Re: War. War never changes. (Except when it does)
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:32 pm
NOW BACK TO THE GOOD PART
Hold on to your butts.
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Thad wrote:It's tempting, given recent and upcoming presidencies, to look back on Nixon as not so bad after all.
But he really, really was.
Mongrel wrote:She also explains why:
mharr wrote:Thad wrote:It's tempting, given recent and upcoming presidencies, to look back on Nixon as not so bad after all.
But he really, really was.
It's the comfortable hindsight of knowing that despite his best efforts, he didn't actually blow up the world. Whoever's pulling shit this month feels more dangerous because they still might.
As news of the violence spread, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres – who is slated to visit President Trump in Washington on Friday – said he is "particularly worried" about what he called "the high number of people killed," according to the AP.
David Confronting Goliath, circa 1000 BCE, colorized
With Monday's massacre, Israel has now killed more than 90 Palestinians in the past six weeks for approaching the fence it placed around Gaza, surpassing the total number of East Germans shot and killed for trying to scale the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989
“You have made history,” Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, said to U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday as the two leaders, flanked by a discomfiting alliance of far-right politicians, ultra-Orthodox rabbis and [American] evangelical preachers who have declared that Jews are doomed to burn in hell, officiated over the U.S. embassy’s move to the contested city of Jerusalem.
Grath wrote:Wow that dastardly Hamas, with their master plan to attack Israel by getting gunned down indiscriminately.
Mongrel wrote:The most frightening thing about this is that Bibi has actually been steadily alienating everyone in his desperate attempts to stay in power and avoid corruption charges.
Pence’s religious views matter here, because he holds an evangelical notion of Judaism, one that sees Jews as nothing more than instruments in an apocalyptic narrative that seeks the return of Christ. What at first appears to be a well-intentioned, if bungling, message turns out to have an insidious intent: to signal to his base that accommodating gestures made toward Jews are being made in the service of Christian aims.
Büge wrote:Mongrel wrote:The most frightening thing about this is that Bibi has actually been steadily alienating everyone in his desperate attempts to stay in power and avoid corruption charges.
I can't help but wonder how much US support is being derived from Mike Pence, whose religion views Jewish people as the stepping stone to bringing about the apocalypse.Pence’s religious views matter here, because he holds an evangelical notion of Judaism, one that sees Jews as nothing more than instruments in an apocalyptic narrative that seeks the return of Christ. What at first appears to be a well-intentioned, if bungling, message turns out to have an insidious intent: to signal to his base that accommodating gestures made toward Jews are being made in the service of Christian aims.
Mongrel wrote: