WHO WON THE WAR

Backgammon versus Monopoly  and  "Wooden Ships"

For two-days now it seems that the ceasefire that Egypt brokered between Israel and Hamas/Islamic Jihad has held.  The result has neither achieved mutually assured destruction nor victory for anyone, although at least one commentator has suggested that the result has been a "win-win" for both sides.  

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For the Arabs the game of life is Backgammon; for the Israelis the game of life is Monopoly.  If there is any winner, it can only be the creators of games... perhaps there is a new game that may make sense for today's world of the global internet?  Can actual war be transcended in favor of virtual war?  Can real destruction be avoided and prevented?  Real life is not holographic -- yet -- and losses and gains have consequences on the ground, below the ground, in the air, in the sea, and now even in space beyond Earth's atmosphere.  Our planet and it's resources shrink, and oligarchies rule everywhere, by whatever names they choose to market their oligarchies.  Today we live in a world of "Divine Right of Oligarchy", though we may religiously, philosophically, dogmatically insist on Right according to God, Democracy, Republicanism, Communism, Capitalism, Tribalism... and all the while we keep chasing and eating our tails.... Such is our nourishment today!!!

So...  who won the recent war between Gaza and Israel... anyone...?

 

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If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is something
Everybody everywhere does in the same language

I can see by your coat, my friend
You're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please, who won?

Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive

Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy
Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be
Talkin' 'bout very free and easy

Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't need us

Go, take your sister then, by the hand
Lead her away from this foreign land
Far away, where we might laugh again
We are leaving, you don't need us

And it's a fair wind blowin' warm
Out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go....

 

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: David Crosby / Stephen Stills / Paul Kantner

Wooden Ships lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, 

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