While reading this post I kept thinking of a recent documented incident that took place in India of a jaguar that was chasing down a dog, only to find itself locked in a bathroom with its potential prey. They spent the night in separate corners. Who can say why the jaguar didn't attack the dog then. I suspect there are moments in the animal world, too, when a trapped body recognizes itself in another.
yes, this piece deserves its own post. "the knot of us" comes through so clearly, it made me examine how i hold those conflicting impulses too. especially now. mostly i'm just so damn sad. still appreciate you sharing, along with those other links.
while 100 humans still languish in tunnels, more than an year after the most viscous slaughter of Jewsnfor being Jews, there is still so little horror and rage about that and we let the false narrative that this is about land rights continue… asking people to hold room in their heart that these are not monsters? babies burned alive, women raped till their pelvises broke? these are the hard things to think about and yet here’s another piece damning Israel.
Yet another emotional (i.e., not rational) response to a complex situation. Dropping millions of racist Europeans in an Asian country based on a book written thousands of years ago was never going to be a straightforward operation. They stole thousands (or millions) of hectares of someone else's country and expect to be called victims, because some relative was murdered by other Europeans. History didn't stop because some people were forced off their land by Romans. Calling land rights a false narrative is very telling.
Calling Hebrews indigenous to the area is interesting. Got any proof...other than your own words? I'm not accepting Hebrew scriptures for that purpose, because they are rather self-serving. Genetic testing is outlawed in Israel. I wonder why?
"Yet another emotional (i.e., not rational) response to a complex situation" -- Yep
"Dropping millions of racist Europeans in an Asian country based on a book written thousands of years ago was never going to be a straightforward operation" -- This is supposed to be rational? You two deserve each other!
The tragedy of war is that most of the people involved are not monsters.
I know. I know.
While reading this post I kept thinking of a recent documented incident that took place in India of a jaguar that was chasing down a dog, only to find itself locked in a bathroom with its potential prey. They spent the night in separate corners. Who can say why the jaguar didn't attack the dog then. I suspect there are moments in the animal world, too, when a trapped body recognizes itself in another.
https://gurunanaksewadal.com/a-tale-of-unlikely-companionship-when-a-leopard-and-a-dog-shared-an-unusual-encounter/
yes, this piece deserves its own post. "the knot of us" comes through so clearly, it made me examine how i hold those conflicting impulses too. especially now. mostly i'm just so damn sad. still appreciate you sharing, along with those other links.
Thank you Mary
Thank you for this.
Thanks, Mary.
I can’t tell you how much I needed this.
while 100 humans still languish in tunnels, more than an year after the most viscous slaughter of Jewsnfor being Jews, there is still so little horror and rage about that and we let the false narrative that this is about land rights continue… asking people to hold room in their heart that these are not monsters? babies burned alive, women raped till their pelvises broke? these are the hard things to think about and yet here’s another piece damning Israel.
Yet another emotional (i.e., not rational) response to a complex situation. Dropping millions of racist Europeans in an Asian country based on a book written thousands of years ago was never going to be a straightforward operation. They stole thousands (or millions) of hectares of someone else's country and expect to be called victims, because some relative was murdered by other Europeans. History didn't stop because some people were forced off their land by Romans. Calling land rights a false narrative is very telling.
don’t know where to start with this… hebrews are indigenous to this land
arabs were given many opportunities for sharing the land and they’ve rejected every one and their dogma calls for genocide
and calling jewish refugees from WW2 racist europeans is a new low
Calling Hebrews indigenous to the area is interesting. Got any proof...other than your own words? I'm not accepting Hebrew scriptures for that purpose, because they are rather self-serving. Genetic testing is outlawed in Israel. I wonder why?
That is a complete falsehood.
How so?
"Yet another emotional (i.e., not rational) response to a complex situation" -- Yep
"Dropping millions of racist Europeans in an Asian country based on a book written thousands of years ago was never going to be a straightforward operation" -- This is supposed to be rational? You two deserve each other!
I’ve just re read this piece and the comments. It’s too bad