Powerless
The news this morning reported seven civilian neighbours were injured when the Israeli military destroyed the house of an alleged extremist in Gaza, where a weapons cache was supposedly located.
Summary: The IDF managed to blow up the bloody arsenal without killing a single person!
(Further details: A quick internet research turns out it was four persons, not seven - I gather the newspeople relied on local "eyewitnesses" and hospital receptionists. I have no information about the alleged supposed civilians' reported claimed civilian status. Concerning the avoidance of the word terrorist see here - scroll down to the Slip-Of-The-Tongue Award.)
Bottom line for the innocent viewer: The military Israelis nearly killed a family, destroyed a house - the old oppression routine of those vindictive Old Testament people - and now they produce this paltry excuse. Anyway the freedom fighters are right.
I have this horrible feeling of powerlessness you had as a child.
And I'm a non-Zionist leftist.
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Summary: The IDF managed to blow up the bloody arsenal without killing a single person!
(Further details: A quick internet research turns out it was four persons, not seven - I gather the newspeople relied on local "eyewitnesses" and hospital receptionists. I have no information about the alleged supposed civilians' reported claimed civilian status. Concerning the avoidance of the word terrorist see here - scroll down to the Slip-Of-The-Tongue Award.)
Bottom line for the innocent viewer: The military Israelis nearly killed a family, destroyed a house - the old oppression routine of those vindictive Old Testament people - and now they produce this paltry excuse. Anyway the freedom fighters are right.
I have this horrible feeling of powerlessness you had as a child.
And I'm a non-Zionist leftist.
.
posted by Phillip Minden | 7/25/2006 04:51:00 AM
3 Comments:
The IDF can be pretty impressive...(keep in mind they are only human, and can make mistakes from time to time...but overall, this is an example of doing things right)
And Kol HaKavod to them! :)
Yeah, but they'd be smiling.
As would Edom.
Unfortunately fighting back doesn't seem to be teaching them to stop committing outrages either.
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It ires me when commentators use the Old Testament allusion. Atjeh and the Dutch fought brutally for nearly a century - irrespective of testaments. The French were positively demented in Algiers and Vietnam while losing their empire. Again, neither Testament had zip to with it. Iraq is the most vindictive place on the planet - hardly a Testamentarian to be found.
No one says that the wars of Christian countries (there have been several, I believe) is New Testament people viciousness. Though in the past century, quite like parts in the Book of Revelations.
Wars aren't testamental, but testicular.
Lastly, on a personal level, I dislike the terms Old Testament and New Testament. I prefer Torah, Nach, and 'the Christian Subsequentia'.
"Subsequentia", i like that.
I usually use Tanakh (or "Jewish Scripture") and Christian Testament. or "Christian Bible" when refering to the whole complex of texts considered canonical by Christianity
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