[email protected] wrote:
> Hey Ruth.
>
> changing subject again, I just finished reading Gorazde. It was written
> by Joe Sacco that you recommended. Great book. For the humanists in
> the list, and for everyone else, I highly recommend both Palestine and
> Gorazde by Sacco. I am planning to buy Palestine for my uncle. He is an
> hard core zionist. However he is open to discussion.
>
> Andres
>
Hi Andres
Your results list is identical to mine.
To truly understand your uncle's point of view, take a look at Maus,
also a graphic book, by Spiegelman.
I am firmly in both camps. I don't mean on the fence either. I'm in
total sympathy with both sides. Not so odd. There are many, even a
majority of Israelis and Palestinians who know they could get along as
in fact they once did.
Especially if you have kids, the docu movie, Promises, gives quite a bit
of insight into how even children feel about the whole mess.
So, how off topic is this? I have swim workout pages that get as many
as 3000 hits per day. In the morning I check the stat counter to see
from which countries the hits came in the early hours before the light
gets here. Often I see Iraq, Israel, Korea, Croatia, Arab Emirates,
Iran - all those sorts of places. Would someone tell the powers that be
that the citizens of those countries want to swim better as well as go
about their daily lives as we do, that killing each other and everybody
is not a preoccupation with them as our government says it is. I know
I'm repeating myself, but I think of this often.
Ruth