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Apathy
Posted Sep 9, 2001
Lately I find myself less and less able to take interest in my life. Though I don't know why. I just kinda sit at the computer or whatever, not really caring, bored but not bored enough to get up and do somehing. I think it's cause, after so many months of communal living, I'm suddenly more or less alone. So my family just annoys me, and having to be active to be with friends is not something I'm used to. It'll pass, I guess. Maybe...
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I'll Cry If I Want To
Posted Sep 5, 2001
cause today is the anniversary of my birth. Around the world my followers are celebrating 
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Pathetic
Posted May 26, 2001
I'm just another neglected, dying page. One of thousands. I used to talk to people, and now this? h well, nobody cares anyway.
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Springtime in Jesusville.
Posted Apr 14, 2001
It's beautiful here in the greater Nazareth region. Warm weather, flowers, palm trees, no school (always a prime concern of The Man), my boyfriend, wild parties, drugs and alcohol, and loads of other moral decadence. Come on over and join the fun, all y'all, I'm having the time of my life.
In other news I'm reading Kahlil Gibran and wow is he zonked. I gave SP (that's the boyfriend) A Wrinkle in Time - his third book in English, the first being Slaughterhouse-Five and the second The House at Pooh Corner. Great literature, all. Recommendations on number four?
(not that anyone will read this)
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your israeli correspondant writes
Posted Oct 3, 2000
You know that awful feeling when you've just written a long, touching email about peace between brothers, or something, and it gets erased? Yeah.
Here I go again.
A strange little anecdote:
Several of us (myself included) were unable to return to kibbutz in time for school due to road closings.
Thus the excuse is "I can't go to school because the roads are full of rioting Arabs".
Do you think that would work back home?
Now some facts:
-Death count's around fifty now, with no more than five Israeli
-The 12-year-old Palestinian who was shot was on every Israeli front page, enlarged. I nearly cried. His father did live, to call the vengeance of the world on Israel. Interestingly however that particular bit of crossfire involved shooting from both the Israelis and the Palestinians, so we don't actually know who shot him.
I've been struggling through the Israeli news, and it's... very different. Can you imagine writing about all this rioting, when it's in, more or less, your backyard?
Ariel Sharon is an idiot who I personally could do without. I saw an interview with him where he claimed his visit had nothing to do with it, it was just that the Arabs were looking for an excuse to throw rocks at us. Oh god.
I have to admit, though, that he has a point. No matter how provocatively guarded a visit to the Temple Mount he made, that's not a valid reason to throw stones at innocent tourists.
The again, stone throwing is not a valid reason to shoot at the Arabs.
I think if Israel had, outside Jerusalem, kept its soldiers outside the villages and let the riots die down, it (roads closed for a few hours) would have been a rather good trade for the lives of fifty, and who knows how many more, men. Sending in the troops was a definite mistake.
Then again, the Israeli leaders aren't egging things on nearly as badly as the Arab/Palestinian ones. Many continue to tell their followers this 'war' is for the glory of Allah, to saver Jerusalem, et cetera, and provoke them to keep. Palestinian controlled areas do not have freedom of speech, and I've seen what the PA media puts out - Arafat is making things much worse.
This summer I visited an Arab village. It was called Maj'd el Crum. I remember the lovely people who invited me into their homes? I remember the nice little town.
For the past several days, Maj'd el Crum and a few other Arab towns up north of here have been filled with riots. I couldn't get that coffee today. I might get pelted with stones though. It's a sobering thought.
I really don't know what to say. I think it's amazing what men will do, what they will give for a few square feet of land.
But I think it's even more amazing how their leaders will use that for their own good. Sharon, Arafat, others. Oh god.
Nazareth, an Arab town, is across the valley. Before it got dark, we could see smoke from there. Dark, black smoke. It's kind of strange, to me, how this is so close I can smell it. The West Bank is three miles from here.
I hope you all have a happy, healthy, peaceful new year.
-Ruth-
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