My Saber Is Bent

Netanyahu's Comments Draw Praise From Jewish Human Rights Group

“I was delighted,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier , dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, a Jewish human rights group. “The prime minister decided while the press was there that he was going to make it very clear in front of President Obama this was not going to happen, not on his watch.”

Others, especially Obama supporters, played down the tension between the two leaders. Abraham Foxman , national director of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League, said Mr. Obama was unwise Thursday when offered up the old borders as a starting point for talks. Otherwise, the two countries mostly agree on how to begin the peace process, Mr. Foxman said in an interview.

“[Mr. Netanyahu’s] job is to protect the interest and well being of the State of Israel,” he said. “[Mr. Obama’s] job is to protect the interest and well-being of the U.S. Most of the time they’re on the same page. Sometimes they’re not.”

David Harris , president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, a group that acts as a liaison between the Democratic Party and the Jewish community, said that because “the fundamentals are so solid” small differences can be wrongly magnified.

Curious asks, “…Native Americans claims to territory would be the same without the Horse?”

Yours is stereotypical white Christian thinking which is lethal arrogance in the name of your god who is a false fabricated god.

Horses were once indigenous to North America as were wooly mammoth and saber-toothed tigers. My peoples know this, we have been here for tens of thousands of years. We are indigenous. We were once thirty-million strong. By 1900, there was only a quarter of a million of us left alive. Over four-hundred years white Christians slaughtered us by the tens of millions.

Over tens of thousands of years my peoples clearly established tribal territories which encompass all of America, Canada and beyond. Our footprints, our hand prints are everywhere, just as our blood stains all of North America. Our blood was spilled by white Christians just as white Christians spilled the blood of Jews in Europe circa 1930 – 1945.

The Israeli have a history in the Mideast just as American Indians have a history here although the Jewish history is a very short history compared to my peoples’ history. Horses were not indigenous to hot arid deserts of traditional Jewish lands yet this Hebrew tribe well established their territories over thousands of years, by foot, by hand and by spilled blood.

Lt Israel Greene USMC

The Capture of John Brown

by Israel Green

This account originally appeared in The North American Review, December 1885:

At noon of Monday, October 18,1859, Chief Clerk Walsh, of the Navy Department, drove rapidly into the Washington Navy-yard, and, meeting me, asked me how many marines we had stationed at the barracks available for immediate duty. I happened to be the senior officer present and in command that day. I instantly replied to Mr. Walsh that we had ninety men available, and then asked him what was the trouble. He told me that Ossawatomie Brown, of Kansas, with a number of men, had taken the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, and was then besieged there by the Virginia State troops. Mr. Walsh returned speedily to the Navy Department building, and, in the course of an hour, orders came to me from Secretary Tousey to proceed at once to Harper's Ferry and report to the senior officer; and, if there should be no such officer at the Ferry, to take charge and protect the government property. With a detachment of ninety marines, I started for Harper's Ferry that afternoon on the 3:30 train, taking with me two howitzers. It was a beautiful, clear autumn day, and the men, exhilarated by the excitement of the occasion, which came af ter a long, dull season of confinement in the barracks, enjoyed the trip exceedingly.

At Frederick Junction I received a dispatch from Colonel Robert E. Lee, who turned out to be the army officer to whom I was to report. He directed me to proceed to Sandy Hook, a small place about a mile this side of the Ferry, and there await his arrival. At ten o'clock in the evening he came up on a special train from Washington. His first order was to form the marines out of the car, and march from the bridge to Harper's Ferry. This we did, entering the enclosure of the arsenal grounds through a back gate. At eleven o'clock Colonel Lee ordered the volunteers to march out of the grounds, and gave the control inside to the marines, with instructions to see that none of the insurgents escaped during the night. There had been hard fighting all the preceding day, and Brown and his men kept quiet during the night. At half-past six in the morning Colonel Lee gave me orders to select a detail of twelve men for a storming party, and place them near the engine-house in which Brown and his men had intrenched themselves. I selected twelve of my best men, and a second twelve to be employed as a reserve. The engine-house was a strong stone [actually brick] building, which is still in a good state of preservation at the Ferry, in spite of the three days' fighting in the building by Brown and his men, and the ravages of the recent war between the States. The building was . . . perhaps thirty feet by thirty-five. In the front were two large double doors, between which was a stone abutment. Within were two old-fashioned, heavy fire-engines, with a hose-cart and reel standing between them, and just back of the abutment between the doors. They were double-battened doors, very strongly made, with heavy wrought-iron nails.

My saber is bent

MY SABER IS BENT JACK PAAR

BRD

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