Discussion for article #230282
Some things never change, it would seem.
The impetus for this song was TV footage from the war of hate circa early 1980’s.
So, killing one another over the same GOD, ain’t belief grand.
It is however, not a substitute for understanding.
Soldier’s Blessing © 2010 Rainbowind BMI
Chorus
“If they could rise to speak again
Tellin’ what’s said upon meetin’ the maker
One GOD is all that’s ever been
Beyond the flag
An’ the coffin it’s drapin’
Given one more breath to use
Would it be to kill
Or share the message
Each soldiers blessed”
Not to put too fine a point on it but, as noted, it seems some things never change: http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/18/sharon-and-hamas/
"…Hamas is considered one of Israel’s greatest threats, but the Islamic terrorist organization found its beginnings in the misguided Israeli effort to encourage the rise of a religious alternative that would undermine the popularity of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Yasir Arafat.
The strategy resulted in the birth of Hamas which rose from these Islamic roots. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a member of the government when the policy was developed in the late 1970s. Although Sharon and his Likud (formerly Herut Party) government colleagues could not anticipate that the Islamic leaders they backed would eventually evolve into Hamas and suicide bombings, the two have benefited from each others extremism over the years.
The Likud strategy to promote an Islamic alternative evolved in response to Arafat’s transformation from a revolutionary leader to the “sole legitimate representative” of the Palestinian people. Arafat was anointed as the only person who could negotiate for the return of the Occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab East Jerusalem at the Rabat Arab Summit in October 1974…"
This quote and reaction is from the first story on this, which has vanished down the news queue.
Soon after the attack, clashes broke out outside the Abu Jamals’ home where dozens of police had gathered to carry out arrests in connection with the attack. Residents hurled stones at police who responded using riot dispersal weapons.
Huh? The attackers were killed by police. Why are police going to arrest other people before there has been time for an investigation?
Did we arrest the families of the Boston Marathon Bombers? Are the parents and siblings of the Pennsylvania Survivalist Sniper in jail? Did we demolish the home of Timothy McVeigh’s folks?
Continuous provocation by Likudniks against occupied people is inevitably going to result in violence. The Likudniks know this, and welcome it with hypocritical expressions of shock and grief, and use it as an excuse for more oppression.
The current Israeli leadership is getting just what it wants and expects–death of innocent Israeli [On Edit: in this case, Americans and British] citizens at the hands of ghettoized Palestinians pushed past the breaking point.
The only time we ‘thought’ we faced any similar problem is when we interned the Japanese Americans.
Dual passport rabbi’s or right of return freeloaders?
Remind us, how many thousands of Palestinians in the last Mwere slaughtered in the most recent 'Mowing the Grass ’ zionist war? Violence begets violence, bibi!
Interesting truth on the ground:
http://972mag.com/welcome-to-netanyahus-resolution-to-the-conflict/98940/
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