Thursday, August 10, 2006
intangibles and fragrances
The most wonderful thing about our temporary residence is the fact that it has a penthouse-type exposure to the elements. Now in even the hottest summer days, there is a light breeze. I can forget about superficial things like furniture and wonder consumer appliances and the bank account and I can ride the breeze. Right now I prefer that to surfing the net. Its going to be our fourth week away from home and its time to buy new spray cans for freshening the air in the bathroom so I make a point of buying the same fragrances we have in our Real House. I met a housepainter who is incensed with the operation/action/hostility and would love to experience the home front battlezone. That was after listening to a Pek'in Druze who works in a high tech telecom firm who brought two busloads of neighbors to stay in a hotel. His house was hit twice. It was nice hearing the Arab bartender giving him advice and some pointers. They left together. This wasn't the collective chatter of the follks you know and live with but after a bit of Guinness and a bit of abstraction and distraction it could just as well have seemed to have been.
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The Israeli response to the kidnapping of 2 soldiers is WAY OUT OF PROPORTION to the offense that supposedly "started" this heinous war.
That in itself ia a war crime and may God forgive Israel for what it is doing!!
Listen to Yesh Gvul!!
You think it's because of the kidnapping of two soldiers??? how about the 18 year old boy who was killed the week before that? and all the other innocent people who were killed for no reason? How may 'military sites' are hetzbollah going to be aiming at this month?? Hum... may none, just last month, let's just aim for civilians unlike the uncivilized Israelis who one aim for military sites (even ones with innocent people held there against their will). I truly wish the world would just "wake up and smell the coffee". It goes to show you something if Reuters has to manipulate the photos they are taking.....
To Anonymous #2: Here's a better phrase than wake up and smell the coffee: "Wake up and smell the jihad"! (I got it from Eugene, who writes the blog _Live from an Israeli Bunker_.)
I'm upset it isnj't more out of proportion.
It's called deterrent, if we only hit them in the same proportion that they hit us then they define the rules of the game. Kidnapping 2 soldiers was out of proportion for us doing nothing. Also the rockets started at the same time as the kidnapping without any provocation.
If we flattened a bunch of villages they would think twice before doing that again.
You choose your intangible, our's or their's but what you smell, let alone the columbian mocca or jihad, will stink and because they neglect their own, we call it stench and find it repelling. The corollary (read Ramallah lynch)is something entirely other. One revels in life, the other in death. Any wonder there is no room in life for you? Doesn't it make you other want to wonder?
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