[TexKat]

Look what our friends the Saudis are spreading in the MidEast:

You went and found that,they must be your friends. You know there is a thin line between love and hate.

[TexKat]

TEHRAN (AFP) - Hardline Islamic vigilantes used clubs and iron bars around a Tehran university campus overnight Friday to disperse thousands of anti-regime protestors, an AFP correspondent witnessed.

Hundreds of members of the Basij volunteer militia, among the most fervent defenders of the Islamic regime, were seen chasing gatherings of demonstrators through streets surrounding Tehran university dormitories -- the focal point of four consecutive nights of demonstrations.

One Basij group leader was heard shouting "show no pity to these people, they are armed with knives", as one group chased some young protestors.

The area surrounding the dormitories remained sealed off in the early hours of Saturday by hundreds of police. However thousands of cars full of residents hoping to join the protests managed to approach the facility through back streets.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Kat, I'm going to pretend you didn't mean to call me a terrorist sympathizer.

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The Stand

I stand with Israel. In the endless finger-pointing game of "who shot first? Who stops shooting first?" I point my finger squarely at the Arab world, and wait with Israel for them to make the first real move. I admire Israel, because it is a ridiculously small country with ridiculously brave people.

At this point most other authors would say, "if you don't agree with me you'd better just skip the rest of this." I almost did just that. But I changed my mind. If you don't agree with the sentiments above I want you to read the rest of this very slowly. I want you to understand how stupid and ignorant you are. I want you to understand that being "for Jews but against Israel" is a contradiction that reeks of anti-Semitism. I want you to get so angry your blood fizzes. Because you see that's how angry I am right now, and I feel like sharing.

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I say these things to Israelis in the hope they, too, will understand. Understand that we realize one culture in the Middle East helped found ours, while the other wants to destroy it. Understand that we know we only got a taste of what it's like to live in your shoes. Understand that because of this the most powerful country the world has ever seen is working with all its might to ensure your nightmares, now ours, remain nothing more than dark wisps left behind on children's pillows.

I say these things to Israel's enemies even though I know they will never understand. Never understand that by destroying two buildings they succeeded only in transforming an ambiguous friend into a staunch ally. Never understand that by singing the praises of human detonators they merely dig a deeper hole in which to bury their own culture. Never understand their religion is no longer a force to be reckoned with, ceased being one six centuries ago, and their traditions are what got them in this mess in the first place.

I say these things to everyone so they may all understand. I am just one man among an ocean of men, a sea of women, living in a country of our own making with our own blood and treasure. I look across half the world and find in a region as old as time itself only one small nation that looks like mine. Unique in that region, its government is of its people, by its people, and for its people, and I am willing to do whatever I can to ensure it does not perish from this earth. True, I am just one man, standing up for what I believe in.

But I do not stand alone.

Posted by scott at June 12, 2003 16:44 PM

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