Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Israel and its necrophiliac neighbors

A recent poll indicating that Israelis are a happy lot caused some
critics to get their feathers ruffled. After all, this is a country in
turmoil, with every kind of external and internal problem under the
sun, from socio-economic gaps to global warming and everything in
between. We’ve got missiles flying from Gaza, and not enough bomb
shelters. We’ve got a nuclearizing Iran, and not enough gas masks.
We’ve got all the latest pharmaceuticals, and not enough money to
include them in our health baskets. We’ve got teen violence and
demography problems, religious-secular struggles and increasing
divorce statistics. We’ve got illegal immigrants, housing shortages
and wage stagnancy. We’ve got high taxes and skyrocketing gas prices.
We’ve got obesity and anorexia, OCD and PTSD. We’ve got it all – and
then some.
 
So what in the world do we have to be happy about? Why, with all the
misery and mayhem, did we celebrate the country’s 64th birthday with
such pomp and circumstance? How could we have "ooohed and aaahed" at
the fireworks signaling our celebration, and then gotten up fresh and
early to head out for barbecues in bumper-to-bumper traffic, flags
fluttering against our windshields?
 
Where do we come off not only experiencing well-being, but admitting
to it in surveys, when we should be moaning, groaning and kvetching?
 
Far better analysts than I have tried to figure this out. Some
attribute it to our psychological make-up; others to misleading survey
questions. And then there are those who proudly point out that Israel
isn’t that high up on the happiness scale, since Scandinavia
supposedly trumps us, due to all the freebies its populations enjoy
from their governments.
 
Nor do I know too many individuals, in Israel or any place else, who
walk around talking about how happy they are. In fact, most people
seem to expend their verbal energy on emphasizing what’s lacking in
their lives, not what is abundant. So I’m not sure which Israelis were
actually polled on this score.
 
But I will say that, in the global scheme of things, our societal
living conditions are plum.
 
While we go about our daily business of survival – which includes
worrying about overdrafts and overeating, passing exams and getting
passed up for promotions – our neighbors in the Middle East are living
in the Middle Ages.
 
These neighbors reside about an hour’s flight from Tel Aviv, in
virtually every direction. But to get to any of their capitals, we
would do better to board a time machine than a plane. That Damascus
has become a bloody battlefield is old news already. And the
conclusion about it in the West is typical: Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad has to be stopped. Better yet, he has to follow the other
autocrats ousted by the “Arab Spring” uprisings. Indeed, the harshest
attacks on U.S. President Barack Obama on this issue consist of
accusing him of leaving Assad in power to slaughter his people.
 
While it is true that Obama has been on the wrong side of every single
global crisis – Syria among them – there is one crucial detail usually
omitted from the ongoing narrative about the events that have been
taking place in the Muslim-Arab world over the past 16 months:
Whatever else has been going on in this region since December 2010,
when a Tunisian street vendor immolated himself in front of a
government building, it sure isn’t democratization.
 
Proof of this lies in what has ensued since a number of autocrats have
been toppled, with the help of the Obama administration.
 
Take Egypt as the prime example. The minute former President Hosni
Mubarak was forced to abdicate his rule, the Muslim Brotherhood and
Salafis slithered their way into every nook and cranny of the
political system, and transformed Egypt – a Third World country allied
with the U.S. for strategic purposes – into a medieval fiefdom keen on
renewing its jihadist ties to the Islamic Republic.
 
The latest abomination emerging from Cairo (the capital where Obama
made his first monumental speech of appeasement to the Muslim world)
would be hilarious if it wasn’t so horrifying.
 
According to the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel, two
new laws are under consideration by the new Egyptian parliament. One
of these would lower the age at which a girl can be married to 14. The
other would permit a husband to have sexual relations with his wife’s
corpse for up to six hours after she is pronounced dead.
 
The latter bit of proposed legislation comes a year after a cleric in
Morocco brought the topic to light. Since Morocco is a very modern
Muslim country, and the cleric – Zamzami Abdul Bari – is a modern kind
of mullah, he determined that wives, too, can have sex with their dead
husbands. His additional assertion that pregnant women are permitted
to drink alcohol raised an even bigger stir.
 
This week, Egypt’s National Council for Women appealed to the
parliament not to pass the legislation, which it sees as a setback for
the benefits it had managed to garner under Mubarak’s regime. (This
was largely due to Suzanne Mubarak’s attention to women’s rights, such
as being able to obtain a divorce from abusive husbands.)
 
The struggle isn’t over, but one thing the Islamist parliament members
all agree on is that the achievements made on behalf of women were
“destroying families” – and good riddance to Mrs. Mubarak for having
had the nerve to mess around with Shariah (Islamic law).
 
Personally, I feel no sympathy for the feminists in Egypt. They were
part and parcel of the Tahrir Square demonstrations demanding
Mubarak’s ouster, even while being molested and segregated by their
male “Arab Spring” counterparts. Some “Facebook Revolution” that
turned out to be.
 
Now back to Israel, where Facebook has been the vehicle through which
we have been showing off the steaks we grilled yesterday, with
chocolate-stained children in tow and husbands hamming it up for
iPhone photos. Necrophilia is something we don’t even know how to
spell, let alone debate in the Knesset.
 
We may have our share of woes. But considering the way a growing
proportion of the world lives, we’ve got plenty to be happy about.
 
Ruthie Blum

 corpse for up to six hours after she is pronounced dead.
 
è una balla. E ovviamente il razzista lercio c'è caduto con tutti e
due i piedi, insieme ai camerati del Daily Heil
An Egyptian journalist reached out to clarify that the proposal was
first reported in Egpytian press by an extremist with vested interest
in spreading anti-Egypt rumors. Though it's now been reported in
HuffPo, The Daily Mail, and countless other places, the "post death
sex" law isn't one the Parliament is considering.
https://www.facebook.com/sarahmareacarr/posts/446395495377138
 

 è una balla.
 
il resto dell'articolo no:
 
A recent poll indicating that Israelis are a happy lot
 
stacce, Bombacci.

 corpse for up to six hours after she is pronounced dead.
 
Questa sembra essere una millenaria tradizione egizia: ne parlava gia` Erodoto.

 il resto dell'articolo
 
SGUISH, mi è parso di vedere una merda razzista in fuga...

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Erodoto, "Storie", Libro III:
 
"Le mogli dei personaggi più illustri non vengono mandate all´imbalsamazione immediatamente dopo la morte, e così pure le donne di particolare bellezza o di una certa condizione: lasciano passare due o tre giorni e poi le consegnano agli imbalsamatori. Agiscono così per impedire che gli imbalsamatori abbiano rapporti fisici con queste donne; pare infatti che una volta uno di loro sia stato sorpreso mentre si univa carnalmente con il cadavere di una donna morta da poco; lo denunciò un collega di lavoro."
 
Se e` una balla, viene da un buontempone con studi classici :)