Jewish Odysseus: IN CONTRAST WITH "PALESTINIAN" CULTURE...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

IN CONTRAST WITH "PALESTINIAN" CULTURE...

A lot of people were dismayed a few weeks ago by the behavior of "Palestinians"--not just the butchers of this huge turtle, but the gleeful, sadistic kids and others watching the slaughter--on the Gaza beach. Sure, sea-turtle blood just might be a great cure for asthma, and the Zionist blockade has rendered these strangely plump folks desperately hungry, but didn't they seem just a bit too gleeful at the misery of this dumb creature?

Compare and contrast with the scene at Jisr al-Zarka yesterday, on Israel's northern coast, as a group of Israeli Jewish and Arab kids got together to celebrate a release of several rehabilitated sea turtles:

Listen to the voices, the clapping, the cheers. Look at the faces of THESE kids.

Which of these two scenes more closely approximates how God wants human beings to behave? Yet which culture is openly determined to annihilate the other, "in the name of Allaaahhh"?

It is not often appreciated, but in Biblical days the Sabbath day of rest was extended to beasts of burden--God wanted the dumb animals to have a day of rest from their labors, too.

Interesting contrast.

[And a good print story on the turtle release from Ha'aretz here.]

3 comments:

Nancy Coppock said...: You are so right my friend. Righteousness is revealed by how one treats those that can do nothing for you. Or as Proverbs says, "A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel."

Interesting the well fed starving mob of kids. How does that fit in with the orthodoxy of Israeli evil?; June 12, 2008 at 5:05:00 AM PDT
Anonymous said...: For those that appreciate life will live their life to the full satisfaction.

For those that bend on destroying life on any pretext, they will always cut short their own life in miserable way and making others too.

Barvo and Kudos to the volunteers.
Woody; June 12, 2008 at 7:57:00 AM PDT
Jewish Odysseus said...: "Interesting the well fed starving mob of kids. How does that fit in with the orthodoxy of Israeli evil?"

Ohhhh, Nancy, you're such a hater. HATER, HATER, HATER!! Have you no shame?!

I love that Proverb, BTW!

Anon, thanks for your well-put words.; June 12, 2008 at 10:52:00 AM PDT

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.