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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4483)	3/26/2004 12:25:45 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Re: Yassin was a moderating influence within Hamas, though Hamas is of course the most radical and violent faction of Palestinian society. If anything, Israel's elimination of Cheikh Yassin betrays the awful gamesmanship of Israeli leaders... After all, they violated a basic rule of chess: Check and Checkmate The main goal of chess is to checkmate your opponent's King. The King is not actually captured and removed from the board like other pieces. But if the King is attacked ("checked") and threatened with capture, it must get out of check immediately. If there is no way to get out of check, the position is a "checkmate," and the side that is checkmated loses. You may not move into check. For example, moving into a direct line with your opponent's Rook if there are no other pieces between the Rook and your King, is not a legal move. Otherwise, the Rook could "capture" the King, which is not allowed. [...] arkadium.com But then, chess was first invented by Iranians --not Jews. We owe a debt to Persia we can never repay. So much that is bright and glittering and desirable was invented by them. They were the first to invent angels, which the Jews borrowed during the Babylonian captivity, and the Christians borrowed from the Jews. The most beautiful of all decorated domes are in Persia. They invented chess and polo, and the first known highways for wheeled traffic were the royal roads built by Darius. And half our fairy tales have Persian origins. Their intellectual and spiritual contributions to the world derive from the enchanted interpretation of the world they saw before their eyes: for them the world was a flame, forever quivering, forever bright, forever leaping. For them the world was magic. The very word magic comes from their fire-worshipping priests, the Magi who attended upon Xerxes and Darius. And remembering the Magi who attended the birth of Christ, the third-century theologian Sextus Julius Africanus wrote: "Our first knowledge of Jesus came from Persia." [...] parstimes.com