The Wachowski brothers’ first film since the Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer, comes out this Friday (It’s also Emile Hirsch’s first film since Into the Wild). Be excited. See the trailer here. And Hillary was spanked yesterday creating more pressure for her to quit her bid. She insists on carrying on but I wonder if people will continue to donate to her campaign when so many consider it a lost cause. She’s already lent her campaign more than $11 million.
In any case, it’s been a decent day. Now if only Israel would stop celebrating its 60th anniversary and admit that its only real milestone is that it has succeeded in 60 years of ethnic cleansing, then I would be complete for the day. I just had to add that bit because I went to a lecture by Daniel Pipes yesterday on campus and I was floored by the revisionism.
Tell me, Pouya, why is Israel the only place in the Middle East where a gay person is not threatened with punishment, violence, and sometimes execution?
Why is Israel the only place in the Middle East with 20+
Not only is Israel the most democratic and tolerant country in the world, it is a beacon of industrial and scientific development.
Meant to say with 20+ active political parties who participate in a meaningful political process not a sham government, including three active Arab parties.
Please stop reading from propaganda pamphlets. Israel cannot be anything but a racist military state for occupying Palestinian lands for over 40 years and blaming the victims of that occupation. It is a beacon of everything that is wrong in this world.
In the face of Arab and Muslim hostility toward Jewish independence, Israel had fought challenge after challenge and is a culturally, economically, and technologically booming state. Israel is an oasis amidst a wasteland of Islamic fundamentalism and West-bashing.
Congratulations Israel on the 60th anniversary of your independence!!
… and also, you didn’t answer my question about gays Pouya.
I didn’t know your questions ever warranted a response from me but Ill humor you anyway. Israel has many freedoms for its citizens this is true, but that doesn’t give nimrods like you the right to put a smiling face on one of the world’s most brutal and enduring military occupations.