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July 22, 2006
WB: Birth Pangs
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More + Israeli children writing messages on shells.
http://www.correntewire.com/snowflakes_from_faraway_lands
Posted by: Britguy | Jul 22 2006 19:14 utc | 1
Horrific. But then, so is this so-called War on Terror.
Too bad Billmon didn’t show the expression on the soldier’s face. That may have told a whole story all by itself, one way or another.
Posted by: Sharoney | Jul 22 2006 20:20 utc | 2
“Too bad Billmon didn’t show the expression on the soldier’s face. ”
what makes you think billmon cropped the face? do you have a link to the source jpg?
Posted by: bianco | Jul 22 2006 20:48 utc | 3
My vision for world peace: I’m not trying to be bitterly ironic or naive, I’m serious.
We should all make falafel for our neighbor and eat falafel together. Everybody likes falafel. (Or baba or chicken shwarma or whatever….)
Nobody likes headless babies.
This seems to me more moral than anything the leaders of monotheistic religions are peddling these days.
Posted by: Bill Brock – Chicago | Jul 22 2006 20:55 utc | 4
@ Britguy – These pictures need to be posted on billboards all across this benighted country.
Posted by: beq | Jul 22 2006 21:18 utc | 5
Hey. Source for the pic please!! Where does it come from?
Posted by: qtbslm | Jul 22 2006 22:25 utc | 6
From Hell.
A lightning bolt should have struck her the minute she made that obscene remark. The fact that it did not happen signifies that there is indeed no justice in the world.
Posted by: hopping madbunny | Jul 22 2006 22:49 utc | 7
I couldn’t let the whole page load from beq’s #8 above.
It’s one thing to feel weak and insignificant in the face of an election awarded to the wrong candidate. It’s something else entirely, the feeling of weakness and insignificance in the face of those pictures.
Maybe it’s because I have a 3-year-old daughter who’s going to be on a plane to NY next week; or maybe it’s a bad stomach; or maybe it’s shame; or maybe it’s a moral failing – a wish, following close behind the wish that none of it were really happening, a wish that I didn’t have to know: that my life would be better, that I could smile more easily, that I could enjoy a simple Saturday night dinner with my wife and daughter if only I didn’t read so much, if only I stopped following the news, if only I allowed myself not to know, if only…
What’s the good in vacillating between rage and hopelessness? It feels like wanting to fight a tornado with my fists. I can not remember a deeper feeling of despair.
Posted by: mats | Jul 23 2006 0:30 utc | 10
Billmon sums it all up here plain as can be. Tears are in my eyes… I never thought Americans could support such evil as I am now seeing.
Note:
I am having trouble bringing up Billmon’s site. Is anyone else having trouble?
Posted by: Rick Happ | Jul 23 2006 2:07 utc | 11
Billmon not coming up for me either. Hopefully short term.
Posted by: citizen | Jul 23 2006 2:09 utc | 12
Condi and former cohort Colin are well-trained whores for SNIC.
“So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the times.
One fire drives out another, One nail, one nail,
Rights by other rights falter, Strengths by other strengths fail.”
Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”
http://www.bizsum.com/trial/022005/pdf/WhoMovedMyCheese_BIZ.pdf
Posted by: tante aime | Jul 23 2006 3:31 utc | 13
Bush slams Syria, Iran over Hezbollah
I guess any day now he’ll be slamming Reagan over creating and supplying AQ, right?
“I believe sovereign nations have the right to defend their people from terrorist attack, and to take the necessary action to prevent those attacks,” Bush said,
“It’s just that I don’t believe that Lebanon has the requisite sovereignty for its citizens to defend each other from secret agent kidnappings and an Israeli Guernica-on-Beirut. And you know it’d be war if the Lebanese military had the cojones to fight back.”
heh heh. I said cojones…”
Posted by: citizen | Jul 23 2006 4:29 utc | 14
From James Wolcott quoting Robert Fisk
“And the Israelis did come back some hours later and bombed the barracks of these soldiers, which were members of a logistics unit. Their job was to repair bridges and electrical lines. They weren’t combat soldiers. And they killed ten Lebanese soldiers, including the three young men who had protected me the previous day. This was outrageous, because the Israelis know what each individual Lebanese army unit is doing. They know if it’s a combat unit, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, whatever.
“And they picked on this sole barracks to destroy those men, to exterminate them, because, of course, their job was to keep Beirut alive, to keep the power systems running, to repair the bridges which were being destroyed –
Collective Punishment
Posted by: citizen | Jul 23 2006 5:10 utc | 15
@mats
I have been there many times my friend, it comes in cycles, it always leaves, however at the time it feels like eternity. You learn to watch your breathing. Seriously, watch how you breath when under duress. The ride is not over, learn to take breaks, learn to disconnect. Take care of yourself so that you may take care of those you love. Smile with your loved ones. Show them you love them.
I was talking with friends tonight about this very thing, it is part of the propagenda to overload us, in the hopes of having us forfeit. They want our complete surrender, and they know compliance is not surrender. For myself, I know that when they talk about fear and wanting the insurgents to fear them and they want nothing short of complete compliance, I get the message, and the message is when they talk about the enemy over there they are also talking about the enemy over here, you and I. For I am convinced that we are the enemies in their minds here, everybit as much as the Iraqi resistence is over there. They want our total surrender. This war is both foreign and domestic, and they have an array of shadowy fears to encourage us to surrender our freedoms.
“However critical the situation and circumstances in which you find yourself, despair of nothing; it is on the occasions in which everything is to be feared that it is necessary to fear nothing; it is when one is surrounded by all the dangers that it is not necessary to dread any; it is when one is without resources that it is necessary to count on all of them; it is when one is surprised that it is necessary to surprise the enemy himself.”
~Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 23 2006 11:48 utc | 16
Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:There is a world elsewhere. (3.3.132)
Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”
@tante aime, I for one enjoy your provocative if elusive, (to some), always ironic and humorous, thought-provoking, (to me anyway) posts. They are like word art to me. please contribute more often, be it under loose shanks, or whom ever.
Question, is this the SNIC you are referring to?
Oh, and thanks for da cheese…
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 23 2006 14:05 utc | 17
Electronic Intifada has started the project Electronic Lebanon . The diaries are powerful.
In the meanwhile, Robert Dreyfuss writes that Iraq is dying :
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What is unfolding in Iraq is a staggering tragedy. An entire nation is dying, right in front of us. And the worst part of it is: It may be too late to do anything to stop it.
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What’s shocking—especially if you’ve been paying more attention to the destruction of Lebanon by the Israeli armed forces and missed it—is that things in Iraq has gotten qualitatively worse in July. In June, Iraqis died at the rate of nearly 1,000 per week. In July, we can only speculate—but it’s not impossible that the toll is at least twice that, 2,000 per week. The word genocide comes to mind.
Posted by: Alamet | Jul 23 2006 15:42 utc | 18
Lebanese bloggers that caught my eye:
Anecdotes from a Banana Republic ***
Arch memory
Perpetual Refugee
Cold Desert
Global voices – round up with links
Posted by: Noirette | Jul 23 2006 16:49 utc | 20
from Alamet’s links
Edward Said to his daughter Najla,
— Naj … Life in general is pretty awful, but in particular may be made OK, and that’s what I want for you and I’m sure it’ll work out. Je suis confiant/ j’ai confiance. Love, as ever, Daddy
… life in particular… remembering to breath…
Posted by: citizen | Jul 23 2006 17:01 utc | 21
noirette
thank you for the links
informing one another, breathe, informing one another, breathe, informing one another, breathe
which incidentally, ariel sharon, father of lebhanese massacres notably sabra & chatilla but also those of egyptians in the fifties & sixties – is sd to be deteriorating. he is/was a monster. he ought not be mourned by civilised people
Posted by: r’giap | Jul 23 2006 17:35 utc | 22
Human Fragility by Salvator Rosa, not the picture of his I wanted to post, but I can’t find the other one, so it’ll have to do.
It is a dark picture, but darkness is where we are. We are all fragile.
Posted by: Dismal Science | Jul 24 2006 10:13 utc | 25