Wednesday, January 7, 2009

How to win enemies and antagonize people

This obviously is the perfect opposite of the famous people-skills book titled “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. This is precisely what Israel is doing at the moment with its brutal bombing and invasion of Gaza. While our current government (Bush and Cheney) approves the massacre, it’s shocking to see the other governments pussy-footing around and not having the gumption to tell the Jewish State to stop. What is also sad is to see how the New York Times shuts off any form of readers’ comments when it comes to that issue. One McClatchy’s reader under the name of “Bergamo” said it best: ”It is time to ask oneself if Israel is still a civilized country. It treats its Arab minority (20% of the population) as second rate citizens. It prevents the media reporting from Gaza. It prevents the Red Cross entering Gaza. It denies it has caused a humanitarian catastrophe. It has failed to apply countless UN resolution -- despite owing its existence to the UN. It resorts to force anytime it perceives its interests to be threatened. Finally, many of its political leaders reject the idea of a modern, multicultural and multi-religious society, in favor of a pure, entirely Jewish community, something not even Iran is contemplating. I wonder, perhaps we should begin treating Israel like we treated South Africa. When will Americans wake up?”
As for me, I can only see a form of death-wish in what Israel is doing; this action will plant more desire of vengeance in every young Palestinian, will strengthen terrorism and can only bring to ourselves, the racist and coward Israel supporters, another 9/11…

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