The Goldstone Report, written by UN lawyer, Richard Goldstone. He was commisioned, by the UN, to look at war crimes during the 2008 conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
As someone who knew some people who fought in the 2008 conflict on the Israel side, I have a bit of bias (plus I am a jew), but I am finding it harder and harder to justify Israel's actions.
After the Goldstone report was published, essentially saying that both Hamas and Israel took part in war crimes, Goldstone life was threatened by several extremist jews. Beyond that, many people threatened to riot outside of his grandson's Bar Mitzvah. Having put alot of work into my bar mitzvah, I will say that that is a very rude thing to do (you have to learn a whole ne language and alphabet for one day). The rioters have no right to take away from the boy's day.
Now, a settlement ahas been reasched and Goldman will be going to the Bar Mitzvah, but I still have a problem with Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister (see tomorrw's post for that). I guess I am OK with this issue
Oh dear...
Favorite Post Q4
My favorite post from quarter three is my post entitled "Gross
National Happiness."
I think that this post did a successful job of combining succinct descriptions of unknown terms with links to more elaborate descriptions. I also think that I did a good job of mixing my own theories with those of the hosts of "Stuff You Should Know."
National Happiness."
I think that this post did a successful job of combining succinct descriptions of unknown terms with links to more elaborate descriptions. I also think that I did a good job of mixing my own theories with those of the hosts of "Stuff You Should Know."
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The Decline Of American Culture: A series
I will be publishing a series of Articles with "(DOAC #)" in the title. This will denote that the post is part of my series titled "Decline of American Culture." The number will be which in the series it is.
You may ask why I decided to do this. Well, my horoscope said that I'm supposed to be pessimistic of society, so here it goes, just look for (DOAC #) and you get a rant about everything wrong with us. Enjoy!
You may ask why I decided to do this. Well, my horoscope said that I'm supposed to be pessimistic of society, so here it goes, just look for (DOAC #) and you get a rant about everything wrong with us. Enjoy!
The Iraqi American Preamble
Mr. Bolos liked it, so here is my American Preamble in the Iraqi format:
In the name of Jesus Christ, our lord and savior.
We have honored the sons of Adam.
We are the people of the first real democracy of the world; the new homeland of freedom, civilization and liberty. We have taken this wretched and foreboding land and made it inhabitable. We have conducted ourselves under the rules of the righteous priests and saints. Upon our land, men seked a new free land, here it was found.
Acknowledging god’s right over us, and in fulfillment of the call of our new homeland and citizens, and in response to the call of our religious and national leaderships and the determination of our great Christian authorities, in the midst of support from our friends, The French, men, young and old, free from tyranny, marched for the first time to the ballot box, invoking the pains of our fight for freedom, against our tyrant overlords, we battled for the right to vote and now the cruel king must live without our servitude.
Accusations of being rebellious anarchists did not stop us from marching forward to build a nation of law. We march together to strengthen our national unity and to adopt a just cause of redistribution of resources and equal opportunities for all.
We the people of the United States of America, who have just risen from our stumble, and who are looking into the future through a republican, federal, democratic system with confidence, have resolved with the determination of our people to respect the following laws, to cast aside the politics of aggression, and to tend to the concerns of the common farmer, especially after the recent events of Massachusetts.
We the people of the United States of America of all components have taken upon ourselves to decide freely and with our choice to unite under a stronger national government, take messages from yesterday and tomorrow, to draft, through the values and ideals of the heavenly messages of our lord Jesus Christ, this lasting constitution. The adherence to this constitution preserves for the USA, its states and provinces, and its God-Fearing man, land, liberty and sovereignty.
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