Posted on 07/13/2014 9:27:35 AM PDT by jazusamo
I remember once when -- we were sitting shiva for my paternal grandmother, I think-- I mentioned to my grandfather how smart I thought my youngest cousin, David, was. He replied, “All my grandchildren are smart, but the longer they go to school the dumber they get.” I thought of this when Drudge reported “42% of Millennials say they’re socialists, 16% know what a socialist is.” I guess the other 26% think it means they twitter.
On the other hand, though the news of the world seems grim, there are small rays of intelligence starting to beam through the dopiness.
While America’s inconsistent and incomprehensible Middle East policies could lead someone intelligent to think we were deliberately stirring the various Moslem sects to murder each other and leave the rest of us alone, there are signs, as Daniel Pipes observes that the world is waking up to the Palestinian game and Israel is getting fairer treatment than usual. Probably this relates as much to Hamas’ idiotic timing, but perhaps there’s more to it:
The current Hamas assault on Israel has lured the predictable coven of Palestinian nationalists, Islamists, Leftists, and antisemites from the woodwork to bash the Jewish state. But, more surprisingly, Israel is getting support, or at least restraint and fairness, from unexpected sources:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: "Today we face the risk of an all out escalation in Israel and Gaza with the threat of a ground offensive still palpable and preventable only if Hamas stops rocket firing."
The Lebanese Internal Security Forces detained two persons for having fired rockets into Israel.
Egyptian security forces seized 20 rockets on their to being smuggled into Gaza.
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From the wiki:
Shiva (Hebrew: שבעה) (literally "seven") is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives: father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, and spouse.
I think the moderate Muslims believe that, with Obama in the White House and Europeans committing suicide, they are winning. They don’t want the fire breathers to go and spoil it by starting something too soon. They all want the same end result, though. A Muslim world. The moderates are the Fabian socialists and al Qaeda are the Leninist revolutionaries.
Agreed, especially about 0bama.
It’s a crazy world when the US President has Muslim advisers in the WH that have supported radicals like the muslim brotherhood and others, actually it’s criminal in my view.
Thanks jazusamo.
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