tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post6118597049214688793..comments2024-03-26T12:44:30.308-07:00Comments on Blue Heron Blast: Va en Shalom?Blue Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-25089686342611267362019-08-23T07:33:55.704-07:002019-08-23T07:33:55.704-07:00Good morning, and thank you for expressing almost ...Good morning, and thank you for expressing almost verbatim what I would have written, had my life's experience made it possible.<br /><br />I'm a few months older than the State of Israel. I consider myself the older brother, and I'm beyond appalled at the course my younger brother has taken.<br /><br />My family's home had the obligatory "blue box" into which spare change was deposited to support the young country. In Hebrew School, I bought stick-on leaves which, when the printed tree was full, would help plant trees in the desert. Only years later did my more intelligent / less gullible older sister tell me that the only trees I helped purchase were the ones painted on tank turrets.<br /><br />In 1967 I cheered when Israeli troops captured Sharm el Sheikh, entered old Jerusalem. And shortly after that war I truly believed that a Palestinian state would be created.<br /><br />42 years later, Medinat Yisrael and I 42 years older, look where we have come! What happened to our dreams? I fear that as the last survivors of the Sho'ah - the ones with firsthand memory of the horrors of nationalized hatred - die off, the Likud gang will be even more emboldened in their quest for "Greater Israel." And is that anything but a distorting-mirror reflection of Großdeutschland?<br /><br />Thank you again for saying what must be said no matter how many blind eyes and deaf ears the message falls upon.<br /><br />Peace Out! wpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-9726739755595188132019-08-23T05:54:40.866-07:002019-08-23T05:54:40.866-07:00More of what Nietzsche Said
“There are still peop...More of what Nietzsche Said <br />“There are still peoples and herds somewhere, but not with us, my brothers: here there are states.<br /><br />The state? What is that? Well then! Now open your ears, for now I shall speak to you of the death of peoples.<br />The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth; ‘I, the state, am the people.’<br />It is a lie! It was creators who created peoples and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.<br />It is destroyers who set snares for many and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred desires over them.<br />Where a people still exists, there the people do not understand the state and hate it as the evil eye and sin against custom and law.<br />I offer you this sign: every people speaks its own language of good and evil: its neighbor does not understand this language. It invented this language for itself in custom and law.<br />But the state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies – and whatever it has, it has stolen.<br />Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. Even its belly is false.<br />Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this sign of the state. Truly, this sign indicates the will to death! Truly, it beckons to the preachers of death!<br />Many too many are born: the state was invented for the superfluous!<br />Just see how it lures them, the many-too-many! How it devours them, and chews them, and re-chews them!<br />…It would like to range heroes and honorable men about it, this new idol! It likes to sun itself in the sunshine of good consciences – this cold monster!<br />It will give you everything if you worship it, this new idol: thus it buys for itself the luster of your virtues and the glance of your proud eyes.<br />It wants to use you to lure the many-too-many. Yes, a cunning device of Hell has here been devised, a horse of death jingling with the trappings of divine honors!<br />Yes, a death for many has here been devised that glorifies itself as life: truly a heart-felt service to all preachers of death!<br />I call it the state where everyone, good and bad, is a poison-drinker: the state where everyone, good and bad, loses himself: the state where universal slow suicide is called – life.”<br />"The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not." - Joseph Sobran<br />Both sides are guilty.<br />Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14658730069022837576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-51582764407055664322019-08-21T13:38:48.234-07:002019-08-21T13:38:48.234-07:00Well said. Well said. Big Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192044480488443529noreply@blogger.com