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I'm not so far from home, but I can imagine in the mornings when the words your speaking are not mine. So much to be envied, your beauty should be bottled. Your innocence of war canned. So far from the beaches, but near the bay. Prowling the city in search of art, so far from the beach we had to play. In search of Buddha, and Dali. Searching for salvation and a way. You've told me of the guns, the war, the blood, and all that you have seen. Without a clue of how close, or far.. We search for away into nights and far into the senseless days...
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mellifluous *and* lactifluous!
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no reason
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in just over a week!
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just indescribable
so much seen and learned and felt and overcome and experienced
i'm digesting and reeling and will be for a long time, possibly the longest time
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i've never been anywhere before that has felt like this
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the more i learn the more intrigued i am
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I keep thinking it wouldn't be like this if someone like Golda Meir was still in charge today instead of stubborn-ass Benny Netanyahu.
But maybe that's just nostalgia for before I was born, and maybe the bio I read of her was overly sympathetic?
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there is a library and a school named after golda in milwaukee
there was a protest in seattle about the conflict this weekend as if people shouting in a park half aworld away makes any difference.
there will never be peace in the middle east. thousands of years shouldve taught us better by now
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when humans yearn to fight, isn't war a sort of peace?
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I don't know about "never." People didn't think the Soviet Union would collapse when it did. And the Israel/Palestinian conflict has more of its roots in the 20th century (British colonialism, the two world wars, the Cold War) than ancient religious conflicts.
Of course, what I just wrote is too simplistic too. I'm not a history expert. This is just what I got from doing research for grade 12 20th-century history class this past summer. I wrote about it a little more in a_morbid_sense_of_powerpoints but just one paragraph among shitload of other things and, again, not an expert.
But I think this video does a pretty good job of summing things up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wo2TLlMhiw
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(The video is called "Conflict in Israel and Palestine: Crash Course World History 223." One reason these have a lot of views is because a popular YA author, John Green, is the lecturer, but he seems to have a good research team. Only thing is, he talks really fast!)
Anyway, the conflict in the Middle East NOW is more about Iran, but thankfully it seems to be simmering down. I was afraid yesterday there would be an Iran/U.S. war.
Oh, and my dad was in Israel in 1984. It wasn't the typical Christian trip, as in "let's see the places where Jesus walked" (or rode his bike; see the Dan Brown book on the Secret Jesus Bike Controversy*). Instead it was a language-learning group. Dad says that the other students in his section were Jewish but no one was going there for an explicitly religious reason. I mean, he was learning modern Hebrew to give him some context for ancient Hebrew in his work on Biblical poetry, and some of the others were thinking of settling in Israel, but it wasn't like a pilgrimage. He worked on a kibbutz as part of the language immersion.
I think I'd like that. Maybe not in Israel now, but just doing something like that. A project that's about learning language but also working with people and not just lazing around.
I remember him talking about picking bananas there. He tried to trick me as a child by saying the bananas started straight and then he had to curve them - and I believed him because I'm gullible.
Now Dad is like, "I'm trying to make supper - why are you asking me about Israel all of a sudden?"
*I've been too serious so this is how the silliness comes out. Sorry, Dan Brown. I KNOW I'm misrepresenting your work and it's actually the Jesus Electric Car Controversy!
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I always wondered why oh why there was controls on the device I listen to podcasts with to control the play speed.
Perhaps John Green knows why.
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