i'm an opinionated mama
i like to loudly proclaim my thoughts on just about anything
and if i don't know what the hell i'm talking about then i shut up
until i do
When i was 27 someone started talking to me about gertrude stein and i had to admit that i had no idea who she was although i'd heard the name bantered about
after i asked around i discovered that as a gay woman
and a writer i shoulda been so ashamed to not know who the high priestess of expatriate dyke-dom was that i should have covered myself in tar, rolled into a vat of recycled tampons and pushed myself out into a women's music festival for all to laugh at.
instead i decided to toss my "street-kid made good" tag and went back to college to get my BA in writing in modern literature
i am proud to tell you...i now know fully...who gertrude stein was and quite honestly i can't stand her..athough i adore alice b. toklas (well she was a killer cook)..
so here i am again
i have no idea how to make peace between the palestinians and the israelis
and no notions to even suggest...i know only that suicide bombers, like the bastard who just tore apart 2 months of piece by blowing up a bus filled with high-school kids....need to burn in hell for thousand lifetimes..and then be re-born as a woman in a taliban ruled country
i've tried to read everything i find on understanding israel
and no matter what i come up against
i still see the same things
israel has been defending itself
not offending......defending (note the difference)
since day one
asking for peace
since day one
bending over backwards
for peace
since day one
and israel has not done
what the jews in nazi germany did
what the jews in hungary did
what the jews in poland did
it has not become annihilated
and for this atrocity
for its refusal to be over-taken
and further more
for it's fierce and powerful self-defense
and for it's impossible victory against the surrounding arab nations
israel has seeked the slow...steady..building rath of those arab nations
of moslem fundamentalists who will do nothing to improve the lives of palestinians they themselves cast out, they themselves have refused right of return
because they want these people largely of jordan and other arab nations to be martyrs
they do not care for the well being of these people except as a powerful tool
to help in the annihilation of the jews of israel
this much i do know
as much as i do know that moslem fundamentalist leaders preach in the mosques
for the murder of jews
and for the murder of americans who assist israel
so i will keep reading
and i will keep learning
and i will keep attempting to find the answers
to this terrible endless exchange of death
but in my heart
in the end
i know i will come to this
in every generation
rises up .. a group of people who hate jews
this is the year 2,003...how absurd to think in this modern educated world
that anti-semitism would again rise it's ugly head
didn't the murder of 6 million jews teach anything
i've often wondered what the world would have been like
if the nazis had never been permitted to rise to power
if america had gotten into the war sooner
if the allied nations had never allowed hitler to be
how many countless millions of babies would have been born from those 6 million jews
who would they be now?
i was not yet born when this happened
but as a child i promised myself that if the winds of anti-semitism ever wafted through the air again...and something deep inside myself sensed that this kind of hatred was brewing again
i would not sit still
i went to spain
and in the old section of barcelona
i saw a giant swashtika
painted on a wall
it was left alone
the police did not come
and i walked by days later
and it was still there
no one thought to paint it over
to cover it up
they just left it
as if to say
"still"
i don't have the answers
but i do have the questions
why is it that when israel is attacked
only a few are outraged?
but when it defends itself
the world condemns it?
why is it that arab nations
condemn america for its aid to israel
when these same nations have done nothing to help the Palestinians?
why is it that the first bomb saddam hussein will most likely send
will be towards Israel?
that israelis now carry gas masks everywhere they go?
why is it that no one seems to remember that in the war
that pushed the group of people yet to be named palestinians out of israel
israel was fighting for its very existence?
why is it that everyone has forgotten that barak
was ready to give almost everything in the name of peace
and arafat walked away from the table?
and ordered more terror
why is it that the jews are always wrong
and never right
no matter what they do
i'm sick of this
i wasn't born the last time this kind of crap filled the air like floating cancer
but i'm here now
and i refuse to ignore what is so painfully obvious
i know enough to call it like i see it
I know enough to know that there is only one thing that would truly appease
The terrorist Moslem fundamentalists…..it’s called genocide….
