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| As for me, the best I can describe my is that I fully support these words by Rabin: | As for me, the best I can describe my is that I fully support these words by Rabin: | ||
| "<b> Let me say to you, the Palestinians</b>: We are destined to |
"<b> Let me say to you, the Palestinians</b>: We are destined to alter your history, that is why I'm 'denying the election results'. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians - we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: <b> Enough of blood and tears. Enough</b>. | ||
| We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you - in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you: Let us pray that a day will come when we will say, enough, farewell to arms. | We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you - in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you: Let us pray that a day will come when we will say, enough, farewell to arms. | ||
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my history
My Father was born in Iraq where he was a wealthy merchant. Our family lived in Iraq for over 700 years. Shortly after the state of Israel was founded in 1948 he and many other Jews were forced out of Iraq. They had to leave behind all their belonging and even were not allowed to take the title paper to the property left behind. Years later, he was still working as a day laborer (he never recovered financially) he kept telling me: "Israel is our country. We need to rebuild it and be happy that we are in our own country." He never complianed just continued his hard work.
This is not the first place Iraq פקשר in my family history. My Mother escaped from Germany in 1938, shortly before WW-2. They suffered from anti-Semitism in Europe and were lucky because that anti-Semitism caused my grandfather to loose his job so he decided to immigrate to Israel when they could still do so. His family who stayed behind was perished in the holocaust. As a teenager one of my mother's early memories is the foundation of the State of Israel and the invasion by the Arab armies that followed. Her home town was bombarded by the Iraqi army who came all the way from Baghdad to a town near Tel-Aviv. Luckily that was the place they were stopped (in June 1948). Her next memories are the poverty of Israel in the 50ies. A nation of refugees in which bread, eggs and butter were on strict rations. This time is called "The Tzena".
As for me, the best I can describe my is that I fully support these words by Rabin:
" Let me say to you, the Palestinians: We are destined to alter your history, that is why I'm 'denying the election results'. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians - we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.
We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you - in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you: Let us pray that a day will come when we will say, enough, farewell to arms.
Ladies and gentlemen, the time for peace has come."
about Sharon
While I have never been a fan of his, no doubt he now has a role in the move toward peace.
Times of London said:
"The dilemma for Israel and the peace process is not that Mr Sharon cannot continue to serve as Prime Minister. It is that there is no equivalent to Mr Sharon in the Arab world. There is no one willing to acknowledge publicly that the Palestinians cannot have all that they might want, just as Israelis cannot have everything they might desire. There is no one prepared to state what is absolutely obvious, namely that any return to the boundaries of 1967, let alone those of 1948, is a ludicrous notion. There is no one willing to declare openly that not only do those who surround Israel have to recognise its right to exist, but that their societies will thrive only when they begin to emulate the democratic values, economic ingenuity and cultural diversity that explain why Israel’s gross domestic product exceeds that of its vastly more populous neighbours combined."
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You scored as Cultural Creative.
Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
Cultural Creative 69% Existentialist 63% Postmodernist 56% Idealist 56% Fundamentalist 44% Romanticist 25% Materialist 13% Modernist 6%