Day: September 28, 2006

Current Events

Lebensraum

YNet News reports: Peres: Settlement construction can’t be prevented

London —“ Vice Premier Shimon Peres voiced Thursday his support for a continuation of the construction projects in the West Bank settlements.

Israel cannot be punished twice, the vice premier said…

The settlers’ children cannot be stopped from building their homes, Peres added, saying that this issue is one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s major problems, a problem that preoccupied former Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak and Menachem Begin in the past.

I guess he is referring to Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah —“ or Lebensraum.

We can’t stop; we won’t stop, regardless of agreements or consequences.

The voices of senseless politicians bent on destruction.

Current Events, Perspective

The blame laying begins

A man standing on a street
fingers in his ears
eyes tightly closed
his mouth shut.

His clothes are covered
with the blood of comrades
the enemy
and innocent civilians.

He opens his mouth:

No civil war —
we are safer.
Get a hose
and wash me down.

The NY Times reports: Military Officials Add to U.S. Criticism of Iraq’s Government

The first step in the withdrawal has begun —“ the laying of blame.

Sure, we invaded, set up a puppet government no one respects, stoked the fire a little with our own incompetence and sin and now its all their fault.

The saddest line of all from a senior American military official:

—I can tell you in every single ministry how they are using that ministry to fill the coffers of the political parties,— the official said. —They are doing that because that is exactly what Saddam Hussein did.—

We got rid of Saddam and got a thousand Saddams. Faustian!