From: | "Annette and Martin" <ajackson123(at)bigpond.com> |
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Date: | Tue, 13 May 2008 05:39:50 +0930 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Regarding the social network site |
Georges Metanomski wrote:
Giorgio Menon goes unread to my trashThis is the worst example of bipolar thinkig i have ever met.
Georges.
Either with me or against me. Kill the different, he might harm your
thinking.
Let's see Georges precious historical /sociological/military comment:
" Just one example of self-fulfillment:
3-5% of kibbutz population provides 90% of fighter
pilots. Now, the selection of Israeli fighter pilots
is by far the toughest in the world both physically
and psychically."
How does such fullfilment translate into reality?
Over 33 days, Israeli jets killed up to 1,200 Lebanese civilians and
bombed houses, hospitals, ambulances, refineries, and roads [ sample video
and pictures here <http://web.amnesty.org/pages/lebanonisrael-index-eng>
and here <http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/israel_lebanon/multimedia/>]. Some
four thousand Lebanese were wounded and nearly a quarter of the country's
four million people were driven from their homes.
"... if you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a
bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the
bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I
feel." -Dan Halutz, interview with Ha'aretz, 21 August 2002. (During the
2006 Israel-Lebanon war, Dan Halutz, head of the Israeli military,
orchestrated a policy of indiscriminate aerial bombardment that entailed
widespread war crimes)
Extensive onsite investigations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty
International (AI) found that the pattern of bombings and civilian
casualties could not be dismissed as accidents nor excused by alleged
"human shielding" by Hizb Allah fighters (though both AI and HRW have
extensively criticized Hizb Allah as well). Both organizations concluded
that Halutz's forces were bombing without regard to whether they were
hitting civilians or fighters, and in some instances targeted civilians
and civilian objects directly, both of which are war crimes under
international law.
I think this explain quite well the relationship kibbutzim-fighter pilots.
But i want to go further. Asks PVR:
"What is it that an individual basically seeks in this world? It is
fulfilment in life."
Fullfilment is a cultural artifact. Similar cultures attach similar
meanings to the word "fulfillment". I can therefore imagine that for a
young male born and educated in a kibbutz "fulfillment" has something to
do with bombing civilians without questioning too much.
Is this a valuable practice of DD?
And is a valuable practice of DD refusing to read the messages of someone
who disagrees?
Giorgio