NationStates Jolt Archive


War is harmful for children and other living things.

Bobs Own Pipe
20-07-2006, 02:05
I stumbled across this (http://thismodernworld.com/3005) quite by accident. Thought I'd share.

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July 18th, 2006
Jonathan Schwarz:
Emily Litella speaks out on the situation in the middle east

Your heart just has to break to see these Shiite children in Lebanon smiling and writing “messages” on the rockets that soon will devastate Israeli homes. What kind of sick society produces little girls who exult in the infliction of pain against people they’ve never met?

http://tinyrevolution.com/mt-static/images/lebanon2.jpg

And look at the woman in the background, presumably their mother—clearly she approves! Sadly, until the Arabs let go of their culture of incitement and rage, I’m afraid there’s no concession Israel can ever make that will bring peace with these people.

http://tinyrevolution.com/mt-static/images/lebanon1.jpg

What’s that?

Those aren’t Lebanese girls writing on Hezbollah rockets, but Israeli girls writing on Israeli shells?

Oh.

Never mind.

Photo caption: Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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I'd popped over to Tom's website 'cause I needed a laugh, but I didn't get it. Instead I got a headful of wholehearted disgust. The images came from another site, which I won't link to here as that other site features some gory photos, but did prominently feature a rather ironic quoted statement from none other than Golda Meir:

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

It's hard to see how having your children scrawling on bombs helps matters in any way, shape or form - unless you're trying very hard to inculcate, in members of the coming generations, a dramatic desensitization to the deaths, the maimings, and the wholesale shattering of human lives - never mind the politics, the ethnicity, the brand of religious adherence - this is utterly contemptible on the part of whatever authorities were involved in permitting this international disgrace.

Judging by the photos, the average Arab certainly won't be loving the children of the Israelis anytime soon. Or their parents, either. Go figure, Golda. Anyway, I much prefer this statement from the Vietnam protest era anyway:

"War is harmful for children and other living things."

And in my opinion, the photos above are the least objectionable evidence to support that statement.

Peace out.
Neu Leonstein
20-07-2006, 02:13
Yep...I mean the IDF is the more professional and more sensible of the two at the moment, but to claim that the Israelis aren't motivated (just a little bit) by the same irrational hatred and revenge is just being dishonest.
Franberry
20-07-2006, 02:14
I stumbled across this (http://thismodernworld.com/3005) quite by accident. Thought I'd share.

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July 18th, 2006
Jonathan Schwarz:
Emily Litella speaks out on the situation in the middle east

Your heart just has to break to see these Shiite children in Lebanon smiling and writing “messages” on the rockets that soon will devastate Israeli homes. What kind of sick society produces little girls who exult in the infliction of pain against people they’ve never met?

http://tinyrevolution.com/mt-static/images/lebanon2.jpg

And look at the woman in the background, presumably their mother—clearly she approves! Sadly, until the Arabs let go of their culture of incitement and rage, I’m afraid there’s no concession Israel can ever make that will bring peace with these people.

http://tinyrevolution.com/mt-static/images/lebanon1.jpg

What’s that?

Those aren’t Lebanese girls writing on Hezbollah rockets, but Israeli girls writing on Israeli shells?

Oh.

Never mind.

Photo caption: Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

SNAP!

those girls are warmongers!

quite a nice find, which shows the steriotypes that some people have
Not bad
20-07-2006, 02:15
Yes yes war is bad. It kills and spawns devil children who will be angry enough and cold blooded enough and accustomed enough to have wars when they grow up too.


Now here's what I want to know.

What exactly does "peace out" mean?
Eutrusca
20-07-2006, 02:17
"War is harmful for children and other living things."

That's the same phrase so many of the unwashed hippie protestors use to toss around back in the 60s. Interesting.
Eutrusca
20-07-2006, 02:19
Yes yes war is bad. It kills and spawns devil children who will be angry enough and cold blooded enough and accustomed enough to have wars when they grow up too.


Now here's what I want to know.

What exactly does "peace out" mean?
I've always interpreted that as meaning to take every opportunity to be, and advocate others being, peaceful. Rather like "max out at peace."
Corneliu
20-07-2006, 02:30
Oh.

Never mind.[/I]

Does that mean she doesn't care now?
Franberry
20-07-2006, 02:32
Does that mean she doesn't care now?
no, it means she got owned
Corneliu
20-07-2006, 02:34
no, it means she got owned

lol.
Bobs Own Pipe
20-07-2006, 03:15
SNAP!

those girls are warmongers!

quite a nice find, which shows the steriotypes that some people have
I'm not quite sure what you meant by that. What stereotype is who being shown to have?
Ravenshrike
20-07-2006, 03:18
unless you're trying very hard to inculcate, in members of the coming generations, a dramatic desensitization to the deaths, the maimings, and the wholesale shattering of human lives - never mind the politics, the ethnicity, the brand of religious adherence - this is utterly contemptible on the part of whatever authorities were involved in permitting this international disgrace.

Cause, you know, they already aren't desensitized from the weekly/monthly shelling and suicide bombings. Betcha at least half those kids have lost someone from one or the other, if not all of them. And at least the israelis don't indoctrinate their kids with hate using TV shows like the rest of the ME from birth onwards.
Peisandros
20-07-2006, 03:21
no, it means she got owned
Hahaha, nice.
Kanabia
20-07-2006, 03:21
"War is harmful for children and other living things."

That's the same phrase so many of the unwashed hippie protestors use to toss around back in the 60s. Interesting.

So?
Kanabia
20-07-2006, 03:24
I'm not quite sure what you meant by that. What stereotype is who being shown to have?

"Your heart just has to break to see these Shiite children in Lebanon smiling and writing “messages” on the rockets that soon will devastate Israeli homes. What kind of sick society produces little girls who exult in the infliction of pain against people they’ve never met?"

That one.
Ravenshrike
20-07-2006, 03:37
http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=165

Here, watch some tv shows why don't you.
Kanabia
20-07-2006, 03:45
http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=165

Here, watch some tv shows why don't you.

Okay, lets swap extremists.

http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
Peisandros
20-07-2006, 03:50
Okay, lets swap extremists.

http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
I call heshe!
Sel Appa
20-07-2006, 03:56
You sure those aren't Arabs making it easier for Israelis to read?

Either way, I'm sure Arab kids are doing the same. And Israelis don't dance and give kids candy when the other side has members killed.
Bobs Own Pipe
20-07-2006, 04:03
And Israelis don't dance and give kids candy when the other side has members killed.
Is that due to the frequency of deaths, do you suppose? The candy, not the dancing.

The dancing would presumably come about if for some inexplicable reason, Israel had a very poor record for marksmanship, or couldn't otherwise be counted on to be particularly effective in sending people to their maker - then, it might be an occasion for dancing.

That not being the case, however, it's no wonder at all there's no dancing. I'd refer back to the candy on that one, I suppose.
Kanabia
20-07-2006, 04:05
You sure those aren't Arabs making it easier for Israelis to read?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060717/481/c8723701e8f644f0b5befd7df750e8ea

Either way, I'm sure Arab kids are doing the same.

Probably, but that doesn't make it right for either side to do so, does it?

And Israelis don't dance and give kids candy when the other side has members killed.

Why is that an impossibility?
Hamilay
20-07-2006, 04:06
"War is harmful for children and other living things"

Maybe I'm missing something, but... LOOK UP IN THE SKY! IT'S CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! Since when have even the pro-war/pro-Israel people argued that war isn't harmful?
Bobs Own Pipe
20-07-2006, 04:27
"War is harmful for children and other living things"

Maybe I'm missing something, but... LOOK UP IN THE SKY! IT'S CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!
You're missing something.

Just FYI, there.
H4ck5
20-07-2006, 04:32
War can't be that unhealthy, it's going on all the time.

Name me a moment in time where some nation was not at war.
Novus-America
20-07-2006, 04:34
As Plato said, so many, many years ago, "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Rainbowwws
20-07-2006, 04:42
War can't be that unhealthy, it's going on all the time.

Name me a moment in time where some nation was not at war.
LOL Dying can't be that bad for you, name me one day in history when no one died It happens all the time.