Comments on: You Seem So Out of Context http://www.prosebeforehos.com/word-of-the-day/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/ The Pen Is Mightier Than Thy Wench Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alechttp://www.prosebeforehos.com/word-of-the-day/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/comment-page-1/#comment-183 alec Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:18:04 +0000 http://www.prosebeforehos.com/administrator/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/index.html#comment-183 That page is really good Kit. I had no idea that statistics like that exist. I think there are a lot of apologists in Washington and in the mainstream media for Israel which are a consequence of the influence of Israel and the industrial-military complex. Israel still receives 1 billion of aid a YEAR. And why? It is not a third world country and we already hand them millions in weapons a year. It's not that I'm anti-Israel or anti-Semitic, but I get fed up with having to hear this bull shit time and time again: Israel is a state defending itself from terrorism. It is sometimes, but it is not displaying any discretion in its actions -- and at times it basically inflicting 'organized' terrorism on Arabs/Palestinian's. I think this is will change in a generation though. The people in power are the generation who are either a) alive during the holocaust b) one generation removed from the holocaust, so they are more (blindly) sympathetic to Israel, almost to all costs. I think the current generation is far enough removed from the holocaust to make objective opinions about the status of the Middle East. I think this goes for a lot of Israeli's and Jewish-Americans as well -- they don't see the black-and-white that their parents & grand-parents see. And at a certain point, I think all people will come to the rational that 'yes, the holocaust was really, really bad, and Israel as a state has the right to exist, but the United Nations basically usurped land and allowed Israel to be formed and there have been atrocities on both sides that are not justified by any logic.' And by the way (though I have heard the beaches of Israel are beautiful), most of the Middle East is baron, untenable DESERT. At times, I think that this is like two children fighting over a deflated basketball. You may win the tug of war, but you're prize isn't much. That page is really good Kit. I had no idea that statistics like that exist. I think there are a lot of apologists in Washington and in the mainstream media for Israel which are a consequence of the influence of Israel and the industrial-military complex. Israel still receives 1 billion of aid a YEAR. And why? It is not a third world country and we already hand them millions in weapons a year. It’s not that I’m anti-Israel or anti-Semitic, but I get fed up with having to hear this bull shit time and time again: Israel is a state defending itself from terrorism. It is sometimes, but it is not displaying any discretion in its actions — and at times it basically inflicting ‘organized’ terrorism on Arabs/Palestinian’s.

I think this is will change in a generation though. The people in power are the generation who are either a) alive during the holocaust b) one generation removed from the holocaust, so they are more (blindly) sympathetic to Israel, almost to all costs. I think the current generation is far enough removed from the holocaust to make objective opinions about the status of the Middle East. I think this goes for a lot of Israeli’s and Jewish-Americans as well — they don’t see the black-and-white that their parents & grand-parents see. And at a certain point, I think all people will come to the rational that ‘yes, the holocaust was really, really bad, and Israel as a state has the right to exist, but the United Nations basically usurped land and allowed Israel to be formed and there have been atrocities on both sides that are not justified by any logic.’ And by the way (though I have heard the beaches of Israel are beautiful), most of the Middle East is baron, untenable DESERT. At times, I think that this is like two children fighting over a deflated basketball. You may win the tug of war, but you’re prize isn’t much.

]]> By: StiflyStifersonhttp://www.prosebeforehos.com/word-of-the-day/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/comment-page-1/#comment-180 StiflyStiferson Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:00:14 +0000 http://www.prosebeforehos.com/administrator/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/index.html#comment-180 I think a healthy dose of Chuck Norris is all that region needs. I think a healthy dose of Chuck Norris is all that region needs.

]]> By: Kithttp://www.prosebeforehos.com/word-of-the-day/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Kit Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:58:14 +0000 http://www.prosebeforehos.com/administrator/01/30/you-seem-so-out-of-context/index.html#comment-179 While I disagree with Israel's policy, you have to admit there is a difference between targetting women and children, and collateral damage. Not to the families of those killed of course, but there is a difference. However, if you compare how many Israelis have been killed to the number of Palestinians, then it's clear that, even as collateral damage, their policies are immoral: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4294502.stm While I disagree with Israel’s policy, you have to admit there is a difference between targetting women and children, and collateral damage. Not to the families of those killed of course, but there is a difference. However, if you compare how many Israelis have been killed to the number of Palestinians, then it’s clear that, even as collateral damage, their policies are immoral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4294502.stm

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