Opinion  Ray Hanania
Left holding the bag
Ray Hanania
Published: 28.02.06, 11:48
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1. iam sorry
woman ,   middle east   (02.28.06)
a donkey is invited to a party ...why ...to carry the water or the wood
2. trying to hard to be funny
(03.01.06)
sorry Ray- this one was a bit sad-most men I know do not hold womens purses- and stand there waiting? is your wife disrespectful? WHO CARES ABOUT all the racism the jews have against Palestinians and vice versa- you should be beyond this!!
3. Not award winning material.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA   (03.01.06)
4. Kavod
Peter ,   Amsterdam, NL   (03.01.06)
Complimenting women on being strong minded doesn't mean you have to feel inferior yourself as a man. I don't shop and if I do I don't hold wallets or bags that way for my woman. But I suppose Allison has the right guy in feeble Ray, all talk and no spine.
5. So nice to know :)
Ray Hanania ,   Chicago, IL USA   (03.01.06)
It's just so nice to know that people here don't let up on the animosity towards Palestinians and moderates: Obviously the conflict goes WAY BEYOND politics, religion, land, and race ... Sorry. My wife is calling, I have to run. Ray Hanania www.hanania.com PS ... those people who are afraid to post here, keep emailing me. I don't mind.
6. Wife tells you what to do?
(03.01.06)
Thats called being led around by your you know what. And you know what? Im fine with it too. It called a happy marriage. The alternative is to be single, like all these macho morons who complain that at the age of 35 they cannot get a woman. No use fighting, just give up. And also learn how to say: yes babe, no problem honeybun, anytime, yes of course Ill pick up the kids - do you want me to make dinner too? One more thing:we should let the women solve the conflict (the moderate women, not the ultra right or ultra left weirdos) The normal jewish and palestinian women are actually pretty similar: very firey. So if we let them solve it, itll be sort of like an argument over who gets to buy that last fendi handbag and over who saw it first, who touched it first etc Get Ray to be the mediator PS for all those who think ''whipped'' is bad think of this as an incentive: she really loves the fact you do everything she says so as a reward you get to do the fandango very very often (which is something most bald, stubborn middle aged men who dont listen to their wives miss out on a lot)
7. just a saying
grandmother ,   middle east   (03.02.06)
i am a woman from the middle east no 1 .....it is a saying when we used the donkies to carry the water from far wells and the woods from the trees to cook for a ceromony yes in these day befor 300 years or more the villigers did not invite people ..people came by theirselves to share cooking eating singing and dancing all were happy //the only one who is invited was the donkey by asking his owner to brought it sharing by its job i mean when we did what it was ordered to us only we are not more than animal ..but if we help by our choice to be all happy is the democracy which all now like it .....i like the customes of the people where ever they are and adeep look it is not different although the differance of the nation and culture this becouse all of us are humans one creator many stupid men and women no differance
8. Dream on cousin.
Yehuda ,   Seattle   (03.03.06)
In a few years we’ll have: 1. Hillary ruling the US 2. Livni running Israel 3. Mohamad ruling Hammastine. Are Arabs allowed to call women Mohamed? Hey, what if Mo wore a dress? Better not draw that one? Ray, Israelis have no issue empowering women, unfortunately Golda Meir was never acknowledged by Arabs. It took hard men like Begin, Rabin and Sharon to get Arab attention. If the Palestinian masses had it in them to give ultimate decision making authority to women then problems would be solved. To do that, however, they will need to tolerate a regime other than monolithic Islam. Such tolerance would understand Jewish autonomy. After years of service to the Palestinian cause Hannan Ashrawi could not lead her tiny party. They were afraid that the 3 (seats) secular Palestinian electorate would run away from a woman. Ray, you’re a Palestinian confused in positive ways. To transition the rest of the Palestinians to accept women ruling will require bringing them to Chicago for 50 years and having them all marry Jews and having Jewish kids.
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