Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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Whoa there. This is my favorite blog and I am sorely disappointed when I check and there's nothing new. BUT, to compare the US now and Nazi Germany in the 1930s is insane. It is bringing up the Hitler comparison and that's always a loser. The more appropriate comparison to the US today is the US in the 1930s. Every heard of the Business Plot?
I think a 1930's Nazi Germany comparisson might not be so far-fetched and "insane" to the Iraqis...