tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246769522007-04-10T03:25:55.391-07:00Anti-war Military Momantiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1146328912369246602006-04-29T09:29:00.000-07:002006-04-29T09:41:52.390-07:00Tel Aviv and Tali Fahima's court hearing(more from Israel, December 2005)
So what is Tel Aviv like today (2005) in comparison to 1976-77?
Bigger.
Much bigger … and, seemingly, much more affluent.
And, the people living there, are, if possible, even more direct, plainspoken, and forceful in word and deed than I remember.
Almost 30 years ago I believe I experienced Tel Aviv as a “fun place” and bus, taxi and sherute rides were antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1146328184175755812006-04-29T09:21:00.000-07:002006-04-29T09:29:44.190-07:00Through Damascus Gate and into the Old City of Jerusalem (sharing journal entries from trip to Israel/Palestine in December, 2005.)
Israel has grown enormously in the past three decades. Gone are the days when villages, towns and settlements punctuated large swathes of countryside. Now the opposite is true: urban areas punctuate small strips of countryside between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem/Yerushalim/Al Quds. (I’ll use the Anglicized city name “antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1144945920092414522006-04-13T09:29:00.000-07:002006-04-13T09:32:01.476-07:00The uber-wardens by Amira HassRead Amira Hass on Israeli view of Palestinian family life: The uber-wardensantiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1144823387423577732006-04-11T23:29:00.000-07:002006-04-11T23:29:47.436-07:00The Palestinian Counseling Center in Beit Hanina(Post from a journal entry of December 2005 in Jerusalem)
The Palestinian Counseling Center is located in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem. I didn’t have a map of the area but I had a cell phone and the goodwill of the female passengers on the bus.
PCC Counselor Siham Rashid advised me to look for The Garden of Eden. Since I’d forgotten whether she’d said it was an actual garden, an archeological antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1144602220655476492006-04-09T10:00:00.000-07:002006-04-09T10:03:40.960-07:00The Art of Warring over the Anti-War MovementLast week Scott Ritter opined that there is …a growing despondency…an increasing awareness that the …anti-war movement… is on the verge of complete collapse. America [is] a nation …engaged in waging and planning wars of aggression [and] … increasingly identifies itself through its military and the wars it fights…. the American people seem to be addicted to war and violence…. (Read the article.)
antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1144436825960561582006-04-07T12:01:00.000-07:002006-04-09T10:12:03.253-07:00Neither a Democrat nor a Republican...Neither a Democrat nor a Republican, I find this document to be a good read and a way to quickly catch up for anyone who hasn't been following the details of the last few years.
Read it and weep:
“America for Sale: The Costs of Republican Corruption: (pdf)antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1144435552999861822006-04-07T10:36:00.000-07:002006-04-09T10:15:56.310-07:00"Give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves" takes on new meaning...."An article excerpting sections of the AP-Ipsos numbers appeared on MSNBC today. Take a look
A few thoughts:
The Republican majority is slowly tying the requisite 13 knots for the noose in the rope that will hang them in the next election.
Even I, deeply cynical about that river of egotism, self-serving self-interest, money-grasping, and sheer audacity that flows through the heart of the antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1144020127960085342006-04-02T16:21:00.000-07:002006-04-09T10:16:20.090-07:00Smedley Butler on Interventionism-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1143694472990854542006-03-29T20:38:00.001-08:002006-04-09T10:17:25.450-07:00A few choice quotes to ponder for this week"When you look at the lead-up to the war in Iraq, I blame President Bush, I blame Congress, I blame the media," said Scott Ritter, a former Marine, former United Nations chief weapons inspector for Iraq and contributor to the book "Neo-Conned Again!," a compilation of condemnations of the Iraq War. "But I'm not cutting any slack for the American people."
Americans, he said, have grown accustomed antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1143400702798683742006-03-26T10:56:00.000-08:002006-04-09T10:17:59.113-07:00A Family in Occupied PalestineIn support of the principles of this blog, today we learn about Mumria’s family and home in Occupied Palestine.
First picture shows their home today. This is what remains of a thriving family business whose income derived from fecund greenhouses and coops for about 40,000 chickens. The tarred road in the foreground replaced the greenhouses and is used several times daily by the Israeli Defense antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24676952.post-1143228977252071442006-03-24T11:17:00.000-08:002006-04-09T10:20:15.363-07:00An Iraqi mother comforts her child in a pediatric oncology ward in Baghdad. Her child suffered from a cancer previously unseen in children. Iraq is currently too chaotic for meaningful research to be carried out on why and how this child -- and many, many others - suffered from such a cancer.
When I spoke to them, Iraqi doctors were careful to state that they were not speaking from the point of view of having any real data BUT, in their opinions, research, when conducted, should take into account the huge amounts of toxic waste antiwar_militarymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536121125427361730noreply@blogger.com