Comments | wurlitzerprized: a preposterously brief idiot's guide to some, but not all, of the middle east

wurlitzerprized

a preposterously brief idiot's guide to some, but not all, of the middle east

Jul 17, 2006 22:36

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Israel
Israel The State of Israel (Hebrew - Medinat Yisra'el; Arabic: Dawlat Isra'el) is a country in Western Asia on the southeastern edge of the ( Read more... )

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dabroots July 18 2006, 04:22:51 UTC

Thanks! You have much more patience than I, who wanted to the do the same but couldn't get beyond linking to a single entry for my own post.

wurlitzerprized July 18 2006, 04:57:38 UTC

glad you like it.

i know a lot, but not nearly as much as i should, and i think most people in the states just don't know shit when it comes to the middle east.

i recently joined some communities, and it's been an education. both in what i don't know, what i do know that other people don't, and how many angry, angry, angry misinformed people there are out there.

if you're gonna rant - rant with at least some knowledge, you know?
(ps - most people on these forums are great, but then you get the angry non-jewish zionist, the disenfranchised mate-of-a-person-of-arabic-descent, a smattering of young anarchists who are like, 12, etc. but again - most people know their stuff and it's intersting lesson in...human psychology as played out on the world stage?...to see how much one's experiences shape their politics from a very early age, and how one person's fact is another person's fiction. i'm a hopeless idealist).

dabroots July 18 2006, 12:24:13 UTC

The current situation between Israel and Lebanon is so complicated and odd that major news purveyors really don't try to explain anything, but instead simply spew out names of groups and factions that are meaningless to nearly everyone outside of those countries.

nshgrl July 18 2006, 05:47:22 UTC

thank you a zillion times for this..

i had an interesting discussion friday night with a very liberal ex-army man who now works for rand [think tank here in LA] who had some very amazing ideas about what's going on. I was happy to be enlightened, yet scared about the future of our world.