Happy Purim!

Celebrate by committing acts of war!

Israeli Forces Seize Palestinian Jail in Jericho

The operation, coming two weeks before the election in Israel, was among the most aggressive Israeli incursions into a Palestinian town in months. Israeli forces surrounded the city to prevent entry, set up checkpoints to keep people from reaching the nearest hospital and blew down walls as they prepared to raid the jail, which is housed in a local Palestinian military building called Moqata.

Bulldozers then started to tear down the building.

Tsk, tsk. This is a shameful act that should be condemned by Western governments, especially those who are always preaching "democracy."

I'm so sick of this, so sick of this mess that perpetuates nonsensical violence, so sick of both sides being equally wrong but one side being seen as more right than the other, so sick of this mess that started the whole terrorist movement in the first place. I remember sitting on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea one very hot January day, staring across the water at Israel and contemplating this land which is the basis of all of our problems. The warmth and the sunshine were the only things that felt alive as I sat there that day; the place was spiritually dead, the air as heavy as my despondent heart. I think God abandoned that land long ago, for a Just god would not allow such atrocities, such hatred, such utter disregard for the sanctity and pricelessness of human life.