gnome eeee. here goes my long rant.um_that_girlOctober 10 2004, 06:54:42 UTC
ok for one, i miss you like crazy. you're just so awesome!
anyway... i kind of flipped out when i read your post because it makes me soooo angry that everyone in israel has to do mililtary service. i mean maybe i just don't get it but i feel like how can the military be more important than ppl living their lives... and at such a young age. it makes me angry... why sacrifice youth for a sense of security.
and then again i was like wow. noami have you ever noticed how different we are??? i'm sitting here trying to process that you're in israel learning about zionism. my family is like palestinian. my grandmother's house was taken over by the israeli army. think about it. is that not crazy. but i still love you to death. doesn't that say something. but then i'm thinking about it and my grandma has become, since then, like insanely racist. like she likes specific jewish ppl but generally doesn't like jews which doesn't make sense but she "makes exceptions" for the jews she knows. and i'm like wtf. like i can see where it comes from but it's not the religion's fault she lost her home! she won't even be nice to her daughter's husband cause he's jewish. and then i think about it and i think i have no idea what zionism is but i know my parents are completely against it. and i totally think israel should be a state (because i think that's what zionism means) but then again i think palestine should be a state and i feel like can't they get along. but obviously my first sympathies lie with the palestinians. but then there's this book... i forgot its' name but it's like the story of how the conflict has hurt both sides and i'm like who cares who's right and who's wrong will somebody make them all get along. make it all better?
anyway... i kind of flipped out when i read your post because it makes me soooo angry that everyone in israel has to do mililtary service. i mean maybe i just don't get it but i feel like how can the military be more important than ppl living their lives... and at such a young age. it makes me angry... why sacrifice youth for a sense of security.
and then again i was like wow. noami have you ever noticed how different we are??? i'm sitting here trying to process that you're in israel learning about zionism. my family is like palestinian. my grandmother's house was taken over by the israeli army. think about it. is that not crazy. but i still love you to death. doesn't that say something. but then i'm thinking about it and my grandma has become, since then, like insanely racist. like she likes specific jewish ppl but generally doesn't like jews which doesn't make sense but she "makes exceptions" for the jews she knows. and i'm like wtf. like i can see where it comes from but it's not the religion's fault she lost her home! she won't even be nice to her daughter's husband cause he's jewish. and then i think about it and i think i have no idea what zionism is but i know my parents are completely against it. and i totally think israel should be a state (because i think that's what zionism means) but then again i think palestine should be a state and i feel like can't they get along. but obviously my first sympathies lie with the palestinians. but then there's this book... i forgot its' name but it's like the story of how the conflict has hurt both sides and i'm like who cares who's right and who's wrong will somebody make them all get along. make it all better?
ok enough for now. basicallly i miss you to bits
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