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Comment on: How do you contribute?

Bigthink — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:10:37 +0100

I dont. Like most people on Earth I go about my daily life, and do nothing. I could be out planting trees, and saving the rain forest. Unfortunately I choose not to. I never ask myself this question, tomorrow is a new day. I will contribute to my Earth and civilization. We are in this together, all our feet have to move in the same direction to get anywhere.

Comment on: How do you contribute?

Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:52:29 +0100

"An Israeli mother literally crying"

You make it seem as though a weeping Israeli mother is an exceptional thing. Well, Israelis give Palestinian mothers reason to weep every single day. Palestinian mothers are made to realize that like their own generation, their children's will be refugees without a nation, in a land stolen from them. Children in an environment where nothing can be built that can't be bulldozed or demolished by Israelis...No hope for a decent education or a livelihood. Nothing. The UN recognizes the plight of the Palestinians as the longest standing refugee crisis in history. Wonder if that makes Palestinian mothers cry?

Comment on: How do you contribute?

Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:11:54 +0100

Israeli mothers crying..

Israelis have settled down on land that was not theirs, forcing Palestinians to live in what are essentially ghetto conditions. Water is diverted from the Palestinians to the Israelis, roads are built for Israelis while Palestinians are forced to walk along the sides..

The contribution of America to the Arab-Israeli situation in general, is to give Israel a free pass at creating and maintaining one of the world's biggest and longest standing human rights atrocities of our times.