Comments on: Gaza is ‘undoing’ the Jews

By: Jim Haygood

Jim Haygood — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

If the Jewish narratives of Babylonian and Egyptian exile sound universal themes, as is often claimed, then surely they apply to Palestinians as well.

Indeed, Sura 59 of the Koran is titled 'Exile.' How much it draws on the pre-existing Judaic tradition is hard to say, since it lacks any temporal or geographic details.

But one does suspect that like the Jewish exile, the Palestinian exile from their own land will one day end. This need not be the 'undoing of the Jews.' But Zionism is striving mightily to make it so.

By: anonn

anonn — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

What if we add up Iraq, Madoff, Wall St, and Gaza?

What is that sum in respect to the Jewish soul?
Re the Americans, same question to those sheeple.

By: Jaffr

Jaffr — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

The slaughter in Gaza is not the repudiation of any Jewish ethical tradition, as Roy worries – it is the real-life expression of it.

This massacre reflects the logic of modern Jewish ethnocentrism and racial supremacy. It’s as Jewish as matzo ball soup.

To paraphrase Roy's closing:

This is “who we [they!] are and what, in the end, we [they have] become” . . .

By: D.

D. — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

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"Ultimately, our goal is to tribalize pain, narrowing the scope of human suffering to ourselves alone."

I don't know. I believe Richard Witty's son went all the way over there just to try to ease Palestinian suffering.

How's he doing, Rich? You haven't told us much of his experiences. It must be quite exciting for him now, what with all the explosions and the smell of death in the air.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"If the Jewish narratives of Babylonian and Egyptian exile sound universal themes, as is often claimed, then surely they apply to Palestinians as well..."

ah, but they don't 'sound universal themes'. They sound like meretricious bullshit, at least in their current forms, because that is what they are.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil what happens in 24 months, when the next equivalent to Lebanon 2006/Gaza 08/09 occurs?

When there is no shift, and Obama is toeing the line?

What happens then?