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(2,860 posts)
Thu Oct 12, 2023, 08:58 PM Oct 2023

This just about sums it up id say RANT

this is 2023.

One of my earliest memories of television is seeing Yassar Arifat and some things going down in Israel on CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite.

Here i am 3 years old in 1976, and can remember that 21" inch console Zenith showing me people hurting other people in a land far away.

Throughout the years it kept going on and on and on.

Im 50 fucking years old, and honestly whats changed? Atrocities committed in the name of some damn belief. Kids and babies blown up, hostages taken, bloodshed all in the name of two conflicting stories of an entity who owns a patch of damn desert. Powerful nations exploited this notion for gain.

This shit never ends. It's probably going to do us all in.......

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This just about sums it up id say RANT (Original Post) gay texan Oct 2023 OP
The never ending game of "I got you last" dflprincess Oct 2023 #1
it all just makes me sick Skittles Oct 2023 #2
Thank you... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #3
And it is referred to as the Holy Land. spike jones Oct 2023 #4
Yep. So ironic!..."The Holy Land" Duppers Oct 2023 #8
Nina Paley! progressoid Oct 2023 #5
Pretty much. czarjak Oct 2023 #6
Truth HAB911 Oct 2023 #7
their beliefs control them..should be the other way around samnsara Nov 2023 #9
My sister who converted to Judaism Farmer-Rick Nov 2023 #10
This Recounted Tale Reminds Me Of Lyle Lovett's Song "Here I Am" MayReasonRule Nov 2023 #11
I happen to have a copy of an old front page Mr.Bill Nov 2023 #12
Woah gay texan Nov 2023 #13

Skittles

(159,240 posts)
2. it all just makes me sick
Thu Oct 12, 2023, 09:08 PM
Oct 2023

it's like they hate each other more than they love their own kids, disgusting

Duppers

(28,246 posts)
8. Yep. So ironic!..."The Holy Land"
Sun Oct 15, 2023, 04:22 AM
Oct 2023

Some decades ago, my hyper-religious mother traveled throughout the area and came back disappointed because of her unrealistic expectations that the buildings would look similar to but more ancient than, Roman cathedrals.
Dumb? Yes, she was, but as I said, she was religious.


progressoid

(50,743 posts)
5. Nina Paley!
Thu Oct 12, 2023, 09:37 PM
Oct 2023

I remember first seeing this here in the Atheists and Agnostics forum.

Thanks for bringing her back into my brain. She's done some great stuff.

Farmer-Rick

(11,399 posts)
10. My sister who converted to Judaism
Sun Nov 5, 2023, 08:31 AM
Nov 2023

Went to visit Israel. Before she went, it was all about how wonderful it would be. How she was going to move there when they retired.

When she came back, she was rather subdued and little by little it came out why. "It was just a desert" she said. She was dismayed it had many over crowded cities and dirty looking areas. I guess she expected everything to be lush and green with many beautiful gleaming cities.

She then stopped talking about moving there and has bought a farm in PA to retire to.

MayReasonRule

(1,801 posts)
11. This Recounted Tale Reminds Me Of Lyle Lovett's Song "Here I Am"
Wed Nov 8, 2023, 05:15 PM
Nov 2023


Look
I understand too little too late
I realize there are things you say and do
You can never take back
But what would you be if you didn't even try
You have to try
So after a lot of thought
I'd like to reconsider
Please
If it's not too late
Make it a cheeseburger


So glad it worked out well for her!

Mr.Bill

(24,790 posts)
12. I happen to have a copy of an old front page
Thu Nov 9, 2023, 06:43 PM
Nov 2023

from the Washington Post. The headline reads:

UN Backs Arab Peace Plan 80-0.
Hope for New Era of Peace in Middle East.

It's from 1958.

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