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Post by millring on May 8, 2024 15:00:05 GMT -5
"It's important that we understand that nobody is really at fault here.". - Marie Barone
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Post by millring on May 8, 2024 4:06:48 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 7, 2024 19:06:04 GMT -5
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May 6, 2024 17:38:26 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 6, 2024 17:38:26 GMT -5
Their own people are overwhelmingly on board with them.
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Post by millring on May 5, 2024 16:22:41 GMT -5
Dog walked. Caught an osprey in my Merlin trap. Got the yard cut. Played over an hour on the Gibson. Won all the word games (wordled in three). Tuna salad for dinner. Work tomorrow.
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May 5, 2024 13:17:22 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 5, 2024 13:17:22 GMT -5
We recognize the "I've got black friends" trope when the bad guys resort to it. Not so much when it allows us and our friends adequate cover.
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Post by millring on May 5, 2024 11:09:55 GMT -5
We were fifteen years old at the time. I don't remember. It was probably something about help with homework -- her offer or mine I couldn't say.
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Post by millring on May 5, 2024 10:55:17 GMT -5
I want to do the JJ Cale tune "Call Me The Breeze". I'm not sure what had me searching for this the other day. I think I was trying to figure out who the young kid was and what had happened to him since.
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Post by millring on May 5, 2024 6:20:12 GMT -5
Then Israel doesn't have the right he so graciously allows it does to defend itself.
He frames it as an eye for an eye. It's not that. It's a war declared on Israel. And as we are demonstrating nightly on our news and in statements by our administration, (and by the moral equivalency he has drawn) Israel is not the bully here. We, and the international community that always rises up against Israel, is.
The Palestinian people were/are overwhelmingly in favor of what even he frames as "Hamas's massacre" (not invasion. Convenient to his argument, he frames it in non-war terms). And as has been illustrated time and time again, the "ceasefires" we demand are merely times used to stop Israel from defending itself long enough for its enemies to regroup and rearm.
I don't pretend to understand why the international community overwhelmingly hates Israel. But that hatred is so palpable and dependable and predictable that Hamas was able to stage their entire invasion on the absolute certainty that the world would turn on Israel the minute Israel defended itself.
It's too easy to put that hatred of Israel on a religious plane (and I think that is a large part of it. In an increasingly secularizing Western world, it is the religions with which we believe we are most familiar that we seem to reserve the greatest contempt for. And secularization does not appear to believe in live and let live where religion is concerned.) But I suspect it has more to do with the economic philosophical schism that has divided the Western world for the past two centuries. And it appears that Israel is a too good example of the supremacy of freedom of Western thought. That must be pounded down.
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Post by millring on May 5, 2024 5:26:44 GMT -5
That education doesn't seem to be going too well.
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May 4, 2024 16:26:55 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 4, 2024 16:26:55 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 4, 2024 5:13:35 GMT -5
Before you know it they'll be playing trombone.
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May 3, 2024 15:54:39 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 3, 2024 15:54:39 GMT -5
Eliminating Hamas is almost impossible. There are new Israel hating future terrorists created every day of the attack on Hamas. I’m not saying that Israel should not pursue Hamas. Hamas is evil. But it is an impossible task to wipe it out. I’m reading “Say Nothing” about the “Troubles” in the 60s & 70s in Northern Ireland. It is so incomprehensible what people do to each other in the name of religious differences. And there, both sides are “Christian.” www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/horror-humiliation-gazaThe current secularist has a strange tolerance -- bordering on fascination -- with the exotic religions it doesn't know, but it has a particular contempt for the religions in which it was raised and has rejected.
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May 3, 2024 9:49:40 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 3, 2024 9:49:40 GMT -5
And if Democrats are pro Israel, then how do the Republicans "make hay"
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May 3, 2024 9:39:05 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 3, 2024 9:39:05 GMT -5
It was said that we should hold Israel to a higher standard than we do Hamas. We do. Defense is by definition a higher standard.
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May 3, 2024 9:26:54 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 3, 2024 9:26:54 GMT -5
People who are concerned that Republicans might gain support ... and so only for that reason will they pretend support of Israel.
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May 3, 2024 9:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 3, 2024 9:24:42 GMT -5
People who expect Israel to surrender. If not now, eventually. It's been going on my entire life.
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Post by millring on May 3, 2024 5:53:50 GMT -5
But, it's Republican time to make hay. I've tried to come up with a way to express how perverse I think this is. I can't.
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May 2, 2024 20:42:25 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 20:42:25 GMT -5
Too bad I couldn't have loned you a "b".
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Post by millring on May 2, 2024 18:15:20 GMT -5
Now, is a "halt to the fighting" as a condition of freeing hostages the same as surrender? Yes. The state of the situation before Hamas attacked WAS ceasefire. Hamas needs to lose, not live to fight another day. We are purposely forcing Israel to quit before they win instead of demanding of Hamas that they accept defeat to spare the civilians.
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