Into the fray

[whosinpower]

Are you frightened by the abhorrent turn of events in Lebanon/Israel these days?
I am - and I am not ashamed to state as much.

What I find interesting is that each side is quick to blame the other and refuses to take responsibility for their own actions. It is Lebanon's fault for not being able to control Hizbollah. It is Syria's fault. It is Iran's fault. It is Israel's fault. It is America's fault.
It all started when:
a. Israel bombed a family having a picnic on a beach killing eight.
b. It all started when Hizbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
c. It all started when Israel kidnapped a doctor and his son.

None of these are true. Not really. You want to know when it all started and whose fault it is? Then we need to go back in history to 1945 when the world decided to give the jews a nation and dispossessed hundreds of thousands of Arabs. And until that is addressed - nothing will change.
Lord help us - we are still fighting remnants of WW11. Is is all our faults and we are all culpable even though we may or may not support either side. Because we have never addressed the key issue - painful as that is.

And the great world powers do not really care for peace. That is my highly skeptical viewpoint, as undecucated as it is. Peace is not prosperity - not for those who control things now. War=money

There was a comedian on the tv last night and he stated something that made me laugh and cry at the same time. It was to do with the Terri Schaivo spectacle. He stated that two sets of American doctors could not decide whether or not Terri was dead or not. One side said she was braindead, and the other said she was not. At first he jabbed at the American medical community for not even being able to tell whether or not a person was alive or dead. And then he stated - even worse, we are supposed to be fighting a war on terror.....and we cannot even tell if a person is dead or alive.

I can no longer distinguish who has the high ground on the Israel crisis. And worse for me is that if I even mention Israel is taking the wrong tack, I am accused of anti-semitism or worse. And yet, I cannot forget a tragic video tape of a palestinian father trying to shield his young son of maybe 8-10 years old....and the Israeli soldier carefully aiming and killing the boy as he tried to hide behind his father. Maybe it wasn't true......maybe it was.......But it resonates with me as a mother of a young son.

Sometimes I hate humanity. Because the pigs at the corporate trough will make sure the meatgrinder that is now occuring will never end.

[rodeodance]

1. I wonder if there is a 'highground'? (on either side).

.....I can no longer distinguish who has the high ground on the Israel crisis.