I don't think he is, though.Ĭompletely unrelated, The Hush Sound's new album Goodbye Blues came out, and Panic(!) at the Disco's ( Pretty. I suppose you could rationalize that Cruse is saying something powerful about gender roles and sexuality by minimizing the difference between genders. I'm glad we're moving on to Fun Home soon I actually like that one. I like interesting, aesthetically pleasing art, not mediocre pointillism. All of the characters are the same brand of large and ugly. The men and women look the same! Her hair and dress is the only thing really separating them. It's not like the world's getting smaller through globalization or anything. Let's keep building walls, because we'll all obviously survive if we don't cooperate. More or less, it's even more people dying over land, which has happened since the start. The land that's Israel has never been an all-Jewish area, and it's certainly not now, yet it's almost impossible for anyone else in the Middle East to travel to it. A nation, not a nation-state, is many people of the same heritage/culture/nationality living together. I'm not denying Jewish people the right to a Jewish nation, but the thing is, most Jewish people have been victims of diaspora, and are spread all over the world. No one can claim religious right to a territory, especially not one as profitable as the one Israel sits in now. And how that was right, even though that dream wasn't realized until the 1960s, and even today there's a wall and constant military control.įirst of all, I could care less where your God says you can live He's not everyone's god/s. When I still went to church, we learned about the "Holy Land" and how it was promised to the Israelites by their God (Zionists). The death toll, though? Higher on the Palestinian side. I always read about how the Jewish were killed by Palestinians, but never the other way around. The media here raises you sympathetic with the Israeli cause. How does no one realize what they're doing by living in fear of anyone Middle Eastern? The world "terrorist" is tossed around like nothing these days, and it's because if we're not in terror, we won't follow blindly. I noticed this was a problem then, when I was thirteen. In America, it's only okay to be Christian, really. There was a strong anti-Islam feeling in the air that exists even now, some seven years later. I started realizing it after 9/11, and it's only gotten worse since then.ĭoes anyone else remember right after, when the press got released that the guys that hijacked the planes were Muslim? I remember interview with Arabic-American people being afraid to go to mosques, for fear of being attacked. Growing up (mostly) in the US has skewed my viewpoint on Middle Eastern conflicts without my even knowing it. The thing that gets me the most about Palestine is how so much of the information is new, and it shouldn't be.