a New Year Approaches

Today the trees are bending under 25 mph wind gusts. The road sand is tapping like hail against the window and I’m certain the car will be jostled from side to side. It's reminiscent of Gaza with its rocket attacks and the retaliatory bombing.

The Israelis and Palestinians are fighting (again or still, I suggest reading a history on the area) over the same thing they always fight over, sovereignty, over a hatred which neither side remembers how it started and neither side wishes to end. Now people, Israeli and Palestinian, are dying.

This isn't war:Neither is this:


War isn't tanks and artillery. This is war:




It is sad that this will probably be the last post for 2008. This year is ending in the midst of a downward spiral with wars, the economy, genocide in Africa, and Dancing With the Stars still on the air. Obama has preached hope, I wonder how long hope can holdout before the middle and working classes are pressed into despair.