Good morning, ya bastahds!
Sep. 24th, 2001 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaSo, apparently newspapers are holding off releasing the results of the collected recount. Gee, we're fighting for democracy? I feel a little like I'm in Syria, with father/son inheritance (only interrupted by the Great Satan interloper, Clinton).
Oh, and not everyone on the left is on the "blame Israel" kick.
The Guardian's Blaming the Victims
Joe Conason's Right, Left and Just Wrong
Greg Palast's Two Symbols of American Economic Hegemony
Honorable mention to not-lefty New Republic for leaking out that if bin Laden financed and trained these guys, it wasn't because of Israel/Palestine: Fault Lines.
My views on Israel/Palestine? While doing a lot of reading on Judaism, I've come to a lot of views about it, from Satmar "not until the Messiah comes" to "the Messiah will come when those dang Arabs leave" to what Michael Lerner gets hate mail for. It comes down to who won what piece of land when, be it the Six Day War, 1948, the British dividing up countries in the region, early yishuvim in Ottoman lands (something I always hear lefties and righties forgetting), to the Crusades to the battles between the Hebrews and the seven nations of Canaan.
Out of the groups--Maronite and Roman Catholic Christian, Muslim, Jewish--which of them originally own it and have full right to it? Answer: none. Before all of these, it was the people who worshiped the Canaanite pantheon, who are portrayed often as utter bastards by Hebrew chronicellers. What archeology and recorded history say, I am not sure.
In my more cynical moments, in lieu of the two-state model, I wonder if it is more fair to find worshipers of the Canaanite pantheon (probably mostly North Americans who weren't raised polytheist, but we could luck out and find pockets of them hiding in the Sahara) and have them resettle Israel/Palestine? Of course, that would mean the Muslims would have to leave Iraq (you know, Babylonia) to the worshipers of the Babylonian pantheon, Iran to the Zoastarians, certain African nations to the animists and tribal polytheists and India to the Hindus. To make it fair, so must the Christians. However, it might also mean a state run by New Agers, and who wants that fresh terror?
Of course, another solution could be seeing this as an opportunity to share land rather than fight over who God likes better, but then, how will certain mullahs and rabbis get on the news, huh?
Oh okay, back to fluffy events. Sunday, I went to the North End for good pizza and good tiramisu, then to my voice lesson. I think I will do so again, then go to the MFA after I call places I sent my resume and write more cover letters.
Oh, and not everyone on the left is on the "blame Israel" kick.
The Guardian's Blaming the Victims
Joe Conason's Right, Left and Just Wrong
Greg Palast's Two Symbols of American Economic Hegemony
Honorable mention to not-lefty New Republic for leaking out that if bin Laden financed and trained these guys, it wasn't because of Israel/Palestine: Fault Lines.
My views on Israel/Palestine? While doing a lot of reading on Judaism, I've come to a lot of views about it, from Satmar "not until the Messiah comes" to "the Messiah will come when those dang Arabs leave" to what Michael Lerner gets hate mail for. It comes down to who won what piece of land when, be it the Six Day War, 1948, the British dividing up countries in the region, early yishuvim in Ottoman lands (something I always hear lefties and righties forgetting), to the Crusades to the battles between the Hebrews and the seven nations of Canaan.
Out of the groups--Maronite and Roman Catholic Christian, Muslim, Jewish--which of them originally own it and have full right to it? Answer: none. Before all of these, it was the people who worshiped the Canaanite pantheon, who are portrayed often as utter bastards by Hebrew chronicellers. What archeology and recorded history say, I am not sure.
In my more cynical moments, in lieu of the two-state model, I wonder if it is more fair to find worshipers of the Canaanite pantheon (probably mostly North Americans who weren't raised polytheist, but we could luck out and find pockets of them hiding in the Sahara) and have them resettle Israel/Palestine? Of course, that would mean the Muslims would have to leave Iraq (you know, Babylonia) to the worshipers of the Babylonian pantheon, Iran to the Zoastarians, certain African nations to the animists and tribal polytheists and India to the Hindus. To make it fair, so must the Christians. However, it might also mean a state run by New Agers, and who wants that fresh terror?
Of course, another solution could be seeing this as an opportunity to share land rather than fight over who God likes better, but then, how will certain mullahs and rabbis get on the news, huh?
Oh okay, back to fluffy events. Sunday, I went to the North End for good pizza and good tiramisu, then to my voice lesson. I think I will do so again, then go to the MFA after I call places I sent my resume and write more cover letters.
