Sadly I wrote the timeline below almost 20 years ago. When the same bad thing keeps happening over and over to the same person or group, at some point you have to assume they want it to happen or they wouldn’t keep walking down the same destructive path. Any assistance you give them until they figure it out for themselves is just enabling the behavior that is causing the bad things to happen.
We currently have a President mad enough or stupid enough to keep feeding the conflict not out of any humanitarian ideal or possibly misplaced nobility but for personal gain and aggrandizement. He is bolstered by a Secretary of Defense in Hegseth who just loves the word “lethality”. It is time to pull the plug on him and get some adults in the room before he plunges the whole of humanity into something far worse. To be noted, the man first elected in 1996 below is still there pushing for more war just to avoid jail.
Nov 2, 1917 – British issued the Balfour Declaration, viewed by Jews and Arabs as promising a “National Home” for the Jews in Palestine.
1936-1939 – Arab Revolt led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini. Over 5,000 Arabs were killed according to some sources, mostly by British. Several hundred Jews were killed by Arabs. Husseini fled to Iraq and then to Nazi Germany.
May 15, 1948 – Israel War of Independence (1948 War). Declaration of Israel as the Jewish State; British leave Palestine; Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia declared war on Israel. Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian invasion began.
April 3, 1949 – Armistice – Israel and Arab states agree to armistice. Israel gained about 50% more territory than was originally allotted to it by the UN Partition Plan.
Oct. 29, 1956 – Suez Campaign. In retaliation for a series of escalating border raids as well as the closure of the straits of Tiran and Suez canal to Israeli shipping, and to prevent Egyptian use of newly acquired Soviet arms in a war, Israel invades the Sinai peninsula and occupies it for several months, with French and British collaboration.
May, 1964 – PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) founded with the aim of destroying Israel. The Palestinian National Charter (1968) officially called for liquidation of Israel.
May, 1967 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closes the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and dismisses UN peacekeeping force. Negotiations with US to reopen the Straits of Tiran fail.
June 5-10,1967 – 6-day war . Israel destroys the Egyptian air force on the ground, conquers and occupies Sinai and Gaza, then conquers the West Bank from Jordan, and Golan Heights from Syria. UN resolution 242 called for Israeli withdrawal, establishment of peace.
Oct. 6, 1973 – Yom Kippur War (October War). In a surprise attack on the Jewish day of atonement, Egypt retook the Suez canal and a narrow zone on the other side. Syria reconquered the Golan Heights. Following massive US and Soviet resupplying of the sides, Israel succeeded in pushing back the Syrians and threatening Damascus. In Sinai, the IDF crossed the Suez Canal and cut off the Egyptian Third Army.
March 26, 1979 – Peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel.
June 7, 1981 – Israel destroys Iraqi nuclear reactor in daring raid.
Oct. 6, 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated while on the reviewing stand of a victory parade.
June 6, 1982 – Massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon to fight PLO.
Sept. 13, 1993 – Oslo Declaration of Principles – Israel and PLO agree to mutual recognition.
Sept 28, 1995 – Oslo Interim Agreement signed. Palestinian Authority to be established.
Nov. 4, 1995 – Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by right-wing Israeli fanatic Yigal Amir. Rabin is replaced by Shimon Peres
June, 1996 – Right-Wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu elected Prime Minister in Israel, replacing Shimon Peres.
Sept, 1996 – “Al-Aksa tunnel riots – Arab sources spread the false rumor that a gate opened in an underground tunnel tourist attraction by the Israeli government, endangered the foundations of the Al-Aqsa mosque. This caused several days of rioting and numerous casualties.
Jan 18, 1997 – Israel and Palestinians reach agreement on Israeli redeployment in the West-Bank city of Hebron
Oct. 1998 – Wye River Plantation talks result in an agreement for Israeli redeployment and release of political prisoners and renewed Palestinian commitment to correct its violations of the Oslo accords including excess police force, illegal arms and incitement in public media and education.
May 17, 1999 – Israel elects Labor party leader and Former General Ehud Barak as Prime Minister in a landslide. Barak promises rapid progress toward peace.
March, 2000 – Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations fail when Hafez Assad rejects an Israeli offer relayed by US President Clinton in Geneva.
Sept. 28, 2000 – Palestinians initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, which is also the location of the Haram as Sharif holy to Muslims.
Sept. 11, 2001 – Terror attacks on World Trade Center in NYC and the Pentagon carried out by fanatic Islamic Al-Qaida group headed by Osama Bin Laden initiate US war on terror. Israel and Palestinians agree to a cease fire, but it is not implemented.
Feb 6, 2001 – Right-wing Likud leader Ariel Sharon elected Prime Minister in Israel replacing Ehud Barak and promising “peace and security.”
March-April 2002 – Israel conducts operation Defensive Wall in the West Bank, following a large number of Palestinian suicide attacks on civilian targets. Saudi peace initiative adopted at Beirut summit.
Jan 28, 2003 – Elections in Israel give wide margin (40 seats) to right wing Likud party, returning PM Ariel Sharon for another term.
March 19,2003 – US begins invasion of Iraq by a strike against a building where Saddam Hussein and other leaders are meeting. Baghdad falls, April 9.
July 9, 2004 – International court of Justice (ICJ) rules that the Israeli security barrier violates international law and must be torn down.
Nov 11, 2004 – Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat dies.
Jan 9, 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas elected President of the Palestinian National Authority.
Jan 10, 2005 – Ariel Sharon forms unity government with Labor and United Torah Judaism parties in Israel.
April 2005 – Ariel Sharon visits US President George Bush at his Texas ranch. Syrian Army leaves Lebanon, officially ending Syrian occupation.
May 26, 2005 – Mahmud Abbas visits US President George Bush at the White House, an important symbolic gesture signaling US backing for Abbas and Palestinian aspirations. Israel releases 400 Palestinian prisoners including some with blood on their hands. Britain confirms “low level” negotiations with Hamas.
June, 2005 – Violence flares in Gaza. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Palestinian and Israeli leaders to ensure coordination of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Israeli PM Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Jerusalem June 21. Sharon announces that Palestinians have promised to coordinate regarding Gaza withdrawal. PM Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections in order to change the election law, amidst growing concern that Hamas will trounce Abbas’s Fatah party in the elections. Lebanese elections give a decisive majority to the opposition to Syria, led by Saad Hariri, son of slain leader Rafiq Hariri.
Aug. 15, 2005 – Disengagement – Israeli evacuation of Gaza settlements and four West Bank settlements began on August 15 and was completed August 24.
July 2006 – More of the same ol’ same ol’
2 responses to “Repeating History”
Hi Jamie.
A few things
Bigotry is the intolerance of PEOPLE with different beliefs, you don’t have to accept those beliefs, but rejecting or banning folks who simply disagree is a sign of bigotry. Your friends at trail mix should learn that.
They banned me, and I couldn’t reply to you.
The problem was cis-men, but the problem was also the system in place that allowed the abused to occur and since we can’t control how people identify with gender it’s a system that could easily be abused over and over again.
Are there some trans-women who honestly view themselves as women, sure…but are there also men who will wear long hair and act feminine if it means they get to spend their prison time taking showers with naked ladies? Absolutely. And there’s no way of separating the honest trans-women and cis-men in any of the situations whether it’s prison or a tech conference.
Also gender ideology is a belief system similar to a religion, not everyone follows it and those who don’t see biological men who identify as women invading spaces that should be only women and from my previous posts about prison women who should simply be serving their time in prison are living in fear of rape, That’s not right.
You folks can ban me, but when I show up at the Pearly Gates someday I won’t have to explain why I allowed evil to continue.
As several people responded to you, any man with a workable penis (including the guards) should not be associating with female prisoners. The problem is how to house those who would be abused in a male prison as would happen with trans women. The numbers are so small that placing trans women with a women’s prison is probably the least likely to cause a problem. Female prisoners can defend themselves better against a possibly trans woman than they could against a male guard particularly when you consider the number of pregnancies that occur.