Gaza flotilla - a real banana boat!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
Bananas Boat Song
A ditty the celebrants (seen here) will be singing during tonight's Fast Boat to Gaza fundraiser:
Jews go! Jew-ew-ews go!As an aside, when I googled for the lyrics, the site I clicked on had this disclaimer: "This song is considered sensitive and may contain lyrics that cause offensive (sic) to some people. Please speak to a parent or guardian for further help." No can do since "offensive" is what I aim for in my songs.
Day will come when we float dat boa-oat.
Jews, me say Jews, me say Jews, me say Jews,
Me say Jews, me say Jew-ew-ews go!
Day will come when we float dat boat.
Dance all night, eat a nice buffet.
(Day will come when we float dat boa-oat.)
Den we pray five times a day.
(Day will come when we float dat boa-oat.)
Come, Mister Galloway, don't call him bananas.
(Day will come when we float dat boa-oat.)
Come, Mister Galloway, don't call him bananas.
(Day will come when we float dat boa-oat.)...
Settlers, Shmettlers
The Globe and Mail knows who's to blame should "peace talks" fail--who's always to blame when they fail (as, inevitably, they always do):
Funny, I always thougt what doomed things was the Palestinians' destructive habit of failing to come through on any "peace" conditions/road maps, along with a destructive habit of wanting to deconstruct Jewish settlement in and sovereignty over Israel (which, pacethe clueless Globe, is the real stumbling block to peace).
Update: The Arab "cult of victimization" is hardly a recent phenomenon. In fact it goes waaay back, as Mark Durie observes in his book The Third Way (my current read):
Israel’s destructive habit of permitting the building of Jewish settlements on occupied territories, were it to resume when the moratorium ends on Sunday, threatens to doom the fragile present round of talks. Such a result would feed the Palestinian cult of victimization, which thrives on the characterization of Israel as unyielding and aggressive, and casts Mr. Netanyahu as an untrustworthy partner in peace.Got that? The "settlers," our era's biggest bogeyman/red herring, the Jewiest of Jewish scapegoats, are feeding the "cult of victimization."
Funny, I always thougt what doomed things was the Palestinians' destructive habit of failing to come through on any "peace" conditions/road maps, along with a destructive habit of wanting to deconstruct Jewish settlement in and sovereignty over Israel (which, pacethe clueless Globe, is the real stumbling block to peace).
Update: The Arab "cult of victimization" is hardly a recent phenomenon. In fact it goes waaay back, as Mark Durie observes in his book The Third Way (my current read):
One of the themes of Muhammad's program was an emphasis on the victimhood of Muslims. To sustain the theological position that conquest is liberation, it becomes necessary to seek grounds to find the infidel enemy guilty and deserving of attack. Also, the more extreme the punishment, the more necessary it becomes to insist upon the enemy's guilt. Since, by divine decree Muslims' sufferings were 'worse than slaughter,' it became obligatory for Muslims to regard their victimhood as greater than whatever they inflicted upon their enemies. The greater victimhood became a doctrinal necessity, a feature of the 'compass of faith' for Muslims.
