Techno Ted may be a person who caused Chris incredible emotional pain & trepidation as well as moments of peace & happiness but now is removed and awaiting his fate. Darling may be a different person who is also free of him and can live her life free of Ted's tyranny. "In between all the laughing, and daydreams ... lies: a desert of truth" Lies are like a desert or the omission of Truth: Where there were Lies then Truth was absent. The song, "Techno Ted", may be a cathartic celebration of the downfall of this person.
Little orphans in the snow
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing
Singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing
Singing
Waiting for a sign
To turn blood into wine
The sweet taste in your mouth
Turned bitter in its glass
Israel
In Israel
Israel
In Israel
Shattered fragments of the past
Meet in veins of the stained glass
Like the lifeline
In your palm
Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes
And there were kings
Now hidden in disguise
Cheap wrappings of lies
Keep your heart alive
With a song from inside
Even though we're all alone
We are never on our own
When we're singing
Singing
Hohhhh
Hohhhh
There's a man who's looking in
And he smiles a toothless grin
Because he's singing
Singing
See some people shine with glee
But their song is jealousy
Their hate is clanging
Maddening
In Israel
Will they sing Happy Noel?
In Israel
In Israel
Israel
In Israel
In Israel
Will they sing Happy Noel?
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing
Singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing
Singing
Waiting for a sign
To turn blood into wine
The sweet taste in your mouth
Turned bitter in its glass
Israel
In Israel
Israel
In Israel
Shattered fragments of the past
Meet in veins of the stained glass
Like the lifeline
In your palm
Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes
And there were kings
Now hidden in disguise
Cheap wrappings of lies
Keep your heart alive
With a song from inside
Even though we're all alone
We are never on our own
When we're singing
Singing
Hohhhh
Hohhhh
There's a man who's looking in
And he smiles a toothless grin
Because he's singing
Singing
See some people shine with glee
But their song is jealousy
Their hate is clanging
Maddening
In Israel
Will they sing Happy Noel?
In Israel
In Israel
Israel
In Israel
In Israel
Will they sing Happy Noel?
Lyrics submitted by cylon_0_0, edited by NomadMonad, DodgerFuckYou
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Israel does not wage wars of aggression. The situation of the Palestinians is self-made. The have rejected and spurned every opportunity to make peace. The Arabs will not accept a Jewish country on "Arab" lands and will fight with any means necessary to accomplish that goal of eliminating Israel. This is why they send their children as suicide bombers. What kind of culture is that of the Arabs??
The situation of the Palestinians is not self-made. The "War of Independence" in 1948 saw 1,380,000 Palestinians driven off their land by the Israeli army in an act of ethnic cleansing (Tanya Reinhart, 2002). <br /> <br /> Israel does wage wars of aggression. E.g. The 1967 invasion and occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights + The 1982 invasion of Lebanon which left 11,000 people dead (Ibid). <br /> <br /> The vast majority of Palestinians actually will accept a Jewish country on "Arab" lands. A survey by the Bir Zeit Uni in 2002 found that "77% of Palestinians believe both Palestinians and Israelis have the right to live in peace and security" (ibid, p. 229).<br /> <br /> Arab culture is not the reason for suicide bombers; it is the sustained degradation and dehumanization of the Palestinian people which forces some individuals to become radicalized due to utter desperation and despair. <br />
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Arabs of that territory were told by the Arab armies that if they left their land, the Jews would be "pushed into the sea" and all of the land would be restored to Arab hands. <br /> <br /> 67 is hardly an act of aggression when you consider that Jordan, Syria, and Egypt were all about to attack. I suppose aggression is what it's called when Israel wins wars by large margins. <br /> Secondly, way before 67 the nations of Egypt and Jordan occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank, respectively, without so much as a word from anyone. I wonder why.<br /> <br /> And you're right, it is not Arab culture. It is the Muslim religion that has spawned suicide bombers. Suicide bombers not only come from the West Bank and Gaza, but the entire world (including western nations). Their common denominator is Islam. <br /> <br /> Lastly, there was no desperation and despair before this whole situation, so how can Arab riots and attacks on Christians and Jews be explained before the creation of the State of Israel?
Can I have some evidence for the first claim you made. I don't understand what event you are referring to and it does not seem like a logical thing for "the Arab armies" to tell the civilian population to LEAVE if their goal was to push the Jews into the sea.<br /> <br /> Jordan, Syria and Egypt were not about to attack Israel in 67. The war was a "preemtive strike" to demonstrate Israel's military capability to America and to secure resourcouces in the middle east by destroying secular Arab nationalism, particularly Egyptian nationalism led by Nasser. Preemtive wars are illegal in international law unless approved by the UN first, and Isreal's attacks were not. The UN Security Council Resolution 242 from 67 made clear the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war" made by Isreal.<br /> <br /> Islam is not the cause of suciide bombers either. As I said, it is only utter desperation and desper that leads human beings to do such terrible things. Here is an article full of examples of non-Muslim sucicde attackers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack Note that there is a fatwa in Islam forbidding suicide bombing.<br /> <br /> I am not sure what your last point about Arab riots on Christians and Jews pre-Isreal is referring to. Can you specify which events you are referring to in particular please. Thanks.<br /> <br />
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To the OP - that was very much my reaction to the lyrics. The false show of joy depicted is reminiscent of fascism in general, and to me that expresses the notion that Israel has become the very demon it was victimized by. In a more personal dimension, it's very accessible. The cycle of victim-to-oppressor is sort of a universal theme that might be found in history anywhere from a Greek tragedy to a Japanese existential film. <br /> <br /> To NomadMonad - First of all, I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around a neo-conservative speculating on the musings of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Did you come here looking for a debate, or do you actually listen to their music? I digress. I don't know what country or religion you think you belong to, and I don't fully understand what Zionism means to you. But I believe that history and public opinion have evidenced that the current state of Israel, from the first military occupation to the now prison-state it's become, are a true reflection of the collective will of the Jewish people. And I don't say this without having some precedence - I actively practiced Judaism and associated with Jewish people from the ages of 19 to 21, before returning to my more familiar Buddhist upbringing, and I gained a lot of perspective on the Hebrew concept of faith. And honestly, while there were plenty of Jews I met who were very politically minded and pro-Israel, the majority of Jews whom I met told me something that I reflexively believed from the beginning: according to their prophecies, God had promised to restore Israel to them at a future time. Many Jews are still waiting for that to happen. Because it wasn't God who delivered the Jews back to Israel (where, by the way, many Jews were already living alongside Muslims with relative neighborliness), was it? The motion to create the current state of Israel was driven by bankers, even though the Anti-Defamation League assures us that Prescott Bush was NOT investing in Nazi Germany's military during WWII.
@Mazort <br /> "...the now prison-state it's become, are a true reflection of the collective will of the Jewish people."<br /> <br /> I think we should be wary of anyone attributing "collective will" to whole populations unless it is for positive, uncontentious rhetorical purposes (e.g., "The people of Utopiland have, through their collective will, successfully overcome the challenges of banana fever".)<br /> To say a sizeable population, defined by their religion, has a "collective will" to do something you believe is evil verges on racism. You claim to be a Buddhist -are you part of the "collective will" to murder, rape and expel Rohingya people?<br /> <br /> " The motion to create the current state of Israel was driven by bankers..."<br /> <br /> ...actually, it was driven by the will of many Jewish people to establish their own state post-World War 2, supported by massive popular support in Western Europe, the USA and allied nations. And the policy of the UK, then occupying Palestine, to withdraw. The USA and USSR both voted to establish Israel, the UK abstained.<br /> <br /> For historical reasons that are very well understood a small minority of Jewish people became successfully established in banking. The use of 'bankers' as a synonym for 'Jews', the allegation that Jewish people somehow control or disproportionately influence the wider banking system, or that "the banks" collectively conspire to favour some peoples over others (disregarding the fact that banks are in competition with each other, and there are many banks, both state-owned and privately owned, from many nations), are crude, easily falsified racist (and populist) tropes that long pre-date the founding of the state of Israel. Much used by the Nazis. <br /> <br /> I don't care about your interpretation of Siouxsie and the Banshees' lyrics. And I'm not commenting on Israeli-Palestinian relations, or the merits or otherwise of any religion.<br /> <br /> I just hate racism, and I believe you are parroting racist beliefs.<br />
@Mazort You twisted horrible racist