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Perhaps the implications of the articles cited are so boldly infected with a familiar foreboding that it's difficult to make the same 'poor old besieged Israel' arguments. (although, I do believe I heard one mention of 'the destruction of Israel' go creaking by). I always find that to be a little silly - the thought that Israel will be the one destroyed if'n there were to be some sort of cataclysmic hoedown to take place in the ME.
Anyway, I find the boycott controversy to be pretty disturbing, but for now am holding out hope that Israel, for all its current dreams of a Zionist utopia without the meddling and distraction of, um, others to muck things up for them, cannot in this day and age be so flagrantly fascistic with their own people and maintain a place with the 'cool kids,' internationally speaking. Of course, I could be wrong.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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