Ugh. Sometimes I just read things that make me livid. Mike Kelly, a staff writer for the Bergen Record (our county's daily paper) is doing a series of articles about "Turning Times in the Holy Land." So completely biased. If his next article isn't better, I am completely submitted an op-ed piece. If you're going to write an informative newspaper article, you should write about both perspectives. Yes, I admit, he did talk about thing from the Palestinian viewpoint for about 3 short paragraphs, but really now... He talks about how The Wall makes people walk more, and makes people help eachother. The example he cited was a a cab driver who helped a women carry a stroller over a pile of rubble. My question is why is she doing that in the first place? "The wall is a great leveler," says Mr. Kelly. Yeah, uh hu. You know what else has to get lifted over piles of rubble? Stretcher on their ways to hospitals from ambulances that cannot make it through the checkpoints. He also failed to mention the tear gas and the fact that parts of The Wall do not separate Palestinaian land from Israeli land, but rather Palestinian land from Palestinian land. Ugh, the more I reread this article, the more enraged I get. And I quote, "'The whole reason I moved here is I believe this is the place where Jews belong,' Buckman said. 'I don't believe we occupy the West Bank. It's ours. It would be nice if we could live with the Palestinians, but they insist on killing us.'" I'm not even going to get into the debate over whether the Jewish people have the right to be there by mandate of God, but just a few points... (1) If you're really going to follow that text, then you should be taking over a lot more land, (2) "killing us" - there have been many tragic, and unwarrented murders of people living in Israeli, and I am not trying to explain those away, but once again, can we discuss palestinian children getting stoned on their way to school by israeli children as their parents watched? Love thy neighbor... right? That really does need to be applied on both sides, but I think we can all agree that two wrongs don't make a right. Don't teach children to hate.

Okay, okay, I'm going to stop preaching now. But I swear, I am going to end up writing a letter to the editor, or leaving comments all over Mike Kelly's blog... Excuse the wrath....