I'm off again, this time to Fraser's Hill for TLC's assembly retreat.
I need it.
Feeling on the low side; lacking the something that's been shaky since begining of the year.
All relationships have their ups and downs.
Camp talks are about “Understanding and Explaining the Christian Belief.”
Sigh.
Feeling a little melancholic.
Why does the world suck so much...
Earlier on i attended a public talk by an american journalist about Palestine-Israel Conflict. The stories, descriptions, and the photo's she took were so sad.
A reminder to be thankful for what i have.
During the slow periods at work, i had a lot of stare-into-space-thinking time. And i find, much of my thought still revolves around unresolved issues and unanswered questions.
Past Present Future.
Sigh.
I just wanna be green goo. Like Flubber, except not held together like jelly, but rather just gooing around on the floor like a snail.
This is such a random entry.
3 comments:
you went for the alison weir talk?????I so wanted to go for that, i saw it in the star news paper on the plane back to kl.was she good?she's quite a noted biographer.i mean internationally,
JOSHUA LEE
Yeah i went... and i was thinking of who else to call to go with me but i thought you'd be too tired...
=(
To me, she was pretty good.
She started off her talk showing a video clip of 5 women who's home was Israel but they were not Jewish and they were forced to do a strip search at the airport when they went back to Israel. It was really sad to hear a story of this disabled woman, they searched her, then took away her maxi pad, and for the next few hours she sat crying and bleeding on her wheelchair until her flight. They wouldn't allow her to even go and buy a pad. I mean, that's the worst. Another was a 70yr old, forced to strip and bend over. Imagine your grandmother going through such demoralisation. All the women said it was a clear message to them saying, DOnt come Back.
Alison explained how the main problem is the media in the US giving distorted facts and the reports since 2000 that have always been backwards, with Israel seemingly the one with more casualties/victims when the statistics she had discovered showed it was the other way around. Its just that the media chooses to report say, 80% of the Israel side, and 20% of Palestine. So this has affected the way Americans view the whole issue, and therefore are more inclined to be on Israel's side without knowing the full story.
The next thing that was interesting was how the US gives Israel US$8 mill perDAY in their taxpayers money. She was just explaining how many Americans don't know this at all, and thats why they cant see how they are also responsible for what's going on. The politics involved. The lobbying.
She went travelling around Palestine for a month, showed scenes of Palestinians forced to flee as their home and lands get bulldozed. What's a farmer to do without his crops? And she told us in the streets she saw Israeli tanks sitting in corners and the soldiers at the checkpoints with loaded guns aimed right the people. There was a case of a boy, who was in his room watching his father painting that was shot dead by the Israeli soldiers that simply let loose gunfire on an apartment block. He was 9years old.
I mean, i know we witness these kinds of horrors on the news daily, but hearing it coming from the mouth of a person who's been there and seen it was still much more moving.
The Q&A session was also pretty darn good, there was a mixed crowd- and even some Palestinians and Israeli's that voiced their opinions.
So yeah, it was a good talk.
I liked how she said, dont look at this issue as if it's a football game, with 2teams going back and forth and you have to choose to support either one or the other. Look at the facts, and then approach it as a human rights issue; where if there is wrong doing, it should be stopped.
Oh, and its Palestinian Muslims, Christians and lain-lain that are being attacked.
One important thing that was noted during the talk and the Q&A session was that its not a religious battle, but an ethnic one.
Big difference.
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