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| In memory of the NASA disaster |
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| WhatDFish |
| 02/10/03 at 11:01:25 |
| Sorting through the Shuttle Debris Copyright(c)2003 by Michael A. Hoffman II There is more space shuttle debris to report, but of the cloyingly sentimental, mawkish kind retailed in the tidal wave of treacle that calls itself "the news." Today the world has another saint to commemorate, and he just happens to be an Israeli. NASA astronaut Ilan Ramon was a scientist, conducting dust particle experiments under the supervision of Yehoyahin Yosef, professor of planetary physics at Tel Aviv University. Ramon was also a colonel in the Israeli air force, a war hero according to the Washington Post, "...who took part in Israel's famed 1981 bombing of the Iraq's nuclear reactor...Ramon clocked more than 3,000 hours as a combat pilot in A-4, Mirage III-C and F-4 Phantom fighter planes, and he logged more than 1,000 in the U.S.-built F-16....He fought in the 1982 war in Lebanon." But what burnishes Ramon's image more than any other of his dazzling accomplishments, is his hallowed niche in the pantheon of Holocaustianity, the West's state religion. In an interview published by Israel's Foreign Ministry, Col. Ramon declared, "I'm the son of a Holocaust survivor. I carry on the suffering of the Holocaust generation..." In an interview with NASA, he noted that his mother had been imprisoned in Auschwitz and held the exalted status of "Holocaust Survivor." The Washington Post reported, "Like many astronauts, Ramon took a variety of personal effects with him into space...He...took a pencil drawing entitled 'Moon Landscape' by a 14-year-old Jewish boy, Peter Ginz, who was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II." And thus a legend is born, Ilan Ramon, patron saint of astronauts and that lofty class of congenital sufferers, the Children of Holocaust Survivors. To this pious category must be added another in the taxonomy of victimhood, the Survivors of Dead Zionist Astronauts. Prior to Ramon there was Resnick, one of seven astronauts killed in the January 28, 1986 Challenger shuttle explosion. One hesitates to raise puckish questions during a funerary rite, but perhaps we might be forgiven if we pause in the midst of Col. Ramon's hagiography just long enough to burn a requiem candle to the memory of the French scientist and the two other people Ramon killed when he bombed the Iraqi reactor in 1981. Back then, Col. Ramon's bombing was infamous rather than "famed." Even the NY Times characterized it as "a sneak attack...an act of inexcusable and short-sighted aggression." The celebrated Israeli scientist-astronaut is thus guilty of the murder of a scientist, but the life of the French scientist and the status of his survivors is, under the circumstances, not worth the faintest mention. Moreover, our hero "fought" in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, logging thousands of hours in military aircraft. The use of the word "fought" with regard to Lebanon smacks of some slight hyperbole, in that the Israeli air force was unopposed over Beirut's skies, as Ramon and his fellow heroes dropped wave after wave of napalm and cluster bombs on schools, hospitals and apartment buildings, culminating in the around-the-clock terror-bombing of downtown Beirut in August, 1982. The Israelis killed an estimated 20,000 civilians in Lebanon. Would it be opportune to light a requiem candle for those Arab victims of this Israeli holocaust, or is Arab blood undeserving of recollection? When Col. Ramon made his final, explosive descent on Feb. 1, "Don Redfern, who lives in Palestine, Texas, said he saw the explosion out his car window. Mr. Redfern said he saw a glare first and thought nothing of it. Then he started to hear repeated sonic booms. 'It was flopping back and forth across the sky, so I knew it was something out of the ordinary,' Mr. Redfern said." As Israeli newscasters reported that the shuttle catastrophe had been visible over a town in Texas named Palestine, it was, said Reuters Jerusalem correspondent Michele Gershberg,"a bitter irony lost on no one." The medium is the message. The symbolism of the Israeli "combat air force" pilot blowing up in the approximate vicinity of Palestine, Texas requires no embellishment or explication. This is sunrise language rather than twilight language, telegraphing a message as unmistakable as a left hook to the jaw. Rarely does what we might call "the hand of God" move so dramatically in world affairs, but when it does there are no excuses for ignorance; it is "a bitter irony lost on no one." Human beings are often muttering, "Why is God silent?" On the morning of Feb. 1, He fairly shouted at a deaf, dumb and blind western world, which, until then, had been content to celebrate NASA's selection of an Israeli astronaut in the midst of the ongoing collective punishment of the Palestinian people. When this writer learned that an Israeli was in orbit on NASA's shuttle, the first image that came to my mind was of all the dead and dying in Palestine, and of how America had lost all sense of shame. Now there are other dead strewn across the landscape of an alternate Palestine. It remains to be seen whether from this disaster we learn the sobering message that the Supreme Power wishes to impart, or if we submit ourselves instead to the beguiling electronic spectacle generated by the rulers of this world, who are not yet, for all their space age gizmos and gadgets, masters of the heavens. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. Symbolism and happenstance are His as well, and of a far higher and more sublime type than anything the Cryptocracy can ape. A few people will glimpse the awful truth at the core of the explosion, while the majority will sink deeper into the inhibiting awe and petrifying idolatry that characterizes American subservience toward all things Israeli, Zionist and Judaic. But God is not mocked. Dare we say it? In this case, He would appear to be the mocker. Sources: Israelis in Shock Over Loss of Astronaut Hero By John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore Washington Post Feb. 1, 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10373-2003Feb1.html |
| Re: In memory of the NASA disaster |
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| ltcorpest2 |
| 02/10/03 at 18:54:05 |
| or maybe a requiem for the 4 Christian missionary doctors in Yemen who gave 26 years of their lives serving people of another faith giving freely of their time and resources so they can be gunned down by a muslim. Why does a disaster have to be posted on here and the US and Israel have to taken a swipe at? Why is that? Or someone posts that they are sick of hearing about the shuttle disaster within 5 days of it going down. |
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| panjul |
| 02/11/03 at 00:51:18 |
| or maybe a requiem for the 4 Christian missionary doctors in Yemen who gave 26 years of their lives serving people of another faith giving freely of their time and resources yeah, those da*** muslims! I say let's send all the christian missionaries into those poor countries and say, "hey little kid, u hungry? here's your food and here's your bible." awwwwwww...... how sweet of them to volunteer their time selflessly for another faith. no missionaries would have to go in had not the white world colonized africa and the rest of the brown world, pull out, then leave puppet regimes behind, and continue to loot their wealth. all the diamonds that come out of africa and makes the european and their corrupt overseers rich, could feed the whole african continent. sure it's not the missionaries fault, but be smart enough to know that you don't come rubbing salt into the wounds of an angry tired man who feels he's been robbed for his dignity and pride. not that these muslims aren't to blame. they should first line up their leaders and ship them off to the moon. then step 2: tell missionaries if they want to give out food..... more than welcome but if they want to hand out bibles as blackmail for food then, no thank you. go feed poor christians back home who are homeless. or go build them houses. i participate for the homeless food drives in houston and i don't hand them the Quran with it. |
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| ltcorpest2 |
| 02/11/03 at 01:56:20 |
| thank you for your [...] thoughts panjul. [Edited by Admin] |
| 02/11/03 at 02:15:57 |
| jannah |
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| jannah |
| 02/11/03 at 02:56:00 |
| [quote] or maybe a requiem for the 4 Christian missionary doctors in Yemen who gave 26 years of their lives serving people of another faith giving freely of their time and resources so they can be gunned down by a muslim. [/quote] what exactly does that have to do with anything?? there are wackos in the world with or without a religion. I don't have to give the thousands of examples do i?? the problem with wackos is not only that they go out and do something evil ( i guess as part of humanity evil actions are part of our choices in life) but the real problem is the people later that support a wackos actions. now in the case of "muslims" in the news who have killed innocent people, we see two reactions.. either they deny the person did it or they condemn the person as not following true islam or actually maybe even a third where they say they don't know, but if they did it they weren't following islam As for the above article I don't think it's right. Yes, Israeli's have done alot of oppressive actions, nothing new there, nothing new about that particular person's actions as well. What's the point of bringing it up now, when he's gone? I think the author is trying to say that "God 'killed' those people as an act of retribution for their sins. And again, just like in the other thread, who are we to know God's wisdom and justice and what happens in life, cause and effect and the actions of destiny etc. I don't think it's right to speculate on these things. And certainly not right to write an article justifying a person's tragic death, no matter how 'evil' they were. |
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| bhaloo |
| 02/11/03 at 20:55:21 |
| [slm] The christian mssionairies are not allowed to preach in any Muslim country. It is completely against Islam and a great insult to Muslims everywhere that these people are allowed to preach their false beliefs. I talked to one christian missionary a few months back and he was telling me how their organization in Afghanistan was illegally propagating christianity there. Panjul is absolutely correct about some of these sick tactics they do, I've read about this food incidence before. I think maybe the article was trying to show how much of a terrorist this Israeli was, because the media kept showing over and over here in the US how he was a hero. and how Israeli was mourning over it. I was really sick to my stomache that they were glorifying a whole country (Israel) in the media that solely exists on terrorism and have occupied Muslim lands. |
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