Sudden Fury
Jul. 5th, 2006 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
i_kenderThat bloody Israeli cabinet and their goddamned Prime Minister...!! Just when things were gradually getting better...
Israel plans retaliation for rocket strike: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1813199,00.html
"Israel's security cabinet approved the re-occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip today in response to a Palestinian rocket strike...
...Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, called the strike a 'major escalation' and vowed harsh retaliation, while his cabinet colleague, Zeev Boim, said: 'As far as I'm concerned, the people of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya [northern Gaza] can start packing.' "
GREAT! Wonderful idea! That'll end the hostilites! Have you learned nothing from the Cold War about the escalation of violence? Do the words Mutally Assured Destruction mean nothing to you?! These fucking people... why do they have to be the ones with the power to pull the trigger?!
(Just to be clear, I'm not blindly one-sided on this issue. I don't hold Hamas' military arm and Palestinian militants to be blameless in this, and of course I don't condone their kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, young or otherwise. But it makes me *absolutely furious* that in one casual step, the Israeli goverment blithely undoes years of hard-won detente! ARGH!!)
This is why I don't talk politics. It's bad for my blood pressure and the eardrums of those standing nearby.
Israel plans retaliation for rocket strike: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1813199,00.html
"Israel's security cabinet approved the re-occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip today in response to a Palestinian rocket strike...
...Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, called the strike a 'major escalation' and vowed harsh retaliation, while his cabinet colleague, Zeev Boim, said: 'As far as I'm concerned, the people of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya [northern Gaza] can start packing.' "
GREAT! Wonderful idea! That'll end the hostilites! Have you learned nothing from the Cold War about the escalation of violence? Do the words Mutally Assured Destruction mean nothing to you?! These fucking people... why do they have to be the ones with the power to pull the trigger?!
(Just to be clear, I'm not blindly one-sided on this issue. I don't hold Hamas' military arm and Palestinian militants to be blameless in this, and of course I don't condone their kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, young or otherwise. But it makes me *absolutely furious* that in one casual step, the Israeli goverment blithely undoes years of hard-won detente! ARGH!!)
This is why I don't talk politics. It's bad for my blood pressure and the eardrums of those standing nearby.
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Date: 2006-07-05 04:12 pm (UTC)*sticks head in it*
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Date: 2006-07-05 04:23 pm (UTC)I took it for read that you (and anyone else from Israel who has friended me) would know me well enough to know that I'm neither racist, nor anti-semitic, nor dumb enough to think that a government's actions reflects badly on its individual citizens.
For the record? I love you, and I'm sorry you're so close to all the shitty things that are happening. It's bound to affect you a helluva lot more than it'll affect me :( Keep your head in that hole, ya hear me?
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Date: 2006-07-05 08:01 pm (UTC)I feel exactly the way you do about the situation.
actually I feel worse because I feel personally responsible for this.
I want to yell "not in my name" whenever they do such things.
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Date: 2006-07-06 01:22 pm (UTC)It just makes me crazy-angry and bone-sad that this incredibly destructive relationship is still going on so many decades later.
Take care of yourself.