Having struck a pedestrian who ran in front of our car (decades ago now), I relive a bit of the adrenaline rush that strikes us when such things happen in a split second as I read your account.
Holding onto our humanity seems in short supply. I reflect on this often in my own musings. One from a few years back:
Journey
Ours is a journey from darkness to light.
It’s a life’s work, which does not come easily
or automatically.
Whatever gifts and graces come to us as
we make that journey—that which is both
means and end—
bring order to the chaos of our lives.
We must press on with the work
of striving toward a better moral understanding,
attainable through
the wisdom of creation.
And if the journey’s troubles wake us in the night,
pondering the darkness and the light,
may we find ourselves holding each pilgrim’s walk in prayer,
One more thought I have for Cara's article. With the planned extermination of the Palestinians by the "New Nazis," aka Jewish Zionists should the goody-two-shows concept of non-commitment in aiding those being randomly murdered the right thing to do, or should real humanitarian help would be, in my opinion, to suppress the oppressors for liberating those persons still alive in the ongoing holocaust by the savagery of the Masters of Propaganda in molding Gentile Thought in approving the continued death, destruction, misery and suffering of Palestinian children, women, men and babies from the barbaric bombing of Gaza by the so-called "Chosen People" (chosen to do what?)
One of my long time heroes who has the courage over the years to write about Israel and the Jewish Lobby, is Dr. Philip Giraldi. For those of you interested, click on this article and see what you think.
You make such an important point, Cara. Our humanity is all we've got, and we need to hold onto it.
It brings to mind something a friend told me. She'd seen a document about Auschwitz, and one of the survivors said the people she felt most sorry for were the guards, because they had lost their humanity. That has always stuck with me.
Forgive me, Cara. I conclude that the Israelis have forfeited their humanity, much like the death camp guards lost theirs. Regardless how you lose it or why you lose it, it's gone and you're a lesser person as a result. I find the Israelis constant playing of the holocaust card quite disgusting considering they are the ones perpetrating the holocaust on the Palestinians, as if the Palestinians were somehow responsible for the Jewish Holocaust.
Close call on the road, Cara! Thank God nobody was hurt and it was even steven with the other motorist.
Touching article about losing one's humanity. Easier said then done, but a fundamental virtue for us struggling mortals to master.
In spite of the disinformation about Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East" is quite untrue, as their are more Zionists, or "go-along types" in that nation than are non-arrogant Jews, who look down on the Palestinians and other people they see as inferior to them. They keep the Neo-Nazi Likud Party in power, the Hitler wannabe, B. Netanyahu in power, so who are they fooling? They're fooling the willfully ignorant Christian Zionists for one, plus the multitude who don't study history or read and listen to alternative information outlets.
And yes, as Ms Diana van Eyk said in one of her comments, "not all Israelis are supporters of Netanyahu," just like all Germans weren't Nazis either.
Dennis Bernstein, a humanr gentleman who hosts his radion broadcast "Flashpoints" om kpfa.org, Monday-Friday, 5:00-6:00 pm (Pacific Coast Time) Mon-Fri has had many extraordinary guest speakers on half-hour segments on the situation in Gaza. When I listen,whether while driving or at home, listening on the computer, I have inner tears of sadness for the slaughtered children, women and men being slaughtered by the Jewish Nazis , then my worldly self says, ...I'll stop there. You won't like my H. H. thoughts on how to resolve the Israeli created problem. It's an inner battle between thinking negative, destructive thoughts and turning the other cheek, as the Buddhists would do, and the denied Messiah, the Master Teacher Emanuel, aka, Jesus Christ would do. So, with acute stomach cramps as I listen to the Palestinian Holocaust, carried out by the secret admirers in Israel of the German "supermen" of the SS, the tug of war in my mind goes on, and so far, my thoughts and actions (verbal and written) have persuaded me to travel along Ms Marianna's highway, of Honest Compassion for all, and an end to the death and destruction industries with their enormous profits of blood money for their investors. Now to relax and watch a movie.
I will be the first to agree that the standard deviation from the mean is never 1. That said, let me say several other things. One, the Israelis have elected and re-elected Bibi Netanyahoo who is clearly a racist. Two, my sources (CN, RT, and a variety of professional commenters – Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter, Patrick Laurence) say that the Israelis have given up on forcing the Palestinians to accept the theft of their land and their relegation to second class citizen. Three. This is not Judaism as I have known it. I am not Jewish but I worked for McDonnell Douglas for 30 odd years and back in the early '90s we had a layoff. My boss, Rich who is Jewish called me (I was a supervisor) and said, I need a name. I said, Rich... and he stopped me and said, trust me, Jeff. When it was all said and done, we laid nobody off from our organization. Rich had gotten on the phone and lord knows what else but everybody had a job. Some had to move to California some to Arizona, some got to stay in St. Louis but were in different divisions now. When I think of Jews, that's what I think of. I don't see that happening in Gaza or the West Bank.
Having struck a pedestrian who ran in front of our car (decades ago now), I relive a bit of the adrenaline rush that strikes us when such things happen in a split second as I read your account.
Holding onto our humanity seems in short supply. I reflect on this often in my own musings. One from a few years back:
Journey
Ours is a journey from darkness to light.
It’s a life’s work, which does not come easily
or automatically.
Whatever gifts and graces come to us as
we make that journey—that which is both
means and end—
bring order to the chaos of our lives.
We must press on with the work
of striving toward a better moral understanding,
attainable through
the wisdom of creation.
And if the journey’s troubles wake us in the night,
pondering the darkness and the light,
may we find ourselves holding each pilgrim’s walk in prayer,
for together, we must
make the journey
toward Love’s eternal light.
TP Graf from "Looking Out onto Our World"
Cara,
Excellent piece. I’m so glad to have stumbled across your page and read several more of your recent articles as soon as I finished this one.
Wow, that sounds like a terribly close call. And hoping our humanity can return worldwide.
One more thought I have for Cara's article. With the planned extermination of the Palestinians by the "New Nazis," aka Jewish Zionists should the goody-two-shows concept of non-commitment in aiding those being randomly murdered the right thing to do, or should real humanitarian help would be, in my opinion, to suppress the oppressors for liberating those persons still alive in the ongoing holocaust by the savagery of the Masters of Propaganda in molding Gentile Thought in approving the continued death, destruction, misery and suffering of Palestinian children, women, men and babies from the barbaric bombing of Gaza by the so-called "Chosen People" (chosen to do what?)
One of my long time heroes who has the courage over the years to write about Israel and the Jewish Lobby, is Dr. Philip Giraldi. For those of you interested, click on this article and see what you think.
https://globalresearch.ca/week-like-no-other-americas-love-for-israel-dr-philip-giraldi/5843347
You make such an important point, Cara. Our humanity is all we've got, and we need to hold onto it.
It brings to mind something a friend told me. She'd seen a document about Auschwitz, and one of the survivors said the people she felt most sorry for were the guards, because they had lost their humanity. That has always stuck with me.
Forgive me, Cara. I conclude that the Israelis have forfeited their humanity, much like the death camp guards lost theirs. Regardless how you lose it or why you lose it, it's gone and you're a lesser person as a result. I find the Israelis constant playing of the holocaust card quite disgusting considering they are the ones perpetrating the holocaust on the Palestinians, as if the Palestinians were somehow responsible for the Jewish Holocaust.
Close call on the road, Cara! Thank God nobody was hurt and it was even steven with the other motorist.
Touching article about losing one's humanity. Easier said then done, but a fundamental virtue for us struggling mortals to master.
In spite of the disinformation about Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East" is quite untrue, as their are more Zionists, or "go-along types" in that nation than are non-arrogant Jews, who look down on the Palestinians and other people they see as inferior to them. They keep the Neo-Nazi Likud Party in power, the Hitler wannabe, B. Netanyahu in power, so who are they fooling? They're fooling the willfully ignorant Christian Zionists for one, plus the multitude who don't study history or read and listen to alternative information outlets.
And yes, as Ms Diana van Eyk said in one of her comments, "not all Israelis are supporters of Netanyahu," just like all Germans weren't Nazis either.
Dennis Bernstein, a humanr gentleman who hosts his radion broadcast "Flashpoints" om kpfa.org, Monday-Friday, 5:00-6:00 pm (Pacific Coast Time) Mon-Fri has had many extraordinary guest speakers on half-hour segments on the situation in Gaza. When I listen,whether while driving or at home, listening on the computer, I have inner tears of sadness for the slaughtered children, women and men being slaughtered by the Jewish Nazis , then my worldly self says, ...I'll stop there. You won't like my H. H. thoughts on how to resolve the Israeli created problem. It's an inner battle between thinking negative, destructive thoughts and turning the other cheek, as the Buddhists would do, and the denied Messiah, the Master Teacher Emanuel, aka, Jesus Christ would do. So, with acute stomach cramps as I listen to the Palestinian Holocaust, carried out by the secret admirers in Israel of the German "supermen" of the SS, the tug of war in my mind goes on, and so far, my thoughts and actions (verbal and written) have persuaded me to travel along Ms Marianna's highway, of Honest Compassion for all, and an end to the death and destruction industries with their enormous profits of blood money for their investors. Now to relax and watch a movie.
I will be the first to agree that the standard deviation from the mean is never 1. That said, let me say several other things. One, the Israelis have elected and re-elected Bibi Netanyahoo who is clearly a racist. Two, my sources (CN, RT, and a variety of professional commenters – Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter, Patrick Laurence) say that the Israelis have given up on forcing the Palestinians to accept the theft of their land and their relegation to second class citizen. Three. This is not Judaism as I have known it. I am not Jewish but I worked for McDonnell Douglas for 30 odd years and back in the early '90s we had a layoff. My boss, Rich who is Jewish called me (I was a supervisor) and said, I need a name. I said, Rich... and he stopped me and said, trust me, Jeff. When it was all said and done, we laid nobody off from our organization. Rich had gotten on the phone and lord knows what else but everybody had a job. Some had to move to California some to Arizona, some got to stay in St. Louis but were in different divisions now. When I think of Jews, that's what I think of. I don't see that happening in Gaza or the West Bank.