Made up with the finest stitching and embroidery
Big news, indeed. Alameda County (Oakland) has issued a proclamation celebrating Palestinian Culture day-the 2nd annual, no, less. Pay particular attention to the 2nd paragraph.
And if you thought Palestinian culture, such as it is, consisted only of airplane hijackings and suicide bombings, think again. Apparently, they have a 2,000 year-old culture of stitching.
"Ah wunnerfuk, ah wunnerful, ah."
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2013/07/greta-berlin-and-freedom-stitchers.html
So here's the deal: Whereas, Palestinian women have a rich history of stitching that goes back 2,000 years, Bay Area anti-Israel activist and general all around mad hatter, Greta Berlin, and her goofy pals are organizing a project to send help over to the Palestinian women to teach them how to stitch.
"Say what??
"We therefore intend to help set up this business for women in Gaza to market not only their exquisite embroidery, but to also enhance their artistic skills by teaching them how to knit, crochet, do silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, felting, and other types of hand stitching for textile art which can then be sold."
How about we send volunteers over to East Prussia to teach displaced ethnic Germans with their thousands of years of beer brewing experience how to brew beer? Makes about as much sense.
German monks in Olde Koenigsberg (now Russia)"We therefore intend to help set up this business for women in Gaza to market not only their exquisite embroidery, but to also enhance their artistic skills by teaching them how to knit, crochet, do silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, felting, and other types of hand stitching for textile art which can then be sold."
How about we send volunteers over to East Prussia to teach displaced ethnic Germans with their thousands of years of beer brewing experience how to brew beer? Makes about as much sense.
"Greta Berlin is sending experts to teach us to brew beer."
No worse than national dairy goat month.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Gary. As lame as Alameda Palestinian cultural day is, it doesn't hold a candle to Santa Clara Palestinian Cultural Day, which actually glorified gun violence a few years back.
ReplyDeletehttp://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/palestinian-cultural-day-celebrating.html
I think they came over on the Mayflower and signed the Declaration of Independence as well.
ReplyDeleteThey fought in the Civil War too... or was that the Barbary Pirate Wars?
Ooops, they may have been on the other side.
Findalis,
ReplyDeleteAh that's the reason for the confusion. They meant to say, "1964 years of culture". What's 36 years?
Dusty,
ReplyDeleteI salivate at the thought of Greta Berlin coming to speak at UC Irvine some day. Will check out the link. Thanks.
Findalis... you mean, if the news media didn't have a name for them, people weren't living there? These are people called into being when the media said "Let there be Palestinians, and it was so"? I thought only God could do that.
ReplyDeleteThere was a name for these people: Arabs. Look it up.
ReplyDeleteNot the media, but people like Arafat (an Egyptian). A palestinian has never been a nationality any more than a Death Valleyer or a Great Laker (No, I am not talking about Kobe Bryant)
ReplyDeleteWell Jews weren't a nationality either, until large numbers started showing up in the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate of Palestine, and in due course asserting "this is our land, now that we're here."
ReplyDeletePeople were living there. They were indeed largely Arabic. Some were Christian, some were Muslim. When they found themselves being inundated by illegal alien immigrants, they banded together to close the borders. Whatever label you pin on them, they were there, and they were not negligible.