Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Becoming the monster?

I'm old enough to have learned to delay anger at any reports about or coming from the area formerly known to some as Palestine. Initial reports are so often untrue or exaggerated that caution is always advised. If it is true, of course, that the government of Israel has caused part of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem to be bulldozed, my anger is going to be well into condition red -- the more so if, as has been reported, the demolition is related to the construction of a Museum of Tolerance planned by the US based Simon Wiesenthal Center.

So I'll hold my temper a while longer although I fear that Nietzsche's warning about becoming the monster you set out to fight may be waiting to make a comeback.

2 comments:

d nova said...

guess u missed this one, eh?:

Exclusive: Arabs Faking Graves to Grab Jerusalem Land
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138949

Capt. Fogg said...

It wouldn't surprise me at all if it were true, but who knows? There are half a dozen versions of everything that happens in that God forsaken area and who knows if any of them are the truth, the whole truth or anything like the truth.