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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BTW you might be interested in the following comment:
" Predictably, Fox News' fear and loathing of Muslims was front and center in their coverage of the Egypt demonstrations.... But Sean Hannity took partisanship to new heights - or depths - when he "asked" if there wasn't a connection between the uprising and Democrats being in power in the USA. Not that he was able to make any real connection - you know... the kind he and his colleagues demanded when they attacked those who suggested there might be a link between right-wing violent rhetoric and the Tucson massacre ...
...what Sean Hannity characterized as an "uprising" in Iraq is what I and many others call an "invasion." And it's not as though everything is just peachy there, either. Second, how about the Velvet Revolution? Poland's Solidarity movement? Both of those uprisings ended with democracies.
Or were those good uprisings because white people were trying to overthrow communists during the Reagan era, instead of Muslims trying to overthrow an American-backed dictator in the age of Obama?"