I have no use for the UN, as a rule, but...

[lagilman]

Not so long ago I suggested, with great seriousness, that all the lands of the Middle East be cleared, and three generations pass before anyone was allowed to live there again. Because, I swear, there's something in the sand and in the air that drives people insane.

Watching the news scrapes at my heart. I was only in Israel once, many years ago, but my memories of it are lovely, and loved. I see cities smoking over rubble and blood, and wonder if people I know, their children, their loved ones, were in the line of fire. And I'll never know.

May the cease fire hold long enough for at least a temporary sanity to take root, and thrive...

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[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

I keep wishing the aliens from the recent Sheri Tepper book -- title escaping me right now -- would show up, scoop up a chunk of the middle east, and leave a "you can have it back when yoiu prove you've learned to play nice" note in its wake, as they did in said novel...