Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il Carnival of the Chicken HawksMonday 17 Mar 2003 author: Rowan Berkeley

http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El2088&enZone=Security&enVersion=0& If you clickon the above link, you will be transported to a place where men and women of the American Jewish persuasion make jokes about peace protesters becoming speed bumps. I caution you not to lose your precious tranquillity. Do not rant, rave, tear your hair (as they do at their funerals). It will avail you nothing. Only cold calculated machiavellian political skill will help us now. Today has been the Fast of Esther. This minor festival commemorates the legendary seduction of King Ahashverosh of Persia by the Jewish vizier's daughter, which prevented the massacre planned by the wicked Haman. On this day Jewish children play pranks, and so do some adults. I imagine the talking fish story was a prank. They are really cooking on Galei Zahal (israel Army Radio). Esther and her sisters rock. Do not imagine that they will suddenly become weak and impressionable, because they will not. They and their forebears have spent several thousand years perfecting their delusory quasi-national fantasm.

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