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Re: Tzippy
To answer your qustion, yes that is me in the pic on my random blog
posted by
contagion_publishing
on May 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM
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It's never fun to live in fear....
Especially when one's life is at stake and future is uncertain. 
No...Afzal and I have never met. We will need thousands of dollars before that can happen, as it will cost $2,500+ just for one round trip plane ticket if he came here, and for me to take the kids there would cost three times that much. Yet if he comes here, then it will cost extra thousands for a hotel room (which would then require meals out also), being I have no where for him to stay considering my mother won't even acknowledge his existence, let alone allow him to stay here. So that about sums it up, in a nutshell.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on May 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM
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I can't wait to hear what Mom's plan was. Strength sometimes seems to be unhuman when it comes out of the darkness such as this.
posted by
PinkWeaver
on May 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM
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It takes a strong, willful parent to overcome the odds! You were mightily blessed! sam
posted by
sam444
on May 13, 2010 at 7:55 AM
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I am so glad
you got to escape to America, the land of the free and the home of the brave! No we must fight for our right to survive, we are not all Jesuses, you are right. But I don't think the president of the US hates Jews either. It is all very confusing all I can say with any certainty, beyond a doubt, it is just one fucked up world we live in today. How to make the world a better place... is the problem that we all want to change it each our own way? I am drowning here.
posted by
KaBooM62
on May 13, 2010 at 1:11 AM
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Excellent and thought provoking post. Thanks very much for your comment; I do hope you visit our Indian jungles some day.
posted by
Nita09
on May 13, 2010 at 12:21 AM
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any little bit of that misery would wear anyone down
posted by
Lanetay
on May 12, 2010 at 6:33 PM
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There really is no winner in any war Tzippy, somehow the impact will linger in minds forever. I cannot imagine what you have been through and how it has affected you.
posted by
shobana
on May 12, 2010 at 3:51 PM
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The media ia adept at changing sides to suit themselves, and I guess the rest of us follow suit. None of us really know what it's like to live in a situation like yours; such an experience might well change people's deeply held views.
posted by
Rockingrector_retd
on May 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM
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Tzippy
There are no explanations for the situations you write of, or it seems, no solutions to the problems because the world is incapable of doing what is necessary. I don't think the president of the U.S.A. is part of the problem. My people were from Ireland but that doesn't mean I believe in the IRA or even Catholicism as my father did. I am me and Mr. Obama is him. We are not our father's.
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 12, 2010 at 11:35 AM
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It is hard to understand why and how decisions are made by the powers that be this world over, and why there is no fairness as we think it should be.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 12, 2010 at 10:29 AM
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It saddens me that so few people have realised the futility of violence
And it saddens me even more than none of them seem to make it into government (except in those countries where everybody has been forced to see war first hand) and what saddens me the most is how little surprise I feel when nations once march to the songs of war and hate.
posted by
lionreign
on May 12, 2010 at 6:24 AM
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I am so blessed to have never experienced what you have.
How horrifying it had to have been for you.
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on May 12, 2010 at 6:18 AM
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tzip
What an incredible journey.
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on May 11, 2010 at 8:29 PM
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Great post Tzyppy, xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on May 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM
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tzippy, i've read herman wouk, exodus, armagheddon and others, leon uris. i feel i know a little of your history, and i side with corbin!
posted by
dsm_tchr
on May 11, 2010 at 7:21 PM
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It's sad that Israel is still having to deal with these issues so many years later. The cycle just will not stop...
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 11, 2010 at 5:04 PM
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I don't think the hatred expressed by Islamist fanatics is aimed
ONLY at Israel -- I think they hate everything not them. But since the Jews are their near neighbors, they're the ones who catch the first blush of anger, the spontaneous attacks, the primary resentments since they're a constant reminder that there are others, other people, other ideas, other ways. You'd think all that hatred and constant anger would blow out their arteries.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM
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I can sympathize with your Mother...there comes a time when
one has had enough of pain and misery and I have never been near a war but I believe that if there was to be no safeguard against further attacks ...I too would be saying...we are leaving for a safer better life.
posted by
Kabu
on May 11, 2010 at 2:43 PM
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Tzippy
"And the world stood by and watched and disapproved"...And it has disapproved ever since! Yes, Israel has had a lot of support, but that support has always come grudgingly, and there's always that undercurrent...
The Islamic world is as implable as ever! And where once Jews had to worry about the extreme Right, they now have to worry about the Left! Not the extreme Left, which is dead anyway, but the 'genteel' Left, generally...With all the radical changes that have swept the West this past century, hatred of Jews is made 'respectable' as hatred of Israel...It's very discouraging...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 11, 2010 at 12:47 PM
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