i find myself yo-yoed in my reactions to what i see and hear. i understand there are just—more than just: elemental—grievances and concerns on both sides (or multiple sides: it's not just israel/arab states, or muslim/jewish, or arab christian/arab muslim, or sunni/shia/druze... . the permutations are seemingly endless and important.
there is more than enough hatred and racism to go around, and i hate the ripple effect it has.
To grossly oversimplify...I think that, given Lebanon's very recent endeavours to maintain peace while a democrat pluralism takes root, Israel's reaction to Hezbollah it disproportionate.
No one, however, is absolved of responsibility on any side.
lebanon, alas, is the inner city householder with a crack-dealing, crystal-meth-addicted youngest child who cannot see that, despite the neatened yard and doilies in the front room, the neighborhood is on fire and the youngest child has a gun to its head and isn't concerned about bringing it all down just for a fix.
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Date: 2006-07-22 05:03 am (UTC)i find myself yo-yoed in my reactions to what i see and hear. i understand there are just—more than just: elemental—grievances and concerns on both sides (or multiple sides: it's not just israel/arab states, or muslim/jewish, or arab christian/arab muslim, or sunni/shia/druze... . the permutations are seemingly endless and important.
there is more than enough hatred and racism to go around, and i hate the ripple effect it has.
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Date: 2006-07-22 08:15 am (UTC)No one, however, is absolved of responsibility on any side.
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Date: 2006-07-22 10:30 am (UTC)