http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88564 marc b. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:06:24 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88564 Will I violate the comments policy if I reply to myself? Apologies to manfromatlan as I just regurgitated what he said earlier. That is what I get for trying to post a comment while simultaneously watching the Red Sox-Yankees and Lakers-Magic. Will I violate the comments policy if I reply to myself? Apologies to manfromatlan as I just regurgitated what he said earlier. That is what I get for trying to post a comment while simultaneously watching the Red Sox-Yankees and Lakers-Magic.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88563 marc b. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:03:29 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88563 Wrong. Genocide does not require murder. International law defines genocide as "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", combined with one of the following acts: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Wrong. Genocide does not require murder. International law defines genocide as "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", combined with one of the following acts: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88562 Dagon Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:50:29 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88562 Off topic.this evening,On the Ed schultz show on MSNBC,ed brougth up an article by a rabbi who accused OBAMA of enciting hate agaist the jews and israel.The rabbi compared OBAMA to the NAZIS.Ed claims that he has a knee jerk reaction to support israel and nothing can change his mind .He is THE PEP.Can somebody send him MAX's hate video please.The rabbi and the video migth just do the trick. Off topic.this evening,On the Ed schultz show on MSNBC,ed brougth up an article by a rabbi who accused OBAMA of enciting hate agaist the jews and israel.The rabbi compared OBAMA to the NAZIS.Ed claims that he has a knee jerk reaction to support israel and nothing can change his mind .He is THE PEP.Can somebody send him MAX's hate video please.The rabbi and the video migth just do the trick.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88561 _Sarah_ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:28:03 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88561 Using the legal definition of genocide posted above, combined with the training that the Israeli government Rabbis have been providing to members of the IDF serving in Gaza, what Israel is and has been doing in Gaza absolutely falls under the definition of genocide. Using the legal definition of genocide posted above, combined with the training that the Israeli government Rabbis have been providing to members of the IDF serving in Gaza, what Israel is and has been doing in Gaza absolutely falls under the definition of genocide.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88560 yonahred Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:14:28 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88560 i take it when you say that amy jay is serious you mean that she is emotionally earnest. she is also seriously opposed to any peace that president obama might achieve over the next 8 years. you say that you favor a peace even if it is not strictly according to your ideals. the odds are against obama, but if he succeeds you can expect to find amy jay on opposite sides of the barricades from you, if you too are indeed serious. i take it when you say that amy jay is serious you mean that she is emotionally earnest. she is also seriously opposed to any peace that president obama might achieve over the next 8 years. you say that you favor a peace even if it is not strictly according to your ideals. the odds are against obama, but if he succeeds you can expect to find amy jay on opposite sides of the barricades from you, if you too are indeed serious.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88559 tommy Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:35:09 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88559 Empathy for the European Jews, displaced persons after WW I, inmates of Stalin's gulags, American slaves, etc. enables one to feel empathy for the peoples oppressed by Israel. Empathy for the European Jews, displaced persons after WW I, inmates of Stalin's gulags, American slaves, etc. enables one to feel empathy for the peoples oppressed by Israel.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88558 Marion Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:25:51 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88558 OBAMA'S CAIRO SPEECH By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on June 8, 2009 4:37 PM <a href="http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/</a rel="nofollow">" target="_blank">http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/</a></a> OBAMA'S CAIRO SPEECH By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on June 8, 2009 4:37 PM http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88557 DICKERSON3870 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:50:32 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88557 RE: "This video is notable to me for Jay's assertion that she had witnessed "genocide" in Israel's efforts to obliterate the Palestinian spirit " SEE ALSO: "Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops", By Ben Lynfield in Hares, West Bank @ "The Independent" (U.K.), 06/09/09 (EXCERPT) Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops in Hares village on 26 March. The testimonies have been seen by The Independent and are expected to add fuel to the controversy over recent remarks by Colonel Itai Virob, commander of Kfir Brigade, in which he said violence against detained Palestinians was justified in order to accomplish missions.... ENTIRE ARTICLE - <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bound-blindfolded-and-beaten-ndash-by-israeli-troops-1700194.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea...</a rel="nofollow">" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea...</a></a> RE: "This video is notable to me for Jay's assertion that she had witnessed "genocide" in Israel's efforts to obliterate the Palestinian spirit " SEE ALSO: "Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops", By Ben Lynfield in Hares, West Bank @ "The Independent" (U.K.), 06/09/09 (EXCERPT) Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops in Hares village on 26 March. The testimonies have been seen by The Independent and are expected to add fuel to the controversy over recent remarks by Colonel Itai Virob, commander of Kfir Brigade, in which he said violence against detained Palestinians was justified in order to accomplish missions…. ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea...

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88556 Kathleen Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:39:24 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88556 Jay is spot on "obliterate the Palestinian spirit" along with their homes, businesses, some lives and their integrity. This has been the intention from the beginning. Drip drip drip grab on to more land...ultimately for the "greater Israel" . The blow back is beginning to get far more intense because of not only all of the work of so many who have focused on this un just situation for years...but the added and important work of Phillip, Max and Jay. Thank you. Israel will be far better off with folks who really care about the well being of the Palestinians and the Jews inside the INternationally recognized 67 borders. Jay is spot on "obliterate the Palestinian spirit" along with their homes, businesses, some lives and their integrity. This has been the intention from the beginning. Drip drip drip grab on to more land…ultimately for the "greater Israel" . The blow back is beginning to get far more intense because of not only all of the work of so many who have focused on this un just situation for years…but the added and important work of Phillip, Max and Jay. Thank you. Israel will be far better off with folks who really care about the well being of the Palestinians and the Jews inside the INternationally recognized 67 borders.

]]> http://mondoweiss.net/2008/12/my-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-88555 Marion Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:06:49 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/12/04/my-entry.html#comment-88555 A beautiful poem(which touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes) that truly expresses how the Palestinian people's genocide is being enacted slowly but surely before our eyes and what we should be doing about it, while the world's so-called leaders have failed to do anything thus far to end it and have in fact done much over the years to promote it... Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinian right's activists of all walks of life have been all along calling for justice, and a just and comprehensive resolution to the conflict that has thus far been largely ignored or drowned out by the Zionists calls for a Jewish state based on making the Holocaust into an unquestionable doctrine, based on fabricated or distorted historical facts on Palestine such as "A land without a people for a people without a land", and ongoing lies and fabrications concerning Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians... If the people of our world continue waking up little by little, as it seems they are doing today, the days of slow but sure Palestinian genocide at the whittling hands of the Zionists will eventually come to an end, because they will be slowly but surely replaced with truth and justice..... A beautiful poem(which touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes) that truly expresses how the Palestinian people's genocide is being enacted slowly but surely before our eyes and what we should be doing about it, while the world's so-called leaders have failed to do anything thus far to end it and have in fact done much over the years to promote it… Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinian right's activists of all walks of life have been all along calling for justice, and a just and comprehensive resolution to the conflict that has thus far been largely ignored or drowned out by the Zionists calls for a Jewish state based on making the Holocaust into an unquestionable doctrine, based on fabricated or distorted historical facts on Palestine such as "A land without a people for a people without a land", and ongoing lies and fabrications concerning Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians… If the people of our world continue waking up little by little, as it seems they are doing today, the days of slow but sure Palestinian genocide at the whittling hands of the Zionists will eventually come to an end, because they will be slowly but surely replaced with truth and justice…..

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