I found this little story on ynet and loved it. That's why I want to share it with you.St. George and the dragon, a fable
David Verveer Published: 07.31.06, 11:49
Once upon a time, in a country far far away, lived an evil dragon who terrorized the inhabitants of a quiet village. The trouble began when they decided to fight back.
As the fable goes, St. George journeyed for many months by land and by sea, until he came to a nice small town, on the slopes of a mountain range. Here he met a journalist who told him that everyone in the town was in great distress, for a dragon, named Hizbullah had long ravaged the town.
Every day, said the journalist, the dragon demands a sacrifice of Israelis. And when the brave fathers of the town finally refused to supply additional sacrifices, the dragon started firing rockets on the town.
Actually in this fable, our hero, St. George Bush, did not visit the town himself, but sent his first lieutenant, the fair lady Condoleezza Rice. But why confuse the reader with dry and boring facts, when we are talking about fables?
The people of the town, which we call "Israelis," decided to kill the dragon, or at least to remove him from the mountain, above the town, and started to send by air and land the brave Israeli Dragon-slaying Forces (let us call them IDF).
Now, the world got exited. Trying to kill an innocent dragon, whose only fault is his hunger for terror, being one of the last species of his kind (other known dragons are al-Qaeda operating worldwide, and Hamas, a small but very mean dragon living in Palestine), was not acceptable.
The world environmentalists started shouting that this dragon has the right to defend his natural environment, and it is his holy duty to fight Israelis, how dare those people to go against the environment!
St. George, St. Tony
But, this is not all, as we forgot to mention the innocent bystanders, of poor Lebanese inhabitants, living with the dragon. The dragon hides in the Lebanon villages, and spears fired by the IDF fall also on the Lebanese. True, the Israelis requested the Lebanese to flee north, but the Lebanese ignored this request and were hurt.
Killing dragons might be somehow acceptable, but killing these nice little innocent, peace loving Lebanese, was too much for the world. This massacre has to end, claimed most world leaders (many of them, with blood on their hands from fighting and killing elsewhere).
The only ones remaining with the Israelis were St. George Bush and St. Tony Blair, both insisting on giving the Israelis sufficient time in order to kill the dragon.
Happily ever after…
In the original fable, our hero, St. George, killed the dragon, married the princess (we have no princess here), and lived happily ever after, but after checking the origin of the fable, we discovered that the original hero, St. George, was beheaded, after failing to die from a bucket of poison that he was forced to drink. This happened in the same region, but 1,700 years ago. Poor George!
In the new and not yet to be finished fable, George Bush finishes high and dry his term, Condoleezza continues to spread her charm for still a long time, the Israelis fight their no ending war against the dragons, with verbal and material help from some allies, but none the less, continue daily to sacrifice the to hungry dragon.
Generally fables try to convey a message to the readers, telling them that in fable land, the good eventually win from the bad. In our fable, I am not too sure, that we can reach the same conclusions.
