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This is actually good news. A blessing even. I'm throwing in the towel. I'm tired of the BS in my life. My goal originally was to post about interracial dating and marriage. There was just too much vitriol to deal with. Too much anger and hatred vomited out from bloggers and commenters against each other. What drama, who needs it? Finally, I abandoned that goal.
Then I just wanted to post about BW topics and give it my own Jewish twist to events and inspire. Well, I don't know if I've inspired. Anybody. I am not a very patient person. Perhaps I am, but I don't feel it.
There are so many things that I just don't agree with but say nothing. I don't want that anymore. I want to live my life more freely.
There are many "self help" BW blogs out there, but I am afraid they are not for me. I am not knocking it, its just not for me. My 'self help' is found within me. I can't borrow someone else's decision or path to "free" themselves of any or all previously known concepts in the name of self empowerment because my decisions are my own. I know many would not be able to hang with who I am and what I am. Many can't even conceive that black can have any value. Many can't even conceive that Jewishness can be anything good. Some can't even understand that there is more to life, more to me than just these. Catch words have bound us. Zionist has its connotations. There is even a book, I believed called, "Is Gay the new Black?" As if to say, is being gay the new negative, bad, discriminated, etc. Would anyone think that the title of this book meant that gays could be the "new" artistic, musical, spiritual anything positive?
Anyway, I can't be doing self helps. I went through that already. I am where I want to be! I know where I want to go.
Any attempt to go backwards and I'll have to fight the same battles I've fought long ago. Also I can't deal with the let's-mourn-our-bad-decisions-and-reflect business. Everything we did, everyone one we met has led us to become who we are today. God Loves Us! And yes, we have free will. So here we are. In the here and now. And we are who we are in the here and now. Now what? That is the question.
Now, we arise, like a phoenix on to the next level. That's what.
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Well, I went onto a blog recently and found folks talking about how they want "peace". Peace against all the hateful CIA who conspire and rouses countries like India and Pakistan and others to fight each other and peace against the "warhawk Zionists". Well, I guess we've decided who the enemies are. LOL.
Its so much easier to say that any other government leaders are "puppets" and pawns, and the CIA is the only one in the world with a BRAIN. But it makes the problems too simplistic. But the truth of the matter is that nobody really cares anyway. Its just a question of how will this effect ME?! That is why the biggest threat seems to be the CIA. The other countries may have corrupt governments and may even hate Americans, but they are not the immediate threat.
Now Israel is not a big threat, I don't think, to America. But yet folks almost lovingly choose to hate them too. Why? Is it the lobbyists in Washington? Aren't there many lobbyists in Washington? Are they too successful? Has it turned into a white vs black situation? Palestinians being the "new black" so to speak?
I remember long ago, I took a trip to a caribbean island. It was beautiful. The coconut trees, the smell of the air, the colorful dresses....The people there did not have much. No tvs, nothing to expose them too much to what they are missing had they lived in America. They tried to get bread on the table everyday, went to local soccer games, kicked it with friends, carried baskets on their heads, and had a ready smile for whoever needed. After that trip, I closed my ears whenever I heard MSM (mainstream media) discuss how poor that country was and how blah, how negative. They had no good news to say about that place. I learned to screen them out.
However, I believed what MSM had to say bout everything else.
Then I became religious and came to Israel. I saw first hand Arabs, Jews, Christians living here. Then I became wary of MSM's portrayal of Israel. and that was it.
Finally, it clicked. What else are they just slandering for the sake of entertaining news and maintenance of stereotypes?
This was the final blow for me on MSM. But I fear many, so many others are still under their spell. Humans are not meant to be negative for prolong periods of time.
This is why they post constantly these various studies of how bad things are in the African American community and various other groups -because without the continuity of these bad reports, we'd get out of our funk and do better. But we only look at what interest us and not the wide picture. So we don't see the games they play. We're too stuck trying to rectify our image, our self esteem, our whatever else that just got slandered. People are buying it. Blogs after blogs, I find BF wondering how to find a self esteem, where to go for love, even wondering CAN people actually love them! The studies are working. Folks get so lost in their own search for value, no time is taken to wonder perhaps others are getting a bad rap.
But truth is needed. It needs to be loud.
In a lunge to grasp self esteem, many fling themselves to whatever institution that could maybe help.
Many run to Islam.
I respect Islam and wish I knew more about sufis and how life was/ is like for them and what they believe. I also like that in Islam, they don't have a middle man between themselves and God and there's no ambiguity.
But I seriously wonder, is it truths about Islam that attracts many African Americans? Or is it the color? Is the presumption that since most Muslims are seen as 'not white' and so therefore there is acceptance there? I know that there are some who are truly serious and seek this out because they understand and believe truly.
Our color has a significant purpose and value. But its not a ticket or a pass.
Okay, maybe on the human level. But I mean it doesn't DEFINE us.
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Who wants world peace? I mean really.
For this to happen we need unity and harmony. HASSADIM and GEVUROT. Unity in that we understand each other and work towards a common goal. Harmony in that we don't have to lose our individual identity and /or beliefs in order to accomplish the unity.
Imagine, in an orchestra the violinists are angry at the flutists because they are using such 'foreign' instruments. They should burn!!! eh? We should all be violinists? But imagine the harmony that comes when the orchestra plays with various instruments?
There is a place in the world for everything and everyone. A bad character trait (anger, jealousy, etc) is simply a misplaced character. Yes, there are times to be angry. Times and reasons to be jealous. Just don't misplace it. lol.
Who wants world peace? Where is your Ayin tov /your good eye?
Its so easy to look at things with an Ayin Ra /an evil eye. An eye that sees the bad, the wrong, the criticizing eye. The eye of hatred. Wash those eyes out. Look with both of them and you'll see the truth of the matter.
Who wants world peace? Seek it out.
You'll find it in the scriptures. In the Torah. In the Koran. In science. Inside of yourself. Seek truth and good. It permeates the world and is ready to be drawn in once we really want it.
Okay, I am starting to sound preachy so I'll stop my ramblings.
11 comments:
Hi Miriam. There are two sites I like that deal with IR dating. siddity.blogspot.com is one, Blackgirlinmaine.blogspot.com is another.
Siddity talks about it often, while BGIM is simply married to a white guy and mentions a few topics as they come up.
Peace.
My goodness you covered a lot of ground.
My 'self help' is found within me. I can't borrow someone else's decision or path to "free" themselves of any or all previously known concepts in the name of self empowerment because my decisions are my own.
How I wish that others were in the place that you're in now: listening to your own soul, following your own path, and seeking the freedom of your own "truth."
How liberating it is to be in that place!
I know many would not be able to hang with who I am and what I am. Many can't even conceive that black can have any value.
You, having the freedom and the courage to be "self-defined," can be frightening to others: it's a radical thing to do--it places you outside their familiar parameters--you're no longer a known quantity.
Catch words have bound us.
Catch words are easier to deal with. They're comforting. They simplify. They remove the hard work, the heavy lifiting required to look at a thing, a person, or a situation without resorting to preconceived notions, cliches, and stereotypes previously formed about them.
They allow us to fall back on yesterday's understanding, yesterday's concepts, brush them off, and put them to use again--all without missing a step, or a beat--or challenging the old thought patterns that have served us so well.
Also I can't deal with the let's-mourn-our-bad-decisions-and-reflect business. Everything we did, everyone one we met has led us to become who we are today.
Your words are replete with wisdom. You're right, nothing is lost, nothing is useless, everthing contributes to the greater good.
Every relationship, brief, or enduring--become angels in disguise. They afford us Life's most precious gift: to experience Who We Choose To Be relative to Who The Other Is Choosing To Be.
Well, I went onto a blog recently and found folks talking about how they want "peace".
Peace is not something one should want. Peace is a choice. Peace is something one is being, as is happiness, or any other state of being.
Our world can have peace, but it must begin with each of us: We must stop the warring factions within ourselves, and just be: be peace, be joy, be happiness.
There's nothing stopping us: not the CIA, the FBI, nor any other government agency, regardless of country, that we would ascribe our world discord to.
I closed my ears whenever I heard MSM (mainstream media) discuss how poor that country was and how blah, how negative.
The notion of "better than" is literally killing us: our happiness, our joy, our peace, and, yes, our bodies.
Those caribbean islanders didn't need the trappings of wealth, and possessions to live joyfully, and happily.
The MSM message: if you're not living the material lifestyle we here in the U.S. enjoy, you're somehow living at a standard below us, and therefore your joy and your happiness are severly stunted, and severly depleted.
Nothing could be further from the truth: What We're Being has nothing to do with What We're Having. Being is a choice. Having doesn't have to impact being, but all too often it does.
Blogs after blogs, I find BF wondering how to find a self esteem, where to go for love, even wondering CAN people actually love them!
There's a saying: "If you don't go within, you go without."
The Kingdom of Heaven is within. And yet the Good News continue to escape a large number of us humans.
Love and "self-esteem" can't be found outside of ourselves; it can't be found in the approbation of others (When is enough, enough?).
What we seek must come from the Self, whether it be love, self-esteem, or what have you.
What a vain exercise to look anyplace else, but to the Self, for that which brings completion, sufficiency, and fulfillment.
If others have the power to give us these things, they also have the power to take them away.
...many fling themselves to whatever institution that could maybe help.
Many run to Islam.
All things in our world (religious institutions, institutions of higher learning, and indeed our experiences) serve Only One Purpose: to compel us to look Within.
To the degree that these things fail to accomplish that, the institutions, and the experiences fail to achieve a divine goal, which is to encourage Self-realization.
Soul development, and evolution is the purpose of Life. That demand can be stated in many ways. Here's one: We should seek to become the Highest Concept of Ourselves that We've Ever Imagined.
The Soul has One Soul Purpose: To know Itself Within Its Own Experiences. Or to put in another way: To Experience what It Knows.
Harmony in that we don't have to lose our individual identity and /or beliefs in order to accomplish the unity.
Beautifully stated. I believe that we've forgotten that We're Part of the Whole. We need to know Once Again that We're Not Separate From God, and We're Not Separate From Anything Else.
It's our sense, belief, that we're separated from the Whole that is at the heart of All our Problems here, whether we call those problems war, hunger, or interpersonal strife.
Who wants world peace? Seek it out.
You'll find it in the scriptures. In the Torah. In the Koran. In science. Inside of yourself. Seek truth and good. It permeates the world and is ready to be drawn in once we really want it.
Indeed, Truth and Goodness "permeates the world" and is there for all to drink until their thirst is slaked.
But for humanity to seek peace, it must give up something else: the Illusions that define its very existence, and give meaning to its daily pursuit of Truth.
Here are the Ten Illusions of Humans, Illusions that the world cling to for dear life, for the world knows that to give them up, they give up the Greatest Illusion of All: We're Making It All Up.
1. Need Exists.
2. Failure Exists.
3. Disunity Exists.
4. Insufficiency Exists.
5. Requirements Exists.
6. Judgement Exits.
7. Condemnation Exists.
8. Conditionality Exists.
9. Superiority Exists.
10.Ignorance Exists.
Our mainstream media is used to perpetuate these myths--these Illusions--to maintain the hoax so that we can keep the "game going."
We believe that we stand to lose it All, were we to remember that the forgoing are indeed Illusions.
I desire world peace but i think the only self help required is what we do via our own soul searching and introspection - as we do in or blogs in one form or another
Kit - Siditty's blog, I go to pretty frequently.
Domino - You are quite inspiring. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were an angel!
Torrance - That's where I stand as well.
Dear First Domino,
you should write a book!
The World as a Whole is experiencing the pregnancy and birth pangs of the Messianic Era.
The Ari (probably the greatest Jewish mystic in the last one thousand nine hundred years), in the Etz Chaim, talks about how in the initial stage of pregnancy (paralelling the stage between a fertiziled egg and the formation of the fetus), the various aspects of the life-to-be get fixed up in different places. There's no true unity and integration yet (at least one can say that it's as of yet un-revealed), but the ingredients are coming into place. That's where we're holding, both in the Jewish world and the world at large. You see snippets of the Messianic Light expressed here and there. Call them sparks.
In Temple times, a woman had to bring a sacrifice after childbirth. This is because every birth involves a sifting process, in which the baby emerges from an admixture.
The Messianic Age is basically like a baby, a new creation. So we see this also historically. Really, one can say that the Messianic Age and what's called the World to Come is the rectification of an exile that began with the Fall from Eden, with the Sin of Adam and Eve. As such, this world as it's been, and really the entire human condition, is the World to Come in a state of exile from itself, and the entirely process of history is basically the self-redemption of the World to Come. Thus the very fact that in Jewish sources the Jewish sages spoke of two worlds (this world and the World to Come) is an illusory reality, or, more accurately, a relative reality. But the Jewish sages spoke in terms appropriate for the world in the state is was. (In this they were following the methodology of the Torah itself).
At any rate: if the world only knew what a rectification it is that the people of Israel are building up a national existence in their own home, they would be rushing to support this endeavor. But, as it is, the "impure" of the admixture I mentioned is still given much sway in things, at least on the face of things. Of course this is to provide a cover for the sparks of the Messianic Light to do what they have to do.
Let me say it another way: the obsession the world has with Israel represents a snippet of light expressing itself in a warped way, through the impure aspect of the admixture.
I do think that the AA world really needs Torah; they need the seven Mitzvot of the Children of Noach. And when they integrate this they will be the princes and princesses of the world, head and shoulders above everyone else. As King David said, "the stone that the builders rejected (that is, a rough history and the spiritual underpinnings of this story) will be the cornerstone". This is such a radical secret that I cannot talk about it except with a select handful of people, and I pray it won't be misconstrued here. But the source is in the Holy Zohar and writings of the Ari. If one really understands the dynamics of hasadim and gevurot the author of this blog has talked about a little bit, it'll become clearer.
One good place to read more about it is on the City of Luz website
That was a lot to consider. I don't consider the corporate media a foe to Israel. Quite the opposite in fact. The CEOs and Presidents of the Networks are Jews who seem to be very supportive of Israel and also for promoting white supremacist practices - though I know not every person who practices Judaism is white.
I think AIPAC has far too much an influence on our gov't policy. The US gives like $4B in year in aid and weapons. They allow Israel to build nuclear weapons with no restrictions but want to tell every other country what to do. What gives?
I also think part of the core problems stemmed from the land grab that formed the state and was sanctioned by the UN in the first place and all the wars and settlements since. Didn't Netanyu want a more amenable gov't and got the axe - literally because of that?
Of course the UK has played just as much an active role in carving up countries, creating artificial borders to cause maximum strife and raping and pillaging. But Spain did it to. And France. And Persia. I mean this goes on and on and on. the stakes are MUCH higher now.
I also see the struggle of the Palestinians as a separate issue from the rest of the Arab countries because they are like the red-headed step children.
The US benefits from all the fighting and definitely eggs it on - well at least the lobbyists and mercenaries do. They got the oil and the fighting and are getting phat paid.
I also know in my own personal history I've had a few bosses who were white and Jewish who were pretty racist so I am aware I have some extra sensitivity to all of this. But I've met a lot of younger Israelis who were cool and want to live in peace.
So I guess it's the older generations and the greedy that are still causing problems all over the world.
I also love the Sufi religious practices. then men look so elegant dancing for God.
I go to a lot of blogs written by other Black women as well. I do think Black people need a major overhaul. You were able to make changes in your life that benefit you. That's awesome. I think the 'average' Black American (not Carib, not Continental African) has adopted some really bad habits and way of thinking.
Collectively things are much better for a few people financially but socially and morally I'd say around half are worse off than people were pre Civil Rights - unless we're all fooling ourselves here. There didn't used to be so many out of wedlock children and women on welfare and people took more pride in their appearance. Black women outnumber Black men and yet there's this meme being pushed about how we must have one. That isn't going to work! When certain things were denied or more difficult to obtain they were more valued.
Well, I guess that applies to anything in life! Now that I'm older and trying to fix my life I need to review without beating myself up. I have a few wheels that fell off the wagon but I've had a lot of things to work through. There was a time when I was younger that I felt more confident about my ability to fashion the life I wanted for myself and I was more hopeful for the future. I just didn't have the tools I needed and I didn't know I didn't have those tools. I had to do it all myself and learn and grow with no safety net.
I don't think we can just ignore what goes on with the rest of the world regardless. Look at Haiti - people are eating dirt because of US and European interference, taking out their leadership and I really feel it has to do with the fact they fought for an won their independence. They've had to suffer ever since and I'd love to see more Black people raise some hell about that.
And then there's the countries in Africa. I know it's manipulation and it really pisses me off esp since the entire world is using all of Africa's resources for something yet the world doesn't feel responsible for helping fix things.
So that's my take on things. I tried not to censor myself. I know peace will not happen without sacrifices. I'm willing to do it, to give up some comforts so others have a little more. We used to live w/o so much that sometimes it's hard to remember so many things are a privilege not a right.
I will always rant about white supremacy though as well as Black racism and apathy. Our standards are all we have and are. I want to have livable standards (because I'm not perfect) but ones of quality.
Hi Faith,
My response is more a response to the ideas in your comments and not so much to you exactly.
"the CEOs and Presidents of the Networks are Jews"
(1) I certainly can't say all CEOs and presidents are of the Networks are Jews, but I wouldn't be surprised if many were.
And if they were. Let's entertain that for a minute. Don't you think they have good reason to go after that industry? Don't you think AAs ought to be grabbing their own media so that they can portray themselves better?
Don't I hear/read bloggers after bloggers lamenting about the poor portrayal of AAs? Because AAs are not "there yet" (i.e. owning stations)so we hate on who IS supposedly there defending their own image?
And when AAs become successful. May they be successful, Amen. Then what? Will then people suspect or attack them for "manipulating" the media?
(2) That said, I still see MSM not so kind to Jews or Israel. Other groups of people CAN and DO have their uncle toms, their sellouts, etc. you know.
The negativity comes more subtly: in what gets said vs what doesn't get said, how the information is arranged to get a certain reaction.
For instance: Hardly anyone reported that Israel took in Sudanese refugees - thousands of Muslim refugees- because of the dire situation in their own country.
Somebody, in their great eagerness to blast Israel, reported how they are turning these refugees down (now that they reached maximum capacity that they can take care of! but that gets unreported). Nevermind that it brings to light that Israel did take refugees in. Anyway thank God for foibles.
Practically nobody reports how Egypt actually shot down Sudanese refugees who attempted to come to their land.
MSM does not reports about the extra torture the Israelis got simply because they were Israelis in Mumbai, whereas other were killed, without torture.
Everyone will gleefully report the racist Israeli behavior towards the Ethiopian Jews, but nobody will remark at how Israel themselves airlifted many Ethiopian Jews to bring them to their land. No, perfection is demanded.
It goes on and on. Just go to HonestReporting if you're open to a counterbalance.
"I think AIPAC has far too much an influence on our gov't policy"
First, I am going to entertain that thought.
If they do have so much influence, If they are successful at what they do, Is that the fault of the strength of the lobbyist or the weakness of the gov't? And say they lobbied and failed, would that bring them 'grace ' in anyone's eyes. Really?
Second, lets look at the bigger, wider picture:
"U.S. assistance and other payments to Pakistan have totaled $9.6 billion in the six budget years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, according to the State Department. " USA Today, 11/5/2007
"The United States is developing a proposed $20 billion, 10-year arms sales package for Saudi Arabia, a senior administration official confirmed on Saturday." CNN.com 7/28/2007
" The Bush administration has unveiled a $13 billion arms package for Egypt. " World Tribune, 8/2/2007
The USA has a habit of giving billions like that. Perhaps we can insist on hating on Israel and say "but Israel gets more!" More money that must be spent only on US weaponry.
All this money that gets dished out, Isn't anyone worried about that? What the US got to benefit from all this?
"I also think part of the core problems...."
The "core problems" of what? The core issue that causes folks to hate Israel / Jews? I think the "core Problem" is pure basic hatred.
Do you know the history of this area? The British gave the Palestinians -Jordanians without a home- a place in Israel. After WWII, Britain again, with the backing of the UN gave Israel a part of the land as well. Now two
peoples are fighting for one land.
But I suppose we could keep things simple and blame the Jews. LOL!
"But Spain did it too. And France..."
And so what? So that makes it okay?
"I also see the struggle of the Palestinians as a separate issue...."
Why? Why are they the red headed step children? How did this view come about? And does how the other Arab nations treat the Palestinians bring us to the same boiling point as whatever Israel does?
"I've had a few bosses who were white and Jewish who were pretty racist..."
I am sorry for that. I have also dealt with racists and haters. Whites and blacks. However, I must keep to truth and see things for what it really is. If I allow myself to be led by emotions, I don't have the reigns in my thinking: I can be pushed.
"But I've met a lot of younger Israelis who were cool and want to live in peace."
"So I guess its the older generations and the greedy that
are still causing problems all over the world."
I can't say about the older generations, but I am glad you
realize its the greedy who are causing problems.
"...has adopted some really bad habits and way of thinking."
I agree. But I believe there is hope. I believe as Halima once said (so much better than I could) that AAs had a set a great values. Somehow as time went on, those
phrases became cut in pieces and now they have a piece of the knowledge but not all. This is causing us to behave in destructive ways.
My goal, God willing, is to expose the beauty of Black, Blackness as found in Kabbalah and Torah and bring inspiration, if even to just one person. lol
I am so sorry about the whole OOW situation. But please God, just as so many folks in the Bible had to be "under the cover" of "sin" to hide a gem soul, that perhaps that was the case for AAs as well. And now its over.
What I mean is, for example: King David had to be born the way he was. Amid questions and doubt because he was such a holy being, his presence and ability needed to
be hidden.
And so David came into the world. Hated by all. And he composed the
beautiful, meditative Psalms that we read today!
Abraham also came from such strange, warped beginnings. And he too brought forth good in the world.
And many others in the Bible.
There is always a good side.
Things are dire and this OOW business needs to end. Now that its being made an issue, perhaps the gems have all been secretly born now.
Now its time to close the doors on this immoral portal, this potential cloak.
There's a post I read on the Mystical Paths Blog. I couldn't have put it better, so here it is:
The Practicality of Gaza Starvation - - - - - - - posted by Akiva - - 11/19/2008 01:01:00 PM ET
Ashdod Israel south
by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths
As I visited Ashdod (southern Israeli port city) last night, I heard the UN Commissioner for Human Rights condemning Israel on the news for the "blockade" of Gaza. As we once again hear and read about the Gaza Blockade and the Poor Starving Palestinians, here's a few key points to keep in mind:
1. Ashdod, 3rd city up from Gaza is now in Hamas missile range and has started practicing "we're being bombed" drills in local schools. "Shalom children, this morning we're going to practice running for our lives from the sandbox to the bomb shelter within the 30 second radar warning time - ready, set, RUN!!!! Ahhh, sorry little Shlomie, you tripped along the way, you're dead."
2. Israel DOES NOT surround the Gaza Strip. See that other country on the southern border. Yeah, that's the once, starts with an E - Egypt. Israel can't blockade Gaza unless Egypt already has. Go ask them why.
3. Hamas killed the fuel terminal workers, then complained about no fuel. They attacked and killed workers at the truck transfer point 5 times, then complained about no supplies. Now they were caught digging a kidnapping tunnel towards the border post and are firing missiles in response to getting caught. Parent murderers don't get to claim to be orphans.
4. The Israeli left, the peaceniks, the liberals, are fully in control of Israeli politics. They are begging to give and do and help the Palestinians, to declare peace. Good peace, bad peace, cold peace, a few murdered Jews here and there, they would happily take any almost kind of not really peace. When even they can't accept what's going on and feel forced to take (the most peaceful minimal) defensive measures, you know it's a situation out of control.
5. The world rewards Hamas for whatever they do. If they attack and supplies can't be safely delivered, it's Israel's fault. If UNWRA workers can't give out free medical care because terrorists are holed up in their clinic, it's Israel's fault. If a hospital is damaged by terrorists launching missiles from the roof (!!!!), it's Israel's fault. The UN and the EU and even the US feed the Palestinians, provide free medical care, free education, free public works projects. The world sustains 70% of the Palestinian economy, giving them the highest life expectancy in the Arab world, the best health care, and public works exceeding 60% of the Arab world.
6. If Israel doesn't service the Palestinians, it's a human rights violation. If they don't take their seriously ill into Israeli hospitals (for free, and with attending family), it's a human rights violation. If they fire at those Palestinians shooting missiles into Israeli civilian cities, it's a human rights violation (for the Palestinians fire from inside populated areas, firing back might injure someone). Hamas has kidnapped Jews and murdered innocent civilians in their homes, at school, at work, at the market - that's NOT (???) a human rights violation or war crime, Israel defending against it in any way IS. (???)
Dear UN High Commissioner, if you truly believe the free unoccupied Arabs of Gaza are blockaded and oppressed (how can you be oppressed with no oppressor there???) YOU go work the border terminal for a month. You couldn't pay me to do it, not for 10 times my salary. Too dangerous. YOU take them into YOUR home and YOUR country at YOUR expense. And next time a burglar breaks into your home, don't forget to invite him to stay for dinner.
Photos: First photo the southern entrance to Ashdod at night, which includes a municipal laser over the main road. Unfortunately it's only decorative and not some sort of missile defense system. Rumors of it having been placed there in honor of Rabbi Brody of the Lazer Beams blog (who lives in Ashdod) are purely speculative.
Miriam,
Any non-muslim woman who is drawn to Islam is out of her mind. Is it news that muslim women are virtual slaves?
And like it or not, the crime issue among blacks in the US cannot be ignored. As I noted, a bus driver was murdered in Brooklyn a few days ago by a black passenger -- for no reason other than the fact that the passenger was a thug.
A 14-year-old black boy was killed yesterday when he was shot while caught in the crossfire between at least two black gunman firing at each other.
The stories go on and on. This year in NY City about 98% of all people involved in gun crimes have been black or hispanic.
White criminals, especially violent gun-toting criminals, are far outnumbered by black bad boys.
What explains the disparity? And why does it get under your skin when this subject is raised?
As for palestinians, well, those are people who claim to be citizens of a nation that has never existed. The people who call themselves palestinians are arab muslims, or their parents and grandparents were arab muslims living in the territory known as Palestine.
But it was never a nation. It was a region, like the North Pole, with no sovereign status. Just a place on a map.
It always seems to go unmentioned that if any refugee makes his way to the US, then any child of that refugee born in the US is an American.
But the muslim nations around Israel refused to accept the original refugees from Israel and those nations have continued to withhold citizenship and fair treatment from the children and grandchildren of the only true refugees.
Thus, 500,000 refugees have multiplied into 4 million so-called Palestinians, even though not one of them has ever lived in a country of that name.
Based on the fact that the original and true refugees numbered about 500,000, the accurate number today should probably fall closer to 200,000 as a result of the old-age deaths of the original crew. But, thanks to Special Treatment by the United Nations, common sense was thrown to the wind and the numbers of these "refugees" have increased.
It's nuts.
Towards Unity - I agree that Domino should write a book!
And thanks for that Mystical Path post.
No Slappz - You are making statements and I hear them intellectually, but I don't sense compassion in your words.
I am saddened about the situation with Palestinians and I don't really think most of the world is out to help them.
And as for Black Americans and crimes. Again, one should search for the why's behind it, with compassion, then a solution, a real solution can be found.
Thanks Miriam for hearing me out on this. You've made some interesting points and given me things to consider. I'm trying to figure out what the best approach should be and how modifying my perspective might lead me in a different direction, though I will continue to see this through as an extension of white privilege (which I should have clarified) couched with other things.
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