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2002-04-01

Once Upon A Time

Here I am, in case you were getting nervous. Here I am! I didn't leave or disappear without a trace. No, none of that. I actually just went up north for a little weekend with my dad, my brother and Carrie. We were supposed to go skiing, but it was raining. There was no ski season this year, I am disappointed.

Considering the rain and wet snow and awful skiing conditions, I remained inside with my new wonderful temporary friend, the television. Yes, the tube. The only connection to civilization that was available other than the telephone. The television was a lucky set, for it was attached to a satelite. Although satelite television usually gives a lot of fun and nice choices, it all depends on the person who owns it. In this case, person who owned it did not pay for the majority of the channels. Just peachy.

Through out the course of the weekend, due to limit on channels, I spent most of the time watching movies and CNN.

Before I address the main body of this entry, I would like to mention Britain's most loved matriarch, the Queen Mum. I watched on the news how she had died peacefully in her sleep at the ripe age of one hundred and one. She looked to be a cute little woman who had enjoyed her life to the fullest. Or as full as any royal could. So from an old english colony, I say farewell to the lovely Queen Mum. May she rest in peace.

When the subject of the holocaust comes up, I find myself clenching my teeth. I find my hands in tight fists, my nails digging into my palms. When any kind of threat to the jewish population comes up as a topic of discussion, I am ready to jump at any person who wishes to be on the positive side of the debate. Watching the news this weekend, I was apalled as well as horrified as well as in shock. I was completely confused. What is happening in the middle east exactly? The israeli's are waging war against the Palestinian leader because ...? I am not sure whethere I should be enraged, or ... I just don't know. I am ready to yell at the palestinian representatives on the television. Ready to swear at them. "It's all your fault! You and your suicide bombers! The israeli's deserve their own state! The jewish people have been fighting for this forever and you keep on turning away! You say 'Jewish Taliban'? I'll give you 'Jewish Taliban'!"

Yet, I know that would be wrong and foolish of me. I don't live there, I don't know the whole story. I'm just a canadian who has always lived under safe guarded conditions. A canadian jew who has never set one foot upon the soil of the holy land of Israel. I'm not even religious. I just can't stand it though. Just can't stand it.

Happy April Fool's.

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