Day 300 { Frozen Roads 1 / Israel's Bombing of the Gaza} - Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Day 300 { Frozen Roads 1 / Israel's Bombing of the Gaza Area}
So all this while I have been driving, it was actually my very first time experiencing the very thick snow and the frozen solid roads. When they told me about ice on the roads I thought they meant like when the snow falls and then shortly after becomes chunks of ice... no no no... It's more like Niimi is a giant freezer and the roads are frozen...yes FROZEN solid, very thick ice along with snow. Everyone had to be driving slow and I was very very nervous... even when I was walking to my car this morning I almost slipped (no comments Richard) on the ice. So it's different when snow is on my car as against ice is on the car, as against snow and ice on the car.. Today luckily it was only snow, so it was somewhat easy to brush off... The ice thing is another story... But I bought a ice off spray thing in can now so hopefully it works, the next time my windshield is frozen.
In the night I went to English conversation at the college in my area and my friend did a presentation...I should be doing one next week about myself and Jamaica.
So changing the subject a bit....Israel is bombing the heck out of the Palestinians for about 19 days now...Claiming that they are defending their territory from the hamas militants... Well I can understand them defending themselves from a couple a stray rockets but I don't understand how they are pushing more and more in Palestinian territories and firing rockets at all and sundry, killing babies and helpless people but yet still searching for Hamas militants... Also the casualties in Israel are farrrrr less than that in the Palestinian territories. ..
So all this while I have been driving, it was actually my very first time experiencing the very thick snow and the frozen solid roads. When they told me about ice on the roads I thought they meant like when the snow falls and then shortly after becomes chunks of ice... no no no... It's more like Niimi is a giant freezer and the roads are frozen...yes FROZEN solid, very thick ice along with snow. Everyone had to be driving slow and I was very very nervous... even when I was walking to my car this morning I almost slipped (no comments Richard) on the ice. So it's different when snow is on my car as against ice is on the car, as against snow and ice on the car.. Today luckily it was only snow, so it was somewhat easy to brush off... The ice thing is another story... But I bought a ice off spray thing in can now so hopefully it works, the next time my windshield is frozen.
In the night I went to English conversation at the college in my area and my friend did a presentation...I should be doing one next week about myself and Jamaica.
So changing the subject a bit....Israel is bombing the heck out of the Palestinians for about 19 days now...Claiming that they are defending their territory from the hamas militants... Well I can understand them defending themselves from a couple a stray rockets but I don't understand how they are pushing more and more in Palestinian territories and firing rockets at all and sundry, killing babies and helpless people but yet still searching for Hamas militants... Also the casualties in Israel are farrrrr less than that in the Palestinian territories. ..
hmmmmm Hey and guess what...The Mighty U.S.A who are normally sticking their nose in these stuff don't seem to give a rats.... Many of the US senators are saying stuff like "Hey if your neighbour was firing rockets, wouldn't you want to defend yourself" .... There need to be some sort of balance to this thing... Its grossly unfair, as much as I know the Hamas guys aren't really saints and probably are not the best to negotiate with...There still need to be some balance...
So Hamas was created in 1987 and their name is an acronym which translated to English as Islamic Resistance Movement.. Ohh bwoy...another set of religious zealots who will go all out so as to reclaim Israel. Their sole aim is to re-occupy / occupy Israel, the Gaza strip and the West Bank and make it into an Islamic nation... BUT hear this, they said their conflict with Israel is not religious but political... I personally think it's both...
I actually have a friend who lives in the WestBank, and I chatted with her online up to Monday and she said her area is safe, then she added "at least for now"... I also remember sometime ago when Israel was throwing bombs into Lebanon and destroying buildings and people, maybe because a stray bullet or 2 went over there from Lebanon or something of the sort.
Going back in history, I still don't get the REASONING!!! behind how the present day Israeli's even got to Israel in the first place. There was no Israel before 1948... And there was none for over 2000 years...Actually since the Israelites were exiled in 586 BC....They have never returned fully ... yes 586 BC they were conquered by Babylon and several other nations came in to capture and own that area afterward, including:
Persia
Greece
Rome
Ottoman
France
England
Maybe all the world powers that ever were, had a chance to rule that area... But why were the recent inhabitants (before the present Israel's took over) chased out????? Why did the league of nations do that??? Any way,
So yes I know the Jews had a rough life coming up it seem but my Lord man, they can have a little mercy on the other guys in the region that the USA (that almost inevitably sways the minds of most of the other nations in the world ) dont seem to care about. In concluding this thesis :) I think that Israel is firing all their bombs now because they don't know if the new USA administration will support their little bombing party...
What do you think??
So Hamas was created in 1987 and their name is an acronym which translated to English as Islamic Resistance Movement.. Ohh bwoy...another set of religious zealots who will go all out so as to reclaim Israel. Their sole aim is to re-occupy / occupy Israel, the Gaza strip and the West Bank and make it into an Islamic nation... BUT hear this, they said their conflict with Israel is not religious but political... I personally think it's both...
I actually have a friend who lives in the WestBank, and I chatted with her online up to Monday and she said her area is safe, then she added "at least for now"... I also remember sometime ago when Israel was throwing bombs into Lebanon and destroying buildings and people, maybe because a stray bullet or 2 went over there from Lebanon or something of the sort.
Going back in history, I still don't get the REASONING!!! behind how the present day Israeli's even got to Israel in the first place. There was no Israel before 1948... And there was none for over 2000 years...Actually since the Israelites were exiled in 586 BC....They have never returned fully ... yes 586 BC they were conquered by Babylon and several other nations came in to capture and own that area afterward, including:
Persia
Greece
Rome
Ottoman
France
England
Maybe all the world powers that ever were, had a chance to rule that area... But why were the recent inhabitants (before the present Israel's took over) chased out????? Why did the league of nations do that??? Any way,
So yes I know the Jews had a rough life coming up it seem but my Lord man, they can have a little mercy on the other guys in the region that the USA (that almost inevitably sways the minds of most of the other nations in the world ) dont seem to care about. In concluding this thesis :) I think that Israel is firing all their bombs now because they don't know if the new USA administration will support their little bombing party...
What do you think??
Comments
There was nobody in Gaza strip/Israel before israel, nobody wanted to... t'was dry and barren... The jews bought up the area from the owners(who lived elsewhere) and populated it. Surprisingly, the Jews were able to make the land prosper. The Arabs got jealous etc. 1948 was the year the world voted to allow them to be an official nation. Arab nations intolerant of 'Jewish' state and the story goes on.
re state of land look at
http://chuckfogland.blogspot.com/2005/02/what-exactly-was-in-israel-before-1948.html
re where 'Palestinians' came from
http://chuckfogland.blogspot.com/2005/02/jews-did-not-take-arab-lands.html
no comment on the rest although I have a differing opinion.