Saturday, March 8, 2008

Addicted to guns

Things in Lebanon are at the same, tense standstill. Yet the construction boom and life for the ordinary person on the street go on. The rumor now circulating is that the reason the Saudis and Kuwaitis recently told their citizens with families to leave and that the Americans have posted warships off the coast, is because Israel is preparing to invade Lebanon again. The rumor goes on to say that the recent shooting in Jerusalem was a kind of set up so that invasion could be more justified. Eight people died there, after 125 were killed by Israel in an offensive in Palestine the week before (the former, I assume, got more press in the West than the latter). Hamas are Sunni Moslem Palestinians in Palestine, and Hezbollah are Shiite Moslem Lebanese. They are all poor and powerless except for the guns. How the Israelis and the Western spin machine could manage to link the two is a wonder. Both are anti-Israel, to be sure, and both are vengeful—Tom says they are supposedly religiously-based but so addicted to guns their God has changed. The rumor goes on to say it may be all a bunch of saber rattling just to pressure the Lebanese toward a political resolution.

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Other, lighter:

Tom went to the dentist for teeth cleaning this week. The flavor of the rinse? No mint or sissy tutti-frutti here: thyme!

The blog control is now coming up in German
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