Time To Piss People Off
The situation with Israel and Hamas in Gaza right now is a travesty. Neither side is in the right - both are committing condemnable acts of cruelty and destruction. Hamas fires rockets into Israel, terrifying citizens and destroying property. Israel retaliates by launching an air offensive that not only terrifies citizens and destroys property but so far has killed 375 people. Yes, the majority of those people are supposedly Hamas militants but reports are that at least 60 of them are civilians. And yes I know that Hamas uses the people in Gaza as human shields. The only innocents in this conflict are the civilians - the ones who just want to go to work and take care of their kids and have enough to eat and a roof over their heads. The ones who want a normal life where they don't have to be afraid of air strikes or suicide bombers when they walk to the market or take the bus.
I don't have the answers for the Israeli/Palestinian problem. It is obvious that even if you were to get both sides to sit down and talk , instead of bombing the shit out of each other, they wouldn't be able to come up with a solution that works for both. Why? Because both sides would have to compromise and neither side is willing to give anything up. So instead they bicker and pick at each other like kids on the playground. Until the bigger one gets pissed off that is and turns into a bully.
Watching and reading the news coverage just makes me want to scream at them to grow up! Didn't their mothers ever teach them that violence never solves anything? Sure, it feels great to lash out and take a swing at someone when they hurt you (sorry sissy!). But in the end not only is the problem still there but now there's another one because the person you hit is upset/injured/dead. Which pisses off his friends. Who want revenge. Violence begets violence. All it does is escalate things. Meanwhile innocents die.
Israel and Hamas? Grow up!
Its time to sit down and talk. Find those things you have in common and be willing to let go of old grudges and hatred. Be willing to compromise! Until you do the blood of all those innocents is on both your hands.
I don't have the answers for the Israeli/Palestinian problem. It is obvious that even if you were to get both sides to sit down and talk , instead of bombing the shit out of each other, they wouldn't be able to come up with a solution that works for both. Why? Because both sides would have to compromise and neither side is willing to give anything up. So instead they bicker and pick at each other like kids on the playground. Until the bigger one gets pissed off that is and turns into a bully.
Watching and reading the news coverage just makes me want to scream at them to grow up! Didn't their mothers ever teach them that violence never solves anything? Sure, it feels great to lash out and take a swing at someone when they hurt you (sorry sissy!). But in the end not only is the problem still there but now there's another one because the person you hit is upset/injured/dead. Which pisses off his friends. Who want revenge. Violence begets violence. All it does is escalate things. Meanwhile innocents die.
Israel and Hamas? Grow up!
Its time to sit down and talk. Find those things you have in common and be willing to let go of old grudges and hatred. Be willing to compromise! Until you do the blood of all those innocents is on both your hands.