Seven years ago today the world changed in unimaginable ways. It changed far beyond the huge hole left in the Manhattan skyline, the tall and magnificent buildings stretching skyward with their lights that used to fill my view as I sipped coffee on my couch and wondered about the lives of those working so late and providing me, by their office lights, almost a magical experience every evening of every day. Those buildings, lights, and lives disappeared seven years ago today but a lot more disappeared with them.
The change went beyond Manhattan, and it went beyond the U.S., and it went beyond the wars that destructive, senseless, inconceivable act sparked in Afghanistan and in Iraq. The entire world changed. While the world and the people of Manhattan and Washington have returned to their everyday lives, their daily routines, a banal normality, it is a new normality that we all live with. The world not only seems a far less safe place but is in fact less safe.
September 11, 2001 ushered in a worldwide intifada. Since that day, terrorist plots have been fostered and foiled in nearly every Western country –including countries that before have seen no acts of terrorism directed against their lands, such as Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark — and some of those terrorist plots have succeeded. It has heightened the acts of terror in those countries that are far too familiar with terrorism such as in India, Indonesia, Spain and across the Middle East. It has given strength to extremist elements that were previously marginalized and thus we have seen the rise in not just rhetoric but also power and acts of movements such as Hamas, Hezbollah. It is why, in no small part, today Iran has risen to be such a threat. And it has increased extremism within the muslim communities around the world, reaching two and three generations removed from their Middle Eastern roots.
It has also increased fear and suspicion, that in turn have bred discrimination against muslims around the world.
It has been seven years since those heinous acts on 9/11 and the world is not the same.
Hello Yael,
I hope you are well, Yael.
Here is an interesting article. When I told you sometimes ago my point of view on peace, you thought I was wrong. This article “Nasrallah: No peace in Middle East as long as Israel exists - Haaretz - Israel News” at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020326.html should clearly show you that, unfortunately, I was right on what I believe about the Arabs surrounding Israel.
What I “like” about Nashrallah is that he is honest in his hate of Israel, contrary to many Israeli Arabs who are silent worshipers of Nashrallah.
So, giving even one more inch of Israel will not help Israel at all!! Or it will increase the probability of a full war in the future to destroy Israel and kill its Jewish population when Israel decides to weaken further by giving more territories that, historically, are Jewish.
Have a good and PEACEful coming Shabbat, Yael. Yes, Israel will have peace but only on Shabbats.
Emet!
[...] Israeli Yael, the world has changed since September 11 in “unimaginable ways.” She adds: It changed [...]
Someone that believes that Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim had the right to steal Palestine from the native population on the basis of an etymological relationship between the word “Jew” and the word “Judea” would by the same reasoning argue that the Irish have the right to ethnically cleanse and steal Rome because the Irish mostly practice the Roman Catholic religion, which contains the word “Roman” in its name. Zionist ideology is so extreme that it is practically psychotic, and any Zionist or supporter of Zionism should be denaturalized and treated as a dangerous psychopath.
BTW, Yael misses the really big change that I describe with an image on my blog for Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionst Israel in Israel, Zionism and Mortgage Meltdown. (I am not sure how to enter an image into comments on this blog.)
The US economic crisis is directly attributable to the US alliance with Israel.
While there is some value in the intellectual effort to understand how Zionism debases our political language in the USA, arguing about Zionism in the effort to redress the crimes of ethnic Ashkenazi interlopers and invaders against Palestinian is becoming less important because of the increasing evidence that economics will force the ultimate demise of Zionism and the State of Israel.
Oh, you pisshair ugly beeach. A zionist is a zionist is a pig is a zionist.
Socialism coupled with that racist ideology is like a pile of shit with a feather stuck on it. Same attraction for the shitflies that you people are. Only more interesting for shitlovers that Judaism creates an masse.
Go eat some more of that shit and die, you scum.
[...] Israeli Yael, the world has changed since September 11 in “unimaginable ways.” She adds: It changed [...]