Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label Palestinian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palestinian. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

Oh, no!

More violence. I'm getting a bit cynical, though.

Rocket fire from Lebanon sparks Israel retaliation

The next news reports will be of various commentators chastising Israel for their violence. Somehow, the Palestinian extremists never seem to get the blame. That's kind of like blaming the U.S. for their violence against Japan after Pearl Harbour...


Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Is this real?

Or is it propaganda?


An Israeli soldier writes to a family of Gaza

"A soldier of the Israeli Defense Forces writes to the family in whose home he took shelter during the conflict in Gaza."
Whichever it is, there is much truth in it. If the politicians and zealots were truly interested in peace and creating a country for their people, this wouldn't be happening. I can only pray for them all...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

They do this quite a bit


'Concentration camp' remark threatens Pope's visit to Israel

I wonder if they just don't think about these things, or just don't care. The Pope himself has enough experience in a high profile position to know what he should and shouldn't say, and one would think any of the Church bigwigs speaking in public about them would too. Or perhaps they're just speaking truth to politicians and diplomats who don't take these things too well. Whichever, 'Concentration Camp' has come to mean just one thing in our culture, and that's 'death camp'. One shouldn't use it to mean anything else anymore, especially when talking to Israelis and Jewish people...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A difficult struggle


The Jews Face a Double Standard: Why doesn't Israel have the same right to self-defense as other nations?

"Many people ask why there are so few Israeli casualties in comparison with the Palestinian death toll. It's because Israel's first priority is the safety of its citizens, which is why there are shelters and warning systems in Israeli towns. If Hamas can dig tunnels, it can certainly build shelters. Instead, it prefers to use women and children as human shields while its leaders rush into hiding."
There's truth to this. Any group that would encourage their children to strap bombs to themselves but do everything they could to protect themselves from harm will stop at nothing to appear the underdog in the struggle...

Monday, January 12, 2009

Jimmy Carter writes


on an unnecessary war...


An Unnecessary War

The insane people of this insane world

have incredibly short memories...

Who Are The Real Nazis?

The whole of the Arab world was unable to drive the Jewish people out of Israel after World War II, and they really, really tried. Now they'll use the Palesinian people (who want nothing less than the Jewish people to be driven into the sea themselves) to do their dirty work for them.

(Make sure you read the comment by Neo-Nazi Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt, Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri,to open your eyes to what hatred looks like - or is it satire? It's so exreme it's hard to tell...)