Ysterday, in a History Channel program about icebreakers (the ships that can "cut thru the stuff"...), they said that Israel some years ago purchased a no longer state of the art, but nonetheless heavy-duty *ice breaker* from the U.S. Navy. What in heaven or purgatory or hell does Israel need with an *ice breaker*? But I suspect they *do* have some very "good" use for its 2-inch thick steel hull with all those closely spaced reinforcing beams all down the hull and super-powerful engines....
Today's news is that the Israelis succeeded in blowing up a Hamas leader who was travelling in a residential neighborhood in a donkey cart.
Doesn't anybody think there is something "asymmetrical" about using F-16s to launch missiles to blow up Hamas leaders being driven in their Mercedes-Benzes?
I doubt I'd like most "Palestineans" (although I did once meet a self-avowed Muslim Syrian employee of the U.N. who genuinely surprised me as being an apparently humanistic individual...). But if the Israelis were "anybody else", would we all see them as such exemplary paragon citizens of the shining city on a hill?
I can only conclude that I misread the story of King Solomon's judgment about the two women and the baby. But then I only claim to know secular hermeneutics....
\brad mccormick
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