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October 24, 2006
4 A.M. Relaxation And Thoughts On Israel
So I'm just sort of kicking back at 0400 hours, playing with my new Firefox download -- I haven't yet(after what, 10 months?) figured out how to adjust my blog clock to the east coast, so the time of this post will appear as a zillion hours or so earlier.
I have my MusicMatch library running some Bangles through my great Logitech speakers, stuff like September Gurls and my all time favorite song by that awesome group, Return Post.
I'm thinking about the present situation in Israel -- the Hamas rejects and Fatah squaring off to blow each other away, both sides arming up. Okay, so this isn't as unusual among Arab Muslims as it might be among normal, 21st Century human beings -- we discuss, they destroy. Western diplomacy consists mostly of a bunch of over-educated assholes sitting around a table engaged in two-faced, multisyllabic dialogue, but at least they usually come to some sort of agreement that preserves the peace. Arabic diplomacy is just a bit different: It usually means a lot of explosions and hot lead flying in many directions, and lots of people "expiring". The diplomats that most effectively get their points across are those that kill the most diplomats on the opposite side of whatever disagreement happens to be on the table are considered the best diplomats, even though they, personally, don't have to wax anybody.
The flotsam that lives to butcher innocent women and children are the true warriors of Islam.
The very idea that the Bush Administration wants these people to have a sovereign state is beyond me, but GWB is the President, so I suppose he must know what he's doing. Excuse me, I have to go to the head....
I think I'll let a great blog I recently discovered and blogrolled called Morning Coffee give us an update.
Meanwhile, the combatively challenged Prime Minister Olmert has agreed to bring a "hardliner" onto his team in order to avoid a slide into ruin for his own ill conceived Kadima party, one Avigdor Lieberman, and thank G-d for him, and his Israel Beiteinu Party. Lieberman's own point of view as to how to get things done is fractionally different than the politically correct Ehud Olmert's, maybe a mere 180 degrees, at most. Not too much. Did I say "thank G-d for him"?
My own model scenario would be for Fatah and Hamas to kill each other off in the civil war that seems to be brewing between the two corrupt terrorist factions that are the sum total of the so-called "Palestinian" entity, leaving a few necessarily reasonable Arabs who might be willing to assimillate themselves into the Israeli population and allow the Jewish State to get on with living in peace and prosperity, but that's probably too much to hope for....
Posted by Seth at October 24, 2006 11:59 PM
Comments
Well, I see you were finally able to get back in here, courtesy the Firefox browser. Good! :)
This cracked me up: "Western diplomacy consists mostly of a bunch of over-educated assholes sitting around a table engaged in two-faced, multisyllabic dialogue, but at least they usually come to some sort of agreement that preserves the peace." ROTFALMAO! That's about the size of it, Seth!
Blessings.
Posted by: Gayle at October 25, 2006 05:14 AM
Gayle --
If I was a diplomat, my career would last exactly long enough for me to get out my first two or three official sentences, then all hell would break loose.
The degree of political correctness of which I am capable would have even Trinidad-Tobago declaring war on us within the hour...
Posted by: Seth at October 25, 2006 05:33 AM
Seth,
If you kick back at 0400 hours and play with Firefox, listen to music and ponder the mideast,
your Circadian rythm is very rare!
Posted by: BB-Idaho at October 25, 2006 05:48 PM
BB --
I work freelance, not for anybody else -- as such, I set my own work hours. All my clients care about is results, I am not required to work on anybody else's schedule.
As such, I do most of my work overnight, when there are no telephone calls and all is still. I do a lot of my blogging during work breaks I give myself.
My cycle of consciousness, therefore, is often the direct reverse of those who have others to answer to. :-)
Posted by: Seth at October 25, 2006 05:56 PM
www.christianzionismexposed.comPepsi or Coke. Repubs and Demos are both mostly Zionists.
Let's see: 3,000 or so dead 'christian' American soldiers; 600,000 or so dead Iraqis, mostly Muslim.
Looks like your 'brand' of Judeo-Christianity oxymorons are 'winning' if anyone is keeping score. It appears obvious who is dangerous.
Jesus: "Why do you call me Lord, Lord and not do the things I say?...."Love your enemies".
Israel is not the Israel of the Bible. That Israel disappeared when its idol worshipping covenant breakers were taken to Assyria. Judah disappeared as an Israelite country when those idol worsipped covenant breakers were taken to Babylon.
The United States is not a Christian nation; never was.
Zionism is not Judaism.
Christianity is not Judeo-Christianity.
The scoreboard of dead human beings says the danger does not lie with Islam.
Posted by: scholar at October 25, 2006 05:57 PM
www.challengingchistianzionism.org
This is another excellent website showing the differences between Judaism, Christianity and 'judeo-christianity.'
America has been kidnapped by Zionists.
Posted by: scholar at October 25, 2006 06:00 PM
http://www.christianzionism.org/default.asp
This is another excellent website showing the differences between Judaism, Christianity and 'judeo-christianity.'
America has been kidnapped by Zionists.
Posted by: scholar at October 25, 2006 06:01 PM
Scholar --
I am seriously puzzled by your comment. Are you by chance wearing a green ensemle covered with black question marks?
Can you restructure and clarify just a smidgeon, omitting the cryptic bit?
I would greatly appreciate it, especially since the URL you included doesn't seem to lead anyplace....
Posted by: Seth at October 25, 2006 06:07 PM
Scholar --
Oh, OK, so, from your second, corrected URL --
We are a group of evangelical pastors, academics and mission executives who have been disturbed by the growing influence of Christian Zionism on the political scene in America recognizing this ideology to be a major factor in the stalled peace process in Israel / Palestine.
Now I'm even more confused.
What is a Christian Zionist?
Secondly, how would you propose dealing with rabid animals who believe in sacrificing their own lives in order to murder innocent people, and who belong to a religion whose agenda is to force submission to their deity on everybody else -- conversion, death or dhimmitude?
You opened the ball, as they say. Please continue.
Posted by: Seth at October 25, 2006 06:17 PM
Seth, looks like you got sprayed by the internet subspecies of the "rare striped-tailed fox" (aka "skunk").
Posted by: civil truth at October 28, 2006 09:31 AM
Civil Truth --
I do believe you're right. :-)
Posted by: Seth at October 28, 2006 09:41 AM
