larvatus prodeo

In the final days of the Great War, while the future architect of die Endlösung der Judenfrage was recovering in hospital from a gas attack at Ypres, Konrad Bercovici, a Jewish Rumanian anarchist scrivener, met a fellow tribesman, a financier and patron of the arts, in a swanky New York City hotel: ( Read more... )

In the land of the straight-backed, the virtual Russian Jerusalemite persona of l-u recites 10 reasons why he roots for Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict. In my translation, they run as follows:

1. In the struggle between drinkers and teetotalers I side with the drinkers.
   
2. I prefer regimes in which a leader can be imprisoned to those in which a leader can only be killed.
   
3. I have much more in common with men who pray standing up, than with men who pray doggie style.
   
4. I prefer women in uniform to women in black bags.
   
5. I do not want people who awaken every night to the shrieks of a muezzin to defeat people capable of setting an alarm clock.
   
6. I have much more in common with men who, upon learning about the adventures of their daughters, grab their hearts, not their knives.
   
7. I think that it is more appropriate to pay a lot of money to separate from your wife, than to buy your wives.
   
8. I have more understanding for people who bury their murdered children at once, than for those who thrust their corpses at TV cameras.
   
9. I have more respect for a society that ransoms their captives with hundreds of their enemies, than one, whose prisoners are valued at less than one thousandth of a captured enemy.
   
10. I want to live in a world where no one kills women and children. And if that should happen, I would rater see military prosecutors hand out indictments, than a jubilant crowd hand out candy.

The only reason I would add is wanting to have nothing in common with brokeback burblings of Mr Cohen.