I think I've seen the documentary too, and... not so good. Lots of fear mongering.

This sort of thing always reminds of this one friend/acquaintance person I knew who was horribly anti-Islam and carried on as if she knew so much about it, and when I asked where she learned so much about the religion, she said that she went to a lecture on Islam given by her Missouri Synod Lutheran Pastor at church. I asked if her pastor's opinion wasn't, perhaps, biased, and she seemed really puzzled.

Typo Boy, I don't see how my approach contradicting your. When saying "life is unfair", I also mean "acknowledge the pain (on both sides), suck it up this way or another (with/without compensation), move on". Honestly, I can't see how anything I ever wrote here can be related to automatic hate of Palestinians. And I don't hate "them", certainly not by default. I'm saying that we had difficulties, they had theirs, talking forever about who suffered more won't get us anywhere.

Anyhow, I think you're reading too much into Palestinian/Israel role. There were other countries involved (Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt...). Everyone is feeling much more comfortable with throwing this on Israel and the Palestinians alone, but there are other immediate factors in the short-long history of "the situation".

I'm watching a documentary "Islam: What the West Needs to Know". It is scaring me a bit. I wonder how accurate it is.

omnis, go and read this: Shir "Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure." Feb 2, 2010 1:04:22 am PST and you may want to read the discussion before it.

And in much happier news: seems like there will be a site. I'm starting to get some positive feedback telling me I'm not crazy, but still need a legal hat for the site.

Edit: hold on. I don't think I saw/said proper hello to zuisa till now. So hello, zuisa!

Thanks!! I haven't been posting too much 'cause it seems that you all are awake and posting while I am asleep and I get up and it's like "Natter: 526 new Messages" and I'm like AAAAAAH. But I've been very much enjoying reading!!

Hello, zuisa! Welcome!

Hello zusia, you're delurking at a lively time!

(Of course, just about all our times are lively. Or punctuation arguments.)

And in much happier news: seems like there will be a site. I'm starting to get some positive feedback telling me I'm not crazy, but still need a legal hat for the site.

Shir, that's ASTOUNDING.

And in much happier news: seems like there will be a site.

Excellent!

Yay for Hollaback Israel! Or whatever it ends up called. :)

I have apparently been eaten by a fatigue monster this wekeend. Good god, y'all. Thursday night I went to bed around the usual time, got up for a teleconference 7ish hours later, was so tired I went back to bed after the hour telecon, for three more hours. (Total sleep ~10.5 hours).

Friday night I went out dancing, contemplated meeting friends at another bar, but was sleepy (?) so went home and read a bit, then went to bed at 1:30AM (mind you I'd slept in until 12:30PM on Friday). ...slept for 11 hours. Got up and went to a friend's afternoon BBQ. Got home at 5:30PM and felt like crap, thought "I'll take a nap!" Took a flexeril and a painkiller and laid down on the couch...for four hours, at which point I got up and went to bed. Woke up a few times this morning and rolled back over. Total sleep: 16 hours (after only being awake about 5 hours on Saturday).

WTF?!?!

meara, the fatigue monster sure is getting around this weekend. I've been a useless lump, staring vacantly into space for most of the time I haven't been asleep, which hasn't been much. Where you're too tired to watch television? Yeah, just give it up and go back to bed.

It seems to be an epidemic of fatigue. I've been doing nothing more than skimming all over the internet to keep me occupied and ignoring chores I know need to be done. The only thing (semi)useful that I got done yesterday was getting about 800 words of fic written. And I need another 3400 by this Thursday. Oy.

Welcome zuisa! Always nice to see a delurker (when I type that word, I can't help but think of the Star Trek Red Alert sound, and imagining a Romulan bird of prey miraging into reality. I know, I'm a geek! Don't judge me!)

I fell asleep during the doc. Shir, I'll try and read that book some before resuming it.

Shir, great news wrt your site! C'mon legal eagle, respond, so Shir can start it!

ION- I'm going to try and watch some World Cup action. I have to shower and go to work here soon, so DVR, don't fail me now! Although I am 1/4 German by heritage, I'm afraid I'll be shouting Aussie Aussie Aussie!! Don't tell me how it ends, I won't get home until 4ish board time.