This is a tragedy of epic proportions, on many sides. Hamas can write up one of the most successful terrorist attacks in history, one that brought about a better result for them than they could have imagined. Netanyahu is a fool, a crooked, degenerate fool - it will take Israel generations to live down this travesty, and their security h…
This is a tragedy of epic proportions, on many sides. Hamas can write up one of the most successful terrorist attacks in history, one that brought about a better result for them than they could have imagined. Netanyahu is a fool, a crooked, degenerate fool - it will take Israel generations to live down this travesty, and their security has been compromised for years. It brings to mind a short clip from the famous puppeteer Burr Tillstrom about 70 years ago. I have tried to get a Kinescope of it from Youtube, but it is not there.
The scene is a wall - to the the right is a hand dressed in a black leather glove raised in a fascist salute, to the left a plain uncovered hand. The gloved hand by gesture beats and demeans the naked hand. At some point, the naked hand trembles in rage and attacks the gloved hand, and kills it. There is a period of quiet, and then the naked hand removes the glove from the dead fascist hand and tentatively feels it and then - almost hesitantly - puts on the black glove. Slowly, the hand rises, tentatively as before - and then snaps into a fascist salute.....the circle is complete. "God help us - we won." Netanyahu forgot that prescient comment made by an IDF officer as he gazed at the Wailing Wall after taking Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967. It will come back to bite him - and Israel.
This is a tragedy of epic proportions, on many sides. Hamas can write up one of the most successful terrorist attacks in history, one that brought about a better result for them than they could have imagined. Netanyahu is a fool, a crooked, degenerate fool - it will take Israel generations to live down this travesty, and their security has been compromised for years. It brings to mind a short clip from the famous puppeteer Burr Tillstrom about 70 years ago. I have tried to get a Kinescope of it from Youtube, but it is not there.
The scene is a wall - to the the right is a hand dressed in a black leather glove raised in a fascist salute, to the left a plain uncovered hand. The gloved hand by gesture beats and demeans the naked hand. At some point, the naked hand trembles in rage and attacks the gloved hand, and kills it. There is a period of quiet, and then the naked hand removes the glove from the dead fascist hand and tentatively feels it and then - almost hesitantly - puts on the black glove. Slowly, the hand rises, tentatively as before - and then snaps into a fascist salute.....the circle is complete. "God help us - we won." Netanyahu forgot that prescient comment made by an IDF officer as he gazed at the Wailing Wall after taking Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967. It will come back to bite him - and Israel.
Whew. Thank you Bruce.