tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post6311351273869711254..comments2024-02-15T10:41:10.376-07:00Comments on Outta the Cornfield: Our Failed War Fronts Suck Worse Than A Hind TeatOne Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772881642197609507noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-62809570209757164742009-05-12T10:23:00.000-07:002009-05-12T10:23:00.000-07:00Dear One Fly --Outta the Cornfield Blogger
I coul...Dear One Fly --Outta the Cornfield Blogger<br /><br />I couldn't agree more with this post- <br /><br />This month many Israelis are celebrating the 61st anniversary of the creation of Israel. <br /><br />Yet, the 15th of May marks the 61st anniversary of what Palestinians observe as Nakba Day. <br /><br />Nakba is the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” which refers to the Palestinian people’s displacement and dispossession that began during the creation of Israel and continues to this day. <br /><br />To mark this important anniversary, I hope you’ll watch our recently produced two-minute video www.afsc.org/mideast dealing with the effects of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the continued Palestinian dispossession. View it at: www.afsc.org/mideast<br /><br />(After you’ve seen it, please take the time to tell your friends about it.)<br /><br />We believe that addressing what is happening today in the occupied territories – as well as acknowledging and understanding what happened in 1948 – are key to building a lasting and just peace in Israel and Palestine. <br /><br />We hope that our new video will illuminate some of the realities of occupation in the West Bank. <br /><br />We ask you to:<br />• Watch the video on our website:<br />o http://www.afsc.org/israel-palestine/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/76850<br />• Embed on your website/blog: <br />by right clicking on video. <br />• Use the link to send a letter to your representatives. Urge them to stop using our tax dollars to create barriers to peace in the Middle East<br />• Forward this message to your personal and professional networks<br /><br />Thank you for your help. By working together, we can help bring about a just and lasting peaceful solution in the Middle East that will indeed be cause for celebration. <br />Peace,<br /><br /><br />Nicholas Ellliott<br />Chicago AFSC Middle East Peacebuilding Intern<br />nelliott@afsc.orgnicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07163486573596980957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-16840966259280872452009-05-12T10:12:00.000-07:002009-05-12T10:12:00.000-07:00The essence of a shell game is to, by sleight of h...The essence of a shell game is to, by sleight of hand, remove the pea from the game entirely while the sucker concentrate on the shells. The 3 shells in our present game are 1 developing and nurturing democratic ideals in the Middle East 2 protecting interests in oil and natural gas vital to our nat'l goals 3 fighting Islamo-fascists and Al Queda, The pea, as evidenced by the former administration is really the arms sales around the globe generated by the shell game. Let's be honest here: the American public will suffer until the dirty truth about the war profiteering is finally exposed. We are a death machine culture pure and simple. Our economy would collapse without the deaths of innocents abroad. I fear that in our children's lifetime this death addiction will lead to its envitable and forseeable conclusion: the end of America due to the merciless retaliation of its rivals bent on eliminating our war DNA once and for always.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-25591494784488406862009-05-12T08:53:00.000-07:002009-05-12T08:53:00.000-07:00The only way I can see to end this insanity is to ...The only way I can see to end this insanity is to get the fuck out of both Iraq and Afghanistan. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. There's too many wealthy people and corporations making themselves more wealthy off the blood of Iraqis, Afghans, and our troops.Grandpa Eddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18125393059316349669noreply@blogger.com