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Monday, August 16, 2010
Short people and a jumping monkey!
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I am short, always have been short and from what I hear will get shorter as I age:) I can't reach the top shelf in the closet without a stool! I can't reach up high in the cabinet! I have to wear petite clothes because everything is too long otherwise! I always have to stand in the front in pictures! I don't really hate being short but sometimes it would be nice to be just a wee bit taller! Why am I telling you this? Because my new vehicle was like climbing up in a truck! It didn't come with steprails and I had to add them just like I did my last vehicle. When I went to Church on Sunday and had to hike up in there with my dress on, I knew the steprail was a MUST for me! So at 8AM Monday morning I sat in the waiting room at the dealership while they added me some steprails! It was a quiet time, I took some craft books and magazines and read the newspaper! I enjoyed my morning!
In the afternoon, my Sister Cindy brought me a "jumping monkey"! Well she wasn't jumping in these pictures but trust me all of those pictures were a blur!
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She brought me Avery until her Mother got home from work. She was wired and jumping all over the place. I asked her if she had eaten a bunch of chocolate and she said "sure":) We worked on the alphabet and she wanted me to read!
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We had a bunch of fun and giggled a lot! I told her that it wouldn't be long until she would be going to Ms. Pauline's class! She said, "I know, everyone is telling me that and I don't want to hear it anymore":) I said well OK!
That's all for me! Pa and I took a ride and picked Autumn up after Softball practice and back home for dinner and a few hundred ballgames on TV:)
Enjoy your day my friends! I hope my Iphone works better for me today! It would not let me open email... ugh!
HUGS and Happy Tuesday!
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i really want to say
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i really want to say how i feel like crap and im not in the mood
Cruel and stupid ...
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That seems to me the only way of describing the actions and reactions of the female Israeli soldier who posted photos to Facebook of herself posing in front of bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees. Her comments to Israeli media seem to indicate that she really doesn't understand the significance of her actions.
"I still don't understand what's wrong," Abergil told Army Radio on Thursday, saying that the "pictures were taken in good will, there was no statement in them."
The former IDF soldier said the pictures, which she said were of Gazans who had been arrested while attempting to crossover into Israel, were meant to depict a "military experience," and were not intended to injure the detainees.
During the Army Radio interview, Abergil repeatedly said that it had never occurred to her that "the picture would be problematic," asking interviewer Ilana Dayan whether the media asked for detainees permission when they film them.
It's interesting to note that she doesn't see any statement in the photos she posted, or in the comments she later wrote on Facebook. This speaks to something that I have observed among some Israelis; a kind of ignorance and profound immaturity amongst a certain segment of the population.
Some have argued that this behavior is a result of Israel's control of the territories and the Palestinians. I'm not so sure. I have seen some Israelis behaving in equally crass ways to each other. Israelis are notoriously blunt, and will often speak their mind without considering the impact of their words or actions on other people.
Many Israelis simply believe it is more important to be straightforward than to be sensitive. The merits of this line of thinking are highly debatable.
The IDF has an important role to serve and valid reasons to be in the West Bank and Gaza. Detaining Palestinian's who attempt to cross into Israel, as apparently these individuals were doing, should be rightly prevented.
However, Israeli society must ensure that the task is carried out with appropriate sensitivity to the Palestinian population. In this case, it is clear that we failed
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