re: #177 Charles Johnson

Mind if I disagree with everyone?

Sharon may sound like a unequivocal, irredeemable monster to most of you, but you do not live here. And you have not gone through 20 years of Oslo nonsense resulting in many of your countrymen’s death. And you have not lived with parades of suicide bombers, the endless breakage of the ‘peace process’ and the infinite lies of promises of cooperation spoken in English and promises of death spoken in Arabic. And you do not live surrounded by countries who for every year of your existence have tried to erase you.

I was born in New York in 1950 - I’m a ‘sixties child, a song-writer, in fact. Anti-war, Anti-aggression, can’t we all be friends, aren’t we are all the same no matter where we live… I have lived in Israel since 1982. It took me a very long time to find words or concepts even just in thought to describe (most of) the people who surround Israel. I didn’t want to believe such people existed. I feel forbidden from speaking those words here I but let me simply say this: there exist people who are beyond your ken (unless you’ve been a US soldier in the middle east). They do not want the same things as you.

There’s a saying in Hebrew: Things that can be seen from here, can’t be seen from there. A little humility, folks.