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Monday, November 20, 2006
The Deciders
It's quite a dilemma when we have to figure out how to kill ONLY the people we want to kill and not others. Drew posted a link on his comment to my last post, but it didn't all show up, so I thought I would put it here.
From the article:
"In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields."
Yesterday, when we were shopping, my friend asked me what I thought about the soldiers who are being charged with rape and murder in Iraq. I told her that I couldn't figure out the difference between what they did and all of the other murders that we are doing there. I can't figure out why it is okay to kill some people, but not others. I can't figure out why we think that we are capable of making the decision about who is to live and who is to die.
So I applaud the people who are risking their lives to make human shields around the homes of targeted people in Gaza.
"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" -Robert F Kennedy, born on this day (I stole this from My Left Wing, with apologies, but I just couldn't help myself)
And I say, supposed that God is Muslim or Palestinian or Jewish or American or Iraqi or, or, or...
We are all sacred. Some of us don't know how to play well with others, but we just need time-out for that.
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From the article:
"In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields."
Yesterday, when we were shopping, my friend asked me what I thought about the soldiers who are being charged with rape and murder in Iraq. I told her that I couldn't figure out the difference between what they did and all of the other murders that we are doing there. I can't figure out why it is okay to kill some people, but not others. I can't figure out why we think that we are capable of making the decision about who is to live and who is to die.
So I applaud the people who are risking their lives to make human shields around the homes of targeted people in Gaza.
"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" -Robert F Kennedy, born on this day (I stole this from My Left Wing, with apologies, but I just couldn't help myself)
And I say, supposed that God is Muslim or Palestinian or Jewish or American or Iraqi or, or, or...
We are all sacred. Some of us don't know how to play well with others, but we just need time-out for that.
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posted by Carol at 9:04 AM
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