Old Dog V
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
Bob Neumann
One last comment about Katrina. The situation we are now seeing is deteriorating. Rescue personal are being shot at and being told to “step down” till security makes it safer…..
New Orleans is being evacuated. For the first time we have homeland refugees in excess of a million people. They will have to be given food, water, clothing and shelter indefinitely. We may add a few hundred thousand Alabamans and Mississippians who have lost their communities.
Israel just displaced 100,000 of their citizens. They had planned and built for this displacement. Plans to acclimate them in new environments had been a national priority. They were not dragged out of their homes and dumped somewhere and left unaided.
On the other hand we may have a million people angry not because of a political situation…but angry because they have not gotten enough, fast enough. But what is enough? CNN is showing over and over angry people sitting in garbage yelling “two days”…. for two days no one has “met their needs”.
Everyone had clean clothes…people were smoking their cigarettes and hiding their beer bottles from the camera. No one seemed willing to sweep up the garbage around them….no one seemed willing to bag their own garbage. We see them sitting and waiting…
In 1947-48 in the mideast thousands of people left their homes because Islamic armies were marching against the JEWISH SETTLEMENTS and the nation of ISRAELas acknowledged by the UNITED NATIONS. They were told they could loot all that they could find once all the cursed jews were killed or pushed into the sea. Sounds like a plan….only those “lazy”, “cowardly” jews were far from lazy, and valorous in battle over and over. When the dust settled, the ISRAELIS had survived. Now all those people who chose to leave their homes had to decide: they chose not to go back to their villages and homes. Overnight the PALASTINIAN REFUGEE was created and for almost 60 years has been a global problem.
Many Palestinians went elsewhere…the USA, BRITIAN, Europe and several Islamic countries. They chose to assimilate into their new homes. Yes they still see themselves as PALASTINIANS….
But most chose to stay in their camps…now third and forth generation REFUGEES…. AMERIKA may just see that mindset among some of our new evacuees….displaced people. Everyday it rains in the Great Plains and the midwest, more water will flow to the MISSISSIPPI and down to THE BIG EASY. Remember the floods in the MIDWEST in 1994-5?….
This story will last months…until something worse happens…
selah
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