One Thing We Didn't Do at Our Wedding

My partner didn't pose in front of Israeli artillery that was actively shelling Gaza. 

For that matter, we also didn't terrify a population with sonic booms or write songs with lines like, "All day we search houses and kill children" while killing anyone who walks on the street.

How one reconciles the act of marriage with the act of shelling, I don't know, but it speaks volumes about the militarization of a society.

Comments

[Hang On, Sloopy]

Maybe she and her groom are soldiers from a tank unit?

[smitty]

Scott,

Been reading the "Protocols" again?

[scott]

smitty,
what the hell are you talking about? because i'm relating actual occurrences in the recent past i've been "reading the 'Protocols' again"?

if you're going to rebut something, do it with fact, or at least thought out opinion, not by wielding the played-out "anti-semite" card - especially on a post where it doesn't even come close to applying.

virtually every single comment you make here is asenine and useless. if you have nothing worthwhile to contribute, then shut up and go somewhere else.

[smitty]

scott,

You're right,I'm wasting my time commenting on your asinine and worthless rants. Anarchism is a politcal philosophy for undergraduate knuckleheads and suburban dilettantes (and you appear to be both).

Too, when I do go elsewhere virtually no one will be posting to your self-parodying blog.

Write if you get work.

[Marcy Newman]

An extraordinary photograph. Where on earth did you find it? Do you know the real story behind it?

Salam,
Marcy

[scott]

hi marcy,
the photo was on yahoo news - the first link in the post goes to it. i don't know anymore about it except from what's in the caption.

[Kim fanclub]

I'm with Scott on this one, it's pretty tasteless when you think about to pose in front of a tank that is actually in position to kill civilians. Sure there could be another story behind it, but Scott could be right in his interpretation.

[A Yank Abroad]

Or, maybe he's not.

And I think it's fair to say that the "militarization of a society" of which he writes above has been forced upon Israel. I live here due to a work transfer (I wouldn't be here otherwise, that's for sure!), and Israelis as a whole are no great fans of conscription, but they're even less excited about being "driven into the sea" by their lovely neighbors, who have failed thus far, but not for lack of effort.