It is still so that those who suffer little from a few are always permitted to inflict unjustly upon innocent.
The New York Times reports 200 have been killed from assaults by IDF in Gaza. According to reports from my parents (who live in New York) from their friends who live in a Kibbutz not too far from Gaza the home made rockets fell close to their homes. One close the dining hall. But how many casualties? While I disagree with the use of any form of violence I just cannot see how the death of 200 people, most of them probably innocent is proper reprimand for rockets that have killed 1 man and injured 4.
According to the IDF mindset:
1 = 200
The Israelis should have their weapons taken away from them so that they can find more creative and peaceful ways to resolve rocket fire landing into a country that does not really belong to them in the first place. Where do they belong really? I for one would like to see the return of pickle shops to the Lower East Side of New York City
… Jewish parents. Also a resident of the United States of America. The sort of overgrown and exact inverse of Switzerland. Never lived in Switzerland so this is just from visiting several times but. Have enough friends of there to understand how their system works.
Departed from the United States to live in Europe in a sort of limbo alien status. Passport is a mess. Keep it in the pocket at all times. Have many visas. Its nice to have that so you know somewhat where you have been. There is probably a story about how that passport came about as there always should be with items relating to travel.
Israel was an interesting place to grow up. It was a slightly uncomfortable fit. The stock is high but it has a bad reputation in the neighborhood. It is best to stand firmly. Smile and hope they all relax. When it is good it is really good. A Lebanese women known briefly visited once. “I love this bubble” after visiting one of her friends in Palestine. Looking at the map of the early partitioning of the territories proposed by the British (the PIL declaration) and comparing it with what has been provided to the Palestinians is very ironic.
Visiting the west bank was somewhat exotic if a bit harrowing at times. Mostly an illusion and not out of the ordinary. Making a living is at the core to most and this necessitated considerable harassment on occasion.
Guest dining hall. Once for un-guests. A conversation about the size cheese is cut into for practical consumption. This was a problem. Cubes are easy to pick from the tray but then nobody eats them. Apparently the more difficult it is to pick something up from a tray the more willing the picker is to consume it. The cutter was eventually cut. Cute. He was. Maybe still is. His wife a house and lived beneath us.
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