OT: HI nspolar,
nice perspective on the Palestinians all round. I've read similar. They are quite different from the Nigerians I posted about.
The effect of religion in my opinion is less than that of the normal money, greed and power issues. I concur here also. The religion is just a great tool for folk in power, albeit a dangerous one that can bite back.
When they went back into their dark ages Islam had taken a more conservative stance.
On Lawrence of Arabia it's one of my favourite all time flicks.
Sherif: He is dead.
Lawrence: Yes. WHY?
Sherif: This is my well.
Lawrence: I have drunk from it.
Sherif: You are welcome.
Lawrence: He was my friend.
Sherif: That!
Lawrence: Yes. That.
Sherif: ...You are angry, English. He was nothing. The well is everything. The Hasimi may not drink at our wells. He knew that. Sa'lam.
Lawrence: Sherif Ali. So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
Sherif: Come, I will take you to Feisal.
Lawrence: I do not want your company, Sherif.
Sherif: Wadi Safra is another day from here. You will not find it. And not finding it, you will die.
Lawrence: I will find it, with this. (He holds up his compass which Sherif snags with his camel stick.)
Sherif: Good Army compass. How if I take it?
Lawrence: Then you would be a thief.
Sherif: Have you no fear, English?
Lawrence: My fear is my concern.
Sherif: Truly. God be with you, English.
and a quote from TE Lawrence : "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may
act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did." Seven Pillars of Wisdom Suppressed Introductory Chapter
regards
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