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Positive thoughts

Ed

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For the next month I will be thinking only positive thoughts about the Palestinians and Isrealis. No cynicism, no drolleries, no snipes at towels as headgear.

I will be unreservedly positive and upbeat and will let no one dampen my enthusiasm and hope for their future. I will draw no conclusions about any incident. I will be mellow and veritably pathological in my optimism.

I will allow no one to disturb my Wa.

That said, hit it!


Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

Take it Shlomo!
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Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbayah

Now you Mohammad!!
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Someone's laughing, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's laughing, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's laughing, Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

Now Moishe and Rashid!!!
Hey,_Jews_and_Muslims_can_get_along


Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's crying, Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

Now just the Jews!!!!!
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Now the Palistinians!!!!!
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Now the Palistinians!!!!!
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Someone's praying, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's praying, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's praying, Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

Now EVERYONE!!!!!
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Someone's sleeping, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's sleeping, Lord, kumbaya
Someone's sleeping, Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya[/b]

Now, don't we all feel better?

edit to add....I hope my disquieting failed attempt to add amusing images does not foreshadow anything.....hmmmmmmmmm......
 
Suppose a car comes zooming by and you barely get out of the way, you can say:
1) !%#@* driver almost killed me. What a way to start the day.
2) Did you see how you quickly I moved? I am hot.

CBL
 
A bump for another chorus...........

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya



Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbayah


Maybe my positive thinking is paying off.
 
Damn yourself, Ed, for getting that effin' song stuck in my head.
 
I opened up the newspaper today, and dared to hope for peace. Then I turned to page 11, and what do I see?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Middl...force-out-Arabs/2005/02/08/1107625207841.html

In the battleground of East Jerusalem, the Israeli Government is accused of backing moves for a Jewish cordon around the city.

The Israeli Government and private Jewish groups are working to build a human cordon around Jerusalem's Old City and its disputed holy sites, moving Jewish residents into Arab neighbourhoods to consolidate their grip on strategic locations.

According to a Washington Post investigation, the goal is to establish Jewish enclaves in and around Arab-dominated East Jerusalem and form a ring around the city.

The city has been a key battleground in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict because of its Jewish and Muslim holy sites.

The Israeli Government has sometimes violated its own laws and regulations to advance the encircling effort, the Post investigation found.

Critics of the plan say the Government is subsidising and protecting Jewish groups that are deliberately scuttling peace efforts by establishing enclaves in overwhelmingly Palestinian neighbourhoods.
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As part of the effort, the Israeli Government began expanding the West Bank's largest settlement, Maleh Adumim, without building permits and in violation of the settlement's development plan. The work stopped in September after Washington Post inquiries.

Israeli security forces also seized a Palestinian-owned hotel on the border of eastern Jerusalem after expelling its owners and declaring them absentee. Nearby, a private Jewish organisation has bought and occupied two illegal houses that the Israeli Government is paying private security guards to protect.

"There's a dovetailing of Government actions and settlement activity," said Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli lawyer who has fought numerous court battles against Jewish takeovers of Arab-owned houses and land.

He said the Government had adapted its pro-settlement policies "to service messianic groups" that were moving into Arab neighbourhoods.

A State Attorney's Office report, which has not yet been released, concluded that almost every major ministry in the Israeli Government assisted in the construction, expansion and maintenance of illegal settlement outposts, according to the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The report found that "every echelon, from minister to low-level clerks, ignored settlers' violations of the law . . . bypassing the zoning laws and master plans", and improperly funnelling state money to settlement expansions, even after Israel's Attorney-General ordered them not to, the newspaper says.
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When I see these stories, it makes leads me to the conclusion that peace is not the priority, nor has it ever been. Land is. Sure, Israel doesn't want any Israelis to die, and wants peace to achieve this. But there is a conflict of priorities. The war from the start has been about land. Abbas must be wondering what he has to do. As soon as he negotiates a ceasefire, the land grabs continue and scuttle his credibility and hope.
 
a_unique_person said:
I opened up the newspaper today, and dared to hope for peace. Then I turned to page 11, and what do I see?


When I see these stories, it makes leads me to the conclusion that peace is not the priority, nor has it ever been. Land is. Sure, Israel doesn't want any Israelis to die, and wants peace to achieve this. But there is a conflict of priorities. The war from the start has been about land. Abbas must be wondering what he has to do. As soon as he negotiates a ceasefire, the land grabs continue and scuttle his credibility and hope.
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And I see this:

Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Pledge to Halt Attacks
By STEVEN ERLANGER

Published: February 8, 2005



Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
The leaders of Israel and the Palestinians met today in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.




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The leaders of Israel and the Palestinians met today in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.





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Before his summit with the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt for the first time.




HARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, Feb. 8 - The new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared an effective cease-fire here today in the four-year, low-intensity war known as the intifada.

Mr. Abbas said that he and Mr. Sharon "have jointly agreed to cease all acts of violence against Israelis and Palestinians everywhere."

Mr. Sharon, in a separate statement, said he and Mr. Abbas "agreed that all Palestinians will stop all acts of violence against all Israelis everywhere, and in parallel, Israel will cease all its military activity against all Palestinians everywhere."

Both men, in statements coordinated with each other, spoke of a new "opportunity" for peace and calm, and of a new beginning - a chance "to disengage from the path of blood," as Mr. Sharon put it, "and start on a new path."

Mr. Abbas said: "The calm which will prevail in our lands starting from today is the beginning of a new era," and he vowed to spare no effort "to protect this emerging opportunity for peace."
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From today's NYT.

I see hope, you see death and offer no solution.

I like my way better.
 
Ed said:
And I see this:



From today's NYT.

I see hope, you see death and offer no solution.

I like my way better.
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I have offered a solution, empty the settlements, stop enlarging them. You may agree or not, but it is what I have offered. Without that vital step, any Palestinian leader who accepts a deal in which they keep growing by subterfuge and any other means is going to be seen as an Israeli puppet.
 
a_unique_person said:
I opened up the newspaper today, and dared to hope for peace. Then I turned to page 11, and what do I see?
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EEEEEEEEEVIL JOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Just summarizing, AUP, just summarizing...)
 
a_unique_person said:
I have offered a solution, empty the settlements, stop enlarging them. You may agree or not, but it is what I have offered.
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I have offered a solution, empty the settlements, -(AKA ethnically cleans all jews like my forefathers did with the Aboriginies) - stop enlarging them. You may agree or not, but it is what I have offered - (because the only answer is complete and sanctioned ethnic cleansing of jews).

Now back to the song...

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
 
Cleon said:
One month on...And I still hate that f$%^ing song.
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For you and Quinn, who also can't get that song out of his head:

"MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain,
I don't think that I can take it,
'Cause it took so long to bake it,
And I'll never have that recipe again,
Oh no..."

You're welcome.
 
BPSCG said:
For you and Quinn, who also can't get that song out of his head:

"MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain,
I don't think that I can take it,
'Cause it took so long to bake it,
And I'll never have that recipe again,
Oh no..."

You're welcome.
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Indeed.
 
zenith-nadir said:
I have offered a solution, empty the settlements, -(AKA ethnically cleans all jews like my forefathers did with the Aboriginies) - stop enlarging them. You may agree or not, but it is what I have offered - (because the only answer is complete and sanctioned ethnic cleansing of jews).

Now back to the song...

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
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Did you read the article I linked to and quoted from?
 
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