The Search

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.” Emo Philips

“O Brasil é o único país do mundo governado por um analfabeto e alcoólatra, que assinou uma reforma ortográfica e instituiu uma lei seca.”

“By August 13, 2006, Hezbollah had fired about 3,900 rockets into Israel during the 34 days of the 2006 Lebanon War, killing 44 Israeli civilians and 106 soldiers including 12 reserve soldiers, and wounding some 1400 civilians.^[15] According to another report a total of 4,228 Hezbollah rockets hit Israel. Of those 972 (23%) landed within built-up areas. The number of longer range rockets (over 50 km) was approximately 250 (or 6% of the total). Israel suffered 53 fatalities, 250 severely wounded and 2,000 lightly wounded, and hundreds of buildings were damaged.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (2006-08-31)

“According to Human Rights Watch, many Lebanese people can not flee from the south because roads are under Israeli attack which Israel defends claiming that such attacks will obstruct Hezbollah from transporting arms. HRW says that according to their observations and reports from independent new source, none of the attacks on vehicles resulted in Hezbollah killings or the hindrance in the transportation of weapons. Instead, those who were killed and wounded in Israeli artillery and aerial attacks were civilians attempting to evacuate after receiving the leaflets; many of the civilian vehicles attacked were flying white flags. Furthermore, many Lebanese are not able to leave due to illness, wounds sustained in Israeli attacks, or providing services to civilians. HRW asserted that warnings in advance do not justify Israel’s targeting of and attacks on civilians. In a report released on August 3, 2006, HRW researchers analyzed more than 20 Israeli attacks on civilians and concluded that “in many cases, Israeli forces struck an area with no apparent military target. In some instances, Israeli forces appear to have deliberately targeted civilians” and that such attacks are war crimes.” Human Rights Watch (August 3, 2006)

“Foreign Secretary praised the Obama administration’s commitment to “share the burdens and responsibilities” of global leadership, whether dealing with Afghanistan, the Middle East, Iran or climate change.”

Why would we want anyone to be a global leader anyway?

     Jason, the monster, is a deadly figure with blood on his hands. By itself, he’s the anti-hero, the beast, the assassin, the terrorist, the evil. But Jason has his little frind, Janie. He does everything to defend her, defend her “freedom”. She, the little girl, Janie is innocent, a child, pure, and despite Jason’s terrible appearence, she loves him, he’s her best friend.

     From anti-hero, Jason now became the hero of the movie. Everybody loves him. He’s still an ugly, filty, deadly,coward monster, guilty, a murderer with blood on his hands, but he’s our monster, he’s on our side. The audience loves him.

     Let’s change its shape now: Imagine Jason as a M1A2 Main Battle Tank. It’s just a killing machine, a monster, but it’s our monster; we love to fear it.

     If we make a comparision with Slavoj Zizec’s affirmation that there is no “clash of civilizations” but “clash within civilization“, we can easily understand the meaning of patriotism and why it is so difficult to go against it. The deadly image of this weapon is not to intimidate the enemy, but to leash its own people and impose control by fear.

     The more deadly weapons get, the more difficult it is go against it, the more power a minority inside the bubble gets… so go with the flow, follow the rules and you might even end up rich (with blood on your hands if that’s the way it should be for the supreme good!). Just like Cuba: Socialism or Death! where it is not the cause who has to sacrifice for the people, but the people for the cause, accepting to get shot by its leader in the name of higher objectives.

PS. We are the little girl.

Eye opening montage of news clips and photos that tell the truth about the events in Gaza.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com

“The Israeli military may be using legal weapons, but it is using the weapons in an illegal manner“
Marc Garlasco
Human Rights Watch

“Phosphorus shells are legal to use as a battlefield obscurant, but are banned from use where civilians may be harmed.“

BBC

“Use of aerial incendiary bombs against civilian populations, including against military targets in civilian areas, was banned in the 1980 United NationsConvention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III. The U.S. however, has only signed Articles I and II, not Protocols III, IV, And V, and is therefore not bound by any such ban.”

Wikipedia

The Guardian cartoonist looks back at his years drawing the outgoing US president.

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“Israel is not being asked “to give” anything to the Palestinians; it is only being asked to return – to return their stolen land and restore their trampled self-respect, along with their fundamental human rights and humanity. This is the primary core issue, the only one worthy of the title, and no one talks about it anymore. No one is talking about morality anymore. Justice is also an archaic concept, a taboo that has deliberately been erased from all negotiations. Two and a half million people – farmers, merchants, lawyers, drivers, daydreaming teenage girls, love-smitten men, old people, women, children and combatants using violent means for a just cause – have all been living under a brutal boot for 40 years. Meanwhile, in our cafes and living rooms the conversation is over giving or not giving. . . Just as a thief cannot present demands – neither preconditions nor any other terms – to the owner of the property he has robbed, Israel cannot present demands to the other side as long as the situation remains as it is.”

Gideon Levy, journalist for the Haaretz newspaper.