>>> This is some of the background about the prior conferences
>
>
>>> This article in HAARETZ brings it it to my attention today:
>
>
>>> My opinion: I bet there wiil be no condemnations of un-pretty,
>>> expedient actions by govts of:
>
>>> Libya
>>> Sudan
>>> Burma/Mynamar
>>> China
>>> Russia
>>> Venezuela
>>> Cuba
>>> North Korea
>>> Iran
>>> Zimbabwe
>>> etal
>
>> There's something hypocritical and perverse fixating on Israel with
>> all the other problems on the planet.
>
>> Maybe the info age can expose the international hypocrisy. Â The GOP
>> "market" economists have already been exposed as frauds domestically.
> I read this morning about 2 girls being killed by their Pakistani
> tribe for (i think) trying to
> pick their own husbands: The is  "honor killing."
> I'd think most fairly well educated Moslems are embarrassed; but
> (imho) they aren't in the majority(ies).
> I notice a wire service gets a horror story here and there about dark
> ages mentality honor killings, while I
> infer it is not so rare.
The U. S. media just doesn't cover the rest of the world adequately.
In fact, they don't even cover the U. S. very well.
If you want to know what's going on, you have to _go_ there yourself.
Not very green.
> Of course I don't know what the honor killings statistics are, and
> it's unfair to assume normative or frquent horribleness which is not
> so clear & may be changing for the better.
These things don't happen in a vacuum.
> Meanwhile, Israel is trying to deal with minds that are conditioned &
> directed by repulsive folkways; and to me it is
> no wonder progress can't be made for long.
You have some of the most pluralistic people trying to live in a
region with the least pluralistic.
It's just crazy.
> I hasten to add that some minority Jewish orthodox settler types are
> (to me) very foolish, overly-tribalistic, regressive & are making
> themselves maladaptive to rationality and compromise--a la the
> assassin of Rabin, who frankly should be re-tried & executed rather
> than apparently so damne coddled with such as the telephone privileges
> I read about recently.
> Ever since that outrageous political murder, I sensed maximal
> hopelessness & futility, and I think I decided I would not want to
> visit and/or live over there--unless repetitive tragic history sort of
> forces me.
If a Republican or Democrat was assassinated, other leaders would try
to mitigate the murder by supporting the policies of the one murdered.
That didn't happen in Israel.
Instead the murderer got exactly what he wanted.
Bret Cahill
