Garfield: "Enamoured with Garfield.": No Garfield, not at all. It is something I would do to any sincere visitor to my country who really wished to see both sides. As for spending time with my family. I do not know you enough to have you around children and now garndchildbut I would gladly have the 2 boys still in Service allow you to see a different side of Aza that you would never see otherwise, or if you wished to see the "WB," I could pull strings,etc.
I think that if a person purports to have such a great interest in a particular subject matter then seeing just one side just does not cut it. I , as a native Arabic speaker and having roots in what is now called the "WB" have been able to long experience in non-IDF fashion life in that region. However, I have also been able to see many more documents than I could ever show here, actually speal to surviving Arabs from that era, as well as physically walk the paths of those villages.
I think a person like you would benefit greatly from such an opportunity. In fact, I return home to the Philippines in a good month, thehn it is off to what is now the Ukraine for Jewish New Year at the shrine of the Bratslaver Rebbe in Uman, and then back home, finally, top Bat Yam. I am there I could show you many things.
See me, I have spent more time with HAMAS, Tanzim, and every other Arab militian from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and our lands thanyone on this board. I know their ideologies, their misconceptions, and the scant few of them who knew the truth but fight for other reason.
The conflict is much more deeper than the black and white nonsense being propogated to naive Westerners. I love those Activists whom come to our land, sneak into the so called "Territories," spend maybe 6 weeks and then go home making University tours telling the world about how horrid the IDF,etc. is and how she saw with her own eyes how and Army Sgt made an elderly man proffer his ID and then refused to return it because it was apparently counterfeit...or how a youth of about 20 tried to bypass a Check Point and as a result was arrested...those HORRIBLE Israelis!
The point is, if you are interedted in a subject, the idea should be to learn as much as you humanly can and not to engage in hyperbole and personal insults.
"Sources for doctored ISM photos...": You mean, seriously, that you have never been able to find any info on this having happened? How Retuers was forced to pull them nad offer a retraction blaming ISM?I will give you a hint, it was with an Evergreen student, male, who shared his tend with her in the garbage dump they had been sleeping out just 2 night before the fatal incident (the night beofre the eonsconced in a symapthetic 'Palestinian' family...most Arabs hating the group so much that that last night in their tent became the last night because of AK shots raking theior little encampment after PRC lackeys first delivered a letter to them from their copmmander accusing them of spying and giving them 4 hours to leave. They obviously did not, got AK strafed, and then decided top take that family up on an offer of shelter.
You are right though. you have asked nicely and so I will, in a bit, give a bit on the man who forged those photos.