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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Michael Totten wants to send pizza to killers
Kathy, my 1st ex-wife (not to be confused with Maria, my 2nd ex-wife) sent me this item and she was outraged (she wrote: "Noooooo, that Michael Totten doesn't hate Arabs at all. That asshole lives in Beirut?". Totten wrote: "There's something truly heartwarming about this. Such a small and easy thing to do for people who could really use some encouragement and thanks. I'm an atheist/agnostic ex-Christian who has never been to Israel, but sometimes I feel like those folks over there are my countrymen, not just "merely" our allies. It costs less than US $20 to send a pizza to a patrol. With so much virulent anti-semitism from nearly all quarters, a small gift to Israeli soldiers from someone outside Israel is a nice little antidote to racism and hate."