Comments on: Cruel but Necessary: Israeli Opinions about the Settlements and Obama

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:32:13 +0000

Why not? Consider Your US tax dollars in action, circa 2006: link to ifamericansknew.org

By: Mooser

Mooser — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:42:36 +0000

Is this post going to headline Mondoweiss forever?

By: lovelyisraelis

lovelyisraelis — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:03:09 +0000

Somebody needs to stab that guy with the banjo.

By: AnaSanchez

AnaSanchez — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:16:50 +0000

The most boring thing on this site is you posting the same thing over and over again! Can’t you come up with something new?

By: ItsAJoke

ItsAJoke — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:57:35 +0000

Come on this is not serious – going to Jerusalem and interviewing Jewish messianic Americans and Bnei Akiva kids – ultra nationalistic religious kids, each one with a skullcap is warped and skewed. Most Israeli kids of pre or post army age service are right wing and much of the society is, but it is not monolithic . Older, more educated and non religious Israelis don’t hold these beliefs. Let’s go to the deep south and interview mostly racists and then put it out on Youtube as a serious depiction of US attitudes to blacks.

I support the Israeli peace camp and a Palestinian homeland, but I would not give this website a cent for it’s tabloid type reporting – Jerry Springer goes to Israel and tells it like it is …… you guys really are part of the dumbing down of the US. Posers, shallow and insincere, anything for a buck or a moment in the spotlight. But it’s so cooooool and honest – let’s all go and tweet about this .. in 14o words.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:39:35 +0000

A thief doesn’t get to negotiate, nor does a state that commits war crimes. The German’s didn’t get to negotiate.

Retunign land that it doesn’t own, is not commiting suicide, it’s justice. Suggesting that by returning the land it stole is akin to suicide, is like arguing that Donald Trump givign away half is wealth is euthenasia.

If taking of the land had legitimatimacy, then no state in teh world would be safe. Every country would live in fear of being occupie and assimilted and what’s more, it implies that Israel is only a temporary state until a bigger and more powerful state decided to invade it.

Is that the status quo you’re advocating?

There was nothing defensive about the 1967 war which Israel deliberately started and had been trying to start since 1956.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:32:33 +0000

Correction Thom,

You do not perceive rascism in most of the answers because they reflect your own position.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:28:18 +0000

@ Thom saying:
“Israel is in the position of a big guy who is holding down a little guy who tried to kill him. He would like to let the little guy up and both go about their business but the little guy won’t agree to stop trying to kill the big guy if the big guy lets him up. It sucks for the little guy, but meanwhile the big guy isn’t going anywhere either.”

The reality is that the big guy is a rapist and child killer, who is insisting that he needs to continue raping and the victim to defend himself when his latest victim has tried to fight back. He also stole the little guys house and hope and is insisting that the ownership of the stolen property is disputed.

By: Eva Smagacz

Eva Smagacz — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:21:34 +0000

Exodus 3:22

Upon leaving the Egipt, Jews helped themselves to their neighbours property, and then made themselves victims for being chased by Egyptian army:

“But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.”

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