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Name: spotlight_SUICIDE
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Interests: have you ever stood before an audience in the white hot spotlight, watched by hundreds of eyes as you either fumble through your bit and sail through your lines and as your legs turn to pasta while your brain turns to mush and all your eyes can see is that white hot spotlight? how about knowing you knowingly walked up those steps and onto that stage, knowing a part of you will die there in that light so another, more vibrant part of you can live? thats spotlight suicide.
Expertise: nothing, really.
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AIM:  LadySuri
Member Since:
6/6/2005
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| From Gideon Levy to Barack Obama, from Yariv Oppenheimer to Ismail Haniyeh, from Zahava Gal-On to Tzipi Livni - they all recite the same phrase: It's time to put an end to the "occupation." Once the "occupation" ends, peace will be sealed. Once the Jews are expelled from the heart of their country, redemption will come to Zion. From here emerges "the solution" - two states within the tiny piece of prized property that remains, the western Land of Israel, not the Greater Land of Israel.
We would do well to recall that the PLO - the (all of!) Palestine Liberation Organization - was founded in 1964 before there was an "occupation," "the West Bank," "territories," and the other political terms that were designed to disinherit the Jewish people from the heart of their country, those swaths of land that were occupied - without quotation marks - by the Jordanian army in 1948, an occupation that lasted just 19 years. The PLO's goal was not to liberate the territories from Jordan, because those lands were in Arab hands. Rather, it aimed to liberate the "occupied" territories from the State of Israel, which lay within "the Green Line."
We would do well to recall that the PLO never changed its spots. It failed to do so when it signed for "peace" with the naive Yitzhak Rabin, who was lured into the trap sprung for him by the Osloites. And it failed to do so when it allegedly abrogated its charter. Even the recent Fatah conference and the statements by the "moderate" Holocaust denier, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, can attest to this. The goal was and remains to this day: the liberation of the "occupied" territories from Israel, namely the State of Israel within the confines of the Green Line.
On the other hand, when the Osloites let Yasser Arafat and his gang of henchmen come into the heart of the country with his army of terrorists, they brought with them their own army of occupation. As things went, thanks to the shock after the Rabin assassination, the Osloites quickly handed the cities of Judea and Samaria over to the occupier, an error that the slain prime minister apparently did not intend to commit. This is how liberated territories became occupied territories, without quotation marks. In Operation Defensive Shield, the Israel Defense Forces was compelled to pay a steep price in blood to liberate the heart of the country from Arab occupation.
Most of the Arabs in the Land of Israel immigrated here after our waves of aliyah. In other words, Zionism and the prosperity it engendered spawned "the Palestinian people." Since the Arab occupation of the Land of Israel in the seventh century, and throughout the centuries of Muslim occupation, not one of the occupiers viewed this land as anything more than a distant imperial outpost.
The demand to grant a state to Arab immigrants to this country and their army, which is stationed here thanks to the blindness of certain Jews and the nations of the world, is without foundation. It is tantamount to legitimizing a reality that was created here after the criminal act that allowed an occupying army to enter this country.
The critics' responses are predictable: What do you propose, that the Arabs just evaporate into thin air? In contrast with the critics who espouse a racist transfer of Jews from Judea and Samaria, I reject any forcible transfer of any population group. Perhaps there is no solution to the problem. There is certainly no solution at this point. But this is no reason to commit suicide or sacrifice the Zionist vision on the altar of "peace."
I do not want a binational state. If there is a solution, it cannot be found within the confines of just the western Land of Israel. In the long term, the solution will be a regional one that combines democracy, demography and geography. The Arabs of the Land of Israel will continue to live in their present homes and will hold Jordanian and Egyptian (for Gazans) citizenship, voting for their respective parliaments. In the long term, citizens of Jordan who comprise an overwhelming majority in eastern Transjordan will gain power in Amman. It is there that a solution will be found for their brothers who live west of the Jordan River.
But in the meantime, we must end the occupation. The Arab occupation in the Land of Israel. | | |
| אלוקים להגן על החיילים ועל אנשים חפים מפשע בעזה | | |
| So I have this friend who is really starting to irritate me. She's really liberal, and is okay with you if you are gay but not if you're religious, but somehow she is still tolerant of all people. (Except she thinks religious people are wrong and stupid for what they believe. When I was having the Pesach issue with my roommate I couldn't tell her about it because as soon as she got wind of it--not what it was, just that it had something to do with religion, she turned up her nose.) She also carries incredible stereotypes of people. If a person exists outside of her realm of what she expects a person to be, it's wrong. For instance, there is no such thing as a Middle Eastern blonde and Jews cannot exist as more than a religion. If I try to argue these things she takes it practically all the way back to cavemen in lineage (but when I mention then we're all black, she does not respond.) Anyways, she said that she's not a racist or anything, but she thinks UIS lowered their standards when it came to diversifying because of a paper she had read by this girl who was black and is not a very good writer. She then gave another black person as an example of an idiot, and I brought up the point that she had never read any of his work and he could be very bright academically, and she wouldn't know. She said that she can tell in the way he presents himself. Huh? It just really bugs me that she thinks of herself as worldly and liberal and open-minded when she is one of the most stubborn and close minded people I know. You're fine with her if you're a good writer, articulate, straight or gay, but anything else you MUST conform to her stereotypes of you or you're an anomaly. A person who must have immigrated, or are just downright stupid.
I am so frustrated right now, and I really need to get to sleep.
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| There has been a ton of drama going on in the 1 South/Leadership for Life wing here at the university, so much that I can't fit it in before my melatonin kicks in.
Tomorrow after Biochemistry of the Environment I go to meet with my Resident Director to fight for my right not to have chometz in the room during Pesach.
Basically, when I told my roomie about our traditions she wasn't comfortable with it and instead of talking to me, ran to her mother who blew up at the thought of some Jew infringing on the rights of her daughter to disrespect my religious tradition in her own room on something that is only a minor inconvenience to her--her mother evidently called my r.a. who I found knocking on my door one night as I came back from visiting my friend Anna. He basically told me that she pays for the space too so I can't really ask her to temporarily relocate the food to her friend's room to that one week for the one meal in the room she eats a day. No, it is not fair to her at all. He said that maybe they could rent me another room for the week, which of course is totally fair to me, having to pay to rent a room for an extra week so my roommate won't be inconvenienced.
After all, it's only my religion.
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| יְהִי
רָצוֹן מִלְפָנֶיךָ ה' אֱ-לֹהֵינוּ וֵא-לֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ, שֶתּוֹלִיכֵנוּ
לְשָלוֹם וְתַצְעִידֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם. וְתִסְמְכֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם.
וְתַדְרִיכֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם. וְתַגִיעֵנוּ לִמְחוֹז חֶפְצֵנוּ לְחַיִּים
וּלְשִמְחָה וּלְשָלוֹם
This is fittingly posted as I find myself in a situation possibly dangerous to my health. My suitemate and I are driving back to UIS today, and she is a girl with an intense case of road rage. What do I mean by intense? If she finds someone in front of her going under the speed limit, the exact speed limit, or faster than the limit but slower than her, she yells at them...this is a girl who takes expressway ramps at 50mph (where 15 is the posted limit) because "it feels like a roller coaster that way." Also, we're driving into a blizzard.
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