Various Semitic Forms Of Fascism

The Grey Beards Club has grown quieter now. We sit around in Hanaan's place, satirically referred to as a restaurant, and listen to our digestive processes. There is nothing to argue about. If some one says "What about Hillary...?" we silence them with a deadly scorn. As if...as if the political process has usurped Paris Hilton's venue and now reigns supreme on the Cable media we...satirically...call "The News". We are burdened by everything from the start of Iraq through Abu Ghraib through Faluja up to the present where all the inhabitants of Iraq are smiling ( they are if they know what's good for them!) and saying that everything is hunky-dory and good-bye Americans...we love you!! (That's all Bush wants; to have Muqtada As Sadr say "Thanks"...or "Shukran".) Then they will turn around and kill each other. And every life we spent will be...what? We do not seem to be able to look at the possibility that the lives are wasted, so we will have to endure another 30 years or so of the dim wits that make up public opinion come up with ways to ensure that the lives were not wasted....theoretically, at least. Thus, we now look at the concept of Islamofascism. Since the President seems to use it, it is obviously a crock. I don't think anyone in the administration knows fact 1 about fascism. Clearly, when we use "fascism" in a perjorative sense, we cannot be referring to General Francisco Franco whose fascism did not bother us for the longest time...if ever. When I was a child, all we children in the Catholic schools were taught to revere the great General Franco who saved Spain from Communism and Anarchism. In short, we were taught that some Fascism is good: Franco's form of it. Anyway, there are other forms of fascist-like behavior. The good Levine, der Engel, brought to our attention a situation which may be of interest to so-called Christian Zionists. Reading in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/13/wspit13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/13/ixnewstop.html we see some verification of Levine's tale: "Christians in Jerusalem have attacked what they say is the increasingly common phenomenon of ultra-orthodox Jews spitting on them. The statement followed a brawl between an orthodox Jewish yeshiva (religious school) student and an Armenian archbishop." ... "Daniel Rossing, the director of a Jerusalem centre for Christian-Jewish dialogue, said there had been an increase in such incidents recently as "part of a general lack of tolerance".