> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 23:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
> To: jbroadus at seanet.com
> CC: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Willow flycatcher and a cultural divide
>
> Dear Jerry and Tweeters,
>
> Your Lebanese acquaintance accurately summed up the
> way birds are viewed in the Middle East: targets for
> yahoos.
>
> I have watched Arabs and Turks blasting away at
> Greater Spotted Eagles, Squacco Herons, Rollers,
> gulls, terns, shorebirds, wagtails, warblers, and on
> and on. I have watched them shoot perfectly edible
> ducks, only to leave them floating downstream, to be
> eaten by crabs or gulls, I suppose. They shoot birds
> all year long, including the nesting season.
>


Jerry, Gary and Tweeters

Interestng observations about the barbaric treatment
of birds in the Middle East. It made me think of
something I've seen, Israelis there "blasting away at
Palestininans and other perfectly good people too."

Cultural sensitivity be hanged--the way they treat
Palestinians in the Middle East is nothing short of
barbaric.

Tim
Bellevue, WA
tgronseth at yahoo.com


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