Thank you, Parents
July 30, 2006 · Print This Article
On behalf of Israel I would just like to thank the parents of the 37 children killed at Qana for their patience and understanding as Israel continues to clean up some issues in their neighborhood. Also, on Behalf of Hezbollah, I would like to thank those same parents for allowing Hezbollah to use the building next door for a rocket launching pad.
LO, THIS is the tarantula’s den! Would’st thou see the tarantula itself? Here hangeth its web: touch this, so that it may tremble.
There cometh the tarantula willingly: Welcome, tarantula! Black on thy back is thy triangle and symbol; and I know also what is in thy soul.
Revenge is in thy soul: wherever thou bitest, there ariseth black scab; with revenge, thy poison maketh the soul giddy!
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Therefore do I tear at your web, that your rage may lure you out of your den of lies, and that your revenge may leap forth from behind your word “justice.”
Because, for man to be redeemed from revenge- that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.
Otherwise, however, would the tarantulas have it. “Let it be very justice for the world to become full of the storms of our vengeance”- thus do they talk to one another.
“Vengeance will we use, and insult, against all who are not like us”- thus do the tarantula-hearts pledge themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra - The Tarantulas
Which coming generation will be the Great Generation in the Middle east; the generation of both Arab and Jew, that stands up and renounces revenge, renounces war, and makes peace? This indeed will be a rainbow after long storms.
Hi Evan,
Many people are working for peace and justice in the Middle East. We can’t give up hope.
From Steve Earle’s “Jerusalem”:
Then the storm comes rumblin’ in
And I can’t lay me down
And the drums are drummin’ again
And I can’t stand the sound
But I believe there’ll come a day when the lion and the lamb
Will lie down in peace together in Jerusalem
And there’ll be no barricades then
There’ll be no wire or walls
And we can wash all this blood from our hands
And all this hatred from our souls
And I believe that on that day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem
I understand and appreciate their efforts. As a parent it just infuriates me how, on the one side, children are acceptable “martyrs” and on the other they are acceptable “collateral damage”. These people have lost their humanity, and no amount of “they did it first” is going to convince otherwise.