Lips people very much do care about what is happening in Syria,and elsewhere for that matter.......I would like to point out that I have many Jewish friends but what they and I have found so awful is......that as right of passage,their children go to Israel, these well adjusted late teens early 20's go to Israel for a couple of months........they/most come back indoctrinated and filled with hatred for Palestinians(although they never had social intercourse with them)...the ORGANIZERS of these TRIPS are filled with hate and are totally Corrupting.Yet as I remind them,Australia has very strong racial vilification laws(where people have been imprisioned) to protect minorities such as themselves,yet here you are spewing on about the Palestinians as 1. You would not like to be spoken of yourself,.2.It is a criminal offence in Australia to speak in such a way!!!!!! thankfully you can reason with almost all.This type of vilification is minute in Ausland,rightly so.
Lips I think you know wel,l many things of what I say as I think you live in Israel.
I could never agree with you in your summation of Mr Rabin,he and Mr Peres were and are the greatest of the politicians since the inception of Israel......no matter how you try to isolate the odd sentences of Mr Rabin........they both make Nety and Begin look like the Assholes they were and are.......but that is my opinion.
In fact I would say these two men were statesmen,not politicians.
I am pro Palestine and pro Israel and my hope for the future both communities can live in peaceful co-existance.........in many ways THEY are joined at the hip.
I have clearly stated on this forum,that the Palestinians have nothing to thank any Arab neibour(sic) for,they all like the status quo because they use this conflict to keep themselves in power at the detriment of Israel and Palestine........If only there could be a settlement...all the Shitheads like Iran etc., would disappear........Lips.....Shalom .......and keep well. and thanks for explaining the hebrew. steve
Well, for my view of the Rabin case, I don't recall the words of him and his doings personally, the man was murdered when I was less then 6 years old, but I did learn from the way people talk and the way I've learned on his leadership and opinions. I know he wanted giving the Golan to Assad, I knew he didn't believe that Israel will be anytime under rockets attack from Gaza, He believed, innocently enough, in the peace process.
Believing in good, but right now, there is no peace. And there ARE rockets and the leader in which Rabin wanted to give the Golan is making Hitler proud.
So in field, we see the vision of Rabin, collapsing. And not just because he was killed.
To your second point. You say that teens go to Israel and come back filled with hatred. I can surely understand that.
I began expressing my opinions out of pure frustration, in 2006, during the second war in Lebanon. As a southern, I couldn't understand what the people of the north were going thorugh, (that was before the rockets from Gaza reached the range they are now), I watched the news and so Haifa on flamed but on CNN they told almost all the time about Beirut, and I began telling people outside about the war and how we see it from the tiny house in our town.I was not yet 17, supposed to do my homework, it was summer vacation, but the surrounding of war affected me, and while i wasn't working, i wrote, to myself and to others who were interested to hear the story from an Israeli POV. My mom had friends in Haifa, they couldn't stay there, Haifa was bombed all the time, so they came, bringing their whole family to stay with us. in our tiny house, suited for my parents and myself only, suddenly came a family of 12 people. and they braught their own friends. they were all 15 people in one tiny home. we put blankets on the floor, and warm clothes, and this could have been like a reality show, when you put many people in one house and film them, only it wasn't like that, though sometimes i would pretend. the entire hallway was filled with sleeping people at night, while they told us how they feel, and want, and you had to go through the fear and questions of the children (4 and 7 year olds. never understood the meaning of war, before that).
At the time, i understood I had to take responsibility. my mom couldn't handle everything, her guests had to go through a lot of difficult things, so she gave me responsibility over their children, I remember holding little 4 year old Offir and stating, with even voice, "Ani Ima Shlah Ashav". "*I* am your mother now". And I was just sixteen. I remember cuddling the little baby next to my bed at night, each time an airplane flew over the sky, she would start crying, asking me if the airplane will bomb us. I just smiled at that, told her that these are IDF airplanes, that they protect her, not bomb her, and then she would relax.
And all that time i told people who would like to hear, that with all that, I truely believed in peace and that I hope the bad situation will be over before we know it. I was optimistic. people asked me what makes me be like that. Pro Israelis on net warned me that my innocence will be over before I know it, that i would "understand" how the "enemy acts".
And after 2006, came late 2007. I found myself getting drafted, which is a whole new thing to describe and experience. When people who don't understand or seen the really small things about the Israeli Palestinian conflict, who see only what tv shows, that reality won't tell them anything. the First day in the IDF, for example. the IDF doesn't "brainwash" people to "hate Palestinians". the IDF is a totally different system from anything you know. you can join the US army, and stay a soldier there in training, while the battlefields will be thousands of miles away. in Israel, each corner is a battlefield. you're expected to act like a full adult as a soldiers, but you're not. some people are not yet 18 when they fight. you find youself in a situation you have ZERO control over. you're just a tiny vessel in a huge system which tells you, go die to protect your country. you love your country, but you dont WANNA die! and nobody has time to talk to you and let you any time to edjust, because, hey, they have like millions of other shocked teens who feel the same, so suck it up. On the first night in service, you understand everything changes. you get to meet a cruel man or woman, who from now on, will be like a thorn in your butt, telling you what to do, and not to do. Any wrong word, look, doing, and you wish you could just crawl someplace and die. That person will tell you from now on when to drink, pee, eat, sleep, go to bed, speak, stand, stay or run. Being rude is not an issue. Arguing is not an issue. what they tell you, you just obey. That is what you learn on the first week or so in the IDF. they suddenly put in your hand a huge thing that kills, and tell you to shoot it. I never held any kind of weapon before getting drafted. I panicked and cried when being in a shooting range. I felt like a helpless moron kid. this was so not me. but after the first wave of shock, you get used to it. after they get to know you, and what you're made of, then suddenly it's ok for you to speak, and argue, and be more independent. I moved to a base closer to my home, in the south, few months later, and later on, Cast lead began. And because f that I told you later that I understand. in 2006, I saw haifa being bombed on TV, knowing it's horrible, in my counry, to my friends and brother Israelis, but thankfully, i could escape to the walls of my room, knowing my house and town and district is safe.
On Cast lead, the bombings were much closer to home. I served in Ashdod, the city that became favourite of Hamas missiles. I returned home to my town near Be'er Sheva, also bombed by rocket missiles. my job in the army had me to talk to soldiers on battle, to see and hear anything happening in Gaza, I saw a missile hit near the IDF vessel, my friends got injured, i saw on live, felt things on my flesh, that I didn't know were even possible. It is not that the IDF changes you to "hate". if the hate comes, it is only because only then you see things, and for me, anyway, an entire inner truth changed. I never harmed anyone, I never wished or hoped to do it, and yet my town and friends and place were attacked. So in Cast lead i kind of lost that optimism and innocence I have. while being in the shleter I hoped Gaza will be on fire, so the nightmare will be over and i wont be afraid. I hoped that more and more people will be injured there, because my friend was hit by rocket plineters, and I felt a wave of revenge desire; seeing Palestinian moms crying on tv, I felt NOTHING. because the mom of the injured soldier I knew was crying near his bed, too. I didn't hate any Palestinian of porpuse, i just changed because war changes you. Because you're hurt yourself, as a civilian on the other side, how can you feel sympthy for any Palestinian, while their leadership is harming you. That is why I understand. I don't know if it's brainwashing, I just know the feeling. But we shouldn't let ourselves be controled by frustration and anger. Because anger disappears at some point, and then you feel regret because you don't see yourself in the doings anymore.
I wish that we know better days.