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Thread #92618   Message #1791321
Posted By: dianavan
24-Jul-06 - 01:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
Subject: RE: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
If you think the only way to settle land disputes is by bombing the innocent civilians, you are war mongers.

What I object to is over-reacting and slaughtering people and destroying their homes. In fact, Israel is committing war crimes against defenseless people. I hold Israel to a higher standard than I do terrorists. Don't you? Any nation that has caused as much grief as Israel has caused the international community will never win in the court of public opinion.

Sure, Israel can defend itself - within reason but the destruction they are causing is cruel and unreasonable.

I think its time we all took a deep breath and read this prophetic poem by Yeats:

Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot see the falconer
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere,
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert binds
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

btw - Israel has no claim to self righteousness. Ask the Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel whether or not the Zionists discriminated against them. Ask who gets the best land in Israel?

Seems to me that there are no good guys in this - only innocent civilians being slaughtered and more displaced people and more medical emergencies and hunger. Is this a logical solution?