Last week one of my Facebook friends posted an article by Al-Jazeera on Israel’s attempt to turn Jordan into the Palestinian homeland.
I was reading the article while sipping my coffee and enjoying labors of free speech when suddenly I was thrown back to Jack Ass Land when someone left an insanely ignorant and mis-guided message on my friend’s Facebook link about the Palestinians.
So, I responded with what an equally immature and crass comment, which I later deleted upon realizing my churlishness (thank you “Delete” button).
Over the years I’ve been able to systematically shut down most human emotion. However, I’ve been unsuccessful in two areas: HBO’s The Wire (I still cry when I think about how they did D’Angelo) and Israel/Palestine.
And this is why… from Tablet:
A newly revealed tape of Netanyahu in 2001, being interviewed while he thinks the cameras are off, shows him in a radically different light. In it, Netanyahu dismisses American foreign policy as easy to maneuver, boasts of having derailed the Oslo accords with political trickery, and suggests that the only way to deal with the Palestinians is to “beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable”
I’m not a fan of Netanyahu. I want peace, I think Obama wants peace… but I do not think Netanyahu wants peace. I don’t trust him. And now I’m feeling human emotion!
I’m going to go watch The Wire and cry for a moment.
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