tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post115293011813710786..comments2023-10-27T08:09:37.525-04:00Comments on Bhikkhu's Blog: Middle East backgrounderAjahn Punnadhammohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09660291919550183357noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1153259351885815632006-07-18T17:49:00.000-04:002006-07-18T17:49:00.000-04:00My perception has been that Dubya seems to take ma...My perception has been that Dubya seems to take marching orders from Israel on Middle Eastern issues. I have rarely if ever seen him twist their arms to advance any "American" policy the way Carter through Clinton (including Papa Bush) had.<BR/><BR/>As an American, it has always disturbed me that the confict has been both lopsided (look at the Israeli casulty numbers versus the Palestinian Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1153127895189765562006-07-17T05:18:00.000-04:002006-07-17T05:18:00.000-04:00[Off topic:] Interesting to see contact between Bu...[Off topic:] Interesting to see contact between Buddhists and anarchists in this forum; there really isn't much mutual awareness between the two. Perhaps Bhante will, in future, write a column on "Buddhism and/or/as Anarchism"?<BR/><BR/>[On topic:] An interesting summation from the Bhante, but I would like to add a very crude and obvious point that underlies many of the finer points raised: the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1153050282516295712006-07-16T07:44:00.000-04:002006-07-16T07:44:00.000-04:00Correct, Mubarak was not murdered, yet! Maybe Bhan...Correct, Mubarak was not murdered, yet! Maybe Bhante knows something we don't know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1153048805766991602006-07-16T07:20:00.000-04:002006-07-16T07:20:00.000-04:00It was not Mubarak who was murdered, but Anuar Saa...It was not Mubarak who was murdered, but Anuar Saadat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1152951823926919672006-07-15T04:23:00.000-04:002006-07-15T04:23:00.000-04:00What is happening now is just the Hezbollah having...What is happening now is just the Hezbollah having a noisy party. In future it will be Egypt, Lybia, Morroco, Algeria, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan,<BR/>Sudan, Nigeria, Indonesia, and a dozen other countries joing in, so I guess that Israel is only a temporary phenomenon.<BR/><BR/>As for what the West really thinks, stop the oil and they will bomb Israel too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com