WAR IN IRAQ
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Hi, how are you..?
*!:
fine, and u?
*! :
Oh! are you scared with the war?
SimShalom :
No, definitely not...
There is a some more security and police on the streets but otherwise life goes on as normal.
SimShalom :
Ok great...that's fine...do you go to any Jewish school?
*!:
No. My cousin studies at a Jewish school
SimShalom:
Does your family belong to a Jewish community?
*! :
No. I ´m not very religious
SimShalom :
No, I do not ask if you are religious. Many people just belong to a community or a Jewish or Zionist or Hebrew organization..
*! :
I go to a Jewish club
*! :
Oh, ok, that is what I mean. Do you study Hebrew or is it just social things like parties?
*!:
it´s just social things
*!:
do you know hebrew?
SimShalom :
Yes, I speak some Hebrew. I also teach young people how to read the Hebrew alphabet...
*! :
cool
*! :
Do the Americans like Bush?
SimShalom :
There is a special organization in America called National Jewish Outreach Program that sponsors free Hebrew reading Crash courses.
*!:
Thanks! I ll see
SimShalom :
Yes, most people like Bush. About 60% , but many people do not like him. With Jews he is 50-50 I think.
*! :
Why don´t Jews like him?
SimShalom :
Many Jews in America are very Liberal. They belong mostly to the Democratic Party and Bush is from the Republican Party.
But even so, many Liberal Jews will vote for Bush because he has been good to Israel.
*! :
yeah, but the problem is that Iraq wiil attack Israel provoking Bush
SimShalom :
Right now it seems that Iraq is going to be smashed ...so far Israel has not been attacked..the American Army is destroying the Iraqi army very quickly...
*! :
What do you think about this? do you think that Americans are right to attack Iraq?
SimShalom :
Well, why did the Arabs attack America on Sept 11, 2001, and destroy the World Trade Center and kill three thousand people in New York and Washington? It made America decide to go to war against the Moslem fanatics, first in Afghanistan, now Iraq, maybe another country next.
*! :
I think this is true but how many people the Americans killed in Hiroshima? The terrorists killed many Americans but the Americans killed how many people in the world?
*!:
did you see the attacks to WTC?
SimShalom :
I could see some of the smoke, and there were millions of pieces of burnt paper that came from the buildings. I still have six sheets of burnt paper from places in the World Trade center. I knew some people who were there and one wad killed in the second tower.
*! :
Oh! it´s terrible! this person was your friend?
SimShalom :
Not a close friend , but I knew him very well.
*! :
he worked there?
SimShalom :
Yes, he was somewhere on the 93 rd floor, he was in his office, he thought only the other building would get destroyed, and the security people told him and his friends to stay their offices, unfortunately, a few minutes later the next jet came and hit has building, during this time he was calling his family on his cell phone till the building collapsed. He has a young wife and he was speaking to her on his cell phone when he finally died. They found some of his body after six months, not all just some of it and he had a Jewish burial.
*!:
Oh! this story is surprising
SimShalom :
Why? there were many stories like that.
*! :
yes, but when an American says and when it´s a friend the story shocks
SimShalom :
Many firemen were going up to the fires , nobody believed the buildings would collapse so quickly, it was a great shock..Osama Bin Ladin is an engineer, and he knew what he was doing unfortunately, they had a plan to do this and they did it, now it has brought wars to their countries, and their Arab brothers and sisters are getting bombed because they were stupid to attack America. Just like Japan attacked America in World War Two and later America dropped atom bombs on Japan. It is a mistake to fight against America. Their army is too dangerous.
*! :
I like the Americans but I don´t like Bush. I think he have other forms to disarm iraq. I went to the demonstration against the war. I know that the september 11 was very bad to the world but i think that there are other forms to resolve these problems, not with war
SimShalom:
But Sept 11 WAS an act of War, from a national security point of view.
The Sept 11 hijackers were all Arab fanatics, and the next step for them would be to get an atom bomb from Saddam and drop it on New York...the time for talking has ended, now there is war and the world will have to see the results.
*! :
i´m against the war in all ocasions.
SimShalom :
It is understandable.
But every country has national security policies and if a country is attacked , like America was on Sep 11. 2001. it will respond.
That is the way of nations.
But of course in a democracy you can protest against a war, as many do here is America. In Iraq, there is no democracy, whatever Saddam wants to do he can do because he is a fanatic dictator
*! :
I agree with you. I don´t like Sadamm.However, Bush is using the Sept 11 to justify his attacks
SimShalom :
Not just Bush, but the whole National Security leadership. The Congress, Army, and Intelligence services have made these serious deciosns. In America , the President is the Commander in Chief of the Army, and he has the responsibility, authority, and power to fight a war against America's enemies. It is not really very complicated. Just the world cannot accept that America can do this, but many nations do agree with America. The British and Israel. They are important countries. Germany and France were fascist countries during World War Two...they have too much blood on their hands, so they cannot be taken seriously at all.
*!: I liked discussing the war with you. bye
SimShalom :
Bye.

- posted by Izak @ 2:33 AM