Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

And yet it is a great story up from slavery and all that fallen into sin wandering the earth struggling flourishing and being beaten back but never giving up. Like Victor Frankl in the death camps trying to overcome the despair. Talking about the meaning of Life. No one else has this story, and yet everyone else has this story.

In the whole history of the world more people died of natural causes than ever died in war. Israel is not the problem. The Palestinians are not the problem. Fear hate greed things like that are the problem.

Walking the line between some kind of "civilized" warfare and some kind of "terrorist" warfare is not a place I want to walk. Too many people get killed. We don't need to blame people we need to help people. We need to accept the reality of the here and now and forget the justifications and the excuses of the past.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/international/middleeast/29NABL.html
Some days, one can even find fresh squid and sardines in the casbah. Merchants are coping with the Israeli closure partly by relying on the Samaritans, Nablus's tiny community of Jews who trace their continuous presence here back thousands of years. As Israelis, the Samaritans cross checkpoints, and as familiar, Arabic-speaking locals, they continue to do business in Nablus, though some merchants grumble about their fees.

Or something like that
Ergo Sum