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momta

(4,079 posts)
Wed Oct 11, 2023, 09:53 PM Oct 2023

Hamas claims to have "won" so I sat down and wrote this...

Hamas says “We’ve won! No matter what anyone says or whatever happens from now on…We Won!”

Okay, sure.

You won the way Eichmann “won”. By oppressing those you claim to be defending, killing families whose faces you never see, stealing from people whose belongings you covet, and then ordering them massacred so you will never have to see their incredulous eyes.

You won the way bin Laden “won”. Sending others to kill babies in the name of your god.

You won the way Netanyahu has “won”. Seeing humans as animals, pawns to push around in the name of power and control, never understanding the crushing pain you leave in your wake, even the pain you cause to the people you claim to love.

We have lots of winners in my country.

Klebold and Harris “won”. I mean, how hard is it to “win” when all you have to do is walk up to a bunch of unarmed, innocent teenagers and kill them with automatic weapons…just like you did.

George Zimmerman “won”. He got scared because of the color of someone’s skin, and so he blasted a family’s dreams all to hell. Now he’s ostracized, his name synonymous with “coward”…just like you.

Leonard Leo “won,” and now women and children suffer horrific pain and death while he toasts his accomplices aboard his luxury yacht. He claimed he did it in the name of his god…just like you.

I could go on, but you get the point. This kind of "victory" is for cowards.

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Hamas claims to have "won" so I sat down and wrote this... (Original Post) momta Oct 2023 OP
well put willamette Oct 2023 #1
They've "won" a visit from the Israeli Army who will be in no mood to take Hamas prisoners. nt EX500rider Oct 2023 #2
I notice your Jackson Browne sig quote--- is that from a lyric? DemocraticPatriot Oct 2023 #3
it's from "The fuse" momta Oct 2023 #4
OMG, opening track from 'The Pretender' wasn't it ??? DemocraticPatriot Oct 2023 #5
Oops. Sorry. Reply 6 was supposed to be to you momta Oct 2023 #7
It's a great track momta Oct 2023 #6

DemocraticPatriot

(4,500 posts)
3. I notice your Jackson Browne sig quote--- is that from a lyric?
Thu Oct 12, 2023, 12:18 AM
Oct 2023

I am a longtime fan, especially the first six albums, but I do not recognize the line, or have forgotten it....
what is it?


As far as the Hamas claim goes,
the jury is still out on that one.....

I don't believe they will 'win' in the end... but neither will the whole world either, thanks to them....


DemocraticPatriot

(4,500 posts)
5. OMG, opening track from 'The Pretender' wasn't it ???
Thu Oct 12, 2023, 12:45 AM
Oct 2023

Probably my favorite Jackson Browne album, but I don't remember the line....

Ah well, often it is hard to understand every word when it is 'sung'....


As I recall, that was a song about the dangers of nuclear power...

Thank you, amigo... or quite possibly 'amiga' lol





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