Saturday, January 3, 2009

ISRAEL OUT NOW


It's that simple.

8 comments:

Sharon said...

Yeah, it is!

Ruth said...

STOP THINKING ABOUT IT AND JUST DO IT.

Ruth said...

STOP THINKING ABOUT IT AND JUST DO IT.

Loring Wirbel said...

I'm pondering wearing an armband or something....

Ruth said...

Loring, here is an excellent piece about the Twitter press conference the Israeli government had. As the author says: "The quickie summary is the enemy of negotiation, peace, and of the kind of creative thought that could get people out of their endlessly repeated, knee-jerk habits of mind."

The article is here.

Loring Wirbel said...

Now I'm conflicted - the Israelis obviously don't like plain, simple, six-word summaries that call things as they really are. On the other hand, I share the annoyance with all things Twitter-y. Wired ran a column in December about how all blogs were being replaced by Twitter, and I responded that any microblog with a 140-character limit can't help but be dominated by narcissistic, superficial nonsense.

But Israel still needs to just LEAVE GAZA.

Loring Wirbel said...

And Ruth Conniff said that Twitter can be of value for quick recitation of the facts. I won't even go that far. Twitter's worthless.

Ruth said...

Agreed.

But I also agree that sometimes you/they have to be willing to accept simple summary statements.