Unholy war in the holy lands. Jesus, Glenn! Why is it the fault-line for world-wide conflicts in general today, all seem to have their genesis in this never-ending disgrace? I sure hope PE Barack Hussein Obama can do some good here.

Can't add much on the 2,000yr history except to say Muhammad, The Seal of the Prophets, was mostly Jewish imo.

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I recall, I think it was Mut. Gandhi, who suggested the Jews and Palistinians exchange children for awhile as a way to quickly bridge barriers. I concur.

Allah is great.

Shalom,

bah.

~Aside; They all look the same to me, bop o! - Jews and Arabs. Good looking...but an adulterous peoples! (*and, technically, i will 'fuck' with them if I want to.)

Well, I'm glad to see you Maureen ... the pain of 'separation' was beginning to effect my spelling.

Although you're (not 'your') spelling still needs work, I must say the writing ... has improved somewhat: >"but he thought I was flighty and flashy, warning me about having men calling during the night. As you say in the US, LOL. I gave him a steely-eyed look, paid my rent and feel that he was just jealous because I was taller than him - and a lot better-looking, even though I say so myself."

wb,

bah.

My full split-screen name is "lord bahhummingbug snowden david, the III" ... but my friends call me bah., for short.

>"Jaysus, bahummingbug, or whatever you call yourself, I can see that you're jealous too!"

There was once '...a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his beloved, and wasted in the fire of remoteness. From the rule of love, his heart was empty of patience and his body weary of his spirit; he reckoned life without her a mockery, and time consumed him away.'

>"It's an awful trial but I'm used to it."

We must all struggle to understand ... so 'that the truth may be distinguished from aught else beside it.'

>"I'm listening to a "big band" sound now (could be Benny Goodman). When did you all go wrong? We used to love you once and hate the English but now it's the other way around."

Well, I'll still take Miles Davis or Dizzy over ColdPlay any day.

>"Spelling, is it? You've had too much of that Aaron Spelling and all that rubbish about "Di-nasty" that you foisted on us as we gaped and drooled about all dem Amurrican millionaires while we crunched on a bit of turnip. Oh, it's "Tuxedo Junction" now, is it?"

Speak american, please.

>"You gave us a bit of pleasure in life, after all."

Tis the least we could do.

bah.

>"Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world -- Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, the U.N. leadership -- opposes and condemns the attack, all to no avail."

The 'tyranny of the minor states' is one of the most often heard objections at the United Nations. Clearly, 51% of the nations can represent much less than 51% of the world's people.

In todays world, the 21st century, there is no greater threat to the collective security and well-being of humanity than war and the threat of war. Therefore, a fair and just process for resolving international disputes is imperative.

There seems nothing fair, or even reasonable to me, about [a] permanant absolute veto-empowered UN Security Council member(s) who can essentially block or undermine the collective will of the entire General Assembly/Executive of the UN unilaterally. In fact, it seems counter the very principles upon which the United Nations was founded. A 1958 document by Clark and Sohn entitled World Peace through World Law, with variation on the present UN charter, explores the idea of replacing the UN Security Council with an 'Executive Council that would have no veto power and would be subordinate to the General Assembly.'

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It occurs to me further, given the UN's (i.e. the worlds) role in the establishment of Israel (evidently at the expense of Palestinians), we -all- share some responsibility in a just solution, Glenn. After all, 'the world is just one big country, and mankind its citizens.'

bah.

~in the meantime, i offer some 'anger management' techniqes i have found helpful in the past ... @ sig.

you ambience chaser, leave Mrs. O alone. I done scared her half to death.

bah.

one must be able to [at least] invision Russia from the porch. Fortunately (for those not gifted with such 'visions'), modern technology, for the first time in human history, has enabled everyone - everywhere to actually see the entire planet as a whole.

like this: >"Correction.

"among the first in the world to farm". I've just come indoors from cold, crisp winter weather and, as I saw the sun setting, I thought of all those human beings squashed together in that strip of land, Gaza, and the grotesque show of power that Israel is enacting. Night has come earlier to Gaza than it has to New York or San Francisco. The European media is being kept out of Gaza and we don't have to wonder why." --maureen O.

You got to admit, mooser, maureen can hit-a-lick every once in while.

bah.

~*p.s. mooser. also, you are wrong about jewish princesses.