Legacy of the British Empire.

Princess Diana.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist activist, orator, and writer who founded the Betar Movement. He was also a soldier who founded the Jewish Legion during World War I.

Jabotinsky (born October 18, 1880; died August 4, 1940) was born as Vladimir into a middle-class Jewish family in the Russian city of Odessa. At the age of 18, he left Odessa to study law in Italy and Switzerland, where he also served as a foreign correspondent for several well­known Russian newspapers. His reports and articles were widely read and soon became recognized as one of the brilliant exponents of Russian journalism. All his reports and articles were signed with his literary pseudonym “Altalena.” . . . continue reading 

President Ronald Reagan telling it like it is.

On the surface American Christians sound 'right' and justified vilifying Arabs, and those against Israel because of the Bible, and what is said in the Bible. It all incites self-righteous attitudes dipping its adherents towards a dogma, with a notion of supremacy over reasonable objections to the stance made by those in the so-called Army of the Lord.

Millions of American Christians cannot stray, with confidence, from the controversial reasons for saying, 'yea' to all aggression from Israel towards any perceived threat, or country against them; even if Israel started the misuse of power. The prophecies and stories in the Old Testament support the notion of 'right thinking' on this subject; meaning God is behind Israel and the Israelites are his chosen. This is the core of American policy towards Israel. New Testament philosophy began with this understanding of Israel's place in the Christian practice in the West. Despite the fact the first century followers of Jesus, who were accepted by Rome purposely worked to remove themselves from the vestiges of the progenitor of their new faith; today's form of Christianity informs the need to kill and take. 

This is perplexing, isn't it? 

The serious American citizen needs to look deeply into the Torah, the first five (5) books of the Bible, to gain a footing in the theology that allows our government to not intervene on behalf of the Palestine people. The average Christian needs to look closely at these justifications for a higher purpose: healing of their own souls, and release from the evil to whom (we) are devoted. For the slaughter and the taste of it; American foreign policy aims at Arabs and the enemies of Israel missiles, and gives financial support. The Israeli apartheid system designed around Palestinians to protect the Jewish systems of thought, and its contradictions comforts Jim Crow. Why would white Americans change for peace to take precedence over their predilections?

It doesn't make sense.  

So one last question remains: "How did conservatism, business, American dictatorial patriotism, and Christianity meld into one ideology?" We all need that answer. Without the truth as an answer, as soul singer, Curtis Mayfield sang, "If there's a hell below, we all gonna go!"  

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

5/25/18 

cartoon. "Please don't leave us... "

SYRIAN Girl

Condoleezza Rice with Osama bin Laden

There is a Syrian woman who created a video to explain the complex problems of that country and the contradictions of American and European foreign policies and pieces to a puzzle that escape most of us here in the U.S. depending upon a media devoted to entertainment. I noticed people here in the States look down upon honest stories about the way Palestinians are treated by Israel. This is important to note because many will be dismissive for a portion of this young woman's assessments. Our tendency comes to many of us without consideration for Palestinian life, and these thoughts seem to come from a sense that the Bible justifies anything Israel does.

Anyway watch this video. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.14.15
 

COOKING

There are great distinctions between Palestinian women and American women. The similarities stop within the war torn sectors within the hearts of Palestinian women, and the perpetual moaning of their grief burying child after child after child. As Israel justifies their apartheid system over Palestine in the language of the Nazi Party, and the former South African government, and the spiritual teachings of the old American system of Neo-Slavery known better as the days of Jim Crow laws public opinion in the United States becomes more and more isolated from its truths, and settles more comfortably into the contradictions of Christianity practiced today and the luxury of playing with words, and their meanings.

Americans like to sit with the detachment video games afford and play with the meanings of words like torture, and seriously think those discussions will lessen or alleviate the physical pain of torture, and by re-defining it removes the moral responsibility for our actions. When President Bush insured his soldiers would not suffer their presence in any international court for crimes committed during war that supported an American paradigm that justifies itself with war. Our culture has deadened the sacredness of lives, gender, and children to a depth of indifference to the outcomes of our beliefs. It is frightening seeing, and understanding this within the wombs of women who condone Israeli's treatment of Palestine's women, and American men already baffled by the complexities of their women. Failing to see the wisdom of listening to Mothers the meaning of Palestine's women who are willing to strap bombs, pregnant or not, to their bodies escapes us to our shame and discredit. Is there a difference between Palestine's women and American women?  -Gregory E. Woods, January 07, 2009

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