Anthony, It's called 'politics'...Bill!
--- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > ED, > Â > Yes, when I saw that on TV, I thought Netanyahu was addressing the Israeli > parliament dominated by his party members. > Â > How does Obama explains he is also a great friend of the Arabs? > Â > Anthony > > --- On Fri, 27/5/11, ED <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > > From: ED <seacrofter001@...> > Subject: [Zen] The illusory world looks pretty real and disgusting to me! > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 27 May, 2011, 3:17 PM > > > Â > > > > > Â > May 26, 2011 > Netanyahu on the Hill > Bibi and the Yo-Yos > By URI AVNERY > It was all rather disgusting. > There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world's > only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, > every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of > Binyamin Netanyahu. > It was worse than the Syrian parliament during a speech by Bashar Assad, > where anyone not applauding could find himself in prison. Or Stalin's Supreme > Soviet, when showing less than sufficient respect could have meant death. > What the American Senators and Congressmen feared was a fate worse than > death. Anyone remaining seated or not applauding wildly enough could have > been caught on camera â" and that amounts to political suicide. It was > enough for one single congressman to rise and applaud, and all the others had > to follow suit. Who would dare not to? > The sight of these hundreds of parliamentarians jumping up and clapping their > hands, again and again and again and again, with the Leader graciously > acknowledging with a movement of his hand, was reminiscent of other regimes. > Only this time it was not the local dictator who compelled this adulation, > but a foreign one. > The most depressing part of it was that there was not a single lawmaker â" > Republican or Democrat â" who dared to resist. When I was a 9 year old boy > in Germany, I dared to leave my right arm hanging by my side when all my > schoolmates raised theirs in the Nazi salute and sang Hitler's anthem. Is > there no one in Washington DC who has that simple courage? > Is it really Washington IOT â" Israel Occupied Territory â" as the > anti-Semites assert? > Many years ago I visited the Senate hall and was introduced to the leading > Senators of the time. I was profoundly shocked. After being brought up in > deep respect for the Senate of the United States, the country of Jefferson > and Lincoln, I was faced with a bunch of pompous asses, many of them > nincompoops who had not the slightest idea what they were talking about. I > was told that it was their assistants who really understood matters. > > <snip> > Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. He is a > contributor to CounterPunch's book The Politics of Anti-Semitism. > > http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery05262011.html > Â > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
