Comments on: ‘Washington Post’ runs important piece attacking American support for colonization of West Bank

By: Accountant

Accountant — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:38:03 +0000

Translation: I will keep discussing it, urging more and more words, just so long as Israel keeps eating the pie. Witty is in total accord with Lieberman. Which Lieberman? Take your pick, they both represent Israel First. Keep it up folks, Witty might even give you a few crumbs.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:33:56 +0000

The Palestinian design is fundamentally reactive. Do you deny this, Witty? This is a crucial historical question. If we deconstruct what you just said, it does go back to which tribe started the fight. It sure was not the arabs now known as Palestinians. Any objective judge would see that. Criminals have a host of rationalizations, excuses for doing what they've done. It's one thing to mitigate penalty for stealing a loaf of bread for your starving family; it's quite another to ignore Jewish theft of Palestinian land and means of semi-decent survival–the bigger point is it's not American nor Just to not even allow the Palestinian claim in the halls of American media and government.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:21:17 +0000

their=there where =with typed too fast. Please do keep posting Witty. How else would we really see the self-declared Zionist mentality operate? It shows what we are up against. It you believe it, it's the truth, eh? Every door2door salesman is inspired. Keep trying to close the deal at our doorsteps, Witty. It's enlightening. We all need a 2 thousand dollar rug cleaner for our 100 dollar rugs.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:16:19 +0000

And so we should advocate for the rule of law as established in our founding documents and amendments thereto, and as interpreted by our highest court, especially when their is a division between federal appellate courts in their districts. I mean, come on, WittyI, even Nazi Germany had a judicial court system. You are just blowing smoke where your biased generalizations. I guess you will never learn that many regulars on this blog are actually at least as wise and smart as you. And many are more honest.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:10:50 +0000

Precisely why Israel is a fascist country.

By: Richard WittyI

Richard WittyI — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:41:22 +0000

You gotta SOLVE the problem, not complain.

By: Richard WittyI

Richard WittyI — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:40:33 +0000

The tension is one of scale. The design occurs at the national scale. But the violation of rights and experience of threat is experienced at the individual. That is part of the Israeli design, but its also part of the Palestinian design. The important goal is to change the criteria of injustice from the national to the legal. The nationalist is perceived as liberatory, anti-colonial, constructing a federal entity in most cases (Algeria, Israel, India) , but as soon it achieves power, nationalism nearly always adopts suppressive features relative to minorities or those for whom the national identity isn't the primary. Tribalists, humanists, class activists are all counter-"revolutionary" to nationalist goals.

By: Richard WittyI

Richard WittyI — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:22:22 +0000

We should advocate for the rule of law. That is NOT what Palestinian solidarity here and elsewhere is proposing.

By: Richard WittyI

Richard WittyI — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:21:16 +0000

Its a nationalist, rather than a legal, approach to residence. Its NOT one-person one-vote. Its one ancestor one vote. Its wrong to apply a nationalist approach to title no matter who does it, otherwise you end up supporting the demise of individual rights in favor of nationallist. (That's called fascism)

By: Citizen

Citizen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:43:45 +0000

Damn, will the WP do that? I guess they are sufficiently moved by the volcanic murmurs to toss out a feeler. Just to see if they should stand a bit more on this side or that side of the low hissing fissure.