITIZENS of Israel. they are 20% of the citizenry!
This man was one of the LEADERSHIP group of the PLO. Like when Saul became Paul, he turned his view around 100% when he had a chance to compare what he had been taught AS A PALESTINIAN with what the real FACTS were. HE lived the Palistinian experience, he commited acts of terrorism against Israel, he was a fervant Muslim. Then he opened his eyes and went beyond what he had been told was the "truth" all of his life and realized they were ALL lies.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 09, 2005 04:24 PM (h4ZzC)
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I never denied that Jews were living in the Middle East. But I doubt very much that they were a majority population in any large area.
Posted by: Karlo at February 09, 2005 04:33 PM (fZdjT)
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The land that comprises modern day Israel was very sparsely settled in 1948, and almost 80% of the Arab population left when the Jews arrived, thinking to join with their "Muslim bretheran" in Jihad to destroy the Jews, which they believed would be a short term proposition, given the disparity of their numbers. They were wrong.
Jews were minority populations in the Arab countries, they were more than happy to leave to live in Israel.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 09, 2005 05:51 PM (h4ZzC)
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Hmmm. When the Zionists "arrived" in the country, the Arab population simply left their houses and belongings and took off, to be with their Muslim brethren... Hmmmm....
Posted by: Karlo at February 09, 2005 09:47 PM (HoLw7)
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Basically YES. They knew there would be an all out war and wanted to be on what they thought would be the winning side.
And it wasn't "Zionists coming in to take over the country" It was the UN doing it's typically piss poor job of settleing international problems.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 10, 2005 01:18 AM (h4ZzC)
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Hmmm. When the Zionists "arrived" in the country, the Arab population simply left their houses and belongings and took off, to be with their Muslim brethren... Hmmmm....
No they tried to establish a foothold in Jordan, where they got their asses handed back to them, many were killed by the Jordanians, Egypt didn't want the malcontents either, and they faced a similar fate there also. Go and re-read history Comrade.
Posted by: http://Karlos at February 10, 2005 01:20 AM (cv+kW)
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And Karlo, those weren't "US christians" I was quoting, it was "palestinian" ex-terrorists.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 10, 2005 01:21 AM (h4ZzC)
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"It was the UN doing it's typically piss poor job of settling international problems."
I'm pretty sure the Zionist movement predates any UN responses to it. As for the "malcontents," people tend to be malcontent when foreigners move in and confiscate their land. If the Palestinians were "malcontents," I suppose we should start using this word to describe the "malcontent" native Americans who opposed European encroachment. Or we can talk of the "malcontents" in Sudan who oppose the people who raze their villages.
As Ben Gurion once said in a moment of candor:
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp. 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
Posted by: Karlo at February 10, 2005 12:20 PM (HoLw7)
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YOU called them "malcontented", Not I.
I inferred that they were seeking to join a muslim army to destroy the jews coming to the area.
Yes, why DON'T we use an out of context statement made NINE years before the founding of Modern Israel, DONE by a UN mandate/Charter to illustrate just how eeeeevil the Joooos are and of course the poor wittle "Palistinians" are just made of nothing but sweetness and sugar; "they're just misunderstood" when they place a bomb on a schoolbus, in a dance club, or a nursing home.
I still find it incredible that You would deride
one who used to be in a leadership position of the group you admire so much. You asked
what kind of "fantasy" world he came from. Well, it was from the "fantasy world"created by the "palistinian" movement. He was born into it, he lived it, he participated in it, He would have died for it,he killed for it; and amazingly, he overcame it.
So tell me, You, at the very least admire the movement, if not outrightly support it, yet you would call a former leader in the movement as being a fantasist if he states anything against the movement, after all, YOU'Ve read Chomsky, so of course, you know the background and
situation better than a person who grew up in it and was part of it.
F.E.T.E.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 11, 2005 02:08 AM (h4ZzC)
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I was about to be excited for you, "wow 10 comments", then I saw it was just you battling with Karlo, LOL.
SlagleRock Out!
Posted by: SlagleRock at February 13, 2005 01:24 AM (AtSju)
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This logic is common and completely flawed. The line of logic goes something like "You don't support Israel's confiscation of Palestine so you support every terrorist group that opposes Israel." "You don't support the American attack on Iraq, so you support Saddam." Such logic leads to very wierd conclusions don't you think? Following similar reasoning, one could just as well say, "You don't support Farrakhan so you support the KKK."
Putting such flawed logic aside for the moment, the bottom line is there was a significant non-Jewish Palestinian population living in Palestine prior to the Zionist movement. These people were in the majority. They didn't invite Europeans (i.e., in the form of Jewish Europeans) to come in and take over their land. The problem now involves a fait accompli since the state of Israel exists, so a peaceful solution should be found. But any solution still must address the fact that land has been stolen and people displaced. If my grandfather stole something from your grandfather, it's ridiculous to expect me to feel remorse or apologize for what my grandfather did. But if I'm still living in your grandfather's house and your living out on the street, it's reasonable that you'd want some compensation. Palestine was, for the most part, stolen. The fact that the theft was done by a group that Christians have a special fondness for and was perpetrated against a group that Christians feel particular animosity towards changes nothing.
Posted by: Karlo at February 14, 2005 05:09 PM (HoLw7)
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In the post above Karlo’s makes two statements that we are supposed to take at face value. First, he claims that Zionist stole land from Arabs. But actually, Zionists bought land from Arab landlords willing to sell. His second claim is that Arabs out numbered Jews prior to the Zionist immigration. In an article I have just read, Karl Marx is noted to have written that in 1854 “Jerusalem had 15,500 inhabitants, including 8,000 Jews and 4,000 Moslems (Arabs, Turks and Moors).” Hmmmmm… so maybe Arabs didn’t out number Jews in the Holy Land before the Zionists.
Please read
Stories of Dogs by Nathan Weinstock
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/weinstock.htm
Like Mr. Shoebat, Mr. Weinstock was an Anti-Zionist but has since totally reversed his position. My God bless and protect them both.
Posted by: Lady Grace at February 22, 2005 10:58 PM (q1i0H)
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Is Jerusalem Palestine? If it is, the modern Jewish state has certainly expanded. As for the Zionists, it sounds like arguments for European expansion into the Americas. (All the native Americans sold their land, right?)
Posted by: Karlo at March 23, 2005 10:46 PM (HoLw7)
Now, HERE'S an example of someone that just isn't very good in his chosen profession.
Too bad the homeowner didn't use a .357 and cap his ass instead of just a rolling pin. Hopefully the jackass will learn a new way of making a living while he's a guest of the graybar hotel.
Oh WHEN will the Dutch regain their native common sense and take back their society? I grieve for the country of my birth. And hold my adopted country in ever greater esteem.
Want to know why Johnny can't read? The so called "experts in education" are why.
The NEA has been the single greatest folly foisted on the American people.
Here is yet another example of the "smart" thinking of the Educratic mind...take the most successful reading program in the state, and phase it out, because after all, the Educrats know that reading is a complex activity, and only their methods can be trusted to convey that talent.
Irregardless of the fact that everywhere the educrats hold sway has experienced furthur and furthur declines in the literacy of their children.
The educrats claim it was a lack of funding for schools, but the higher the funding goes, the lower the test scores seem to go. The number of educrats in the $100,000 a year salary range seems to go up at a concurrent pace....Note I don't say teachers are the problem, I say educrats.
These educrats are really nothing more than leeches on the educational system, imposing whatever flavor of new educational theory happens to be availible to get the most money out of the system they can, the children be damned.
The teachers in the trenches are as much victoms as the children, funds that could go to raising their pay to an equitable level are drained off in administration costs and study funding. And items that would really help the kids...you know, like textbooks, pencils, paper; yeah, the mundane stuff, gets the shortest shrift of all. Why be concerned that the students don't have proper supplies?, the educrats need a multi-billion office complex, after all.
How else will they be able to efficiently hand down their edicts from on high?
And they wonder why home schooled children tend to outscore their public schooled bretheran by over a two to one margin.
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I agree that the bureaucrats in U.S. education make far too much money (and don't really do much). I would even contend that teachers make enough if we consider their training and their vacations. If we add up the vacation time and their benefits over-and-beyond what most people get, they're all getting paid well over 50 grand a year. I'd like to see a little more money going to ensure that the actual facilities in schools are taken care of (heat, blackboards, school supplies, etc.) and see better before- and after-school care in some schools for parents who both work.
Posted by: Karlo at February 09, 2005 02:09 PM (HoLw7)
Looks like ALF is up to it again, I hope that if and when the vandals are arrested that they are prosecuted as domestic terrorists, for that is what they really are.
We need to send a message that these type of actions will not be tolerated in our society. This incident was mild, but if left unchecked, the participants of this action will only escalate the severity of their future actions. As was seen in the arson attack that destroyed half of a new subdivision being built, by other teams belonging under the umbrella of this fanatical group, the incidents may start small, but end up in a society destroying maelstrom.
The reasons given for these acts of terrorism might be a noble (misguided and misinformed, IMO) impulse, but the results of misguded idealistic zealotry are not only counterproductive to their goal; they are destructive of the society that engendered those impulses.
Hamas Speaks
I had said in an earlier post that the cease fire declared between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was a sign of hope that maybe the time had come when men of good will from both sides may be able to hammer out a fair compromise leading to an independent Palestinian state living in peace next to Israel. I had but one caveat: that all it would take would be one fanatic to derail the whole process....
Well it seems that the leading group of fanatics, Hamas , are hell bent on not allowing any sort of peace to be brokered, unless it is the peace engendered by the total destruction of the state of Israel, which is, after all, the basic premise of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's charter document.
The Left in this country are always saying that one of the major problems is that the US will not deal fairly with the Palestinian side of Mid-East hostilities, always favoring Israel in any negotiation. I think the story above points out the problem, namely that there is no ONE group that speaks for the Palestinian Misplaced Arab people. The Palestinian Authority was SUPPOSED to be, in effect, an interim government for the Palestinian side, empowered to deal with the Israelis AS a government to try to broker peace.
The FACT is that the P's M-A's HAVE no governing authority that can speak in the interests of their people. They have a loose coalition of gangs of thugs using the PA as a front to mislead the rest of the world into thinking that the people have a legitimate governing body to conduct negotiations. These negotiations are used as "rest periods" in the ongoing war; used to rearm and conduct planning for future (terrorist) operations in relative calm.
If the Misplaced Arabs truly want to become the "Palestinian People", with a self ruled state of their own , they have to make the decision: to have ONE ruling authority that has the power of a government. To allow any group of wannabe armies of the people that can scrape enough money,weapons and fanatics together to have an equal say in the process is only self defeating. Until that happens Israel has every right to take the actions it must do to protect itself. That is after, after all, one of the primary functions of a real government, to protect it's people from military attack. Israel has demonstrated on a number of occasions to be willing to negotiate a just peace. There just hasn't been a corresponding entity on the other side to negotiate with.
Until there is, I'm afraid that there can never be a true peace, at best, there will be an uneasy truce with sporadic acts of violence.
And until the Left in this country realize the true situation in the area, the violence will extend into the political arena in this country too.
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Unabashedly stolenborrowed from Romeocat of Cathouse Chat.
Another member to beadded to the Empire LC blogroll...
Now if only Mamamontezz displayed such pulchratudnity...she more than makes up for it with her patriotic ardor however!
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Delftsman, you silly! You realize, I'm sure, that that isn't a pic of ME! My gosh, I'm brunette! LOL (but I do have blue eyes)
Thanks to a darling fellow LC - and do I need to start interviewing ladies suited to you, or are you properly "domesticated" (rolls eyes)?
Luv and hugz to a fellow Minion,
Romeocat
LC & IB, G.L.O.R.
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I'm not real sure that I could handle the payments on something like that.
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Just found your site. Where in Holland are you from? My mother was born/raised in Den Hague. She is a resident alien here in the States. Like the blog by the way.
Posted by: Theresa, MSgt, USAF at February 08, 2005 06:19 PM (nDaxF)
It's just a tiny step, but with a truce put into place, the Arab-Israeli peace process just might have a hope of becoming successful...
How long will Hamas honor the truce? The real pity is that, no matter how many honest men of good will on both sides try to hammer out an equitable peace settlement; all it takes is one rabid jackass to derail the entire process.
When Columbia University sponsers blatent Anti-Israeli forum, is it any wonder that many of us despair about the state of higher education?
I can see presenting both sides of every issue, free debate is what learning is all about, but WHY is that ONLY the terrorist type side is freely espoused, with any dissenters being shouted down as "racists","imperialists", or just plain "ig'nrent rednecks" ?
Update:Yet ANOTHER example if institutional anti-semitism at Columbia U.
Or, If your more into Eurotrash rather than Queen, go HERE.
Just another service of the Citadel. First we hit you with the Cluebat™, but then then we ease the pain with a laugh.
(
Hat tip to Darth for the second link)
once again, Davids Mediankritik has a spot-on post. WE may have individual political cartoonists villifying foreign leaders....But the good people of Deutchland have a parade to do it.
The old adage holds true, when your going down the toilet (unemployment rate of 12.6%, oppresive Police actions, mandatory National ID etc, etc), blame some other leaders than the ones responsible for it.
It's time to withdraw all U.S. troops from the Fatherland. Think the jobless rate is high now? Just wait!
A woman asks her husband, "Would you like some bacon and eggs? A
slice of toast and maybe some grapefruit and coffee?" she asks.
He declines. "Thanks for asking, but I'm not
hungry right now.
It's this Viagra," he says. "It's really taken the edge off my
appetite."
At lunchtime she asked if he would like
something. "A bowl of
soup, homemade muffins, or a cheese sandwich?" she asks? He declines.
"The
Viagra," he says, "really trashes my desire for food."
Come dinnertime, she asks if he wants
anything to eat. "Would you
like a juicy porterhouse steak and scrumptious apple pie? Or maybe a
rotisserie chicken or tasty stir fry?"
He declines again. "Naw, I'm still not
hungry."
"Well," she says, "would you mind letting me
up? I'm starving."
Abnormal at the Injustice Department has a link to a chilling prospect....UN control of the Internet.
He, like me, is NOT into big conspiracy theories, but if you read what is being put out by members the UN committee, it's obvious that if we don't keep careful watch on our freedom on the 'Net, we may lose it, and soon.
The one on the left was just getting off my face when I woke up...and those are just "the girls". Dumpling and Cecelie.
If you EVER go to a pet store and your wife looks at rats and starts cooing "aren't they soooo Cuuuute"? RUN like hell!
*Post Traumatic Rat Syndrome....
Why Men Are Just Happier People -
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
No wonder men are happier!
